Landolt-Brnstein Group I
: Elementary Particles, Nuclei and Atoms
Volume 8 

Photoproduction of Elementary Particles 

Introductory material 
1 
Photoproduction below 1.5 GeV (H. GENZEL, W. PFEIL) 1

1.0 
Introduction 1

1.1 
Compton scattering 6

1.1.1 
gamma + p -> gamma + p 6

1.1.2 
gamma + d -> gamma + d 15

1.2 
Photoproduction of pions and eta mesons 16

1.2.1 
gamma + p -> (pi+) + n 16

1.2.2 
gamma + p -> (pi0) + p 116

1.2.3 
gamma + n -> (pi-) + p 214

1.2.4 
gamma + n -> (pi0) + n 261

1.2.5 
gamma + d -> (pi0) + d 269

1.2.6 
gamma + p -> eta + p 276

1.3 
Photoproduction of K mesons 285

1.3.1 
gamma + p -> (K+) + Lambda 285

1.3.2 
gamma + p -> (K+) + (Sigma0) 295

2 
Photoproduction above the resonance region (above 1.5 GeV) (P. JOOS) 303

2.0 
Introduction 303

2.1 
Total cross sections 305

2.2 
Compton scattering 306

2.3 
Photoproduction of non-strange pseudoscalar mesons 308

2.4 
Photoproduction of vector mesons 321

2.5 
Photoproduction of baryon resonances 331

2.6 
Photoproduction of strange particles 334

2.7 
References for 2 338



