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1. The EMC Effect of Tritium and Helium-3 from the JLab MARATHON Experiment

Author

Abrams, D., Albataineh, H., Aljawrneh, B. S., Alsalmi, S., Androic, D., Aniol, K., Armstrong, W., Arrington, J., Atac, H., Averett, T., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Bai, X., Bane, J., Barcus, S., Beck, A., Bellini, V., Bhatt, H., Bhetuwal, D., Biswas, D., Blyth, D., Boeglin, W., Bulumulla, D., Butler, J., Camsonne, A., Carmignotto, M., Castellanos, J., Chen, J. -P., Cloët, I. C., Cohen, E. O., Covrig, S., Craycraft, K., Cruz-Torres, R., Dongwi, B., Duran, B., Dutta, D., Fomin, N., Fuchey, E., Gal, C., Gautam, T. N., Gilad, S., Gnanvo, K., Gogami, T., Gomez, J., Gu, C., Habarakada, A., Hague, T., Hansen, J. -O., Hattawy, M., Hauenstein, F., Higinbotham, D. W., Holt, R. J., Hughes, E. W., Hyde, C., Ibrahim, H., Jian, S., Joosten, S., Karki, A., Karki, B., Katramatou, A. T., Keith, C., Keppel, C., Khachatryan, M., Khachatryan, V., Khanal, A., Kievsky, A., King, D., King, P. M., Korover, I., Kulagin, S. A., Kumar, K. S., Kutz, T., Lashley-Colthirst, N., Li, S., Li, W., Liu, H., Liuti, S., Liyanage, N., Markowitz, P., McClellan, R. E., Meekins, D., Beck, S. Mey-Tal, Meziani, Z. -E., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Nelyubin, V., Nguyen, D., Nuruzzaman, Nycz, M., Obrecht, R., Olson, M., Owen, V. F., Pace, E., Pandey, B., Pandey, V., Paolone, M., Papadopoulou, A., Park, S., Paul, S., Petratos, G. G., Petti, R., Piasetzky, E., Pomatsalyuk, R., Premathilake, S., Puckett, A. J. R., Punjabi, V., Ransome, R. D., Rashad, M. N. H., Reimer, P. E., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Salmè, G., Santiesteban, N., Sawatzky, B., Scopetta, S., Schmidt, A., Schmookler, B., Segal, J., Segarra, E. P., Shahinyan, A., Širca, S., Sparveris, N., Su, T., Suleiman, R., Szumila-Vance, H., Tadepalli, A. S., Tang, L., Tireman, W., Tortorici, F., Urciuoli, G. M., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wood, S., Ye, Z. H., Ye, Z. Y., and Zhang, J.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Measurements of the EMC effect in the tritium and helium-3 mirror nuclei are reported. The data were obtained by the MARATHON Jefferson Lab experiment, which performed deep inelastic electron scattering from deuterium and the three-body nuclei, using a cryogenic gas target system and the High Resolution Spectrometers of the Hall A Facility of the Lab. The data cover the Bjorken $x$ range from 0.20 to 0.83, corresponding to a squared four-momentum transfer $Q^2$ range from 2.7 to $11.9\gevsq$, and to an invariant mass $W$ of the final hadronic state greater than 1.84 GeV/${\it c}^2$. The tritium EMC effect measurement is the first of its kind. The MARATHON experimental results are compared to results from previous measurements by DESY-HERMES and JLab-Hall C experiments, as well as with few-body theoretical predictions., Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2104.05850

Published
2024

2. Flavor Dependence of Charged Pion Fragmentation Functions

Author

Bhatt, H., Bosted, P., Jia, S., Armstrong, W., Dutta, D., Ent, R., Gaskell, D., Kinney, E., Mkrtchyan, H., Ali, S., Ambrose, R., Androic, D., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Bandari, A., Berdnikov, V., Bhetuwal, D., Biswas, D., Boer, M., Brash, E., Camsonne, A., Chen, J. P., Chen, J., Chen, M., Christy, E. M., Covrig, S., Danagoulian, S., Diefenthaler, M., Duran, B., Elaasar, M., Elliot, C., Fenker, H., Fuchey, E., Hansen, J. O., Hauenstein, F., Horn, T., Huber, G. M., Jones, M. K., Kabir, M. L., Karki, A., Karki, B., Kay, S. J. D., Keppel, C., Kumar, V., Lashley-Colthirst, N., Li, W. B., Mack, D., Malace, S., Markowitz, P., McCaughan, M., McClellan, E., Meekins, D., Michaels, R., Mkrtchyan, A., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, I., Pandey, B., Park, S., Pooser, E., Rehfuss, M., Sawatzky, B., Smith, G. R., Szumila-Vance, H., Tadepalli, A. S., Tadevosyan, V., Trotta, R., Voskanyan, H., Wood, S. A., Ye, Z., Yero, C., and Zheng, X.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

We have measured the flavor dependence of multiplicities for pi^+ and pi^- production in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (SIDIS) on proton and deuteron targets to explore a possible charge symmetry violation in fragmentation functions. The experiment used an electron beam with energies of 10.2 and 10.6 GeV at Jefferson Lab and the Hall-C spectrometers. The electron kinematics spanned the range 0.3

Published
2024

3. Inclusive studies of two- and three-nucleon short-range correlations in $^3$H and $^3$He

Author

Li, S., Santiesteban, S. N., Arrington, J., Cruz-Torres, R., Kurbany, L., Abrams, D., Alsalmi, S., Androic, D., Aniol, K., Averett, T., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Bane, J., Barcus, S., Barrow, J., Beck, A., Bellini, V., Bhatt, H., Bhetuwal, D., Biswas, D., Bulumulla, D., Camsonne, A., Castellanos, J., Chen, J., Chen, J-P., Chrisman, D., Christy, M. E., Clarke, C., Covrig, S., Craycraft, K., Day, D., Dutta, D., Fuchey, E., Gal, C., Garibaldi, F., Gautam, T. N., Gogami, T., Gomez, J., Guéye, P., Habarakada, A., Hague, T. J., Hansen, J. O., Hauenstein, F., Henry, W., Higinbotham, D. W., Holt, R. J., Hyde, C., Itabashi, K., Kaneta, M., Karki, A., Katramatou, A. T., Keppel, C. E., Khachatryan, M., Khachatryan, V., King, P. M., Korover, I., Kutz, T., Lashley-Colthirst, N., Li, W. B., Liu, H., Liyanage, N., Long, E., Mammei, J., Markowitz, P., McClellan, R. E., Meddi, F., Meekins, D., Beck, S. Mey-Tal, Michaels, R., Mihovilovič, M., Moyer, A., Nagao, S., Nelyubin, V., Nguyen, D., Nycz, M., Olson, M., Ou, L., Owen, V., Palatchi, C., Pandey, B., Papadopoulou, A., Park, S., Paul, S., Petkovic, T., Pomatsalyuk, R., Premathilake, S., Punjabi, V., Ransome, R. D., Reimer, P. E., Reinhold, J., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Rodriguez, V. M., Schmidt, A., Schmookler, B., Segarra, E. P., Shahinyan, A., Širca, S., Slifer, K., Solvignon, P., Su, T., Suleiman, R., Szumila-Vance, H., Tang, L., Tian, Y., Tireman, W., Tortorici, F., Toyama, Y., Uehara, K., Urciuoli, G. M., Votaw, D., Williamson, J., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wood, S., Ye, Z. H., Zhang, J., and Zheng, X.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

Inclusive electron scattering at carefully chosen kinematics can isolate scattering from short-range correlations (SRCs), produced through hard, short-distance interactions of nucleons in the nucleus. Because the two-nucleon (2N) SRCs arise from the same N-N interaction in all nuclei, the cross section in the SRC-dominated regime is identical up to an overall scaling factor, and the A/2H cross section ratio is constant in this region. This scaling behavior has been used to identify SRC dominance and to map out the contribution of SRCs for a wide range of nuclei. We examine this scaling behavior at lower momentum transfers using new data on $^2$H, $^3$H, and $^3$He which show that the scaling region is larger than in heavy nuclei. Based on the improved scaling, especially for $^3$H/$^3$He, we examine the ratios at kinematics where three-nucleon SRCs may play an important role. The data for the largest initial nucleon momenta are consistent with isolation of scattering from 3N-SRCs, and suggest that the very-highest momentum nucleons in $^3$He have a nearly isospin-independent momentum configuration, or a small enhancement of the proton distribution.

Published
2024

4. Electroproduction of the Lambda/Sigma^0 hyperons at Q^2~0.5 (GeV/c)^2 at forward angles

Author

Okuyama, K., Itabashi, K., Nagao, S., Nakamura, S. N., Suzuki, K. N., Gogami, T., Pandey, B., Tang, L., Bydžovský, P., Skoupil, D., Mart, T., Abrams, D., Akiyama, T., Androic, D., Aniol, K., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Bane, J., Barcus, S., Barrow, J., Bellini, V., Bhatt, H., Bhetuwal, D., Biswas, D., Camsonne, A., Castellanos, J., Chen, J-P., Chen, J., Covrig, S., Chrisman, D., Cruz-Torres, R., Das, R., Fuchey, E., Gnanvo, K., Garibaldi, F., Gautam, T., Gomez, J., Gueye, P., Hague, T. J., Hansen, O., Henry, W., Hauenstein, F., Higinbotham, D. W., Hyde, C. E., Kaneta, M., Keppel, C., Kutz, T., Lashley-Colthirst, N., Li, S., Liu, H., Mammei, J., Markowitz, P., McClellan, R. E., Meddi, F., Meekins, D., Michaels, R., Mihovilovič, M., Moyer, A., Nguyen, D., Nycz, M., Owen, V., Palatchi, C., Park, S., Petkovic, T., Premathilake, S., Reimer, P. E., Reinhold, J., Riordan, S., Rodriguez, V., Samanta, C., Santiesteban, S. N., Sawatzky, B., Širca, S., Slifer, K., Su, T., Tian, Y., Toyama, Y., Uehara, K., Urciuoli, G. M., Votaw, D., Williamson, J., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wood, S. A., Yale, B., Ye, Z., Zhang, J., and Zheng, X.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

In 2018, the E12-17-003 experiment was conducted at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) to explore the possible existence of an nnLambda state in the reconstructed missing mass distribution from a tritium gas target [K. N. Suzuki et al., Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. 2022, 013D01 (2022), B. Pandey et al., Phys. Rev. C 105, L051001 (2022)]. As part of this investigation, data was also collected using a gaseous hydrogen target, not only for a precise absolute mass scale calibration but also for the study of Lambda/Sigma^0 electroproduction. This dataset was acquired at Q^2~0.5 (GeV/c)^2, W=2.14 GeV, and theta_{gamma K}^{c.m.}~8 deg. It covers forward angles where photoproduction data is scarce and a low-Q^2 region that is of interest for hypernuclear experiments. On the other hand, this kinematic region is at a slightly higher Q^2 than previous hypernuclear experiments, thus providing crucial information for understanding the Q^2 dependence of the differential cross sections for Lambda/Sigma^0 hyperon electroproduction. This paper reports on the Q^2 dependence of the differential cross section for the e + p -> e' + K^+ + Lambda/Sigma^0 reaction in the 0.2-0.8 (GeV/c)^2, and provides comparisons with the currently available theoretical models., Comment: 11 pages, 15 figures

Published
2024

5. Study of the Λ/Σ0 electroproduction in the low-Q2 region at JLab

Author

Okuyama K., Itabashi K., Nagao S., Nakamura S. N., Suzuki K. N., Gogami T., Pandey B., Tang L., Abrams D., Akiyama T., Androic D., Aniol K., Ayerbe Gayoso C., Bane J., Barcus S., Barrow J., Bellini V., Bhatt H., Bhetuwal D., Biswas D., Camsonne A., Castellanos J., Chen J-P., Chen J., Covrig S., Chrisman D., Cruz-Torres R., Das R., Fuchey E., Gnanvo K., Garibaldi F., Gautam T., Gomez J., Gueye P., Hague T. J., Hansen O., Henry W., Hauenstein F., Higinbotham D. W., Hyde C. E., Kaneta M., Keppel C., Kutz T., Lashley-Colthirst N., Li S., Liu H., Mammei J., Markowitz P., McClellan R. E., Meddi F., Meekins D., Michaels R., Mihovilovic M., Moyer A., Nguyen D., Nycz M., Owen V., Palatchi C., Park S., Petkovic T., Premathilake S., Reimer P. E., Reinhold J., Riordan S., Rodriguez V., Samanta C., Santiesteban S. N., Sawatzky B., Širca S., Slifer K., Su T., Tian Y., Toyama Y., Uehara K., Urciuoli G. M., Votaw D., Williamson J., Wojtsekhowski B., Wood S. A., Yale B., Ye Z., Zhang J., and Zheng X.

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

We performed an experiment using tritium and hydrogen cryogenic gas targets at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) in 2018 (E12-17-003)[1, 2]. In this article, we discuss the Λ/Σ0 hyperon electroproduction from hydrogen target. Elementary Λ/Σ0 hyperon production processes are important not only for an absolute mass scale calibration in our experiment, but also for the study of the electroproduction mechanisms themselves. In this article, we reported the results of the differential cross section for the p(e, e’K+)Λ/Σ0 reaction at Q2 ∼ 0.5 (GeV/c)2.

Published
2022
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6. Cross-section measurement of virtual photoproduction of iso-triplet three-body hypernucleus, Λnn

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Gogami T., Suzuki K. N., Pandey B., Itabashi K., Nagao S., Okuyama K., Nakamura S. N., Tang L., Abrams D., Akiyama T., Androic D., Aniol K., Ayerbe Gayoso C., Bane J., Barcus S., Barrow J., Bellini V., Bhatt H., Bhetuwal D., Biswas D., Camsonne A., Castellanos J., Chen J-P., Chen J., Covrig S., Chrisman D., Cruz-Torres R., Das R., Fuchey E., Gnanvo K., Garibaldi F., Gautam T., Gomez J., Gueye P., Hague T. J., Hansen O., Henry W., Hauenstein F., Higinbotham D. W., Hyde C. E., Kaneta M., Keppel C., Kutz T., Lashley-Colthirst N., Li S., Liu H., Mammei J., Markowitz P., McClellan R. E., Meddi F., Meekins D., Michaels R., Mihovilovic M., Moyer A., Nguyen D., Nycz M., Owen V., Palatchi C., Park S., Petkovic T., Premathilake S., Reimer P. E., Reinhold J., Riordan S., Rodriguez V., Samanta C., Santiesteban S. N., Sawatzky B., Širca S., Slifer K., Su T., Tian Y., Toyama Y., Uehara K., Urciuoli G. M., Votaw D., Williamson J., Wojtsekhowski B., Wood S. A., Yale B., Ye Z., Zhang J., and Zheng X.

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

Missing-mass spectroscopy with the 3H(e, e′K+) reaction was carried out at Jefferson Lab’s (JLab) Hall A in Oct–Nov, 2018. The differential cross section for the 3H(γ∗, K+)Λnn was deduced at ω = Ee − Ee′ = 2.102 GeV and at the forward K+-scattering angle (0° ≤ θγ∗K ≤ 5°) in the laboratory frame. Given typical predicted energies and decay widths, which are (BΛ, Γ) = (−0.25, 0.8) and (−0.55, 4.7) MeV, the cross sections were found to be 11.2 ± 4.8(stat.)+4.1−2.1(sys.) and 18.1 ± 6.8(stat.)+4.2−2.9(sys.) nb/sr, respectively. The obtained result would impose a constraint for interaction models particularly between Λ and neutron by comparing to theoretical calculations.

Published
2022
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7. Study of Λn FSI with Λ quasi-free productions on the 3H(e, e′K+)X reaction at JLab

Author

Itabashi K., Suzuki K.N., Pandey B., Okuyama K., Gogami T., Nagao S., Nakamura S.N., Tang L., Abrams D., Akiyama T., Androic D., Aniol K., Ayerbe Gayoso C., Bane J., Barcus S., Barrow J., Bellini V., Bhatt H., Bhetuwal D., Biswas D., Camsonne A., Castellanos J., Chen J-P., Chen J., Covrig S., Chrisman D., Cruz-Torres R., Das R., Fuchey E., Gnanvo K., Garibaldi F., Gautam T., Gomez J., Gueye P., Hague T.J., Hansen O., Henry W., Hauenstein F., Higinbotham D.W., Hyde C.E., Kaneta M., Keppel C., Kutz T., Lashley-Colthirst N., Li S., Liu H., Mammei J., Markowitz P., McClellan R. E., Meddi F., Meekins D., Michaels R., Mihovilovic M., Moyer A., Nguyen D., Nycz M., Owen V., Palatchi C., Park S., Petkovic T., Premathilake S., Reimer P.E., Reinhold J., Riordan S., Rodriguez V., Samanta C., Santiesteban S.N., Sawatzky B., Širca S., Slifer K., Su T., Tian Y., Toyama Y., Uehara K., Urciuoli G.M., Votaw D., Williamson J., Wojtsekhowski B., Wood S.A., Yale B., Ye Z., Zhang J., and Zheng X.

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

Abstract. An nnΛ is a neutral baryon system with no charge. The study of the pure Λ-neutron system such as nnΛ gives us information on the Λn interaction. The nnΛ search experiment (E12-17-003) was performed at JLab Hall A in 2018. In this article, the Λn FSI was investigated by a shape analysis of the 3H(e, e′K+)X missing mass spectrum, and a preliminary result for the Λn FSI study is given.

