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1. Beam spin asymmetry measurements of deeply virtual π0 production with CLAS12

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A. Kim, S. Diehl, K. Joo, V. Kubarovsky, P. Achenbach, Z. Akbar, J.S. Alvarado, Whitney R. Armstrong, H. Atac, H. Avakian, C. Ayerbe Gayoso, L. Barion, M. Battaglieri, I. Bedlinskiy, B. Benkel, A. Bianconi, A.S. Biselli, M. Bondi, F. Bossù, S. Boiarinov, K.T. Brinkmann, W.J. Briscoe, W.K. Brooks, S. Bueltmann, V.D. Burkert, R. Capobianco, D.S. Carman, J.C. Carvajal, A. Celentano, G. Charles, P. Chatagnon, V. Chesnokov, T. Chetry, G. Ciullo, B. Clary, G. Clash, P.L. Cole, M. Contalbrigo, G. Costantini, V. Crede, A. D'Angelo, N. Dashyan, R. De Vita, M. Defurne, A. Deur, C. Dilks, C. Djalali, R. Dupre, H. Egiyan, M. Ehrhart, A. El Alaoui, L. El Fassi, S. Fegan, A. Filippi, C. Fogler, G. Gavalian, G.P. Gilfoyle, G. Gosta, F.X. Girod, D.I. Glazier, A.A. Golubenko, R.W. Gothe, L. Guo, K. Hafidi, H. Hakobyan, M. Hattawy, F. Hauenstein, T.B. Hayward, D. Heddle, A. Hobart, M. Holtrop, Yu-Chun Hung, Y. Ilieva, D.G. Ireland, E. Isupov, H.S. Jo, R. Johnston, S. Joosten, M. Khachatryan, A. Khanal, W. Kim, V. Klimenko, A. Kripko, S.E. Kuhn, L. Lanza, M. Leali, M.L. Kabir, S. Lee, P. Lenisa, X. Li, I. .J.D. MacGregor, D. Marchand, V. Mascagna, B. McKinnon, D. Matamoros, S. Migliorati, T. Mineeva, M. Mirazita, V. Mokeev, P. Moran, C. Munoz Camacho, P. Naidoo, K. Neupane, D. Nguyen, S. Niccolai, G. Niculescu, M. Osipenko, M. Ouillon, P. Pandey, M. Paolone, L.L. Pappalardo, R. Paremuzyan, E. Pasyuk, S.J. Paul, W. Phelps, N. Pilleux, M. Pokhrel, J. Poudel, J.W. Price, Y. Prok, A. Radic, N. Ramasubramanian, Trevor Reed, J. Richards, M. Ripani, J. Ritman, P. Rossi, F. Sabatié, C. Salgado, S. Schadmand, A. Schmidt, Y.G. Sharabian, E.V. Shirokov, U. Shrestha, D. Sokhan, N. Sparveris, M. Spreafico, S. Stepanyan, I.I. Strakovsky, S. Strauch, J. Tan, N. Trotta, R. Tyson, M. Ungaro, S. Vallarino, L. Venturelli, H. Voskanyan, E. Voutier, D.P. Watts, X. Wei, R. Wishart, M.H. Wood, M. Yurov, N. Zachariou, J. Zhang, V. Ziegler, and M. Zurek

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

The new experimental measurements of beam spin asymmetry were performed for the deeply virtual exclusive π0 production in a wide kinematic region with the photon virtualities Q2 up to 6.6 GeV2 and the Bjorken scaling variable xB in the valence regime. The data were collected by the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS12) at Jefferson Lab with longitudinally polarized 10.6 GeV electrons scattered on an unpolarized liquid-hydrogen target. Sizable asymmetry values indicate a substantial contribution from transverse virtual photon amplitudes to the polarized structure functions. The interpretation of these measurements in terms of the Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) demonstrates their sensitivity to the chiral-odd GPD E¯T, which contains information on quark transverse spin densities in unpolarized and polarized nucleons and provides access to the nucleon's transverse anomalous magnetic moment. Additionally, the data were compared to a theoretical model based on a Regge formalism that was extended to the high photon virtualities.

Published
2024
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2. A multidimensional study of the structure function ratio σLT′/σ0 from hard exclusive π+ electro-production off protons in the GPD regime

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S. Diehl, A. Kim, K. Joo, P. Achenbach, Z. Akbar, M.J. Amaryan, H. Atac, H. Avagyan, C. Ayerbe Gayoso, L. Baashen, L. Barion, M. Bashkanov, M. Battaglieri, I. Bedlinskiy, B. Benkel, F. Benmokhtar, A. Bianconi, A.S. Biselli, M. Bondi, W.A. Booth, F. Bossù, S. Boiarinov, K.-Th. Brinkmann, W.J. Briscoe, S. Bueltmann, D. Bulumulla, V.D. Burkert, D.S. Carman, A. Celentano, P. Chatagnon, V. Chesnokov, T. Chetry, G. Ciullo, G. Clash, P.L. Cole, M. Contalbrigo, G. Costantini, A. D'Angelo, N. Dashyan, R. De Vita, M. Defurne, A. Deur, C. Djalali, R. Dupre, H. Egiyan, M. Ehrhart, A. El Alaoui, L. El Fassi, L. Elouadrhiri, S. Fegan, A. Filippi, G. Gavalian, Y. Ghandilyan, G.P. Gilfoyle, D.I. Glazier, A.A. Golubenko, G. Gosta, R.W. Gothe, Y. Gotra, K.A. Griffioen, M. Guidal, K. Hafidi, H. Hakobyan, M. Hattawy, T.B. Hayward, D. Heddle, A. Hobart, M. Holtrop, Y. Ilieva, D.G. Ireland, E.L. Isupov, H.S. Jo, M. Khachatryan, A. Khanal, W. Kim, A. Kripko, V. Kubarovsky, V. Lagerquist, J.-M. Laget, L. Lanza, M. Leali, S. Lee, P. Lenisa, X. Li, K. Livingston, I. .J .D. MacGregor, D. Marchand, V. Mascagna, B. McKinnon, Z.E. Meziani, S. Migliorati, T. Mineeva, M. Mirazita, V. Mokeev, E. Molina, R.A. Montgomery, C. Munoz Camacho, P. Nadel-Turonski, P. Naidoo, K. Neupane, S. Niccolai, M. Nicol, G. Niculescu, M. Osipenko, M. Ouillon, P. Pandey, M. Paolone, L.L. Pappalardo, R. Paremuzyan, E. Pasyuk, S.J. Paul, W. Phelps, N. Pilleux, M. Pokhrel, J. Poudel, J.W. Price, Y. Prok, T. Reed, J. Richards, M. Ripani, J. Ritman, P. Rossi, F. Sabatié, C. Salgado, S. Schadmand, A. Schmidt, Y. Sharabian, E.V. Shirokov, U. Shrestha, P. Simmerling, D. Sokhan, N. Sparveris, M. Spreafico, S. Stepanyan, I.I. Strakovsky, S. Strauch, J.A. Tan, N. Trotta, M. Turisini, R. Tyson, M. Ungaro, S. Vallarino, L. Venturelli, H. Voskanyan, E. Voutier, D.P. Watts, X. Wei, R. Williams, R. Wishart, M.H. Wood, N. Zachariou, J. Zhang, Z.W. Zhao, and M. Zurek

Subjects
Exclusive single pion, Eletroproduction, GPD, CLAS12, Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

A multidimensional extraction of the structure function ratio σLT′/σ0 from the hard exclusive e→p→e′nπ+ reaction above the resonance region has been performed. The study was done based on beam-spin asymmetry measurements using a 10.6 GeV incident electron beam on a liquid-hydrogen target and the CLAS12 spectrometer at Jefferson Lab. The measurements focus on the very forward regime (t/Q2 ≪ 1) with a wide kinematic range of xB in the valence regime (0.17 < xB < 0.55), and virtualities Q2 ranging from 1.5 GeV2 up to 6 GeV2. The results and their comparison to theoretical models based on Generalized Parton Distributions demonstrate the sensitivity to chiral-odd GPDs and the directly related tensor charge of the nucleon. In addition, the data is compared to an extension of a Regge formalism at high photon virtualities. It was found that the Regge model provides a better description at low Q2, while the GPD model is more appropriate at high Q2.

Published
2023
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3. Beam-spin asymmetry Σ for Σ− hyperon photoproduction off the neutron

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N. Zachariou, E. Munevar, B.L. Berman, P. Bydžovský, A. Cieplý, G. Feldman, Y. Ilieva, P. Nadel-Turonski, D. Skoupil, A.V. Sarantsev, D.P. Watts, M.J. Amaryan, G. Angelini, W.R. Armstrong, H. Atac, H. Avakian, L. Barion, M. Bashkanov, M. Battaglieri, I. Bedlinskiy, F. Benmokhtar, A. Bianconi, L. Biondo, A.S. Biselli, M. Bondi, F. Bossù, S. Boiarinov, W.J. Briscoe, W.K. Brooks, D. Bulumulla, V.D. Burkert, D.S. Carman, J.C. Carvajal, A. Celentano, P. Chatagnon, T. Chetry, G. Ciullo, L. Clark, P.L. Cole, M. Contalbrigo, G. Costantini, V. Crede, A. D'Angelo, N. Dashyan, R. De Vita, M. Defurne, A. Deur, S. Diehl, C. Djalali, R. Dupre, M. Dugger, H. Egiyan, M. Ehrhart, A. El Alaoui, L. El Fassi, P. Eugenio, G. Fedotov, S. Fegan, A. Filippi, A. Fradi, G. Gavalian, G.P. Gilfoyle, F.X. Girod, C. Gleason, A.A. Golubenko, R.W. Gothe, K.A. Griffioen, M. Guidal, K. Hafidi, H. Hakobyan, M. Hattawy, T.B. Hayward, D. Heddle, K. Hicks, A. Hobart, M. Holtrop, D.G. Ireland, E.L. Isupov, D. Jenkins, H.S. Jo, K. Joo, D. Keller, A. Khanal, M. Khandaker, A. Kim, F.J. Klein, A. Kripko, V. Kubarovsky, L. Lanza, M. Leali, K. Livingston, I.J.D. MacGregor, D. Marchand, N. Markov, L. Marsicano, V. Mascagna, B. McKinnon, S. Migliorati, T. Mineeva, M. Mirazita, V. Mokeev, C. Munoz Camacho, K. Neupane, S. Niccolai, G. Niculescu, T.R. O'Connell, M. Osipenko, A.I. Ostrovidov, P. Pandey, M. Paolone, L.L. Pappalardo, R. Paremuzyan, E. Pasyuk, W. Phelps, O. Pogorelko, J.W. Price, Y. Prok, B.A. Raue, M. Ripani, J. Ritman, A. Rizzo, G. Rosner, J. Rowley, F. Sabatie, C. Salgado, A. Schmidt, R.A. Schumacher, Y.G. Sharabian, E.V. Shirokov, U. Shrestha, D. Sokhan, O. Soto, N. Sparveris, S. Stepanyan, P. Stoler, I.I. Strakovsky, S. Strauch, R. Tyson, M. Ungaro, L. Venturelli, H. Voskanyan, A. Vossen, E. Voutier, K. Wei, X. Wei, R. Wishart, M.H. Wood, B. Yale, J. Zhang, and Z.W. Zhao

