Photoproduction of $\eta$ mesons off the proton for $1.2<E_{\gamma }<4.7$ GeV using CLAS at Jefferson Laboratory

T. Hu, Z. Akbar, V. Crede +148

Photoproduction cross sections are reported for the reaction $\gamma p\to p\eta$ using energy-tagged photons and the CLAS spectrometer at Jefferson Laboratory. The $\eta$ mesons are detected i…