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1. Sensitivity of a tonne-scale NEXT detector for neutrinoless double-beta decay searches

Author: R. Guenette, L. Ripoll, J.F. Toledo, S. Cárcel, B. J. P. Jones, P. Lebrun, A. Laing, C. Adams, N. Byrnes, A. Martínez, L.M.P. Fernandes, Javier Pérez, Iván Rivilla, F. Monrabal, I. J. Arnquist, N. López-March, J.M.R. Teixeira, Javier Rodríguez, F.I.G.M. Borges, M. Kekic, T. Contreras, A.D. McDonald, Celia Rogero, M. Losada, S. Cebrián, C. Newhouse, A.A. Denisenko, C.A.N. Conde, R.D.P. Mano, B. Palmeiro, J.A. Hernando Morata, L. Rogers, C. Romo-Luque, G. Díaz, A. Simón, Z. E. Meziani, R. Felkai, Zoraida Freixa, A. Goldschmidt, A. Usón, L. Labarga, E. Church, J. Hauptman, J.M.F. dos Santos, Kevin Bailey, C.M.B. Monteiro, J. Torrent, F.P. Santos, J.F.C.A. Veloso, E.D.C. Freitas, P. Herrero, R. Weiss-Babai, Diego González-Díaz, Y. Rodriguez Garcia, D.R. Nygren, Paola Ferrario, J. Ho, J. Renner, T.T. Vuong, Víctor H. Alvarez, J.T. White, A. Redwine, F.J. Mora, Y. Ifergan, Lior Arazi, V. Herrero, C.A.O. Henriques, E. Oblak, N. Yahlali, G. Martínez-Lema, K. Hafidi, M. Querol, A. Para, R. González, Romain Esteve, Roberto Gutiérrez, M. Sorel, C. Stanford, J. Escada, J. Haefner, A.L. Ferreira, J.V. Carrión, B. Romeo, F. Ballester, Frank W. Foss, C.D.R. Azevedo, S. Gosh, P. Thapa, R. C. Webb, J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez, J. Muñoz Vidal, J. S. Díaz, M. Martínez-Vara, K. Woodruff, P. Novella, J. Martín-Albo, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, J. Generowicz, European Commission, European Research Council, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Generalitat Valenciana, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal), Fundación 'la Caixa', and Department of Energy (US)
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, chemistry.chemical_element, QC770-798, Parameter space, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Atomic, Nuclear physics, Xenon, Particle and Plasma Physics, Double beta decay, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, 0103 physical sciences, Dark Matter and Double Beta Decay (experiments), Nuclear, Sensitivity (control systems), 010306 general physics, Mathematical Physics, Physics, Quantum Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Raigs beta -- Desintegració, Detector, Molecular, Detectors, Nuclear & Particles Physics, chemistry, Beta rays -- Decay, Neutrino, Tonne, Order of magnitude
Abstract: The NEXT collaboration: et al., The Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC (NEXT) searches for the neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) decay of 136Xe using high-pressure xenon gas TPCs with electroluminescent amplification. A scaled-up version of this technology with about 1 tonne of enriched xenon could reach in less than 5 years of operation a sensitivity to the half-life of 0νββ decay better than 1027 years, improving the current limits by at least one order of magnitude. This prediction is based on a well-understood background model dominated by radiogenic sources. The detector concept presented here represents a first step on a compelling path towards sensitivity to the parameter space defined by the inverted ordering of neutrino masses, and beyond., The NEXT Collaboration acknowledges support from the following agencies and institutions: the European Research Council (ERC) under the Advanced Grant 339787-NEXT; the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 (2014–2020) under the Grant Agreements No. 674896, 690575 and 740055; the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad and the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades of Spain under grants FIS2014-53371-C04, RTI2018-095979, the Severo Ochoa Program grants SEV-2014-0398 and CEX2018-000867-S, and the María de Maeztu Program MDM2016-0692; the Generalitat Valenciana of Spain under grants PROMETEO/2016/120 and SEJI/2017/011; the Portuguese FCT under project PTDC/FIS-NUC/2525/2014 and under projects UID/FIS/04559/2020 to fund the activities of LIBPhys-UC; the Pazy Foundation (Israel) under grants 877040 and 877041; the US Department of Energy under contracts number DE-AC02-06CH11357 (Argonne National Laboratory), DE-AC02-07CH11359 (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), DE-FG02-13ER42020 (Texas A&M) and DE-SC0019223 / DE-SC0019054 (University of Texas at Arlington); and the University of Texas at Arlington. DGD acknowledges support from the Ramón y Cajal program (Spain) under contract number RYC-2015-18820. JM-A acknowledges support from Fundación Bancaria la Caixa (ID 100010434), grant code LCF/BQ/PI19/11690012, and from the Plan GenT program of the Generalitat Valenciana, grant code CIDEGENT/2019/049.
Published: 2021

2. Demonstration of background rejection using deep convolutional neural networks in the NEXT experiment

Author: T. Contreras, Z. E. Meziani, R. Weiss-Babai, I. J. Arnquist, J.V. Carrión, J. Renner, N. López-March, L. Rogers, F.J. Mora, J. Generowicz, T.M. Stiegler, Vicente Herrero, F.P. Santos, G. Martínez-Lema, C.M.B. Monteiro, R.D.P. Mano, L.M.P. Fernandes, J.M. Benlloch-Rodríguez, P. Herrero, C. Adams, N. Byrnes, B. Palmeiro, J.A. Hernando Morata, N. Yahlali, D. González-Díaz, Y. Rodriguez Garcia, J. S. Díaz, M. Martínez-Vara, P. Novella, F.I.G.M. Borges, Romain Esteve, J.F.C.A. Veloso, E.D.C. Freitas, J. Martin-Albo, M. Del Tutto, A. Usón, R. Guenette, F. Monrabal, Roberto Gutiérrez, A.D. McDonald, C.D.R. Azevedo, J.T. White, J.F. Toledo, S. Cárcel, P. Lebrun, A. Martínez, M. Diesburg, E. Church, A. Laing, Kevin Bailey, J. Rodríguez, M. Kekic, A.B. Redwine, C.A.O. Henriques, J. Escada, L. Ripoll, J. Torrent, Lior Arazi, B. J. P. Jones, Víctor H. Alvarez, J. Haefner, B. Romeo, R. Felkai, M. Losada, A. Goldschmidt, J. Hauptman, K. Woodruff, L. Labarga, Y. Ifergan, J.M.F. dos Santos, C. Romo-Luque, Javier Pérez, S. Cebrián, Sudip Ghosh, R. C. Webb, G. Díaz, F. Ballester, Paola Ferrario, D.R. Nygren, A.F.M. Fernandes, M. Querol, C. Sofka, A. Para, M. Sorel, A.L. Ferreira, K. Hafidi, C.A.N. Conde, A. Simón, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, J. Muñoz Vidal, and UAM. Departamento de Física Teórica
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Calibration (statistics), Computer Science::Neural and Evolutionary Computation, Nuclear physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Topology (electrical circuits), 01 natural sciences, Convolutional neural network, Atomic, Partícules (Física nuclear), High Energy Physics - Experiment, Interaccions electró-positró, TECNOLOGIA ELECTRONICA, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Particle and Plasma Physics, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Dark Matter and Double Beta Decay (experiments), Nuclear, Nuclear Matrix, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, 010306 general physics, Electron-positron interactions, Mathematical Physics, Particles (Nuclear physics), Physics, Quantum Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Event (computing), Network on, SIGNAL (programming language), Molecular, Física, Pattern recognition, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Beta Decay, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Doble desintegració beta, Identification (information), lcsh:QC770-798, Física nuclear, Artificial intelligence, business
Abstract: [EN] Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are widely used state-of-the-art computer vision tools that are becoming increasingly popular in high-energy physics. In this paper, we attempt to understand the potential of CNNs for event classification in the NEXT experiment, which will search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in Xe-136. To do so, we demonstrate the usage of CNNs for the identification of electron-positron pair production events, which exhibit a topology similar to that of a neutrinoless double-beta decay event. These events were produced in the NEXT-White high-pressure xenon TPC using 2.6 MeV gamma rays from a Th-228 calibration source. We train a network on Monte Carlo-simulated events and show that, by applying on-the-fly data augmentation, the network can be made robust against differences between simulation and data. The use of CNNs offers significant improvement in signal efficiency and background rejection when compared to previous non-CNN-based analyses, This study used computing resources from Artemisa, co-funded by the European Union through the 2014-2020 FEDER Operative Programme of the Comunitat Valenciana, project DIFEDER/2018/048. This research used resources of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported under Contract DE-AC02-06CH11357. The NEXT collaboration acknowledges support from the following agencies and institutions: Xunta de Galicia (Centro singularde investigacion de Galicia accreditation 2019-2022), by European Union ERDF, and by the "Maria de Maeztu" Units of Excellence program MDM-2016-0692 and the Spanish Research State Agency"; the European Research Council (ERC) under the Advanced Grant 339787-NEXT; the European Union's Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 (2014-2020) under the Grant Agreements No. 674896, 690575 and 740055; the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad and the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades of Spain under grants FIS2014-53371-C04, RTI2018-095979, the Severo Ochoa Program grants SEV-20140398 and CEX2018-000867-S; the GVA of Spain under grants PROMETEO/2016/120 and SEJI/2017/011; the Portuguese FCT under project PTDC/FIS-NUC/2525/2014 and under projects UID/FIS/04559/2020 to fund the activities of LIBPhys-UC; the U.S. Department of Energy under contracts number DE-AC02-07CH11359 (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), DE-FG02-13ER42020 (Texas A&M) and DE-SC0019223/DE SC0019054 (University of Texas at Arlington); and the University of Texas at Arlington. DGD acknowledges Ramon y Cajal program (Spain) under contract number RYC-2015 18820. JMA acknowledges support from Fundacion Bancaria "la Caixa" (ID 100010434), grant code LCF/BQ/PI19/11690012. We also warmly acknowledge the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) and the Dark Side collaboration for their help with TPB coating of various parts of the NEXT-White TPC. Finally, we are grateful to the Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc for hosting and supporting the NEXT experiment.
Published: 2021

3. Measurement of deeply virtual Compton scattering off He4 with the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer at Jefferson Lab

Author: T. A. Forest, D. P. Watts, H. Egiyan, F. Sabatié, D. Bulumulla, A. Filippi, Aditya R. Khanal, M. Khandaker, G. Rosner, Andrea Bianconi, D. Payette, Jo H. S., Y. Ghandilyan, H. Voskanyan, W. Kim, R. A. Schumacher, P. Lenisa, S. Bültmann, W. J. Briscoe, E. Pasyuk, Maxime Defurne, N. Markov, B. Torayev, R. Dupre, D. G. Ireland, Carlos A. Salgado, V. Crede, B. A. Clary, M. Contalbrigo, K. Livingston, M. Battaglieri, M. J. Amaryan, B. Yale, G. Costantini, S. Stepanyan, V. P. Kubarovsky, A. Kim, R. De Vita, J. Rowley, Whitney Armstrong, Simonetta Liuti, Krishna Neupane, J. Poudel, O. Pogorelko, K. Wei, S. Fegan, P. Eugenio, Dustin Keller, R. Paremuzyan, G. Khachatryan, Volker D. Burkert, M. L. Kabir, H. Atac, T. B. Hayward, Paolo Rossi, A. S. Biselli, R. Wishart, A. Celentano, R. W. Gothe, M. Guidal, K. Hafidi, V. Mokeev, Larry Weinstein, Gerard Gilfoyle, L. Venturelli, Michael Paolone, E. L. Isupov, D. Sokhan, M. Ehrhart, M. Caudron, M. Osipenko, S. Boiarinov, I. J. D. MacGregor, F. Bossu, A. Vossen, G. Ciullo, Fatiha Benmokhtar, Y. Prok, D. S. Carman, M. Holtrop, O. Soto, N. A. Baltzell, Nikos Sparveris, X. Wei, H. Hakobyan, M. H. Wood, E. Voutier, J. Ritman, S. Diehl, N. Dashyan, A. El Alaoui, B. McKinnon, Luciano Pappalardo, M. Bondì, K. A. Griffioen, Yordanka Ilieva, C. Ayerbe Gayoso, Nicholas Zachariou, J. C. Carvajal, Y. Perrin, V. Chesnokov, L. Barion, U. Shrestha, M. Mirazita, L. Lanza, K. Hicks, W. Phelps, V. Mascagna, D. Marchand, S. Niccolai, Alessandro Rizzo, Alexander Schmidt, I. Bedlinskiy, M. Ripani, P. Chatagnon, M. Ungaro, K. Joo, V. Sergeyeva, J. Zhang, F. X. Girod, N. Tyler, C. Djalali, T. Chetry, S. Strauch, L. Elouadrhiri, S. Joosten, I. I. Strakovsky, A. Deur, D. G. Jenkins, A. Hobart, M. Leali, T. R. O'Connell, N. Pivnyuk, A. D'Angelo, L. El Fassi, S. E. Kuhn, M. Hattawy, P. L. Cole, Martin K. Mayer, A. Kripko, and Y. G. Sharabian
Subjects: Nuclear physics, Physics, Spectrometer, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, 0103 physical sciences, Compton scattering, Perturbative QCD, 010306 general physics, 01 natural sciences
Published: 2021

4. Boosting background suppression in the NEXT experiment through Richardson-Lucy deconvolution

Author: Javier Pérez, Javier Rodríguez, T. Contreras, C. Newhouse, Marta Losada, T.T. Vuong, L. Rogers, A.A. Denisenko, K. Woodruff, S. Cebrián, N. López-March, K. Hafidi, R. C. Webb, J.V. Carrión, J. Torrent, J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez, L. Ripoll, J.T. White, P. Lebrun, B. J. P. Jones, J. Muñoz Vidal, R.D.P. Mano, Iván Rivilla, F. Monrabal, B. Aparicio, A.B. Redwine, Y. Ifergan, C.A.O. Henriques, F.P. Cossío, I.J. Arnquist, J. Ho, R. Guenette, Z.-E. Meziani, J.F. Toledo, B. Palmeiro, Kevin Bailey, C. Adams, A.D. McDonald, N. Byrnes, S. Cárcel, R. Felkai, A.I. Aranburu, J.A. Hernando Morata, J. S. Díaz, M. Martínez-Vara, P. Novella, L.M.P. Fernandes, J.M.R. Teixeira, J. Martín-Albo, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, C. Stanford, J. Escada, F.P. Santos, C.D.R. Azevedo, F.I.G.M. Borges, E. Oblak, A. Para, A. Usón, R. González, M. Querol, P. Herrero, M. Sorel, J.F.C.A. Veloso, E.D.C. Freitas, C.A.N. Conde, Luis Labarga, C.M.B. Monteiro, A.L. Ferreira, H. Almazán, Zoraida Freixa, A. Goldschmidt, J. Hauptman, Ana Martínez, Diego González-Díaz, Y. Rodriguez Garcia, J.M.F. dos Santos, J. Haefner, Víctor H. Alvarez, Lior Arazi, Frank W. Foss, Roberto Gutiérrez, V. Herrero, E. Church, N. Yahlali, C. Romo-Luque, Romain Esteve, F. Ballester, S. Gosh, Paola Ferrario, D. R. Nygren, M. Kekic, A. Laing, M. Odriozola-Gimeno, P. Thapa, J. Generowicz, R. Weiss-Babai, J. Renner, G. Díaz, G. Martínez-Lema, B. Romeo, F.J. Mora, Celia Rogero, A. Simón, and European Commission
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Ionization, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Ionització, FOS: Physical sciences, double beta decay, Richardson–Lucy deconvolution, Bragg peak, Electron, QC770-798, 01 natural sciences, Signal, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Double beta decay, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, gas, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Raigs beta -- Desintegració, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Computational physics, dark matter and double beta decay (experiments), Beta rays -- Decay, Deconvolution, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract: The NEXT collaboration: et al., Next-generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiments aim for half-life sensitivities of ∼ 1027 yr, requiring suppressing backgrounds to < 1 count/tonne/yr. For this, any extra background rejection handle, beyond excellent energy resolution and the use of extremely radiopure materials, is of utmost importance. The NEXT experiment exploits differences in the spatial ionization patterns of double beta decay and single-electron events to discriminate signal from background. While the former display two Bragg peak dense ionization regions at the opposite ends of the track, the latter typically have only one such feature. Thus, comparing the energies at the track extremes provides an additional rejection tool. The unique combination of the topology-based background discrimination and excellent energy resolution (1% FWHM at the Q-value of the decay) is the distinguishing feature of NEXT. Previous studies demonstrated a topological background rejection factor of ∼ 5 when reconstructing electron-positron pairs in the 208Tl 1.6 MeV double escape peak (with Compton events as background), recorded in the NEXT-White demonstrator at the Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc, with 72% signal efficiency. This was recently improved through the use of a deep convolutional neural network to yield a background rejection factor of ∼ 10 with 65% signal efficiency. Here, we present a new reconstruction method, based on the Richardson-Lucy deconvolution algorithm, which allows reversing the blurring induced by electron diffusion and electroluminescence light production in the NEXT TPC. The new method yields highly refined 3D images of reconstructed events, and, as a result, significantly improves the topological background discrimination. When applied to real-data 1.6 MeV e−e+ pairs, it leads to a background rejection factor of 27 at 57% signal efficiency.
Published: 2021

5. Measurement of the beam spin asymmetry of e→p→e′p′η in the deep-inelastic regime with CLAS

Author: M. Guidal, C. Djalali, J. A. Tan, A. I. Ostrovidov, K. Park, Z.W. Zhao, G. D. Smith, M. Holtrop, M. Hattawy, D. G. Ireland, Iu. Skorodumina, Volker D. Burkert, K. A. Griffioen, A. S. Biselli, Maxime Defurne, V. Mokeev, D. Marchand, X. Wei, M. Bashkanov, S. Adhikari, V. Crede, Rong Wang, B. McKinnon, P. Lenisa, L. Lanza, Taya Chetry, R. A. Montgomery, C. A. Meyer, N. A. Baltzell, Y. G. Sharabian, P. Chatagnon, M. Ehrhart, W. Kim, D. G. Jenkins, A. Kim, Y. Prok, M. Mirazita, Z. E. Meziani, A. Celentano, R. W. Gothe, R. De Vita, G. Niculescu, Sergey Kuleshov, F. Sabatié, N. Markov, F. X. Girod, V. Batourine, M. Ungaro, N. Dashyan, M. Khachatryan, V. P. Kubarovsky, H. S. Jo, R. Paremuzyan, K. Livingston, O. Pogorelko, L. Barion, G. Rosner, Nicholas M. Harrison, Gerard Gilfoyle, Friedrich Klein, M. Battaglieri, H. Avakian, K. Joo, S. Strauch, H. Hakobyan, D. Sokhan, I. Bedlinskiy, H. Voskanyan, Y. Ghandilyan, Laura Clark, B. S. Ishkhanov, H. Egiyan, Jie Zhang, S. Diehl, C. Salgado, M. Osipenko, K. Hicks, B. Zhao, G. Khachatryan, P. Nadel-Turonski, G. Ciullo, J. P. Ball, S. E. Kuhn, D. S. Carman, Dustin Keller, D. Heddle, Nikos Sparveris, E. De Sanctis, R. A. Schumacher, G. Angelini, P. Eugenio, S. Johnston, L. Guo, Alessandro Rizzo, S. Niccolai, Michael Wood, P. Rossi, C. Munoz Camacho, K. Hafidi, W. J. Briscoe, M. L. Kabir, E. Golovatch, R. Dupre, T. A. Forest, S. Stepanyan, A. Filippi, Avraham Klein, E. L. Isupov, G. Gavalian, I. J. D. MacGregor, M. Contalbrigo, M. Khandaker, I. I. Strakovsky, A. Deur, M. Ripani, S. Boiarinov, M. Taiuti, W. K. Brooks, B. A. Clary, Z. Akbar, Michael Paolone, J. W. Price, A. D'Angelo, D. Protopopescu, E. Voutier, L. El Fassi, A. El Alaoui, Y. Ilieva, Nicholas Zachariou, and P. L. Cole
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Scattering, media_common.quotation_subject, Hadron, Virtual particle, Parton, 01 natural sciences, Asymmetry, Nuclear physics, Pseudoscalar, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Spin-½, media_common, Lepton
Abstract: The beam spin asymmetry of the exclusive pseudoscalar channel e → p → e ′ p ′ η was measured for the first time in the deep-inelastic regime ( W > 2 GeV / c 2 and Q 2 > 1 GeV 2 / c 2 ) using a longitudinally polarized 5.78 GeV electron beam at Jefferson Lab with the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer. The data were accumulated in 144 four-dimensional bins of Q 2 , x B , − t and ϕ over a wide kinematic range, where ϕ is the azimuthal angle between the lepton and hadron scattering planes, The measured azimuthal dependence with large amplitudes of the sin ⁡ ϕ moments is a clear indication of a substantial contribution to the polarized cross-section from transversely polarized virtual photons. In the framework of generalized parton distributions (GPDs) this contribution is expressed via longitudinal-transverse interference between chiral-even and chiral-odd GPDs. The experimental results are compared to the existing theoretical models demonstrating the sensitivity to the product of chiral-odd and chiral-even GPDs and provide new constraints to the existing GPD parameterizations.
Published: 2019

6. Rate capability and magnetic field tolerance measurements of fast timing microchannel plate photodetectors

Author: Lei Xia, M. Hattawy, Junqi Xie, K. Hafidi, Robert Wagner, Edward May, M. Chiu, and Jose Repond
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Microchannel, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Detector, FOS: Physical sciences, Photodetector, Solenoid, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 01 natural sciences, Magnetic field, Physics::Fluid Dynamics, Picosecond, 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Optoelectronics, Microchannel plate detector, 010306 general physics, business, Instrumentation, Beam (structure)
Abstract: Microchannel plate photodetectors provide both picosecond time resolution and sub-millimeter position resolution, making them attractive photosensors for particle identification detectors of a future U.S. Electron Ion Collider. We have tested the rate capability and magnetic field tolerance of 6$\times$6 cm$^{2}$ microchannel plate photodetectors fabricated at Argonne National Laboratory. The microchannel plate photodetector is designed as a low-cost all-glass vacuum package with a chevron pair stack of next-generation microchannel plates functionalized by atomic layer deposition. The rate capability test was performed using Fermilab's 120 GeV primary proton beam, and the magnetic field tolerance test was performed using a solenoid magnetic with tunable magnetic field strength up to 4 Tesla. The measured gain of the microchannel plate photodetector is stable up to 75 kHz/cm$^{2}$, and varies depending on the applied magnetic field strength and the rotation angle relative to the magnetic field direction.
Published: 2018

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

Author: H. C. Fenker, Michael Kohl, S. Nedev, P. Carter, S. Covrig, Rolf Ent, A. Shahinyan, Joerg Reinhold, S. Dhamija, Y. Prok, X. Zhang, Bi-Tao Hu, L. Bimbot, H. Baghdasaryan, P. E. Reimer, V. Kravtsov, Salvatore Frullani, William Bertozzi, W. Luo, Franco Garibaldi, S. Širca, Lubomir Pentchev, G. M. Huber, Nuruzzaman, A. Mkrtchyan, L. Solovyev, R. Subedi, David Hamilton, Yu.V. Zanevsky, V. Mamyan, Z. Ye, D. J. Margaziotis, Y. Zhang, M. H. Shabestari, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, C. F. Perdrisat, G. J. Kumbartzki, Ronald Ransome, M. Khandaker, G. Mbianda, H. Mkrtchyan, J. C. Cornejo, M. E. Christy, P. Bosted, A. Ahmidouch, Y. Goncharenko, C. E. Keppel, I. Sitnik, D. S. Razin, Dipangkar Dutta, V. A. Punjabi, Donal Day, Andrey Vasiliev, A. Marsh, D. G. Meekins, Emil Frlez, E. Piasetzky, W. U. Boeglin, A. Asaturyan, J. Arrington, J. Mulholland, I. Albayrak, L. Zhu, O. Moreno, P. Solvignon, K. Hafidi, O. Rondon, S. Danagoulian, B. Moffit, P. M. King, W. Hinton, M. Meziane, S. A. Wood, M. Veilleux, J. Huang, G. R. Smith, E. Tomasi-Gustafsson, Shalev Gilad, K. A. Aniol, Y. Li, T. Horn, L. Smykov, S. P. Chernenko, C. Butuceanu, James A. Miller, Amrendra Narayan, D. Gaskell, Douglas Higinbotham, M. K. Jones, N. M. Piskunov, E. Jensen, James Maxwell, W. Pierce, Fatiha Benmokhtar, X. Zheng, Andrew Puckett, Y. Matulenko, Ronald Gilman, F. R. Wesselmann, Andrei Afanasev, A. Davidenko, Di. Kirillov, Yu.M. Mel'nik, A. Daniel, E. J. Brash, and K. Shestermanov
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Elastic electron, Observable, Technical note, Polarization (waves), 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Electromagnetic calorimeter, Proton scattering, 0103 physical sciences, Born approximation, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, Mathematical physics
Abstract: Author(s): 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 | 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