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

We report a new measurement of the beam-spin asymmetry, Σ, for the γ→n→K+Σ− reaction using quasi-free neutrons in a liquid-deuterium target. The new dataset includes data at previously unmeasured photon energy and angular ranges, thereby providing new constraints on partial wave analyses used to extract properties of the excited nucleon states. The experimental data were obtained using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS), housed in Hall B of the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab). The CLAS detector measured reaction products from a liquid-deuterium target produced by an energy-tagged, linearly polarised photon beam with energies in the range 1.1 to 2.3 GeV. Predictions from an isobar model indicate strong sensitivity to N(1720)3/2+, Δ(1900)1/2−, and N(1895)1/2−, which corroborates results from a recent combined analysis of all KΣ channels. When our data are incorporated in the fits of partial-wave analyses, one observes significant changes in γ-n couplings of resonances which have small branching ratios to the πN channel.

Published
2022
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4. 12C(e,e'pN) measurements of short range correlations in the tensor-to-scalar interaction transition region

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I. Korover, J.R. Pybus, A. Schmidt, F. Hauenstein, M. Duer, O. Hen, E. Piasetzky, L.B. Weinstein, D.W. Higinbotham, S. Adhikari, K. Adhikari, M.J. Amaryan, Giovanni Angelini, H. Atac, L. Barion, M. Battaglieri, A. Beck, I. Bedlinskiy, Fatiha Benmokhtar, A. Bianconi, A.S. Biselli, S. Boiarinov, W.J. Briscoe, W.K. Brooks, D. Bulumulla, V.D. Burkert, D.S. Carman, A. Celentano, P. Chatagnon, T. Chetry, L. Clark, B. Clary, P.L. Cole, M. Contalbrigo, V. Crede, R. Cruz-Torres, A. D'Angelo, R. De Vita, M. Defurne, A. Denniston, A. Deur, S. Diehl, C. Djalali, R. Dupre, H. Egiyan, M. Ehrhart, A. El Alaoui, L. El Fassi, L. Elouadrhiri, P. Eugenio, R. Fersch, A. Filippi, T. Forest, G. Gavalian, F.X. Girod, E. Golovatch, R.W. Gothe, K.A. Griffioen, M. Guidal, K. Hafidi, H. Hakobyan, N. Harrison, M. Hattawy, T.B. Hayward, D. Heddle, K. Hicks, M. Holtrop, Y. Ilieva, D.G. Ireland, E.L. Isupov, D. Jenkins, H.S. Jo, K. Joo, S. Joosten, D. Keller, M. Khachatryan, A. Khanal, M. Khandaker, A. Kim, C.W. Kim, F.J. Klein, V. Kubarovsky, L. Lanza, M. Leali, P. Lenisa, K. Livingston, V. Lucherini, I.J.D. MacGregor, D. Marchand, N. Markov, L. Marsicano, V. Mascagna, B. McKinnon, S. Mey-Tal Beck, T. Mineeva, M. Mirazita, A. Movsisyan, C. Munoz Camacho, B. Mustapha, P. Nadel-Turonski, K. Neupane, G. Niculescu, M. Osipenko, A.I. Ostrovidov, M. Paolone, L.L. Pappalardo, R. Paremuzyan, E. Pasyuk, W. Phelps, O. Pogorelko, J.W. Price, Y. Prok, D. Protopopescu, B.A. Raue, M. Ripani, J. Ritman, A. Rizzo, G. Rosner, J. Rowley, F. Sabatié, C. Salgado, R.A. Schumacher, E.P. Segarra, Y.G. Sharabian, U. Shrestha, D. Sokhan, O. Soto, N. Sparveris, S. Stepanyan, I.I. Strakovsky, S. Strauch, J.A. Tan, N. Tyler, M. Ungaro, L. Venturelli, H. Voskanyan, E. Voutier, T. Wang, D. Watts, X. Wei, M.H. Wood, N. Zachariou, J. Zhang, Z.W. Zhao, and X. Zheng

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

High-momentum configurations of nucleon pairs at short-distance are probed using measurements of the 12C(e,e′p) and 12C(e,e′pN) reactions (where N is either n or p), at high-Q2 and xB>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 12C(e,e′pN) / 12C(e,e′p) and 12C(e,e′pp) / 12C(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 ∼400 MeV/c to an isospin-independent scalar interaction at high-momentum around ∼800 MeV/c as predicted by theoretical calculation.

Published
2021
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5. Double polarisation observable G for single pion photoproduction from the proton

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N. Zachariou, D.P. Watts, J. McAndrew, L. Zana, M. Bashkanov, I.I. Strakovsky, R. Workman, A.V. Sarantsev, V. Nikonov, K.P. Adhikari, S. Adhikari, M.J. Amaryan, G. Angelini, W.R. Armstrong, H. Atac, N.A. Baltzell, L. Barion, M. Battaglieri, I. Bedlinskiy, F. Benmokhtar, A. Bianconi, A.S. Biselli, M. Bondi, F. Bossù, S. Boiarinov, W.J. Briscoe, W.K. Brooks, D. Bulumulla, D.S. Carman, J.C. Carvajal, A. Celentano, P. Chatagnon, T. Chetry, G. Ciullo, B.A. Clary, P.L. Cole, M. Contalbrigo, V. Crede, A. D'Angelo, N. Dashyan, R. De Vita, M. Defurne, A. Deur, S. Diehl, C. Djalali, M. Dugger, R. Dupre, H. Egiyan, M. Ehrhart, A. El Alaoui, L. El Fassi, L. Elouadrhiri, P. Eugenio, G. Fedotov, S. Fegan, A. Filippi, G. Gavalian, G.P. Gilfoyle, F.X. Girod, D.I. Glazier, R.W. Gothe, K.A. Griffioen, L. Guo, K. Hafidi, H. Hakobyan, M. Hattawy, D. Heddle, K. Hicks, A. Hobart, M. Holtrop, Q. Huang, Y. Ilieva, D.G. Ireland, E.L. Isupov, D. Jenkins, H.S. Jo, K. Joo, S. Joosten, D. Keller, A. Khanal, M. Khandaker, A. Kim, F.J. Klein, A. Kripko, V. Kubarovsky, L. Lanza, M. Leali, P. Lenisa, K. Livingston, I.J.D. MacGregor, D. Marchand, L. Marsicano, V. Mascagna, B. McKinnon, Z.E. Meziani, T. Mineeva, V. Mokeev, A. Movsisyan, E. Munevar, C. Munoz Camacho, P. Nadel-Turonski, K. Neupane, A. Ni, S. Niccolai, G. Niculescu, T.R. O'Connell, M. Osipenko, A.I. Ostrovidov, M. Paolone, L.L. Pappalardo, R. Paremuzyan, E. Pasyuk, O. Pogorelko, Y. Prok, D. Protopopescu, M. Ripani, B.G. Ritchie, J. Ritman, A. Rizzo, G. Rosner, J. Rowley, F. Sabatié, C. Salgado, A. Schmidt, R.A. Schumacher, Y.G. Sharabian, U. Shrestha, D. Sokhan, O. Soto, N. Sparveris, S. Stepanyan, S. Strauch, N. Tyler, M. Ungaro, L. Venturelli, H. Voskanyan, E. Voutier, X. Wei, B. Yale, J. Zhang, and Z.W. Zhao

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

We report measurements of π+ and π0 meson photoproduction from longitudinally spin-polarised protons by an energy tagged (0.73-2.3 GeV) and linearly polarised photon beam. A close to complete solid angle coverage for the reaction products was provided by the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer at Jefferson Laboratory. The double-polarisation observable G is extracted from Maximum Likelihood fits to the data, enabling the first accurate determination for the reaction γ→p→→π+n, while also significantly extending the kinematic coverage for γ→p→→π0p. This large data set provides an important constraint on the properties and spectrum of excited nucleon states decaying to Nπ in the mass range from 1.4 to 2.2 GeV, as well as for background (non-resonant) photoproduction processes. The considerable improvement achieved in the description of the observable G within the SAID and Bonn-Gatchina approaches after implementation of our data, illustrates that the partial-wave analyses now significantly extend the knowledge on Nπ photoproduction amplitudes at W>1.8 GeV. A partial-wave analysis using the new high-precision data set has a large impact on the extracted properties of high-spin nucleon excited states.

