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101. Measurement of polarization-transfer to bound protons in carbon and its virtuality dependence

Author: A1 Collaboration, Izraeli, D., Brecelj, T., Achenbach, P., Ashkenazi, A., Böhm, R., Cohen, E. O., Distler, M. O., Esser, A., Gilman, R., Kolar, T., Korover, I., Lichtenstadt, J., Mardor, I., Merkel, H., Mihovilovič, M., Müller, U., Olivenboim, M., Piasetzky, E., Ron, G., Schlimme, B. S., Schoth, M., Sfienti, C., Širca, S., Štajner, S., Strauch, S., Thiel, M., Weber, A., and Yaron, I.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We measured the ratio $P_{x}/P_{z}$ of the transverse to longitudinal components of polarization transferred from electrons to bound protons in $^{12}\mathrm{C}$ by the $^{12}\mathrm{C}(\vec{e},e'\vec{p})$ process at the Mainz Microtron (MAMI). We observed consistent deviations from unity of this ratio normalized to the free-proton ratio, $(P_{x}/P_{z})_{^{12}\mathrm{C}}/(P_{x}/P_{z})_{^{1}\mathrm{H}}$, for both $s$- and $p$-shell knocked out protons, even though they are embedded in averaged local densities that differ by about a factor of two. The dependence of the double ratio on proton virtuality is similar to the one for knocked out protons from $^{2}\mathrm{H}$ and $^{4}\mathrm{He}$, suggesting a universal behavior. It further implies no dependence on average local nuclear density.
Published: 2017
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102. The Roper resonance: a genuine quark state or a dynamically generated structure?

Author: Golli, B., Osmanović, H., Širca, S., and Švarc, A.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: In view of the recent results of lattice QCD simulation in the P11 partial wave that has found no clear signal for the three-quark Roper state we investigate a different mechanism for the formation of the Roper resonance in a coupled channel approach including the $\pi N$, $\pi\Delta$ and $\sigma N$ channels. We fix the pion-baryon vertices in the underlying quark model while the $s$-wave sigma-baryon interaction is introduced phenomenologically with the coupling strength, the mass and the width of the $\sigma$ meson as free parameters. The Laurent-Pietarinen expansion is used to extract the information about the $S$-matrix pole. The Lippmann-Schwinger equation for the $K$ matrix with a separable kernel is solved to all orders. For sufficiently strong $\sigma NN$ coupling the kernel becomes singular and a quasi-bound state emerges at around 1.4~GeV, dominated by the $\sigma N$ component and reflecting itself in a pole of the $S$-matrix. The alternative mechanism involving a $(1s)^22s$ quark resonant state is added to the model and the interplay of the dynamically generated state and the three-quark resonant state is studied. It turns out that for the mass of the three-quark resonant state above 1.6~GeV the mass of the resonance is determined solely by the dynamically generated state, nonetheless, the inclusion of the three-quark resonant state is imperative to reproduce the experimental width and the modulus of the resonance pole., Comment: 11 pages, 11 figures; two figures added with some minor modifications of the text. To be published in Phys. Rev. C
Published: 2017
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103. Polarization Transfer Observables in Elastic Electron Proton Scattering at $Q^2 = $2.5, 5.2, 6.8, and 8.5 GeV$^2$

Author: Puckett, A. J. R., Brash, E. J., Jones, M. K., Luo, W., Meziane, M., Pentchev, L., Perdrisat, C. F., Punjabi, V., Wesselmann, F. R., Afanasev, A., Ahmidouch, A., Albayrak, I., Aniol, K. A., Arrington, J., Asaturyan, A., Baghdasaryan, H., Benmokhtar, F., Bertozzi, W., Bimbot, L., Bosted, P., Boeglin, W., Butuceanu, C., Carter, P., Chernenko, S., Christy, E., Commisso, M., Cornejo, J. C., Covrig, S., Danagoulian, S., Daniel, A., Davidenko, A., Day, D., Dhamija, S., Dutta, D., Ent, R., Frullani, S., Fenker, H., Frlez, E., Garibaldi, F., Gaskell, D., Gilad, S., Gilman, R., Goncharenko, Y., Hafidi, K., Hamilton, D., Higinbotham, D. W., Hinton, W., Horn, T., Hu, B., Huang, J., Huber, G. M., Jensen, E., Keppel, C., Khandaker, M., King, P., Kirillov, D., Kohl, M., Kravtsov, V., Kumbartzki, G., Li, Y., Mamyan, V., Margaziotis, D. J., Marsh, A., Matulenko, Y., Maxwell, J., Mbianda, G., Meekins, D., Melnik, Y., Miller, J., Mkrtchyan, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Moffit, B., Moreno, O., Mulholland, J., Narayan, A., Nedev, S., Nuruzzaman, Piasetzky, E., Pierce, W., Piskunov, N. M., Prok, Y., Ransome, R. D., Razin, D. S., Reimer, P., Reinhold, J., Rondon, O., Shabestari, M., Shahinyan, A., Shestermanov, K., Sirca, S., Sitnik, I., Smykov, L., Smith, G., Solovyev, L., Solvignon, P., Subedi, R., Tomasi-Gustafsson, E., Vasiliev, A., Veilleux, M., Wojtsekhowski, B. B., Wood, S., Ye, Z., Zanevsky, Y., Zhang, X., Zhang, Y., Zheng, X., and Zhu, L.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The GEp-III and GEp-2$\gamma$ experiments were carried out in Jefferson Lab's (JLab's) Hall C from 2007-2008, to extend the knowledge of $G_E^p/G_M^p$ to the highest practically achievable $Q^2$ and to search for effects beyond the Born approximation in polarization transfer observables of elastic $\vec{e}p$ scattering. This article reports an expanded description of the common experimental apparatus and data analysis procedure, and the results of a final reanalysis of the data from both experiments, including the previously unpublished results of the full-acceptance data of the GEp-2$\gamma$ experiment. The Hall C High Momentum Spectrometer detected and measured the polarization of protons recoiling elastically from collisions of JLab's polarized electron beam with a liquid hydrogen target. A large-acceptance electromagnetic calorimeter detected the elastically scattered electrons in coincidence to suppress inelastic backgrounds. The final GEp-III data are largely unchanged relative to the originally published results. The statistical uncertainties of the final GEp-2$\gamma$ data are significantly reduced at $\epsilon = 0.632$ and $0.783$ relative to the original publication. The decrease with $Q^2$ of $G_E^p/G_M^p$ continues to $Q^2 = 8.5$ GeV$^2$, but at a slowing rate relative to the approximately linear decrease observed in earlier Hall A measurements. At $Q^2 = 2.5$ GeV$^2$, the proton form factor ratio $G_E^p/G_M^p$ shows no statistically significant $\epsilon$-dependence, as expected in the Born approximation. The ratio $P_\ell/P_\ell^{Born}$ of the longitudinal polarization transfer component to its Born value shows an enhancement of roughly 1.4\% at $\epsilon = 0.783$ relative to $\epsilon = 0.149$, with $\approx 1.9\sigma$ significance based on the total uncertainty, implying a similar effect in the transverse component $P_t$ that cancels in the ratio $R$., Comment: 44 pages, 28 figures. Archival publication for the GEp-III and GEp-2gamma experiments that ran in Jefferson Lab's experimental Hall C from October, 2007 to June, 2008. v2: final manuscript as accepted by PRC. v3: Replaced figures 13 and 19 with corrected versions from published Erratum. Also made minor corrections to the text and to Table XI reflecting the corrections in the published Erratum
Published: 2017
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104. Technical Supplement to 'Polarization Transfer Observables in Elastic Electron-Proton Scattering at Q$^2$ = 2.5, 5.2, 6.8, and 8.5 GeV$^2$'

Author: Puckett, A. J. R., Brash, E. J., Jones, M. K., Luo, W., Meziane, M., Pentchev, L., Perdrisat, C. F., Punjabi, V., Wesselmann, F. R., Ahmidouch, A., Albayrak, I., Aniol, K. A., Arrington, J., Asaturyan, A., Baghdasaryan, H., Benmokhtar, F., Bertozzi, W., Bimbot, L., Bosted, P., Boeglin, W., Butuceanu, C., Carter, P., Chernenko, S., Christy, E., Commisso, M., Cornejo, J. C., Covrig, S., Danagoulian, S., Daniel, A., Davidenko, A., Day, D., Dhamija, S., Dutta, D., Ent, R., Frullani, S., Fenker, H., Frlez, E., Garibaldi, F., Gaskell, D., Gilad, S., Gilman, R., Goncharenko, Y., Hafidi, K., Hamilton, D., Higinbotham, D. W., Hinton, W., Horn, T., Hu, B., Huang, J., Huber, G. M., Jensen, E., Keppel, C., Khandaker, M., King, P., Kirillov, D., Kohl, M., Kravtsov, V., Kumbartzki, G., Li, Y., Mamyan, V., Margaziotis, D. J., Marsh, A., Matulenko, Y., Maxwell, J., Mbianda, G., Meekins, D., Melnik, Y., Miller, J., Mkrtchyan, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Moffit, B., Moreno, O., Mulholland, J., Narayan, A., Nedev, S., Nurruzzaman, Piasetzky, E., Pierce, W., Piskunov, N. M., Prok, Y., Ransome, R. D., Razin, D. S., Reimer, P., Reinhold, J., Rondon, O., Shabestari, M., Shahinyan, A., Shestermanov, K., Sirca, S., Sitnik, I., Smykov, L., Smith, G., Solovyev, L., Solvignon, P., Subedi, R., Tomasi-Gustafsson, E., Vasiliev, A., Veilleux, M., Wojtsekhowski, B. B., Wood, S., Ye, Z., Zanevsky, Y., Zhang, X., Zhang, Y., Zheng, X., and Zhu, L.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: The GEp-III and GEp-2$\gamma$ experiments, carried out in Jefferson Lab's Hall C from 2007-2008, consisted of measurements of polarization transfer in elastic electron-proton scattering at momentum transfers of $Q^2 = 2.5, 5.2, 6.8,$ and $8.54$ GeV$^2$. These measurements were carried out to improve knowledge of the proton electromagnetic form factor ratio $R = \mu_p G_E^p/G_M^p$ at large values of $Q^2$ and to search for effects beyond the Born approximation in polarization transfer observables at $Q^2 = 2.5$ GeV$^2$. The final results of both experiments were reported in a recent archival publication. A full reanalysis of the data from both experiments was carried out in order to reduce the systematic and, for the GEp-2$\gamma$ experiment, statistical uncertainties. This technical note provides additional details of the final analysis omitted from the main publication, including the final evaluation of the systematic uncertainties., Comment: 33 pages, 33 figures. v3 = Final manuscript as accepted for publication in Nuclear Instruments and Methods Section A (in press)
Published: 2017
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105. Measurement of the Vector and Tensor Asymmetries at Large Missing Momentum in Quasielastic $(\vec{e}, e^{\prime}p)$ Electron Scattering from Deuterium