8. Observation of Beam Spin Asymmetries in the Process ep→e′π+π−X with CLAS12

Author: G. Niculescu, D. Bulumulla, G. Ciullo, Aditya R. Khanal, A. El Alaoui, S. Niccolai, E. L. Isupov, D. S. Carman, F. X. Girod, Nikos Sparveris, K. A. Griffioen, D. G. Ireland, V. I. Mokeev, M. Contalbrigo, V. Crede, Nicholas Zachariou, J. C. Carvajal, Sung-Sik Lee, X. Wei, S. Boiarinov, Andrea Bianconi, P. Lenisa, C. Dilks, Fatiha Benmokhtar, O. Soto, T. B. Hayward, M. Osipenko, R. Paremuzyan, L. Marsicano, Maxime Defurne, B. A. Clary, Latifa Elouadrhiri, A. Movsisyan, N. Tyler, N. Markov, P. L. Cole, N. Dashyan, K. Hicks, I. J. D. MacGregor, S. Strauch, D. I. Glazier, V. P. Kubarovsky, Michael Paolone, Krishna Neupane, H. Hakobyan, F. Bossu, R. Tyson, J. Ritman, Eugene Pasyuk, R. De Vita, D. Marchand, H. S. Jo, H. Avakian, Eric Voutier, L. Lanza, S. Diehl, C. Salgado, A. A. Golubenko, H. Atac, H. Voskanyan, G. Costantini, W. J. Briscoe, L. Barion, S. E. Kuhn, M. Hattawy, A. Vossen, M. Guidal, A. D'Angelo, Dustin Keller, M Ehrhart, P. Naidoo, T. Chetry, D. P. Watts, P. Chatagnon, Y. Prok, U. Shrestha, Michael Wood, F. Sabatié, M. Holtrop, Chaden Djalali, L. El Fassi, V. Mascagna, G. Gavalian, K. Hafidi, A. Filippi, B. A. Raue, Luciano Pappalardo, C. Ayerbe Gayoso, I. Bedlinskiy, Michael Dugger, W. Phelps, G. Angelini, P. Rossi, K. Wei, S. Joosten, S. Fegan, M. Leali, A. Celentano, R. W. Gothe, P. Nadel-Turonski, M. Khachatryan, N. A. Baltzell, K. Livingston, Alessandro Rizzo, Axel Schmidt, T. R. O'Connell, William Brooks, I. I. Strakovsky, F. Hauenstein, A. Kim, L. Venturelli, Jie Zhang, Y. Gotra, Z. E. Meziani, A. Deur, B. Yale, E.P. Segarra, S. Nanda, A. Kripko, T. A. Forest, S. Stepanyan, Y. G. Sharabian, M. Ripani, R. Dupré, M. Bondì, M. Battaglieri, O. Pogorelko, J. Rowley, Volker D. Burkert, A. S. Biselli, A. Hobart, S. Adhikari, B. McKinnon, M. Mirazita, Gerard Gilfoyle, D. Sokhan, M. Arratia, Hovanes Egiyan, C. Munoz Camacho, M. Ungaro, K. Joo, A. Thornton, and W. Kim
Subjects: Quark, Physics, Spectrometer, Proton, Nuclear Theory, General Physics and Astronomy, Deep inelastic scattering, 01 natural sciences, Gluon, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, Cathode ray, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Beam (structure), Spin-½
Abstract: The observation of beam spin asymmetries in two-pion production in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering off an unpolarized proton target is reported for the first time. The data presented here were taken in the fall of 2018 with the CLAS12 spectrometer using a 10.6 GeV longitudinally spin-polarized electron beam delivered by CEBAF at JLab. The measured asymmetries provide the first observation of a signal that can be used to extract the PDF $e(x)$ in a collinear framework and the helicity-dependent two-pion fragmentation function $G_1^\perp$.
Published: 2021

9. Photoproduction of the f2(1270) Meson Using the CLAS Detector

Author: V. Mokeev, P. Eugenio, Vincent Mathieu, D. Heddle, R. A. Schumacher, M. Battaglieri, K. A. Griffioen, R. Paremuzyan, Laura Clark, L. Marsicano, L. Lanza, M. J. Amaryan, M Carver, G. Angelini, D. P. Watts, Gerard Gilfoyle, M. Osipenko, N. Gevorgyan, P. Lenisa, M. Contalbrigo, H. Egiyan, K. Livingston, R. Tyson, D. Sokhan, S. Stepanyan, I. J. D. MacGregor, F. X. Girod, S. Adhikari, Dustin Keller, F. Sabatié, B. McKinnon, G. Niculescu, G. Rosner, B. A. Clary, D. G. Ireland, V. Crede, D. Bulumulla, William Brooks, E. Munevar, Jie Zhang, T. B. Hayward, K. Hafidi, A. Filippi, W. Phelps, Z. E. Meziani, B. Yale, Aditya R. Khanal, L. Venturelli, M. Ehrhart, M. Khandaker, E. L. Isupov, Friedrich Klein, Alessandro Rizzo, A. Kim, Michael Paolone, S. Boiarinov, Andrea Bianconi, G. Ciullo, A. Pilloni, C. W. Kim, A. Celentano, R. W. Gothe, Y. Prok, C. E. Hyde, I. Bedlinskiy, A. El Alaoui, N. A. Baltzell, F. Bossu, T. Chetry, D. S. Carman, Nicholas Zachariou, H. S. Jo, U. Shrestha, J. C. Carvajal, H. Voskanyan, Z. W. Zhao, Fatiha Benmokhtar, Nikos Sparveris, X. Wei, W. J. Briscoe, O. Soto, V. Mascagna, Maxime Defurne, M. Holtrop, S. Joosten, S. Niccolai, D. Protopopescu, E. Voutier, Luciano Pappalardo, A. Movsisyan, R. De Vita, H. Hakobyan, O. Pogorelko, S. Strauch, J. Ritman, J. Rowley, A. I. Ostrovidov, P. Chatagnon, K. Wei, S. Diehl, C. Salgado, S. Fegan, H. Atac, Volker D. Burkert, C. Munoz Camacho, Eugene Pasyuk, A. S. Biselli, G. Gavalian, V. P. Kubarovsky, Krishna Neupane, M. Ripani, M. Hattawy, K. Hicks, N. Dashyan, Michael Dugger, Yordanka Ilieva, L. Barion, Barry Ritchie, R. Dupre, D. Marchand, M. Ungaro, G. V. Fedotov, Q. Huang, K. P. Adhikari, K. Joo, D. G. Jenkins, M. Leali, Axel Schmidt, I. I. Strakovsky, P. Nadel-Turonski, A. Deur, Mark W. Bondi, M. E. McCracken, N. Tyler, C. Djalali, A. D'Angelo, L. El Fassi, A. Kripko, Y. G. Sharabian, and P. L. Cole
Subjects: Quark, Physics, Spectrometer, Meson, High Energy Physics::Lattice, Nuclear Theory, Quark model, Detector, General Physics and Astronomy, Quantum number, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Resonance (particle physics), Nuclear physics, Pion, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics
Abstract: The quark structure of the f2(1270) meson has, for many years, been assumed to be a pure quark-antiquark (qq¯) resonance with quantum numbers JPC=2++. Recently, it was proposed that the f2(1270) is a molecular state made from the attractive interaction of two ρ mesons. Such a state would be expected to decay strongly to final states with charged pions due to the dominant decay ρ→π+π-, whereas decay to two neutral pions would likely be suppressed. Here, we measure for the first time the reaction γp→π0π0p, using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer detector at Jefferson Lab for incident beam energies between 3.6 and 5.4 GeV. Differential cross sections, dσ/dt, for f2(1270) photoproduction are extracted with good precision due to low backgrounds and are compared to theoretical calculations.
Published: 2021

10. Beam Spin Asymmetry in Semi-Inclusive Electroproduction of Hadron Pairs

Author: K. Park, V. P. Kubarovsky, Krishna Neupane, C. W. Kim, H. Avakian, H. Voskanyan, W. J. Briscoe, Dustin Keller, P. Eugenio, Michael Wood, K. Hafidi, G. Gavalian, L. Marsicano, A Hobart, V. Mokeev, F. X. Girod, R. A. Schumacher, M. Battaglieri, I. I. Strakovsky, R. W. Gothe, T. Chetry, M. J. Amaryan, F. Sabatié, K. Wei, S. Fegan, N. Markov, L. Guo, Alessandro Rizzo, K. A. Griffioen, Fatiha Benmokhtar, Gerard Gilfoyle, R. Paremuzyan, E. L. Isupov, A. Deur, S. Pisano, V. Crede, Ross Milner, O. Soto, P. Lenisa, M. Contalbrigo, C. Dilks, L. Lanza, M. Ungaro, T. A. Forest, C. Mullen, W. K. Brooks, M. Guidal, Z. W. Zhao, S. Stepanyan, N. A. Baltzell, M. Holtrop, T. B. Hayward, Friedrich Klein, Andrea Celentano, O. Pogorelko, J. Poudel, A. Filippi, Brian Raue, K. Hicks, K. Joo, D. Marchand, M. Osipenko, Luciano Pappalardo, K. L. Giovanetti, Hovanes Egiyan, M. Ripani, C. Munoz Camacho, A. D'Angelo, B. Yale, S. Adhikari, L. Venturelli, B. McKinnon, M. Ehrhart, D. G. Ireland, Tim O'Connell, I. Bedlinskiy, D. I. Glazier, W. Phelps, D. G. Jenkins, N. Tyler, M. Leali, L. El Fassi, C. Djalali, Volker D. Burkert, W. Kim, T. Mineeva, D. Heddle, R. De Vita, G. Ciullo, V. Mascagna, H. S. Jo, A. S. Biselli, M. Mirazita, D. Bulumulla, Y. Prok, D. S. Carman, G. Niculescu, B. S. Ishkhanov, E. Pasyuk, Aditya R. Khanal, X. Wei, R. G. Fersch, Andrea Bianconi, H. Atac, P. L. Cole, N. Dashyan, G. Angelini, P. Chatagnon, B. A. Clary, P. Rossi, M. Defurne, Michael Paolone, L. Barion, Axel Schmidt, Aurore Courtoy, K. Livingston, M. Khandaker, Jie Zhang, I. J. D. MacGregor, E. Golovatch, R. Dupre, Y. Ghandilyan, Q. Huang, E. Voutier, A. Vossen, A. El Alaoui, Y. Ilieva, Nicholas Zachariou, J. C. Carvajal, S. Strauch, D. P. Watts, F. Bossu, Nikolaos Sparveris, Dinko Pocanic, S. E. Kuhn, M. Hattawy, Y. G. Sharabian, S. Boiarinov, H. Hakobyan, J. Ritman, S. Diehl, C. Salgado, U. Shrestha, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and CLAS
Subjects: High Energy Physics::Lattice, Nuclear Theory, Hadron, parton: distribution function, General Physics and Astronomy, Parton, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Economica, higher-twist, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), electron: beam, Nuclear Experiment, dimension: 1, Physics, Quantum chromodynamics, deep inelastic scattering: semi-inclusive reaction, Settore FIS/04, nucleon, kinematics, Quarks and Gluons, helicity distributions, quark: valence, Nucleon, Jefferson Lab, Quark, Particle physics, polarization: longitudinal, FOS: Physical sciences, Socio-culturale, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Transversity Distributions, hadron: electroproduction, hadron: pair production, Pion, CLAS, Hadron Physics, quantum chromodynamics, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, 010306 general physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Ambientale, Deep inelastic scattering, spin: asymmetry: measured, Distribution function, Elementary Particles and Fields, QCD Dynamics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, pi: pair production, experimental results
Abstract: Physical review letters 126(6), 062002 (2021). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.062002, Published by APS, College Park, Md.
Published: 2021

11. Sensitivity of the NEXT experiment to Xe-124 double electron capture

Author: C.M.B. Monteiro, J.F.C.A. Veloso, G. Díaz, E.D.C. Freitas, B. Palmeiro, Y. Rodriguez Garcia, R. Weiss-Babai, J. Muñoz Vidal, F.P. Santos, Saunab Ghosh, Sandra K. Johnston, J.T. White, F. Ballester, J. Renner, Lior Arazi, J. Generowicz, A.B. Redwine, P. Herrero, V. Herrero, G. Martínez-Lema, J.M. Benlloch-Rodríguez, Paola Ferrario, A. Goldschmidt, J. Hauptman, L. Ripoll, B. J. P. Jones, J. S. Díaz, M. Martínez-Vara, P. Novella, F. Monrabal, J. Martín-Albo, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, I.J. Arnquist, N. López-March, C.D.R. Azevedo, Kevin Bailey, A.D. McDonald, C. Adams, N. Byrnes, J. Torrent, Jose Repond, M. Kekic, S. Riordan, E. Church, R.D.P. Mano, T. Contreras, M. Querol, Javier Pérez, J.V. Carrión, C. Romo-Luque, L.M.P. Fernandes, B. Romeo, C. Sofka, C.A.O. Henriques, F.J. Mora, J.A. Hernando Morata, K. Woodruff, Jose A. Rodriguez, D. González-Díaz, L. Rogers, A. Usón, Marta Losada, C.A.N. Conde, Luis Labarga, T.M. Stiegler, A. Para, Víctor H. Alvarez, D. R. Nygren, F.I.G.M. Borges, A. Laing, J. Haefner, A. Simón, N. Yahlali, M. Sorel, A.F.M. Fernandes, P. Lebrun, S. Cebrián, Ana Martínez, A.L. Ferreira, Romain Esteve, R. C. Webb, M. Diesburg, R. Guenette, J. Escada, J.F. Toledo, S. Cárcel, K. Hafidi, J.M.F. dos Santos, Y. Ifergan, R. Felkai, Roberto Gutiérrez, and UAM. Departamento de Física Teórica
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Electron capture, Dark Matter and Double Beta Decay, Extrapolation, FOS: Physical sciences, chemistry.chemical_element, Electrons, Electron, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Atomic, High Energy Physics - Experiment, TECNOLOGIA ELECTRONICA, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Xenon, Particle and Plasma Physics, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear Matrix, Nuclear, Sensitivity (control systems), Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Mathematical Physics, Physics, Quantum Physics, Isotope, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Raigs beta -- Desintegració, Detector, Física, Molecular, Detectors, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Beta Decay, Nuclear & Particles Physics, chemistry, 13. Climate action, Beta rays -- Decay
Abstract: [EN] Double electron capture by proton-rich nuclei is a second-order nuclear process analogous to double beta decay. Despite their similarities, the decay signature is quite di erent, potentially providing a new channel to measure the hypothesized neutrinoless mode of these decays. The Standard-Model-allowed two-neutrino double electron capture has been predicted for a number of isotopes, but only observed in 78Kr, 130Ba and, recently, 124Xe. The sensitivity to this decay establishes a benchmark for the ultimate experimental goal, namely the potential to discover also the lepton-number-violating neutrinoless version of this process. Here we report on the current sensitivity of the NEXT-White detector to 124Xe 2 ECEC and on the extrapolation to NEXT-100. Using simulated data for the 2 ECEC signal and real data from NEXT-White operated with 124Xe-depleted gas as background, we de ne an optimal event selection that maximizes the NEXT-White sensitivity. We estimate that, for NEXT-100 operated with xenon gas isotopically enriched with 1 kg of 124Xe and for a 5-year run, a sensitivity to the two-neutroni double electron capture half-life of 6x10exp22 years (at 90% con dence level) or better can be reached., The NEXT collaboration acknowledges support from the following agencies and institutions: the European Research Council (ERC) under the Advanced Grant 339787-NEXT; the European Union's Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 (2014-2020) under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreements No. 674896, 690575 and 740055; the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad and the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades of Spain under grants FIS2014-53371-C04, RTI2018-095979, the Severo Ochoa Program grants SEV-2014-0398 and CEX2018-000867-S, and the Maria de Maeztu Program MDM-2016-0692; the GVA of Spain under grants PROMETEO/2016/120 and SEJI/2017/011; the Portuguese FCT under project PTDC/FIS-NUC/2525/2014, under project UID/FIS/04559/2013 to fund the activities of LIBPhys, and under grants PD/BD/105921/2014, SFRH/BPD/109180/2015 and SFRH/BPD/76842/2011; the U.S. Department of Energy under contracts number DE-AC02-06CH11357 (Argonne National Laboratory), DE-AC02-07CH11359 (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), DE-FG02-13ER42020 (Texas A&M) and DE-SC0019223/DE-SC0019054 (University of Texas at Arlington); and the University of Texas at Arlington. DGD acknowledges Ramon y Cajal program (Spain) under contract number RYC-2015-18820. We also warmly acknowledge the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) and the Dark Side collaboration for their help with TPB coating of various parts of the NEXT-White TPC. Finally, we are grateful to the Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc for hosting and supporting the NEXT experiment
Published: 2021

12. Measurement of the proton spin structure at long distances

Author: P. Eugenio, J. Brock, N. Dashyan, I. Bedlinskiy, S. Choi, P. Nadel-Turonski, A. Hobart, M. Defurne, S. E. Kuhn, Latifa Elouadrhiri, P. Chatagnon, M. Ripani, C. D. Keith, D. Bulumulla, Aditya R. Khanal, S. Adhikari, B. McKinnon, T. Holmstrom, V. Mokeev, G. V. Fedotov, H. S. Jo, L. Guo, Alessandro Rizzo, Andrea Bianconi, L. Barion, M. Mirazita, K. Livingston, M. Hattawy, N. Markov, G. Rosner, Simon Širca, S. Fegan, Y. Ghandilyan, Jie Zhang, P. Bosted, Michael Paolone, C. Carlin, M. Guidal, M. L. Seely, E. Pasyuk, D. P. Watts, F. Bossu, Laura Clark, S. Niccolai, N. Guler, M. Holtrop, B. Yale, R. A. Schumacher, P. Rossi, W. Phelps, V. Mascagna, S. Joosten, Axel Schmidt, Alexandre Deur, Luciano Pappalardo, Nikolaos Sparveris, V. Crede, I. I. Strakovsky, W. Kim, Fatiha Benmokhtar, M. Ehrhart, D. I. Glazier, V. P. Kubarovsky, T. A. Forest, O. Pogorelko, Z. W. Zhao, J. Rowley, S. Stepanyan, A. I. Ostrovidov, K. Park, Krishna Neupane, R. De Vita, A. El Alaoui, Y. Ilieva, Nicholas Zachariou, D. G. Ireland, C. W. Kim, H. Avakian, C. Mullen, W. K. Brooks, A. Kripko, Andrea Celentano, Volker D. Burkert, A. S. Biselli, J. C. Carvajal, V. Sulkosky, H. Atac, Karl Slifer, M. Leali, F. Sabatié, L. Venturelli, Y. G. Sharabian, X. Zheng, M. Bondì, H. Voskanyan, P. Lenisa, W. J. Briscoe, I. J. D. MacGregor, M. Contalbrigo, S. K. Phillips, T. Mineeva, T. B. Hayward, Friedrich Klein, Brian Raue, J. Poudel, N. Tyler, C. Djalali, G. Ciullo, M. Osipenko, Y. Prok, D. S. Carman, X. Wei, K. A. Griffioen, E. Voutier, Dustin Keller, S. Strauch, L. Lanza, R. W. Gothe, Michael Wood, T. Chetry, K. Hafidi, R. Dupre, M. Battaglieri, Gerard Gilfoyle, E. L. Isupov, V. A. Drozdov, S. Boiarinov, H. Kang, U. Shrestha, F.-X. Girod, K. P. Adhikari, H. Hakobyan, J. Ritman, S. Diehl, C. Salgado, R. G. Fersch, M. Ungaro, E. Long, J. P. Chen, D. Heddle, P. L. Cole, D. G. Meekins, A. D'Angelo, K. Hicks, L. El Fassi, K. Joo, M. Khandaker, M. J. Amaryan, A. Filippi, K. L. Giovanetti, Larry Weinstein, L. Marsicano, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and CLAS
Subjects: polarizabilities, Photon, Proton, High Energy Physics::Lattice, Nuclear Theory, General Physics and Astronomy, polarized target, polarized beam, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, 010305 fluids & plasmas, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Theoretical Nuclear Physics, Experimental Nuclear Physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), effective field theory, Economica, Proton spin crisis, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Experimental particle Physics, order, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Nuclear Experiment, Spin-½, Quantum chromodynamics, Physics, Settore FIS/04, nucleon, virtual compton-scattering, chiral perturbation-theory, sum-rule, moments, evolution, sum rule, kinematics, Quantum electrodynamics, nuclear matter, Nucleon, nucleon: structure, Strong interaction, FOS: Physical sciences, Socio-culturale, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], p: spin, PE2_2, momentum transfer: low, PE2_1, CLAS, 0103 physical sciences, quantum chromodynamics, ddc:530, 010306 general physics, PE2_3, quark gluon, Coupling constant, nuclear force, scattering, Ambientale, Physics::Accelerator Physics, nucleon: spin, High Energy Physics::Experiment, experimental results
Abstract: Measuring the spin structure of protons and neutrons tests our understanding of how they arise from quarks and gluons, the fundamental building blocks of nuclear matter. At long distances the coupling constant of the strong interaction becomes large, requiring non-perturbative methods to calculate quantum chromodynamics processes, such as lattice gauge theory or effective field theories. Here we report proton spin structure measurements from scattering a polarized electron beam off polarized protons. The spin-dependent cross-sections were measured at large distances, corresponding to the region of low momentum transfer squared between 0.012 and 1.0 GeV$^2$. This kinematic range provides unique tests of chiral effective field theory predictions. Our results show that a complete description of the nucleon spin remains elusive, and call for further theoretical works, e.g. in lattice quantum chromodynamics. Finally, our data extrapolated to the photon point agree with the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule, a fundamental prediction of quantum field theory that relates the anomalous magnetic moment of the proton to its integrated spin-dependent cross-sections., Published version. 10 pages, 5 figures. 20 pages of supplementary material (data tables and a figure)
Published: 2021

