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Abstract: A test accelerator as a coherent terahertz source (t-ACTS) has been under development at Tohoku University, in which an intense coherent terahertz (THz) radiation generated by an extremely short electron bunch [1]. Velocity bunching scheme in a traveling accelerating structure is employed to generate femtosecond electron bunches [2]. Spatial and temporal coherent radiation in THz region can be produced by the electron bunches with small transverse emittance. A long-period undulator, which has 25 periods with a period length of 10 cm and a peak magnetic field of 0.41 T, has been also developed and installed to provide intense coherent THz undulator radiation. By optimizing the bunch length, we found that it is possible to generate a coherent undulator radiation that contains only the fundamental wave from numerical studies. Beam experiment was performed to generate and observe the coherent undulator radiation from extremely short electron bunches. Coherent undulator radiation from 2.6 to 3.6 THz was demonstrated. The preliminary results of the experiment will be reported in this paper.

Abstract: We investigated the charged pion photoproduction on the deuteron in the energy region Eγ = 0.65− 1.1 GeV at Research Center for Electron Photon Science (ELPH), Tohoku University. The photon absorption by a nucleus mainly takes place on a single nucleon at energies above the first resonance region. The rest nucleons are called as the spectator and this process is called as the quasi-free process. The pion is emitted in the subsequent de-excitation process of the nucleon resonance excited through the absorption of the photon. The deuteron is the loosely bound system of the proton and the neutron and the photoreaction on it is considered to be dominated by the quasi-free process. However, significant contribution of the two nucleon absorption process in the π+π− photoproduction on the deuteron was measured in the energy region from 0.6 to 1.1 GeV[1, 2]. The importance of the nucleon resonances and the intermediate and final state interaction was suggested by the theoretical studies[3, 4]. For the detailed study of the intermediate states, precise experimental data, not only the total cross section but also the differential cross sections are required. The ABC effect [5] is a nuclear fusion reaction which is known to be related to the excitation of the two nucleon resonances (ΔΔ) in the intermediate state and their interaction. It is distinguished by a structure in the mass distribution of isoscalar pion pair[6, 7, 8]. One of our aim is the search for the ABC like effect in the photon induced double pion production reaction on the deuteron in the analysis of the similar final state with ABC effect (γd → π+π−d) and the explicit ΔΔ excitation (γd → ΔΔ → π+π−pn). The reactions d(γ, π+π−d) and d(γ, π+π−p)n were measured using the Neutral Kaon Spectrometer 2 (NKS2) at ELPH. The NKS2 is the magnetic spectrometer with the geometrical acceptance roughly 1/4 of the whole solid angle, dedicated for the multi-particle tracking. By refining the calibration of the detectors and the tracking procedures, the increased mass reconstruction resolution enabled us the efficient identification of these reactions with three charged particles in the final state. Simulation studies have been carried out for the extraction of the contributions of the intermediate states. We report on the current status of the analysis for the derivation of the cross sections of these reactions with the extraction of the intermediate states.

Abstract: Hadron photoproduction reactions are complementarily studied at SPring-8/LEPS and ELPH, Tohoku University. Their recent results on hadron structure and interaction are summarized in the present article. On the pentaquark candidate Θ+, a clear peak structure is seen in new exclusive analyses using increased statistics data of the γ d→K+K−X reaction. A new project LEPS2 has started at SPring-8 in conjunction with LEPS and ELPH. Recent progress is discussed including a new photon detector system BGO-EGG, which is under construction at ELPH. LEPS2 beam commissioning will start from the end of FY2012.