Author: DeGrush, A., Maschinot, A., Akdogan, T., Alarcon, R., Bertozzi, W., Booth, E., Botto, T., Calarco, J. R., Clasie, B., Crawford, C., Dow, K., Farkhondeh, M., Fatemi, R., Filoti, O., Franklin, W., Gao, H., Geis, E., Gilad, S., Hasell, D. K., Karpius, P., Kohl, M., Kolster, H., Lee, T., Matthews, J., McIlhany, K., Meitanis, N., Milner, R., Rapaport, J., Redwine, R., Seely, J., Shinozaki, A., Sindile, A., Sirca, S., Six, E., Smith, T., Tonguc, B., Tschalar, C., Tsentalovich, E., Turchinetz, W., Xiao, Y., Xu, W., Zhou, Z. -L., Ziskin, V., and Zwart, T.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report the measurement of the beam-vector and tensor asymmetries $A^V_{ed}$ and $A^T_d$ in quasielastic $(\vec{e}, e^{\prime}p)$ electrodisintegration of the deuteron at the MIT-Bates Linear Accelerator Center up to missing momentum of 500~MeV/c. Data were collected simultaneously over a momentum transfer range $0.1< Q^2<0.5$~(GeV/c)$^2$ with the Bates Large Acceptance Spectrometer Toroid using an internal deuterium gas target, polarized sequentially in both vector and tensor states. The data are compared with calculations. The beam-vector asymmetry $A^V_{ed}$ is found to be directly sensitive to the $D$-wave component of the deuteron and have a zero-crossing at a missing momentum of about 320~MeV/c, as predicted. The tensor asymmetry $A^T_d$ at large missing momentum is found to be dominated by the influence of the tensor force in the neutron-proton final-state interaction. The new data provide a strong constraint on theoretical models., Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures
Published: 2017
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106. Extraction of the Neutron Electric Form Factor from Measurements of Inclusive Double Spin Asymmetries

Author: Sulkosky, V., Jin, G., Long, E., Zhang, Y. W., Mihovilovic, M., Kelleher, A., Anderson, B., Higinbotham, D. W., Sirca, S., Allada, K., Annand, J. R. M., Averett, T., Bertozzi, W., Boeglin, W., Bradshaw, P., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Cates, G. D., Chen, C., Chen, J. -P., Chudakov, E., De Leo, R., Deng, X., Deur, A., Dutta, C., Fassi, L. El, Flay, D., Frullani, S., Garibaldi, F., Gao, H., Gilad, S., Gilman, R., Glamazdin, O., Golge, S., Gomez, J., Hansen, J. -O., Holmstrom, T., Huang, J., Ibrahim, H., de Jager, C. W., Jensen, E., Jiang, X., Jones, M., Kang, H., Katich, J., Khanal, H. P., King, P., Korsch, W., LeRose, J., Lindgren, R., Lu, H. J., Luo, W., Markowitz, P., Meekins, D., Meziane, M., Michaels, R., Moffit, B., Monaghan, P., Muangma, N., Nanda, S., Norum, B. E., Pan, K., Parno, D., Piasetzky, E., Posik, M., Punjabi, V., Puckett, A. J. R., Qian, X., Qiang, Y., Qui, X., Riordan, S., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Shabestari, M., Shahinyan, A., Shoenrock, B., John, J. St., Subedi, R., Tobias, W. A., Tireman, W., Urciuoli, G. M., Wang, D., Wang, K., Wang, Y., Watson, J., Wojtsekhowski, B., Ye, Z., Zhan, X., Zhang, Y., Zheng, X., Zhao, B., and Zhu, L.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: $[Background]$ Measurements of the neutron charge form factor, $G^n_E$, are challenging due to the fact that the neutron has no net charge. In addition, measurements of the neutron form factors must use nuclear targets which require accurately accounting for nuclear effects. Extracting $G^n_E$ with different targets and techniques provides an important test of our handling of these effects. $[Purpose]$ The goal of the measurement was to use an inclusive asymmetry measurement technique to extract the neutron charge form factor at a four-momentum transfer of $1~(\rm{GeV/c})^2$. This technique has very different systematic uncertainties than traditional exclusive measurements and thus serves as an independent check of whether nuclear effects have been taken into account correctly. $[Method]$ The inclusive quasi-elastic reaction $^3\overrightarrow{\rm{He}}(\overrightarrow{e},e')$ was measured at Jefferson Lab. The neutron electric form factor, $G_E^n$, was extracted at $Q^2 = 0.98~(\rm{GeV/c})^2$ from ratios of electron-polarization asymmetries measured for two orthogonal target spin orientations. This $Q^2$ is high enough that the sensitivity to $G_E^n$ is not overwhelmed by the neutron magnetic contribution, and yet low enough that explicit neutron detection is not required to suppress pion production. $[Results]$ The neutron electric form factor, $G_E^n$, was determined to be $0.0414\pm0.0077\;{(stat)}\pm0.0022\;{(syst)}$; providing the first high precision inclusive extraction of the neutron's charge form factor. $[Conclusions]$ The use of the inclusive quasi-elastic $^3\overrightarrow{\rm{He}}(\overrightarrow{e},e')$ with a four-momentum transfer near $1~(\rm{GeV/c})^2$ has been used to provide a unique measurement of $G^n_E$. This new result provides a systematically independent validation of the exclusive extraction technique results., Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables
Published: 2017
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107. Workshop on High-Intensity Photon Sources (HIPS2017) Mini-Proceedings

Author: Ali, S., Allison, L., Amaryan, M., Benimiwattha, R., Camsonne, A., Day, D., Degtiarenko, P., Dutta, D., Ent, R., Goity, J. L., Hamilton, D., Hen, O., Horn, T., Hyde, C., Kalicy, G., Keller, D., Keppel, C., Kim, C., Kinney, E., Kroll, P., Larionov, A., Liuti, S., Mai, M., Mkrtchyan, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Munoz-Camacho, C., Napolitano, J., Niculescu, G., Patsyuk, M., Perera, G., Rashad, H., Roche, J., Sargsian, M., Sirca, S., Strakovsky, I., Strikman, M., Tadevosyan, V., Trotta, R., Uniyal, R., Vargas, A. H., Wojtsekhowski, B., and Zhang, J.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: This workshop aimed at producing an optimized photon source concept with potential increase of scientific output at Jefferson Lab, and at refining the science for hadron physics experiments benefitting from such a high-intensity photon source. The workshop brought together the communities directly using such sources for photo-production experiments, or for conversion into $K_L$ beams. The combination of high precision calorimetry and high intensity photon sources greatly enhances scientific benefit to (deep) exclusive processes like wide-angle and time-like Compton scattering. Potential prospects of such a high-intensity source with modern polarized targets were also discussed. The availability of $K_L$ beams would open new avenues for hadron spectroscopy, for example for the investigation of "missing" hyperon resonances, with potential impact on QCD thermodynamics and on freeze-out both in heavy ion collisions and in the early universe.
Published: 2017

108. A Glimpse of Gluons through Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering on the Proton

Author: Defurne, M., Jiménez-Argüello, A. Martì, Ahmed, Z., Albataineh, H., Allada, K., Aniol, K. A., Bellini, V., Benali, M., Boeglin, W., Bertin, P., Brossard, M., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Chandavar, S., Chen, C., Chen, J. -P., de Jager, C. W., de Leo, R., Desnault, C., Deur, A., Fassi, L. El, Ent, R., Flay, D., Friend, M., Fuchey, E., Frullani, S., Garibaldi, F., Gaskell, D., Giusa, A., Glamazdin, O., Golge, S., Gomez, J., Hansen, O., Higinbotham, D., Holmstrom, T., Horn, T., Huang, J., Huang, M., Hyde, C. E., Iqbal, S., Itard, F., Kang, H., Kelleher, A., Keppel, C., Koirala, S., Korover, I., LeRose, J. J., Lindgren, R., Long, E., Magne, M., Mammei, J., Margaziotis, D. J., Markowitz, P., Mazouz, M., Meddi, F., Meekins, D., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Camacho, C. Munoz, Nadel-Turonski, P., Nuruzzaman, N., Paremuzyan, R., Puckett, A., Punjabi, V., Qiang, Y., Rakhman, A., Rashad, M. N. H., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Russo, G., Sabatié, F., Saenboonruang, K., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Selvy, L., Shahinyan, A., Sirca, S., Solvignon, P., Sperduto, M. L., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Sutera, C., Tobias, W. A., Urciuoli, G. M., Wang, D., Wojtsekhowski, B., Yao, H., Ye, Z., Zhan, X., Zhang, J., Zhao, B., Zhao, Z., Zheng, X., and Zhu, P.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The proton is composed of quarks and gluons, bound by the most elusive mechanism of strong interaction called confinement. In this work, the dynamics of quarks and gluons are investigated using deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS): produced by a multi-GeV electron, a highly virtual photon scatters off the proton which subsequently radiates a high energy photon. Similarly to holography, measuring not only the magnitude but also the phase of the DVCS amplitude allows to perform 3D images of the internal structure of the proton. The phase is made accessible through the quantum-mechanical interference of DVCS with the Bethe-Heitler (BH) process, in which the final photon is emitted by the electron rather than the proton. We report herein the first full determination of the BH-DVCS interference by exploiting the distinct energy dependences of the DVCS and BH amplitudes. In the high energy regime where the scattering process is expected to occur off a single quark in the proton, these accurate measurements show an intriguing sensitivity to gluons, the carriers of the strong interaction.
Published: 2017
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109. Rosenbluth separation of the $\pi^0$ Electroproduction Cross Section off the Neutron