Published
2021
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6. Beam–target helicity asymmetry E in K+Σ− photoproduction on the neutron

Author

N. Zachariou, D.P. Watts, J. Fleming, A.V. Sarantsev, V.A. Nikonov, A. D'Angelo, M. Bashkanov, C. Hanretty, T. Kageya, F.J. Klein, M. Lowry, H. Lu, A. Sandorfi, X. Wei, I. Zonta, K.P. Adhikari, S. Adhikari, M.J. Amaryan, G. Angelini, G. Asryan, H. Atac, L. Barion, C. Bass, M. Battaglieri, I. Bedlinskiy, F. Benmokhtar, A. Bianconi, A.S. Biselli, F. Bossù, S. Boiarinov, W.J. Briscoe, W.K. Brooks, D. Bulumulla, V. Burkert, D.S. Carman, J.C. Carvajal, A. Celentano, G. Charles, P. Chatagnon, T. Chetry, G. Ciullo, P.L. Cole, M. Contalbrigo, N. Dashyan, R. De Vita, A. Deur, S. Diehl, C. Djalali, R. Dupre, H. Egiyan, M. Ehrhart, A. El Alaoui, P. Eugenio, S. Fegan, R. Fersch, A. Filippi, G. Gavalian, N. Gevorgyan, Y. Ghandilyan, G.P. Gilfoyle, F.X. Girod, W. Gohn, E. Golovatch, R.W. Gothe, K.A. Griffioen, M. Guidal, K. Hafidi, H. Hakobyan, M. Hattawy, D. Heddle, K. Hicks, D. Ho, M. Holtrop, Y. Ilieva, D.G. Ireland, B.S. Ishkhanov, E.L. Isupov, D. Jenkins, H.S. Jo, K. Joo, S.J. Joosten, D. Keller, M. Khachatryan, A. Khanal, M. Khandaker, C.W. Kim, W. Kim, V. Kubarovsky, L. Lanza, M. Leali, P. Lenisa, K. Livingston, I.J.D. MacGregor, D. Marchand, N. Markov, L. Marsicano, V. Mascagna, M. Mayer, B. McKinnon, Z.E. Meziani, T. Mineeva, V. Mokeev, E. Munevar, C. Munoz Camacho, P. Nadel Turonski, T.R. O'Connell, M. Osipenko, A.I. Ostrovidov, M. Paolone, L.L. Pappalardo, K. Park, E. Pasyuk, P. Peng, W. Phelps, O. Pogorelko, J. Poudel, J.W. Price, Y. Prok, A.J.R. Puckett, B.A. Raue, M. Ripani, A. Rizzo, G. Rosner, C. Salgado, A. Schmidt, R.A. Schumacher, U. Shrestha, D. Sokhan, O. Soto, N. Sparveris, I.I. Strakovsky, S. Strauch, J.A. Tan, N. Tyler, M. Ungaro, L. Venturelli, H. Voskanyan, E. Voutier, N.K. Walford, C.S. Whisnant, M.H. Wood, J. Zhang, and Z.W. Zhao

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
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
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7. 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

8. Light dark matter searches with positrons

Author

M. Ungaro, Andrea Bianconi, Michael Wood, A. Italiano, L. Venturelli, Elton Smith, M. Leali, M. Bondì, L. El Fassi, R. De Vita, Enrico Nardi, S. Migliorati, S. Stepanyan, G. Costantini, Paolo Valente, P. L. Cole, Nunzio Randazzo, M. Battaglieri, P. Bisio, Andrea Celentano, M. Spreafico, L. Lanza, V. Mascagna, A. D'Angelo, Luc Darmé, M. De Napoli, Gordan Krnjaic, Elena Santopinto, L. Marsicano, V. Kozhuharov, and Mauro Raggi

Subjects
Dark Photon, dark sector, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Dark Photon, Settore FIS/04, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Electron, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Standard Model, radiation, Hidden sector, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Positron, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Nuclear fusion, Light dark matter, dark sector, performance, Beam (structure)
Abstract

We discuss two complementary strategies to search for light dark matter (LDM) exploiting the positron beam possibly available in the future at Jefferson Laboratory. LDM is a new compelling hypothesis that identifies dark matter with new sub-GeV "hidden sector" states, neutral under standard model interactions and interacting with our world through a new force. Accelerator-based searches at the intensity frontier are uniquely suited to explore it. Thanks to the high intensity and the high energy of the CEBAF (Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility) beam, and relying on a novel LDM production mechanism via positron annihilation on target atomic electrons, the proposed strategies will allow us to explore new regions in the LDM parameters space, thoroughly probing the LDM hypothesis as well as more general hidden sector scenarios., 11 pages, 8 figures. Prepared for submission in EPJA. This work supersedes the corresponding contribution in arXiv:2007.15081. Added aknowledgement to Jefferson Lab

Published
2021

9. 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

10. Measurement of the principal quantum number distribution in a beam of antihydrogen atoms

Author

Naofumi Kuroda, C. Malbrunot, S. Arguedas Cuendis, M. Wiesinger, L. Venturelli, A. Weiser, A. Gligorova, Yasuyuki Matsuda, Hiroyuki A. Torii, M. Leali, O. Massiczek, Stefan Ulmer, M. Tajima, T. Wolz, Eberhard Widmann, M. Fleck, M. C. Simon, A. Lanz, Yasuyuki Kanai, Ulrik I. Uggerhøj, V. Kletzl, Yugo Nagata, Johann Zmeskal, A. A. Capon, V. Mascagna, D. J. Murtagh, H. Breuker, G. Costantini, A. Nanda, B. Kolbinger, C. Sauerzopf, L. Nowak, B. Radics, Hiroyuki Higaki, Claude Amsler, Yasunori Yamazaki, P. Dupre, and V. Mäckel

Subjects
Physics::General Physics, Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph), FIELD-IONIZATION, HYDROGEN-ATOM, Other Fields of Physics, FOS: Physical sciences, physics.atom-ph, 01 natural sciences, HYPERFINE, Physics - Atomic Physics, Nuclear physics, Quantum state, 0103 physical sciences, Principal quantum number, Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters, Physics::Atomic Physics, 010306 general physics, Antihydrogen, Hyperfine structure, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Antiproton Decelerator, Antiproton, Antimatter, CPT, Ground state
Abstract

The ASACUSA (Atomic Spectroscopy And Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons) collaboration plans to measure the ground-state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen in a beam at the CERN Antiproton Decelerator with initial relative precision of 10-6 or better, to test the fundamental CPT (combination of charge conjugation, parity transformation and time reversal) symmetry between matter and antimatter. This challenging goal requires a polarised antihydrogen beam with a sufficient number of antihydrogen atoms in the ground state. The first measurement of the quantum state distribution of antihydrogen atoms in a low magnetic field environment of a few mT is described. Furthermore, the data-driven machine learning analysis to identify antihydrogen events is discussed., 18 pages, 10 figures

Published
2021

11. 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

12. 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

13. An experimental program with high duty-cycle polarized and unpolarized positron beams at Jefferson Lab

Author

Anthony W. Thomas, M. Battaglieri, R. De Vita, D. Marchand, Latifa Elouadrhiri, S. Habet, Hubert Spiesberger, P. Gueye, David Hamilton, Giovanni Salmè, A. Filippi, Pete Markowitz, D. Perera, G. Kalicy, M. Muhoza, N. Kalantarians, H. Atac, M. Khandaker, J. Xie, F. Sabatié, M. Mazouz, Ashot Gasparian, I.P. Fernando, V. Klimenko, T. A. Forest, D. McNulty, Z. E. Meziani, M. Boer, M. McCaughan, A. Asaturyan, J. P. Chen, V. Kozhuharov, S. Stepanyan, Simonetta Liuti, T. Patel, Alberto Accardi, M. Spata, Andrew Puckett, Andreas Metz, Salina Ali, V. Bellini, L. Barion, V. V. Berdnikov, Alexandre Camsonne, P. E. Reimer, M. Shabestari, P. Bisio, Simon Širca, T. Averett, J. Kim, Nikolaos Sparveris, M. Poelker, M. Spreafico, H. F. Ibrahim, Dipangkar Dutta, V. Bertone, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, Ross Milner, H. Avakian, C. E. Hyde, P. M. King, Marc Vanderhaeghen, A. Somov, Yulia Furletova, Miha Mihovilovič, V. Tadevosyan, P. Sznajder, S. Migliorati, R. S. Beminiwattha, T. Chetry, M. Guidal, Olfred Hansen, T. Kutz, Z. W. Zhao, Barbara Pasquini, Eric Voutier, L. Lanza, M. J. Amaryan, J. R. M. Annand, Fatiha Benmokhtar, T. Gautam, H. Voskanyan, Richard Trotta, Ian L. Pegg, J. F. Owens, W. J. Briscoe, Jingyi Zhou, P. Valente, M. N. H. Rashad, Gordan Krnjaic, P. Lenisa, Elena Santopinto, Joseph Grames, M. Leali, S. Zhamkochyan, M. Caudron, Kai-Thomas Brinkmann, Elton Smith, L. Marsicano, Andrei Afanasev, Luciano Pappalardo, M. Carmignotto, Donal Day, L. Venturelli, Eugene Pasyuk, M. Ungaro, C. Peng, L. Causse, D. Hasell, G. Costantini, Douglas Higinbotham, N. D’Hose, J. Murphy, P. Chatagnon, R. Dupré, M. Bondì, Alexander Ilyichev, Matteo Rinaldi, P. Stoler, Brian Raue, G. N. Grauvogel, R. Santos Estrada, Kondo Gnanvo, K. Price, Q. Liu, S. Diehl, J. Nazeer, Y. G. Sharabian, X. Zheng, S. Niccolai, P. G. Blunden, J. Arrington, Riad Suleiman, J. Erler, S. Joosten, Andrea Bianconi, H.-S. Ko, P. L. Cole, Nilanga Liyanage, I. Albayrak, K. Joo, Jan C. Bernauer, F.-X. Girod, D. Gaskell, A. Kim, Juliette Mammei, A. Italiano, M. Hattawy, C. Ayerbe Gayoso, I. I. Strakovsky, M. Yurov, N. Randazzo, A. Deur, Wally Melnitchouk, H.-G. Zaunick, Michael Kohl, A. D'Angelo, E. Nardi, M. Paolone, C. Zorn, L. El Fassi, B. T. Kriesten, L. Darmé, M. Rathnayake, A. Shahinyan, Jie Zhang, Alessandro Rizzo, D. Flay, W. Xiong, H. Dutrieux, V. Sergeyeva, S. Zhang, E. R. Kinney, Hervé Moutarde, B. Dongwi, Axel Schmidt, Rolf Ent, S. Zhao, Volker D. Burkert, A. S. Tadepalli, A. S. Biselli, Tanja Horn, G. Niculescu, T. Cao, A. Celentano, P. Nadel-Turonski, Ethan Cline, J. Roche, B. Karky, M. Contalbrigo, H. Szumila-Vance, S. Fucini, O. Rondon-Aramayo, M. De Napoli, V. Mascagna, E. Fuchey, L. Cardman, G. Ciullo, Haiyan Gao, Cynthia Keppel, M. Ehrhart, A. Movsisyan, R. Novotny, A. Hobart, Sergio Scopetta, B. McKinnon, S. A. Wood, H. Mkrtchyan, M. Tiefenback, C. Munoz Camacho, Xinzhan Bai, R. Paremuzyan, B. Sawatzky, D. Sokhan, M. Suresh, Markus Diefenthaler, Z. Ye, Mauro Raggi, M. Kerver, Y. Roblin, A. Mkrtchyan, V. P. Kubarovsky, R. Capobianco, T. J. Hague, Dustin Keller, Sonny Mantry, Vladimir Khachatryan, Peter Schweitzer, Michael Wood, Maxime Defurne, 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), and Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
cross-section, ratio, Photon, parton distributions, elastic scattering, Parton, polarized beam, Electron, Leptons Accelerators, Structure of Nucleons, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Dark photon, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Positron, Economica, electromagnetic form-factors, virtual compton-scattering, generalized, squared 4-momentum transfers, lepton-flavor, violation, electron-proton, parity violation, pair production, Physics, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Nuclear Experiment, Elastic scattering, Dark sector, JLab, dark photon, Settore FIS/04, lepton: flavor: violation, nucleon: generalized parton distribution, 3. Good health, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Elastic and deep inelastic Scattering, Nucleon, Jefferson Lab, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, nucleon: form factor: electromagnetic, FOS: Physical sciences, Socio-culturale, helium: target, Context (language use), [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Nuclear physics, PE2_2, PE2_1, deeply virtual Compton scattering, 0103 physical sciences, quantum chromodynamics, 010306 general physics, PE2_3, activity report, exchange: two-photon, electroweak interaction, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Ambientale, positron: beam, [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], charge: asymmetry, Positron Beams, Physics::Accelerator Physics, proposal, High Energy Physics::Experiment
Abstract