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2022
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8. Novel Measurement of the Neutron Magnetic Form Factor from A=3 Mirror Nuclei

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Santiesteban, SN, Li, S, Abrams, D, Alsalmi, S, Androic, D, Aniol, K, Arrington, J, Averett, T, Gayoso, C Ayerbe, Bane, J, Barcus, S, Barrow, J, Beck, A, Bellini, V, Bhatt, H, Bhetuwal, D, Biswas, D, Camsonne, A, Castellanos, J, Chen, J, Chen, J-P, Chrisman, D, Christy, ME, Clarke, C, Covrig, S, Cruz-Torres, R, Day, D, Dutta, D, Fuchey, E, Gal, C, Garibaldi, F, Gautam, TN, Gogami, T, Gomez, J, Guèye, P, Hague, TJ, Hansen, JO, Hauenstein, F, Henry, W, Higinbotham, DW, Holt, RJ, Hyde, C, Itabashi, K, Kaneta, M, Karki, A, Katramatou, AT, Keppel, CE, King, PM, Kurbany, L, Kutz, T, Lashley-Colthirst, N, Li, WB, Liu, H, Liyanage, N, Long, E, Lovato, A, Mammei, J, Markowitz, P, McClellan, RE, Meddi, F, Meekins, D, Michaels, R, Mihovilovič, M, Moyer, A, Nagao, S, Nguyen, D, Nycz, M, Olson, M, Ou, L, Owen, V, Palatchi, C, Pandey, B, Papadopoulou, A, Park, S, Petkovic, T, Premathilake, S, Punjabi, V, Ransome, RD, Reimer, PE, Reinhold, J, Riordan, S, Rocco, N, Rodriguez, VM, Schmidt, A, Schmookler, B, Segarra, EP, Shahinyan, A, Širca, S, Slifer, K, Solvignon, P, Su, T, Suleiman, R, Tang, L, Tian, Y, Tireman, W, Tortorici, F, Toyama, Y, Uehara, K, Urciuoli, GM, and Votaw, D

Subjects
Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Synchrotrons and Accelerators, Physical Sciences, Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration, Mathematical Sciences, Engineering, General Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract

The electromagnetic form factors of the proton and neutron encode information on the spatial structure of their charge and magnetization distributions. While measurements of the proton are relatively straightforward, the lack of a free neutron target makes measurements of the neutron's electromagnetic structure more challenging and more sensitive to experimental or model-dependent uncertainties. Various experiments have attempted to extract the neutron form factors from scattering from the neutron in deuterium, with different techniques providing different, and sometimes large, systematic uncertainties. We present results from a novel measurement of the neutron magnetic form factor using quasielastic scattering from the mirror nuclei ^{3}H and ^{3}He, where the nuclear effects are larger than for deuterium but expected to largely cancel in the cross-section ratios. We extracted values of the neutron magnetic form factor for low-to-modest momentum transfer, 0.6

Published
2024

9. Positron Beams At Ce$^+$BAF

Author

Grames, J., Benesch, J., Bruker, M., Cardman, L., Covrig, S., Ghoshal, P., Gopinath, S., Gubeli, J., Habet, S., Hernandez-Garcia, C., Hofler, A., Kazimi, R., Lin, F., Nagaitsev, S., Poelker, M., Rimmer, B., Roblin, Y., Lizarraga-Rubio, V., Seryi, A., Spata, M., Sy, A., Turner, D., Ushakov, A., Valerio-Lizarraga, C. A., and Voutier, E.

Subjects
Physics - Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We present a scheme for the generation of a high polarization positron beam with continous wave (CW) bunch structure for the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at Jefferson Laboratory (JLab). The positrons are created in a high average power conversion target and collected by a CW capture linac and DC solenoid., Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, contributed to IPAC'23

Published
2023

10. Evaluation of a High-Power Target Design for Positron Production at CEBAF

Author

Ushakov, A., Covrig, S., Grames, J., Habet, S., Galliard, C. Le, and Voutier, E.

Subjects
Physics - Accelerator Physics
Abstract

A source for polarized positron beams at the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at Jefferson Lab is being designed. The Polarized Electrons for Polarized Positrons (PEPPo) concept is used to produce polarized e$^+$e$^-$-pairs from the bremsstrahlung radiation of a longitudinally polarized electron beam interacting within a high-$Z$ conversion target. The scheme under consideration includes a 4 mm thick tungsten target that absorbs 17 kW deposited by a 1 mA continuous-wave electron beam with an energy of 120 MeV. The concept of a rotating tungsten rim mounted on a water-cooled copper disk was explored. The results of ANSYS thermal and mechanical analyses are discussed together with FLUKA evaluations of the radiation damages., Comment: 14th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'23)

Published
2023

11. First Measurement of the EMC effect in B10 and B11

Author

Karki, A, Biswas, D, Gonzalez, FA, Henry, W, Morean, C, Nadeeshani, A, Sun, A, Abrams, D, Ahmed, Z, Aljawrneh, B, Alsalmi, S, Ambrose, R, Androic, D, Armstrong, W, Arrington, J, Asaturyan, A, Assumin-Gyimah, K, Gayoso, C Ayerbe, Bandari, A, Bane, J, Barrow, J, Basnet, S, Berdnikov, V, Bhatt, H, Bhetuwal, D, Boeglin, WU, Bosted, P, Brash, E, Bukhari, MHS, Chen, H, Chen, JP, Chen, M, Christy, ME, Covrig, S, Craycraft, K, Danagoulian, S, Day, D, Diefenthaler, M, Dlamini, M, Dunne, J, Duran, B, Dutta, D, Elliott, C, Ent, R, Fenker, H, Fomin, N, Fuchey, E, Gaskell, D, Gautam, TN, Hansen, JO, Hauenstein, F, Hernandez, AV, Horn, T, Huber, GM, Jones, MK, Joosten, S, Kabir, ML, Kalantarians, N, Keppel, C, Khanal, A, King, PM, Kinney, E, Ko, HS, Kohl, M, Lashley-Colthirst, N, Li, S, Li, WB, Liyanage, AH, Mack, D, Malace, S, Markowitz, P, Matter, J, Meekins, D, Michaels, R, Mkrtchyan, A, Mkrtchyan, H, Nanda, S, Nguyen, D, Niculescu, G, Niculescu, I, Nuruzzaman, Pandey, B, Park, S, Pooser, E, Puckett, AJR, Rehfuss, M, Reinhold, J, Santiesteban, N, Sawatzky, B, Smith, GR, Szumila-Vance, H, Tadepalli, AS, Tadevosyan, V, Trotta, R, Wood, SA, Yero, C, and Zhang, J

Subjects
Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Synchrotrons and Accelerators, Physical Sciences, Nuclear and plasma physics
Abstract

The nuclear dependence of the inclusive inelastic electron scattering cross section (the EMC effect) has been measured for the first time in B10 and B11. Previous measurements of the EMC effect in A≤12 nuclei showed an unexpected nuclear dependence; B10 and B11 were measured to explore the EMC effect in this region in more detail. Results are presented for Be9, B10, B11, and C12 at an incident beam energy of 10.6 GeV. The EMC effect in the boron isotopes was found to be similar to that for Be9 and C12, yielding almost no nuclear dependence in the EMC effect in the range A=4-12. This represents important new data supporting the hypothesis that the EMC effect depends primarily on the local nuclear environment due to the cluster structure of these nuclei.

Published
2023

12. A novel measurement of the neutron magnetic form factor from A=3 mirror nuclei

Author

Santiesteban, S. N., Li, S., Abrams, D., Alsalmi, S., Androic, D., Aniol, K., Arrington, J., Averett, T., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Bane, J., Barcus, S., Barrow, J., Beck, A., Bellini, V., Bhatt, H., Bhetuwal, D., Biswas, D., Camsonne, A., Castellanos, J., Chen, J., Chen, J-P., Chrisman, D., Christy, M. E., Clarke, C., Covrig, S., Cruz-Torres, R., Day, D., Dutta, D., Fuchey, E., Gal, C., Garibaldi, F., Gautam, T. N., Gogami, T., Gomez, J., Gueye, P., Hague, T. J., Hansen, J. O., Hauenstein, F., Henry, W., Higinbotham, D. W., Holt, R. J., Hyde, C., Itabashi, K., Kaneta, M., Karki, A., Katramatou, A. T., Keppel, C. E., King, P. M., Kurbany, L., Kutz, T., Lashley-Colthirst, N., Li, W. B., Liu, H., Liyanage, N., Long, E., Lovato, A., Mammei, J., Markowitz, P., McClellan, R. E., Meddi, F., Meekins, D., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Moyer, A., Nagao, S., Nguyen, D., Nycz, M., Olson, M., Ou, L., Owen, V., Palatchi, C., Pandey, B., Papadopoulou, A., Park, S., Petkovic, T., Premathilake, 6 S., Punjabi, V., Ransome, R. D., Reimer, P. E., Reinhold, J., Riordan, S., Rocco, N., Rodriguez, V. M., Schmidt, A., Schmookler, B., Segarra, E. P., Shahinyan, A., Sirca, S., Slifer, K., Solvignon, P., Su, T., Suleiman, R., Tang, L., Tian, Y., Tireman, W., Tortorici, F., Toyama, Y., Uehara, K., Urciuoli, G. M., Votaw, D., Williamson, J., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wood, S., Ye, Z. H., Zhang, J., and Zheng, X.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The electromagnetic form factors of the proton and neutron encode information on the spatial structure of their charge and magnetization distributions. While measurements of the proton are relatively straightforward, the lack of a free neutron target makes measurements of the neutron's electromagnetic structure more challenging and more sensitive to experimental or model-dependent uncertainties. Various experiments have attempted to extract the neutron form factors from scattering from the neutron in deuterium, with different techniques providing different, and sometimes large, systematic uncertainties. We present results from a novel measurement of the neutron magnetic form factor using quasielastic scattering from the mirror nuclei $^3$H and $^3$He, where the nuclear effects are larger than for deuterium but expected to largely cancel in the cross-section ratios. We extracted values of the neutron magnetic form factor for low-to-modest momentum transfer, $0.6

Published
2023

13. Revealing the short-range structure of the 'mirror nuclei' $^3$H and $^3$He

Author

Li, S., Cruz-Torres, R., Santiesteban, N., Ye, Z. H., Abrams, D., Alsalmi, S., Androic, D., Aniol, K., Arrington, J., Averett, T., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Bane, J., Barcus, S., Barrow, J., Beck, A., Bellini, V., Bhatt, H., Bhetuwal, D., Biswas, D., Bulumulla, D., Camsonne, A., Castellanos, J., Chen, J., Chen, J-P., Chrisman, D., Christy, M. E., Clarke, C., Covrig, S., Craycraft, K., Day, D., Dutta, D., Fuchey, E., Gal, C., Garibaldi, F., Gautam, T. N., Gogami, T., Gomez, J., Guèye, P., Habarakada, A., Hague, T. J., Hansen, J. O., Hauenstein, F., Henry, W., Higinbotham, D. W., Holt, R. J., Hyde, C., Itabashi, T., Kaneta, M., Karki, A., Katramatou, A. T., Keppel, C. E., Khachatryan, M., Khachatryan, V., King, P. M., Korover, I., Kurbany, L., Kutz, T., Lashley-Colthirst, N., Li, W. B., Liu, H., Liyanage, N., Long, E., Mammei, J., Markowitz, P., McClellan, R. E., Meddi, F., Meekins, D., Beck, S. Mey-Tal, Michaels, R., Mihovilovič, M., Moyer, A., Nagao, S., Nelyubin, V., Nguyen, D., Nycz, M., Olson, M., Ou, L., Owen, V., Palatchi, C., Pandey, B., Papadopoulou, A., Park, S., Paul, S., Petkovic, T., Pomatsalyuk, R., Premathilake, S., Punjabi, V., Ransome, R. D., Reimer, P. E., Reinhold, J., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Rodriguez, V. M., Schmidt, A., Schmookler, B., Segarra, E. P., Shahinyan, A., Slifer, K., Solvignon, P., Širca, S., Su, T., Suleiman, R., Szumila-Vance, H., Tang, L., Tian, Y., Tireman, W., Tortorici, F., Toyama, Y., Uehara, K., Urciuoli, G. M., Votaw, D., Williamson, J., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wood, S., Zhang, J., and Zheng, X.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

When protons and neutrons (nucleons) are bound into atomic nuclei, they are close enough together to feel significant attraction, or repulsion, from the strong, short-distance part of the nucleon-nucleon interaction. These strong interactions lead to hard collisions between nucleons, generating pairs of highly-energetic nucleons referred to as short-range correlations (SRCs). SRCs are an important but relatively poorly understood part of nuclear structure and mapping out the strength and isospin structure (neutron-proton vs proton-proton pairs) of these virtual excitations is thus critical input for modeling a range of nuclear, particle, and astrophysics measurements. Hitherto measurements used two-nucleon knockout or ``triple-coincidence'' reactions to measure the relative contribution of np- and pp-SRCs by knocking out a proton from the SRC and detecting its partner nucleon (proton or neutron). These measurementsshow that SRCs are almost exclusively np pairs, but had limited statistics and required large model-dependent final-state interaction (FSI) corrections. We report on the first measurement using inclusive scattering from the mirror nuclei $^3$H and $^3$He to extract the np/pp ratio of SRCs in the A=3 system. We obtain a measure of the np/pp SRC ratio that is an order of magnitude more precise than previous experiments, and find a dramatic deviation from the near-total np dominance observed in heavy nuclei. This result implies an unexpected structure in the high-momentum wavefunction for $^3$He and $^3$H. Understanding these results will improve our understanding of the short-range part of the N-N interaction.

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2022
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14. First Measurement of the EMC Effect in $^{10}$B and $^{11}$B

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Karki, A., Biswas, D., Gonzalez, F. A., Henry, W., Morean, C., Nadeeshani, A., Sun, A., Abrams, D., Ahmed, Z., Aljawrneh, B., Alsalmi, S., Ambrose, R., Androic, D., Armstrong, W., Arrington, J., Asaturyan, A., Assumin-Gyimah, K., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Bandari, A., Bane, J., Barrow, J., Basnet, S., Berdnikov, V., Bhatt, H., Bhetuwal, D., Boeglin, W. U., Bosted, P., Brash, E., Bukhari, M. H. S., Chen, H., Chen, J. P., Chen, M., Christy, M. E., Covrig, S., Craycraft, K., Danagoulian, S., Day, D., Diefenthaler, M., Dlamini, M., Dunne, J., Duran, B., Dutta, D., Elliott, C., Ent, R., Fenker, H., Fomin, N., Fuchey, E., Gaskell, D., Gautam, T. N., Hansen, J. O., Hauenstein, F., Hernandez, A. V., Horn, T., Huber, G. M., Jones, M. K., Joosten, S., Kabir, M. L., Kalantarians, N., Keppel, C., Khanal, A., King, P. M., Kinney, E., Ko, H. S., Kohl, M., Lashley-Colthirst, N., Li, S., Li, W. B., Liyanage, A. H., Mack, D., Malace, S., Markowitz, P., Matter, J., Meekins, D., Michaels, R., Mkrtchyan, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Nanda, S., Nguyen, D., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, I., Nuruzzaman, Pandey, B., Park, S., Pooser, E., Puckett, A. J. R., Rehfuss, M., Reinhold, J., Santiesteban, N., Sawatzky, B., Smith, G. R., Szumila-Vance, H., Tadepalli, A. S., Tadevosyan, V., Trotta, R., Wood, S. A., Yero, C., and Zhang, J.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The nuclear dependence of the inclusive inelastic electron scattering cross section (the EMC effect) has been measured for the first time in $^{10}$B and $^{11}$B. Previous measurements of the EMC effect in $A \leq 12$ nuclei showed an unexpected nuclear dependence; $^{10}$B and $^{11}$B were measured to explore the EMC effect in this region in more detail. Results are presented for $^9$Be, $^{10}$B, $^{11}$B, and $^{12}$C at an incident beam energy of 10.6~GeV. The EMC effect in the boron isotopes was found to be similar to that for $^9$Be and $^{12}$C, yielding almost no nuclear dependence in the EMC effect in the range $A=4-12$. This represents important, new data supporting the hypothesis that the EMC effect depends primarily on the local nuclear environment due to the cluster structure of these nuclei., Comment: To appear in PRC

Published
2022

15. Constraints on the onset of color transparency from quasi-elastic $^{12}$C$(e,e'p)$ up to $Q^2=\,14.2\,$(GeV$/c)^2$

Author

Bhetuwal, D., Matter, J., Szumila-Vance, H., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Kabir, M. L., Dutta, D., Ent, R., Abrams, D., Ahmed, Z., Aljawrneh, B., Alsalmi, S., Ambrose, R., Androic, D., Armstrong, W., Asaturyan, A., Assumin-Gyimah, K., Bandari, A., Basnet, S., Berdnikov, V., Bhatt, H., Biswas, D., Boeglin, W. U., Bosted, P., Brash, E., Bukhari, M. H. S., Chen, H., Chen, J. P., Chen, M., Christy, E. M., Covrig, S., Craycraft, K., Danagoulian, S., Day, D., Diefenthaler, M., Dlamini, M., Dunne, J., Duran, B., Evans, R., Fenker, H., Fomin, N., Fuchey, E., Gaskell, D., Gautam, T. N., Gonzalez, F. A., Hansen, J. O., Hauenstein, F., Hernandez, A. V., Horn, T., Huber, G. M., Jones, M. K., Joosten, S., Karki, A., Keppel, C., Khanal, A., King, P. M., Kinney, E., Ko, H. S., Kohl, M., Lashley-Colthirst, N., Li, S., Li, W. B., Liyanage, A. H., Mack, D., Malace, S., Markowitz, P., Meekins, D., Michaels, R., Mkrtchyan, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Nazeer, S. J., Nanda, S., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, I., Nguyen, D., Nuruzzaman, Pandey, B., Park, S., Pooser, E., Puckett, A., Rehfuss, M., Reinhold, J., Santiesteban, N., Sawatzky, B., Smith, G. R., Sun, A., Tadevosyan, V., Trotta, R., Wood, S. A., Yero, C., and Zhang, J.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Quasi-elastic scattering on $^{12}$C$(e,e'p)$ was measured in Hall C at Jefferson Lab for space-like 4-momentum transfer squared $Q^2$ in the range of 8--14.2\,(GeV/$c$)$^2$ with proton momenta up to 8.3\,GeV/$c$. The experiment was carried out in the upgraded Hall C at Jefferson Lab. It used the existing high momentum spectrometer and the new super high momentum spectrometer to detect the scattered electrons and protons in coincidence. The nuclear transparency was extracted as the ratio of the measured yield to the yield calculated in the plane wave impulse approximation. Additionally, the transparency of the $1s_{1/2}$ and $1p_{3/2}$ shell protons in $^{12}$C was extracted, and the asymmetry of the missing momentum distribution was examined for hints of the quantum chromodynamics prediction of Color Transparency. All of these results were found to be consistent with traditional nuclear physics and inconsistent with the onset of Color Transparency.

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2022
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16. Qweak: First Direct Measurement of the Proton’s Weak Charge

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Androic D., Armstrong D.S., Asaturyan A., Averett T., Balewski J., Bartlett K., Beaufait J., Beminiwattha R.S., Benesch J., Benmokhtar F., Birchall J., Carlini R.D., Cates G.D., Cornejo J.C., Covrig S., Dalton M.M., Davis C.A., Deconinck W., Diefenbach J., Dowd J.F., Dunne J.A., Dutta D., Duvall W.S., Elaasar M., Falk W.R., Finn J.M., Forest T., Gal C., Gaskell D., Gericke M.T.W., Grames J., Gray V.M., Grimm K., Guo F., Hoskins J.R., Johnston K., Jones D., Jones M., Jones R., Kargiantoulakis M., King P.M., Korkmaz E., Kowalski S., Leacock J., Leckey J., Lee A.R., Lee J.H., Lee L., MacEwan S., Mack D., Magee J.A., Mahurin R., Mammei J., Martin J.W., McHugh M.J., Meekins D., Mei J., Michaels R., Micherdzinska A., Mkrtchyan A., Mkrtchyan H., Morgan N., Myers K.E., Narayan A., Ndukum L.Z., Nelyubin V., Nuhait H., Nuruzzaman, van Oers W.T.H, Opper A.K., Page S.A., Pan J., Paschke K.D., Phillips S.K., Pitt M.L., Poelker M., Rajotte J.F., Ramsay W.D., Roche J., Sawatzky B., Seva T., Shabestari M.H., Silwal R., Simicevic N., Smith G.R., Solvignon P., Spayde D.T., Subedi A., Subedi R., Suleiman R., Tadevosyan V., Tobias W.A., Tvaskis V., Waidyawansa B., Wang P., Wells S.P., Wood S.A., Yang S., Young R.D., Zang P., and Zhamkochyan S.