13. Photoproduction of η mesons off the proton for 1.2<Eγ<4.7GeV using CLAS at Jefferson Laboratory

Author: I. Illari, R. A. Schumacher, U. Shrestha, M. Leali, S. Adhikari, B. McKinnon, C. A. Meyer, E. Munevar, P. Chatagnon, B. S. Ishkhanov, Aditya R. Khanal, G. V. Fedotov, P. Lenisa, J. Ritman, S. Stepanyan, N. Dashyan, D. P. Watts, Andrea Bianconi, M. Ungaro, K. P. Adhikari, A. El Alaoui, I. I. Strakovsky, G. Rosner, T. Chetry, A. Deur, C. W. Kim, Laura Clark, W. Phelps, M. Battaglieri, Nicholas Zachariou, J. C. Carvajal, Alexander Schmidt, M. J. Amaryan, William Brooks, Yordanka Ilieva, T. B. Hayward, V. Mascagna, B. A. Clary, E. L. Isupov, Y. G. Sharabian, H. Voskanyan, Friedrich Klein, W. J. Briscoe, P. Eugenio, S. Boiarinov, Brian Raue, G. Angelini, L. Barion, K. Joo, M. Guidal, Michael Paolone, Z. W. Zhao, F. X. Girod, F. Bossu, R. Cruz-Torres, E. Golovatch, M. Holtrop, R. Dupre, S. Strauch, Hovanes Egiyan, Maxime Defurne, K. A. Griffioen, Dustin Keller, C. Munoz Camacho, H. Hakobyan, Y. Prok, H. S. Jo, M. Hattawy, Michael Wood, K. Hafidi, D. G. Ireland, Luciano Pappalardo, V. Crede, A. Kim, D. I. Glazier, G. Ciullo, D. S. Carman, F. Sabatié, T. Hu, R. Paremuzyan, R. De Vita, D. Marchand, D. Protopopescu, Eugene Pasyuk, X. Wei, L. Venturelli, S. Diehl, Fatiha Benmokhtar, O. Soto, C. Salgado, E. Voutier, L. Lanza, Nicholas M. Harrison, Gerard Gilfoyle, A. Filippi, A. Movsisyan, J. W. Price, D. Sokhan, V. P. Kubarovsky, I. Bedlinskiy, M. Khandaker, M. Khachatryan, Nikolaos Sparveris, Z. E. Meziani, K. Wei, S. Niccolai, K. Livingston, N. Markov, Iu. Skorodumina, N. Tyler, C. Djalali, J. A. Tan, V. I. Mokeev, D. Heddle, Jie Zhang, G. Gavalian, D. G. Jenkins, R. Fersch, M. Ehrhart, M. Ripani, O. Pogorelko, P. L. Cole, J. Rowley, Tim O'Connell, A. I. Ostrovidov, Michael Dugger, T. Mineeva, P. Nadel-Turonski, H. Atac, A. S. Biselli, A. D'Angelo, L. Guo, Sylvester Joosten, Alessandro Rizzo, G. Asryan, L. El Fassi, C. Ayerbe Gayoso, M. E. McCracken, A. Hobart, C. Hanretty, W. Kim, G. Niculescu, P. Stoler, M. Osipenko, I. J. D. MacGregor, K. Hicks, M. Contalbrigo, J. Poudel, Z. Akbar, A. Celentano, and R. W. Gothe
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Range (particle radiation), Photon, Proton, Meson, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Sigma, Photon energy, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Resonance (particle physics), 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Nucleon
Abstract: Photoproduction cross sections are reported for the reaction $\gamma p\to p\eta$ using energy-tagged photons and the CLAS spectrometer at Jefferson Laboratory. The $\eta$ mesons are detected in their dominant charged decay mode, $\eta\to \pi^+\pi^-\pi^0$, and results on differential cross sections are presented for incident photon energies between 1.2 and 4.7 GeV. These new $\eta$ photoproduction data are consistent with earlier CLAS results but extend the energy range beyond the nucleon resonance region into the Regge regime. The normalized angular distributions are compared with the experimental results from several other experiments, and with predictions of $\eta$ MAID\,2018 and the latest solution of the Bonn-Gatchina coupled-channel analysis. Differential cross sections $d\sigma/dt$ are presented for incident photon energies $E_\gamma > 2.9$ GeV ($W > 2.5$ GeV), and compared with predictions which are based on Regge trajectories exchange in the $t$-channel (Regge models). The data confirm the expected dominance of $\rho$, $\omega$ vector-meson exchange in an analysis by the Joint Physics Analysis Center.
Published: 2020

14. First measurement of direct photoproduction of the a2(1320)0 meson on the proton

Author: J. Rowley, A. I. Ostrovidov, Volker D. Burkert, A. S. Biselli, W. Phelps, K. A. Griffioen, V. Mascagna, N. Markov, M. E. McCracken, A. Hobart, Carlos A. Salgado, A. Filippi, A. Pilloni, Frank Klein, Dustin Keller, P. Eugenio, L. Marsicano, Sylvester Joosten, Maxime Defurne, M. Khandaker, M. Khachatryan, M. Osipenko, Pawel Nadel-Turonski, Michael Paolone, Alexander Schmidt, D. I. Glazier, D. Bulumulla, E. Munevar, B. S. Ishkhanov, Aditya R. Khanal, Nikolaos Sparveris, M. Ungaro, K. Hafidi, F. Bossu, M. Guidal, G. Niculescu, L. Lanza, D. G. Jenkins, I. J. D. MacGregor, R. De Vita, M. Leali, Laura Clark, M. J. Amaryan, Andrea Bianconi, C. W. Kim, W. Kim, W. Gohn, F. X. Girod, N. Tyler, C. Djalali, J. A. Tan, P. Chatagnon, G. V. Fedotov, H. Voskanyan, A. D'Angelo, T. Chetry, I. Bedlinskiy, L. Elouadrhiri, M. Holtrop, F. Hauenstein, W. J. Briscoe, E. Pasyuk, S. Strauch, K. Joo, H. Atac, D. P. Watts, H. Egiyan, G. Angelini, L. El Fassi, I. I. Strakovsky, R. Dupre, M. Battaglieri, F. Sabatié, Luciano Pappalardo, D. Heddle, A. Deur, M. Ripani, G. Gavalian, V. Mokeev, D. Marchand, V. Lucherini, V. P. Kubarovsky, Michael Dugger, Fatiha Benmokhtar, Krishna Neupane, R. G. Fersch, O. Pogorelko, O. Soto, S. Niccolai, Vincent Mathieu, P. L. Cole, Z. W. Zhao, Alessandro Rizzo, E. Golovatch, P. Lenisa, K. Hicks, M. Ehrhart, S. Adhikari, T. B. Hayward, J. Zhang, M. Hattawy, J. W. Price, N. Dashyan, Yordanka Ilieva, L. Barion, G. Rosner, William Brooks, G. Ciullo, Y. Prok, L. Venturelli, D. S. Carman, R. A. Schumacher, A. El Alaoui, X. Wei, Nicholas Zachariou, J. C. Carvajal, S. Stepanyan, E. Voutier, A. Movsisyan, Adam P. Szczepaniak, D. Sokan, Z. E. Meziani, K. Livingston, K. P. Adhikari, H. Hakobyan, H. S. Jo, A. Kim, J. Ritman, S. Diehl, D. G. Ireland, V. Crede, O. Cortes, E. L. Isupov, R. Paremuzyan, S. Boiarinov, R. Cruz-Torres, Nicholas M. Harrison, U. Shrestha, M. Contalbrigo, C. Munoz Camacho, M. H. Wood, B. McKinnon, A. Celentano, R. W. Gothe, M. Mirazita, and N. Gevorgyan
Subjects: Physics, Meson, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Partial wave analysis, Hadron, Sigma, Photon energy, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Amplitude, 0103 physical sciences, Invariant mass, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Phenomenology (particle physics)
Abstract: We present the first measurement of the exclusive reaction $\gamma p \rightarrow a_2(1320)^0 \, p$ in the photon energy range $3.5$-$5.5$ GeV and four-momentum transfer squared $0.2
Published: 2020

15. Exclusive π0p electroproduction off protons in the resonance region at photon virtualities 0.4GeV2≤Q2≤1GeV2

Author: P. Eugenio, M. Taiuti, Carlos A. Salgado, L. C. Smith, I. I. Strakovsky, B. S. Ishkhanov, R. Dupre, M. Battaglieri, Aditya R. Khanal, A. Deur, R. A. Schumacher, M. Contalbrigo, Michael Paolone, F. Bossu, C. Evans, Maxime Defurne, N. Tyler, C. Djalali, J. A. Tan, K. A. Griffioen, Pawel Nadel-Turonski, Fatiha Benmokhtar, O. Soto, R. De Vita, M. Ungaro, S. Niccolai, L. Lanza, A. D'Angelo, A. Kim, Alessandro Rizzo, T. Mineeva, S. Stepanyan, W. Kim, U. Shrestha, V. Crede, L. El Fassi, T. B. Hayward, H. Atac, R. Paremuzyan, P. Stoler, K. Joo, D. G. Jenkins, M. Leali, K. Hicks, G. Ciullo, William Brooks, N. Markov, M. Guidal, G. Niculescu, Y. Prok, L. Venturelli, W. Phelps, E. De Sanctis, V. Mascagna, I. Bedlinskiy, E. Golovatch, D. S. Carman, A. Celentano, R. W. Gothe, E. L. Isupov, M. Holtrop, Nikos Sparveris, C. W. Kim, Luciano Pappalardo, X. Wei, F. X. Girod, S. Boiarinov, G. Angelini, H. Avakian, J. W. Price, P. L. Cole, G. Rosner, N. A. Baltzell, T. Chetry, J. Rowley, K. Park, D. Sokhan, Y. Ghandilyan, F. Sabatié, Y. G. Sharabian, H. Hakobyan, H. S. Jo, E. Voutier, S. Diehl, D. G. Ireland, I. J. D. MacGregor, N. Dashyan, Volker D. Burkert, A. S. Biselli, S. Strauch, S. Adhikari, M. H. Wood, M. Osipenko, P. Chatagnon, B. McKinnon, Yordanka Ilieva, V. Mokeev, M. Mirazita, Rong Wang, M. Ehrhart, L. Barion, M. Hattawy, H. Voskanyan, S. K. Nanda, M. Ripani, M. Khachatryan, W. J. Briscoe, D. Marchand, E. Pasyuk, V. P. Kubarovsky, D. Riser, A. El Alaoui, C. Ayerbe Gayoso, Nicholas Zachariou, J. C. Carvajal, O. Pogorelko, D. Protopopescu, Frank Klein, Dustin Keller, K. Livingston, K. Hafidi, M. J. Amaryan, A. Filippi, and M. Khandaker
Subjects: Physics, Range (particle radiation), Photon, Proton, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Resonance, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Cross section (physics), Isospin, 0103 physical sciences, Invariant mass, 010306 general physics, Legendre polynomials
Abstract: The exclusive electroproduction process ep→e′p′π0 was measured in the range of photon virtualities Q2=0.4–1.0GeV2 and the invariant mass range of the pπ0 system of W=1.1–1.8 GeV. These kinematics are covered in exclusive π0 electroproduction off the proton with nearly complete angular coverage in the pπ0 center-of-mass system and with high statistical accuracy. Nearly 36 000 cross-section points were measured, and the structure functions σT+eσL,σLT, and σTT, were extracted via fitting the ϕπ0 dependence of the cross section. A Legendre polynomial expansion analysis demonstrates the sensitivity of our data to high-lying N* and Δ* resonances with M>1.6 GeV. As part of a broad effort to determine the electrocouplings of the N* and Δ* resonances using both single- and double-pion electroproduction, this dataset is crucial for the reliable extraction of the high-lying resonance electrocouplings from the combined isospin analysis of the Nπ and π+π−p channels.
Published: 2020

16. Beam–target helicity asymmetry $E$ in $K^+$ $\Sigma^-$ photoproduction on the neutron

Author: R. De Vita, D. Marchand, H. Atac, H. S. Jo, A. Filippi, L. Marsicano, N. K. Walford, O. Soto, M. Khandaker, I. J. D. MacGregor, K. Hicks, W. Phelps, R. A. Schumacher, Michael Paolone, H. Hakobyan, W. Kim, G. Charles, F. Bossu, H. Lu, S. Joosten, J. W. Price, S. Diehl, C. Salgado, William Brooks, L. Venturelli, D. Heddle, V. P. Kubarovsky, I. Bedlinskiy, Z. E. Meziani, V. Mascagna, A. Celentano, R. W. Gothe, N. Markov, Alessandro Rizzo, W. Gohn, G. Asryan, Axel Schmidt, Dustin Keller, M. Ungaro, M. Guidal, M. Contalbrigo, M. Osipenko, Z. W. Zhao, Fatiha Benmokhtar, E. L. Isupov, Y. Prok, J. Poudel, O. Pogorelko, A. I. Ostrovidov, K. Park, M. J. Amaryan, Michael Wood, K. Hafidi, M. Holtrop, M. Ehrhart, C.D. Bass, V. A. Nikonov, A. D'Angelo, D. G. Jenkins, D. G. Ireland, G. Rosner, S. Boiarinov, E. Golovatch, P. Eugenio, K. Livingston, Luciano Pappalardo, K. Joo, M. Leali, Jie Zhang, T. Kageya, Volker D. Burkert, Y. Ghandilyan, A. S. Biselli, C. W. Kim, G. Gavalian, U. Shrestha, F.-X. Girod, Gerard Gilfoyle, M. Ripani, R. G. Fersch, H. Voskanyan, A. El Alaoui, G. Angelini, Nicholas Zachariou, J. C. Carvajal, W. J. Briscoe, P. L. Cole, T. Chetry, N. Gevorgyan, D. Ho, I. I. Strakovsky, A. M. Sandorfi, A. Deur, Victor Mokeev, D. Sokhan, T. R. O'Connell, Chaden Djalali, P. Nadel Turonski, T. Mineeva, M. Bashkanov, S. Adhikari, D. Bulumulla, E. Munevar, B. McKinnon, B. S. Ishkhanov, Aditya R. Khanal, Andrea Bianconi, I. Zonta, X. Wei, P. Peng, Hovanes Egiyan, C. Munoz Camacho, P. Lenisa, M. Hattawy, J. A. Fleming, Friedrich Klein, Brian Raue, Andrew Puckett, E. Voutier, Martin K. Mayer, M. Khachatryan, K. A. Griffioen, Nikolaos Sparveris, K. P. Adhikari, C. S. Whisnant, C. Hanretty, L. Lanza, R. Dupre, M. Battaglieri, M. Lowry, S. Strauch, Eugene Pasyuk, N. Dashyan, Yordanka Ilieva, L. Barion, G. Ciullo, D. S. Carman, S. Fegan, D. P. Watts, A. V. Sarantsev, N. Tyler, J. A. Tan, P. Chatagnon, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and CLAS
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Socio-culturale, nucleon resonance, Nucleons, Photoproduction, Mesons, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, K+: photoproduction, Particle identification, Nuclear physics, chemistry.chemical_compound, PE2_2, PE2_1, CLAS, 0103 physical sciences, Neutron, Hydrogen deuteride, n: target, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, PE2_3, photon: beam, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, nucleus: target, Settore FIS/04, Resonance, helicity: asymmetry, Observable, Sigma-: photoproduction, Helicity, lcsh:QC1-999, chemistry, Excited state, spectrometer, Nucleon, lcsh:Physics, Jefferson Lab, experimental results
Abstract: We report a measurement of a beam–target double-polarisation observable (E) for the γ→n→(p)→K+Σ−(p) reaction. The data were obtained impinging the circularly-polarised energy-tagged photon beam of Hall B at Jefferson Lab on a longitudinally-polarised frozen-spin hydrogen deuteride (HD) nuclear target. The E observable for an effective neutron target was determined for centre-of-mass energies 1.70≤W≤2.30 GeV, with reaction products detected over a wide angular acceptance by the CLAS spectrometer. These new double-polarisation data give unique constraints on the strange decays of excited neutron states. Inclusion of the new data within the Bonn-Gatchina theoretical model results in significant changes for the extracted photocouplings of a number of established nucleon resonances. Possible improvements in the PWA description of the experimental data with additional “missing” resonance states, including the N(2120)3/2− resonance, are also quantified.
Published: 2020

17. The CLAS12 Spectrometer at Jefferson Laboratory

Author: C. W. Kim, H. Avakian, D. Protopopescu, D. Heddle, M. Contalbrigo, M. L. Kabir, H. Voskanyan, E. Voutier, T. Chetry, M. Zarecky, J. Poudel, I. Illari, B. A. Clary, M. Osipenko, D. Insley, D. P. Watts, I. Bedlinskiy, Michael Paolone, V. Sergeyeva, D. Kashy, M. Khachatryan, F. Hauenstein, V. Mascagna, Nikolaos Sparveris, F. Bossu, D. Marchand, W. Kim, G. Niculescu, P. Bonneau, G. Charles, P. Hemler, Ruben J. Fair, P. Moran, Dustin Keller, C. Ayerbe Gayoso, Nicholas Zachariou, M. Ungaro, C. Munoz Camacho, M. J. Amaryan, G. Rosner, I. J. D. MacGregor, T. A. Forest, V. Lucherini, S. E. Kuhn, Y. Prok, M. Hattawy, S. Stepanyan, Michael Wood, K. Hafidi, M. D. Mestayer, S. Lee, M. Wiseman, F. Sabatié, R. Paremuzyan, N. Dashyan, A. Deur, K. Hicks, K. Joo, E. L. Isupov, N. A. Baltzell, R. W. Gothe, S. Christo, L. C. Smith, B. S. Ishkhanov, Latifa Elouadrhiri, V. Baturin, Nicholas M. Harrison, Gerard Gilfoyle, M. McMullen, G. E. Dodge, H. S. Jo, R. Johnston, A. Yegneswaran, K. Livingston, A. Lung, P. Stoler, M. Guidal, D. Sokhan, K. Price, Aditya R. Khanal, K. P. Adhikari, Jie Zhang, K. Bruhwel, S. Adhikari, S. Boyarinov, B. McKinnon, M. Ehrhart, M. Leali, Z. W. Zhao, S. Joosten, B. J. Roy, V. P. Kubarovsky, J. Newton, P. Chatagnon, G. V. Fedotov, D. Tilles, M.A. Antonioli, Renuka Rajput-Ghoshal, G. D. Smith, M. Holtrop, C. Cuevas, V. Gyurjyan, Probir K. Ghoshal, Yordanka Ilieva, H. Hakobyan, Alexander Schmidt, Luciano Pappalardo, Andrea Bianconi, W. J. Briscoe, M. Turisini, M. Mirazita, D. I. Glazier, M. Garçon, M. Ripani, F. X. Girod, A. Filippi, K. L. Giovanetti, R. Miller, J. Ritman, S. Diehl, R. De Vita, C. D. Keith, Y. G. Sharabian, M. Lowry, M. Defurne, E. Pasyuk, P. Naidoo, J. Hogan, N. Markov, Or Hen, C. Salgado, M. Taylor, G. Young, S. Strauch, Larry Weinstein, H. Atac, Chaden Djalali, A. Hobart, A. Kim, Z. E. Meziani, S. Schadmand, U. Shrestha, T. Ewing, T. Mineeva, O. Pogorelko, S. Nanda, L. Barion, G. Angelini, J. Rowley, P. Rossi, M. Leffel, William Brooks, I. Mandjavidze, L. Venturelli, Iu. Skorodumina, Y. Gotra, C. Mealer, J. W. Price, S. Aune, C. Wiggins, D. G. Ireland, G. Gavalian, G. Jacobs, V. Crede, Volker D. Burkert, A. S. Biselli, O. Pastor, Victor Mokeev, E.P. Segarra, Ross Milner, N. Tyler, J. A. Tan, E. Golovatch, R. Dupre, W. Phelps, Andrea Celentano, S. Procureur, M. Cook, G. Ciullo, M. Battaglieri, D. S. Carman, B. Raydo, A. Rizzo, X. Wei, R. Cruz-Torres, S. Niccolai, K. A. Griffioen, B. Eng, A. Movsisyan, P. L. Cole, L. Lanza, G. Christiaens, A. D'Angelo, T. Kageya, L. El Fassi, P. Lenisa, V. Ziegler, C. Hanretty, D. Anderson, T. B. Hayward, Brian Raue, Fatiha Benmokhtar, O. Soto, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, data acquisition, magnet: solenoid, superconductivity: torus, Solenoid, 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, Luminosity, momentum resolution, electron: beam, Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation, QC, Physics, Luminosity (scattering theory), Settore FIS/04, Detector, Magnetic spectrometer, magnet: torus, performance, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Meson, vertex detector, nucleon: interaction, CLAS12, Electromagnetic physics, Large acceptance, Socio-culturale, fabrication, beam: energy, Nuclear physics, PE2_1, CLAS, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, PE2_3, scintillation counter, Cherenkov radiation, detector: design, activity report, Spectrometer, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, nucleus, CLAS12, Electromagnetic physics, Large acceptance, Luminosity, Magnetic spectrometer, magnet: superconductivity, magnetic spectrometer, electromagnetic physics, large acceptance, luminosity, neutral particle, Automatic Keywords, calorimeter: electromagnetic, Cherenkov counter, spectrometer, particle identification, Beam (structure)
Abstract: International audience; The CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer for operation at 12 GeV beam energy (CLAS12) in Hall B at Jefferson Laboratory is used to study electro-induced nuclear and hadronic reactions. This spectrometer provides efficient detection of charged and neutral particles over a large fraction of the full solid angle. CLAS12 has been part of the energy-doubling project of Jefferson Lab’s Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility, funded by the United States Department of Energy. An international collaboration of 48 institutions contributed to the design and construction of detector hardware, developed the software packages for the simulation of complex event patterns, and commissioned the detector systems. CLAS12 is based on a dual-magnet system with a superconducting torus magnet that provides a largely azimuthal field distribution that covers the forward polar angle range up to 35 ∘ , and a solenoid magnet and detector covering the polar angles from 35° to 125° with full azimuthal coverage. Trajectory reconstruction in the forward direction using drift chambers and in the central direction using a vertex tracker results in momentum resolutions of < 1% and < 3%, respectively. Cherenkov counters, time-of-flight scintillators, and electromagnetic calorimeters provide good particle identification. Fast triggering and high data-acquisition rates allow operation at a luminosity of 1035 cm −2 s −1 . These capabilities are being used in a broad program to study the structure and interactions of nucleons, nuclei, and mesons, using polarized and unpolarized electron beams and targets for beam energies up to 11 GeV. This paper gives a general description of the design, construction, and performance of CLAS12.
Published: 2020

18. Helium–Xenon mixtures to improve the topological signature in high pressure gas xenon TPCs

Author: F.J. Mora, T.M. Stiegler, S. Riordan, A. Laing, F.I.G.M. Borges, R. Felkai, G. Martínez-Lema, J. Renner, A.D. McDonald, J.F.C.A. Veloso, E.D.C. Freitas, J. Muñoz Vidal, A. Goldschmidt, J. Hauptman, L.M. Moutinho, J. Torrent, Javier Rodríguez, L.M.P. Fernandes, F. Monrabal, Jose Repond, Víctor H. Alvarez, B. Palmeiro, J.V. Carrión, C.A.N. Conde, Paola Ferrario, A. Simón, S. Cebrián, M. Musti, L. Rogers, J. S. Díaz, P. Novella, J. Martín-Albo, Lior Arazi, A. Para, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, M. Losada, R. C. Webb, N. López-March, M. Sorel, C. Romo-Luque, K. Hafidi, C.D.R. Azevedo, C. Adams, V. Herrero, D.R. Nygren, A.L. Ferreira, A. Botas, Roberto Gutiérrez, N. Yahlali, J.A. Hernando Morata, A.I. Hernandez, Z. Tsamalaidze, M. Nebot-Guinot, Romain Esteve, L. Labarga, F.P. Santos, C.A.O. Henriques, J.F. Toledo, C. Sofka, S. Cárcel, P. Lebrun, A. Martínez, M. Diesburg, J. Escada, M. Querol, Sandra K. Johnston, J.T. White, C.M.B. Monteiro, Diego González-Díaz, J.M. Benlloch-Rodríguez, J.M.F. dos Santos, Javier Pérez, L. Ripoll, B. J. P. Jones, and R. Guenette
Subjects: Enginyeria -- Instruments, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Photomultiplier, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Analytical chemistry, FOS: Physical sciences, chemistry.chemical_element, Electron, Electroluminescence, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Engineering instruments, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Xenon, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Diffusion (business), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation, Detectors de radiació, Helium, Physics, Time projection chamber, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 3. Good health, chemistry, Nuclear counters, Electroluminescència, Atomic physics
Abstract: Within the framework of xenon-based double beta decay experiments, we propose the possibility to improve the background rejection of an electroluminescent Time Projection Chamber (EL TPC) by reducing the diffusion of the drifting electrons while keeping nearly intact the energy resolution of a pure xenon EL TPC. Based on state-of-the-art microscopic simulations, a substantial addition of helium, around 10 or 15~\%, may reduce drastically the transverse diffusion down to 2.5~mm/$\sqrt{\mathrm{m}}$ from the 10.5~mm/$\sqrt{\mathrm{m}}$ of pure xenon. The longitudinal diffusion remains around 4~mm/$\sqrt{\mathrm{m}}$. Light production studies have been performed as well. They show that the relative variation in energy resolution introduced by such a change does not exceed a few percent, which leaves the energy resolution practically unchanged. The technical caveats of using photomultipliers close to an helium atmosphere are also discussed in detail., 8 pages, 7 figures
Published: 2018

19. 12C(e,e'pN) measurements of short range correlations in the tensor-to-scalar interaction transition region