Positron beams, both polarized and unpolarized, are identified as essential ingredients for the experimental programs at the next generation of lepton accelerators. In the context of the hadronic physics program at Jefferson Lab (JLab), positron beams are complementary, even essential, tools for a precise understanding of the electromagnetic structure of nucleons and nuclei, in both the elastic and deep-inelastic regimes. For instance, elastic scattering of polarized and unpolarized electrons and positrons from the nucleon enables a model independent determination of its electromagnetic form factors. Also, the deeply-virtual scattering of polarized and unpolarized electrons and positrons allows unambiguous separation of the different contributions to the cross section of the lepto-production of photons and of lepton-pairs, enabling an accurate determination of the nucleons and nuclei generalized parton distributions, and providing an access to the gravitational form factors. Furthermore, positron beams offer the possibility of alternative tests of the Standard Model of particle physics through the search of a dark photon, the precise measurement of electroweak couplings, and the investigation of charged lepton flavor violation. This document discusses the perspectives of an experimental program with high duty-cycle positron beams at JLab., Comment: 18 pages, 7 figures This version superseeds the previous version which scientific content was decomposed into several more elaborated articles. All of these articles will be collected in the EPJ A Topical Issue about "Positron beam and physics at Jefferson Lab (e+@Jlab)"

Published
2021

14. 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

15. 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

16. Extraction of beam-spin asymmetries from the hard exclusive π+ channel off protons in a wide range of kinematics

Author

Y. G. Sharabian, K. Tezgin, S. E. Kuhn, M. Hattawy, S. Adhikari, M. Khachatryan, M. J. Amaryan, N. Tyler, P. Lenisa, C. Dilks, J. A. Tan, C. W. Kim, H. Avakian, B. McKinnon, Maxime Defurne, Laura Clark, K. A. Griffioen, Chaden Djalali, D. Bulumulla, T. Mineeva, L. Guo, G. Angelini, D. I. Glazier, B. S. Ishkhanov, S. Strauch, Aditya R. Khanal, F. X. Girod, T. B. Hayward, M. Guidal, D. P. Watts, K. L. Giovanetti, P. L. Cole, E. L. Isupov, E. Golovatch, G. Asryan, L. Lanza, R. De Vita, Alessandro Rizzo, Z. W. Zhao, V. Crede, R. Dupre, H. Voskanyan, Andrea Bianconi, N. Markov, Brian Raue, Y. Ghandilyan, S. Boiarinov, A. D'Angelo, M. Mirazita, M. Ehrhart, W. Phelps, W. J. Briscoe, A. Filippi, M. Holtrop, Victor Mokeev, U. Shrestha, L. El Fassi, H. Atac, P. Nadel-Turonski, M. Khandaker, Luciano Pappalardo, P. Eugenio, J. W. Price, O. Pogorelko, I. J. D. MacGregor, T. Chetry, M. Osipenko, J. Rowley, M. Ripani, Fatiha Benmokhtar, H. Hakobyan, O. Soto, M. Battaglieri, S. Diehl, Paolo Rossi, K. Park, Michael Paolone, A. Celentano, R. W. Gothe, D. Heddle, F. Bossu, D. G. Ireland, Hovanes Egiyan, C. Munoz Camacho, W. Kim, Axel Schmidt, G. Niculescu, P. Stoler, Volker D. Burkert, M. Contalbrigo, A. S. Biselli, M. Ungaro, I. I. Strakovsky, K. Hicks, A. Deur, Nicholas M. Harrison, Gerard Gilfoyle, D. Marchand, V. Mascagna, Eugene Pasyuk, W. K. Brooks, D. G. Jenkins, S. Joosten, L. Marsicano, V. P. Kubarovsky, K. P. Adhikari, M. Leali, D. Riser, Z. E. Meziani, Y. Prok, F. Sabatié, I. Bedlinskiy, P. Kroll, K. Joo, Dustin Keller, Michael Wood, A. Kim, K. Livingston, Jie Zhang, H. S. Jo, C. Salgado, A. El Alaoui, Y. Ilieva, P. Chatagnon, Nicholas Zachariou, J. C. Carvajal, K. Semenov-Tian-Shansky, N. Dashyan, E. Voutier, L. Venturelli, L. Barion, R. A. Schumacher, G. Ciullo, D. S. Carman, Nikos Sparveris, X. Wei, T. A. Forest, S. Stepanyan, 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
Particle physics, generalized parton distribution, Partons, Nucleons, Compton Scattering, media_common.quotation_subject, General Physics and Astronomy, parton: distribution function, Socio-culturale, Parton, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, Resonance (particle physics), Asymmetry, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Pion, PE2_2, PE2_1, CLAS, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, PE2_3, Spin-½, media_common, Physics, Settore FIS/04, electroproduction, moment, Moment (mathematics), distribution amplitude, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Amplitude, kinematics, [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], Elementary Particles and Fields, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Center of mass, asymmetry, experimental results
Abstract

We have measured beam-spin asymmetries to extract the \ud sin\ud ϕ\ud moment \ud A\ud sin\ud ϕ\ud L\ud U\ud from the hard exclusive \ud →\ud e\ud p\ud →\ud e\ud ′\ud n\ud π\ud +\ud reaction above the resonance region, for the first time with nearly full coverage from forward to backward angles in the center of mass. The \ud A\ud sin\ud ϕ\ud L\ud U\ud moment has been measured up to \ud 6.6\ud \ud \ud GeV\ud 2\ud in \ud −\ud t\ud , covering the kinematic regimes of generalized parton distributions (GPD) and baryon-to-meson transition distribution amplitudes (TDA) at the same time. The experimental results in very forward kinematics demonstrate the sensitivity to chiral-odd and chiral-even GPDs. In very backward kinematics where the TDA framework is applicable, we found \ud A\ud sin\ud ϕ\ud L\ud U\ud to be negative, while a sign change was observed near 90° in the center of mass. The unique results presented in this Letter will provide critical constraints to establish reaction mechanisms that can help to further develop the GPD and TDA frameworks.

Published
2020

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. Limits on antiproton-nuclei annihilation cross sections at ∼125 keV

Author

E. Vallazza, D. Seiler, D. De Salvador, Daniel Barna, Masaki Hori, M. Leali, Ryugo S. Hayano, M. Corradini, M. Prest, L. Venturelli, Anna Sótér, E. Lodi-Rizzini, Valerio Mascagna, K. Todoroki, and Hossein Aghai-Khozani

Subjects
Nuclear reaction, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Annihilation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, media_common.quotation_subject, Kinetic energy, 01 natural sciences, Asymmetry, Nuclear physics, Antiproton, Antimatter, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, media_common
Abstract

Some experimental limits on the annihilation cross sections σ ann of antiprotons on carbon, palladium, and platinum targets were determined at the previously unexplored kinetic energy region E ≈ 125 keV. Information on σ ann at such low antiproton energies is important in understanding the dynamics of the annihilation process, and provides useful data for models that attempt to describe the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe by assuming the existence of islands of antimatter concentration.