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

The Qweak experiment, which took data at Jefferson Lab in the period 2010 - 2012, will precisely determine the weak charge of the proton by measuring the parity-violating asymmetry in elastic e-p scattering at 1.1 GeV using a longitudinally polarized electron beam and a liquid hydrogen target at a low momentum transfer of Q2 = 0.025 (GeV/c)2. The weak charge of the proton is predicted by the Standard Model and any significant deviation would indicate physics beyond the Standard Model. The technical challenges and experimental apparatus for measuring the weak charge of the proton will be discussed, as well as the method of extracting the weak charge of the proton. The results from a small subset of the data, that has been published, will also be presented. Furthermore an update will be given of the current status of the data analysis.

Published
2017
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17. Revealing the short-range structure of the mirror nuclei 3H and 3He

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Li, S, Cruz-Torres, R, Santiesteban, N, Ye, ZH, Abrams, D, Alsalmi, S, Androic, D, Aniol, K, Arrington, J, Averett, T, Gayoso, C Ayerbe, Bane, J, Barcus, S, Barrow, J, Beck, A, Bellini, V, Bhatt, H, Bhetuwal, D, Biswas, D, Bulumulla, D, Camsonne, A, Castellanos, J, Chen, J, Chen, J-P, Chrisman, D, Christy, ME, Clarke, C, Covrig, S, Craycraft, K, Day, D, Dutta, D, Fuchey, E, Gal, C, Garibaldi, F, Gautam, TN, Gogami, T, Gomez, J, Guèye, P, Habarakada, A, Hague, TJ, Hansen, JO, Hauenstein, F, Henry, W, Higinbotham, DW, Holt, RJ, Hyde, C, Itabashi, T, Kaneta, M, Karki, A, Katramatou, AT, Keppel, CE, Khachatryan, M, Khachatryan, V, King, PM, Korover, I, Kurbany, L, Kutz, T, Lashley-Colthirst, N, Li, WB, Liu, H, Liyanage, N, Long, E, Mammei, J, Markowitz, P, McClellan, RE, Meddi, F, Meekins, D, Beck, S Mey-Tal, Michaels, R, Mihovilovič, M, Moyer, A, Nagao, S, Nelyubin, V, Nguyen, D, Nycz, M, Olson, M, Ou, L, Owen, V, Palatchi, C, Pandey, B, Papadopoulou, A, Park, S, Paul, S, Petkovic, T, Pomatsalyuk, R, Premathilake, S, Punjabi, V, Ransome, RD, Reimer, PE, Reinhold, J, Riordan, S, Roche, J, Rodriguez, VM, Schmidt, A, Schmookler, B, Segarra, EP, Shahinyan, A, Slifer, K, Solvignon, P, and Širca, S

Subjects
Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Synchrotrons and Accelerators, Physical Sciences, General Science & Technology
Abstract

When protons and neutrons (nucleons) are bound into atomic nuclei, they are close enough to feel significant attraction, or repulsion, from the strong, short-distance part of the nucleon-nucleon interaction. These strong interactions lead to hard collisions between nucleons, generating pairs of highly energetic nucleons referred to as short-range correlations (SRCs). SRCs are an important but relatively poorly understood part of nuclear structure1-3, and mapping out the strength and the isospin structure (neutron-proton (np) versus proton-proton (pp) pairs) of these virtual excitations is thus critical input for modelling a range of nuclear, particle and astrophysics measurements3-5. Two-nucleon knockout or 'triple coincidence' reactions have been used to measure the relative contribution of np-SRCs and pp-SRCs by knocking out a proton from the SRC and detecting its partner nucleon (proton or neutron). These measurements6-8 have shown that SRCs are almost exclusively np pairs, but they had limited statistics and required large model-dependent final-state interaction corrections. Here we report on measurements using inclusive scattering from the mirror nuclei hydrogen-3 and helium-3 to extract the np/pp ratio of SRCs in systems with a mass number of three. We obtain a measure of the np/pp SRC ratio that is an order of magnitude more precise than previous experiments, and find a marked deviation from the near-total np dominance observed in heavy nuclei. This result implies an unexpected structure in the high-momentum wavefunction for hydrogen-3 and helium-3. Understanding these results will improve our understanding of the short-range part of the nucleon-nucleon interaction.

Published
2022

18. Spectroscopic study of a possible Λnn resonance and a pair of ΣNN states using the (e,e′K+) reaction with a tritium target

Author

Pandey, B, Tang, L, Gogami, T, Suzuki, KN, Itabashi, K, Nagao, S, Okuyama, K, Nakamura, SN, Abrams, D, Afnan, IR, Akiyama, T, Androic, D, Aniol, K, Averett, T, Gayoso, C Ayerbe, Bane, J, Barcus, S, Barrow, J, Bellini, V, Bhatt, H, Bhetuwal, D, Biswas, D, Camsonne, A, Castellanos, J, Chen, J-P, Chen, J, Covrig, S, Chrisman, D, Cruz-Torres, R, Das, R, Fuchey, E, Gal, C, Gibson, BF, Gnanvo, K, Garibaldi, F, Gautam, T, Gomez, J, Gueye, P, Hague, TJ, Hansen, O, Henry, W, Hauenstein, F, Higinbotham, DW, Hyde, C, Kaneta, M, Keppel, C, Kutz, T, Lashley-Colthirst, N, Li, S, Liu, H, Mammei, J, Markowitz, P, McClellan, RE, Meddi, F, Meekins, D, Michaels, R, Mihovilovič, M, Moyer, A, Nguyen, D, Nycz, M, Owen, V, Palatchi, C, Park, S, Petkovic, T, Premathilake, S, Reimer, PE, Reinhold, J, Riordan, S, Rodriguez, V, Samanta, C, Santiesteban, SN, Sawatzky, B, Širca, S, Slifer, K, Su, T, Tian, Y, Toyama, Y, Uehara, K, Urciuoli, GM, Votaw, D, Williamson, J, Wojtsekhowski, B, Wood, S, Yale, B, Ye, Z, Zhang, J, and Zheng, X

Subjects
Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Synchrotrons and Accelerators, Physical Sciences, Nuclear and plasma physics
Abstract

A mass spectroscopy experiment with a pair of nearly identical high-resolution spectrometers and a tritium target was performed in Hall A at Jefferson Lab. Utilizing the (e,e′K+) reaction, enhancements, which may correspond to a possible Λnn resonance and a pair of ςNN states, were observed with an energy resolution of about 1.21 MeV (σ), although greater statistics are needed to make definitive identifications. An experimentally measured Λnn state may provide a unique constraint in determining the Λn interaction, for which no scattering data exist. In addition, although bound A=3 and 4 ς hypernuclei have been predicted, only an A=4 ς hypernucleus (Heς4) was found, utilizing the (K-,π-) reaction on a He4 target. The possible bound ςNN state is likely a ς0nn state, although this has to be confirmed by future experiments.

Published
2022

19. The cross-section measurement for the $^3{\textrm H}(e,e'K^+)nn\Lambda$ reaction

Author

Suzuki, K. N., Gogami, T., Pandey, B., Itabashi, K., Nagao, S., Okuyama, K., Nakamura, S. N., Tang, L., Abrams, D., Akiyama, T., Androic, D., Aniol, K., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Bane, J., Barcus, S., Barrow, J., Bellini, V., Bhatt, H., Bhetuwal, D., Biswas, D., Camsonne, A., Castellanos, J., Chen, J-P., Chen, J., Covrig, S., Chrisman, D., Cruz-Torres, R., Das, R., Fuchey, E., Gnanvo, K., Garibaldi, F., Gautam, T., Gomez, J., Gueye, P., Hague, T. J., Hansen, O., Henry, W., Hauenstein, F., Higinbotham, D. W., Hyde, C. E., Kaneta, M., Keppel, C., Kutz, T., Lashley-Colthirst, N., Li, S., Liu, H., Mammei, J., Markowitz, P., McClellan, R. E., Meddi, F., Meekins, D., Michaels, R., Mihovilovič, M., Moyer, A., Nguyen, D., Nycz, M., Owen, V., Palatchi, C., Park, S., Petkovic, T., Premathilake, S., Reimer, P. E., Reinhold, J., Riordan, S., Rodriguez, V., Samanta, C., Santiesteban, S. N., Sawatzky, B., Širca, S., Slifer, K., Su, T., Tian, Y., Toyama, Y., Uehara, K., Urciuoli, G. M., Votaw, D., Williamson, J., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wood, S. A., Yale, B., Ye, Z., Zhang, J., and Zheng, X.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

The small binding energy of the hypertrition leads to predictions of non-existence of bound hypernuclei for isotriplet three-body systems such as $nn\Lambda$. However, invariant mass spectroscopy at GSI has reported events that may be interpreted as the bound $nn\Lambda$ state. The $nn\Lambda$ state was sought by missing-mass spectroscopy via the $(e,e'K^+)$ reaction at Jefferson Lab's experimental Hall A. The present experiment has higher sensitivity to the $nn\Lambda$-state investigation in terms of better precision by a factor of about three. The analysis shown in this article focuses on the derivation of the reaction cross-section for the $^3{\rm{H}}(\gamma^{*},K^+)\textrm{X}$ reaction. Events that were detected in an acceptance, where a Monte Carlo simulation could reproduce the data well ($|\delta p/p| < 4\%$), were analyzed to minimize the systematic uncertainty. No significant structures were observed with the acceptance cuts, and the upper limits of the production cross-section of the $nn\Lambda$ state were obtained to be $21$ and $31~\rm{nb/sr}$ at the $90\%$ confidence level when theoretical predictions of $(-B_{\Lambda}, \Gamma) = (0.25,0.8)$ and $(0.55, 4.7)$ MeV, respectively, were assumed. The cross-section result provides valuable information for examining the existence of $nn\Lambda$., Comment: 27 pages, 12 figures

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2021
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20. Measurement of the Nucleon F2n/F2p Structure Function Ratio by the Jefferson Lab MARATHON Tritium/Helium-3 Deep Inelastic Scattering Experiment

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Abrams, D, Albataineh, H, Aljawrneh, BS, Alsalmi, S, Androic, D, Aniol, K, Armstrong, W, Arrington, J, Atac, H, Averett, T, Gayoso, C Ayerbe, Bai, X, Bane, J, Barcus, S, Beck, A, Bellini, V, Bhatt, H, Bhetuwal, D, Biswas, D, Blyth, D, Boeglin, W, Bulumulla, D, Butler, J, Camsonne, A, Carmignotto, M, Castellanos, J, Chen, J-P, Cohen, EO, Covrig, S, Craycraft, K, Cruz-Torres, R, Dongwi, B, Duran, B, Dutta, D, Fuchey, E, Gal, C, Gautam, TN, Gilad, S, Gnanvo, K, Gogami, T, Gomez, J, Gu, C, Habarakada, A, Hague, T, Hansen, J-O, Hattawy, M, Hauenstein, F, Higinbotham, DW, Holt, RJ, Hughes, EW, Hyde, C, Ibrahim, H, Jian, S, Joosten, S, Karki, A, Karki, B, Katramatou, AT, Keith, C, Keppel, C, Khachatryan, M, Khachatryan, V, Khanal, A, Kievsky, A, King, D, King, PM, Korover, I, Kulagin, SA, Kumar, KS, Kutz, T, Lashley-Colthirst, N, Li, S, Li, W, Liu, H, Liuti, S, Liyanage, N, Markowitz, P, McClellan, RE, Meekins, D, Beck, S Mey-Tal, Meziani, Z-E, Michaels, R, Mihovilovic, M, Nelyubin, V, Nguyen, D, Nuruzzaman, Nycz, M, Obrecht, R, Olson, M, Owen, VF, Pace, E, Pandey, B, Pandey, V, Paolone, M, Papadopoulou, A, Park, S, Paul, S, Petratos, GG, Petti, R, Piasetzky, E, and Pomatsalyuk, R

Subjects
Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Synchrotrons and Accelerators, Physical Sciences, Jefferson Lab Hall A Tritium Collaboration, Mathematical Sciences, Engineering, General Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract

The ratio of the nucleon F_{2} structure functions, F_{2}^{n}/F_{2}^{p}, is determined by the MARATHON experiment from measurements of deep inelastic scattering of electrons from ^{3}H and ^{3}He nuclei. The experiment was performed in the Hall A Facility of Jefferson Lab using two high-resolution spectrometers for electron detection, and a cryogenic target system which included a low-activity tritium cell. The data analysis used a novel technique exploiting the mirror symmetry of the two nuclei, which essentially eliminates many theoretical uncertainties in the extraction of the ratio. The results, which cover the Bjorken scaling variable range 0.19

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2022

21. Early Results from the Qweak Experiment

Author

Androic D., Armstrong D.S., Asaturyan A., Averett T., Balewski J., Beaufait J., Beminiwattha R.S., Benesch J., Benmokhtar F., Birchall J., Carlini R.D., Cates G.D., Cornejo J.C., Covrig S., Dalton M.M., Davis C.A., Deconinck W., Diefenbach J., Dowd J.F., Dunne J.A., Dutta D., Duvall W.S., Elaasar M., Falk W.R., Finn J.M., Forest T., Gaskell D., Gericke M.T.W., Grames J., Gray V.M., Grimm K., Guo F., Hoskins J.R., Johnston K., Jones D., Jones M., Jones R., Kargiantoulakis M., King P.M., Korkmaz E., Kowalski S., Leacock J., Leckey J., Lee A.R., Lee J.H., Lee L., MacEwan S., Mack D., Magee J.A., Mahurin R., Mammei J., Martin J., McHugh M.J., Meekins D., Mei J., Michaels R., Micherdzinska A., Mkrtchyan A., Mkrtchyan H., Morgan N., Myers K.E., Narayan A., Ndukum L.Z., Nelyubin V., Nuruzzaman, van Oers W.T.H, Opper A.K., Page S.A., Pan J., Paschke K., Phillips S.K., Pitt M.L., Poelker M., Rajotte J.F., Ramsay W.D., Roche J., Sawatzky B., Seva T., Shabestari M.H., Silwal R., Simicevic N., Smith G.R., Solvignon P., Spayde D.T., Subedi A., Subedi R., Suleiman R., Tadevosyan V., Tobias W.A., Tvaskis V., Waidyawansa B., Wang P., Wells S.P., Wood S.A., Yang S., Young R.D., and Zhamkochyan S.

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

A subset of results from the recently completed Jefferson Lab Qweak experiment are reported. This experiment, sensitive to physics beyond the Standard Model, exploits the small parity-violating asymmetry in elastic e→p$\vec e{\rm{p}}$ scattering to provide the first determination of the proton’s weak charge Qwp$Q_w^p$. The experiment employed a 180 μA longitudinally polarized 1.16 GeV electron beam on a 35 cm long liquid hydrogen target. Scattered electrons in the angular range 6° < θ < 12° corresponding to Q2 = 0.025 GeV2 were detected in eight Cerenkov detectors arrayed symmetrically around the beam axis. The goals of the experiment were to provide a measure of e→p$\vec e{\rm{p}}$ to 4.2% (combined statisstatistical and systematic error), which implies a measure of sin2(θw) at the level of 0.3%, and to help constrain the vector weak quark charges C1u and C1d. The experimental method is described, with particular focus on the challenges associated with the world’s highest power LH2 target. The new constraints on C1u and C1d provided by the subset of the experiment’s data analyzed to date will also be shown, together with the extracted weak charge of the neutron.

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2014
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22. Measurement of the Nucleon $F^n_2/F^p_2$ Structure Function Ratio by the Jefferson Lab MARATHON Tritium/Helium-3 Deep Inelastic Scattering Experiment

Author

MARATHON Collaboration, Abrams, D., Albataineh, H., Aljawrneh, B. S., Alsalmi, S., Aniol, K., Armstrong, W., Arrington, J., Atac, H., Averett, T., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Bai, X., Bane, J., Barcus, S., Beck, A., Bellini, V., Bhatt, H., Bhetuwal, D., Biswas, D., Blyth, D., Boeglin, W., Bulumulla, D., Butler, J., Camsonne, A., Carmignotto, M., Castellanos, J., Chen, J. -P., Cohen, E. O., Covrig, S., Craycraft, K., Cruz-Torres, R., Dongwi, B., Duran, B., Dutta, D., Fuchey, E., Gal, C., Gautam, T. N., Gilad, S., Gnanvo, K., Gogami, T., Gomez, J., Gu, C., Habarakada, A., Hague, T., Hansen, J. -O., Hattawy, M., Hauenstein, F., Higinbotham, D. W., Holt, R. J., Hughes, E. W., Hyde, C., Ibrahim, H., Jian, S., Joosten, S., Karki, A., Karki, B., Katramatou, A. T., Keith, C., Keppel, C., Khachatryan, M., Khachatryan, V., Khanal, A., Kievsky, A., King, D., King, P. M., Korover, I., Kulagin, S. A., Kumar, K. S., Kutz, T., Lashley-Colthirst, N., Li, S., Li, W., Liu, H., Liuti, S., Liyanage, N., Markowitz, P., McClellan, R. E., Meekins, D., Beck, S. Mey-Tal, Meziani, Z. -E., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Nelyubin, V., Nguyen, D., Nuruzzaman, Nycz, M., Obrecht, R., Olson, M., Owen, V. F., Pace, E., Pandey, B., Pandey, V., Paolone, M., Papadopoulou, A., Park, S., Paul, S., Petratos, G. G., Petti, R., Piasetzky, E., Pomatsalyuk, R., Premathilake, S., Puckett, A. J. R., Punjabi, V., Ransome, R. D., Rashad, M. N. H., Reimer, P. E., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Salme, G., Santiesteban, N., Sawatzky, B., Scopetta, S., Schmidt, A., Schmookler, B., Segal, J., Segarra, E. P., Shahinyan, A., Sirca, S., Sparveris, N., Su, T., Suleiman, R., Szumila-Vance, H., Tadepalli, A. S., Tang, L., Tireman, W., Tortorici, F., Urciuoli, G. M., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wood, S., Ye, Z. H., Ye, Z. Y., and Zhang, J.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The ratio of the nucleon $F_2$ structure functions, $F_2^n/F_2^p$, is determined by the MARATHON experiment from measurements of deep inelastic scattering of electrons from $^3$H and $^3$He nuclei. The experiment was performed in the Hall A Facility of Jefferson Lab and used two high resolution spectrometers for electron detection, and a cryogenic target system which included a low-activity tritium cell. The data analysis used a novel technique exploiting the mirror symmetry of the two nuclei, which essentially eliminates many theoretical uncertainties in the extraction of the ratio. The results, which cover the Bjorken scaling variable range $0.19 < x < 0.83$, represent a significant improvement compared to previous SLAC and Jefferson Lab measurements for the ratio. They are compared to recent theoretical calculations and empirical determinations of the $F_2^n/F_2^p$ ratio.