Author: Mazouz, M., Ahmed, Z., Albataineh, H., Allada, K., Aniol, K. A., Bellini, V., Benali, M., Boeglin, W., Bertin, P., Brossard, M., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Chandavar, S., Chen, C., Chen, J. -P., Defurne, M., de Jager, C. W., de Leo, R., Desnault, C., Deur, A., Fassi, L. El, Ent, R., Flay, D., Friend, M., Fuchey, E., Frullani, S., Garibaldi, F., Gaskell, D., Giusa, A., Glamazdin, O., Golge, S., Gomez, J., Hansen, O., Higinbotham, D., Holmstrom, T., Horn, T., Huang, J., Huang, M., Huber, G. M., Hyde, C. E., Iqbal, S., Itard, F., Kang, Ho., Kang, Hy., Kelleher, A., Keppel, C., Koirala, S., Korover, I., LeRose, J. J., Lindgren, R., Long, E., Magne, M., Mammei, J., Margaziotis, D. J., Markowitz, P., Jiménez-Argüello, A. Martí, Meddi, F., Meekins, D., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Muangma, N., Camacho, C. Muñoz, Nadel-Turonski, P., Nuruzzaman, N., Paremuzyan, R., Puckett, A., Punjabi, V., Qiang, Y., Rakhman, A., Rashad, M. N. H., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Russo, G., Sabatié, F., Saenboonruang, K., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Selvy, L., Shahinyan, A., Sirca, S., Solvignon, P., Sperduto, M. L., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Sutera, C., Tobias, W. A., Urciuoli, G. M., Wang, D., Wojtsekhowski, B., Yao, H., Ye, Z., Zana, L., Zhan, X., Zhang, J., Zhao, B., Zhao, Z., Zheng, X., and Zhu, P.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report the first longitudinal/transverse separation of the deeply virtual exclusive $\pi^0$ electroproduction cross section off the neutron and coherent deuteron. The corresponding four structure functions $d\sigma_L/dt$, $d\sigma_T/dt$, $d\sigma_{LT}/dt$ and $d\sigma_{TT}/dt$ are extracted as a function of the momentum transfer to the recoil system at $Q^2$=1.75 GeV$^2$ and $x_B$=0.36. The $ed \to ed\pi^0$ cross sections are found compatible with the small values expected from theoretical models. The $en \to en\pi^0$ cross sections show a dominance from the response to transversely polarized photons, and are in good agreement with calculations based on the transversity GPDs of the nucleon. By combining these results with previous measurements of $\pi^0$ electroproduction off the proton, we present a flavor decomposition of the $u$ and $d$ quark contributions to the cross section., Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures, Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
Published: 2017
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110. First measurement of proton's charge form factor at very low $Q^2$ with initial state radiation

Author: Mihovilovič, M., Weber, A. B., Achenbach, P., Beranek, T., Beričič, J., Bernauer, J. C., Böhm, R., Bosnar, D., Cardinali, M., Correa, L., Debenjak, L., Denig, A., Distler, M. O., Esser, A., Bondy, M. I. Ferretti, Fonvieille, H., Friedrich, J. M., Friščić, I., Griffioen, K., Hoek, M., Kegel, S., Kohl, Y., Merkel, H., Middleton, D. G., Müller, U., Nungesser, L., Pochodzalla, J., Rohrbeck, M., Majos, S. Sánchez, Schlimme, B. S., Schoth, M., Schulz, F., Sfienti, C., Širca, S., Štajner, S., Thiel, M., Tyukin, A., Vanderhaeghen, M., and Weinriefer, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report on a new experimental method based on initial-state radiation (ISR) in e-p scattering, in which the radiative tail of the elastic e-p peak contains information on the proton charge form factor ($G_E^p$) at extremely small $Q^2$. The ISR technique was validated in a dedicated experiment using the spectrometers of the A1-Collaboration at the Mainz Microtron (MAMI). This provided first measurements of $G_E^p$ for $0.001\leq Q^2\leq 0.004 (GeV/c)^2$., Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures
Published: 2016
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111. Vertical Beam Polarization at MAMI

Author: Schlimme, B. S., Achenbach, P., Aulenbacher, K., Baunack, S., Bender, D., Beričič, J., Bosnar, D., Correa, L., Dehn, M., Distler, M. O., Esser, A., Fonvieille, H., Friščić, I., Gutheil, B., Herrmann, P., Hoek, M., Kegel, S., Kohl, Y., Kolar, T., Kreidel, H. -J., Maas, F., Merkel, H., Mihovilovič, M., Müller, J., Müller, U., Nillius, F., Nuck, A., Pochodzalla, J., Schoth, M., Schulz, F., Sfienti, C., Širca, S., Spruck, B., Štajner, S., Thiel, M., Tioukine, V., Tyukin, A., and Weber, A.
Subjects: Physics - Accelerator Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: For the first time a vertically polarized electron beam has been used for physics experiments at MAMI in the energy range between 180 and 855 MeV. The beam-normal single-spin asymmetry $A_{\mathrm{n}}$, which is a direct probe of higher-order photon exchange beyond the first Born approximation, has been measured in the reaction $^{12}\mathrm C(\vec e,e')^{12}\mathrm C$. Vertical polarization orientation was necessary to measure this asymmetry with the existing experimental setup. In this paper we describe the procedure to orient the electron polarization vector vertically, and the concept of determining both its magnitude and orientation with the available setup. A sophisticated method has been developed to overcome the lack of a polarimeter setup sensitive to the vertical polarization component.
Published: 2016
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112. Erratum: Polarization transfer observables in elastic electron-proton scattering at Q2=2.5, 5.2, 6.8, and 8.5 GeV2 (Physical Review C (2017) 96 (055203) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.96.055203)

Author: Puckett, AJR, Brash, EJ, Jones, MK, Luo, W, Meziane, M, Pentchev, L, Perdrisat, CF, Punjabi, V, Wesselmann, FR, Afanasev, A, Ahmidouch, A, Albayrak, I, Aniol, KA, Arrington, J, Asaturyan, A, Baghdasaryan, H, Benmokhtar, F, Bertozzi, W, Bimbot, L, Bosted, P, Boeglin, W, Butuceanu, C, Carter, P, Chernenko, S, Christy, ME, Commisso, M, Cornejo, JC, Covrig, S, Danagoulian, S, Daniel, A, Davidenko, A, Day, D, Dhamija, S, Dutta, D, Ent, R, Frullani, S, Fenker, H, Frlez, E, Garibaldi, F, Gaskell, D, Gilad, S, Gilman, R, Goncharenko, Y, Hafidi, K, Hamilton, D, Higinbotham, DW, Hinton, W, Horn, T, Hu, B, Huang, J, Huber, GM, Jensen, E, Keppel, C, Khandaker, M, King, P, Kirillov, D, Kohl, M, Kravtsov, V, Kumbartzki, G, Li, Y, Mamyan, V, Margaziotis, DJ, Marsh, A, Matulenko, Y, Maxwell, J, Mbianda, G, Meekins, D, Melnik, Y, Miller, J, Mkrtchyan, A, Mkrtchyan, H, Moffit, B, Moreno, O, Mulholland, J, Narayan, A, Nedev, S, Nuruzzaman, Piasetzky, E, Pierce, W, Piskunov, NM, Prok, Y, Ransome, RD, Razin, DS, Reimer, P, Reinhold, J, Rondon, O, Shabestari, M, Shahinyan, A, Shestermanov, K, Širca, S, Sitnik, I, Smykov, L, Smith, G, Solovyev, L, Solvignon, P, Subedi, R, Tomasi-Gustafsson, E, Vasiliev, A, Veilleux, M, and Wojtsekhowski, BB
Abstract: Subsequent to the release of our original paper, we discovered in the context of preparing our technical supplement [1] for journal publication that a typographical error had existed in the text file that the analysis program used to construct the beam polarization "database" for both the original analysis, published in Ref. [2], and our final analysis. The electron-beam polarization P e and the analyzing power A y cancel exactly in the ratio R , which is proportional to the ratio P t / P l of the transferred polarization components. On the other hand, the extraction of the relative e dependence of P l / P Born l relies on knowledge of the beam polarization. As such, data taking was interrupted roughly every two days during the GEp - 2 ? experiment to perform invasive measurements of the beam polarization using the Hall C Moller polarimeter [3]. The run range affected by the typographical error was entirely contained within the data collected at Q 2 = 2.5 GeV 2 with a beam energy of E e = 3.680 GeV during January 2008. The data from this configuration were combined with the data collected at E e = 3.548 GeV due to the nearly complete overlap of these two settings in terms of Q 2 and e acceptance. It is worth remarking that this typographical error went unnoticed for so long because it only affected a small fraction of the data (less than half of the combined data for ? e ? = 0.790 ) and the difference between the actually assigned beam polarization and the polarization that should have been assigned was comparable in magnitude to the point-to-point systematic uncertainty of the measurement itself. As such, its effect did not show up in various diagnostic plots and statistical tests, such as the time stability of the extracted P l / P Born l ratio. The data for both E e = 3.548 and E e = 3.680 GeV were reprocessed using the corrected beam polarizations to determine the effect of the typographical error on the combined physics results at ? e ? = 0.790 . Because the value of P e cancels in the ratio R , changes in the assumed beam polarization can only affect the results for R via statistical fluctuations due to changes in the relative weighting of different run ranges in the unbinned maximum-likelihood estimators for R . These effects are negligible on the scale of both the statistical and the systematic uncertainties of the data. More noticeable changes are expected in the ratio P l / P Born l since the extracted value of P l is inversely proportional to the assumed value of P e . Table I shows the effect of the corrected beam polarization database on the polarization transfer observables for the combined data for the ? e ? = 0.790 setting, the only measurement affected by the typographical error. The analyzing power did not need to be recalibrated since it was determined using the ? e ? = 0.153 data, which were not affected by the typographical error. As expected, the change in the ratio R is negligible. The value of P Born l , which is computed event by event from the global fit described in the Appendix of the original paper and does not depend on P e , is also unchanged. The magnitudes of P t , P l , and P l / P Born l are reduced by a common multiplicative factor, reflecting the fact that the beam polarization had been underestimated for the run range affected by the typographical error. The most important result of the corrected analysis is that the ratio P l / P Born l has decreased by 0.0024 from 1.0167 to 1.0143, a change comparable in magnitude to the statistical uncertainty but small compared to the total and point-to-point systematic uncertainties. The P l / P Born l result for the original publication [2] would be reduced by the same multiplicative factor as the final result. The physics conclusions of both publications are not materially changed by this correction. (Table Presented). (Figure Presented).
Published: 2018

