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The photoproduction of η -mesons off 12C , 40Ca , 93Nb , and natPb nuclei has been measured with a tagged photon beam with energies between 0.6 and 2.2GeV. The experiment was performed at the Bonn ELSA accelerator with the combined setup of the Crystal Barrel and TAPS calorimeters. It aimed at the in-medium properties of the S 11(1535) nucleon resonance and the study of the absorption properties of nuclear matter for η -mesons. Careful consideration was given to contributions from ηπ final states and secondary production mechanisms of η -mesons, e.g. from inelastic πN reactions of intermediate pions. The analysis of the mass number scaling shows that the nuclear absorption cross-section \( \sigma_{{N\eta}}^{}\) for η -mesons is constant over a wide range of the η momentum. The comparison of the excitation functions to data off the deuteron and to calculations in the framework of a BUU model show no unexplained in-medium modifications of the S 11(1535) .
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The CBELSA/TAPS Collaboration., Mertens, T., Jaegle, I. et al. Photoproduction of η -mesons off nuclei for Eγ ⩽ 2.2 GeV. Eur. Phys. J. A 38, 195–207 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2007-10667-y
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