Published
2021

23. Antiproton beams with low energy spread for antihydrogen production

Author

Hiroyuki Higaki, Yasunori Yamazaki, M. Wiesinger, A. Nanda, M. Leali, H. Breuker, Naofumi Kuroda, B. Kolbinger, M. C. Simon, V. Mäckel, A. Lanz, A. Gligorova, Claude Amsler, V. Mascagna, D. J. Murtagh, Stefan Ulmer, Yasuyuki Kanai, L. Venturelli, C. Malbrunot, M. Fleck, C. Evans, Eberhard Widmann, Yasuyuki Matsuda, Yugo Nagata, M. Tajima, and B. Radics

Subjects
Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph), Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Beam Optics, FOS: Physical sciences, weak-beam diagnostics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, Nuclear physics, Trap (computing), 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Positron, Plasma diagnostics - charged-particle spectroscopy, 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Atomic Physics, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, Adiabatic process, Antihydrogen, Instrumentation, physics.ins-det, fragment and isotope, Mathematical Physics, radioactive-beam ion sources), physics.acc-ph, Physics, Instrumentation for radioactive beams (fragmentation devices, fragment and isotope, separators incl. ISOL, isobar separators, ion and atom traps, Condensed Matter::Quantum Gases, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Plasma, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Accelerators and Storage Rings, Beamline, Antiproton, separators incl. ISOL, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Plasma diagnostics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Physics - Accelerator Physics
Abstract

A low energy antiproton transport from the ASACUSA antiproton accumulation trap (MUSASHI trap) to the antihydrogen production trap (double cusp trap) is developed. The longitudinal antiproton energy spread after the transport line is 0.23 +- 0.02 eV, compared with 15 eV with a previous method used in 2012. This reduction is achieved by an adiabatic transport beamline with several pulse-driven coaxial coils. Antihydrogen atoms are synthesized by directly injecting the antiprotons into a positron plasma, resulting in the higher production rate., 10 pages, 9 figures

Published
2019

24. A hydrogen beam to characterize the ASACUSA antihydrogen hyperfine spectrometer

Author

O. Massiczek, Horst Breuker, M. Diermaier, Chloé Malbrunot, Claude Amsler, Yugo Nagata, Yasuhiro H. Matsuda, Johann Zmeskal, M. C. Simon, S. Arguedas Cuendis, Yasunori Yamazaki, M. Fleck, Eberhard Widmann, C. Evans, V. Maeckel, L. Venturelli, C. Sauerzopf, M. Leali, B. Kolbinger, Valerio Mascagna, M. Wiesinger, and A. Lanz

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Hydrogen, Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph), Other Fields of Physics, FOS: Physical sciences, chemistry.chemical_element, physics.atom-ph, 01 natural sciences, Physics - Atomic Physics, Antihydrogen hyperfine structure, Atomic beam, Atomic hydrogen, Magnetic resonance, 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Atomic Physics, 010306 general physics, Antihydrogen, Spectroscopy, Instrumentation, Hyperfine structure, Quadrupole mass analyzer, Physics, Spectrometer, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Sextupole magnet, Antiproton Decelerator, chemistry, Atomic physics
Abstract

The antihydrogen program of the ASACUSA collaboration at the antiproton decelerator of CERN focuses on Rabi-type measurements of the ground-state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen for a test of the combined Charge–Parity–Time symmetry. The spectroscopy apparatus consists of a microwave cavity to drive hyperfine transitions and a superconducting sextupole magnet for quantum state analysis via Stern–Gerlach separation. However, the small production rates of antihydrogen forestall comprehensive performance studies on the spectroscopy apparatus. For this purpose a hydrogen source and detector have been developed which in conjunction with ASACUSA’s hyperfine spectroscopy equipment form a complete Rabi experiment. We report on the formation of a cooled, polarized, and time modulated beam of atomic hydrogen and its detection using a quadrupole mass spectrometer and a lock-in amplification scheme. In addition key features of ASACUSA’s hyperfine spectroscopy apparatus are discussed. The antihydrogen programme of the ASACUSA collaboration at the antiproton decelerator of CERN focuses on Rabi-type measurements of the ground-state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen for a test of the combined Charge-Parity-Time symmetry. The spectroscopy apparatus consists of a microwave cavity to drive hyperfine transitions and a superconducting sextupole magnet for quantum state analysis via Stern-Gerlach separation. However, the small production rates of antihydrogen forestall comprehensive performance studies on the spectroscopy apparatus. For this purpose a hydrogen source and detector have been developed which in conjunction with ASACUSA's hyperfine spectroscopy equipment form a complete Rabi experiment. We report on the formation of a cooled, polarized, and time modulated beam of atomic hydrogen and its detection using a quadrupole mass spectrometer and a lock-in amplification scheme. In addition key features of ASACUSA's hyperfine spectroscopy apparatus are discussed.t

Published
2019

25. The ASACUSA CUSP: an antihydrogen experiment

Author

Eberhard Widmann, Johann Zmeskal, Yasunori Yamazaki, Nicola Zurlo, Kunio Suzuki, Yasuyuki Matsuda, Hiroyuki A. Torii, Naofumi Kuroda, S. Sakurai, O. Massiczek, E. Lodi Rizzini, K. Michishio, M. Leali, H. Nagahama, Yasuyuki Nagashima, Yugo Nagata, B. Wünschek, C. Sauerzopf, B. Radics, S. Van Gorp, M. Ohtsuka, Chloé Malbrunot, Stefan Ulmer, Yasuyuki Kanai, A. Mohri, M. Tajima, M. Diermaier, L. Venturelli, Valerio Mascagna, S. Federmann, Hiroyuki Higaki, D. J. Murtagh, and T. Mizutani

Subjects
Rydberg atom, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Antiparticle, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Scintillator, Particle detector, Nuclear physics, Atomic beam, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters, Physics::Atomic Physics, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Nuclear Experiment, Antihydrogen, Physics, CPT invariance, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics, Beamline, Antiproton, Antimatter, Scintillation counter, and Optics, Atomic physics
Abstract

In order to test CPT symmetry between antihydrogen and its counterpart hydrogen, the ASACUSA collaboration plans to perform high precision microwave spectroscopy of ground-state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen atom in-flight. We have developed an apparatus (“cusp trap”) which consists of a superconducting anti-Helmholtz coil and multiple ring electrodes. For the preparation of slow antiprotons and positrons, Penning- Malmberg type traps were utilized. The spectrometer line was positioned downstream of the cusp trap. At the end of the beamline, an antihydrogen beam detector was located, which comprises an inorganic Bismuth Germanium Oxide (BGO) single-crystal scintillator housed in a vacuum duct and surrounding plastic scintillators. A significant fraction of antihydrogen atoms flowing out the cusp trap were detected.

Published
2015

26. Measurement of the antiproton–nucleus annihilation cross-section at low energy

Author

L. Venturelli, Y. Murakami, M. Prest, E. Lodi Rizzini, M. Corradini, Hiroyuki Yamada, Valerio Mascagna, M. Leali, Andrea Bianconi, Ryugo S. Hayano, Hossein Aghai-Khozani, Masaki Hori, and E. Vallazza

Subjects
Nuclear reaction, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Large Hadron Collider, Annihilation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Low energies, Antiproton annihilations, Nuclear reactions, Antineutron, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Cross section (physics), medicine.anatomical_structure, Low energy, Antiproton, 0103 physical sciences, medicine, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Nucleus
Abstract

Systematic measurements of the annihilation cross sections of low energy antinucleons were performed at CERN in the 80's and 90's. However the antiproton data on medium-heavy and heavy nuclear targets are scarce. The ASACUSA Collaboration at CERN has measured the antiproton annihilation cross section on carbon at 5.3 MeV: the value is (1.73 ± 0.25) barn. The result is compared with the antineutron experimental data and with the theoretical previsions.

Published
2018

27. Antiproton-nucleus annihilation cross section at low energy

Author

Ryugo S. Hayano, M. Corradini, E. Lodi-Rizzini, Hossein Aghai-Khozani, E. Vallazza, Hiroyuki Yamada, M. Prest, M. Leali, Valerio Mascagna, L. Venturelli, Masaki Hori, Y. Murakami, and Andrea Bianconi

Subjects
Physics, Annihilation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, QC1-999, Nuclear Theory, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Cross section (physics), Physics and Astronomy (all), Low energy, medicine.anatomical_structure, Antiproton, 0103 physical sciences, medicine, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Nucleus
Abstract

The antinucleon-nuclei annihilation cross sections at low energies were systematically measured at CERN in the 80’s and 90’s with the LEAR facility and later with the Antiproton Decelerator. Unfortunately only few data exist for very low energy antiprotons (p

Published
2018

28. Recent Developments from ASACUSA on Antihydrogen Detection

Author

Yasunori Yamazaki, B. Kolbinger, Hiroyuki Higaki, Johann Zmeskal, Yasuyuki Matsuda, Eberhard Widmann, M. Tajima, D. J. Murtagh, M. Leali, M. C. Simon, C. Sauerzopf, H. Breuker, Naofumi Kuroda, P. Dupre, M. Diermaier, Stefan Ulmer, Claude Amsler, Yasuyuki Kanai, Angela Gligorova, V. Mäckel, Y. Nagata, L. Venturelli, M. Fleck, Chloé Malbrunot, Takayoshi Kobayashi, O. Massiczek, and Valerio Mascagna

Subjects
Physics, Annihilation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, QC1-999, Detector, Cosmic ray, Parity (physics), 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Antiproton Decelerator, Physics and Astronomy (all), Hodoscope, Antiproton, 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Physics::Atomic Physics, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Antihydrogen
Abstract

The ASACUSA Collaboration at CERNs Antiproton Decelerator aims to measure the ground state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen with high precision to test the fundamental symmetry of CPT (combination of charge conjugation, parity transformation, and time reversal). For this purpose an antihydrogen detector has been developed. Its task is to count the arriving antihydrogen atoms and therefore distinguish backgroundevents (mainly cosmics) from antiproton annihilations originating from antihydrogen atoms which are produced only in small amounts. A central BGO crystal disk with position sensitive read-out detects the annihilation and a surrounding two-layered hodoscope is used for tracking charged secondaries. The hodoscope has been recently upgraded to allow precise vertex reconstruction. A machine learning analysis based on measured antiproton annihilations and cosmic rays has been developed to identify antihydrogen events.

