In-medium Properties of the {\eta}'-Meson from Photonuclear Reactions

Abstract

Investigations of in-medium properties of the {\eta}'-meson are presented. The photoproduction of {\eta}'-mesons off C, Ca, Nb and Pb nuclei has been measured with the Crystal Barrel/TAPS detector system at the ELSA accelerator in Bonn. Comparing the meson yield per nucleon within a nucleus to the yield on a free nucleon, information on the absorption of the meson through inelastic channels in the nuclear medium and the related in-medium width of the meson is provided. From this so called transparency ratio we found the in-medium width of the {\eta}'-meson to be of the order of 20 MeV. The measured width is sufficently narrow to encourage a search for {\eta}' mesic states. Recent results on the momentum distribution of the transparency ratio and in-medium width of the {\eta}'-meson are presented and discussed.