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

Author: Puckett, AJR, Brash, EJ, Jones, MK, Luo, W, Meziane, M, Pentchev, L, Perdrisat, CF, Punjabi, V, Wesselmann, FR, Afanasev, A, Ahmidouch, A, Albayrak, I, Aniol, KA, Arrington, J, Asaturyan, A, Baghdasaryan, H, Benmokhtar, F, Bertozzi, W, Bimbot, L, Bosted, P, Boeglin, W, Butuceanu, C, Carter, P, Chernenko, S, Christy, ME, Commisso, M, Cornejo, JC, Covrig, S, Danagoulian, S, Daniel, A, Davidenko, A, Day, D, Dhamija, S, Dutta, D, Ent, R, Frullani, S, Fenker, H, Frlez, E, Garibaldi, F, Gaskell, D, Gilad, S, Gilman, R, Goncharenko, Y, Hafidi, K, Hamilton, D, Higinbotham, DW, Hinton, W, Horn, T, Hu, B, Huang, J, Huber, GM, Jensen, E, Keppel, C, Khandaker, M, King, P, Kirillov, D, Kohl, M, Kravtsov, V, Kumbartzki, G, Li, Y, Mamyan, V, Margaziotis, DJ, Marsh, A, Matulenko, Y, Maxwell, J, Mbianda, G, Meekins, D, Melnik, Y, Miller, J, Mkrtchyan, A, Mkrtchyan, H, Moffit, B, Moreno, O, Mulholland, J, Narayan, A, Nedev, S, Nuruzzaman, Piasetzky, E, Pierce, W, Piskunov, NM, Prok, Y, Ransome, RD, Razin, DS, Reimer, P, Reinhold, J, Rondon, O, Shabestari, M, Shahinyan, A, Shestermanov, K, Širca, S, Sitnik, I, Smykov, L, Smith, G, Solovyev, L, Solvignon, P, Subedi, R, Tomasi-Gustafsson, E, Vasiliev, A, Veilleux, M, and Wojtsekhowski, BB
Subjects: Physical Sciences, Classical Physics, Nuclear and plasma physics
Abstract: Subsequent to the release of our original paper, we discovered in the context of preparing our technical supplement [1] for journal publication that a typographical error had existed in the text file that the analysis program used to construct the beam polarization "database" for both the original analysis, published in Ref. [2], and our final analysis. The electron-beam polarization P e and the analyzing power A y cancel exactly in the ratio R , which is proportional to the ratio P t / P l of the transferred polarization components. On the other hand, the extraction of the relative e dependence of P l / P Born l relies on knowledge of the beam polarization. As such, data taking was interrupted roughly every two days during the GEp - 2 ? experiment to perform invasive measurements of the beam polarization using the Hall C Moller polarimeter [3]. The run range affected by the typographical error was entirely contained within the data collected at Q 2 = 2.5 GeV 2 with a beam energy of E e = 3.680 GeV during January 2008. The data from this configuration were combined with the data collected at E e = 3.548 GeV due to the nearly complete overlap of these two settings in terms of Q 2 and e acceptance. It is worth remarking that this typographical error went unnoticed for so long because it only affected a small fraction of the data (less than half of the combined data for ? e ? = 0.790 ) and the difference between the actually assigned beam polarization and the polarization that should have been assigned was comparable in magnitude to the point-to-point systematic uncertainty of the measurement itself. As such, its effect did not show up in various diagnostic plots and statistical tests, such as the time stability of the extracted P l / P Born l ratio. The data for both E e = 3.548 and E e = 3.680 GeV were reprocessed using the corrected beam polarizations to determine the effect of the typographical error on the combined physics results at ? e ? = 0.790 . Because the value of P e cancels in the ratio R , changes in the assumed beam polarization can only affect the results for R via statistical fluctuations due to changes in the relative weighting of different run ranges in the unbinned maximum-likelihood estimators for R . These effects are negligible on the scale of both the statistical and the systematic uncertainties of the data. More noticeable changes are expected in the ratio P l / P Born l since the extracted value of P l is inversely proportional to the assumed value of P e . Table I shows the effect of the corrected beam polarization database on the polarization transfer observables for the combined data for the ? e ? = 0.790 setting, the only measurement affected by the typographical error. The analyzing power did not need to be recalibrated since it was determined using the ? e ? = 0.153 data, which were not affected by the typographical error. As expected, the change in the ratio R is negligible. The value of P Born l , which is computed event by event from the global fit described in the Appendix of the original paper and does not depend on P e , is also unchanged. The magnitudes of P t , P l , and P l / P Born l are reduced by a common multiplicative factor, reflecting the fact that the beam polarization had been underestimated for the run range affected by the typographical error. The most important result of the corrected analysis is that the ratio P l / P Born l has decreased by 0.0024 from 1.0167 to 1.0143, a change comparable in magnitude to the statistical uncertainty but small compared to the total and point-to-point systematic uncertainties. The P l / P Born l result for the original publication [2] would be reduced by the same multiplicative factor as the final result. The physics conclusions of both publications are not materially changed by this correction. (Table Presented). (Figure Presented).
Published: 2018

114. First measurement of the Ti(e,e′)X cross section at Jefferson Lab

Author: Dai, H, Murphy, M, Pandey, V, Abrams, D, Nguyen, D, Aljawrneh, B, Alsalmi, S, Ankowski, AM, Bane, J, Barcus, S, Benhar, O, Bellini, V, Bericic, J, Biswas, D, Camsonne, A, Castellanos, J, Chen, J-P, Christy, ME, Craycraft, K, Cruz-Torres, R, Day, D, Dusa, S-C, Fuchey, E, Gautam, T, Giusti, C, Gomez, J, Gu, C, Hague, T, Hansen, J-O, Hauenstein, F, Higinbotham, DW, Hyde, C, Jen, CM, Keppel, C, Li, S, Lindgren, R, Liu, H, Mariani, C, McClellan, RE, Meekins, D, Michaels, R, Mihovilovic, M, Nycz, M, Ou, L, Pandey, B, Park, K, Perera, G, Puckett, AJR, Širca, S, Su, T, Tang, L, Tian, Y, Ton, N, Wojtsekhowski, B, Wood, S, Ye, Z, and Zhang, J
Subjects: nucl-ex, hep-ex, nucl-th, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract: To probe CP violation in the leptonic sector using GeV energy neutrino beams in current and future experiments using argon detectors, precise models of the complex underlying neutrino and antineutrino interactions are needed. The E12-14-012 experiment at Jefferson Lab Hall A was designed to perform a combined analysis of inclusive and exclusive electron scatterings on both argon (N=22) and titanium (Z=22) nuclei using GeV-energy electron beams. The measurement on titanium nucleus provides essential information to understand the neutrino scattering on argon, large contribution to which comes from scattering off neutrons. Here we report the first experimental study of electron-titanium scattering as double-differential cross section at beam energy E=2.222 GeV and electron-scattering angle θ=15.541, measured over a broad range of energy transfer, spanning the kinematical regions in which quasielastic scattering and delta production are the dominant reaction mechanisms. The data provide valuable new information needed to develop accurate theoretical models of the electromagnetic and weak cross sections of these complex nuclei in the kinematic regime of interest to neutrino experiments.
Published: 2018