Published
2018

29. Monte-Carlo based performance assessment of ASACUSA's antihydrogen detector

Author

Eberhard Widmann, M. Tajima, M. C. Simon, Horst Breuker, Yugo Nagata, L. Venturelli, Yasuyuki Kanai, C. Sauerzopf, B. Kolbinger, Chloé Malbrunot, Stefan Ulmer, Naofumi Kuroda, Hiroyuki Higaki, Johann Zmeskal, V. Mäckel, M. Fleck, Yasuyuki Matsuda, and Yasunori Yamazaki

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Antimatter, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Tracker, Monte Carlo method, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Scintillator, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Hodoscope, 0103 physical sciences, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, 010306 general physics, Antihydrogen, Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation, physics.ins-det, Physics, Calorimeter, Detector, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Antiproton
Abstract

An antihydrogen detector consisting of a thin BGO disk and a surrounding plastic scintillator hodoscope has been developed. We have characterized the two-dimensional positions sensitivity of the thin BGO disk and energy deposition into the BGO was calibrated using cosmic rays by comparing experimental data with Monte-Carlo simulations. The particle tracks were defined by connecting BGO hit positions and hits on the surrounding hodoscope scintillator bars. The event rate was investigated as a function of the angles between the tracks and the energy deposition in the BGO for simulated antiproton events, and for measured and simulated cosmic ray events. Identification of the antihydrogen Monte Carlo events was performed using the energy deposited in the BGO and the particle tracks. The cosmic ray background was limited to 12 mHz with a detection efficiency of 81%. The signal-to-noise ratio was improved from 0.22 s−1∕2 obtained with the detector in 2012 to 0.26 s−1∕2 in this work. An antihydrogen detector consisting of a thin BGO disk and a surrounding plastic scintillator hodoscope has been developed. We have characterized the two-dimensional positions sensitivity of the thin BGO disk and energy deposition into the BGO was calibrated using cosmic rays by comparing experimental data with Monte-Carlo simulations. The particle tracks were defined by connecting BGO hit positions and hits on the surrounding hodoscope scintillator bars. The event rate was investigated as a function of the angles between the tracks and the energy deposition in the BGO for simulated antiproton events, and for measured and simulated cosmic ray events. Identification of the antihydrogen Monte Carlo events was performed using the energy deposited in the BGO and the particle tracks. The cosmic ray background was limited to 12 mHz with a detection efficiency of 81 %. The signal-to-noise ratio was improved from 0.22 s^{-1/2} obtained with the detector in 2012 to 0.26 s^{-1/2} in this work.

Published
2018

30. Experimental technique for antiproton-nucleus annihilation cross section measurements at low energy

Author

Hossein Aghai-Khozani, M. Leali, Hiroyuki Yamada, Ryugo S. Hayano, M. Corradini, L. Venturelli, E. Lodi-Rizzini, Luigi Solazzi, Y. Murakami, Masaki Hori, Valerio Mascagna, E. Vallazza, and M. Prest

Subjects
Physics, Annihilation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, QC1-999, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Cross section (physics), Physics and Astronomy (all), Low energy, medicine.anatomical_structure, Antiproton, 0103 physical sciences, medicine, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Nucleus
Abstract

The interaction of very low energy antiprotons (ps) and antineutrons (ns) with nuclei is interesting for its influence on both fundamental cosmology and nuclear physics. Measuring the annihilation cross section of antimatter on matter can help in solving the universe matter-antimatter puzzle and could give relevant hints in the definition of strong interaction model parameters as well. The ASACUSA collaboration recently measured the antiproton-carbon annihilation cross section at 5.3 MeV of kinetic energy of the incoming antiproton. The experimental apparatus consisted in a vacuum chamber containing thin foils (~0.7-1 μm) of carbon crossed by a bunched beam of antiprotons from the CERN Antiproton Decelerator (AD). The fraction of antiprotons annihilating on the target nucleons gives origin to charged pions which can be detected and counted by segmented scintillators placed outside the chamber. This work describes the experimental details of the apparatus and the technique to perform the cross section measurements.

Published
2018

31. Antihydrogen Synthesis in a Double-Cusp Trap

Author

M. Tajima, Evandro Lodi Rizzini, Yugo Nagata, T. Matsudate, Stefan Ulmer, Naofumi Kuroda, L. Venturelli, Yasuyuki Matsuda, Yasunori Yamazaki, M. Leali, Hiroyuki Higaki, H. Breuker, C. Kaga, Valerio Mascagna, B. Radics, P. Dupre, and Yasuyuki Kanai

Subjects
Physics, Condensed Matter::Quantum Gases, Physics::General Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, antihydrogen synthesis, double-cusp trap, 01 natural sciences, Trap (computing), Physics in General, Physics::Plasma Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Cusp (anatomy), Physics::Accelerator Physics, Physics::Atomic Physics, Atomic physics, 010306 general physics, Antihydrogen
Abstract

The ASACUSA CUSP experiment plans a high precision spectroscopy of the ground-state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen to test CPT symmetry. To perform this, a Rabi-like antiatomic beam method has been developed with a novel double-cusp trap. Antihydrogen atoms were synthesized in the double-cusp trap by directly injecting antiprotons from an accumulation trap into a positron plasma. By adjusting the energy difference between the incoming antiproton beam and the positron plasma, a high-rate production of antihydrogen atoms was observed., JPS Conference Proceedings, 18, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Low Energy Antiproton Physics (LEAP2016), ISBN:978-4-89027-125-2

Published
2017

32. The Development of the Antihydrogen Beam Detector: Toward the Three Dimensional Tracking with a BGO Crystal and a Hodoscope

Author

M. Tajima, Yasuyuki Matsuda, Naofumi Kuroda, Yasunori Yamazaki, Chloé Malbrunot, P. Dupre, Eberhard Widmann, Horst Breuker, C. Kaga, Yasuyuki Kanai, Valerio Mascagna, M. Leali, Yugo Nagata, C. Sauerzopf, O. Massiczek, B. Radics, E. Lodi Rizzini, M. C. Simon, A. A. Capon, L. Venturelli, B. Kolbinger, Hiroyuki Higaki, and T. Matsudate

Subjects
Physics, Physics::General Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Detector, Scintillator, Tracking (particle physics), Crystal, Nuclear physics, Hodoscope, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Development (differential geometry), Physics::Atomic Physics, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, Nuclear Experiment, Antihydrogen, Beam (structure)
Abstract

We developed an antihydrogen beam detector for the microwave spectroscopy of the antihydrogen hyperfine splitting. The detector consists of a position sensitive BGO calorimeter and a hodoscope. We report test experiments for the position sensitive readout from a non-segmented BGO crystal., Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Low Energy Antiproton Physics (LEAP2016), ISBN:978-4-89027-125-2

Published
2017

33. Experimental Apparatus for Antiproton-Nucleus Annihilation Cross Section Measurements at Low Energy

Author

H. Aghai-Kozani, M. Prest, V. Mascagna, E. Lodi-Rizzini, Hiroyuki Yamada, Ryugo S. Hayano, M. Corradini, E. Vallazza, M. Leali, Y. Murakami, Masaki Hori, Luigi Solazzi, and L. Venturelli

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear physics, Cross section (physics), medicine.anatomical_structure, Annihilation, Low energy, Antiproton, Scintillation counter, medicine, Carbon nucleus, Nucleus, Charged particle
Published
2017

34. Progress of Antihydrogen Beam Production Using a Double Cusp Trap

Author

B. Radics, L. Venturelli, Mascagna, J. Zmeskal, B. Kolbinger, C. Sauerzopf, P. Dupre, M. Tajima, Horst Breuker, M. Leali, Yugo Nagata, Yasunori Yamazaki, C. Kaga, M. Diermaier, Yasuyuki Kanai, E. Widmann, Naofumi Kuroda, Stefan Ulmer, Kunio Suzuki, O. Massiczek, Chloé Malbrunot, Yasuhiro H. Matsuda, M. C. Simon, A. A. Capon, E. Lodi Rizzini, Hiroyuki Higaki, and T. Matsudate

Subjects
Physics, Physics::General Physics, Atomic beam, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, CPT symmetry, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, CPT invariance, 01 natural sciences, Accelerators and Storage Rings, Trap (computing), Antihydrogen, 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters, Cusp (anatomy), Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Physics::Atomic Physics, Atomic physics, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, 010306 general physics, Beam (structure)
Abstract

We report the progress of the H¯ beam production experiment and recent developments of the double cusp trap to improve of the beam intensity of the H¯ atomic beams, the ASACUSA Micromegas tracker to monitoring the antihydrogen synthesis and the antihydrogen beam detector., JPS Conference Proceedings, 18, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Low Energy Antiproton Physics (LEAP2016), ISBN:978-4-89027-125-2

Published
2017
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35. Antiparticle cloud temperatures for antihydrogen experiments

Author

Valerio Mascagna, Andrea Bianconi, L. Venturelli, M. Charlton, and E. Lodi Rizzini

Subjects
Physics, Particle physics, Antiparticle, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Cloud computing, 01 natural sciences, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Rule of thumb, Nuclear physics, Simple (abstract algebra), Atomic and Molecular Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Radiative transfer, and Optics, 010306 general physics, business, Antihydrogen
Abstract

A simple rate-equation description of the heating and cooling of antiparticle clouds under conditions typical of those found in antihydrogen formation experiments is developed and analyzed. We include single-particle collisional, radiative, and cloud expansion effects and, from the modeling calculations, identify typical cooling phenomena and trends and relate these to the underlying physics. Some general rules of thumb of use to experimenters are derived.