Author: M. J. Amaryan, P. Lenisa, Jie Zhang, A. Beck, L. Marsicano, T. B. Hayward, U. Shrestha, Larry Weinstein, S. Strauch, Maxime Defurne, K. A. Griffioen, D. P. Watts, Friedrich Klein, R. Paremuzyan, Brian Raue, O. Pogorelko, J. Rowley, A. I. Ostrovidov, R. A. Schumacher, F. X. Girod, M. Duer, A. Denniston, E. Golovatch, R. Dupre, Nicholas M. Harrison, R. De Vita, I. I. Strakovsky, P. Eugenio, A. Deur, W. K. Brooks, A. Filippi, D. Sokhan, B. A. Clary, D. Protopopescu, Volker D. Burkert, A. S. Biselli, L. Lanza, M. Khandaker, N. Tyler, C. Djalali, E. Voutier, Michael Paolone, Y. G. Sharabian, X. Zheng, H. Atac, J. A. Tan, Y. Prok, D. S. Carman, I. Bedlinskiy, W. Phelps, V. Lucherini, M. Battaglieri, A. El Alaoui, Y. Ilieva, E. L. Isupov, Nicholas Zachariou, X. Wei, S. Mey-Tal Beck, S. Boiarinov, Hovanes Egiyan, F. Hauenstein, C. Munoz Camacho, J. W. Price, Taofeng Wang, Fatiha Benmokhtar, M. Khachatryan, Nikolaos Sparveris, N. Markov, A. Movsisyan, R. Cruz-Torres, T. A. Forest, O. Soto, D. Heddle, M. Ungaro, K. P. Adhikari, Douglas Higinbotham, Latifa Elouadrhiri, D. Marchand, P. Nadel-Turonski, S. Adhikari, B. McKinnon, M. Ripani, A. Kim, S. Stepanyan, I. Korover, M. Hattawy, M. Guidal, B. Mustapha, Z. W. Zhao, T. Mineeva, Or Hen, H. Hakobyan, M. Mirazita, J. Ritman, L. Barion, J.R. Pybus, M. Holtrop, S. Diehl, R. G. Fersch, C. Salgado, K. Joo, Luciano Pappalardo, T. Chetry, E.P. Segarra, H. S. Jo, D. G. Jenkins, M. Leali, Eugene Pasyuk, P. L. Cole, M. Ehrhart, G. Rosner, P. Chatagnon, A. D'Angelo, L. El Fassi, V. P. Kubarovsky, L. Venturelli, Krishna Neupane, C. W. Kim, H. Voskanyan, W. J. Briscoe, Dustin Keller, E. Piasetzky, D. Bulumulla, Michael Wood, K. Hafidi, Aditya R. Khanal, Andrea Bianconi, G. Niculescu, Alexander Schmidt, G. Gavalian, M. Osipenko, I. J. D. MacGregor, F. Sabatié, D. G. Ireland, V. Crede, M. Contalbrigo, Laura Clark, G. Angelini, K. Hicks, A. Celentano, R. W. Gothe, Alessandro Rizzo, V. Mascagna, S. Joosten, K. Livingston, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and The Clas Collaboration
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Nuclear Theory, dependence, CLAS, dynamics, isospin, energy, system, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Physics, QC1-999, Scalar (mathematics), FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear Theory (nucl-th), Momentum, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, Tensor, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Nuclear theory, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Range (particle radiation), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Settore FIS/04, Nuclear interaction, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Astronomy &amp, Atomic physics, Nucleon
Abstract: High-momentum configurations of nucleon pairs at short-distance are probed using measurements of the $^{12}$C$(e,e'p)$ and $^{12}$C$(e,e'pN)$ reactions (where $N$ is either $n$ or $p$), at high-$Q^2$ and $x_B>1.1$. The data span a missing-momentum range of 300--1000 MeV/c and are predominantly sensitive to the transition region of the strong nuclear interaction from a Tensor to Scalar interaction. The data are well reproduced by theoretical calculations using the Generalized Contact Formalism with both chiral and phenomenological nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) interaction models. This agreement suggests that the measured high missing-momentum protons up to $1000$ MeV/c predominantly belong to short-ranged correlated (SRC) pairs. The measured $^{12}$C$(e,e'pN)$ / $^{12}$C$(e,e'p)$ and $^{12}$C$(e,e'pp)$ / $^{12}$C$(e,e'pn)$ cross-section ratios are consistent with a decrease in the fraction of proton-neutron SRC pairs and increase in the fraction of proton-proton SRC pairs with increasing missing momentum. This confirms the transition from an isospin-dependent tensor $NN$ interaction at $\sim 400$ MeV/c to an isospin-independent scalar interaction at high-momentum around $\sim 800$ MeV/c as predicted by theoretical calculation., Accepted for publication in Physics Letters B. 7 pages, 3 figures, and online supplementary materials
Published: 2021

20. Photon beam asymmetry Σ in the reaction γ→p→pω for E= 1.152 to 1.876 GeV

Author: G. Khachatryan, W. Kim, M. Battaglieri, N. K. Walford, G. Niculescu, L. Lanza, Michael Paolone, M. Bashkanov, S. Adhikari, H. Avakian, F. X. Girod, W. J. Briscoe, Laura Clark, B. McKinnon, P. Lenisa, T. Cao, M. Ungaro, I. J. D. MacGregor, F. Sabatié, I. I. Strakovsky, H. Voskanyan, A. Kim, E. De Sanctis, V. A. Nikonov, A. Deur, E. Pasyuk, J. W. Price, N. Dashyan, C. Gleason, G. Rosner, K. Hicks, V. Mokeev, P. Nadel-Turonski, V. Batourine, I. Bedlinskiy, D. I. Sober, S. Strauch, V. Crede, William Brooks, Dustin Keller, M. Defurne, Y. Ghandilyan, D. P. Watts, Barry Ritchie, Brian Raue, Alessandro Rizzo, C. Hanretty, H. Egiyan, E. Golovatch, R. Dupre, R. A. Montgomery, A. Celentano, R. W. Gothe, M. Khachatryan, Sylvester Joosten, B. S. Ishkhanov, G. Charles, Michael Wood, J. Ball, K. Hafidi, W. Phelps, H. S. Jo, A. V. Sarantsev, G. Ciullo, Y. Prok, D. I. Glazier, D. S. Carman, A. Simonyan, O. Cortes, N. A. Baltzell, C. Munoz Camacho, Nikos Sparveris, F. J. Klein, M. Ripani, M. Contalbrigo, Z. E. Meziani, E. L. Isupov, S. Niccolai, D. G. Jenkins, M. Osipenko, K. A. Griffioen, R. Paremuzyan, Eberhard Klempt, S. Boiarinov, N. Markov, V. P. Kubarovsky, A. Movsisyan, R. De Vita, Nicholas M. Harrison, O. Pogorelko, Gerard Gilfoyle, J. Zhang, S. M. Hughes, X. Wei, S. Pisano, D. Sokhan, I. Stankovic, A. V. Anisovich, C. A. Meyer, Z. Akbar, G. V. Fedotov, I. Niculescu, C. Salgado, P. L. Cole, A. I. Ostrovidov, K. Park, R. A. Schumacher, D. G. Ireland, H. Jiang, H. Hakobyan, S. Anefalos Pereira, Volker D. Burkert, A. S. Biselli, L. El Fassi, K. P. Adhikari, S. Stepanyan, E. Munevar, L. A. Net, Avraham Klein, Y. G. Sharabian, J. A. Fleming, Iu. Skorodumina, D. Heddle, G. Hollis, P. Eugenio, M. Taiuti, P. Collins, S. Procureur, K. L. Giovanetti, A. El Alaoui, Y. Ilieva, Nicholas Zachariou, A. Filippi, M. Khandaker, K. Livingston, M. Hattawy, D. Protopopescu, Z. W. Zhao, E. Voutier, Chaden Djalali, Michael Dugger, T. Mineeva, F. Cao, D. Adikaram, M. Guidal, G. D. Smith, M. Holtrop, Taya Chetry, and Sergey Kuleshov
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Photon, Meson, Proton, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Partial wave analysis, Bremsstrahlung, Photon energy, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Pomeron, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Nucleon
Abstract: Photon beam asymmetry Σ measurements for ω photoproduction in the reaction γ → p → ω p are reported for photon energies from 1.152 to 1.876 GeV. Data were taken using a linearly-polarized tagged photon beam, a cryogenic hydrogen target, and the CLAS spectrometer in Hall B at Jefferson Lab. The measurements obtained markedly increase the size of the database for this observable, extend coverage to higher energies, and resolve discrepancies in previously published data. Comparisons of these new results with predictions from a chiral-quark-based model and from a dynamical coupled-channels model indicate the importance of interferences between t-channel meson exchange and s- and u-channel contributions, underscoring sensitivity to the nucleon resonances included in those descriptions. Comparisons with the Bonn–Gatchina partial-wave analysis indicate the Σ data reported here help to fix the magnitudes of the interference terms between the leading amplitudes in that calculation (Pomeron exchange and the resonant portion of the J P = 3 / 2 + partial wave), as well as the resonant portions of the smaller partial waves with J P = 1 / 2 − , 3 / 2 − , and 5 / 2 + .
Published: 2017

21. Energy calibration of the NEXT-White detector with 1% resolution near Q ββ of 136Xe

Author: The NEXT collaboration, J. Renner, G. Díaz López, P. Ferrario, J. A. Hernando Morata, M. Kekic, G. Martínez-Lema, F. Monrabal, J. J. Gómez-Cadenas, C. Adams, V. Álvarez, L. Arazi, I. J. Arnquist, C. D. R Azevedo, K. Bailey, F. Ballester, J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez, F. I. G. M. Borges, N. Byrnes, S. Cárcel, J. V. Carrión, S. Cebrián, E. Church, C. A. N. Conde, T. Contreras, J. Díaz, M. Diesburg, J. Escada, R. Esteve, R. Felkai, A. F. M. Fernandes, L. M. P. Fernandes, A. L. Ferreira, E. D. C. Freitas, J. Generowicz, S. Ghosh, A. Goldschmidt, D. González-Díaz, R. Guenette, R. M. Gutiérrez, J. Haefner, K. Hafidi, J. Hauptman, C. A. O. Henriques, P. Herrero, V. Herrero, Y. Ifergan, S. Johnston, B. J. P. Jones, L. Labarga, A. Laing, P. Lebrun, N. López-March, M. Losada, R. D. P. Mano, J. Martín-Albo, A. Martínez, A. D. McDonald, C. M. B. Monteiro, F.J. Mora, J. Muñoz Vidal, P. Novella, D. R. Nygren, B. Palmeiro, A. Para, J. Pérez, F. Psihas, M. Querol, J. Repond, S. Riordan, L. Ripoll, Y. Rodríguez García, J. Rodríguez, L. Rogers, B. Romeo, C. Romo-Luque, F. P. Santos, J. M. F. dos Santos, A. Simón, C. Sofka, M. Sorel, T. Stiegler, J. F. Toledo, J. Torrent, A. Usón, J. F. C. A. Veloso, R. Webb, R. Weiss-Babai, J. T. White, K. Woodruff, N. Yahlali, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), European Commission, and Generalitat Valenciana
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physical measurements, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Dark Matter and Double Beta Decay, Física -- Mesuraments, chemistry.chemical_element, Bioengineering, Atomic, 01 natural sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Nuclear physics, Particle and Plasma Physics, Xenon, Affordable and Clean Energy, 0103 physical sciences, Dark Matter and Double Beta Decay (experiments), Calibration, Nuclear, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, Calibratge, 010306 general physics, Mathematical Physics, Physics, Quantum Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Resolution (electron density), Molecular, Detectors, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Full width at half maximum, chemistry, Beta (plasma physics), Physical Sciences, lcsh:QC770-798, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract: Excellent energy resolution is one of the primary advantages of electroluminescent high pressure xenon TPCs, and searches for rare physics events such as neutrinoless double-beta decay ($\beta\beta0\nu$) require precise energy measurements. Using the NEXT-White detector, developed by the NEXT (Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC) collaboration, we show for the first time that an energy resolution of 1% FWHM can be achieved at 2.6 MeV, establishing the present technology as the one with the best energy resolution of all xenon detectors for $\beta\beta0\nu$ searches., Comment: 13 pages, 7 figures; accepted to JHEP
Published: 2019

22. First Measurements of the Double-Polarization Observables F , P , and H in ω Photoproduction off Transversely Polarized Protons in the N* Resonance Region

Author: Eberhard Klempt, O. Cortes, C. Hanretty, K. A. Griffioen, M. Ungaro, V. A. Nikonov, X. Wei, B. S. Ishkhanov, O. Soto, C. D. Keith, S. Strauch, G. Khachatryan, F. X. Girod, M. Osipenko, A. D'Angelo, Eugene Pasyuk, H. S. Jo, A. El Alaoui, W. J. Briscoe, Y. Ilieva, Aditya R. Khanal, Dustin Keller, L. Barion, F. Sabatié, I. I. Strakovsky, L. Guo, Alessandro Rizzo, A. V. Anisovich, L. Lanza, J. Brock, V. Mokeev, E. L. Isupov, Nicholas Zachariou, K Nakayama, M. C. Kunkel, P. Nadel-Turonski, Rong Wang, R. De Vita, A. Deur, R. A. Schumacher, Michael Wood, P. Lenisa, W. Phelps, Barry Ritchie, S. Boiarinov, K. Hafidi, G. Ciullo, Y. Prok, Iu. Skorodumina, S Niccolai, P. Eugenio, W. Kim, G. Niculescu, D. S. Carman, W. K. Brooks, I. Bedlinskiy, C. A. Meyer, D. Payette, K. Livingston, Sylvester Joosten, G. Rosner, H. Egiyan, Andrea Celentano, T. B. Hayward, J. Pierce, Jie Zhang, S. Adhikari, Friedrich Klein, D. G. Jenkins, M. Taiuti, K. P. Adhikari, Brian Raue, D. P. Watts, D. Marchand, Y. G. Sharabian, A. Movsisyan, S. Diehl, M. Ripani, C. Salgado, C. Carlin, S. Fegan, M. L. Kabir, A. V. Sarantsev, M. Battaglieri, N. Tyler, B. Duran, V. P. Kubarovsky, E. Voutier, J. A. Tan, U. Shrestha, V. Crede, D. Riser, Chaden Djalali, O. Pogorelko, M. Khachatryan, Michael Dugger, T. Mineeva, H. Avakian, E. Golovatch, A Fradi, R. Dupre, H. Voskanyan, Nikolaos Sparveris, F. Cao, P. Roy, N C Wei, N. K. Walford, R. A. Montgomery, M. Guidal, E. De Sanctis, N. Dashyan, A. Kim, P. Chatagnon, I. J. D. MacGregor, Michael Paolone, M. Holtrop, M. Hattawy, R. W. Gothe, M Ehrhart, K. Hicks, Luciano Pappalardo, S. Park, Taya Chetry, M. Contalbrigo, G. Angelini, Sergey Kuleshov, D. G. Meekins, L. El Fassi, A. I. Ostrovidov, D. G. Ireland, Volker D. Burkert, A. S. Biselli, M. Khandaker, B. McKinnon, D. Heddle, P. L. Cole, M. L. Seely, B. Torayev, Feng Huang, R. Paremuzyan, Sandra K. Johnston, D. Protopopescu, Z. W. Zhao, Nicholas M. Harrison, Gerard Gilfoyle, D. Sokhan, A. Filippi, and C. Munoz Camacho
Subjects: Physics, Photon, Spectrometer, Proton, Linear polarization, media_common.quotation_subject, Nuclear Theory, General Physics and Astronomy, Resonance, Polarization (waves), 01 natural sciences, Asymmetry, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Nucleon, media_common
Abstract: First measurements of double-polarization observables in ω photoproduction off the proton are presented using transverse target polarization and data from the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) FROST experiment at Jefferson Lab. The beam-target asymmetry F has been measured using circularly polarized, tagged photons in the energy range 1200-2700 MeV, and the beam-target asymmetries H and P have been measured using linearly polarized, tagged photons in the energy range 1200-2000 MeV. These measurements significantly increase the database on polarization observables. The results are included in two partial-wave analyses and reveal significant contributions from several nucleon (N^{*}) resonances. In particular, contributions from new N^{*} resonances listed in the Review of Particle Properties are observed, which aid in reaching the goal of mapping out the nucleon resonance spectrum.
Published: 2019

23. First results on nucleon resonance photocouplings from the γp → π+π−p reaction

Author: I. Bedlinskiy, J. Ball, F. Cao, E. De Sanctis, M. Guidal, R. Paremuzyan, N. Markov, Y. G. Sharabian, D. I. Sober, Maxime Defurne, D. I. Glazier, I. J. D. MacGregor, R. De Vita, P. Eugenio, I. I. Strakovsky, D. Protopopescu, G. D. Smith, M. Holtrop, Z. W. Zhao, Nicholas M. Harrison, Gerard Gilfoyle, M. Taiuti, E. Voutier, A. Deur, M. Contalbrigo, M. Khachatryan, D. Sokhan, Latifa Elouadrhiri, M. L. Kabir, M. J. Amaryan, G. Ciullo, C. A. Meyer, M. Khandaker, P. Chatagnon, Y. Prok, D. S. Carman, G. V. Fedotov, Z. Akbar, F. X. Girod, Sandra K. Johnston, K. Livingston, M. Hattawy, Nikos Sparveris, K. A. Griffioen, E. Golovatch, R. Dupre, A. I. Ostrovidov, K. Park, Jie Zhang, S. Niccolai, Hovanes Egiyan, Taya Chetry, C. Munoz Camacho, A. Movsisyan, D. G. Ireland, V. Crede, F. Sabatié, Volker D. Burkert, A. S. Biselli, P. Lenisa, M. Bashkanov, S. Adhikari, B. McKinnon, K. L. Giovanetti, S. Strauch, L. Lanza, J. W. Price, V. I. Mokeev, M. Ripani, R. A. Montgomery, D. Marchand, X. Wei, D. Heddle, A. El Alaoui, Y. Ilieva, M. Battaglieri, B. A. Clary, Nicholas Zachariou, Friedrich Klein, Iu. Skorodumina, H. Hakobyan, Michael Paolone, D. G. Jenkins, N. Dashyan, S. Diehl, C. Salgado, H. S. Jo, A. Filippi, Laura Clark, L. Barion, E. L. Isupov, Michael Dugger, S. Boiarinov, R. A. Schumacher, Avraham Klein, P. Nadel-Turonski, M. Ungaro, K. Joo, N. Tyler, C. Djalali, J. A. Tan, Dustin Keller, B. S. Ishkhanov, Michael Wood, K. Hafidi, H. Avakian, H. Voskanyan, E. Pasyuk, V. P. Kubarovsky, D. Riser, O. Pogorelko, G. Khachatryan, W. J. Briscoe, G. Rosner, Y. Ghandilyan, K. Hicks, L. Guo, Alessandro Rizzo, R. G. Fersch, P. L. Cole, A. D'Angelo, L. El Fassi, M. Osipenko, Rong Wang, M. Ehrhart, W. Kim, G. Niculescu, A. Celentano, and R. W. Gothe
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Meson, Nuclear Theory, Hadron, Two pion photoproduction, Socio-culturale, Elementary particle, 01 natural sciences, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Nuclear physics, Particle decay, Pion, 0103 physical sciences, Invariant mass, Resonance photocouplings, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Resonance, lcsh:QC1-999, Baryon state, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nucleon, lcsh:Physics
Abstract: We report the first experimental measurements of the nine 1-fold differential cross sections for the γp→π+π−p reaction, obtained with the CLAS detector at Jefferson Laboratory. The measurements cover the invariant mass range of the final state hadrons from 1.6 GeV Δ(1620)1/2−, Δ(1700)3/2−, N(1720)3/2+, and Δ(1905)5/2+ resonances, which have dominant decays into the ππN final states rather than the more extensively studied single meson decay channels.
Published: 2019

24. Measurement of Nuclear Transparency Ratios for Protons and Neutrons

Author: M. Patsyuk, R. Paremuzyan, Nicholas M. Harrison, Gerard Gilfoyle, P. Eugenio, M. Taiuti, P. Lenisa, O. Soto, D. Sokhan, N. Dashyan, M. Battaglieri, Y. G. Sharabian, T. B. Hayward, X. Zheng, F. X. Girod, S. Kuleshov, J. W. Price, J. A. Tan, Friedrich Klein, V. Crede, Taya Chetry, Brian Raue, D. Marchand, Or Hen, Michael Paolone, S. Strauch, D. Heddle, Iu. Skorodumina, A. Beck, L. Barion, M. Khachatryan, Hovanes Egiyan, C. Munoz Camacho, A. I. Ostrovidov, R. De Vita, H. S. Jo, Nikolaos Sparveris, R. A. Montgomery, D. Payette, D. G. Ireland, K. Livingston, K. A. Griffioen, Volker D. Burkert, R. Cruz Torres, A. S. Biselli, I. Bedlinskiy, P. Nadel-Turonski, S. Adhikari, Eli Piasetzky, B. McKinnon, H. Hakobyan, W. K. Brooks, Dinko Pocanic, P. Chatagnon, F. Sabatié, F. Cao, I. Korover, M. Duer, R. A. Schumacher, S. Diehl, C. Salgado, M. Guidal, S. E. Kuhn, M. Hattawy, M. Mirazita, B. Duran, B. Mustapha, X. Wei, Sylvester Joosten, L. Lanza, G. Laskaris, Jie Zhang, T. A. Forest, E. De Sanctis, S. Mey-Tal Beck, M. Holtrop, A. Filippi, M. Ripani, S. Stepanyan, Avraham Klein, Luciano Pappalardo, M. Khandaker, Axel Schmidt, E. L. Isupov, Chaden Djalali, T. Mineeva, S. Boiarinov, G. Ciullo, Y. Prok, A. Deur, D. S. Carman, Sandra K. Johnston, E.P. Segarra, O. Cortes, Larry Weinstein, Eliahu Cohen, S. Niccolai, E. Golovatch, A. El Alaoui, Y. Ilieva, R. Dupre, Victor Mokeev, A. Movsisyan, Nicholas Zachariou, D. Protopopescu, Z. W. Zhao, E. Voutier, B. Schmookler, G. Angelini, B. S. Ishkhanov, M. Ungaro, P. Rossi, Aditya R. Khanal, K. Joo, A. Kim, M. Ehrhart, Dustin Keller, K. Hafidi, H. Avakian, H. Voskanyan, W. J. Briscoe, E. Pasyuk, V. P. Kubarovsky, D. Riser, O. Pogorelko, G. Khachatryan, G. Rosner, P. L. Cole, L. Guo, Alessandro Rizzo, C. Hanretty, A. D'Angelo, M. Osipenko, W. Kim, G. Niculescu, L. El Fassi, C. Ayerbe Gayoso, Rong Wang, A. Celentano, R. W. Gothe, F. Hauenstein, I. J. D. MacGregor, M. Contalbrigo, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, CLAS, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Nuclear Theory, Proton, nucleon: pair, [PHYS.NUCL]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Theory [nucl-th], FOS: Physical sciences, Socio-culturale, short-range, Neutron, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, Nuclear Theory (nucl-th), Nuclear physics, approximation: Glauber, CLAS, fragmentation, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear theory, Physics, n: momentum, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Settore FIS/04, Neutron, Nuclear Transparency, Hadron physics, Proton, Breakup, lcsh:QC1-999, Nuclear transparency, kinematics, Nuclear Transparency, Nucleon, Hadron physics, Glauber, nucleus: transparency, lcsh:Physics, experimental results
Abstract: This paper presents, for the first time, measurements of neutron transparency ratios for nuclei relative to C measured using the (e,e'n) reaction, spanning measured neutron momenta of 1.4 to 2.4 GeV/c. The transparency ratios were extracted in two kinematical regions, corresponding to knockout of mean-field nucleons and to the breakup of Short-Range Correlated nucleon pairs. The extracted neutron transparency ratios are consistent with each other for the two measured kinematical regions and agree with the proton transparencies extracted from new and previous (e,e'p) measurements, including those from neutron-rich nuclei such as lead. The data also agree with and confirm the Glauber approximation that is commonly used to interpret experimental data. The nuclear-mass-dependence of the extracted transparencies scales as A^{\alpha} with {\alpha} = -0.289 {\pm} 0.007, which is consistent with nuclear-surface dominance of the reactions., Comment: Accepted for publication in Physics Letters B
Published: 2019