115. First measurement of unpolarized SIDIS cross section and cross section ratios from a $^3$He target

Author: Yan, X., Allada, K., Aniol, K., Annand, J. R. M., Averett, T., Benmokhtar, F., Bertozzi, W., Bradshaw, P. C., Bosted, P., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Cates, G. D., Chen, C., Chen, J. -P., Chen, W., Chirapatpimol, K., Chudakov, E., Cisbani, E., Cornejo, J. C., Cusanno, F., Dalton, M. M., Deconinck, W., de Jager, C. W., De Leo, R., Deng, X., Deur, A., Ding, H., Dolph, P. A. M., Dutta, C., Dutta, D., Fassi, L. El, Frullani, S., Gao, H., Garibaldi, F., Gaskell, D., Gilad, S., Gilman, R., Glamazdin, O., Golge, S., Guo, L., Hamilton, D., Hansen, O., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmstrom, T., Huang, J., Huang, M., Ibrahim, H. F, Iodice, M., Jiang, X., Jin, G., Jones, M. K., Katich, J., Kelleher, A., Kim, W., Kolarkar, A., Korsch, W., LeRose, J. J., Li, X., Li, Y., Lindgren, R., Liu, T., Liyanage, N., Long, E., Lu, H. -J., Margaziotis, D. J., Markowitz, P., Marrone, S., McNulty, D., Meziani, Z. -E., Michaels, R., Moffit, B., Camacho, C. Munoz, Nanda, S., Narayan, A., Nelyubin, V., Norum, B., Oh, Y., Osipenko, M., Parno, D., Peng, J. -C., Phillips, S. K., Posik, M., Puckett, A. J. R., Qian, X., Qiang, Y., Rakhman, A., Ransome, R., Riordan, S., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Schulte, E., Shahinyan, A., Shabestari, M. H., Sirca, S., Stepanyan, S., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Tang, L. -G., Tobias, W. A., Urciuoli, G. M., Vilardi, I., Wang, K., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wang, Y., Yao, H., Ye, Y., Ye, Z., Yuan, L., Zhan, X., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y. -W., Zhao, B., Zhao, Y. X., Zheng, X., Zhu, L., Zhu, X., and Zong, X.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The unpolarized semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (SIDIS) differential cross sections in $^3$He($e,e^{\prime}\pi^{\pm}$)$X$ have been measured for the first time in Jefferson Lab experiment E06-010 performed with a $5.9\,$GeV $e^-$ beam on a $^3$He target. The experiment focuses on the valence quark region, covering a kinematic range $0.12 < x_{bj} < 0.45$, $1 < Q^2 < 4 \, \textrm{(GeV/c)}^2$, $0.45 < z_{h} < 0.65$, and $0.05 < P_t < 0.55 \, \textrm{GeV/c}$. The extracted SIDIS differential cross sections of $\pi^{\pm}$ production are compared with existing phenomenological models while the $^3$He nucleus approximated as two protons and one neutron in a plane wave picture, in multi-dimensional bins. Within the experimental uncertainties, the azimuthal modulations of the cross sections are found to be consistent with zero.
Published: 2016
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116. Rosenbluth separation of the $\pi^0$ electroproduction cross section

Author: Defurne, M., Mazouz, M., Albataineh, H., Allada, K., Aniol, K. A., Bellini, V., Benali, M., Boeglin, W., Bertin, P., Brossard, M., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Chandavar, S., Chen, C., Chen, J. -P., de Jager, C. W., de Leo, R., Desnault, C., Deur, A., Fassi, L. El, Ent, R., Flay, D., Friend, M., Fuchey, E., Frullani, S., Garibaldi, F., Gaskell, D., Giusa, A., Glamazdin, O., Golge, S., Gomez, J., Hansen, O., Higinbotham, D., Holmstrom, T., Horn, T., Huang, J., Huang, M., Hyde, C. E., Iqbal, S., Itard, F., Kang, H., Kelleher, A., Keppel, C., Koirala, S., Korover, I., LeRose, J. J., Lindgren, R., Long, E., Magne, M., Mammei, J., Margaziotis, D. J., Markowitz, P., Jimenez-Arguello, A. Marti, Meddi, F., Meekins, D., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Camacho, C. Munoz, Nadel-Turonski, P., Nuruzzaman, N., Paremuzyan, R., Puckett, A., Punjabi, V., Qiang, Y., Rakhman, A., Rashad, M. N. H., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Russo, G., Sabati, F., Saenboonruang, K., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Selvy, L., Shahinyan, A., Sirca, S., Solvignon, P., Sperduto, M. L., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Sutera, C., Tobias, W. A., Urciuoli, G. M., Wang, D., Wojtsekhowski, B., Yao, H., Ye, Z., Zafar, A., Zhan, X., Zhang, J., Zhao, B., Zhao, Z., Zheng, X., and Zhu, P.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We present deeply virtual $\pi^0$ electroproduction cross-section measurements at $x_B$=0.36 and three different $Q^2$--values ranging from 1.5 to 2 GeV$^2$, obtained from experiment E07-007 that ran in the Hall A at Jefferson Lab. The Rosenbluth technique was used to separate the longitudinal and transverse responses. Results demonstrate that the cross section is dominated by its transverse component, and thus is far from the asymptotic limit predicted by perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics. An indication of a non-zero longitudinal contribution is provided by the interference term $\sigma_{LT}$ also measured. Results are compared with several models based on the leading twist approach of Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs). In particular, a fair agreement is obtained with models where the scattering amplitude is described by a convolution of chiral-odd (transversity) GPDs of the nucleon with the twist-3 pion distribution amplitude. Therefore, neutral pion electroproduction may offer the exciting possibility of accessing transversity GPDs through experiment., Comment: Submitted to Physical Review Letters
Published: 2016
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117. Measurement of the $p(e,e'\pi^+)n$ reaction close to threshold and at low $Q^2$

Author: A1 Collaboration, Friščić, I., Achenbach, P., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Baumann, D., Böhm, R., Bosnar, D., Debenjak, L., Denig, A., Ding, M., Distler, M. O., Esser, A., Merkel, H., Middleton, D. G., Mihovilovič, M., Müller, U., Pochodzalla, J., Schlimme, B. S., Schoth, M., Schulz, F., Sfienti, C., Širca, S., Thiel, M., and Walcher, Th.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The cross section of the $p(e,e'\pi^+)n$ reaction has been measured for five kinematic settings at an invariant mass of $W = 1094$ MeV and for a four-momentum transfer of $Q^2 = 0.078$ (GeV/$c$)$^2$. The measurement has been performed at MAMI using a new short-orbit spectrometer (SOS) of the A1 collaboration, intended for detection of low-energy pions. The transverse and longitudinal cross section terms were separated using the Rosenbluth method and the transverse-longitudinal interference term has been determined from the left-right asymmetry. The experimental cross section terms are compared with the calculations of three models: DMT2001, MAID2007 and $\chi$MAID. The results show that we do not yet understand the dynamics of the fundamental pion., Comment: version accepted for publishing
Published: 2016
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118. Measurements of $d_{2}^{n}$ and $A_{1}^{n}$: Probing the neutron spin structure

Author: Flay, D., Posik, M., Parno, D. S., Allada, K., Armstrong, W., Averett, T., Benmokhtar, F., Bertozzi, W., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Cates, G. D., Chen, C., Chen, J. -P., Choi, S., Chudakov, E., Cusanno, F., Dalton, M. M., Deconinck, W., de Jager, C. W., Deng, X., Deur, A., Dutta, C., Fassi, L. El, Franklin, G. B., Friend, M., Gao, H., Garibaldi, F., Gilad, S., Gilman, R., Glamazdin, O., Golge, S., Gomez, J., Guo, L., Hansen, O., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmstrom, T., Huang, J., Hyde, C., Ibrahim, H. F., Jiang, X., Jin, G., Katich, J., Kelleher, A., Kolarkar, A., Korsch, W., Kumbartzki, G., LeRose, J. J., Lindgren, R., Liyanage, N., Long, E., Lukhanin, A., Mamyan, V., McNulty, D., Meziani, Z. -E., Michaels, R., Mihovilovič, M., Moffit, B., Muangma, N., Nanda, S., Narayan, A., Nelyubin, V., Norum, B., Oh, Y., Peng, J. C., Qian, X., Qiang, Y., Rakhman, A., Riordan, S., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Shabestari, M. H., Shahinyan, A., Širca, S., Solvignon, P., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Tobias, A., Troth, W., Wang, D., Wang, Y., Wojtsekhowski, B., Yan, X., Yao, H., Ye, Y., Ye, Z., Yuan, L., Zhan, X., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y. -W., Zhao, B., and Zheng, X.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract: We report on the results of the E06-014 experiment performed at Jefferson Lab in Hall A, where a precision measurement of the twist-3 matrix element $d_2$ of the neutron ($d_{2}^{n}$) was conducted. This quantity represents the average color Lorentz force a struck quark experiences in a deep inelastic electron scattering event off a neutron due to its interaction with the hadronizing remnants. This color force was determined from a linear combination of the third moments of the spin structure functions $g_1$ and $g_2$ on $^{3}$He after nuclear corrections had been applied to these moments. The kinematics included two average $Q^{2}$ bins of $3.2$ GeV$^{2}$ and $4.3$ GeV$^{2}$, and Bjorken-$x$ $0.25 \leq x \leq 0.90$ covering the DIS and resonance regions. We found $d_2^n$ to be small and negative for $ = 3.2$ GeV$^{2}$, and smaller for $ = 4.3$ GeV$^{2}$, consistent with a lattice QCD calculation. The twist-4 matrix element $f_{2}^{n}$ was extracted by combining our $d_{2}^{n}$ with the world data on $\Gamma_{1}^{n} = \int_{0}^{1} g_{1}^{n} dx$. We found $f_{2}^{n}$ to be roughly an order of magnitude larger than $d_{2}^{n}$. Utilizing the extracted $d_{2}^{n}$ and $f_{2}^{n}$ data, we separated the color force into its electric and magnetic components, $F_{E}^{y,n}$ and $F_{B}^{y,n}$, and found them to be equal and opposite in magnitude, in agreement with instanton model predictions but not with those from QCD sum rules. Additionally, we have extracted the neutron virtual photon-nucleon asymmetry $A_{1}^{n}$, the structure function ratio $g_{1}^{n}/F_{1}^{n}$, and the quark ratios $(\Delta u + \Delta \bar{u})/(u + \bar{u})$ and $(\Delta d + \Delta \bar{d})/(d + \bar{d})$. These results were found to be consistent with DIS world data and with the prediction of the constituent quark model but at odds with those of perturbative QCD at large $x$., Comment: 55 Pages, 45 figures, 48 tables. 15 supplemental files. Grammatical and typo fixes. Revised some model descriptions and updated analyses for f_2^n and color forces
Published: 2016
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119. Polarization-transfer measurement to a large-virtuality bound proton in the deuteron