Published
2021

23. The cross-section measurement for the 3H(e, e′K+)nnΛ reaction

Author

Suzuki, KN, Gogami, T, Pandey, B, Itabashi, K, Nagao, S, Okuyama, K, Nakamura, SN, Tang, L, Abrams, D, Akiyama, T, Androic, D, Aniol, K, Gayoso, C Ayerbe, Bane, J, Barcus, S, Barrow, J, Bellini, V, Bhatt, H, Bhetuwal, D, Biswas, D, Camsonne, A, Castellanos, J, Chen, J-P, Chen, J, Covrig, S, Chrisman, D, Cruz-Torres, R, Das, R, Fuchey, E, Gnanvo, K, Garibaldi, F, Gautam, T, Gomez, J, Gueye, P, Hague, TJ, Hansen, O, Henry, W, Hauenstein, F, Higinbotham, DW, Hyde, CE, Kaneta, M, Keppel, C, Kutz, T, Lashley-Colthirst, N, Li, S, Liu, H, Mammei, J, Markowitz, P, McClellan, RE, Meddi, F, Meekins, D, Michaels, R, Mihovilovič, M, Moyer, A, Nguyen, D, Nycz, M, Owen, V, Palatchi, C, Park, S, Petkovic, T, Premathilake, S, Reimer, PE, Reinhold, J, Riordan, S, Rodriguez, V, Samanta, C, Santiesteban, SN, Sawatzky, B, Širca, S, Slifer, K, Su, T, Tian, Y, Toyama, Y, Uehara, K, Urciuoli, GM, Votaw, D, Williamson, J, Wojtsekhowski, B, Wood, SA, Yale, B, Ye, Z, Zhang, J, and Zheng, X

Subjects
Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences
Abstract

The small binding energy of the hypertriton leads to predictions of the non-existence of bound hypernuclei for isotriplet three-body systems such as nnΛ. However, invariant mass spectroscopy at GSI has reported events that may be interpreted as the bound nnΛ state. The nnΛ state was sought by missing-mass spectroscopy via the (e, e′K+) reaction at Jefferson Lab's experimental Hall A. The present experiment has higher sensitivity to the nnΛ-state investigation in terms of better precision by a factor of about three. The analysis shown in this article focuses on the derivation of the reaction cross-section for the 3H(γ∗, K+)X reaction. Events that were detected in an acceptance, where a Monte Carlo simulation could reproduce the data well (δ p/p| < 4), were analyzed to minimize the systematic uncertainty. No significant structures were observed with the acceptance cuts, and the upper limits of the production cross-section of the nnΛ state were obtained to be 21 and 31 nb sr-1 at the $90\%$ confidence level when theoretical predictions of (-BΛ, Γ) = (0.25, 0.8) MeV and (0.55, 4.7) MeV, respectively, were assumed. The cross-section result provides valuable information for examining the existence of nnΛ.

Published
2022

24. Ruling out color transparency in quasi-elastic $^{12}$C(e,e'p) up to $Q^2$ of 14.2 (GeV/c)$^2$

Author

Bhetuwal, D., Matter, J., Szumila-Vance, H., Kabir, M. L., Dutta, D., Ent, R., Abrams, D., Ahmed, Z., Aljawrneh, B., Alsalmi, S., Ambrose, R., Androic, D., Armstrong, W., Asaturyan, A., Assumin-Gyimah, K., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Bandari, A., Basnet, S., Berdnikov, V., Bhatt, H., Biswas, D., Boeglin, W. U., Bosted, P., Brash, E., Bukhari, M. H. S., Chen, H., Chen, J. P., Chen, M., Christy, E. M., Covrig, S., Craycraft, K., Danagoulian, S., Day, D., Diefenthaler, M., Dlamini, M., Dunne, J., Duran, B., Evans, R., Fenker, H., Fomin, N., Fuchey, E., Gaskell, D., Gautam, T. N., Gonzalez, F. A., Hansen, J. O., Hauenstein, F., Hernandez, A. V., Horn, T., Huber, G. M., Jones, M. K., Joosten, S., Karki, A., Keppel, C., Khanal, A., King, P. M., Kinney, E., Ko, H. S., Kohl, M., Lashley-Colthirst, N., Li, S., Li, W. B., Liyanage, A. H., Mack, D., Malace, S., Markowitz, P., Meekins, D., Michaels, R., Mkrtchyan, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Nazeer, S. J., Nanda, S., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, I., Nguyen, D., Nuruzzaman, Pandey, B., Park, S., Pooser, E., Puckett, A., Rehfuss, M., Reinhold, J., Santiesteban, N., Sawatzky, B., Smith, G. R., Sun, A., Tadevosyan, V., Trotta, R., Wood, S. A., Yero, C., and Zhang, J.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

Quasielastic $^{12}$C$(e,e'p)$ scattering was measured at space-like 4-momentum transfer squared $Q^2$~=~8, 9.4, 11.4, and 14.2 (GeV/c)$^2$, the highest ever achieved to date. Nuclear transparency for this reaction was extracted by comparing the measured yield to that expected from a plane-wave impulse approximation calculation without any final state interactions. The measured transparency was consistent with no $Q^2$ dependence, up to proton momenta of 8.5~GeV/c, ruling out the quantum chromodynamics effect of color transparency at the measured $Q^2$ scales in exclusive $(e,e'p)$ reactions. These results impose strict constraints on models of color transparency for protons., Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures

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2020
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25. Measurement of the Nucleon $F^n_2/F^p_2$ Structure Function Ratio by the Jefferson Lab MARATHON Tritium/Helium-3 Deep Inelastic Scattering Experiment

Author

Collaboration, MARATHON, Abrams, D, Albataineh, H, Aljawrneh, BS, Alsalmi, S, Aniol, K, Armstrong, W, Arrington, J, Atac, H, Averett, T, Gayoso, C Ayerbe, Bai, X, Bane, J, Barcus, S, Beck, A, Bellini, V, Bhatt, H, Bhetuwal, D, Biswas, D, Blyth, D, Boeglin, W, Bulumulla, D, Butler, J, Camsonne, A, Carmignotto, M, Castellanos, J, Chen, J-P, Cohen, EO, Covrig, S, Craycraft, K, Cruz-Torres, R, Dongwi, B, Duran, B, Dutta, D, Fuchey, E, Gal, C, Gautam, TN, Gilad, S, Gnanvo, K, Gogami, T, Gomez, J, Gu, C, Habarakada, A, Hague, T, Hansen, J-O, Hattawy, M, Hauenstein, F, Higinbotham, DW, Holt, RJ, Hughes, EW, Hyde, C, Ibrahim, H, Jian, S, Joosten, S, Karki, A, Karki, B, Katramatou, AT, Keith, C, Keppel, C, Khachatryan, M, Khachatryan, V, Khanal, A, Kievsky, A, King, D, King, PM, Korover, I, Kulagin, SA, Kumar, KS, Kutz, T, Lashley-Colthirst, N, Li, S, Li, W, Liu, H, Liuti, S, Liyanage, N, Markowitz, P, McClellan, RE, Meekins, D, Beck, S Mey-Tal, Meziani, Z-E, Michaels, R, Mihovilovic, M, Nelyubin, V, Nguyen, D, Nuruzzaman, Nycz, M, Obrecht, R, Olson, M, Owen, VF, Pace, E, Pandey, B, Pandey, V, Paolone, M, Papadopoulou, A, Park, S, Paul, S, Petratos, GG, Petti, R, Piasetzky, E, and Pomatsalyuk, R

Subjects
hep-ex
Abstract

The ratio of the nucleon $F_2$ structure functions, $F_2^n/F_2^p$, isdetermined by the MARATHON experiment from measurements of deep inelasticscattering of electrons from $^3$H and $^3$He nuclei. The experiment wasperformed in the Hall A Facility of Jefferson Lab and used two high resolutionspectrometers for electron detection, and a cryogenic target system whichincluded a low-activity tritium cell. The data analysis used a novel techniqueexploiting the mirror symmetry of the two nuclei, which essentially eliminatesmany theoretical uncertainties in the extraction of the ratio. The results,which cover the Bjorken scaling variable range $0.19 < x < 0.83$, represent asignificant improvement compared to previous SLAC and Jefferson Labmeasurements for the ratio. They are compared to recent theoreticalcalculations and empirical determinations of the $F_2^n/F_2^p$ ratio.

Published
2021

26. Probing few-body nuclear dynamics via 3H and 3He (e,e'p)pn cross-section measurements

Author

Cruz-Torres, R., Nguyen, D., Hauenstein, F., Schmidt, A., Li, S., Abrams, D., Albataineh, H., Alsalmi, S., Androic, D., Aniol, K., Armstrong, W., Arrington, J., Atac, H., Averett, T., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Bai, X., Bane, J., Barcus, S., Beck, A., Bellini, V., Benmokhtar, F., Bhatt, H., Bhetuwal, D., Biswas, D., Blyth, D., Boeglin, W., Bulumulla, D., Camsonne, A., Castellanos, J., Chen, J-P., Cohen, E. O., Covrig, S., Craycraft, K., Dongwi, B., Duer, M., Duran, B., Dutta, D., Fuchey, E., Gal, C., Gautam, T. N., Gilad, S., Gnanvo, K., Gogami, T., Golak, J., Gomez, J., Gu, C., Hague, A. Habarakada T., Hansen, O., Hattawy, M., Hen, O., Higinbotham, D. W., Hughes, E., Hyde, C., Ibrahim, H., Jian, S., Joosten, S., Kamada, H., Karki, A., Karki, B., Katramatou, A. T., Keppel, C., Khachatryan, M., Khachatryan, V., Khanal, A., King, D., King, P., Korover, I., Kutz, T., Lashley-Colthirst, N., Laskaris, G., Li, W., Liu, H., Liyanage, N., Markowitz, P., McClellan, R. E., Meekins, D., Meziani, S. Mey-Tal Beck Z-E., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Nelyubin, V., Nuruzzaman, N., Nycz, M., Obrecht, R., Olson, M., Ou, L., Owen, V., Pandey, B., Pandey, V., Papadopoulou, A., Park, S., Patsyuk, M., Paul, S., Petratos, G. G., Piasetzky, E., Pomatsalyuk, R., Premathilake, S., Puckett, A. J. R., Punjabi, V., Ransome, R., Rashad, M. N. H., Reimer, P. E., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Sargsian, M., Santiesteban, N., Sawatzky, B., Segarra, E. P., Schmookler, B., Shahinyan, A., Sirca, S., Skibinski, R., Sparveris, N., Su, T., Suleiman, R., Szumila-Vance, H., Tadepalli, A. S., Tang, L., Tireman, W., Topolnicki, K., Tortorici, F., Urciuoli, G., Weinstein, L. B., Witala, H., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wood, S., Ye, Z. H., Ye, Z. Y., and Zhang, J.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

We report the first measurement of the \eep three-body breakup reaction cross sections in helium-3 ($^3$He) and tritium ($^3$H) at large momentum transfer ($\langle Q^2 \rangle \approx 1.9$ (GeV/c)$^2$) and $x_B>1$ kinematics, where the cross section should be sensitive to quasielastic (QE) scattering from single nucleons. The data cover missing momenta $40 \le p_{miss} \le 500$ MeV/c that, in the QE limit with no rescattering, equals the initial momentum of the probed nucleon. The measured cross sections are compared with state-of-the-art ab-initio calculations. Overall good agreement, within $\pm20\%$, is observed between data and calculations for the full $p_{miss}$ range for $^3$H and for $100 \le p_{miss} \le 350$ MeV/c for $^3$He. Including the effects of rescattering of the outgoing nucleon improves agreement with the data at $p_{miss} > 250$ MeV/c and suggests contributions from charge-exchange (SCX) rescattering. The isoscalar sum of $^3$He plus $^3$H, which is largely insensitive to SCX, is described by calculations to within the accuracy of the data over the entire $p_{miss}$ range. This validates current models of the ground state of the three-nucleon system up to very high initial nucleon momenta of $500$ MeV/c., Comment: Accepted for publication in PRL. 8 pages, 3 figures, and online supplementary materials

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2020
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27. Comparing proton momentum distributions in $A=2$ and 3 nuclei via $^2$H $^3$H and $^3$He $(e, e'p)$ measurements

Author

Cruz-Torres, R., Li, S., Hauenstein, F., Schmidt, A., Nguyen, D., Abrams, D., Albataineh, H., Alsalmi, S., Androic, D., Aniol, K., Armstrong, W., Arrington, J., Atac, H., Averett, T., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Bai, X., Bane, J., Barcus, S., Beck, A., Bellini, V., Bhatt, H., Bhetuwal, D., Biswas, D., Blyth, D., Boeglin, W., Bulumulla, D., Camsonne, A., Castellanos, J., Chen, J. -P., Cohen, E. O., Covrig, S., Craycraft, K., Dongwi, B., Duer, M., Duran, B., Dutta, D., Fuchey, E., Gal, C., Gautam, T. N., Gilad, S., Gnanvo, K., Gogami, T., Gomez, J., Gu, C., Habarakada, A., Hague, T., Hansen, O., Hattawy, M., Hen, O., Higinbotham, D. W., Hughes, E., Hyde, C., Ibrahim, H., Jian, S., Joosten, S., Karki, A., Karki, B., Katramatou, A. T., Keppel, C., Khachatryan, M., Khachatryan, V., Khanal, A., King, D., King, P., Korover, I., Kutz, T., Lashley-Colthirst, N., Laskaris, G., Li, W., Liu, H., Liyanage, N., Lonardoni, D., Machleidt, R., Marcucci, L. E., Markowitz, P., McClellan, R. E., Meekins, D., Beck, S. Mey-Tal, Meziani, Z. -E., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Nelyubin, V., Nuruzzaman, N., Nycz, M., Obrecht, R., Olson, M., Ou, L., Owen, V., Pandey, B., Pandey, V., Papadopoulou, A., Park, S., Patsyuk, M., Paul, S., Petratos, G. G., Piasetzky, E., Pomatsalyuk, R., Premathilake, S., Puckett, A. J. R., Punjabi, V., Ransome, R., Rashad, M. N. H., Reimer, P. E., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Sammarruca, F., Santiesteban, N., Sawatzky, B., Segarra, E. P., Schmookler, B., Shahinyan, A., Širch, S., Sparveris, N., Su, T., Suleiman, R., Szumila-Vance, H., Tadepalli, A. S., Tang, L., Tireman, W., Tortorici, F., Urciuoli, G., Viviani, M., Weinstein, L. B., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wood, S., Ye, Z. H., Ye, Z. Y., and Zhang, J.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

We report the first measurement of the $(e,e'p)$ reaction cross-section ratios for Helium-3 ($^3$He), Tritium ($^3$H), and Deuterium ($d$). The measurement covered a missing momentum range of $40 \le p_{miss} \le 550$ MeV$/c$, at large momentum transfer ($\langle Q^2 \rangle \approx 1.9$ (GeV$/c$)$^2$) and $x_B>1$, which minimized contributions from non quasi-elastic (QE) reaction mechanisms. The data is compared with plane-wave impulse approximation (PWIA) calculations using realistic spectral functions and momentum distributions. The measured and PWIA-calculated cross-section ratios for $^3$He$/d$ and $^3$H$/d$ extend to just above the typical nucleon Fermi-momentum ($k_F \approx 250$ MeV$/c$) and differ from each other by $\sim 20\%$, while for $^3$He/$^3$H they agree within the measurement accuracy of about 3\%. At momenta above $k_F$, the measured $^3$He/$^3$H ratios differ from the calculation by $20\% - 50\%$. Final state interaction (FSI) calculations using the generalized Eikonal Approximation indicate that FSI should change the $^3$He/$^3$H cross-section ratio for this measurement by less than 5\%. If these calculations are correct, then the differences at large missing momenta between the $^3$He/$^3$H experimental and calculated ratios could be due to the underlying $NN$ interaction, and thus could provide new constraints on the previously loosely-constrained short-distance parts of the $NN$ interaction., Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures (4 panels)

Published
2019
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28. Probing Few-Body Nuclear Dynamics via H3 and He3 (e,e′p)pn Cross-Section Measurements

Author

Cruz-Torres, R, Nguyen, D, Hauenstein, F, Schmidt, A, Li, S, Abrams, D, Albataineh, H, Alsalmi, S, Androic, D, Aniol, K, Armstrong, W, Arrington, J, Atac, H, Averett, T, Gayoso, C Ayerbe, Bai, X, Bane, J, Barcus, S, Beck, A, Bellini, V, Benmokhtar, F, Bhatt, H, Bhetuwal, D, Biswas, D, Blyth, D, Boeglin, W, Bulumulla, D, Camsonne, A, Castellanos, J, Chen, J-P, Cohen, EO, Covrig, S, Craycraft, K, Dongwi, B, Duer, M, Duran, B, Dutta, D, Fuchey, E, Gal, C, Gautam, TN, Gilad, S, Gnanvo, K, Gogami, T, Golak, J, Gomez, J, Gu, C, Habarakada, A, Hague, T, Hansen, O, Hattawy, M, Hen, O, Higinbotham, DW, Hughes, E, Hyde, C, Ibrahim, H, Jian, S, Joosten, S, Kamada, H, Karki, A, Karki, B, Katramatou, AT, Keppel, C, Khachatryan, M, Khachatryan, V, Khanal, A, King, D, King, P, Korover, I, Kutz, T, Lashley-Colthirst, N, Laskaris, G, Li, W, Liu, H, Liyanage, N, Markowitz, P, McClellan, RE, Meekins, D, Beck, S Mey-Tal, Meziani, Z-E, Michaels, R, Mihovilovič, M, Nelyubin, V, Nuruzzaman, N, Nycz, M, Obrecht, R, Olson, M, Ou, L, Owen, V, Pandey, B, Pandey, V, Papadopoulou, A, Park, S, Patsyuk, M, Paul, S, Petratos, GG, Piasetzky, E, Pomatsalyuk, R, Premathilake, S, Puckett, AJR, and Punjabi, V

Subjects
Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Synchrotrons and Accelerators, Physical Sciences, Bioengineering, Jefferson Lab Hall A Tritium Collaboration, nucl-ex, nucl-th, Mathematical Sciences, Engineering, General Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract

We report the first measurement of the (e,e^{'}p) three-body breakup reaction cross sections in helium-3 (^{3}He) and tritium (^{3}H) at large momentum transfer [⟨Q^{2}⟩≈1.9  (GeV/c)^{2}] and x_{B}>1 kinematics, where the cross section should be sensitive to quasielastic (QE) scattering from single nucleons. The data cover missing momenta 40≤p_{miss}≤500  MeV/c that, in the QE limit with no rescattering, equals the initial momentum of the probed nucleon. The measured cross sections are compared with state-of-the-art ab initio calculations. Overall good agreement, within ±20%, is observed between data and calculations for the full p_{miss} range for ^{3}H and for 100≤p_{miss}≤350  MeV/c for ^{3}He. Including the effects of rescattering of the outgoing nucleon improves agreement with the data at p_{miss}>250  MeV/c and suggests contributions from charge-exchange (SCX) rescattering. The isoscalar sum of ^{3}He plus ^{3}H, which is largely insensitive to SCX, is described by calculations to within the accuracy of the data over the entire p_{miss} range. This validates current models of the ground state of the three-nucleon system up to very high initial nucleon momenta of 500  MeV/c.

