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Beam-helicity asymmetries have been measured at the MAMI accelerator in Mainz for the photoproduction of mixed-charge pion pairs in the reactions \( \gamma p\rightarrow n\pi^{0}\pi^{+}\) off free protons and \( \gamma d \rightarrow (p)p\pi^{0}\pi^{-}\) and \( \gamma d\rightarrow (n)n\pi^{0}\pi^{+}\) off quasi-free nucleons bound in the deuteron for incident photon energies up to 1.4GeV. Circularly polarized photons were produced from bremsstrahlung of longitudinally polarized electrons and tagged with the Glasgow-Mainz magnetic spectrometer. The charged pions, recoil protons, recoil neutrons, and decay photons from \( \pi^{0}\) mesons were detected in the \( 4\pi\) electromagnetic calorimeter composed of the Crystal Ball and TAPS detectors. Using a complete kinematic reconstruction of the final state, excellent agreement was found between the results for free and quasi-free protons, suggesting that the quasi-free neutron results are also a close approximation of the free-neutron asymmetries. A comparison of the results to the predictions of the Two-Pion-MAID reaction model shows that the reaction mechanisms are still not well understood, in particular at low incident photon energies in the second nucleon-resonance region.
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The Crystal Ball at MAMI, TAPS and A2 Collaborations., Oberle, M., Ahrens, J. et al. Measurement of the beam-helicity asymmetry I⊙ in the photoproduction of \( \pi^{0}\) \( \pi^{\pm}\) pairs off protons and off neutrons. Eur. Phys. J. A 50, 54 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2014-14054-5
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