25. Exploring the Structure of the Bound Proton with Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering

Author: A. El Alaoui, Alessandro Rizzo, C. Ayerbe Gayoso, M. Khandaker, R. Paremuzyan, Nicholas Zachariou, O. Soto, Andrea Celentano, Nicholas M. Harrison, Gerard Gilfoyle, D. P. Watts, S. Fegan, D. Sokhan, V. Crede, K. Livingston, M. Garçon, Sandra K. Johnston, R. A. Montgomery, Jie Zhang, F. X. Girod, M. Battaglieri, M. Contalbrigo, G. Gavalian, E. Golovatch, S. Strauch, Aditya R. Khanal, S. Niccolai, A. Filippi, M. Ripani, R. Dupre, N A Baltzell, K. L. Giovanetti, A. D'Angelo, E. L. Isupov, G. Khachatryan, Dustin Keller, Larry Weinstein, P. Lenisa, Yordanka Ilieva, M. Defurne, N. Markov, Chaden Djalali, Michael Wood, Laura Clark, E. De Sanctis, F. Sabatié, D. Heddle, K. A. Griffioen, T. Mineeva, L. Barion, K. Hafidi, J. Poudel, Taya Chetry, C. Munoz Camacho, P. L. Cole, Iu. Skorodumina, G. Angelini, P. Rossi, T. B. Hayward, D. Protopopescu, Z. W. Zhao, B. McKinnon, F. Hauenstein, Friedrich Klein, L. Lanza, B. Torayev, A Fradi, S. Diehl, C. Salgado, V. P. Kubarovsky, D. Riser, G. Ciullo, O. Pogorelko, M. Mirazita, H. Egiyan, F. Bossu, G. Rosner, P. Eugenio, Y. Prok, D. S. Carman, L. El Fassi, E. Pasyuk, M. Taiuti, C. W. Kim, Zein-Eddine Meziani, F. Cao, M. L. Kabir, S. E. Kuhn, M. Hattawy, H. Voskanyan, A. I. Ostrovidov, D. G. Jenkins, I. J. D. MacGregor, M. Guidal, Rong Wang, N. Dashyan, D. G. Ireland, M Ehrhart, A. S. Biselli, N. Gevorgyan, R. W. Gothe, M. Holtrop, I. Bedlinskiy, Luciano Pappalardo, Martin K. Mayer, A. Deur, W. Kim, M. Khachatryan, Nikolaos Sparveris, W. K. Brooks, S. Adhikari, Y. G. Sharabian, R. De Vita, D. Marchand, H. S. Jo, X. Wei, R. A. Schumacher, S. Bültmann, T. A. Forest, S. Stepanyan, Simonetta Liuti, M. Ungaro, Y. Perrin, K. Hicks, P. Chatagnon, P. Nadel-Turonski, N. Tyler, J. A. Tan, E. Voutier, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, CLAS, Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), and Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
Subjects: generalized parton distribution, Proton, EMC effect, Nuclear Theory, General Physics and Astronomy, Virtual particle, parton: distribution function, Parton, Electron, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Electromagnetic probes, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Form factors, Electromagnetic probes, Nuclear Structure, Deep Virtual Compton Scattering, Quark models, Electron-ion collisions, Nuclear structure & decays, Nucleon distribution, electron: beam, Nuclear Experiment, Physics, Settore FIS/04, Form factors, nucleon, matter: effect, kinematics, Quark models, Nucleon, spin: asymmetry, accelerator, FOS: Physical sciences, Socio-culturale, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Nuclear Structure, Deep Virtual Compton Scattering, Nuclear physics, PE2_2, PE2_1, deeply virtual Compton scattering, CLAS, 0103 physical sciences, structure, 010306 general physics, PE2_3, Electron-ion collisions, Nuclear Physics, Scattering, Nuclear structure &amp, Compton scattering, Automatic Keywords, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nucleon distribution, spectrometer, decays, experimental results, photon: virtual
Abstract: In the past two decades, deeply virtual Compton scattering of electrons has been successfully used to advance our knowledge of the partonic structure of the free proton and investigate correlations between the transverse position and the longitudinal momentum of quarks inside the nucleon. Meanwhile, the structure of bound nucleons in nuclei has been studied in inclusive deep-inelastic lepton scattering experiments off nuclear targets, showing a significant difference in longitudinal momentum distribution of quarks inside the bound nucleon, known as the EMC effect. In this work, we report the first beam spin asymmetry (BSA) measurement of exclusive deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS) off a proton bound in $^4$He. The data used here were accumulated using a $6$ GeV longitudinally polarized electron beam incident on a pressurized $^4$He gaseous target placed within the CLAS spectrometer in Hall-B at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. The azimuthal angle ($\phi$) dependence of the BSA was studied in a wide range of virtual photon and scattered proton kinematics. The $Q^2$, $x_B$, and t dependencies of the BSA on the bound proton are compared with those on the free proton. In the whole kinematical region of our measurements, the BSA on the bound proton is smaller by 20\% to 40\%, indicating possible medium modification of its partonic structure.
Published: 2019

26. Electroluminescence TPCs at the thermal diffusion limit

Author: A. Laing, M. Losada, C. Romo-Luque, F. Ballester, Paola Ferrario, Javier Rodríguez, N. López-March, J.M.F. dos Santos, D. González-Díaz, L. Rogers, Sandra K. Johnston, L. Ripoll, B. J. P. Jones, R.D.P. Mano, A. Para, R. Felkai, Jose Repond, J.A. Hernando Morata, M. Sorel, J.V. Carrión, D.R. Nygren, F.I.G.M. Borges, J.F.C.A. Veloso, E.D.C. Freitas, A.L. Ferreira, J.T. White, Roberto Gutiérrez, G. Martínez-Lema, M. Nebot-Guinot, S. Cebrián, J. S. Díaz, P. Novella, J. Martín-Albo, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, Víctor H. Alvarez, R. C. Webb, Lior Arazi, J. Generowicz, Javier Pérez, R. Guenette, J.F. Toledo, S. Cárcel, C.M.B. Monteiro, P. Lebrun, A. Martínez, J. Muñoz Vidal, L. Labarga, A. Botas, F.P. Santos, M. R. Jorge, M. Diesburg, J. Escada, C. Adams, C. Sofka, J. Torrent, A.F.M. Fernandes, J.M. Benlloch-Rodríguez, F. Monrabal, M. Querol, C.D.R. Azevedo, C.A.N. Conde, A. Simón, M. Musti, S. Riordan, K. Hafidi, C.A.O. Henriques, A. Goldschmidt, J. Hauptman, Kevin Bailey, A.D. McDonald, F.J. Mora, T.M. Stiegler, L.M.P. Fernandes, F. Psihas, A.I. Hernandez, J. Renner, M. Kekic, N. Yahlali, Romain Esteve, B. Palmeiro, V. Herrero, UAM. Departamento de Física Teórica, European Commission, and Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
Subjects: Electroluminiscència, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Dark Matter and Double Beta Decay, FOS: Physical sciences, chemistry.chemical_element, Electron, Atomic, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Mathematical Sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, TECNOLOGIA ELECTRONICA, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Particle and Plasma Physics, Xenon, Ionization, 0103 physical sciences, Dark Matter and Double Beta Decay (experiments), Nuclear, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, Diffusion (business), 010306 general physics, Mathematical Physics, Physics, Quantum Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Resolution (electron density), Molecular, Física, Nuclear energy, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Nuclear & Particles Physics, Particle correlations and fluctuations, 85-05, Electroluminescence, chemistry, Rare decay, Yield (chemistry), Photon production, Physical Sciences, Scintillation counter, Energia nuclear, lcsh:QC770-798, Atomic physics, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract: Artículo escrito por un elevado número de autores, solo se referencian el que aparece en primer lugar, el nombre del grupo de colaboración, si le hubiere, y los autores pertenecientes a la UAM, The NEXT experiment aims at searching for the hypothetical neutrinoless double-beta decay from the 136Xe isotope using a high-purity xenon TPC. Efficient discrimination of the events through pattern recognition of the topology of primary ionisation tracks is a major requirement for the experiment. However, it is limited by the diffusion of electrons. It is known that the addition of a small fraction of a molecular gas to xenon reduces electron diffusion. On the other hand, the electroluminescence (EL) yield drops and the achievable energy resolution may be compromised. We have studied the effect of adding several molecular gases to xenon (CO2, CH4 and CF4) on the EL yield and energy resolution obtained in a small prototype of driftless gas proportional scintillation counter. We have compared our results on the scintillation characteristics (EL yield and energy resolution) with a microscopic simulation, obtaining the diffusion coefficients in those conditions as well. Accordingly, electron diffusion may be reduced from about 10 mm/m for pure xenon down to 2.5 mm/m using additive concentrations of about 0.05%, 0.2% and 0.02% for CO2, CH4 and CF4, respectively. Our results show that CF4 admixtures present the highest EL yield in those conditions, but very poor energy resolution as a result of huge fluctuations observed in the EL formation. CH4 presents the best energy resolution despite the EL yield being the lowest. The results obtained with xenon admixtures are extrapolated to the operational conditions of the NEXT-100 TPC. CO2 and CH4 show potential as molecular additives in a large xenon TPC. While CO2 has some operational constraints, making it difficult to be used in a large TPC, CH4 shows the best performance and stability as molecular additive to be used in the NEXT-100 TPC, with an extrapolated energy resolution of 0.4% at 2.45 MeV for concentrations below 0.4%, which is only slightly worse than the one obtained for pure xenon. We demonstrate the possibility to have an electroluminescence TPC operating very close to the thermal diffusion limit without jeopardizing the TPC performance, if CO2 or CH4 are chosen as additives.[Figure not available: see fulltext.], The NEXT Collaboration acknowledges support from the following agencies and institutions: the European Research Council (ERC) under the Advanced Grant 339787-NEXT; the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 (2014-2020) under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreements No.674896, 690575 and 740055; the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad of Spain under grants FIS2014-53371-C04, the Severo Ochoa Program SEV-2014-0398 and the María de Maetzu Program MDM-2016-0692;the GVA of Spain under grants PROMETEO/2016/120 and SEJI/2017/011; the Portuguese FCT under project PTDC/FIS-NUC/2525/2014, under project UID/FIS/04559/2013 to fund the activities of LIBPhys, and under grants PD/BD/105921/2014, SFRH/BPD/109180/2015 and SFRH/BPD/76842/2011; the U.S. Department of Energy under contracts number DE-AC02-07CH11359 (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), DE-FG02-13ER42020(Texas A&M) and DE-SC0017721 (University of Texas at Arlington); and the University of Texas at Arlington. DGD acknowledges Ramon y Cajal program (Spain) under contract number RYC-2015-18820. We also warmly acknowledge the Laboratori Nazionalidel Gran Sasso (LNGS) and the Dark Side collaboration for their help with TPB coatingof various parts of the NEXT-White TPC.
Published: 2019

27. Direct Observation of Proton-Neutron Short-Range Correlation Dominance in Heavy Nuclei

Author: W. Phelps, T. B. Hayward, Or Hen, Rong Wang, Friedrich Klein, P. Eugenio, M. Taiuti, M. L. Kabir, Andrea Celentano, X. Wei, J.R. Pybus, L. Guo, A. Beck, S. Niccolai, Laura Clark, A. I. Ostrovidov, G. Rosner, M. Contalbrigo, A. Denniston, D. G. Ireland, C. Hanretty, A. Hrnjic, G. Niculescu, K. A. Griffioen, G. Ciullo, G. Angelini, P. Rossi, D. S. Carman, Volker D. Burkert, A. S. Biselli, R. Cruz Torres, K. Livingston, A. Rizzo, M. Duer, Michael Paolone, N. Markov, H. S. Jo, Iu. Skorodumina, A. Movsisyan, S. Diehl, Y. Prok, E. L. Isupov, B. McKinnon, N. Tyler, M. Osipenko, R. W. Gothe, M. Khandaker, Michael Wood, J. A. Tan, V. Crede, Y. Ilieva, K. Joo, E. De Sanctis, F. Cao, B. Duran, I. Korover, R. A. Montgomery, K. Hicks, D. Heddle, I. Bedlinskiy, S. Stepanyan, H. Voskanyan, F. Hauenstein, R. A. Schumacher, M. Battaglieri, Chaden Djalali, F. X. Girod, B. Mustapha, E. Pasyuk, N. Dashyan, H. Hakobyan, A. D'Angelo, F. Sabatié, M. Holtrop, M. Mirazita, I. J. D. MacGregor, Eliahu Cohen, K. Park, A. El Alaoui, P. Nadel-Turonski, H. Egiyan, T. A. Forest, W. Kim, B. S. Ishkhanov, David M. Keller, E.P. Segarra, L. El Fassi, Aditya R. Khanal, Nicholas Zachariou, S. E. Kuhn, Eli Piasetzky, M. Ripani, S. Strauch, V. P. Kubarovsky, Taya Chetry, M. Hattawy, Nir Barnea, Axel Schmidt, J. Zhang, D. Protopopescu, P. L. Cole, Z. W. Zhao, E. Voutier, Y. G. Sharabian, A. Deur, W. K. Brooks, S. Adhikari, E. Golovatch, R. Dupre, Ronen Weiss, K. Hafidi, L. Lanza, M. Khachatryan, C. Munoz Camacho, Nikolaos Sparveris, M. Patsyuk, R. Paremuzyan, Nicholas M. Harrison, Gerard Gilfoyle, D. Sokhan, A. Filippi, K. L. Giovanetti, Larry Weinstein, X. Zheng, R. De Vita, S. Mey-Tal Beck, B. Schmookler, D. Marchand, M. Ungaro, G. Laskaris, S. Boiarinov, O. Pogorelko, O. Cortes, Victor Mokeev, P. Lenisa, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, CLAS, and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Triple coincidence, Nuclear Theory, [PHYS.NUCL]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Theory [nucl-th], General Physics and Astronomy, Socio-culturale, FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, Nuclear matter in neutron stars, Correlation, Nuclear Theory (nucl-th), 0103 physical sciences, Neutron, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear theory, Asymmetric nuclear matter,Lepton induced nuclear reactions, Nuclear matter in neutron stars, Nucleon distribution, Nucleon-nucleon interactions, Nuclear Physics, Physics, Settore FIS/04, Direct observation, Formalism (philosophy of mathematics), Lepton induced nuclear reactions, Nucleon-nucleon interactions, Nucleon distribution, Atomic physics, Nucleon, Asymmetric nuclear matter
Abstract: We measured the triple coincidence A(e,e'np) and A(e,e'pp) reactions on carbon, aluminum, iron, and lead targets at Q2 > 1.5 (GeV/c)2, xB > 1.1 and missing momentum > 400 MeV/c. This was the first direct measurement of both proton-proton (pp) and neutron-proton (np) short-range correlated (SRC) pair knockout from heavy asymmetric nuclei. For all measured nuclei, the average proton-proton (pp) to neutron-proton (np) reduced cross-section ratio is about 6%, in agreement with previous indirect measurements. Correcting for Single-Charge Exchange effects decreased the SRC pairs ratio to ~ 3%, which is lower than previous results. Comparisons to theoretical Generalized Contact Formalism (GCF) cross-section calculations show good agreement using both phenomenological and chiral nucleon-nucleon potentials, favoring a lower pp to np pair ratio. The ability of the GCF calculation to describe the experimental data using either phenomenological or chiral potentials suggests possible reduction of scale- and scheme-dependence in cross section ratios. Our results also support the high-resolution description of high-momentum states being predominantly due to nucleons in SRC pairs., Accepted for publication in PRL. 9 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables and supplementary materials
Published: 2019

28. Ξ* photoproduction from threshold to W=3.3GeV

Author: Frank Klein, Dustin Keller, K. Hafidi, E. Golovatch, Y. G. Sharabian, K. Hicks, M. Ripani, C. Bookwalter, K. A. Griffioen, L. Lanza, H. Egiyan, V. Crede, I. J. D. MacGregor, M. Contalbrigo, S. Adhikari, M. Hattawy, C. Munoz Camacho, M. H. Wood, B. McKinnon, I. Bedlinskiy, D. Protopopescu, Michael Dugger, M. Osipenko, L. Elouadrhiri, M. Khachatryan, M. S. Saini, G. Ciullo, P. Eugenio, M. Taiuti, A. El Alaoui, Carlos A. Salgado, F. Cao, W. Kim, I. I. Strakovsky, Maxime Defurne, A. Deur, J. T. Goetz, Y. Prok, D. S. Carman, M. Mirazita, Nikos Sparveris, B. S. Ishkhanov, Nicholas Zachariou, M. L. Kabir, Diane Schott, Michael Paolone, C. A. Meyer, A. I. Ostrovidov, K. Park, X. Wei, N. Gevorgyan, D. I. Glazier, P. Chatagnon, G. V. Fedotov, D. G. Ireland, R. De Vita, M. Guidal, E. Voutier, A. Movsisyan, J. Zhang, F. Sabatié, G. Niculescu, S. Chandavar, V. P. Kubarovsky, Volker D. Burkert, A. S. Biselli, K. Livingston, J. W. Price, A. Celentano, R. W. Gothe, S. Anefalos Pereira, R. Paremuzyan, D. Riser, V. Mokeev, D. P. Weygand, A. Filippi, M. C. Kunkel, Brian Raue, O. Pogorelko, Nicholas M. Harrison, Rong Wang, M. Holtrop, S. Niccolai, R. Dupre, M. Battaglieri, M. Khandaker, Alessandro Rizzo, D. Sokhan, D. I. Sober, L. Guo, M. Ehrhart, M. Ungaro, Pawel Nadel-Turonski, H. Voskanyan, W. J. Briscoe, E. Pasyuk, Iu. Skorodumina, D. Heddle, Taya Chetry, William Brooks, P. L. Cole, Z. W. Zhao, R. A. Schumacher, A. D'Angelo, F. X. Girod, L. El Fassi, S. Strauch, E. L. Isupov, S. Boiarinov, H. Hakobyan, H. S. Jo, S. Diehl, Sylvester Joosten, C. Djalali, J. A. Tan, G. Khachatryan, N. Dashyan, A. Kim, G. Rosner, and Y. Ghandilyan
Subjects: Quark, Physics, Particle physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Nuclear Theory, Quark model, Lattice field theory, 01 natural sciences, Xi baryon, Baryon, Lattice (order), Excited state, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Gauge theory, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics
Abstract: The doubly strange Xi baryons provide an effective way to study a puzzle called the missing-baryons problem where both quark models and lattice guage theory predict more baryon excited states than are seen experimentally. However, few of these excited states have been observed with any certainty. Here, high-mass Xi* states have been searched for in photoproduction with the detector of the CLAS collaboration, and upper limits for the total cross sections have been established from threshold to W = 3.3 GeV. In addition, the total cross sections of the ground-state Xi(-)(1320) and first excited state Xi(-)(1530) are presented, extending significantly the centre-of-mass energy range of previous data.
Published: 2018

29. Study of the loss of Xenon Scintillation in Xenon-Trimethylamine Mixtures

Author: J. M. Hauptman, M. Losada, C.A.N. Conde, G. Martínez-Lema, Jose Repond, J.V. Carrión, Romain Esteve, S. Cebrián, P. Lebrun, C. Sofka, A. Laing, R. C. Webb, L. Ripoll, F.J. Mora, B. Palmeiro, T.M. Stiegler, A.M.F. Trindade, M. Diesburg, B. J. P. Jones, Javier Pérez, A.I. Hernandez, J. Escada, R. Felkai, Z. Tsamalaidze, A.F.V. Cortez, A. Botas, Roberto Gutiérrez, I. Liubarsky, F. Monrabal, A.D. McDonald, F.I.G.M. Borges, M. Sorel, A.L. Ferreira, A. Goldschmidt, M. Nebot-Guinot, J.M. Benlloch-Rodríguez, F. Ballester, C.D.R. Azevedo, J. T. White, J. Renner, J.M.F. dos Santos, R. Guenette, Paola Ferrario, L.M. Moutinho, A. Simón, J. Torrent, J.F. Toledo, S. Cárcel, S. Riordan, M. Musti, N. Yahlali, F.P. Santos, Vicente Herrero, L.M.P. Fernandes, D. R. Nygren, A. Para, K. Hafidi, Víctor H. Alvarez, M. Querol, C. Adams, L. Labarga, Javier Rodríguez, C.A.O. Henriques, J.F.C.A. Veloso, E.D.C. Freitas, L. Rogers, J. S. Díaz, Sandra K. Johnston, P. Novella, Lior Arazi, J. Martín-Albo, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, C.M.B. Monteiro, Diego González-Díaz, N. López-March, Ana Martínez, J. A. Hernando Morata, and J. Muñoz Vidal
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Photomultiplier, Scintillation, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Analytical chemistry, chemistry.chemical_element, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Wavelength shifter, medicine.disease_cause, 01 natural sciences, 3. Good health, Wavelength, Xenon, chemistry, Attenuation coefficient, 0103 physical sciences, Scintillation counter, medicine, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, Ultraviolet
Abstract: This work investigates the capability of TMA ((CH3)3N) molecules to shift the wavelength of Xe VUV emission (160-188 nm) to a longer, more manageable, wavelength (260-350 nm). Light emitted from a Xe lamp was passed through a gas chamber filled with Xe-TMA mixtures at 800 Torr and detected with a photomultiplier tube. Using bandpass filters in the proper transmission ranges, no reemitted light was observed experimentally. Considering the detection limit of the experimental system, if reemission by TMA molecules occurs, it is below 0.3% of the scintillation absorbed in the 160-188 nm range. An absorption coefficient value for xenon VUV light by TMA of 0.43+/-0.03 cm-1.Torr-1 was also obtained. These results can be especially important for experiments considering TMA as a molecular additive to Xe in large volume optical time projection chambers., 13 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables
Published: 2018

30. The Next White (NEW) detector

Author: Jose Repond, J.V. Carrión, Sandra K. Johnston, M. Kekic, J.M. Benlloch-Rodríguez, A. Botas, R. Felkai, S. Riordan, L. Ripoll, B. J. P. Jones, J. Torrent, J. Generowicz, K. Hafidi, A. Laing, C.M.B. Monteiro, A. Goldschmidt, J. Hauptman, K. Bailey, L. Labarga, S. Cebrián, C.A.N. Conde, A. Simón, Roberto Gutiérrez, M. Musti, R. C. Webb, F. Monrabal, Javier Rodríguez, D. González-Díaz, J. S. Díaz, P. Novella, J. Martín-Albo, J.T. White, M. Diesburg, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, Javier Pérez, J.F.C.A. Veloso, E.D.C. Freitas, J. Escada, L. Rogers, D.R. Nygren, G. Martínez-Lema, C.A.O. Henriques, Lior Arazi, C. Sofka, Paola Ferrario, J.M.F. dos Santos, M. Losada, N. López-March, A. Para, M. Sorel, C.D.R. Azevedo, C. Romo-Luque, A.L. Ferreira, R.D.P. Mano, M. Nebot-Guinot, J.A. Hernando Morata, Víctor H. Alvarez, F.P. Santos, A.I. Hernandez, J. Muñoz Vidal, A.D. McDonald, F.I.G.M. Borges, F.J. Mora, T.M. Stiegler, R. Guenette, J.F. Toledo, S. Cárcel, P. Lebrun, A. Martínez, L.M.P. Fernandes, J. Renner, B. Palmeiro, V. Herrero, N. Yahlali, Romain Esteve, M. Querol, C. Adams, and A.F.M. Fernandes
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Xenon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, European research, Library science, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, High-pressure xenon chambers, TECNOLOGIA ELECTRONICA, Time Projection Chamber (TPC), Political science, 0103 physical sciences, media_common.cataloged_instance, European union, Neutrinoless double beta decay, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, media_common, NEXT-100 experiment
Abstract: [EN] Conceived to host 5 kg of xenón at a pressure of 15 bar in the ¿ducial volume,the NEXTWhite (NEW)apparatus is currently the largest high pressure xenon gas TPC using electroluminescent ampli¿cation in the world. It is also a 1:2 scale model of the NEXT-100 detector scheduled to start searching for ßß0¿ decays in 136Xe in 2019. Both detectors measure the energy of the event using a plane of photomultipliers located behind a transparent cathode. They can also reconstruct the trajectories of charged tracks in the dense gas of the TPC with the help of a plane of silicon photomultipliers located behind the anode. A sophisticated gas system, common to both detectors, allows the high gas purity needed to guarantee a long electron lifetime. NEXT-White has been operating since October 2017 at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (LSC), in Spain. This paper describes the detector and associated infrastructures., The NEXT Collaboration acknowledges support from the following agencies and institutions: the European Research Council (ERC) under the Advanced Grant 339787-NEXT; the European Union's Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 (2014-2020) under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreements No. 674896, 690575 and 740055; the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of Spain under grants FIS2014-53371-C04, the Severo Ochoa Program SEV-2014-0398 and the Maria de Maetzu Program MDM-2016-0692; the GVA of Spain under grants PROMETEO/2016/120 and SEJI/2017/011; the Portuguese FCT and FEDER through the program COMPETE, projects PTDC/FIS-NUC/2525/2014 and UID/FIS/04559/2013; the U.S. Department of Energy under contract numbers DE-AC02-07CH11359 (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), DE-FG02-13ER42020 (Texas A&M), DE-SC0017721 (University of Texas at Arlington), and DE-AC02-06CH11357 (Argonne National Laboratory); and the University of Texas at Arlington. We also warmly acknowledge the Laboratorio Nazionale di Gran Sasso (LNGS) and the Dark Side collaboration for their help with TPB coating of various parts of the NEXT-White TPC. Finally, we are grateful to the Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc for hosting and supporting the NEXT experiment.
Published: 2018