Author: A1 Collaboration, Yaron, I., Izraeli, D., Achenbach, P., Arenhövel, H., Beričič, J., Böhm, R., Bosnar, D., Debenjak, L., Distler, M. O., Esser, A., Friščić, I., Gilman, R., Korover, I., Lichtenstadt, J., Merkel, H., Middleton, D. G., Mihovilovič, M., Müller, U., Piasetzky, E., Širca, S., Strauch, S., Pochodzalla, J., Ron, G., Schlimme, B. S., Schoth, M., Schulz, F., Sfienti, C., Thiel, M., Tyukin, A., and Weber, A.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Possible differences between free and bound protons may be observed in the ratio of polarization-transfer components, $P'_x/P'_z$. We report the measurement of $P'_x/P'_z$, in the $^2\textrm{H}(\vec{e},e^{\prime}\vec{p})n$ reaction at low and high missing momenta. Observed increasing deviation of $P'_x/P'_z$ from that of a free proton as a function of the virtuality, similar to that observed in \hefour, indicates that the effect in nuclei is due to the virtuality of the knock-out proton and not due to the average nuclear density. The measured differences from calculations assuming free-proton form factors ($\sim10\%$), may indicate in-medium modifications., Comment: 4 figures
Published: 2016

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

Author: Puckett, AJR, Brash, EJ, Jones, MK, Luo, W, Meziane, M, Pentchev, L, Perdrisat, CF, Punjabi, V, Wesselmann, FR, Afanasev, A, Ahmidouch, A, Albayrak, I, Aniol, KA, Arrington, J, Asaturyan, A, Baghdasaryan, H, Benmokhtar, F, Bertozzi, W, Bimbot, L, Bosted, P, Boeglin, W, Butuceanu, C, Carter, P, Chernenko, S, Christy, ME, Commisso, M, Cornejo, JC, Covrig, S, Danagoulian, S, Daniel, A, Davidenko, A, Day, D, Dhamija, S, Dutta, D, Ent, R, Frullani, S, Fenker, H, Frlez, E, Garibaldi, F, Gaskell, D, Gilad, S, Gilman, R, Goncharenko, Y, Hafidi, K, Hamilton, D, Higinbotham, DW, Hinton, W, Horn, T, Hu, B, Huang, J, Huber, GM, Jensen, E, Keppel, C, Khandaker, M, King, P, Kirillov, D, Kohl, M, Kravtsov, V, Kumbartzki, G, Li, Y, Mamyan, V, Margaziotis, DJ, Marsh, A, Matulenko, Y, Maxwell, J, Mbianda, G, Meekins, D, Melnik, Y, Miller, J, Mkrtchyan, A, Mkrtchyan, H, Moffit, B, Moreno, O, Mulholland, J, Narayan, A, Nedev, S, Nuruzzaman, Piasetzky, E, Pierce, W, Piskunov, NM, Prok, Y, Ransome, RD, Razin, DS, Reimer, P, Reinhold, J, Rondon, O, Shabestari, M, Shahinyan, A, Shestermanov, K, Širca, S, Sitnik, I, Smykov, L, Smith, G, Solovyev, L, Solvignon, P, Subedi, R, Tomasi-Gustafsson, E, Vasiliev, A, Veilleux, M, and Wojtsekhowski, BB
Abstract: Background: Interest in the behavior of nucleon electromagnetic form factors at large momentum transfers has steadily increased since the discovery, using polarization observables, of the rapid decrease of the ratio GEp/GMp of the proton's electric and magnetic form factors for momentum transfers Q21 GeV2, in strong disagreement with previous extractions of this ratio using the traditional Rosenbluth separation technique. Purpose: The GEp-III and GEp-2γ experiments were carried out in Jefferson Laboratory's (JLab's) Hall C from 2007 to 2008, to extend the knowledge of GEp/GMp to the highest practically achievable Q2 given the maximum beam energy of 6 GeV and to search for effects beyond the Born approximation in polarization transfer observables of elastic ∫ - p scattering. This article provides an expanded description of the common experimental apparatus and data analysis procedures, and reports the results of a final reanalysis of the data from both experiments, including the previously unpublished results of the full-acceptance dataset of the GEp-2γ experiment. Methods: Polarization transfer observables in elastic ∫ - p→∫ - scattering were measured at central Q2 values of 2.5, 5.2, 6.8, and 8.54 GeV2. At Q2=2.5GeV2, data were obtained for central values of the virtual photon polarization parameter ϵ of 0.149, 0.632, and 0.783. The Hall C High Momentum Spectrometer detected and measured the polarization of protons recoiling elastically from collisions of JLab's polarized electron beam with a liquid hydrogen target. A large-acceptance electromagnetic calorimeter detected the elastically scattered electrons in coincidence to suppress inelastic backgrounds. Results: The final GEp-III data are largely unchanged relative to the originally published results. The statistical uncertainties of the final GEp-2γ data are significantly reduced at ϵ=0.632 and 0.783 relative to the original publication. Conclusions: The final GEp-III results show that the decrease with Q2 of GEp/GMp continues to Q2=8.5GeV2, but at a slowing rate relative to the approximately linear decrease observed in earlier Hall A measurements. At Q2=8.5GeV2, GEp/GMp remains positive but is consistent with zero. At Q2=2.5GeV2, GEp/GMp derived from the polarization component ratio R-Pt/P shows no statistically significant ϵ dependence, as expected in the Born approximation. On the other hand, the ratio P""/P""Born of the longitudinal polarization transfer component to its Born value shows an enhancement of roughly 1.7% at ϵ=0.783 relative to ϵ=0.149, with ≈2.2σ significance based on the total uncertainty, implying a similar effect in the transverse component Pt that cancels in the ratio R.
Published: 2017

121. Hall A Annual Report 2014

Author: Dalton, M. M., Chudakov, E., Gomez, J., Higinbotham, D. W., Keppel, C., Michaels, R., Myers, L., Aniol, K., Iqbal, S., See, N., Arrington, J. R., Ivanov, M. V., Mihovilovič, M., Širca, S., Muangma, N., Nguyen, Dien, Pomatsalyuk, R., Glamazdin, O., Vereshchaka, V., Riordan, S., Su, T., Sulkosky, V., and Zhu, P.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Report of the experimental activities in Hall A at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility during 2013.
Published: 2015

122. Electroexcitation of the $\Delta^{+}(1232)$ at low momentum transfer

Author: Blomberg, A., Anez, D., Sparveris, N., Sarty, A., Paolone, M., Gilad, S., Higinbotham, D., Abudureyimu, A. R., Ahmed, Z., Albataineh, H., Allada, K., Anderson, B., Aniol, K., Annand, J., Averett, T., Baghdasaryan, H., Bai, X., Beck, A., Beck, S., Bellini, V., Benmokhtar, F., Boeglin, W., Camacho, C. M., Camsonne, A., Chen, C., Chen, J. P., Chirapatpimol, K., Cisbani, E., Dalton, M., Deconinck, W., Defurne, M., De Leo, R., Flay, D., Fomin, N., Friend, M., Frullani, S., Fuchey, E., Garibaldi, F., Gilman, R., Gu, C., Hamilton, D., Hanretty, C., Hansen, O., Shabestari, M. Hashemi, Holmstrom, T., Huang, M., Iqbal, S., Kalantarians, N., Kang, H., Kelleher, A., Khandaker, M., Leckey, J., LeRose, J., Lindgren, R., Long, E., Mammei, J., Margaziotis, D. J., Jimenez-Arguello, A. Marti, Meziani, Z. E., Mihovilovic, M., Muangma, N., Norum, B., Nuruzzaman, Pan, K., Phillips, S., Polychronopoulou, A., Pomerantz, I., Posik, M., Punjabi, V., Qian, X., Reimer, P. E., Riordan, S., Ron, G., Saha, A., Schulte, E., Selvy, L., Sirca, S., Sjoegren, J., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Tireman, W., Wang, D., Watson, J., Weinstein, L., Wojtsekhowski, B., Yan, W., Yaron, I., Ye, Z., Zhan, X., Zhang, Y., Zhang, J., Zhao, B., Zhao, Z., Zheng, X., and Zhu, P.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report on new p$(e,e^\prime p)\pi^\circ$ measurements at the $\Delta^{+}(1232)$ resonance at the low momentum transfer region. The mesonic cloud dynamics is predicted to be dominant and rapidly changing in this kinematic region offering a test bed for chiral effective field theory calculations. The new data explore the low $Q^2$ dependence of the resonant quadrupole amplitudes while extending the measurements of the Coulomb quadrupole amplitude to the lowest momentum transfer ever reached. The results disagree with predictions of constituent quark models and are in reasonable agreement with dynamical calculations that include pion cloud effects, chiral effective field theory and lattice calculations. The reported measurements suggest that improvement is required to the theoretical calculations and provide valuable input that will allow their refinements.
Published: 2015
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123. Measurement of the Beam-Recoil Polarization in Low-Energy Virtual Compton Scattering from the Proton

Author: Doria, L., Janssens, P., Achenbach, P., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Baumann, D., Bensafa, I., Benali, M., Beričič, J., Bernauer, J. C., Böhm, R., Bosnar, D., Correa, L., D'Hose, N., Defaÿ, X., Ding, M., Distler, M. O., Fonvieille, H., Friedrich, J., Friedrich, J. M., Laveissière, G., Makek, M., Marroncle, J., Merkel, H., Mihovilovič, M., Müller, U., Nungesser, L., Pasquini, B., Pochodzalla, J., Postavaru, O., Potokar, M., Ryckbosch, D., Majos, S. Sánchez, Schlimme, B. S., Seimetz, M., Širca, S., Tamas, G., Van de Vyver, R., Van Hoorebeke, L., Van Overloop, A., Walcher, Th., and Weinriefer, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: Double-polarization observables in the reaction $\vec{e}p \rightarrow e'\vec{p'}\gamma{}$ have been measured at $Q^2=0.33 (GeV/c)^2$. The experiment was performed at the spectrometer setup of the A1 Collaboration using the 855 MeV polarized electron beam provided by the Mainz Microtron (MAMI) and a recoil proton polarimeter. From the double-polarization observables the structure function $P_{LT}^\perp$ is extracted for the first time, with the value $(-15.4 \pm 3.3 (stat.)^{+1.5}_{-2.4} (syst.)) GeV^{-2}$, using the low-energy theorem for Virtual Compton Sattering. This structure function provides a hitherto unmeasured linear combination of the generalized polarizabilities of the proton.
Published: 2015
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124. The E00-110 experiment in Jefferson Lab's Hall A: Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering off the Proton at 6 GeV