Published
2017

36. Measurements and 3D reconstruction of antimatter annihilations with the ASACUSA Micromegas Tracker

Author

T. Y. Kanai, Naofumi Kuroda, M. Leali, M. Tajima, B. Radics, C. Kaga, D. J. Murtagh, Yasuyuki Matsuda, Valerio Mascagna, Yasunori Yamazaki, T. Matsudate, Y. Higashi, Horst Breuker, P. Dupre, Hiroyuki Higaki, H. A. Torii, L. Venturelli, S. Van Gorp, Stefan Ulmer, and E. Lodi Rizzini

Subjects
Physics, antihydrogen, micromegas, Particle physics, tracking detector, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 3D reconstruction, MicroMegas detector, Nuclear physics, Physics in General, Antimatter, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Physics::Atomic Physics
Abstract

The aim of the ASACUSA-CUSP experiment is to form a beam of antihydrogen atoms for in-flight precision spectroscopic measurements. This is performed by trapping and mixing antiprotons and positrons in a common nested-well potential, which is sitting in a double-cusp magnetic field with minimum-B field configuration. We have built a tracking detector, the ASACUSA Micromegas Tracker (AMT) [1], to monitor and resolve annihilations on-axis from annihilations on the trapping electrode walls of the experiment, which latter is a general signature of antihydrogen formation. Data taken during the summer of 2015 is presented in order to demonstrate the first performance of the AMT detector. In particular, data from on-axis trapping and slow extraction of antiprotons is used to illustrate the vertex reconstruction capability of the detector., JPS Conference Proceedings, 18, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Low Energy Antiproton Physics (LEAP2016), ISBN:978-4-89027-125-2

Published
2017

37. Manipulation and transport of antiprotons for an efficient production of antihydrogen atoms

Author

Valerio Mascagna, Hiroyuki Higaki, Yugo Nagata, Stefan Ulmer, Naofumi Kuroda, Yasunori Yamazaki, Evandro Lodi Rizzini, Yasuyuki Matsuda, M. Tajima, Yasuyuki Kanai, P. Dupre, H. Breuker, M. Leali, T. Matsudate, L. Venturelli, and B. Radics

Subjects
antihydrogen, Physics, Nuclear physics, Condensed Matter::Quantum Gases, Antiproton, Physics in General, antiproton, Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters, Physics::Atomic Physics, Antihydrogen
Abstract

The ASACUSA collaboration is developing methods to extract and transport antiprotons at 20 eV adiabatically for an efficient production of cold antihydrogen atoms using a direct injection scheme. We successfully observed a high production rate of antihydrogen atoms immediately after the mixing of antiprotons., JPS Conference Proceedings, 18, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Low Energy Antiproton Physics (LEAP2016), ISBN:978-4-89027-125-2

Published
2017

38. Recent Results on the Antiproton-Nucleus Annihilation Cross Section at Low Energy

Author

V. Mascagna, Ryugo S. Hayano, E. Vallazza, M. Corradini, Masaki Hori, E. Lodi-Rizzini, Hiroyuki Yamada, M. Leali, M. Prest, Y. Murakami, Hossein Aghai-Khozani, and L. Venturelli

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear physics, Cross section (physics), medicine.anatomical_structure, Annihilation, Low energy, Antiproton, medicine, Nucleus
Published
2017

39. Antiproton reflection by a solid surface

Author

Evandro Lodi Rizzini, L. Venturelli, Maurizio Corradini, Arturo Cristiano, R. Donà, Andrea Bianconi, Nicola Zurlo, M. Leali, A. Bianconi, M. Corradini, A. Cristiano, R. Donà, M. Leali, E. Lodi Rizzini, L. Venturelli, and N. Zurlo

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Annihilation, Scattering, Monte Carlo method, chemistry.chemical_element, Antiprotons · Surfaces · Coulombic interaction, Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear physics, chemistry, Aluminium, Antiproton, Antimatter, Reflection (physics), Physics::Accelerator Physics, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Atomic physics, Beam (structure)
Abstract

In this article, the first experimental evidence is presented for the reflection of a conspicuous fraction (∼ 30%) of a beam of low energy antiprotons by an aluminum wall. This rare evidence comes from the new analysis of a set of annihilations of antiprotons stopped in rarefied helium gas after hitting the end wall of the apparatus. These results, supported by Monte Carlo simulations, show that the interaction between the antiprotons at low energies ( $\lesssim 10$ keV) and the solid surface is dominated by Rutherford-type scattering on aluminum nuclei, and contradict the common belief according to which the interactions between matter and antimatter are dominated by the reciprocally destructive phenomenon of annihilation.

Published
2009

40. Experimental investigation of ≈130 keV kinetic energy antiprotons annihilation on nuclei

Author

Hossein Aghai-Khozani, D. Barna, N. Zurlo, M. Leali, Ryugo S. Hayano, M. Corradini, M. Prest, E. Lodi-Rizzini, Takayoshi Kobayashi, L. Venturelli, K. Todoroki, E. Vallazza, Valerio Mascagna, Anna Sótér, and Masaki Hori

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, antiprotons, annihilation cross section, nuclear physics, CERN AD, media_common.quotation_subject, Nuclear Theory, Antiproton, Kinetic energy, Asymmetry, Nuclear physics, nuclear physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Coulomb, Neutron, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Nuclear Experiment, media_common, Mass number, Physics, Annihilation cross section, Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Annihilation, Antimatter, and Optics, Atomic physics, antiprotons
Abstract

The study of the antiproton ( $\bar {p}$ ) annihilation cross section on nuclei at low energies (eV-MeV region) has implications for fundamental cosmology as well as for nuclear physics. Concerning the former, different models try to explain the matter/antimatter asymmetry in the universe assuming the existence of the so-called “islands” where antinucleon-nucleon annihilations occur in the border region (Cohen et al. Astrophys. J. 495, 539–549, 1998), while, from the nuclear physics point of view, the annihilation process is a valuable tool to evaluate the neutron/proton ratio in order to probe the external region of the nucleus (Gupta et al. Nucl. Phys. B 70(3), 414–424, 1974). The existing data of antinucleon-nucleon (or -nucleus) annihilation cross-sections are mainly confined to energies above ≈1 MeV, while the cross section measured at LEAR in the 80’s-90’s (mostly with light targets Agnello et al. Phys. Lett. B 256, 349–353, 1991; Bertin et al. Phys. Lett. B 369, 77–85, 1996; Bertin et al. Phys. Lett. B 414, 220–228, 1997; Zenoni et al. Phys. Lett. B 461, 405–412, 1999; Bianconi et al. Phys. Lett. B 481, 194–198, 2000; Bianconi et al. Phys. Lett. B 492, 254–258, 2000) showed an unexpected behaviour for energies below 1 MeV (Bianconi et al. Phys. Lett. B 483, 353–359, 2000; Bianconi et al. Phys. Rev. C 62, 014611-7, 2000; Batty et al. Nucl. Phys. A 689, 721–740, 2001). The results showed a saturation with the atomic mass number against the A 2/3 trend which is observed for higher energies (being A the target mass number). The ASACUSA collaboration at CERN recently measured antiproton annihilation cross section on different kinds of nuclei with a $\bar {p}$ kinetic energy of 5.3 MeV (Bianconi et al. Phys. Lett. B 704, 461–466, 2011; Corradini et al. Nucl. Instr. Methods A 711, 12–20, 2013). Such results proved compatibility with the black-disk model with the Coulomb correction. But till now experimental difficulties prevented the investigation at energies below ≈1 MeV. In 2012, the 100 keV region has been investigated for the first time (Aghai-Khozani et al. Eur. Phys. J. Plus 127, 125–128, 2012). We present here the first preliminary results of this experiment.

Published
2014

41. New results of the antiproton-carbon annihilation cross section measurement at low energies

Author

Masaki Hori, M. Prest, Hiroyuki Yamada, M. Corradini, E. Vallazza, E. Lodi Rizzini, L. Venturelli, Y. Murakami, H Aghai–Khozani, Ryugo S. Hayano, Mascagna, M. Leali, and Luigi Solazzi

Subjects
Physics, Large Hadron Collider, Annihilation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, QC1-999, Nuclear Theory, chemistry.chemical_element, 01 natural sciences, Antiproton Decelerator, Nuclear physics, Cross section (physics), Physics and Astronomy (all), Low energy, chemistry, Antiproton, 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Nuclear Physics - Experiment, Physics::Atomic Physics, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Carbon
Abstract

The antinucleon-nuclei annihilation cross section at very low energy has been measured at the LEAR facility (CERN) during the 80's and 90's and recently at the Antiproton Decelerator. The results have raised some interesting questions that still need answers. The ASACUSA collaboration performed an experiment to measure the sigma_ann of 100 MeV/c antiprotons on carbon target and the preliminary results are presented here.

Published
2016

42. Antihydrogen synthesis in a double-CUSP trap towards test of the CPT-symmetry

Author

L. Venturelli, M. Leali, H. Breuker, Y. Abo, Shumpei Ishikawa, S. Van Gorp, E. Lodi Rizzini, Y. Higashi, Stefan Ulmer, Yasuyuki Matsuda, Hiroyuki Higaki, C. Kaga, Naofumi Kuroda, P. Dupre, Yasunori Yamazaki, Valerio Mascagna, D. J. Murtagh, Nicola Zurlo, Yasuyuki Kanai, Y. Nagata, M. Tajima, and B. Radics

Subjects
0301 basic medicine, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, CPT symmetry, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, 03 medical and health sciences, Antimatter micromegas, Atomic and Molecular Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Atom, Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters, Physics::Atomic Physics, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Vertex reconstruction, 010306 general physics, Antihydrogen, Physics, Large Hadron Collider, Spectrometer, Tracking, Detector, Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 030104 developmental biology, Antiproton, Physics::Accelerator Physics, and Optics, Atomic physics, Beam (structure)
Abstract

The aim of the ASACUSA-CUSP experiment at CERN is to produce a cold, polarised antihydrogen beam and perform a high precision measurement of the ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the antihydrogen atom and compare it with that of the hydrogen atom using the same spectroscopic beam line. Towards this goal a significant step was successfully accomplished: synthesised antihydrogen atoms have been produced in a CUSP magnetic configuration and detected at the end of our spectrometer beam line in 2012 [1]. During a long shut down at CERN the ASACUSA-CUSP experiment had been renewed by introducing a new double-CUSP magnetic configuration and a new semi-cylindrical tracking detector (AMT) [2], and by improving the transport feature of low energy antiproton beams. The new tracking detector monitors the antihydrogen synthesis during the mixing cycle of antiprotons and positrons. In this work the latest results and improvements of the antihydrogen synthesis will be presented including highlights from the last beam time.

Published
2016

43. Sub-Doppler Two-Photon Laser Spectroscopy of Antiprotonic Helium and the Antiproton-to-Electron Mass Ratio

Author

L. Venturelli, S. Friedreich, Andreas Dax, Ryugo S. Hayano, D. Barna, Anna Sótér, T. Pask, Dezso Horvath, E. Widmann, Masaki Hori, B. Juhász, and Nicola Zurlo

Subjects
Physics, chemistry.chemical_element, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Spectral line, symbols.namesake, chemistry, Antiproton, Antimatter, symbols, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Physics::Atomic Physics, Atomic physics, Spectroscopy, Antiprotonic helium, Doppler effect, Helium, Doppler broadening
Abstract

The ASACUSA collaboration of CERN has recently irradiated antiprotonic helium atoms with two counter-propagating laser beams. This excited some non-linear two-photon transitions of the antiproton at the deep UV wavelengths λ = 139.8-197.0 nm. The counterpropagating geometry of the laser beams reduced the thermal Doppler broadening of the observed resonances. Their narrow spectral lines allowed the measurement of three transition frequencies with fractional precisions of 2.3-5 parts in 10 9 . By comparing the results with three-body QED calculations, the antiproton-to-electron mass ratio was derived as 1836.1526736(23).

