The extraction of $\phi-N$ total cross section from $d(\gamma,pK^+K^-)n$ process

In this talk, we will report on the first measurement of the differential cross section of $\phi$-meson photoproduction for the $d(\gamma,pK^{+}K^{-})n$ exclusive reaction channel. The experiment was performed using a tagged-photon beam and the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) at Jefferson Lab. We carried out a combined analysis to extract the $\phi-N$ total cross section, $\sigma_{\phi N}$, using data from the $d(\gamma,pK^{+}K^{-})n$ channel and those from a previous publication on coherent $\phi$ production on the deuteron. The extracted $\phi-N$ total cross section favors a value above 20 mb. This value is larger than the value extracted using vector-meson dominance models for $\phi$ photoproduction on the proton.