Published
2020

29. Probing Few-Body Nuclear Dynamics via ^{3}H and ^{3}He (e,e^{'}p)pn Cross-Section Measurements.

Author

Cruz-Torres, R, Nguyen, D, Hauenstein, F, Schmidt, A, Li, S, Abrams, D, Albataineh, H, Alsalmi, S, Androic, D, Aniol, K, Armstrong, W, Arrington, J, Atac, H, Averett, T, Ayerbe Gayoso, C, Bai, X, Bane, J, Barcus, S, Beck, A, Bellini, V, Benmokhtar, F, Bhatt, H, Bhetuwal, D, Biswas, D, Blyth, D, Boeglin, W, Bulumulla, D, Camsonne, A, Castellanos, J, Chen, J-P, Cohen, EO, Covrig, S, Craycraft, K, Dongwi, B, Duer, M, Duran, B, Dutta, D, Fuchey, E, Gal, C, Gautam, TN, Gilad, S, Gnanvo, K, Gogami, T, Golak, J, Gomez, J, Gu, C, Habarakada, A, Hague, T, Hansen, O, Hattawy, M, Hen, O, Higinbotham, DW, Hughes, E, Hyde, C, Ibrahim, H, Jian, S, Joosten, S, Kamada, H, Karki, A, Karki, B, Katramatou, AT, Keppel, C, Khachatryan, M, Khachatryan, V, Khanal, A, King, D, King, P, Korover, I, Kutz, T, Lashley-Colthirst, N, Laskaris, G, Li, W, Liu, H, Liyanage, N, Markowitz, P, McClellan, RE, Meekins, D, Mey-Tal Beck, S, Meziani, Z-E, Michaels, R, Mihovilovič, M, Nelyubin, V, Nuruzzaman, N, Nycz, M, Obrecht, R, Olson, M, Ou, L, Owen, V, Pandey, B, Pandey, V, Papadopoulou, A, Park, S, Patsyuk, M, Paul, S, Petratos, GG, Piasetzky, E, Pomatsalyuk, R, Premathilake, S, Puckett, AJR, and Punjabi, V

Subjects
Jefferson Lab Hall A Tritium Collaboration, nucl-ex, nucl-th, General Physics, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering
Abstract

We report the first measurement of the (e,e^{'}p) three-body breakup reaction cross sections in helium-3 (^{3}He) and tritium (^{3}H) at large momentum transfer [⟨Q^{2}⟩≈1.9  (GeV/c)^{2}] and x_{B}>1 kinematics, where the cross section should be sensitive to quasielastic (QE) scattering from single nucleons. The data cover missing momenta 40≤p_{miss}≤500  MeV/c that, in the QE limit with no rescattering, equals the initial momentum of the probed nucleon. The measured cross sections are compared with state-of-the-art ab initio calculations. Overall good agreement, within ±20%, is observed between data and calculations for the full p_{miss} range for ^{3}H and for 100≤p_{miss}≤350  MeV/c for ^{3}He. Including the effects of rescattering of the outgoing nucleon improves agreement with the data at p_{miss}>250  MeV/c and suggests contributions from charge-exchange (SCX) rescattering. The isoscalar sum of ^{3}He plus ^{3}H, which is largely insensitive to SCX, is described by calculations to within the accuracy of the data over the entire p_{miss} range. This validates current models of the ground state of the three-nucleon system up to very high initial nucleon momenta of 500  MeV/c.

Published
2020

30. Proton Form Factor Ratio, $\mu_p G_E^p/G_M^p$ from Double Spin Asymmetry

Author

Liyanage, A., Armstrong, W., Kang, H., Maxwell, J., Mulholland, J., Ndukum, L., Ahmidouch, A., Albayrak, I., Asaturyan, A., Ates, O., Baghdasaryan, H., Boeglin, W., Bosted, P., Brash, E., Butuceanu, C., Bychkov, M., Carter, P., Chen, C., Chen, J-P., Choi, S., Christy, E., Covrig, S., Crabb, D., Danagoulian, S., Daniel, A., Davidenko, A. M., Davis, B., Day, D., Deconinck, W., Deur, A., Dunne, J., Dutta, D., Fassi, L. El, Elaasar, M., Ellis, C., Ent, R., Flay, D., Frlez, E., Gaskell, D., Geagla, O., German, J., Gilman, R., Gogami, T., Gomez, J., Goncharenko, Y. M., Hashimoto, O., Higinbotham, D., Horn, T., Huber, G. M., Jones, M., Jones, M. K., Kalantarians, N., Kang, H-K., Kawama, D., Keppel, C., Khandaker, M., Kim, Y., King, P. M., Kohl, M., Kovacs, K., Kubarovsky, V., Li, Y., Liyanage, N., Mamyan, V., Markowitz, P., Maruta, T., Melnik, Y. M., Meziani, Z-E., Mkrtchyan, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Mochalov, V. V., Monaghan, P., Narayan, A., Nakamura, S. N., Nuruzzaman, Pentchev, L., Pocanic, D., Posik, M., Puckett, A., Qiu, X., Reinhold, J., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Rondo'n, O. A., Sawatzky, B., Shabestari, M., Slifer, K., Smith, G., Soloviev, L. F., Solvignon, P., Tadevosyan, V., Tang, L., Vasiliev, A. N., Veilleux, M., Walton, T., Wesselmann, F., Wood, S. A., Yao, H., Ye, Z., and Zhu, L.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The ratio of the electric and magnetic form factor of the proton, $\mu_p G_E^p/G_M^p$, has been measured for elastic electron-proton scattering with polarized beam and target up to four-momentum transfer squared, $Q^2=5.66$ (GeV/c)$^2$ using the double spin asymmetry for target spin orientation aligned nearly perpendicular to the beam momentum direction. This measurement of $\mu_p G_E^p/G_M^p$ agrees with the $Q^2$ dependence of previous recoil polarization data and reconfirms the discrepancy at high $Q^2$ between the Rosenbluth and the polarization-transfer method with a different measurement technique and systematic uncertainties uncorrelated to those of the recoil-polarization measurements. The form factor ratio at $Q^2$=2.06 (GeV/c)$^2$ has been measured as $\mu_p G_E^p/G_M^p = 0.720 \pm 0.176_{stat} \pm 0.039_{sys}$, which is in agreement with an earlier measurement with the polarized target technique at similar kinematics. The form factor ratio at $Q^2$=5.66 (GeV/c)$^2$ has been determined as $\mu_p G_E^p/G_M^p=0.244\pm0.353_{stat}\pm0.013_{sys}$, which represents the highest $Q^2$ reach with the double spin asymmetry with polarized target to date.

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2018
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31. Revealing Color Forces with Transverse Polarized Electron Scattering

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Armstrong, W., Kang, H., Liyanage, A., Maxwell, J., Mulholland, J., Ndukum, L., Ahmidouch, A., Albayrak, I., Asaturyan, A., Ates, O., Baghdasaryan, H., Boeglin, W., Bosted, P., Brash, E., Butuceanu, C., Bychkov, M., Carter, P., Chen, C., Chen, J. -P., Choi, S., Christy, M. E., Covrig, S., Crabb, D., Danagoulian, S., Daniel, A., Davidenko, A. M., Davis, B., Day, D., Deconinck, W., Deur, A., Dunne, J., Dutta, D., Fassi, L. El, Ellis, C., Ent, R., Flay, D., Frlez, E., Gaskell, D., Geagla, O., German, J., Gilman, R., Gogami, T., Gomez, J., Goncharenko, Y. M., Hashimoto, O., Higinbotham, D., Horn, T., Huber, G. M., Jones, M., Jones, M. K., Kalantarians, N., Kang, H-K., Kawama, D., Keith, C., Keppel, C., Khandaker, M., Kim, Y., King, P. M., Kohl, M., Kovacs, K., Kubarovsky, V., Li, Y., Liyanage, N., Luo, W., Mack, D., Mamyan, V., Markowitz, P., Maruta, T., Meekins, D., Melnik, Y. M., Meziani, Z. -E., Mkrtchyan, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Mochalov, V. V., Monaghan, P., Narayan, A., Nakamura, S. N., Nuruzzaman, A., Pentchev, L., Pocanic, D., Posik, M., Puckett, A., Qiu, X., Reinhold, J., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Rondón, O. A., Sawatzky, B., Shabestari, M., Slifer, K., Smith, G., Soloviev, L. F., Solvignon, P., Tadevosyan, V., Tang, L., Vasiliev, A. N., Veilleux, M., Walton, T., Wesselmann, F., Wood, S., Yao, H., Ye, Z., Zhang, J., and Zhu, L.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The Spin Asymmetries of the Nucleon Experiment (SANE) measured two double spin asymmetries using a polarized proton target and polarized electron beam at two beam energies, 4.7 GeV and 5.9 GeV. A large-acceptance open-configuration detector package identified scattered electrons at 40$^{\circ}$ and covered a wide range in Bjorken $x$ ($0.3 < x < 0.8$). Proportional to an average color Lorentz force, the twist-3 matrix element, $\tilde{d}_2^p$, was extracted from the measured asymmetries at $Q^2$ values ranging from 2.0 to 6.0 GeV$^2$. The data display the opposite sign compared to most quark models, including the lattice QCD result, and an apparently unexpected scale dependence. Furthermore when combined with the neutron data in the same $Q^2$ range the results suggest a flavor independent average color Lorentz force.

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2018
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32. Comparing proton momentum distributions in A = 2 and 3 nuclei via 2H 3H and 3He (e,e′p) measurements

Author

Cruz-Torres, R, Li, S, Hauenstein, F, Schmidt, A, Nguyen, D, Abrams, D, Albataineh, H, Alsalmi, S, Androic, D, Aniol, K, Armstrong, W, Arrington, J, Atac, H, Averett, T, Ayerbe Gayoso, C, Bai, X, Bane, J, Barcus, S, Beck, A, Bellini, V, Bhatt, H, Bhetuwal, D, Biswas, D, Blyth, D, Boeglin, W, Bulumulla, D, Camsonne, A, Castellanos, J, Chen, JP, Cohen, EO, Covrig, S, Craycraft, K, Dongwi, B, Duer, M, Duran, B, Dutta, D, Fuchey, E, Gal, C, Gautam, TN, Gilad, S, Gnanvo, K, Gogami, T, Gomez, J, Gu, C, Habarakada, A, Hague, T, Hansen, O, Hattawy, M, Hen, O, Higinbotham, DW, Hughes, E, Hyde, C, Ibrahim, H, Jian, S, Joosten, S, Karki, A, Karki, B, Katramatou, AT, Keppel, C, Khachatryan, M, Khachatryan, V, Khanal, A, King, D, King, P, Korover, I, Kutz, T, Lashley-Colthirst, N, Laskaris, G, Li, W, Liu, H, Liyanage, N, Lonardoni, D, Machleidt, R, Marcucci, LE, Markowitz, P, McClellan, RE, Meekins, D, Mey-Tal Beck, S, Meziani, ZE, Michaels, R, Mihovilovič, M, Nelyubin, V, Nuruzzaman, N, Nycz, M, Obrecht, R, Olson, M, Ou, L, Owen, V, Pandey, B, Pandey, V, Papadopoulou, A, Park, S, Patsyuk, M, Paul, S, Petratos, GG, Piasetzky, E, Pomatsalyuk, R, Premathilake, S, Puckett, AJR, and Punjabi, V

Subjects
nucl-ex, nucl-th, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
Abstract

We report the first measurement of the (e,e′p) reaction cross-section ratios for Helium-3 (He3), Tritium (H3), and Deuterium (d). The measurement covered a missing momentum range of 40≤pmiss≤550MeV/c, at large momentum transfer (〈Q2〉≈1.9 (GeV/c)2) and xB>1, which minimized contributions from non quasi-elastic (QE) reaction mechanisms. The data is compared with plane-wave impulse approximation (PWIA) calculations using realistic spectral functions and momentum distributions. The measured and PWIA-calculated cross-section ratios for He3/d and H3/d extend to just above the typical nucleon Fermi-momentum (kF≈250 MeV/c) and differ from each other by ∼20%, while for He3/H3 they agree within the measurement accuracy of about 3%. At momenta above kF, the measured He3/H3 ratios differ from the calculation by 20%−50%. Final state interaction (FSI) calculations using the generalized Eikonal Approximation indicate that FSI should change the He3/H3 cross-section ratio for this measurement by less than 5%. If these calculations are correct, then the differences at large missing momenta between the He3/H3 experimental and calculated ratios could be due to the underlying NN interaction, and thus could provide new constraints on the previously loosely-constrained short-distance parts of the NN interaction.

Published
2019

33. Comparing proton momentum distributions in A = 2 and 3 nuclei via 2H 3H and 3He (e,e′p) measurements

Author

Collaboration, Jefferson Lab Hall A Tritium, Cruz-Torres, R, Li, S, Hauenstein, F, Schmidt, A, Nguyen, D, Abrams, D, Albataineh, H, Alsalmi, S, Androic, D, Aniol, K, Armstrong, W, Arrington, J, Atac, H, Averett, T, Gayoso, C Ayerbe, Bai, X, Bane, J, Barcus, S, Beck, A, Bellini, V, Bhatt, H, Bhetuwal, D, Biswas, D, Blyth, D, Boeglin, W, Bulumulla, D, Camsonne, A, Castellanos, J, Chen, J-P, Cohen, EO, Covrig, S, Craycraft, K, Dongwi, B, Duer, M, Duran, B, Dutta, D, Fuchey, E, Gal, C, Gautam, TN, Gilad, S, Gnanvo, K, Gogami, T, Gomez, J, Gu, C, Habarakada, A, Hague, T, Hansen, O, Hattawy, M, Hen, O, Higinbotham, DW, Hughes, E, Hyde, C, Ibrahim, H, Jian, S, Joosten, S, Karki, A, Karki, B, Katramatou, AT, Keppel, C, Khachatryan, M, Khachatryan, V, Khanal, A, King, D, King, P, Korover, I, Kutz, T, Lashley-Colthirst, N, Laskaris, G, Li, W, Liu, H, Liyanage, N, Lonardoni, D, Machleidt, R, Marcucci, LE, Markowitz, P, McClellan, RE, Meekins, D, Beck, S Mey-Tal, Meziani, Z-E, Michaels, R, Mihovilovič, M, Nelyubin, V, Nuruzzaman, N, Nycz, M, Obrecht, R, Olson, M, Ou, L, Owen, V, Pandey, B, Pandey, V, Papadopoulou, A, Park, S, Patsyuk, M, Paul, S, Petratos, GG, Piasetzky, E, Pomatsalyuk, R, Premathilake, S, and Puckett, AJR

Subjects
Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Synchrotrons and Accelerators, Physical Sciences, nucl-ex, nucl-th, Mathematical Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract

We report the first measurement of the (e,e′p) reaction cross-section ratios for Helium-3 (He3), Tritium (H3), and Deuterium (d). The measurement covered a missing momentum range of 40≤pmiss≤550MeV/c, at large momentum transfer (〈Q2〉≈1.9 (GeV/c)2) and xB>1, which minimized contributions from non quasi-elastic (QE) reaction mechanisms. The data is compared with plane-wave impulse approximation (PWIA) calculations using realistic spectral functions and momentum distributions. The measured and PWIA-calculated cross-section ratios for He3/d and H3/d extend to just above the typical nucleon Fermi-momentum (kF≈250 MeV/c) and differ from each other by ∼20%, while for He3/H3 they agree within the measurement accuracy of about 3%. At momenta above kF, the measured He3/H3 ratios differ from the calculation by 20%−50%. Final state interaction (FSI) calculations using the generalized Eikonal Approximation indicate that FSI should change the He3/H3 cross-section ratio for this measurement by less than 5%. If these calculations are correct, then the differences at large missing momenta between the He3/H3 experimental and calculated ratios could be due to the underlying NN interaction, and thus could provide new constraints on the previously loosely-constrained short-distance parts of the NN interaction.