Author: Defurne, M., Amaryan, M., Aniol, K. A., Beaumel, M., Benaoum, H., Bertin, P., Brossard, M., Camsonne, A., Chen, J. -P., Chudakov, E., Craver, B., Cusanno, F., de Jager, C. W., Deur, A., Feuerbach, R., Ferdi, C., Fieschi, J. -M., Frullani, S., Fuchey, E., Garcon, M., Garibaldi, F., Gayou, O., Gavalian, G., Gilman, R., Gomez, J., Gueye, P., Guichon, P. A. M., Guillon, B., Hansen, O., Hayes, D., Higinbotham, D., Holmstrom, T., Hyde, C. E., Ibrahim, H., Igarashi, R., Jiang, X., Jo, H. S., Kaufman, L. J., Kelleher, A., Keppel, C., Kolarkar, A., Kuchina, E., Kumbartzki, G., Laveissière, G., LeRose, J. J., Lindgren, R., Liyanage, N., Lu, H. -J., Margaziotis, D. J., Mazouz, M., Meziani, Z. -E., McCormick, K., Michaels, R., Michel, B., Moffit, B., Monaghan, P., Camacho, C. Muñoz, Nanda, S., Nelyubin, V., Paremuzyan, R., Potokar, M., Qiang, Y., Ransome, R. D., Réal, J. -S., Reitz, B., Roblin, Y., Roche, J., Sabatié, F., Saha, A., Sirca, S., Slifer, K., Solvignon, P., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Ulmer, P. E., Voutier, E., Wang, K., Weinstein, L. B., Wojtsekhowski, B., Zheng, X., and Zhu, L.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We present final results on the photon electroproduction ($\vec{e}p\rightarrow ep\gamma$) cross section in the deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS) regime and the valence quark region from Jefferson Lab experiment E00-110. Results from an analysis of a subset of these data were published before, but the analysis has been improved which is described here at length, together with details on the experimental setup. Furthermore, additional data have been analyzed resulting in photon electroproduction cross sections at new kinematic settings, for a total of 588 experimental bins. Results of the $Q^2$- and $x_B$-dependences of both the helicity-dependent and helicity-independent cross sections are discussed. The $Q^2$-dependence illustrates the dominance of the twist-2 handbag amplitude in the kinematics of the experiment, as previously noted. Thanks to the excellent accuracy of this high luminosity experiment, it becomes clear that the unpolarized cross section shows a significant deviation from the Bethe-Heitler process in our kinematics, compatible with a large contribution from the leading twist-2 DVCS$^2$ term to the photon electroproduction cross section. The necessity to include higher-twist corrections in order to fully reproduce the shape of the data is also discussed. The DVCS cross sections in this paper represent the final set of experimental results from E00-110, superseding the previous publication., Comment: 48 pages, 32 figures
Published: 2015
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125. Measurement of the Target-Normal Single-Spin Asymmetry in Quasi-Elastic Scattering from the Reaction $^3$He$^\uparrow(e,e^\prime)$

Author: Zhang, Y. -W., Long, E., Mihovilovič, M., Jin, G., Allada, K., Anderson, B., Annand, J. R. M., Averett, T., Boeglin, W., Bradshaw, P., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Cates, G. D., Chen, C., Chen, J. P., Chudakov, E., De Leo, R., Deng, X., Deur, A., Dutta, C., Fassi, L. El, Flay, D., Frullani, S., Garibaldi, F., Gao, H., Gilad, S., Gilman, R., Glamazdin, O., Golge, S., Gomez, J., Hansen, O., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmstrom, T., Huang, J., Ibrahim, H., de Jager, C. W., Jensen, E., Jiang, X., John, J. St., Jones, M., Kang, H., Katich, J., Khanal, H. P., King, P., Korsch, W., LeRose, J., Lindgren, R., Lu, H. -J., Luo, W., Markowitz, P., Meziane, M., Michaels, R., Moffit, B., Monaghan, P., Muangma, N., Nanda, S., Norum, B. E., Pan, K., Parno, D., Piasetzky, E., Posik, M., Punjabi, V., Puckett, A. J. R., Qian, X., Qiang, Y., Qiu, X., Riordan, S., Ron, G., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Schiavilla, R., Schoenrock, B., Shabestari, M., Shahinyan, A., Širca, S., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Tobias, W. A., Tireman, W., Urciuoli, G. M., Wang, D., Wang, K., Wang, Y., Watson, J., Wojtsekhowski, B., Ye, Y., Ye, Z., Zhan, X., Zhang, Y., Zheng, X., Zhao, B., and Zhu, L.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report the first measurement of the target single-spin asymmetry, $A_y$, in quasi-elastic scattering from the inclusive reaction $^3$He$^{\uparrow}(e,e^\prime)$ on a $^3$He gas target polarized normal to the lepton scattering plane. Assuming time-reversal invariance, this asymmetry is strictly zero for one-photon exchange. A non-zero $A_y$ can arise from the interference between the one- and two-photon exchange processes which is sensitive to the details of the sub-structure of the nucleon. An experiment recently completed at Jefferson Lab yielded asymmetries with high statistical precision at $Q^{2}=$ 0.13, 0.46 and 0.97 GeV$^{2}$. These measurements demonstrate, for the first time, that the $^3$He asymmetry is clearly non-zero and negative with a statistical significance of (8-10)$\sigma$. Using measured proton-to-$^{3}$He cross-section ratios and the effective polarization approximation, neutron asymmetries of $-$(1-3)% were obtained. The neutron asymmetry at high $Q^2$ is related to moments of the Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs). Our measured neutron asymmetry at $Q^2=0.97$ GeV$^2$ agrees well with a prediction based on two-photon exchange using a GPD model and thus provides a new, independent constraint on these distributions.
Published: 2015
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126. Double Spin Asymmetries of Inclusive Hadron Electroproductions from a Transversely Polarized $^3\rm{He}$ Target

Author: The Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration, Zhao, Y. X., Allada, K., Aniol, K., Annand, J. R. M., Averett, T., Benmokhtar, F., Bertozzi, W., Bradshaw, P. C., Bosted, P., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Cates, G. D., Chen, C., Chen, J. -P., Chen, W., Chirapatpimol, K., Chudakov, E., Cisbani, E., Cornejo, J. C., Cusanno, F., Dalton, M., Deconinck, W., de Jager, C. W., De Leo, R., Deng, X., Deur, A., Ding, H., Dolph, P. A. M., Dutta, C., Dutta, D., Fassi, L. El, Frullani, S., Gao, H., Garibaldi, F., Gaskell, D., Gilad, S., Gilman, R., Glamazdin, O., Golge, S., Guo, L., Hamilton, D., Hansen, O., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmstrom, T., Huang, J., Huang, M., Ibrahim, H. F, Iodice, M., Jiang, X., Jin, G., Jones, M. K., Katich, J., Kelleher, A., Kim, W., Kolarkar, A., Korsch, W., LeRose, J. J., Li, X., Li, Y., Lindgren, R., Liyanage, N., Long, E., Lu, H. -J., Margaziotis, D. J., Markowitz, P., Marrone, S., McNulty, D., Meziani, Z. -E., Michaels, R., Moffit, B., Camacho, C. Muñoz, Nanda, S., Narayan, A., Nelyubin, V., Norum, B., Oh, Y., Osipenko, M., Parno, D., Peng, J. -C., Phillips, S. K., Posik, M., Puckett, A. J. R., Qian, X., Qiang, Y., Rakhman, A., Ransome, R., Riordan, S., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Schulte, E., Shahinyan, A., Shabestari, M. H., Širca, S., Stepanyan, S., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Tang, L. -G., Tobias, W. A., Urciuoli, G. M., Vilardi, I., Wang, K., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wang, Y., Yan, X., Yao, H., Ye, Y., Ye, Z., Yuan, L., Zhan, X., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y. -W., Zhao, B., Zheng, X., Zhu, L., Zhu, X., and Zong, X.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: We report the measurement of beam-target double-spin asymmetries ($A_\text{LT}$) in the inclusive production of identified hadrons, $\vec{e}~$+$~^3\text{He}^{\uparrow}\rightarrow h+X$, using a longitudinally polarized 5.9 GeV electron beam and a transversely polarized $^3\rm{He}$ target. Hadrons ($\pi^{\pm}$, $K^{\pm}$ and proton) were detected at 16$^{\circ}$ with an average momentum $<$$P_h$$>$=2.35 GeV/c and a transverse momentum ($p_{T}$) coverage from 0.60 to 0.68 GeV/c. Asymmetries from the $^3\text{He}$ target were observed to be non-zero for $\pi^{\pm}$ production when the target was polarized transversely in the horizontal plane. The $\pi^{+}$ and $\pi^{-}$ asymmetries have opposite signs, analogous to the behavior of $A_\text{LT}$ in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering., Comment: Published in PRC (92.015207), nuclear experiment, high-energy experiment
Published: 2015
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127. Observation of Lambda H-4 hyperhydrogen by decay-pion spectroscopy in electron scattering