31. Mitigation of backgrounds from cosmogenic 137 Xe in xenon gas experiments using 3 He neutron capture

Author: A. Usón, Víctor H. Alvarez, L. Labarga, J. Torrent, Sandra K. Johnston, K. Bailey, J. Haefner, M. Sorel, R.D.P. Mano, P. Lebrun, T. Contreras, C.A.O. Henriques, P. Herrero, Y. Ifergan, J. Generowicz, A.L. Ferreira, Javier Rodríguez, G. Díaz, J.F.C.A. Veloso, E.D.C. Freitas, B. Palmeiro, M. Diesburg, M. Querol, Jose Repond, J. Escada, F.J. Mora, J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez, J.V. Carrión, L. Rogers, F. Monrabal, Lior Arazi, Javier Pérez, C.M.B. Monteiro, C. Adams, T.M. Stiegler, Diego González-Díaz, G. Martínez-Lema, Y. Rodriguez Garcia, J. A. Hernando Morata, R. Felkai, L.M.P. Fernandes, A.F.M. Fernandes, A. Goldschmidt, C. Sofka, Sudip Ghosh, S. Cebrián, B. Romeo, M. Kekic, C.D.R. Azevedo, E. Church, C.A.N. Conde, P. Novella, A.B. Redwine, F.I.G.M. Borges, R. M. Gutiérrez, J. Martín-Albo, N. Lopez-March, R. C. Webb, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, N. Byrnes, F.P. Santos, A.D. McDonald, J. Muñoz Vidal, K. Woodruff, D. R. Nygren, R. Weiss-Babai, J. T. White, J. Renner, J. M. Hauptman, A. Laing, N. Yahlali, Romain Esteve, M. Losada, R. Dingler, V. Herrero, F. Ballester, Paola Ferrario, I. J. Arnquist, R. Guenette, B. Smithers, J.F. Toledo, S. Cárcel, S. Riordan, A. Martínez, L. Ripoll, B. J. P. Jones, S. Pingulkar, J.M.F. dos Santos, J. Díaz, A. Para, K. Hafidi, A. Simón, C. Romo-Luque, and UAM. Departamento de Física Teórica
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Scintillation and light emission processes, Gas and liquid scintillators, FOS: Physical sciences, chemistry.chemical_element, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, TECNOLOGIA ELECTRONICA, Nuclear physics, Gaseous detectors, Solid, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Xenon, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Isotopes of xenon, Spallation, Neutron, 010306 general physics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Física, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Beta Decay, Neutron temperature, Neutron capture, chemistry, Scintillators, Radioactive decay
Abstract: [EN] Xe-136 is used as the target medium for many experiments searching for 0 nu beta beta. Despite underground operation, cosmic muons that reach the laboratory can produce spallation neutrons causing activation of detector materials. A potential background that is difficult to veto using muon tagging comes in the form of Xe-137 created by the capture of neutrons on Xe-136. This isotope decays via beta decay with a half-life of 3.8 min and a Q(beta) of similar to 4.16 MeV. This work proposes and explores the concept of adding a small percentage of He-3 to xenon as a means to capture thermal neutrons and reduce the number of activations in the detector volume. When using this technique we find the contamination from Xe-137 activation can be reduced to negligible levels in tonne and multi-tonne scale high pressure gas xenon neutrinoless double beta decay experiments running at any depth in an underground laboratory., The work described was supported by the Department of Energy under Award numbers DE-SC0019054 and DE-SC0019223. The NEXT Collaboration acknowledges support from the following agencies and institutions: the European Research Council (ERC) under the Advanced Grant 339787-NEXT; the European Union's Framework Program for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 (2014-2020) under the Marie Skodowska-Curie Grant Agreements No. 674896, 690575 and 740055; the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of Spain under grants FIS2014-53371-C04, the Severo Ochoa Program SEV-2014-0398 and the Maria de Maetzu Program MDM-2016-0692; the GVA of Spain under grants PROMETEO/2016/120 and SEJI/2017/011; the Portuguese FCT under project PTDC/FIS-NUC/2525/2014, under project UID/FIS/04559/2013 to fund the activities of LIBPhys, and under grants PD/BD/105921/2014, SFRH/BPD/109180/2015 and SFRH/BPD/76842/2011. Finally, we are grateful to the Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc for hosting and supporting the NEXT experiment.
Published: 2020

32. Superconducting nanowires as high-rate photon detectors in strong magnetic fields

Author: Whitney Armstrong, John E. Pearson, Zein-Eddine Meziani, Tomas Polakovic, V. G. Yefremenko, Goran Karapetrov, Valentine Novosad, and K. Hafidi
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Niobium nitride, Photon, Ion beam, Nanowire, FOS: Physical sciences, Physics::Optics, 02 engineering and technology, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con), High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), chemistry.chemical_compound, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Instrumentation, Physics, Superconductivity, business.industry, Condensed Matter - Superconductivity, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Magnetic field, chemistry, Picosecond, Optoelectronics, Quantum efficiency, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 0210 nano-technology, business
Abstract: Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors are capable of single-photon detection across a large spectral range with near unity detection efficiency, picosecond timing jitter, and sub-10 μ m position resolution, at rates as high as 109 counts/s. In an effort to bring this technology into nuclear physics experiments, we fabricate niobium nitride (NbN) nanowire detectors using ion beam assisted sputtering and test their performance in strong magnetic fields. We demonstrate that these devices are capable of detection of 400 nm wavelength photons with saturated internal quantum efficiency at temperatures of 3 K and in magnetic fields of up to 5 T at high count rates and with nearly zero dark counts.
Published: 2020

33. Beam-target helicity asymmetry E in K0Λ and K0Σ0 photoproduction on the neutron

Author: P. Lenisa, M. Ungaro, D. G. Ireland, C. A. Meyer, R. Dupre, V. Crede, C.D. Bass, V. A. Nikonov, M. Battaglieri, P. Chatagnon, G. V. Fedotov, R. A. Montgomery, Ron L. Workman, R. Paremuzyan, R. A. Schumacher, C. S. Whisnant, K. P. Adhikari, A. Fradi, M. Osipenko, D. G. Jenkins, Nicholas M. Harrison, N. Markov, Martin K. Mayer, K. A. Griffioen, I. Zonta, I. J. D. MacGregor, A. Kim, H. Hakobyan, M. Khachatryan, D. Sokhan, H. S. Jo, Tim O'Connell, D. Marchand, S. Diehl, M. Bashkanov, B. McKinnon, A. I. Ostrovidov, K. Park, V. Mokeev, G. Khachatryan, L. Lanza, Eberhard Klempt, P. Collins, S. Niccolai, F. X. Girod, M. Contalbrigo, Sandra K. Johnston, P. Eugenio, T. Chetry, Volker D. Burkert, A. S. Biselli, Pawel Nadel-Turonski, M. Mirazita, J. Zhang, Rong Wang, J. W. Price, Alessandro Rizzo, S. Strauch, Iu. Skorodumina, C. Hanretty, George Davey Smith, M. Taiuti, C. Djalali, J. A. Tan, E. Golovatch, Y. G. Sharabian, M. Lowry, G. Charles, K. L. Giovanetti, I. Bedlinskiy, M. Rehfuss, K. Hicks, S. Adhikari, M. L. Kabir, M. Ehrhart, F. Sabatié, Andreas Klein, V. Laine, F. Cao, D. Adikaram, M. Guidal, W. Kim, Larry Weinstein, Z. Akbar, G. Rosner, P. Peng, C. Munoz Camacho, M. H. Wood, M. Hattawy, G. Niculescu, J. A. Fleming, I. I. Strakovsky, M. Holtrop, A. Filippi, A. D'Angelo, M. Ripani, Y. Ghandilyan, Carlos A. Salgado, B. A. Clary, A. M. Sandorfi, B. S. Ishkhanov, M. Khandaker, D. I. Sober, A. Deur, Hong Lu, Michael Paolone, D. Ho, S. Fegan, A. Celentano, R. W. Gothe, D. Heddle, Maxime Defurne, E. L. Isupov, W. Gohn, S. Boiarinov, R. De Vita, T. Kageya, L. El Fassi, N. K. Walford, R. G. Fersch, Frank Klein, P. L. Cole, Z. W. Zhao, Dustin Keller, G. Ciullo, J. P. Ball, Y. Prok, D. S. Carman, Nikos Sparveris, X. Wei, K. Hafidi, E. Voutier, A. Movsisyan, Yordanka Ilieva, L. Barion, V. P. Kubarovsky, D. Riser, A. El Alaoui, Nicholas Zachariou, O. Pogorelko, K. Livingston, H. Voskanyan, D. Protopopescu, W. J. Briscoe, E. Pasyuk, D. P. Watts, H. Egiyan, A. V. Sarantsev, and S. Chandavar
Subjects: Physics, Strange quark, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, media_common.quotation_subject, Nuclear Theory, Quark model, Hyperon, 01 natural sciences, Helicity, Asymmetry, Pseudoscalar meson, Nuclear physics, 13. Climate action, Isospin, 0103 physical sciences, Neutron, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, media_common
Abstract: We report the first measurements of the E beam-target helicity asymmetry for the γn→K0Λ and K0Σ0 channels in the energy range 1.70≤W≤2.34 GeV. The CLAS system at Jefferson Lab uses a circularly polarized photon beam and a target consisting of longitudinally polarized solid molecular hydrogen deuteride with low background contamination for the measurements. The multivariate analysis method boosted decision trees is used to isolate the reactions of interest. Comparisons with predictions from the KaonMAID, SAID, and Bonn-Gatchina models are presented. These results will help separate the isospin I=0 and I=1 photocoupling transition amplitudes in pseudoscalar meson photoproduction.
Published: 2018

34. Initial results on energy resolution of the NEXT-White detector

Author: L. Labarga, J. S. Díaz, P. Novella, N. Yahlali, J. Martín-Albo, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, F. Ballester, G. Martínez-Lema, Romain Esteve, S. Cebrián, Jose Repond, R. C. Webb, Sandra K. Johnston, Paola Ferrario, L. Rogers, J.V. Carrión, R. Guenette, N. López-March, M. Losada, J.F. Toledo, S. Cárcel, C. Sofka, P. Lebrun, R.D.P. Mano, A. Martínez, F.P. Santos, Jose A. Rodriguez, Kevin Bailey, A.D. McDonald, J.M. Benlloch-Rodríguez, M. Kekic, J.A. Hernando Morata, C. Romo-Luque, C.M.B. Monteiro, J.F.C.A. Veloso, E.D.C. Freitas, J. Muñoz Vidal, Víctor H. Alvarez, A.I. Hernandez, F. Psihas, Diego González-Díaz, A. Laing, F.J. Mora, T.M. Stiegler, B. Palmeiro, Lior Arazi, C.A.O. Henriques, R. Felkai, C.D.R. Azevedo, M. Diesburg, F.I.G.M. Borges, A. Botas, S. Riordan, A. Para, J. Escada, M. Sorel, L.M.P. Fernandes, F. Monrabal, D.R. Nygren, A.L. Ferreira, K. Hafidi, V. Herrero, M. Nebot-Guinot, A. Goldschmidt, J. Hauptman, J.M.F. dos Santos, C.A.N. Conde, Javier Pérez, A. Simón, J. Renner, M. Musti, L. Ripoll, B. J. P. Jones, J. Torrent, J. Generowicz, Roberto Gutiérrez, M. Querol, C. Adams, A.F.M. Fernandes, and J.T. White
Subjects: High energy, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Time projection chambers, chemistry.chemical_element, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, Xenon, Optics, Engineering, Affordable and Clean Energy, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, Large detector-systems performance, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Detector, Resolution (electron density), Linearity, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Double-beta decay detectors, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Other Physical Sciences, Full width at half maximum, chemistry, High pressure, Physical Sciences, Analysis and statistical methods, business, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract: One of the major goals of the NEXT-White (NEW) detector is to demonstrate the energy resolution that an electroluminescent high pressure xenon TPC can achieve for high energy tracks. For this purpose, energy calibrations with 137Cs and 232Th sources have been carried out as a part of the long run taken with the detector during most of 2017. This paper describes the initial results obtained with those calibrations, showing excellent linearity and an energy resolution that extrapolates to approximately 1% FWHM at Q$_{\beta\beta}$., Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures, Accepted for publication in JINST
Published: 2018

35. Photoproduction of K+K− meson pairs on the proton

Author: G. Ricco, R. A. Schumacher, K. Mikhailov, L. Bibrzycki, P. Stoler, A. D'Angelo, K. Hicks, H. Hakobyan, Ashot Gasparian, L. Gan, V. Mokeev, A.V. Stavinsky, K. Livingston, D. S. Dale, S. Anefalos Pereira, A. V. Vlassov, D. J. Tedeschi, V. V. Mochalov, K. A. Griffioen, S. Fegan, E. Clinton, Michael Wood, N. Hassall, M. Bellis, K. Hafidi, Michael Vineyard, R. De Vita, S. Stepanyan, C. Bookwalter, P. Nadel-Turonski, M. Kossov, Avraham Klein, T. Mineeva, V. Drozdov, S. Strauch, V. Kuznetsov, Friedrich Klein, D. P. Watts, E. L. Isupov, E. Munevar, H. Egiyan, I. Nakagawa, I. Bedlinskiy, Brian Raue, W. J. Briscoe, Michael L. Williams, A. Kubarovsky, W. Gohn, E. Wolin, Lorenzo Zana, M. Y. Gabrielyan, C. E. Hyde, O. Glamazdin, M. R. Niroula, Z. W. Zhao, S. Niccolai, Y. Prok, D. S. Carman, M. Battaglieri, Barry Ritchie, N. Pivnyuk, I. I. Strakovsky, D. Protopopescu, C. Salgado, E. De Sanctis, M. Garçon, S. Pozdniakov, A. Deur, G. E. Dodge, Martin K. Mayer, G. Rosner, H. Y. Lu, Kei Moriya, C. A. Meyer, M. Osipenko, N. Dashyan, D. I. Sober, F. X. Girod, E. Pasyuk, G. V. Fedotov, S. Tkachenko, Adam P. Szczepaniak, M. S. Saini, I. Niculescu, P. Eugenio, H. Baghdasaryan, K. P. Adhikari, D. P. Weygand, E. Golovatch, M. Taiuti, J. T. Goetz, D. Schott, J. W. Price, C. Djalali, F. Sabatié, V. P. Kubarovsky, O. Pogorelko, W. Kim, P. Collins, M. Anghinolfi, Leonard Lesniak, H. Seraydaryan, J. Zhang, P. Khetarpal, Y. G. Sharabian, C. S. Nepali, M. Ripani, V. Crede, C. Hanretty, J. R. Johnstone, L. Guo, M. Ungaro, S. Park, P. Rossi, K. Joo, M. Guidal, M. Holtrop, A. Daniel, A. I. Ostrovidov, K. Park, Sergey Kuleshov, D. G. Ireland, S. S. Stepanyan, Mark W. Paris, B. Zhao, Volker D. Burkert, A. S. Biselli, S. Dhamija, R. W. Gothe, A. Fradi, M. J. Amaryan, J. Goett, B. McKinnon, D. Branford, S. Pisano, M. Mirazita, S. L. Careccia, J. M. Laget, K. L. Giovanetti, Larry Weinstein, D. Keller, Gerard Gilfoyle, M. Khandaker, M. E. McCracken, Y. Ilieva, D. Sokhan, D. Doughty, A. Teymurazyan, and P. L. Cole
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Meson, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Partial wave analysis, Hadron, Elementary particle, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Particle decay, Pion, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Production (computer science), Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Nucleon
Abstract: The exclusive reaction $\ensuremath{\gamma}p\ensuremath{\rightarrow}p{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{+}{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ was studied in the photon energy range 3.0--3.8 GeV and the momentum transfer range $0.4l\ensuremath{-}tl1.0\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{GeV}}^{2}$. Data were collected with the CLAS detector at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. In this kinematic range, the integrated luminosity was about $20\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{pb}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$. The reaction was isolated by detecting the ${\ensuremath{\pi}}^{+}$ and proton in CLAS, and reconstructing the ${\ensuremath{\pi}}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ via the missing-mass technique. Moments of the di-pion decay angular distributions were derived from the experimental data. Differential cross sections for the $S$, $P$, and $D$-waves, in the ${M}_{{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{+}{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{\ensuremath{-}}}$ mass range 0.4--1.4 GeV, were derived performing a partial wave expansion of the extracted moments. Beside the dominant contribution of the $\ensuremath{\rho}(770)$ meson in the $P$-wave, evidence for the ${f}_{0}(980)$ and the ${f}_{2}(1270)$ mesons was found in the $S$ and $D$-waves, respectively. The differential production cross sections $d\ensuremath{\sigma}/dt$ for individual waves in the mass range of the above-mentioned mesons were extracted. This is the first time the ${f}_{0}(980)$ has been measured in a photoproduction experiment.
Published: 2018

36. Center of Mass Motion of Short-Range Correlated Nucleon Pairs studied via the A(e,e′pp) Reaction

Author: D. Protopopescu, Z. W. Zhao, E. Voutier, M. Duer, D. Marchand, X. Wei, Dustin Keller, P. Eugenio, I. J. D. MacGregor, G. Ciullo, M. Taiuti, C. Djalali, J. A. Tan, W. Kim, Y. Prok, F. Sabatié, L. Lanza, J. P. Ball, D. S. Carman, G. Niculescu, M. L. Kabir, P. Lenisa, S. Strauch, Michael Wood, K. Hafidi, B. A. Clary, K. Livingston, D. G. Jenkins, S. Niccolai, A. Movsisyan, Jie Zhang, Michael Paolone, D. Heddle, A. Celentano, R. W. Gothe, N. Dashyan, Maxime Defurne, H. Avakian, S. E. Kuhn, Friedrich Klein, M. Contalbrigo, A. Beck, Hovanes Egiyan, C. Munoz Camacho, M. Osipenko, M. Ungaro, Eli Piasetzky, H. Voskanyan, R. Fersch, Or Hen, Z. Akbar, L. Barion, R. De Vita, P. Nadel-Turonski, V. Crede, Alessandro Rizzo, Eliahu Cohen, E. Golovatch, R. Dupre, W. J. Briscoe, E. Pasyuk, A. El Alaoui, R. A. Montgomery, R. Paremuzyan, V. Mokeev, M. Battaglieri, M. Ripani, F. Hauenstein, B. S. Ishkhanov, Nicholas M. Harrison, Nicholas Zachariou, Rong Wang, D. Sokhan, Alexander Schmidt, D. P. Watts, S. Adhikari, K. Hicks, B. McKinnon, E. De Sanctis, S. Mey-Tal Beck, A. Kim, V. P. Kubarovsky, Y. G. Sharabian, D. Riser, A. I. Ostrovidov, A. Filippi, P. Rossi, X. Zheng, M. Ehrhart, O. Pogorelko, M. Mirazita, A. Deur, D. G. Ireland, I. Bedlinskiy, M. Khachatryan, M. Khandaker, Nikolaos Sparveris, Volker D. Burkert, A. S. Biselli, M. J. Amaryan, Sandra K. Johnston, K. L. Giovanetti, Larry Weinstein, B. Schmookler, C. A. Meyer, P. Chatagnon, G. V. Fedotov, F. Cao, I. Korover, B. Mustapha, M. Holtrop, Taya Chetry, G. Charles, E. L. Isupov, S. Boiarinov, R. Cruz Torres, H. Hakobyan, S. Diehl, F. X. Girod, J. W. Price, R. A. Schumacher, S. Stepanyan, Avraham Klein, H. S. Jo, A. D'Angelo, L. El Fassi, G. Khachatryan, G. Rosner, Y. Ghandilyan, and K. A. Griffioen
Subjects: Physics, Range (particle radiation), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Nuclear Theory, General Physics and Astronomy, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Momentum, medicine.anatomical_structure, Quantum state, 0103 physical sciences, medicine, Nuclear force, Center of mass, Atomic physics, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Nucleon, Nucleus, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: Short-range correlated (SRC) nucleon pairs are a vital part of the nucleus, accounting for almost all nucleons with momentum greater than the Fermi momentum (k_{F}). A fundamental characteristic of SRC pairs is having large relative momenta as compared to k_{F}, and smaller center of mass (c.m.) which indicates a small separation distance between the nucleons in the pair. Determining the c.m. momentum distribution of SRC pairs is essential for understanding their formation process. We report here on the extraction of the c.m. motion of proton-proton (pp) SRC pairs in carbon and, for the first time in heavier and ansymetric nuclei: aluminum, iron, and lead, from measurements of the A(e,e^{'}pp) reaction. We find that the pair c.m. motion for these nuclei can be described by a three-dimensional Gaussian with a narrow width ranging from 140 to 170 MeV/c, approximately consistent with the sum of two mean-field nucleon momenta. Comparison with calculations appears to show that the SRC pairs are formed from mean-field nucleons in specific quantum states.
Published: 2018

37. Measurements of the γvp→p′π+π− cross section with the CLAS detector for 0.4GeV2<Q2<1.0GeV2 and 1.3GeV<W<1.825GeV

Author: Z. W. Zhao, S. Strauch, Whitney Armstrong, M. Battaglieri, K. Park, Volker D. Burkert, H. Hakobyan, R. A. Schumacher, A. S. Biselli, P. Eugenio, T. Mineeva, Barry Ritchie, M. Khandaker, Y. Ilieva, M. Khachatryan, S. Johnston, N. Markov, M. Hattawy, I. Bedlinskiy, Nicholas Zachariou, M. L. Kabir, Maxime Defurne, F. X. Girod, G. Khachatryan, G. Charles, D. G. Ireland, P. Nadel-Turonski, B. A. Clary, Y. Prok, F. Sabatié, X. Wei, R. De Vita, K. Hicks, Michael Paolone, S. Procureur, M. Ungaro, R. A. Montgomery, Sylvester Joosten, M. Osipenko, K. Livingston, J. W. Price, G. Ciullo, J. P. Ball, D. S. Carman, D. Heddle, K. A. Griffioen, I. I. Strakovsky, G. D. Smith, M. Holtrop, S. Niccolai, I. J. D. MacGregor, Jie Zhang, Avraham Klein, Nikos Sparveris, A. Deur, Hovanes Egiyan, C. Munoz Camacho, A. D'Angelo, V. Mokeev, E. De Sanctis, Y. Ghandilyan, N. Dashyan, G. V. Fedotov, A. Celentano, R. W. Gothe, R. Paremuzyan, Taya Chetry, L. Lanza, P. Lenisa, W. K. Brooks, Nicholas M. Harrison, Gerard Gilfoyle, D. I. Sober, M. Ripani, A. Kim, D. Sokhan, G. Gavalian, Y. G. Sharabian, D. G. Jenkins, M. Bashkanov, S. Adhikari, Iu. Skorodumina, B. McKinnon, L. Guo, Sergey Kuleshov, W. Kim, G. Niculescu, E. Golovatch, R. Dupre, L. El Fassi, Alessandro Rizzo, V. Batourine, L. Barion, Friedrich Klein, M. Contalbrigo, N. Tyler, C. Djalali, J. A. Tan, C. Hanretty, H. S. Jo, B. S. Ishkhanov, M. Taiuti, R. G. Fersch, P. L. Cole, C. Salgado, O. Cortes, E. L. Isupov, S. Boiarinov, D. Protopopescu, E. Voutier, I. Balossino, Dustin Keller, Michael Wood, K. Hafidi, H. Avakian, H. Voskanyan, W. J. Briscoe, E. Pasyuk, V. P. Kubarovsky, D. Riser, and O. Pogorelko
Subjects: Physics, Photon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Cross section (physics), Reaction model, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Invariant mass, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Nucleon
Abstract: New results on the single-differential and fully integrated cross sections for the process γvp→p′π+π- are presented. The experimental data were collected with the CLAS detector at Jefferson Laboratory. Measurements were carried out in the kinematic region of the reaction invariant mass W from 1.3 to 1.825 GeV and the photon virtuality Q2 from 0.4 to 1.0 GeV2. The cross sections were obtained in narrow Q2 bins (0.05 GeV2) with the smallest statistical uncertainties achieved in double-pion electroproduction experiments to date. The results were found to be in agreement with previously available data where they overlap. A preliminary interpretation of the extracted cross sections, which was based on a phenomenological meson-baryon reaction model, revealed substantial relative contributions from nucleon resonances. The data offer promising prospects to improve knowledge on the Q2 evolution of the electrocouplings of most resonances with masses up to ∼1.8 GeV.
Published: 2018