Published
2019

34. Design and Performance of the Spin Asymmetries of the Nucleon Experiment

Author

Maxwell, J. D., Armstrong, W. R., Choi, S., Jones, M. K., Kang, H., Liyanage, A., Meziani, Z. -E., Mulholland, J., Ndukum, L., Rondon, O. A., Ahmidouch, A., Albayrak, I., Asaturyan, A., Ates, O., Baghdasaryan, H., Boeglin, W., Bosted, P., Brash, E., Brock, J., Butuceanu, C., Bychkov, M., Carlin, C., Carter, P., Chen, C., Chen, J. -P., Christy, M. E., Covrig, S., Crabb, D., Danagoulian, S., Daniel, A., Davidenko, A. M., Davis, B., Day, D., Deconinck, W., Deur, A., Dunne, J., Dutta, D., Fassi, L. El, Elaasar, M., Ellis, C., Ent, R., Flay, D., Frlez, E., Gaskell, D., Geagla, O., German, J., Gilman, R., Gogami, T., Gomez, J., Goncharenko, Y. M., Hashimoto, O., Higinbotham, D. W., Horn, T., Huber, G. M., Jones, M., Kalantarians, N., Kang, H. K., Kawama, D., Keith, C., Keppel, C., Khandaker, M., Kim, Y., King, P. M., Kohl, M., Kovacs, K., Kubarovsky, V., Li, Y., Liyanage, N., Luo, W., Mamyan, V., Markowitz, P., Maruta, T., Meekins, D., Melnik, Y. M., Mkrtchyan, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Mochalov, V. V., Monaghan, P., Narayan, A., Nakamura, S. N., Nuruzzaman, Pentchev, L., Pocanic, D., Posik, M., Puckett, A., Qiu, X., Reinhold, J., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Sawatzky, B., Shabestari, M., Slifer, K., Smith, G., Soloviev, L., Solvignon, P., Tadevosyan, V., Tang, L., Vasiliev, A. N., Veilleux, M., Walton, T., Wesselmann, F., Wood, S. A., Yao, H., Ye, Z., and Zhu, L.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The Spin Asymmetries of the Nucleon Experiment (SANE) performed inclusive, double-polarized electron scattering measurements of the proton at the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility at Jefferson Lab. A novel detector array observed scattered electrons of four-momentum transfer $2.5 < Q^2< 6.5$ GeV$^2$ and Bjorken scaling $0.3

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2017
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35. Polarization Transfer Observables in Elastic Electron Proton Scattering at $Q^2 = $2.5, 5.2, 6.8, and 8.5 GeV$^2$

Author

Puckett, A. J. R., Brash, E. J., Jones, M. K., Luo, W., Meziane, M., Pentchev, L., Perdrisat, C. F., Punjabi, V., Wesselmann, F. R., Afanasev, A., Ahmidouch, A., Albayrak, I., Aniol, K. A., Arrington, J., Asaturyan, A., Baghdasaryan, H., Benmokhtar, F., Bertozzi, W., Bimbot, L., Bosted, P., Boeglin, W., Butuceanu, C., Carter, P., Chernenko, S., Christy, E., Commisso, M., Cornejo, J. C., Covrig, S., Danagoulian, S., Daniel, A., Davidenko, A., Day, D., Dhamija, S., Dutta, D., Ent, R., Frullani, S., Fenker, H., Frlez, E., Garibaldi, F., Gaskell, D., Gilad, S., Gilman, R., Goncharenko, Y., Hafidi, K., Hamilton, D., Higinbotham, D. W., Hinton, W., Horn, T., Hu, B., Huang, J., Huber, G. M., Jensen, E., Keppel, C., Khandaker, M., King, P., Kirillov, D., Kohl, M., Kravtsov, V., Kumbartzki, G., Li, Y., Mamyan, V., Margaziotis, D. J., Marsh, A., Matulenko, Y., Maxwell, J., Mbianda, G., Meekins, D., Melnik, Y., Miller, J., Mkrtchyan, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Moffit, B., Moreno, O., Mulholland, J., Narayan, A., Nedev, S., Nuruzzaman, Piasetzky, E., Pierce, W., Piskunov, N. M., Prok, Y., Ransome, R. D., Razin, D. S., Reimer, P., Reinhold, J., Rondon, O., Shabestari, M., Shahinyan, A., Shestermanov, K., Sirca, S., Sitnik, I., Smykov, L., Smith, G., Solovyev, L., Solvignon, P., Subedi, R., Tomasi-Gustafsson, E., Vasiliev, A., Veilleux, M., Wojtsekhowski, B. B., Wood, S., Ye, Z., Zanevsky, Y., Zhang, X., Zhang, Y., Zheng, X., and Zhu, L.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The GEp-III and GEp-2$\gamma$ experiments were carried out in Jefferson Lab's (JLab's) Hall C from 2007-2008, to extend the knowledge of $G_E^p/G_M^p$ to the highest practically achievable $Q^2$ and to search for effects beyond the Born approximation in polarization transfer observables of elastic $\vec{e}p$ scattering. This article reports an expanded description of the common experimental apparatus and data analysis procedure, and the results of a final reanalysis of the data from both experiments, including the previously unpublished results of the full-acceptance data of the GEp-2$\gamma$ experiment. The Hall C High Momentum Spectrometer detected and measured the polarization of protons recoiling elastically from collisions of JLab's polarized electron beam with a liquid hydrogen target. A large-acceptance electromagnetic calorimeter detected the elastically scattered electrons in coincidence to suppress inelastic backgrounds. The final GEp-III data are largely unchanged relative to the originally published results. The statistical uncertainties of the final GEp-2$\gamma$ data are significantly reduced at $\epsilon = 0.632$ and $0.783$ relative to the original publication. The decrease with $Q^2$ of $G_E^p/G_M^p$ continues to $Q^2 = 8.5$ GeV$^2$, but at a slowing rate relative to the approximately linear decrease observed in earlier Hall A measurements. At $Q^2 = 2.5$ GeV$^2$, the proton form factor ratio $G_E^p/G_M^p$ shows no statistically significant $\epsilon$-dependence, as expected in the Born approximation. The ratio $P_\ell/P_\ell^{Born}$ of the longitudinal polarization transfer component to its Born value shows an enhancement of roughly 1.4\% at $\epsilon = 0.783$ relative to $\epsilon = 0.149$, with $\approx 1.9\sigma$ significance based on the total uncertainty, implying a similar effect in the transverse component $P_t$ that cancels in the ratio $R$., Comment: 44 pages, 28 figures. Archival publication for the GEp-III and GEp-2gamma experiments that ran in Jefferson Lab's experimental Hall C from October, 2007 to June, 2008. v2: final manuscript as accepted by PRC. v3: Replaced figures 13 and 19 with corrected versions from published Erratum. Also made minor corrections to the text and to Table XI reflecting the corrections in the published Erratum

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2017
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36. Technical Supplement to 'Polarization Transfer Observables in Elastic Electron-Proton Scattering at Q$^2$ = 2.5, 5.2, 6.8, and 8.5 GeV$^2$'

Author

Puckett, A. J. R., Brash, E. J., Jones, M. K., Luo, W., Meziane, M., Pentchev, L., Perdrisat, C. F., Punjabi, V., Wesselmann, F. R., Ahmidouch, A., Albayrak, I., Aniol, K. A., Arrington, J., Asaturyan, A., Baghdasaryan, H., Benmokhtar, F., Bertozzi, W., Bimbot, L., Bosted, P., Boeglin, W., Butuceanu, C., Carter, P., Chernenko, S., Christy, E., Commisso, M., Cornejo, J. C., Covrig, S., Danagoulian, S., Daniel, A., Davidenko, A., Day, D., Dhamija, S., Dutta, D., Ent, R., Frullani, S., Fenker, H., Frlez, E., Garibaldi, F., Gaskell, D., Gilad, S., Gilman, R., Goncharenko, Y., Hafidi, K., Hamilton, D., Higinbotham, D. W., Hinton, W., Horn, T., Hu, B., Huang, J., Huber, G. M., Jensen, E., Keppel, C., Khandaker, M., King, P., Kirillov, D., Kohl, M., Kravtsov, V., Kumbartzki, G., Li, Y., Mamyan, V., Margaziotis, D. J., Marsh, A., Matulenko, Y., Maxwell, J., Mbianda, G., Meekins, D., Melnik, Y., Miller, J., Mkrtchyan, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Moffit, B., Moreno, O., Mulholland, J., Narayan, A., Nedev, S., Nurruzzaman, Piasetzky, E., Pierce, W., Piskunov, N. M., Prok, Y., Ransome, R. D., Razin, D. S., Reimer, P., Reinhold, J., Rondon, O., Shabestari, M., Shahinyan, A., Shestermanov, K., Sirca, S., Sitnik, I., Smykov, L., Smith, G., Solovyev, L., Solvignon, P., Subedi, R., Tomasi-Gustafsson, E., Vasiliev, A., Veilleux, M., Wojtsekhowski, B. B., Wood, S., Ye, Z., Zanevsky, Y., Zhang, X., Zhang, Y., Zheng, X., and Zhu, L.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The GEp-III and GEp-2$\gamma$ experiments, carried out in Jefferson Lab's Hall C from 2007-2008, consisted of measurements of polarization transfer in elastic electron-proton scattering at momentum transfers of $Q^2 = 2.5, 5.2, 6.8,$ and $8.54$ GeV$^2$. These measurements were carried out to improve knowledge of the proton electromagnetic form factor ratio $R = \mu_p G_E^p/G_M^p$ at large values of $Q^2$ and to search for effects beyond the Born approximation in polarization transfer observables at $Q^2 = 2.5$ GeV$^2$. The final results of both experiments were reported in a recent archival publication. A full reanalysis of the data from both experiments was carried out in order to reduce the systematic and, for the GEp-2$\gamma$ experiment, statistical uncertainties. This technical note provides additional details of the final analysis omitted from the main publication, including the final evaluation of the systematic uncertainties., Comment: 33 pages, 33 figures. v3 = Final manuscript as accepted for publication in Nuclear Instruments and Methods Section A (in press)

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2017
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37. Technical supplement to “Polarization transfer observables in elastic electron-proton scattering at Q 2 = 2 . 5 , 5 . 2 , 6 . 8 and 8 . 5 GeV 2 ”

Author

Puckett, AJR, Brash, EJ, Jones, MK, Luo, W, Meziane, M, Pentchev, L, Perdrisat, CF, Punjabi, V, Wesselmann, FR, Afanasev, A, Ahmidouch, A, Albayrak, I, Aniol, KA, Arrington, J, Asaturyan, A, Baghdasaryan, H, Benmokhtar, F, Bertozzi, W, Bimbot, L, Bosted, P, Boeglin, W, Butuceanu, C, Carter, P, Chernenko, S, Christy, ME, Cornejo, JC, Covrig, S, Danagoulian, S, Daniel, A, Davidenko, A, Day, D, Dhamija, S, Dutta, D, Ent, R, Frullani, S, Fenker, H, Frlez, E, Garibaldi, F, Gaskell, D, Gilad, S, Gilman, R, Goncharenko, Y, Hafidi, K, Hamilton, D, Higinbotham, DW, Hinton, W, Horn, T, Hu, B, Huang, J, Huber, GM, Jensen, E, Keppel, C, Khandaker, M, King, P, Kirillov, D, Kohl, M, Kravtsov, V, Kumbartzki, G, Li, Y, Mamyan, V, Margaziotis, DJ, Marsh, A, Matulenko, Y, Maxwell, J, Mbianda, G, Meekins, D, Melnik, Y, Miller, J, Mkrtchyan, A, Mkrtchyan, H, Moffit, B, Moreno, O, Mulholland, J, Narayan, A, Nedev, S, Nuruzzaman, Piasetzky, E, Pierce, W, Piskunov, NM, Prok, Y, Ransome, RD, Razin, DS, Reimer, P, Reinhold, J, Rondon, O, Shabestari, M, Shahinyan, A, Shestermanov, K, Širca, S, Sitnik, I, Smykov, L, Smith, G, Solovyev, L, Solvignon, P, Subedi, R, Tomasi-Gustafsson, E, Vasiliev, A, Veilleux, M, Wojtsekhowski, BB, and Wood, S

Subjects
Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Synchrotrons and Accelerators, Physical Sciences, Proton form factors, Magnetic spectrometer, Electromagnetic calorimeter, Proton polarimeter, Polarization transfer method, Spin transport, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Other Physical Sciences, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Nuclear and plasma physics
Abstract

The GEp-III and GEp-2γ experiments, carried out in Jefferson Lab's Hall C from 2007–2008, consisted of measurements of polarization transfer in elastic electron–proton scattering at momentum transfers of Q2=2.5,5.2,6.8, and 8.54 GeV 2. These measurements were carried out to improve knowledge of the proton electromagnetic form factor ratio R=μpGEp∕GMp at large values of Q2 and to search for effects beyond the Born approximation in polarization transfer observables at Q2=2.5GeV2. The final results of both experiments were reported in a recent archival publication. A full reanalysis of the data from both experiments was carried out in order to reduce the systematic and, for the GEp-2γ experiment, statistical uncertainties. This technical note provides additional details of the final analysis omitted from the main publication, including the final evaluation of the systematic uncertainties.

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2018

38. Technical supplement to “Polarization transfer observables in elastic electron-proton scattering at Q2=2.5,5.2,6.8 and 8.5GeV2”

Author

Puckett, AJR, Brash, EJ, Jones, MK, Luo, W, Meziane, M, Pentchev, L, Perdrisat, CF, Punjabi, V, Wesselmann, FR, Afanasev, A, Ahmidouch, A, Albayrak, I, Aniol, KA, Arrington, J, Asaturyan, A, Baghdasaryan, H, Benmokhtar, F, Bertozzi, W, Bimbot, L, Bosted, P, Boeglin, W, Butuceanu, C, Carter, P, Chernenko, S, Christy, ME, Cornejo, JC, Covrig, S, Danagoulian, S, Daniel, A, Davidenko, A, Day, D, Dhamija, S, Dutta, D, Ent, R, Frullani, S, Fenker, H, Frlez, E, Garibaldi, F, Gaskell, D, Gilad, S, Gilman, R, Goncharenko, Y, Hafidi, K, Hamilton, D, Higinbotham, DW, Hinton, W, Horn, T, Hu, B, Huang, J, Huber, GM, Jensen, E, Keppel, C, Khandaker, M, King, P, Kirillov, D, Kohl, M, Kravtsov, V, Kumbartzki, G, Li, Y, Mamyan, V, Margaziotis, DJ, Marsh, A, Matulenko, Y, Maxwell, J, Mbianda, G, Meekins, D, Melnik, Y, Miller, J, Mkrtchyan, A, Mkrtchyan, H, Moffit, B, Moreno, O, Mulholland, J, Narayan, A, Nedev, S, Nuruzzaman, Piasetzky, E, Pierce, W, Piskunov, NM, Prok, Y, Ransome, RD, Razin, DS, Reimer, P, Reinhold, J, Rondon, O, Shabestari, M, Shahinyan, A, Shestermanov, K, Širca, S, Sitnik, I, Smykov, L, Smith, G, Solovyev, L, Solvignon, P, Subedi, R, Tomasi-Gustafsson, E, Vasiliev, A, Veilleux, M, Wojtsekhowski, BB, and Wood, S

Subjects
Proton form factors, Magnetic spectrometer, Electromagnetic calorimeter, Proton polarimeter, Polarization transfer method, Spin transport, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Other Physical Sciences
Abstract

The GEp-III and GEp-2γ experiments, carried out in Jefferson Lab's Hall C from 2007–2008, consisted of measurements of polarization transfer in elastic electron–proton scattering at momentum transfers of Q2=2.5,5.2,6.8, and 8.54 GeV 2. These measurements were carried out to improve knowledge of the proton electromagnetic form factor ratio R=μpGEp∕GMp at large values of Q2 and to search for effects beyond the Born approximation in polarization transfer observables at Q2=2.5GeV2. The final results of both experiments were reported in a recent archival publication. A full reanalysis of the data from both experiments was carried out in order to reduce the systematic and, for the GEp-2γ experiment, statistical uncertainties. This technical note provides additional details of the final analysis omitted from the main publication, including the final evaluation of the systematic uncertainties.

Published
2018

39. Erratum: Polarization transfer observables in elastic electron-proton scattering at Q2=2.5, 5.2, 6.8, and 8.5 GeV2 (Physical Review C (2017) 96 (055203) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.96.055203)

Author

Puckett, AJR, Brash, EJ, Jones, MK, Luo, W, Meziane, M, Pentchev, L, Perdrisat, CF, Punjabi, V, Wesselmann, FR, Afanasev, A, Ahmidouch, A, Albayrak, I, Aniol, KA, Arrington, J, Asaturyan, A, Baghdasaryan, H, Benmokhtar, F, Bertozzi, W, Bimbot, L, Bosted, P, Boeglin, W, Butuceanu, C, Carter, P, Chernenko, S, Christy, ME, Commisso, M, Cornejo, JC, Covrig, S, Danagoulian, S, Daniel, A, Davidenko, A, Day, D, Dhamija, S, Dutta, D, Ent, R, Frullani, S, Fenker, H, Frlez, E, Garibaldi, F, Gaskell, D, Gilad, S, Gilman, R, Goncharenko, Y, Hafidi, K, Hamilton, D, Higinbotham, DW, Hinton, W, Horn, T, Hu, B, Huang, J, Huber, GM, Jensen, E, Keppel, C, Khandaker, M, King, P, Kirillov, D, Kohl, M, Kravtsov, V, Kumbartzki, G, Li, Y, Mamyan, V, Margaziotis, DJ, Marsh, A, Matulenko, Y, Maxwell, J, Mbianda, G, Meekins, D, Melnik, Y, Miller, J, Mkrtchyan, A, Mkrtchyan, H, Moffit, B, Moreno, O, Mulholland, J, Narayan, A, Nedev, S, Nuruzzaman, Piasetzky, E, Pierce, W, Piskunov, NM, Prok, Y, Ransome, RD, Razin, DS, Reimer, P, Reinhold, J, Rondon, O, Shabestari, M, Shahinyan, A, Shestermanov, K, Širca, S, Sitnik, I, Smykov, L, Smith, G, Solovyev, L, Solvignon, P, Subedi, R, Tomasi-Gustafsson, E, Vasiliev, A, Veilleux, M, and Wojtsekhowski, BB

Abstract

Subsequent to the release of our original paper, we discovered in the context of preparing our technical supplement [1] for journal publication that a typographical error had existed in the text file that the analysis program used to construct the beam polarization "database" for both the original analysis, published in Ref. [2], and our final analysis. The electron-beam polarization P e and the analyzing power A y cancel exactly in the ratio R , which is proportional to the ratio P t / P l of the transferred polarization components. On the other hand, the extraction of the relative e dependence of P l / P Born l relies on knowledge of the beam polarization. As such, data taking was interrupted roughly every two days during the GEp - 2 ? experiment to perform invasive measurements of the beam polarization using the Hall C Moller polarimeter [3]. The run range affected by the typographical error was entirely contained within the data collected at Q 2 = 2.5 GeV 2 with a beam energy of E e = 3.680 GeV during January 2008. The data from this configuration were combined with the data collected at E e = 3.548 GeV due to the nearly complete overlap of these two settings in terms of Q 2 and e acceptance. It is worth remarking that this typographical error went unnoticed for so long because it only affected a small fraction of the data (less than half of the combined data for ? e ? = 0.790 ) and the difference between the actually assigned beam polarization and the polarization that should have been assigned was comparable in magnitude to the point-to-point systematic uncertainty of the measurement itself. As such, its effect did not show up in various diagnostic plots and statistical tests, such as the time stability of the extracted P l / P Born l ratio. The data for both E e = 3.548 and E e = 3.680 GeV were reprocessed using the corrected beam polarizations to determine the effect of the typographical error on the combined physics results at ? e ? = 0.790 . Because the value of P e cancels in the ratio R , changes in the assumed beam polarization can only affect the results for R via statistical fluctuations due to changes in the relative weighting of different run ranges in the unbinned maximum-likelihood estimators for R . These effects are negligible on the scale of both the statistical and the systematic uncertainties of the data. More noticeable changes are expected in the ratio P l / P Born l since the extracted value of P l is inversely proportional to the assumed value of P e . Table I shows the effect of the corrected beam polarization database on the polarization transfer observables for the combined data for the ? e ? = 0.790 setting, the only measurement affected by the typographical error. The analyzing power did not need to be recalibrated since it was determined using the ? e ? = 0.153 data, which were not affected by the typographical error. As expected, the change in the ratio R is negligible. The value of P Born l , which is computed event by event from the global fit described in the Appendix of the original paper and does not depend on P e , is also unchanged. The magnitudes of P t , P l , and P l / P Born l are reduced by a common multiplicative factor, reflecting the fact that the beam polarization had been underestimated for the run range affected by the typographical error. The most important result of the corrected analysis is that the ratio P l / P Born l has decreased by 0.0024 from 1.0167 to 1.0143, a change comparable in magnitude to the statistical uncertainty but small compared to the total and point-to-point systematic uncertainties. The P l / P Born l result for the original publication [2] would be reduced by the same multiplicative factor as the final result. The physics conclusions of both publications are not materially changed by this correction. (Table Presented). (Figure Presented).