Published
2013

44. Buffer-gas cooling of antiprotonic helium to 1.5 to 1.7 K, and antiproton-to-electron mass ratio

Author

Ryugo S. Hayano, Hiroyuki Yamada, Masaki Hori, Takumi Kobayashi, K. Todoroki, D Horváth, Hossein Aghai-Khozani, L. Venturelli, Y. Murakami, D. Barna, Anna Sótér, and Andreas Dax

Subjects
Antiparticle, ANTIHYDROGEN, Helium atom, Proton, Buffer gas, TRANSITIONS, Electron, PROTON, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, chemistry.chemical_compound, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Spectroscopy, LASER SPECTROSCOPY, Antiprotonic helium, Physics, ATOMIC MASS, HYDROGEN, CONSTANTS, FORCES, CHARGE, CPT, Multidisciplinary, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, chemistry, Antiproton, Atomic physics
Abstract

Exotic molecule tests fundamental symmetry Spectroscopy of exotic molecules can offer insight into fundamental physics. Hori et al. studied the transition frequencies of an unusual helium atom in which one of the two electrons was substituted by an antiproton, the negatively charged antiparticle partner of the proton (see the Perspective by Ubachs). The antiprotonic helium was cooled down to low temperatures to allow the frequencies to be measured with high precision. The extracted mass of the antiproton (relative to the electron mass) was in good agreement with previous measurements of the proton mass. This finding is in keeping with the implications of the combined charge, parity, and time-reversal symmetry of physical laws. Science , this issue p. 610 ; see also p. 546

Published
2016

45. Instrumentation for measurement of in-flight annihilations of 130 keV antiprotons on thin target foils

Author

M. Corradini, Hossein Aghai-Khozani, E. Lodi-Rizzini, Ryugo S. Hayano, L. Venturelli, V. Prest, D. De Salvador, Anna Sótér, K. Todoroki, L. Vallazza, Valerio Mascagna, M. Leali, D. Barna, and Masaki Hori

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Annihilation, Nuclear cross section, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Antiproton, Kinetic energy, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Time of flight, symbols.namesake, Pion, 0103 physical sciences, symbols, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Rutherford scattering, Instrumentation, Atomic physics, 010306 general physics, Beam (structure)
Abstract

We describe the instrumentation for an experiment to measure the cross sections of antiprotons with kinetic energies of 130±10 keV annihilating on carbon, palladium, and platinum target foils of sub-100 nm thicknesses. A 120 ns long pulsed beam containing 10 5 – 10 6 antiprotons was allowed to traverse the foils, and the signal annihilations that resulted from this were isolated using a time-of-flight method. Backgrounds arose from Rutherford scattering of the antiprotons off the target foils, their annihilations in the target chamber walls, and π → μ → e decay of the charged pions that emerged from the annihilations. Some antiprotons slowed down and annihilated in the contamination on the target surfaces. This reduced the signal-to-background ratio of the measurement.

Published
2016

46. Towards Measuring the Ground State Hyperfine Splitting of Antihydrogen -- A Progress Report

Author

M. C. Simon, Yasuyuki Matsuda, S. Vamosi, A. A. Capon, Sebastian Lehner, P. Dupre, M. Leali, Chloé Malbrunot, Yasunori Yamazaki, Naofumi Kuroda, E. Lodi Rizzini, S. Van Gorp, B. Kolbinger, O. Massiczek, Stefan Ulmer, C. Sauerzopf, Y. Higashi, Eberhard Widmann, L. Venturelli, Yugo Nagata, H. Breuker, Yasuyuki Kanai, C. Kaga, Valerio Mascagna, M. Diermaier, M. Tajima, Ken Suzuki, B. Radics, Hiroyuki Higaki, Johann Zmeskal, and D. J. Murtagh

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, Scintillator, 01 natural sciences, Field-ioniser, Atomic and Molecular Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Principal quantum number, Precision spectroscopy, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, 010306 general physics, Spectroscopy, Antihydrogen, Hyperfine structure, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, CPT, PIPS, Atomic physics, and Optics, Ground state, Beam (structure)
Abstract

We report the successful commissioning and testing of a dedicated field-ioniser chamber for measuring principal quantum number distributions in antihydrogen as part of the ASACUSA hyperfine spectroscopy apparatus. The new chamber is combined with a beam normalisation detector that consists of plastic scintillators and a retractable passivated implanted planar silicon (PIPS) detector., Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, 6th International Symposium on Symmetries in Subatomic Physics (SSP2015)

Published
2016
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47. Direct detection of antihydrogen atoms using a BGO crystal

Author

L. Venturelli, Mascagna, H. A. Torii, M. Leali, Yasuyuki Matsuda, Yasunori Yamazaki, M. Tajima, Yugo Nagata, E. Lodi-Rizzini, Naofumi Kuroda, Miki Ohtsuka, and N. Zurlo

Subjects
Physics::General Physics, Antimatter, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Cosmic ray, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, Nuclear physics, Pion, 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters, Physics::Atomic Physics, Multiplicity (chemistry), Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Antihydrogen, Instrumentation, Physics, Cosmic ray background suppression, Detector, Inorganic scintillator, Annihilation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Atomic physics
Abstract

The ASACUSA collaboration has developed a detector consisting of a large size BGO crystal to detect an atomic antihydrogen beam, and performed the direct detection of antihydrogen atoms. Energy spectra from antihydrogen annihilation on the BGO crystal are discussed in comparison to simulation results from the GEANT4 toolkit. Background mainly originating from cosmic rays were strongly suppressed by analyzing the energy deposited in the BGO and requiring a multiplicity of charged pions. Thus antihydrogen events were identified.

Published
2016

48. In-flight antiproton annihilation on nuclei at low energies

Author

M. Prest, K. Todoroki, E. Lodi-Rizzini, L. Venturelli, A. Mozzanica, Anna Sótér, M. Leali, Takumi Kobayashi, Maurizio Corradini, E. Vallazza, Nicola Zurlo, Masaki Hori, and Valerio Mascagna

Subjects
Physics, antiproton, annihilation, cross section, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Annihilation, Large Hadron Collider, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, chemistry.chemical_element, Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear physics, Cross section (physics), chemistry, Antiproton, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Experimental methods, Tin, Beam (structure)
Abstract

The results of the annihilation cross sections measurement of 5.3 MeV antiprotons on nickel, tin, platinum and Mylar targets performed by the ASACUSA Collaboration at CERN are presented and compared with the existing data and models. From the experimental point of view the presented data are the first measurement of antinucleon annihilation cross sections at low energies obtained with a pulsed beam. This results open the road for the next measurements at the very low energies of the order of 100 keV that are in progress by the ASACUSA Collaboration. The experimental method foreseen for the 100 keV measurement is illustrated.

Published
2011

49. Beam profile monitor for annihilation cross section measurements of antiprotons at 100 keV

Author

Takumi Kobayashi, K. Todoroki, Anna Sótér, Nicola Zurlo, Valerio Mascagna, Evandro Lodi Rizzini, Ryugo S. Hayano, M. Leali, Maurizio Corradini, Masaki Hori, and L. Venturelli

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Secondary electron emission, Annihilation, Large Hadron Collider, Beam profile monitor, Antiproton annihilation cross section, Atomic spectroscopy, Condensed Matter Physics, Kinetic energy, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear physics, Antiproton Decelerator, Antiproton, ASACUSA, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Secondary emission, Physics::Accelerator Physics, and Optics, Atomic physics, Beam (structure)
Abstract

The ASACUSA (the Atomic Spectroscopy And Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons) collaboration is planning to measure the cross sections of antiproton annihilations at kinetic energy 100 keV on targets of various mass numbers (C, Ni, Sn, and Pt) using the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) of CERN. No previous measurement exists in this region where the A-dependence of the cross section is expected to deviate from the A\(^{\frac{2}{3}}\) (Batty et al, Nucl Phys A 689:721, 2001) as reported by the Obelix collaboration. A beam profile monitor based on secondary electron emission with a grid of electrode pads fabricated on an FR4-type glass-epoxy circuit board was developed for this measurement. The advantage of this kind of detector is that it is simple, lightweight, and low cost. It was used to measure the spatial profile of 100-ns-long beam pulses containing > 6 × 104 antiprotons with an active area of 40 mm × 40 mm and a spatial resolution of 4 mm.

Published
2011

50. Mass discrimination using double-sided silicon microstrip detectors for pions and protons at intermediate energies

Author

Paolo Camerini, Rinaldo Rui, L. Venturelli, L. Celano, Richard Wheadon, M. De Palma, N. Grion, P. Bottan, L. Fiore, V. Paticchio, F. De Mori, P., Bottan, Camerini, Paolo, L., Celano, F., DE MORI, M., DE PALMA, L., Fiore, N., Grion, V., Paticchio, Rui, Rinaldo, L., Venturelli, and R., Wheadon

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Silicon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Theory, Detector, chemistry.chemical_element, Ranging, Integrated circuit, law.invention, Nuclear physics, Pion, chemistry, law, Silicon detector, Mass discrimination, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation, Silicon microstrip detectors
Abstract

Prototype silicon detector modules for the vertex detector of the FINUDA experiment were tested at TRIUMF using pions and protons at 270 and 408 MeV/c in order to study their use for mass discrimination based on energy deposition. The detector modules were constructed using double-sided silicon detectors based on the ALEPH design, read out by VA1 integrated circuits. The test modules and apparatus are described, details of the data analysis are discussed, and the results are presented together with GEANT simulations. Particular attention is given to the detector response for the various particles, with signals ranging from the minimum-ionising pions at 408 MeV/c up to 20 times minimum-ionising for the protons at 270 MeV/c. ( 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Published
1999

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