38. Exclusive photoproduction of π0 up to large values of Mandelstam variables s,t, and u with CLAS

Author: S. Adhikari, S. E. Kuhn, M. Hattawy, P. Eugenio, Taya Chetry, E. Golovatch, M. Taiuti, D. Lersch, M. L. Kabir, E. De Sanctis, Carlos A. Salgado, Michael Paolone, S. Procureur, D. I. Sober, D. Protopopescu, G. V. Fedotov, A. Roy, M. Ripani, M. Khachatryan, D. P. Weygand, R. Dupre, M. Battaglieri, Maxime Defurne, M. C. Kunkel, J. Ritman, F. Cao, M. Guidal, Michael Dugger, G. Gavalian, V. P. Kubarovsky, O. Pogorelko, D. I. Glazier, G. Niculescu, P. Lenisa, A. El Alaoui, Barry Ritchie, Iu. Skorodumina, I. Balossino, D. G. Ireland, V. Crede, Frank Klein, I. Bedlinskiy, K. A. Griffioen, R. De Vita, W. Gohn, V. Mokeev, M. Holtrop, L. Elouadrhiri, Y. G. Sharabian, Andreas Klein, Nicholas Zachariou, G. Mbianda Njencheu, W. Phelps, R. A. Schumacher, Dustin Keller, I. I. Strakovsky, A. Filippi, A. Deur, C. Djalali, R. A. Montgomery, K. Hafidi, V. Batourine, H. Avakian, J. A. Tan, L. Lanza, A. D'Angelo, D. P. Watts, D. G. Jenkins, H. Voskanyan, K. Livingston, F. Sabatié, H. Egiyan, M. Khandaker, S. Niccolai, J. Zhang, S. Bültmann, W. J. Briscoe, E. Pasyuk, Alessandro Rizzo, L. El Fassi, J. W. Price, C. E. Hyde, F. X. Girod, L. Guo, M. Ungaro, T. Mineeva, R. G. Fersch, Pawel Nadel-Turonski, P. L. Cole, Z. W. Zhao, K. Hicks, Laura Clark, W. Kim, K. Joo, S. Strauch, G. Charles, B. S. Ishkhanov, O. Cortes, G. Ciullo, E. L. Isupov, J. P. Ball, Y. Prok, D. S. Carman, D. Payette, M. Osipenko, S. Boiarinov, Nikos Sparveris, X. Wei, I. J. D. MacGregor, K. P. Adhikari, A. Kim, E. Voutier, A. Movsisyan, N. Dashyan, H. Hakobyan, S. Stepanyan, L. Barion, M. J. Amaryan, K. L. Giovanetti, Larry Weinstein, G. Khachatryan, S. Schadmand, William Brooks, G. Rosner, S. Ghosh, Y. Ghandilyan, P. V. Degtyarenko, A. Celentano, R. W. Gothe, M. Contalbrigo, C. Munoz Camacho, J. Poudel, B. McKinnon, J. M. Laget, Nicholas M. Harrison, Gerard Gilfoyle, D. Sokhan, A. Fradi, N. Markov, A. I. Ostrovidov, K. Park, G. R. Goldstein, Volker D. Burkert, and A. S. Biselli
Subjects: Quark, Quantum chromodynamics, Physics, Meson, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Perturbative QCD, Parton, Mandelstam variables, Photon energy, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Sum rule in quantum mechanics, 010306 general physics
Abstract: Exclusive photoproduction cross sections have been measured for the process γ p → p π 0 [ e + e − ( γ ) ] with the Dalitz decay final state using tagged photon energies in the range of E γ = 1.275 – 5.425 GeV. The complete angular distribution of the final state π 0 , for the entire photon energy range up to large values of t and u , has been measured for the first time. The data obtained show that the cross section d σ / d t , at mid to large angles, decreases with energy as s − 6.89 ± 0.26 . This is in agreement with the perturbative QCD quark counting rule prediction of s − 7 . Paradoxically, the size of angular distribution of measured cross sections is greatly underestimated by the QCD-based generalized parton distribution mechanism at highest available invariant energy s = 11 GeV 2 . At the same time, the Regge-exchange-based models for π 0 photoproduction are more consistent with experimental data.
Published: 2018

39. 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: James A. Miller, D. J. Margaziotis, M. H. Shabestari, E. Tomasi-Gustafsson, V. Mamyan, S. Dhamija, James Maxwell, Y. Goncharenko, A. Shahinyan, M. Commisso, C. E. Keppel, A. J. R. Puckett, Dipanwita Dutta, Douglas Higinbotham, M. K. Jones, N. M. Piskunov, O. Rondon, J. Arrington, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, X. Zheng, Emil Frlez, S. A. Wood, M. Veilleux, W.U. Boeglin, P. E. Reimer, S. Frullani, W. Luo, H. C. Fenker, William Bertozzi, Di. Kirillov, A. Mkrtchyan, L. Bimbot, Fatiha Benmokhtar, I. Albayrak, O. Moreno, E. J. Brash, H. Baghdasaryan, A. Daniel, Michael Kohl, S. Nedev, P. Carter, S. Covrig, D. S. Razin, W. Hinton, I. Sitnik, Z. Ye, David Hamilton, L. Y. Zhu, Y. Zhang, Rolf Ent, Tanja Horn, K. Shestermanov, L. Solovyev, J. Mulholland, M. Khandaker, C. F. Perdrisat, Ronald Ransome, Eric L. N. Jensen, V. A. Punjabi, D. G. Meekins, E. Piasetzky, A. Davidenko, A. Asaturyan, Y. Prok, Yu.M. Mel'nik, X. Zhang, Bi-Tao Hu, P. E. Bosted, J. Huang, K. Hafidi, W. Pierce, J. Reinhold, F. R. Wesselmann, Geoffrey Smith, P. Solvignon, H. Mkrtchyan, Y. Li, G. J. Kumbartzki, M. E. Christy, Yu.V. Zanevsky, G. Mbianda, Donal Day, Y. Matulenko, Nuruzzaman, Ronald Gilman, Andrei Afanasev, S. Danagoulian, S. P. Chernenko, C. Butuceanu, Amrendra Narayan, D. Gaskell, P. M. King, J. C. Cornejo, V. Kravtsov, A. Ahmidouch, Simon Širca, G. M. Huber, F. Garibaldi, M. Meziane, Lubomir Pentchev, R. Subedi, Shalev Gilad, K. A. Aniol, Bryan J. Moffit, Andrey Vasiliev, A. Marsh, and L. Smykov
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Multiplicative function, Estimator, Observable, Statistical fluctuations, Polarization (waves), 01 natural sciences, Weighting, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Typographical error, Statistical hypothesis testing
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. Differential cross section for γd → ωd using CLAS at Jefferson Lab

Author: R. W. Gothe, I. J. D. MacGregor, M. Contalbrigo, K. A. Griffioen, S. Adhikari, S. Strauch, V. Crede, Taya Chetry, A. Filippi, I. I. Strakovsky, A. Deur, G. Ciullo, J. P. Ball, Y. Prok, D. S. Carman, Nikos Sparveris, E. Voutier, Misak Sargsian, M. Khandaker, L. Lanza, S. Niccolai, A. El Alaoui, Y. Ilieva, N. Compton, A. Movsisyan, M. Khachatryan, E. De Sanctis, Nicholas Zachariou, I. Bedlinskiy, W. K. Brooks, B. McKinnon, E. L. Isupov, M. Battaglieri, Iu. Skorodumina, P. Eugenio, M. Osipenko, M. Taiuti, R. A. Schumacher, Laura Clark, P. Lenisa, D. I. Sober, S. Boiarinov, M. L. Kabir, G. Charles, A. Kim, K. Livingston, M. Hattawy, A. D'Angelo, E. Golovatch, D. G. Jenkins, G. D. Smith, R. Dupre, N. Markov, Jie Zhang, M. Holtrop, Friedrich Klein, K. L. Giovanetti, Andrea Celentano, S. Stepanyan, Larry Weinstein, G. V. Fedotov, R. De Vita, C. Salgado, V. Batourine, L. El Fassi, P. Nadel-Turonski, N. Dashyan, G. Gavalian, V. Mokeev, Z. W. Zhao, R. Paremuzyan, Nicholas M. Harrison, F. X. Girod, L. Barion, S. Johnston, J. W. Price, M. Ripani, B. A. Clary, Michael Paolone, Barry Ritchie, A. I. Ostrovidov, K. Park, D. G. Ireland, Volker D. Burkert, A. S. Biselli, C. Djalali, J. A. Tan, D. Sokhan, W. Kim, C. Munoz Camacho, G. Niculescu, R. G. Fersch, P. L. Cole, M. Ungaro, H. Voskanyan, B. S. Ishkhanov, E. Pasyuk, V. P. Kubarovsky, D. Riser, O. Pogorelko, I. Balossino, G. Khachatryan, Dustin Keller, W. J. Briscoe, Michael Wood, K. Hafidi, L. Guo, Alessandro Rizzo, K. Hicks, W. Phelps, G. Rosner, and Y. Ghandilyan
Subjects: Vector Meson Dominance, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Meson, Nuclear Theory, Socio-culturale, Double scattering, Photon energy, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Nuclear physics, Cross section (physics), 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Physics, Range (particle radiation), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Scattering, Momentum transfer, Differential cross section, Single scattering, Vector meson dominance, lcsh:QC1-999, Deuterium, High Energy Physics::Experiment, lcsh:Physics
Abstract: The cross section for coherent ω-meson photoproduction off the deuteron has been measured for the first time as a function of the momentum transfer t=(Pγ−Pω)2 and photon energy Eγ using the CLAS detector at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. The cross sections are measured in the energy range 1.4
Published: 2018

41. Modified structure of protons and neutrons in correlated pairs

Author: R. A. Schumacher, S. E. Kuhn, J. W. Price, G. Ciullo, J. P. Ball, J. Zhang, D. Protopopescu, D. S. Carman, E. Voutier, A. Rizzo, Y. G. Sharabian, M. J. Amaryan, M. Bashkanov, C. E. Hyde, L. El Fassi, T. A. Forest, B. McKinnon, B. S. Ishkhanov, Taya Chetry, Avraham Klein, E. Golovatch, K. Livingston, H. Avakian, H. S. Jo, Or Hen, R. Dupre, Chaden Djalali, L. Barion, F. Hauenstein, T. Mineeva, M. Mirazita, R. De Vita, P. Eugenio, Y. Prok, H. Voskanyan, Avi Ashkenazi, Alexander Schmidt, A. Filippi, K. A. Griffioen, A. D'Angelo, Sergey Kuleshov, P. Lenisa, S. Stepanyan, M. L. Kabir, Latifa Elouadrhiri, M. Osipenko, S. Mey Tal Beck, Larry Weinstein, Y. Ilieva, E.P. Segarra, I. Bedlinskiy, T. B. Hayward, G. V. Fedotov, F. X. Girod, Martin Wood, B. Mustapha, A. Deur, Eli Piasetzky, Friedrich Klein, I. J. D. MacGregor, X. Zheng, E. De Sanctis, I. Balossino, S. Strauch, R. G. Fersch, G. Laskaris, A. Beck, P. L. Cole, W. K. Brooks, S. Adhikari, M. Khandaker, Eliahu Cohen, M. Duer, E. L. Isupov, Mark Strikman, K. Hicks, I. Korover, K. Park, M. Guidal, E. Pasyuk, N. Dashyan, M. Khachatryan, Shalev Gilad, G. Charles, Nicholas Zachariou, X. Wei, Nikolaos Sparveris, S. Joosten, M. Ripani, M. Holtrop, L. Guo, V. P. Kubarovsky, Michael Paolone, D. Riser, L. Lanza, Z. W. Zhao, H. Egiyan, M. Taiuti, C. Munoz Camacho, S. Niccolai, S. Boiarinov, A. I. Ostrovidov, C. Hanretty, F. Sabatié, D. G. Ireland, Douglas Higinbotham, M. Patsyuk, R. Paremuzyan, M. Battaglieri, David M. Keller, Volker D. Burkert, Nicholas M. Harrison, A. S. Biselli, Gerard Gilfoyle, D. Sokhan, D. P. Watts, K. Hafidi, W. Kim, K. Joo, R. Cruz-Torres, M. Ungaro, S. Diehl, C. Salgado, Andrea Celentano, N. Markov, R. W. Gothe, S. Johnston, B. Schmookler, O. Pogorelko, Victor Mokeev, V. Crede, R. A. Montgomery, H. Hakobyan, G. Khachatryan, W. J. Briscoe, P. Rossi, G. Rosner, I. u. Skorodumina, J. A. Tan, A. Kim, G. Gavalian, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CLAS, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)
Subjects: Quark, Nuclear Theory, Proton, nuclear physics: effect, nucleon: pair, EMC effect, Socio-culturale, FOS: Physical sciences, correlation: short-range, 01 natural sciences, symmetry breaking, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Nuclear physics, quark, Nuclear Theory (nucl-th), Experimental nuclear physics, Theoretical nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), CLAS, 0103 physical sciences, quantum chromodynamics, Neutron, structure, Experimental nuclear physics, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, quark gluon, Physics, Multidisciplinary, nucleon nucleon: correlation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, precision measurement, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, gluon, 3. Good health, Gluon, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Theoretical nuclear physics, [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], Quark–gluon plasma, Atomic nucleus, Nucleon, experimental results
Abstract: The atomic nucleus is made of protons and neutrons (nucleons), that are themselves composed of quarks and gluons. Understanding how the quark-gluon structure of a nucleon bound in an atomic nucleus is modified by the surrounding nucleons is an outstanding challenge. Although evidence for such modification, known as the EMC effect, was first observed over 35 years ago, there is still no generally accepted explanation of its cause. Recent observations suggest that the EMC effect is related to close-proximity Short Range Correlated (SRC) nucleon pairs in nuclei. Here we report the first simultaneous, high-precision, measurements of the EMC effect and SRC abundances. We show that the EMC data can be explained by a universal modification of the structure of nucleons in neutron-proton (np) SRC pairs and present the first data-driven extraction of this universal modification function. This implies that, in heavier nuclei with many more neutrons than protons, each proton is more likely than each neutron to belong to an SRC pair and hence to have its quark structure distorted., Comment: Published in Nature. Total: 21 pages, 9 figures, 10 tables. Main text: 7 pages, 4 figures. Methods section: 1 page. Extended Data: 1 figure, 3 table. Supplementary Materials: 11 pages, 4 figures, 7 tables
Published: 2018

42. Measurement of the beam asymmetry Σ and the target asymmetry T in the photoproduction of ω mesons off the proton using CLAS at Jefferson Laboratory

Author: William Brooks, George Davey Smith, R. A. Schumacher, A. El Alaoui, S. Stepanyan, J. Pierce, H. Y. Lu, P. Eugenio, G. Gavalian, I. Denisenko, N. Dashyan, Taya Chetry, M. Taiuti, A. Filippi, A. Fradi, D. P. Watts, K. A. Griffioen, Friedrich Klein, V. Crede, M. Khandaker, D. G. Meekins, Brian Raue, A. D'Angelo, A. V. Sarantsev, Yordanka Ilieva, Nicholas Zachariou, E. Pasyuk, V. Mokeev, V. Batourine, R. Paremuzyan, R. De Vita, N. Markov, L. Lanza, G. Rosner, E. Golovatch, K. Hicks, W. Kim, Sergey Kuleshov, M. Ripani, R. A. Montgomery, F. Sabatié, S. Niccolai, Carlos A. Salgado, C. D. Keith, Pawel Nadel-Turonski, D. G. Jenkins, Eberhard Klempt, B. A. Clary, J. Brock, Alessandro Rizzo, R. Dupre, M. Battaglieri, J. Zhang, C. Djalali, J. A. Tan, L. El Fassi, J. W. Price, S. Anefalos Pereira, K. Livingston, C. Hanretty, C. Carlin, M. Guidal, L. Guo, M. Ungaro, Gerard Gilfoyle, A. I. Ostrovidov, A. V. Anisovich, K. Park, G. Charles, G. Niculescu, V. A. Nikonov, G. Ciullo, J. P. Ball, B. Torayev, Y. Prok, F. X. Girod, M. E. McCracken, D. S. Carman, D. G. Ireland, M. Holtrop, K. Joo, I. Bedlinskiy, V. P. Kubarovsky, D. Riser, M. Osipenko, Andreas Klein, Nikos Sparveris, X. Wei, T. Mineeva, D. Sokhan, O. Pogorelko, S. Procureur, W. Gohn, A. Kim, Z. E. Meziani, W. Phelps, Volker D. Burkert, M. Bashkanov, A. S. Biselli, B. S. Ishkhanov, L. Elouadrhiri, K. L. Giovanetti, I. Balossino, S. Strauch, Michael Dugger, D. I. Sober, E. Voutier, I. I. Strakovsky, A. Movsisyan, B. McKinnon, Dustin Keller, S. Park, A. Deur, K. Hafidi, Iu. Skorodumina, Sylvester Joosten, S. Fegan, G. Khachatryan, P. L. Cole, Z. W. Zhao, E. Phelps, N. Gevorgyan, D. Protopopescu, W. J. Briscoe, C. Munoz Camacho, M. H. Wood, A. Celentano, R. W. Gothe, M. Contalbrigo, Z. Akbar, N. K. Walford, I. J. D. MacGregor, S. Adhikari, M. Hattawy, Martin K. Mayer, Y. G. Sharabian, C. Gleason, Barry Ritchie, P. Roy, C. A. Meyer, G. V. Fedotov, E. L. Isupov, S. Boiarinov, K. P. Adhikari, H. Hakobyan, and P. Lenisa
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Proton, Meson, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Partial wave analysis, media_common.quotation_subject, Nuclear Theory, Bremsstrahlung, Observable, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Resonance (particle physics), Asymmetry, Baryon, Nuclear physics, 13. Climate action, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, media_common
Abstract: The photoproduction of ω mesons off the proton has been studied in the reaction γp→pω using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) and the frozen-spin target in Hall B at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. For the first time, the target asymmetry T has been measured in photoproduction from the decay ω→π+π-π0, using a transversely polarized target with energies ranging from just above the reaction threshold up to 2.8 GeV. Significant nonzero values are observed for these asymmetries, reaching about 30-40% in the third-resonance region. New measurements for the photon-beam asymmetry Σ are also presented, which agree well with previous CLAS results and extend the world database up to 2.1 GeV. These data and additional ω photoproduction observables from CLAS were included in a partial-wave analysis within the Bonn-Gatchina framework. Significant contributions from s-channel resonance production were found in addition to t-channel exchange processes.
Published: 2018

43. Measurements of the separated longitudinal structure function FL from hydrogen and deuterium targets at low Q2

Author: Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, E. McGrath, T. Angelescu, D. H. Potterveld, B. L. Berman, B. Zihlmann, P. E. Reimer, E. R. Kinney, G. Chang, T. Horn, V. V. Frolov, C. Yan, J. Arrington, Y. Liang, G. M. Huber, A. Lung, G. S. Adams, Rolf Ent, James J. Kelly, J. Telfeyan, D. G. Meekins, T. Dodario, Curtis Smith, E. Segbefia, T. Ostapenko, H. E. Jackson, H. Mkrtchyan, Glen A. Warren, K. Hafidi, Donal Day, A. Uzzle, W. F. Vulcan, W. U. Boeglin, V. Tvaskis, E. J. Brash, N. S. Chant, M. E. Christy, G. Mbianda, I. Niculescu, P. Stoler, Joerg Reinhold, M. Ungaro, X. Jiang, O. K. Baker, Z. Papandreou, G. R. Smith, H. C. Fenker, M. M. Dalton, H. P. Blok, H. Breuer, A. Tvaskis, V. P. Kubarovsky, Cynthia Keppel, A. S. Biselli, J. Kuhn, Paul Gueye, S. A. Wood, A. Ahmidouch, J. A. Dunne, D. Abbott, Simon Henry Connell, S. Vidakovic, V. Tadevosyan, D. J. Mack, K. Garrow, R. J. Holt, Avraham Klein, Jim Napolitano, Stephen Avery, N. Benmouna, S. Danagoulian, S. E. Rock, N. El Khayari, E. Schulte, G. Niculescu, S. Malace, P. Bosted, F. R. Wesselmann, G. J. Lolos, J. Roche, M. Nozar, L. Todor, A. N. Villano, D. Mckee, T. Navasardyan, M. K. Jones, Dipanwita Dutta, R. Asaturyan, Pete Markowitz, D. Gaskell, W. Hinton, Ronald Gilman, Andrei Afanasev, K. Joo, and L. G. Tang
Subjects: Physics, Proton, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Scattering, Momentum transfer, Parton, Deep inelastic scattering, 01 natural sciences, Molecular physics, Nuclear physics, Deuterium, 0103 physical sciences, Neutron, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Nucleon
Abstract: Structure functions, as measured in lepton-nucleon scattering, have proven to be very useful in studying the partonic dynamics within the nucleon. However, it is experimentally difficult to separately determine the longitudinal and transverse structure functions, and consequently there are substantially less data available in particular for the longitudinal structure function. Here, we present separated structure functions for hydrogen and deuterium at low four-momentum transfer squared, Q2
Published: 2018

44. High Voltage Insulation and Gas Absorption of Polymers in High Pressure Argon and Xenon Gases

Author: Javier Pérez, F.I.G.M. Borges, Roberto Gutiérrez, N. López-March, C. Sofka, S. Cebrián, R. C. Webb, C. Romo-Luque, J. Torrent, Vicente Herrero, J.M.F. dos Santos, K. Bailey, A. Goldschmidt, C.A.N. Conde, R. Guenette, J.F. Toledo, S. Cárcel, A. Laing, J. M. Hauptman, L. Ripoll, R.D.P. Mano, Romain Esteve, B. J. P. Jones, F. Psihas, C.D.R. Azevedo, J.M. Benlloch-Rodríguez, A. Simón, M. Sorel, M. Musti, N. Yahlali, A.L. Ferreira, F. Monrabal, F. Ballester, J.F.C.A. Veloso, E.D.C. Freitas, B. Palmeiro, J. A. Hernando Morata, L.M.P. Fernandes, Paola Ferrario, J. Muñoz Vidal, M. Nebot-Guinot, F.P. Santos, D.R. Nygren, R. Felkai, P. Lebrun, G. Martínez-Lema, D. González-Díaz, J. S. Díaz, P. Novella, A. Para, K. Hafidi, M. Kekic, Lior Arazi, J. Martín-Albo, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, M. Diesburg, A. Botas, J. Escada, L. Labarga, Jose Repond, Javier Rodríguez, J.V. Carrión, Víctor H. Alvarez, S. Riordan, Ana Martínez, L. Rogers, C.A.O. Henriques, J. Generowicz, Sandra K. Johnston, M. Querol, C.M.B. Monteiro, C. Adams, A.F.M. Fernandes, Richard A.F. Clark, A.I. Hernandez, J. T. White, J. Renner, M. Losada, A.D. McDonald, F.J. Mora, and T.M. Stiegler
Subjects: Materials science, Argon, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, FOS: Physical sciences, chemistry.chemical_element, Noble gas, High voltage, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 01 natural sciences, Characterization (materials science), High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Xenon, chemistry, 0103 physical sciences, Peek, Surface charge, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Absorption (chemistry), Composite material, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, Nuclear Experiment, Mathematical Physics
Abstract: High pressure gas time projection chambers (HPGTPCs) are made with a variety of materials, many of which have not been well characterized in high pressure noble gas environments. As HPGTPCs are scaled up in size toward ton-scale detectors, assemblies become larger and more complex, creating a need for detailed understanding of how structural supports and high voltage insulators behave. This includes the identification of materials with predictable mechanical properties and without surface charge accumulation that may lead to field deformation or sparking. This paper explores the mechanical and electrical effects of high pressure gas environments on insulating polymers PTFE, HDPE, PEEK, POM and UHMW in Argon and Xenon, including studying absorption, swelling and high voltage insulation strength., Prepared for JINST v2: Fix initial submit problem v3: Submitted to journal
Published: 2018