Published
2018

40. Erratum: Polarization transfer observables in elastic electron-proton scattering at Q2=2.5, 5.2, 6.8, and 8.5GeV2 [Phys. Rev. C 96, 055203 (2017)]

Author

Puckett, AJR, Brash, EJ, Jones, MK, Luo, W, Meziane, M, Pentchev, L, Perdrisat, CF, Punjabi, V, Wesselmann, FR, Afanasev, A, Ahmidouch, A, Albayrak, I, Aniol, KA, Arrington, J, Asaturyan, A, Baghdasaryan, H, Benmokhtar, F, Bertozzi, W, Bimbot, L, Bosted, P, Boeglin, W, Butuceanu, C, Carter, P, Chernenko, S, Christy, ME, Commisso, M, Cornejo, JC, Covrig, S, Danagoulian, S, Daniel, A, Davidenko, A, Day, D, Dhamija, S, Dutta, D, Ent, R, Frullani, S, Fenker, H, Frlez, E, Garibaldi, F, Gaskell, D, Gilad, S, Gilman, R, Goncharenko, Y, Hafidi, K, Hamilton, D, Higinbotham, DW, Hinton, W, Horn, T, Hu, B, Huang, J, Huber, GM, Jensen, E, Keppel, C, Khandaker, M, King, P, Kirillov, D, Kohl, M, Kravtsov, V, Kumbartzki, G, Li, Y, Mamyan, V, Margaziotis, DJ, Marsh, A, Matulenko, Y, Maxwell, J, Mbianda, G, Meekins, D, Melnik, Y, Miller, J, Mkrtchyan, A, Mkrtchyan, H, Moffit, B, Moreno, O, Mulholland, J, Narayan, A, Nedev, S, Nuruzzaman, Piasetzky, E, Pierce, W, Piskunov, NM, Prok, Y, Ransome, RD, Razin, DS, Reimer, P, Reinhold, J, Rondon, O, Shabestari, M, Shahinyan, A, Shestermanov, K, Širca, S, Sitnik, I, Smykov, L, Smith, G, Solovyev, L, Solvignon, P, Subedi, R, Tomasi-Gustafsson, E, Vasiliev, A, Veilleux, M, and Wojtsekhowski, BB

Subjects
Physical Sciences, Classical Physics, Nuclear and plasma physics
Abstract

Subsequent to the release of our original paper, we discovered in the context of preparing our technical supplement [1] for journal publication that a typographical error had existed in the text file that the analysis program used to construct the beam polarization "database" for both the original analysis, published in Ref. [2], and our final analysis. The electron-beam polarization P e and the analyzing power A y cancel exactly in the ratio R , which is proportional to the ratio P t / P l of the transferred polarization components. On the other hand, the extraction of the relative e dependence of P l / P Born l relies on knowledge of the beam polarization. As such, data taking was interrupted roughly every two days during the GEp - 2 ? experiment to perform invasive measurements of the beam polarization using the Hall C Moller polarimeter [3]. The run range affected by the typographical error was entirely contained within the data collected at Q 2 = 2.5 GeV 2 with a beam energy of E e = 3.680 GeV during January 2008. The data from this configuration were combined with the data collected at E e = 3.548 GeV due to the nearly complete overlap of these two settings in terms of Q 2 and e acceptance. It is worth remarking that this typographical error went unnoticed for so long because it only affected a small fraction of the data (less than half of the combined data for ? e ? = 0.790 ) and the difference between the actually assigned beam polarization and the polarization that should have been assigned was comparable in magnitude to the point-to-point systematic uncertainty of the measurement itself. As such, its effect did not show up in various diagnostic plots and statistical tests, such as the time stability of the extracted P l / P Born l ratio. The data for both E e = 3.548 and E e = 3.680 GeV were reprocessed using the corrected beam polarizations to determine the effect of the typographical error on the combined physics results at ? e ? = 0.790 . Because the value of P e cancels in the ratio R , changes in the assumed beam polarization can only affect the results for R via statistical fluctuations due to changes in the relative weighting of different run ranges in the unbinned maximum-likelihood estimators for R . These effects are negligible on the scale of both the statistical and the systematic uncertainties of the data. More noticeable changes are expected in the ratio P l / P Born l since the extracted value of P l is inversely proportional to the assumed value of P e . Table I shows the effect of the corrected beam polarization database on the polarization transfer observables for the combined data for the ? e ? = 0.790 setting, the only measurement affected by the typographical error. The analyzing power did not need to be recalibrated since it was determined using the ? e ? = 0.153 data, which were not affected by the typographical error. As expected, the change in the ratio R is negligible. The value of P Born l , which is computed event by event from the global fit described in the Appendix of the original paper and does not depend on P e , is also unchanged. The magnitudes of P t , P l , and P l / P Born l are reduced by a common multiplicative factor, reflecting the fact that the beam polarization had been underestimated for the run range affected by the typographical error. The most important result of the corrected analysis is that the ratio P l / P Born l has decreased by 0.0024 from 1.0167 to 1.0143, a change comparable in magnitude to the statistical uncertainty but small compared to the total and point-to-point systematic uncertainties. The P l / P Born l result for the original publication [2] would be reduced by the same multiplicative factor as the final result. The physics conclusions of both publications are not materially changed by this correction. (Table Presented). (Figure Presented).

Published
2018

41. Polarization transfer observables in elastic electron-proton scattering at Q2=2.5, 5.2, 6.8, and 8.5 GeV2 POLARIZATION TRANSFER OBSERVABLES in ELASTIC ... A. J. R. PUCKETT et al.

Author

Puckett, AJR, Brash, EJ, Jones, MK, Luo, W, Meziane, M, Pentchev, L, Perdrisat, CF, Punjabi, V, Wesselmann, FR, Afanasev, A, Ahmidouch, A, Albayrak, I, Aniol, KA, Arrington, J, Asaturyan, A, Baghdasaryan, H, Benmokhtar, F, Bertozzi, W, Bimbot, L, Bosted, P, Boeglin, W, Butuceanu, C, Carter, P, Chernenko, S, Christy, ME, Commisso, M, Cornejo, JC, Covrig, S, Danagoulian, S, Daniel, A, Davidenko, A, Day, D, Dhamija, S, Dutta, D, Ent, R, Frullani, S, Fenker, H, Frlez, E, Garibaldi, F, Gaskell, D, Gilad, S, Gilman, R, Goncharenko, Y, Hafidi, K, Hamilton, D, Higinbotham, DW, Hinton, W, Horn, T, Hu, B, Huang, J, Huber, GM, Jensen, E, Keppel, C, Khandaker, M, King, P, Kirillov, D, Kohl, M, Kravtsov, V, Kumbartzki, G, Li, Y, Mamyan, V, Margaziotis, DJ, Marsh, A, Matulenko, Y, Maxwell, J, Mbianda, G, Meekins, D, Melnik, Y, Miller, J, Mkrtchyan, A, Mkrtchyan, H, Moffit, B, Moreno, O, Mulholland, J, Narayan, A, Nedev, S, Nuruzzaman, Piasetzky, E, Pierce, W, Piskunov, NM, Prok, Y, Ransome, RD, Razin, DS, Reimer, P, Reinhold, J, Rondon, O, Shabestari, M, Shahinyan, A, Shestermanov, K, Širca, S, Sitnik, I, Smykov, L, Smith, G, Solovyev, L, Solvignon, P, Subedi, R, Tomasi-Gustafsson, E, Vasiliev, A, Veilleux, M, and Wojtsekhowski, BB

Abstract

Background: Interest in the behavior of nucleon electromagnetic form factors at large momentum transfers has steadily increased since the discovery, using polarization observables, of the rapid decrease of the ratio GEp/GMp of the proton's electric and magnetic form factors for momentum transfers Q21 GeV2, in strong disagreement with previous extractions of this ratio using the traditional Rosenbluth separation technique. Purpose: The GEp-III and GEp-2γ experiments were carried out in Jefferson Laboratory's (JLab's) Hall C from 2007 to 2008, to extend the knowledge of GEp/GMp to the highest practically achievable Q2 given the maximum beam energy of 6 GeV and to search for effects beyond the Born approximation in polarization transfer observables of elastic ∫ - p scattering. This article provides an expanded description of the common experimental apparatus and data analysis procedures, and reports the results of a final reanalysis of the data from both experiments, including the previously unpublished results of the full-acceptance dataset of the GEp-2γ experiment. Methods: Polarization transfer observables in elastic ∫ - p→∫ - scattering were measured at central Q2 values of 2.5, 5.2, 6.8, and 8.54 GeV2. At Q2=2.5GeV2, data were obtained for central values of the virtual photon polarization parameter ϵ of 0.149, 0.632, and 0.783. The Hall C High Momentum Spectrometer detected and measured the polarization of protons recoiling elastically from collisions of JLab's polarized electron beam with a liquid hydrogen target. A large-acceptance electromagnetic calorimeter detected the elastically scattered electrons in coincidence to suppress inelastic backgrounds. Results: The final GEp-III data are largely unchanged relative to the originally published results. The statistical uncertainties of the final GEp-2γ data are significantly reduced at ϵ=0.632 and 0.783 relative to the original publication. Conclusions: The final GEp-III results show that the decrease with Q2 of GEp/GMp continues to Q2=8.5GeV2, but at a slowing rate relative to the approximately linear decrease observed in earlier Hall A measurements. At Q2=8.5GeV2, GEp/GMp remains positive but is consistent with zero. At Q2=2.5GeV2, GEp/GMp derived from the polarization component ratio R-Pt/P shows no statistically significant ϵ dependence, as expected in the Born approximation. On the other hand, the ratio P""/P""Born of the longitudinal polarization transfer component to its Born value shows an enhancement of roughly 1.7% at ϵ=0.783 relative to ϵ=0.149, with ≈2.2σ significance based on the total uncertainty, implying a similar effect in the transverse component Pt that cancels in the ratio R.

Published
2017

42. The MOLLER Experiment: An Ultra-Precise Measurement of the Weak Mixing Angle Using M{\o}ller Scattering

Author

MOLLER Collaboration, Benesch, J., Brindza, P., Carlini, R. D., Chen, J-P., Chudakov, E., Covrig, S., Dalton, M. M., Deur, A., Gaskell, D., Gavalya, A., Gomez, J., Higinbotham, D. W., Keppel, C., Meekins, D., Michaels, R., Moffit, B., Roblin, Y., Suleiman, R., Wines, R., Wojtsekhowski, B., Cates, G., Crabb, D., Day, D., Gnanvo, K., Keller, D., Liyanage, N., Nelyubin, V. V., Nguyen, H., Norum, B., Paschke, K., Sulkosky, V., Zhang, J., Zheng, X., Birchall, J., Blunden, P., Gericke, M. T. W., Falk, W. R., Lee, L., Mammei, J., Page, S. A., van Oers, W. T. H., Dehmelt, K., Deshpande, A., Feege, N., Hemmick, T. K., Kumar, K. S., Kutz, T., Miskimen, R., Ramsey-Musolf, M. J., Riordan, S., Saylor, N. Hirlinger, Bessuille, J., Ihloff, E., Kelsey, J., Kowalski, S., Silwal, R., De Cataldo, G., De Leo, R., Di Bari, D., Lagamba, L., Bellini, E. NappiV., Mammoliti, F., Noto, F., Sperduto, M. L., Sutera, C. M., Cole, P., Forest, T. A., Khandekar, M., McNulty, D., Aulenbacher, K., Baunack, S., Maas, F., Tioukine, V., Gilman, R., Myers, K., Ransome, R., Tadepalli, A., Beniniwattha, R., Holmes, R., Souder, P., Armstrong, D. S., Averett, T. D., Deconinck, W., Duvall, W., Lee, A., Pitt, M. L., Dunne, J. A., Dutta, D., Fassi, L. El, De Persio, F., Meddi, F., Urciuoli, G. M., Cisbani, E., Fanelli, C., Garibaldi, F., Johnston, K., Simicevic, N., Wells, S., King, P. M., Roche, J., Arrington, J., Reimer, P. E., Franklin, G., Quinn, B., Ahmidouch, A., Danagoulian, S., Glamazdin, O., Pomatsalyuk, R., Mammei, R., Martin, J. W., Holmstrom, T., Erler, J., Kolomensky, Yu. G., Napolitano, J., Aniol, K. A., Ramsay, W. D., Korkmaz, E., Spayde, D. T., Benmokhtar, F., Del Dotto, A., Perrino, R., Barkanova, S., Aleksejevs, A., and Singh, J.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract

The physics case and an experimental overview of the MOLLER (Measurement Of a Lepton Lepton Electroweak Reaction) experiment at the 12 GeV upgraded Jefferson Lab are presented. A highlight of the Fundamental Symmetries subfield of the 2007 NSAC Long Range Plan was the SLAC E158 measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry $A_{PV}$ in polarized electron-electron (M{\o}ller) scattering. The proposed MOLLER experiment will improve on this result by a factor of five, yielding the most precise measurement of the weak mixing angle at low or high energy anticipated over the next decade. This new result would be sensitive to the interference of the electromagnetic amplitude with new neutral current amplitudes as weak as $\sim 10^{-3}\cdot G_F$ from as yet undiscovered dynamics beyond the Standard Model. The resulting discovery reach is unmatched by any proposed experiment measuring a flavor- and CP-conserving process over the next decade, and yields a unique window to new physics at MeV and multi-TeV scales, complementary to direct searches at high energy colliders such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The experiment takes advantage of the unique opportunity provided by the upgraded electron beam energy, luminosity, and stability at Jefferson Laboratory and the extensive experience accumulated in the community after a round of recent successfully completed parity-violating electron scattering experiments

Published
2014

43. Early Results from the Qweak Experiment

Author

Androic, D., Armstrong, D. S., Asaturyan, A., Averett, T., Balewski, J., Beaufait, J., Beminiwattha, R. S., Benesch, J., Benmokhtar, F., Birchall, J., Carlini, R. D., Cates, G. D., Cornejo, J. C., Covrig, S., Dalton, M. M., Davis, C. A., Deconinck, W., Diefenbach, J., Dowd, J. F., Dunne, J. A., Dutta, D., Duvall, W. S., Elaasar, M., Falk, W. R., Finn, J. M., Forest, T., Gaskel, D., Gericke, M. T. W., Grames, J., Gray, V. M., Grimm, K., Guo, F., Hoskins, J. R., Johnston, K., Jones, D., Jones, M., Jones, R., Kargiantoulakis, M., King, P. M., Korkmaz, E., Kowalski, S., Leacock, J., Leckey, J., Lee, A. R., Lee, J. H., Lee, L., MacEwan, S., Mack, D., Magee, J. A., Mahurin, R., Mammei, J., Martin, J., McHugh, M. J., Meekins, D., Mei, J., Michaels, R., Micherdzinska, A., Mkrtchyan, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Morgan, N., Myers, K. E., Narayan, A., Ndukum, L. Z., Nelyubin, V., Nuruzzaman, van Oers, W. T. H, Opper, A. K., Page, S. A., Pan, J., Paschke, K., Phillips, S. K., Pitt, M. L., Poelker, M., Rajotte, J. F., Ramsay, W. D., Roche, J., Sawatzky, B., Seva, T., Shabestari, M. H., Silwal, R., Simicevic, N., Smith, G. R., Solvignon, P., Spayde, D. T., Subedi, A., Subedi, R., Suleiman, R., Tadevosyan, V., Tobias, W. A., Tvaskis, V., Waidyawansa, B., Wang, P., Wells, S. P., Wood, S. A., Yang, S., Young, R. D., and Zhamkochyan, S.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

A subset of results from the recently completed Jefferson Lab Qweak experiment are reported. This experiment, sensitive to physics beyond the Standard Model, exploits the small parity-violating asymmetry in elastic ep scattering to provide the first determination of the protons weak charge Qweak(p). The experiment employed a 180 uA longitudinally polarized 1.16 GeV electron beam on a 35 cm long liquid hydrogen target. Scattered electrons corresponding to Q2 of 0.025 GeV2 were detected in eight Cerenkov detectors arrayed symmetrically around the beam axis. The goals of the experiment were to provide a measure of Qweak(p) to 4.2 percent (combined statistical and systematic error), which implies a measure of sin2(thetaw) at the level of 0.3 percent, and to help constrain the vector weak quark charges C1u and C1d. The experimental method is described, with particular focus on the challenges associated with the worlds highest power LH2 target. The new constraints on C1u and C1d provided by the subset of the experiments data analyzed to date will also be shown, together with the extracted weak charge of the neutron., Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, INPC2013

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2013
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44. First Determination of the Weak Charge of the Proton

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Qweak Collaboration, Androic, D., Armstrong, D. S., Asaturyan, A., Averett, T., Balewski, J., Beaufait, J., Beminiwattha, R. S., Benesch, J., Benmokhtar, F., Birchall, J., Carlini, R. D., Cates, G. D., Cornejo, J. C., Covrig, S., Dalton, M. M., Davis, C. A., Deconinck, W., Diefenbach, J., Dowd, J. F., Dunne, J. A., Dutta, D., Duvall, W. S., Elaasar, M., Falk, W. R., Finn, J. M., Forest, T., Gaskell, D., Gericke, M. T. W., Grames, J., Gray, V. M., Grimm, K., Guo, F., Hoskins, J. R., Johnston, K., Jones, D., Jones, M., Jones, R., Kargiantoulakis, M., King, P. M., Korkmaz, E., Kowalski, S., Leacock, J., Leckey, J., Lee, A. R., Lee, J. H., Lee, L., MacEwan, S., Mack, D., Magee, J. A., Mahurin, R., Mammei, J., Martin, J. W., McHugh, M. J., Meekins, D., Mei, J., Michaels, R., Micherdzinska, A., Mkrtchyan, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Morgan, N., Myers, K. E., Narayan, A., Ndukum, L. Z., Nelyubin, V., Nuruzzaman, van Oers, W. T. H, Opper, A. K., Page, S. A., Pan, J., Paschke, K. D., Phillips, S. K., Pitt, M. L., Poelker, M., Rajotte, J. F., Ramsay, W. D., Roche, J., Sawatzky, B., Seva, T., Shabestari, M. H., Silwal, R., Simicevic, N., Smith, G. R., Solvignon, P., Spayde, D. T., Subedi, A., Subedi, R., Suleiman, R., Tadevosyan, V., Tobias, W. A., Tvaskis, V., Waidyawansa, B., Wang, P., Wells, S. P., Wood, S. A., Yang, S., Young, R. D., and Zhamkochyan, S.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The Qweak experiment has measured the parity-violating asymmetry in polarized e-p elastic scattering at Q^2 = 0.025(GeV/c)^2, employing 145 microamps of 89% longitudinally polarized electrons on a 34.4cm long liquid hydrogen target at Jefferson Lab. The results of the experiment's commissioning run are reported here, constituting approximately 4% of the data collected in the experiment. From these initial results the measured asymmetry is Aep = -279 +- 35 (statistics) +- 31 (systematics) ppb, which is the smallest and most precise asymmetry ever measured in polarized e-p scattering. The small Q^2 of this experiment has made possible the first determination of the weak charge of the proton, QpW, by incorporating earlier parity-violating electron scattering (PVES) data at higher Q^2 to constrain hadronic corrections. The value of QpW obtained in this way is QpW(PVES) = 0.064 +- 0.012, in good agreement with the Standard Model prediction of QpW(SM) = 0.0710 +- 0.0007. When this result is further combined with the Cs atomic parity violation (APV) measurement, significant constraints on the weak charges of the up and down quarks can also be extracted. That PVES+APV analysis reveals the neutron's weak charge to be QnW(PVES+APV) = -0.975 +- 0.010., Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures

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2013
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45. The Qweak Experiment: A Search for New Physics at the TeV Scale via a Measurement of the Proton's Weak Charge

Author

Carlini, R. D., Finn, J. M., Kowalski, S., Page, S. A., Armstrong, D. S., Asaturyan, A., Averett, T., Benesch, J., Birchall, J., Bosted, P., Bruell, A., Capuano, C. L., Cates, G., Carrigee, C., Chattopadhyay, S., Covrig, S., Davis, C. A., Dow, K., Dunne, J., Dutta, D., Ent, R., Erler, J., Falk, W., Fenker, H., Forest, T. A., Franklin, W., Gaskell, D., Gericke, M., Grames, J., Grimm, K., Hersman, F. W., Higinbotham, D., Holtrop, M., Hoskins, J. R., Johnston, K., Ihloff, E., Jones, M., Jones, R., Joo, K., Kelsey, J., Keppel, C., Khol, M., King, P., Korkmaz, E., Leacock, J., Leckey, J. P., Lee, L., Lung, A., Mack, D., Majewski, S., Mammei, J., Martin, J., Meekins, D., Micherdzinska, A., Mkrtchyan, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Morgan, N., Myers, K. E., Narayan, A., Opper, A. K., Pan, J., Paschke, K., Pitt, M., Poelker, M., Prok, Y., Ramsay, W. D., Ramsey-Musolf, M., Roche, J., Simicevic, N., Smith, G., Smith, T., Souder, P., Spayde, D., Stokes, B. E., Suleiman, R., Tadevosyan, V., Tsentalovich, E., van Oers, W. T. H., Vulcan, W., Wang, P., Wells, S., Wood, S. A., Yang, S., Young, R., Zhu, H., and Zorn, C.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We propose a new precision measurement of parity-violating electron scattering on the proton at very low Q^2 and forward angles to challenge predictions of the Standard Model and search for new physics. A unique opportunity exists to carry out the first precision measurement of the proton's weak charge, $Q_W =1 - 4\sin^2\theta_W$. A 2200 hour measurement of the parity violating asymmetry in elastic ep scattering at Q^2=0.03 (GeV/c)^2 employing 180 $\mu$A of 85% polarized beam on a 35 cm liquid Hydrogen target will determine the proton's weak charge with approximately 4% combined statistical and systematic errors. The Standard Model makes a firm prediction of $Q_W$, based on the running of the weak mixing angle from the Z0 pole down to low energies, corresponding to a 10 sigma effect in this experiment., Comment: Proposal to Jefferson Lab Program Advisory Committee, December 2007. 93 pages, 44 figures. Uploaded here so a permanent copy is available, and for other papers to use arXiv version as reference First four authors are the spokespersons

Published
2012

46. Polarization components in $\pi^{0}$ photoproduction at photon energies up to 5.6 GeV

Author

Luo, W., Brash, E. J., Gilman, R., Jones, M. K., Meziane, M., Pentchev, L., Perdrisat, C. F., Puckett, A. J. R., Punjabi, V., Wesselmann, F. R., Ahmidouch, A., Albayrak, I., Aniol, K. A., Arrington, J., Asaturyan, A., Ates, O., Baghdasaryan, H., Benmokhtar, F., Bertozzi, W., Bimbot, L., Bosted, P., Boeglin, W., Butuceanu, C., Carter, P., Chernenko, S., Christy, M. E., Commisso, M., Cornejo, J. C., Covrig, S., Danagoulian, S., Daniel, A., Davidenko, A., Day, D., Dhamija, S., Dutta, D., Ent, R., Frullani, S., Fenker, H., Frlez, E., Garibaldi, F., Gaskell, D., Gilad, S., Goncharenko, Y., Hafidi, K., Hamilton, D., Higinbotham, D. W., Hinton, W., Horn, T., Hu, B., Huang, J., Huber, G. M., Jensen, E., Kang, H., Keppel, C., Khandaker, M., King, P., Kirillov, D., Kohl, M., Kravtsov, V., Kumbartzki, G., Li, Y., Mamyan, V., Margaziotis, D. J., Markowitz, P., Marsh, A., Matulenko, Y., Maxwell, J., Mbianda, G., Meekins, D., Melnik, Y., Miller, J., Mkrtchyan, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Moffit, B., Moreno, O., Mulholland, J., Narayan, A., Nuruzzaman, Nedev, S., Piasetzky, E., Pierce, W., Piskunov, N. M., Prok, Y., Ransome, R. D., Razin, D. S., Reimer, P. E., Reinhold, J., Rondon, O., Shabestari, M., Shahinyan, A., Shestermanov, K., Sirca, S., Sitnik, I., Smykov, L., Smith, G., Solovyev, L., Solvignon, P., Strakovsky, I. I., Subedi, R., Suleiman, R., Tomasi-Gustafsson, E., Vasiliev, A., Veilleux, M., Wood, S., Ye, Z., Zanevsky, Y., Zhang, X., Zhang, Y., Zheng, X., and Zhu, L.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We present new data for the polarization observables of the final state proton in the $^{1}H(\vec{\gamma},\vec{p})\pi^{0}$ reaction. These data can be used to test predictions based on hadron helicity conservation (HHC) and perturbative QCD (pQCD). These data have both small statistical and systematic uncertainties, and were obtained with beam energies between 1.8 and 5.6 GeV and for $\pi^{0}$ scattering angles larger than 75$^{\circ}$ in center-of-mass (c.m.) frame. The data extend the polarization measurements data base for neutral pion photoproduction up to $E_{\gamma}=5.6 GeV$. The results show non-zero induced polarization above the resonance region. The polarization transfer components vary rapidly with the photon energy and $\pi^{0}$ scattering angle in c.m. frame. This indicates that HHC does not hold and that the pQCD limit is still not reached in the energy regime of this experiment., Comment: 6 pages and 2 figures

Published
2011
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47. The G0 Experiment: Apparatus for Parity-Violating Electron Scattering Measurements at Forward and Backward Angles

Author

G0 Collaboration, Androic, D., Armstrong, D. S., Arvieux, J., Asaturyan, R., Averett, T. D., Bailey, S. L., Batigne, G., Beck, D. H., Beise, E. J., Benesch, J., Benmokhtar, F., Bimbot, L., Birchall, J., Biselli, A., Bosted, P., Breuer, H., Brindza, P., Capuano, C. L., Carlini, R. D., Carr, R., Chant, N., Chao, Y. -C., Clark, R., Coppens, A., Covrig, S. D., Cowley, A., Dale, D., Davis, C. A., Ellis, C., Falk, W. R., Fenker, H., Finn, J. M., Forest, T., Franklin, G., Frascaria, R., Furget, C., Gaskell, D., Gericke, M. T. W., Grames, J., Griffioen, K. A., Grimm, K., Guillard, G., Guillon, B., Guler, H., Gustafsson, K., Hannelius, L., Hansknecht, J., Hasty, R. D., Allen, A. M. Hawthorne, Horn, T., Ito, T. M., Johnston, K., Jones, M., Kammel, P., Kazimi, R., King, P. M., Kolarkar, A., Korkmaz, E., Korsch, W., Kox, S., Kuhn, J., Lachniet, J., Laszewski, R., Lee, L., Lenoble, J., Liatard, E., Liu, J., Lung, A., MacLachlan, G. A., Mammei, J., Marchand, D., Martin, J. W., Mack, D. J., McFarlane, K. W., McKee, D. W., McKeown, R. D., Merchez, F., Mihovilovic, M., Micherdzinska, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Moffit, B., Morlet, M., Muether, M., Musson, J., Nakahara, K., Neveling, R., Niccolai, S., Nilsson, D., Ong, S., Page, S. A., Papavassiliou, V., Pate, S. F., Phillips, S. K., Pillot, P., Pitt, M. L., Poelker, M., Porcelli, T. A., Quemener, G., Quinn, B. P., Ramsay, W. D., Rauf, A. W., Real, J. -S., Ries, T., Roos, J. Roche P., Rutledge, G. A., Schaub, J., Secrest, J., Seva, T., Simicevic, N., Smith, G. R., Spayde, D. T., Stepanyan, S., Stutzman, M., Suleiman, R., Tadevosyan, V., Tieulent, R., van de Wiele, J., van Oers, W. T. H., Versteegen, M., Voutier, E., Vulcan, W. F., Wells, S. P., Warren, G., Williamson, S. E., Woo, R. J., Wood, S. A., Yan, C., Yun, J., and Zeps, V.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

In the G0 experiment, performed at Jefferson Lab, the parity-violating elastic scattering of electrons from protons and quasi-elastic scattering from deuterons is measured in order to determine the neutral weak currents of the nucleon. Asymmetries as small as 1 part per million in the scattering of a polarized electron beam are determined using a dedicated apparatus. It consists of specialized beam-monitoring and control systems, a cryogenic hydrogen (or deuterium) target, and a superconducting, toroidal magnetic spectrometer equipped with plastic scintillation and aerogel Cerenkov detectors, as well as fast readout electronics for the measurement of individual events. The overall design and performance of this experimental system is discussed., Comment: Submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods

Published
2011
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48. Search for effects beyond the Born approximation in polarization transfer observables in $\vec{e}p$ elastic scattering

Author

Meziane, M., Brash, E. J., Gilman, R., Jones, M. K., Luo, W., Pentchev, L., Perdrisat, C. F., Puckett, A. J. R., Punjabi, V., Wesselmann, F. R., Ahmidouch, A., Albayrak, I., Aniol, K. A., Arrington, J., Asaturyan, A., Ates, O., Baghdasaryan, H., Benmokhtar, F., Bertozzi, W., Bimbot, L., Bosted, P., Boeglin, W., Butuceanu, C., Carter, P., Chernenko, S., Christy, E., Commisso, M., Cornejo, J. C., Covrig, S., Danagoulian, S., Daniel, A., Davidenko, A., Day, D., Dhamija, S., Dutta, D., Ent, R., Frullani, S., Fenker, H., Frlez, E., Garibaldi, F., Gaskell, D., Gilad, S., Goncharenko, Y., Hafidi, K., Hamilton, D., Higinbotham, D. W., Hinton, W., Horn, T., Hu, B., Huang, J., Huber, G. M., Jensen, E., Kang, H., Keppel, C., Khandaker, M., King, P., Kirillov, D., Kohl, M., Kravtsov, V., Kumbartzki, G., Li, Y., Mamyan, V., Margaziotis, D. J., Markowitz, P., Marsh, A., Matulenko, Y., Maxwell, J., Mbianda, G., Meekins, D., Melnik, Y., Miller, J., Mkrtchyan, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Moffit, B., Moreno, O., Mulholland, J., Narayan, A., Nuruzzaman, Nedev, S., Piasetzky, E., Pierce, W., Piskunov, N. M., Prok, Y., Ransome, R. D., Razin, D. S., Reimer, P. E., Reinhold, J., Rondon, O., Shabestari, M., Shahinyan, A., Shestermanov, K., Sirca, S., Sitnik, I., Smykov, L., Smith, G., Solovyev, L., Solvignon, P., Subedi, R., Suleiman, R., Tomasi-Gustafsson, E., Vasiliev, A., Vanderhaeghen, M., Veilleux, M., Wojtsekhowski, B. B., Wood, S., Ye, Z., Zanevsky, Y., Zhang, X., Zhang, Y., Zheng, X., and Zhu, L.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

Intensive theoretical and experimental efforts over the past decade have aimed at explaining the discrepancy between data for the proton electric to magnetic form factor ratio, $G_{E}/G_{M}$, obtained separately from cross section and polarization transfer measurements. One possible explanation for this difference is a two-photon-exchange (TPEX) contribution. In an effort to search for effects beyond the one-photon-exchange or Born approximation, we report measurements of polarization transfer observables in the elastic $H(\vec{e},e'\vec{p})$ reaction for three different beam energies at a fixed squared momentum transfer $Q^2 = 2.5$ GeV$^2$, spanning a wide range of the virtual photon polarization parameter, $\epsilon$. From these measured polarization observables, we have obtained separately the ratio $R$, which equals $\mu_p G_{E}/G_{M}$ in the Born approximation, and the longitudinal polarization transfer component $P_\ell$, with statistical and systematic uncertainties of $\Delta R \approx \pm 0.01 \mbox{(stat)} \pm 0.013 \mbox{(syst)}$ and $\Delta P_\ell/P^{Born}_{\ell} \approx \pm 0.006 \mbox{(stat)}\pm 0.01 \mbox{(syst)}$. The ratio $R$ is found to be independent of $\epsilon$ at the 1.5% level, while the $\epsilon$ dependence of $P_\ell$ shows an enhancement of $(2.3 \pm 0.6) %$ relative to the Born approximation at large $\epsilon$.

Published
2010
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49. Recoil Polarization Measurements of the Proton Electromagnetic Form Factor Ratio to Q^2 = 8.5 GeV^2

Author

Puckett, A. J. R., Brash, E. J., Jones, M. K., Luo, W., Meziane, M., Pentchev, L., Perdrisat, C. F., Punjabi, V., Wesselmann, F. R., Ahmidouch, A., Albayrak, I., Aniol, K. A., Arrington, J., Asaturyan, A., Baghdasaryan, H., Benmokhtar, F., Bertozzi, W., Bimbot, L., Bosted, P., Boeglin, W., Butuceanu, C., Carter, P., Chernenko, S., Christy, E., Commisso, M., Cornejo, J. C., Covrig, S., Danagoulian, S., Daniel, A., Davidenko, A., Day, D., Dhamija, S., Dutta, D., Ent, R., Frullani, S., Fenker, H., Frlez, E., Garibaldi, F., Gaskell, D., Gilad, S., Gilman, R., Goncharenko, Y., Hafidi, K., Hamilton, D., Higinbotham, D. W., Hinton, W., Horn, T., Hu, B., Huang, J., Huber, G. M., Jensen, E., Keppel, C., Khandaker, M., King, P., Kirillov, D., Kohl, M., Kravtsov, V., Kumbartzki, G., Li, Y., Mamyan, V., Margaziotis, D. J., Marsh, A., Matulenko, Y., Maxwell, J., Mbianda, G., Meekins, D., Melnik, Y., Miller, J., Mkrtchyan, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Moffit, B., Moreno, O., Mulholland, J., Narayan, A., Nedev, S., Nuruzzaman, Piasetzky, E., Pierce, W., Piskunov, N. M., Prok, Y., Ransome, R. D., Razin, D. S., Reimer, P., Reinhold, J., Rondon, O., Shabestari, M., Shahinyan, A., Shestermanov, K., Sirca, S., Sitnik, I., Smykov, L., Smith, G., Solovyev, L., Solvignon, P., Subedi, R., Tomasi-Gustafsson, E., Vasiliev, A., Veilleux, M., Wojtsekhowski, B. B., Wood, S., Ye, Z., Zanevsky, Y., Zhang, X., Zhang, Y., Zheng, X., and Zhu, L.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

Among the most fundamental observables of nucleon structure, electromagnetic form factors are a crucial benchmark for modern calculations describing the strong interaction dynamics of the nucleon's quark constituents; indeed, recent proton data have attracted intense theoretical interest. In this letter, we report new measurements of the proton electromagnetic form factor ratio using the recoil polarization method, at momentum transfers Q2=5.2, 6.7, and 8.5 GeV2. By extending the range of Q2 for which GEp is accurately determined by more than 50%, these measurements will provide significant constraints on models of nucleon structure in the non-perturbative regime.

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2010
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50. The MOLLER Experiment: An Ultra-Precise Measurement of the Weak Mixing Angle Using Møller Scattering

Author

Collaboration, MOLLER, Benesch, J, Brindza, P, Carlini, RD, Chen, J-P, Chudakov, E, Covrig, S, Dalton, MM, Deur, A, Gaskell, D, Gavalya, A, Gomez, J, Higinbotham, DW, Keppel, C, Meekins, D, Michaels, R, Moffit, B, Roblin, Y, Suleiman, R, Wines, R, Wojtsekhowski, B, Cates, G, Crabb, D, Day, D, Gnanvo, K, Keller, D, Liyanage, N, Nelyubin, VV, Nguyen, H, Norum, B, Paschke, K, Sulkosky, V, Zhang, J, Zheng, X, Birchall, J, Blunden, P, Gericke, MTW, Falk, WR, Lee, L, Mammei, J, Page, SA, Oers, WTH van, Dehmelt, K, Deshpande, A, Feege, N, Hemmick, TK, Kumar, KS, Kutz, T, Miskimen, R, Ramsey-Musolf, MJ, Riordan, S, Saylor, N Hirlinger, Bessuille, J, Ihloff, E, Kelsey, J, Kowalski, S, Silwal, R, Cataldo, G De, Leo, R De, Bari, D Di, Lagamba, L, Bellini, E NappiV, Mammoliti, F, Noto, F, Sperduto, ML, Sutera, CM, Cole, P, Forest, TA, Khandekar, M, McNulty, D, Aulenbacher, K, Baunack, S, Maas, F, Tioukine, V, Gilman, R, Myers, K, Ransome, R, Tadepalli, A, Beniniwattha, R, Holmes, R, Souder, P, Armstrong, DS, Averett, TD, Deconinck, W, Duvall, W, Lee, A, Pitt, ML, Dunne, JA, Dutta, D, Fassi, L El, Persio, F De, Meddi, F, Urciuoli, GM, Cisbani, E, Fanelli, C, Garibaldi, F, Johnston, K, Simicevic, N, Wells, S, and King, PM

Subjects
nucl-ex, hep-ph
Abstract

The physics case and an experimental overview of the MOLLER (Measurement Of aLepton Lepton Electroweak Reaction) experiment at the 12 GeV upgraded JeffersonLab are presented. A highlight of the Fundamental Symmetries subfield of the2007 NSAC Long Range Plan was the SLAC E158 measurement of the parity-violatingasymmetry $A_{PV}$ in polarized electron-electron (M{\o}ller) scattering. Theproposed MOLLER experiment will improve on this result by a factor of five,yielding the most precise measurement of the weak mixing angle at low or highenergy anticipated over the next decade. This new result would be sensitive tothe interference of the electromagnetic amplitude with new neutral currentamplitudes as weak as $\sim 10^{-3}\cdot G_F$ from as yet undiscovered dynamicsbeyond the Standard Model. The resulting discovery reach is unmatched by anyproposed experiment measuring a flavor- and CP-conserving process over the nextdecade, and yields a unique window to new physics at MeV and multi-TeV scales,complementary to direct searches at high energy colliders such as the LargeHadron Collider (LHC). The experiment takes advantage of the unique opportunityprovided by the upgraded electron beam energy, luminosity, and stability atJefferson Laboratory and the extensive experience accumulated in the communityafter a round of recent successfully completed parity-violating electronscattering experiments

Published
2014

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