FAIR next generation scientists - 8th Edition Workshop

Radiative transitions and decays of hadrons provide valuable information on their electromagnetic structure. The electromagnetic structure of the lowest lying excitation of the nucleon, the $\mathrm{\Delta }$ resonance, remains of particular interest. This is accessible via radiative transitions such as $\mathrm{\Delta }\to \mathrm{\Delta }\gamma$ with real or, preferably, virtual photons . The first challenge is to understand the production mechanism of the $\mathrm{\Delta }$ baryons in proton-proton collisions and the second challenge lies in the identification of (mostly) low-mass dilepton pairs. The High Acceptance Di-Electron Spectrometer (HADES) at GSI Darmstadt is a versatile magnetic spectrometer designed for measuring wide range of charged particle final states across large angular acceptance. It has excellent $e^{+}/e^{-}$ reconstruction and is ideal for performing these studies. The main aim of this analysis is to extract differential cross-sections for the exclusive $\mathrm{\Delta }$ channels in proton-proton collisions at 4.5 GeV, which will serve as a good basis for comparison to theory for understanding the internal structure through radiative transitions and can also be used as a reference for heavy ion reactions. This presentation will focus on the initial results of the analysis of proton-proton scattering data collected in February 2022 by the HADES collaboration with the ambition to extract valuable information on the production mechanisms of $\mathrm{\Delta }$ resonances in exclusive reactions.