45. Measurement of the Q2 Dependence of the Deuteron Spin Structure Function g1 and its Moments at Low Q2 with CLAS

Author: I. Balossino, K. Kovacs, C. E. Hyde, Taya Chetry, P. Lenisa, Friedrich Klein, E. De Sanctis, D. G. Meekins, R. A. Schumacher, R. W. Gothe, L. El Fassi, Latifa Elouadrhiri, Y. Prok, Michael Paolone, L. Lanza, V. Crede, K. Park, C. A. Meyer, C. Munoz Camacho, J. Brock, G. V. Fedotov, J. P. Chen, K. Livingston, V. P. Kubarovsky, X. Zheng, A. D'Angelo, D. Heddle, B. McKinnon, M. Battaglieri, P. L. Cole, V. A. Drozdov, S. Bültmann, Maxime Defurne, G. Khachatryan, H. Avakian, M. Hattawy, J. A. Tan, K. P. Adhikari, N. Markov, M. Mirazita, Martin K. Mayer, H. Kang, K. Hafidi, S. Strauch, K. Joo, J. Pierce, Avraham Klein, K. Hicks, M. J. Amaryan, H. Hakobyan, J. W. Price, P. Bosted, H. S. Jo, W. Kim, M. Khachatryan, W. J. Briscoe, Nikolaos Sparveris, R. De Vita, M. Guidal, G. Niculescu, E. Pasyuk, K. A. Griffioen, G. E. Dodge, N. Dashyan, S. K. Phillips, C. Carlin, R. Paremuzyan, W. Phelps, A. Filippi, G. D. Smith, M. Holtrop, I. Bedlinskiy, M. Osipenko, Y. Ilieva, H. Egiyan, Larry Weinstein, D. Payette, E. L. Isupov, E. Golovatch, R. Dupre, Z. W. Zhao, I. J. D. MacGregor, P. Nadel-Turonski, Nicholas M. Harrison, Gerard Gilfoyle, S. E. Kuhn, F. Thanh Cao, S. Stepanyan, N. Guler, S. Johnston, D. Sokhan, Laura Clark, M. Ungaro, A. I. Ostrovidov, Luciano Pappalardo, E. Long, Sylvester Joosten, D. G. Jenkins, M. Khandaker, B. A. Raue, M. Contalbrigo, D. G. Ireland, Chaden Djalali, X. Wei, T. Shigeyuki, C. D. Keith, G. Rosner, Volker D. Burkert, P. Eugenio, M. Taiuti, S. Choi, T. Mineeva, A. S. Biselli, L. Guo, Y. Ghandilyan, P. Rossi, M. L. Kabir, S. Niccolai, A. El Alaoui, P. Konczykowski, Andrea Celentano, Karl Slifer, C. Salgado, L. Barion, J. Poudel, O. Pogorelko, C. Hanretty, M. Ripani, Z. Akbar, I. I. Strakovsky, A. Simonyan, G. Ciullo, J. P. Ball, D. S. Carman, A. Rizzo, A. Deur, A. Movsisyan, Victor Mokeev, J. Zhang, D. Protopopescu, S. Adhikari, E. Voutier, Y. G. Sharabian, G. Charles, V. Sulkosky, F. Sabatié, David M. Keller, and Iu. Skorodumina
Subjects: Physics, Quantum chromodynamics, Nuclear reaction, Chiral perturbation theory, Magnetic moment, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, General Physics and Astronomy, Spin structure, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear magnetic resonance, Polarizability, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Invariant mass, Atomic physics, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Nucleon
Abstract: We measured the g 1 spin structure function of the deuteron at low Q 2 , where QCD can be approximated with chiral perturbation theory ( χ PT ). The data cover the resonance region, up to an invariant mass of W ≈ 1.9 GeV . The generalized Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum, the moment Γ d 1 and the spin polarizability γ d 0 are precisely determined down to a minimum Q 2 of 0.02 GeV 2 for the first time, about 2.5 times lower than that of previous data. We compare them to several χ PT calculations and models. These results are the first in a program of benchmark measurements of polarization observables in the χ PT domain.
Published: 2018

46. Measurement of radon-induced backgrounds in the NEXT double beta decay experiment

Author: G. Martínez-Lema, Javier Pérez, R. Guenette, J.F. Toledo, F. Monrabal, M. Diesburg, S. Cárcel, P. Lebrun, J. Escada, A. Para, M. Sorel, A.L. Ferreira, A. Martínez, M. Nebot-Guinot, C.D.R. Azevedo, L. Labarga, F. Ballester, Paola Ferrario, M. Losada, Sandra K. Johnston, J.M. Benlloch-Rodríguez, N. López-March, J. Torrent, F.P. Santos, C. Romo-Luque, J.M.F. dos Santos, K. Bailey, S. Riordan, F.I.G.M. Borges, R.D.P. Mano, A.D. McDonald, D.R. Nygren, J.A. Hernando Morata, J.T. White, Vicente Herrero, A. Goldschmidt, J. Hauptman, A. Botas, A. Laing, J. Generowicz, F. Psihas, C. Sofka, J. Martíın-Albo, C.A.N. Conde, L. Ripoll, C. Adams, B. J. P. Jones, A. Simón, J.F.C.A. Veloso, E.D.C. Freitas, F.J. Mora, A.F.M. Fernandes, M. Musti, Víctor H. Alvarez, T.M. Stiegler, D. González-Díaz, J. S. Díaz, P. Novella, C.M.B. Monteiro, Lior Arazi, Roberto Gutiérrez, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, Javier Rodríguez, L.M.P. Fernandes, C.A.O. Henriques, R. Felkai, K. Hafidi, Jose Repond, L. Rogers, J.V. Carrión, M. Querol, J. Muñoz Vidal, S. Cebrián, R. C. Webb, M. Kekic, N. Yahlali, Romain Esteve, B. Palmeiro, A.I. Hernandez, J. Renner, G. Zuzel, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Física de Partículas, and Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías (IGFAE)
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear physics, FOS: Physical sciences, chemistry.chemical_element, Radon, Electron, 01 natural sciences, Atomic, Mathematical Sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, law.invention, Ion, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Xenon, Particle and Plasma Physics, law, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Dark Matter and Double Beta Decay (experiments), lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, Nuclear, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Mathematical Physics, Physics, Quantum Physics, Time projection chamber, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Molecular, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Nuclear & Particles Physics, Cathode, Doble desintegració beta, chemistry, Physical Sciences, lcsh:QC770-798, Física nuclear
Abstract: The measurement of the internal $^{222}$Rn activity in the NEXT-White detector during the so-called Run-II period with $^{136}$Xe-depleted xenon is discussed in detail, together with its implications for double beta decay searches in NEXT. The activity is measured through the alpha production rate induced in the fiducial volume by $^{222}$Rn and its alpha-emitting progeny. The specific activity is measured to be $(38.1\pm 2.2~\mathrm{(stat.)}\pm 5.9~\mathrm{(syst.)})$~mBq/m$^3$. Radon-induced electrons have also been characterized from the decay of the $^{214}$Bi daughter ions plating out on the cathode of the time projection chamber. From our studies, we conclude that radon-induced backgrounds are sufficiently low to enable a successful NEXT-100 physics program, as the projected rate contribution should not exceed 0.1~counts/yr in the neutrinoless double beta decay sample., Comment: 28 pages, 10 figures, 6 tables. Version accepted for publication in JHEP
Published: 2018

47. Measurement of Unpolarized and Polarized Cross Sections for Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering on the Proton at Jefferson Laboratory with CLAS

Author: F. Cao, W. Phelps, M. Guidal, E. Pasyuk, N. Dashyan, P. Lenisa, Andrea Celentano, M. Holtrop, S. Procureur, W. Gohn, S. E. Kuhn, G. Charles, M. J. Amaryan, H. S. Jo, H. Y. Lu, H. Voskanyan, B. McKinnon, Iu. Skorodumina, Friedrich Klein, Z. W. Zhao, A. I. Ostrovidov, R. A. Montgomery, Y. Prok, F. Sabatié, David M. Keller, Maxime Defurne, B. Guegan, K. A. Griffioen, H. Hakobyan, P. Stoler, A. Kim, M. Mirazita, A. El Alaoui, A. Filippi, N. Markov, A. Fradi, Latifa Elouadrhiri, X. Wei, G. Rosner, Taya Chetry, C. A. Meyer, I. Balossino, N. Gevorgyan, S. Johnston, K. L. Giovanetti, E. L. Isupov, G. V. Fedotov, K. Hicks, Y. Ghandilyan, Nicholas Zachariou, P. Eugenio, G. Niculescu, V. Batourine, D. G. Ireland, Sergey Kuleshov, M. Ripani, A. Deur, L. Guo, T. Mineeva, K. P. Adhikari, J. A. Tan, M. L. Kabir, S. Niccolai, Volker D. Burkert, W. K. Brooks, D. P. Watts, B. S. Ishkhanov, S. Adhikari, A. S. Biselli, D. Heddle, M. Battaglieri, C. Gleason, M. Khachatryan, D. G. Jenkins, M. Ungaro, R. De Vita, G. Khachatryan, E. Golovatch, R. Dupre, K. Park, Y. Ilieva, Nikolaos Sparveris, L. Lanza, R. W. Gothe, W. Kim, I. Bedlinskiy, K. Livingston, C. Munoz Camacho, M. Hattawy, R. A. Schumacher, M. Osipenko, P. Rossi, W. J. Briscoe, A. D'Angelo, R. G. Fersch, V. P. Kubarovsky, P. Nadel-Turonski, D. Riser, M. Khandaker, S. Stepanyan, R. Paremuzyan, K. Hafidi, S. Bültmann, T. A. Forest, P. L. Cole, Sylvester Joosten, O. Pogorelko, S. Diehl, S. Anefalos Pereira, Avraham Klein, Nicholas M. Harrison, Gerard Gilfoyle, J. W. Price, I. J. D. MacGregor, M. Contalbrigo, Martin Wood, C. Hanretty, L. Barion, C. Salgado, M. Taiuti, J. Zhang, D. Protopopescu, Victor Mokeev, Z. Akbar, M. Garçon, E. Voutier, Y. G. Sharabian, G. Ciullo, J. P. Ball, D. S. Carman, A. Rizzo, A. Movsisyan, L. El Fassi, Zein-Eddine Meziani, M. E. McCracken, F. X. Girod, O. Cortes, S. Boiarinov, Chaden Djalali, G. D. Smith, S. Strauch, G. Gavalian, B. A. Clary, N. Hirlinger Saylor, Michael Paolone, N. A. Baltzell, K. Joo, H. Egiyan, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, CLAS, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)
Subjects: electron p: deep inelastic scattering, interference: Bethe-Heitler, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, generalized parton distribution, Proton, accelerator, electron: polarized beam, Hadronic Physics and QCD, FOS: Physical sciences, Socio-culturale, parton: distribution function, Parton, Newport News CEBAF Linac, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], momentum transfer dependence, 01 natural sciences, beam: energy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, x-dependence, Nuclear physics, Cross section (physics), High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), spectrometer: acceptance, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), deeply virtual Compton scattering, CLAS, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Quantum chromodynamics, Physics, Spectrometer, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Compton scattering, cross section: difference, HERA, magnetic spectrometer, photon: electroproduction, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, kinematics, [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], Nucleon, channel cross section: measured, experimental results
Abstract: This paper reports the measurement of polarized and unpolarized cross sections for the ep -> e'p' reaction, which is comprised of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering (DVCS) and Bethe-Heitler (BH) processes, at an electron beam energy of 5.88 GeV at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility using the Large Acceptance Spectrometer CLAS. The unpolarized cross sections and polarized cross section differences have been measured over broad kinematics, 0.10 < x_B < 0.58, 1.0 < Q^2 < 4.8 GeV^2, and 0.09 < -t < 2.00 GeV^2. The results are found to be consistent with previous CLAS data, and these new data are discussed in the framework of the generalized parton distribution approach. Calculations with two widely used phenomenological models, denoted VGG and KMSC, are approximately compatible with the experimental results over a large portion of the kinematic range of the data., 27 pages, 24 figures, Accepted for publication in PRC
Published: 2018

48. Electron drift properties in high pressure gaseous xenon

Author: G. Martínez-Lema, C.D.R. Azevedo, Jose Repond, J.V. Carrión, L. Ripoll, M. Kekic, M. Diesburg, J. Escada, Vicente Herrero, B. J. P. Jones, D.R. Nygren, L.M.P. Fernandes, Víctor H. Alvarez, A. Goldschmidt, J. Hauptman, L. Labarga, F. Monrabal, Roberto Gutiérrez, N. Yahlali, F. Ballester, Paola Ferrario, R. Guenette, Romain Esteve, J. Muñoz Vidal, M. Querol, M. Losada, N. López-March, Javier Rodríguez, J.F. Toledo, S. Cárcel, P. Lebrun, B. Palmeiro, Javier Pérez, K. Hafidi, A. Para, D. González-Díaz, J. S. Díaz, P. Novella, S. Cebrián, J.M.F. dos Santos, A. Martínez, M. Sorel, J. Martín-Albo, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, A.L. Ferreira, C. Romo-Luque, L. Rogers, R. C. Webb, J. Torrent, J. Generowicz, J.A. Hernando Morata, C.A.N. Conde, A. Simón, M. Nebot-Guinot, K. Bailey, C. Adams, J.F.C.A. Veloso, E.D.C. Freitas, J.M. Benlloch-Rodríguez, M. Musti, F.P. Santos, R. Felkai, F.I.G.M. Borges, Lior Arazi, C.M.B. Monteiro, C. Sofka, S. Riordan, C.A.O. Henriques, A. Botas, A. Laing, J.T. White, Sandra K. Johnston, F.J. Mora, T.M. Stiegler, A.D. McDonald, A.I. Hernandez, and J. Renner
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Library science, FOS: Physical sciences, Charge transport, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Electron drift, High Energy Physics - Experiment, TECNOLOGIA ELECTRONICA, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Political science, 0103 physical sciences, media_common.cataloged_instance, European union, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, Nuclear Experiment, Mathematical Physics, media_common, Charge transport and multiplication in gas, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, European research, Multiplication and electroluminescence in rare gases and liquids, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Double-beta decay detectors, Gaseous imaging and tracking detectors, High pressure, High Energy Physics::Experiment
Abstract: [EN] Gaseous time projection chambers (TPC) are a very attractive detector technology for particle tracking. Characterization of both drift velocity and di¿usion is of great importance to correctly assess their tracking capabilities. NEXT-White is a High Pressure Xenon gas TPC with electroluminescent ampli¿cation, a 1:2 scale model of the future NEXT-100detector, which will be dedicated to neutrinoless double beta decay searches. NEXT-White has been operating at Canfranc Underground Laboratory (LSC) since December2016. The drift parameters have been measured using 83mKr for a range of reduced drift ¿elds at two di¿erent pressure regimes, namely 7.2 bar and 9.1 bar. Theresults have been compared with Magboltz simulations. Agreement at the 5% level or better has been found for drift velocity, longitudinal di¿usion and transverse di¿usion., The NEXT Collaboration acknowledges support from the following agencies and institutions: the European Research Council (ERC) under the Advanced Grant 339787-NEXT; the European Union's Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 (2014-2020) under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreements No. 674896, 690575 and 740055; the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of Spain under grants FIS2014-53371-C04, the Severo Ochoa Program SEV-2014-0398 and the Maria de Maetzu Program MDM-2016-0692; the GVA of Spain under grants PROMETEO/2016/120 and SEJI/2017/011; the Portuguese FCT and FEDER through the program COMPETE, projects PTDC/FIS-NUC/2525/2014 and UID/FIS/04559/2013; the U.S. Department of Energy under contracts number DE-AC02-07CH11359 (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), DE-FG02-13ER42020 (Texas A&M) and de-sc0017721 (University of Texas at Arlington); and the University of Texas at Arlington. We also warmly acknowledge the Laboratorio Nazionale di Gran Sasso (LNGS) and the Dark Side collaboration for their help with TPB coating of various parts of the NEXT-White TPC. Finally, we are grateful to the Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc for hosting and supporting the NEXT experiment.
Published: 2018
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49. First measurement of $\Xi^-$ polarization in photoproduction

Author: K. Livingston, M. Hattawy, Taya Chetry, Jie Zhang, A. Kim, L. Guo, Alessandro Rizzo, W. Kim, G. Niculescu, R. Paremuzyan, Lorenzo Zana, N. Dashyan, Nicholas M. Harrison, R. A. Schumacher, Maxime Defurne, Yordanka Ilieva, C. Djalali, J. A. Tan, K. A. Griffioen, C. Salgado, V. Crede, D. Sokhan, D. I. Glazier, L. Barion, P. Eugenio, Michael Dugger, R. A. Montgomery, R. De Vita, E. Golovatch, A. El Alaoui, M. Taiuti, Nicholas Zachariou, M. Osipenko, J. Bono, A. Fradi, M. L. Kabir, H. Egiyan, F. Cao, I. Bedlinskiy, Iu. Skorodumina, S. Stepanyan, G. Charles, M. Ungaro, E. L. Isupov, B. A. Clary, C. Munoz Camacho, G. Rosner, X. Wei, P. Lenisa, Y. Prok, S. Strauch, M. Battaglieri, F. Sabatié, W. Gohn, D. Protopopescu, Z. W. Zhao, N. Markov, K. Hicks, M. Bashkanov, S. Adhikari, B. McKinnon, W. Phelps, G. D. Smith, M. Holtrop, N. Gevorgyan, Avraham Klein, Y. Ghandilyan, Michael Paolone, A. Celentano, R. W. Gothe, I. I. Strakovsky, E. Voutier, Rong Wang, A. Deur, M. Khachatryan, G. Ciullo, J. P. Ball, M. C. Kunkel, A. I. Ostrovidov, K. Park, D. S. Carman, G. V. Fedotov, Nikos Sparveris, D. G. Ireland, Friedrich Klein, V. Batourine, Volker D. Burkert, A. S. Biselli, T. Mineeva, William Brooks, Brian Raue, K. P. Adhikari, F. X. Girod, G. Gavalian, Y. G. Sharabian, S. Johnston, M. Ripani, H. S. Jo, G. Khachatryan, M. Contalbrigo, J. W. Price, Z. Akbar, I. J. D. MacGregor, V. P. Kubarovsky, A. D'Angelo, O. Pogorelko, L. El Fassi, Dustin Keller, Michael Wood, K. Hafidi, M. J. Amaryan, P. L. Cole, H. Voskanyan, D. Heddle, E. Pasyuk, S. Diehl, A. Filippi, M. Khandaker, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CLAS, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers ( IRFU ), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ) -Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay ( IPNO ), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 ( UP11 ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Photon, Meson, Hadron, Nuclear Theory, Cascade, Hyperon spectroscopy, Photoproduction, Polarization, Strange, Xi, Socio-culturale, Elementary particle, Xi-: polarization, Photon energy, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, Computer Science::Digital Libraries, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Nuclear physics, photoproduction: (cascade), Particle decay, polarization: measured, excited state: spectrum, CLAS, meson: exchange, 0103 physical sciences, Xi-: photoproduction, [ PHYS.NEXP ] Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Hyperon, hyperon: (nucleon resonance), photon: energy, Baryon, Xi-: (recoil), High Energy Physics::Experiment, polarization: induced, hyperon: photoproduction, decay: weak interaction, +K%2B+K-+Xi%22">photon p --> K+ K- Xi, 5.45 GeV, Jefferson Lab
Abstract: Despite decades of studies of the photoproduction of hyperons, both their production mechanisms and their spectra of excited states are still largely unknown. While the parity-violating weak decay of hyperons offers a means of measuring their polarization, which could help discern their production mechanisms and identify their excitation spectra, no such study has been possible for doubly strange baryons in photoproduction, due to low production cross sections. However, by making use of the reaction $\gamma p \to K^+ K^+ \Xi^-$, we have measured, for the first time, the induced polarization, $P$, and the transferred polarization from circularly polarized real photons, characterized by $C_x$ and $C_z$, to recoiling $\Xi^-$s. The data were obtained using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) at Jefferson Lab for photon energies from just over threshold (2.4 GeV) to 5.45 GeV. These first-time measurements are compared, and are shown to broadly agree, with model predictions in which cascade photoproduction proceeds through the decay of intermediate hyperon resonances that are produced via relativistic meson exchange, offering a new step forward in the understanding of the production and polarization of doubly-strange baryons., Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures
Published: 2018

50. Probing high-momentum protons and neutrons in neutron-rich nuclei

Author: D. Bulumulla, B. S. Ishkhanov, B. A. Clary, C. E. Hyde, T. Mineeva, Adi Ashkenazi, P. Eugenio, Alexander Schmidt, K. Livingston, Pawel Nadel-Turonski, M. Taiuti, J. Arrington, Y. Prok, A. I. Ostrovidov, G. Gavalian, M. Contalbrigo, Michael Paolone, R. A. Schumacher, M. L. Kabir, A. D'Angelo, C. Munoz-Camacho, A. Beck, G. Ciullo, J. P. Ball, G. Laskaris, D. S. Carman, L. Lanza, Shalev Gilad, G. Khachatryan, A. Rizzo, F. Hauenstein, D. G. Ireland, R. G. Fersch, E. De Sanctis, S. Mey-Tal Beck, A. Movsisyan, M. Battaglieri, P. L. Cole, Z. W. Zhao, S. Stepanyan, George Davey Smith, Volker D. Burkert, A. S. Biselli, G. Charles, Nicholas M. Harrison, Gerard Gilfoyle, Y. Ilieva, Andreas Klein, J. Poudel, D. Sokhan, M. Patsyuk, K. Hicks, D. P. Watts, Taya Chetry, B. McKinnon, H. Egiyan, S. Nadeeshani, X. Wei, P. Lenisa, N. Markov, W. J. Briscoe, W. Kim, K. P. Adhikari, Douglas Higinbotham, M. Mirazita, Maxime Defurne, R. Cruz-Torres, I. Bedlinskiy, S. Niccolai, Chaden Djalali, M. Osipenko, L. El Fassi, L. Guo, D. Payette, Or Hen, Eliahu Cohen, K.A. Griffoen, B. Schmookler, M. Braverman, L. Barion, R. De Vita, A. El Alaoui, G. E. Dodge, Andrea Celentano, K. Hafidi, M. Khandaker, S. Procureur, Friedrich Klein, T. A. Forest, F. X. Girod, M. J. Amaryan, Nicholas Zachariou, F. Cao, M. Ripani, I. J. D. MacGregor, E.P. Segarra, Eli Piasetzky, I. Korover, Afroditi Papadopoulou, S. Strauch, J. W. Price, G. Rosner, A. Filippi, M. Duer, K. L. Giovanetti, O. Pogorelko, Larry Weinstein, B. Mustapha, G. Niculescu, E. Pasyuk, W. Phelps, N. Dashyan, E. L. Isupov, O. Cortes, R. W. Gothe, S. Boiarinov, Y. Ghandilyan, M. Holtrop, S. Bueltmann, Victor Mokeev, M. Ungaro, J. Zhang, D. Protopopescu, K. Joo, E. Voutier, Y. G. Sharabian, A. Kim, William Brooks, C. Marchand, V. Batourine, F. Sabatié, David M. Keller, J. A. Tan, V. Crede, R. A. Montgomery, H. Hakobyan, Laura Clark, P. Rossi, X. Zheng, M. Khachatryan, Nikolaos Sparveris, S. E. Kuhn, M. Hattawy, A. Deur, S. Adhikari, E. Golovatch, R. Dupre, K. Park, I. Balossino, H. Voskanyan, Carlos A. Salgado, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CLAS, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)
Subjects: Quark, Multidisciplinary matter, Proton, [PHYS.NUCL]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Theory [nucl-th], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, EMC effect, Nuclear Theory, momentum spectrum, Socio-culturale, parton: distribution function, Electron, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, nucleon: momentum, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, Nuclear physics, CLAS, 0103 physical sciences, Neutron, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, neutron star, p nucleus: scattering, Physics, Multidisciplinary, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, electron nucleus: scattering, quantum mechanics, Nuclear shell model, shell model, correlation, Atomic nucleus, Nucleon
Abstract: International audience; The atomic nucleus is one of the densest and most complex quantum-mechanical systems in nature. Nuclei account for nearly all the mass of the visible Universe. The properties of individual nucleons (protons and neutrons) in nuclei can be probed by scattering a high-energy particle from the nucleus and detecting this particle after it scatters, often also detecting an additional knocked-out proton. Analysis of electron- and proton-scattering experiments suggests that some nucleons in nuclei form close-proximity neutron–proton pairs 1$^{–}$12 with high nucleon momentum, greater than the nuclear Fermi momentum. However, how excess neutrons in neutron-rich nuclei form such close-proximity pairs remains unclear. Here we measure protons and, for the first time, neutrons knocked out of medium-to-heavy nuclei by high-energy electrons and show that the fraction of high-momentum protons increases markedly with the neutron excess in the nucleus, whereas the fraction of high-momentum neutrons decreases slightly. This effect is surprising because in the classical nuclear shell model, protons and neutrons obey Fermi statistics, have little correlation and mostly fill independent energy shells. These high-momentum nucleons in neutron-rich nuclei are important for understanding nuclear parton distribution functions (the partial momentum distribution of the constituents of the nucleon) and changes in the quark distributions of nucleons bound in nuclei (the EMC effect) 1$^{,}$13$^{,}$14 . They are also relevant for the interpretation of neutrino-oscillation measurements 15 and understanding of neutron-rich systems such as neutron stars 3$^{,}$16 .
Published: 2018

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