Author: Esser, A., Nagao, S., Schulz, F., Achenbach, P., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Böhm, R., Borodina, O., Bosnar, D., Bozkurt, V., Debenjak, L., Distler, M. O., Friščić, I., Fujii, Y., Gogami, T., Hashimoto, O., Hirose, S., Kanda, H., Kaneta, M., Kim, E., Kohl, Y., Kusaka, J., Margaryan, A., Merkel, H., Mihovilovič, M., Müller, U., Nakamura, S. N., Pochodzalla, J., Rappold, C., Reinhold, J., Saito, T. R., Lorente, A. Sanchez, Majos, S. Sánchez, Schlimme, B. S., Schoth, M., Sfienti, C., Širca, S., Tang, L., Thiel, M., Tsukada, K., Weber, A., and Yoshida, K.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: At the Mainz Microtron MAMI, the first high-resolution pion spectroscopy from decays of strange systems was performed by electron scattering off a Be-9 target in order to study the ground-state masses of Lambda-hypernuclei. Positively charged kaons were detected by a short-orbit spectrometer with a broad momentum acceptance at zero degree forward angles with respect to the beam, efficiently tagging the production of strangeness in the target nucleus. In coincidence, negatively charged decay-pions were detected by two independent high-resolution spectrometers. About 10^3 pionic weak decays of hyperfragments and hyperons were observed. The pion momentum distribution shows a monochromatic peak at p_pi ~ 133 MeV/c, corresponding to the unique signature for the two-body decay of hyperhydrogen Lambda H-4 -> He-4 + pi-, stopped inside the target. Its binding energy was determined to be B_Lambda = 2.12 +- 0.01 (stat.) +- 0.09 (syst.) MeV with respect to the H-3 + Lambda mass.
Published: 2015
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128. A precision measurement of the $p$($e,e^\prime p\,$)$\pi^0$ reaction at threshold

Author: Chirapatpimol, K., Shabestari, M. H., Lindgren, R. A., Smith, L. C., Annand, J. R. M., Higinbotham, D. W., Moffit, B., Nelyubin, V., Norum, B. E., Allada, K., Aniol, K., Ardashev, K., Armstrong, D. S., Arndt, R. A., Benmokhtar, F., Bernstein, A. M., Bertozzi, W., Briscoe, W. J., Bimbot, L., Camsonne, A., Chen, J. -P., Choi, S., Chudakov, E., Cisbani, E., Cusanno, F., Dalton, M. M., Dutta, C., Egiyan, K., Fernandez-Ramirez, C., Feuerbach, R., Fissum, K. G., Frullani, S., Garibaldi, F., Gayou, O., Gilman, R., Gilad, S., Goity, J., Gomez, J., Hahn, B., Hamilton, D., Hansen, J. -O., Huang, J., Igarashi, R., Ireland, D., de Jager, C. W., Jin, X., Jiang, X., Jinasundera, T., Kellie, J., Keppel, C. E., Kolb, N., LeRose, J., Liyanage, N., Livingston, K., McNulty, D., Mercado, L., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Qian, S., Qian, X., Mailyan, S., Mamyan, V., Marrone, S., Monaghan, P., Nanda, S., Perdrisat, C. F., Piasetzky, E., Protopopescu, D., Punjabi, V., Qiang, Y., Rachek, I. A., Rakhman, A., Ron, G., Rosner, G., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Shahinyan, A., Sirca, S., Sparveris, N., Subedi, R. R., Suleiman, R., Strakovsky, I., Sulkosky, V., Moinelo, J., Voskanyan, H., Wang, K., Wang, Y., Watson, J., Watts, D., Wojtsekhowski, B., Workman, R. L., Yao, H., Zhan, X., and Zhang, Y.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: New results are reported from a measurement of $\pi^0$ electroproduction near threshold using the $p(e,e^{\prime} p)\pi^0$ reaction. The experiment was designed to determine precisely the energy dependence of $s-$ and $p-$wave electromagnetic multipoles as a stringent test of the predictions of Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT). The data were taken with an electron beam energy of 1192 MeV using a two-spectrometer setup in Hall A at Jefferson Lab. For the first time, complete coverage of the $\phi^*_{\pi}$ and $\theta^*_{\pi}$ angles in the $p \pi^0$ center-of-mass was obtained for invariant energies above threshold from 0.5 MeV up to 15 MeV. The 4-momentum transfer $Q^2$ coverage ranges from 0.05 to 0.155 (GeV/c)$^2$ in fine steps. A simple phenomenological analysis of our data shows strong disagreement with $p-$wave predictions from ChPT for $Q^2>0.07$ (GeV/c)$^2$, while the $s-$wave predictions are in reasonable agreement., Comment: 5 pages, 6 figures
Published: 2015
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129. Detector response of Cherenkov radiators for calorimetry in the energy range below 14 MeV

Author: Christmann, M., Burger, P.F., Achenbach, P., Aulenbacher, S., Ball, M., Baunack, S., Bernauer, J.C., Biroth, M., Brand, P., Caiazza, S., Cline, E., Denig, A., Doria, L., Friščić, I., Geimer, J., Gülker, P., Khoukaz, A., Kohl, M., Kolar, T., Lauß, M., Lauth, W., Littich, M., Lupberger, M., Lunkenheimer, S., Maas, F.E., Mauch, M., Merkel, H., Mihovilovič, M., Milner, R.G., Müller, J., Rausch, J., Schlimme, B.S., Sfienti, C., Širca, S., Stengel, S., Szyszka, C., Vestrick, S., and Wang, Y.
Published: 2020
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130. Measurement of Parity-Violating Asymmetry in Electron-Deuteron Inelastic Scattering

Author: Wang, D., Pan, K., Subedi, R., Ahmed, Z., Allada, K., Aniol, K. A., Armstrong, D. S., Arrington, J., Bellini, V., Beminiwattha, R., Benesch, J., Benmokhtar, F., Bertozzi, W., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Cates, G. D., Chen, J. -P., Chudakov, E., Cisbani, E., Dalton, M. M., de Jager, C. W., De Leo, R., Deconinck, W., Deng, X., Deur, A., Dutta, C., Fassi, L. El, Erler, J., Flay, D., Franklin, G. B., Friend, M., Frullani, S., Garibaldi, F., Gilad, S., Giusa, A., Glamazdin, A., Golge, S., Grimm, K., Hafidi, K., Hansen, J. -O., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmes, R., Holmstrom, T., Holt, R. J., Huang, J., Hyde, C. E., Jen, C. M., Jones, D., Kang, Hoyoung, King, P. M., Kowalski, S., Kumar, K. S., Lee, J. H., LeRose, J. J., Liyanage, N., Long, E., McNulty, D., Margaziotis, D. J., Meddi, F., Meekins, D. G., Mercado, L., Meziani, Z. -E., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Muangma, N., Mesick, K. E., Nanda, S., Narayan, A., Nelyubin, V., Nuruzzaman, A., Oh, Y., Parno, D., Paschke, K. D., Phillips, S. K., Qian, X., Qiang, Y., Quinn, B., Rakhman, A., Reimer, P. E., Rider, K., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Rubin, J., Russo, G., Saenboonruang, K., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Shahinyan, A., Silwal, R., Širca, S., Souder, P. A., Suleiman, R., Sulkosky, V., Sutera, C. M., Tobias, W. A., Urciuoli, G. M., Waidyawansa, B., Wojtsekhowski, B., Ye, L., Zhao, B., and Zheng, X.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: The parity-violating asymmetries between a longitudinally-polarized electron beam and an unpolarized deuterium target have been measured recently. The measurement covered two kinematic points in the deep inelastic scattering region and five in the nucleon resonance region. We provide here details of the experimental setup, data analysis, and results on all asymmetry measurements including parity-violating electron asymmetries and those of inclusive pion production and beam-normal asymmetries. The parity-violating deep-inelastic asymmetries were used to extract the electron-quark weak effective couplings, and the resonance asymmetries provided the first evidence for quark-hadron duality in electroweak observables. These electron asymmetries and their interpretation were published earlier, but are presented here in more detail., Comment: 50 pages, submitted to Phys. Rev. C
Published: 2014
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131. Measurement of double-polarization asymmetries in the quasi-elastic $^3\vec{\mathrm{He}}(\vec{\mathrm{e}},\mathrm{e}'\mathrm{d})$ process

Author: The Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration, Mihovilovič, M., Jin, G., Long, E., Zhang, Y. -W., Allada, K., Anderson, B., Annand, J. R. M., Averett, T., Boeglin, W., Bradshaw, P., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Cates, G. D., Chen, C., Chen, J. P., Chudakov, E., De Leo, R., Deng, X., Deltuva, A., Deur, A., Dutta, C., Fassi, L. El, Flay, D., Frullani, S., Garibaldi, F., Gao, H., Gilad, S., Gilman, R., Glamazdin, O., Golak, J., Golge, S., Gomez, J., Hansen, O., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmstrom, T., Huang, J., Ibrahim, H., de Jager, C. W., Jensen, E., Jiang, X., Jones, M., Kang, H., Katich, J., Khanal, H. P., Kievsky, A., King, P., Korsch, W., LeRose, J., Lindgren, R., Lu, H. -J., Luo, W., Marcucci, L. E., Markowitz, P., Meziane, M., Michaels, R., Moffit, B., Monaghan, P., Muangma, N., Nanda, S., Norum, B. E., Pan, K., Parno, D., Piasetzky, E., Posik, M., Punjabi, V., Puckett, A. J. R., Qian, X., Qiang, Y., Qui, X., Riordan, S., Saha, A., Sauer, P. U., Sawatzky, B., Schiavilla, R., Shabestari, M., Shahinyan, A., Schoenrock, B., Širca, S., Skibiński, R., John, J. St., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Tobias, W. A., Tireman, W., Urciuoli, G. M., Viviani, M., Wang, D., Wang, K., Wang, Y., Watson, J., Wojtsekhowski, B., Witała, H., Ye, Z., Zhan, X., Zhang, Y., Zheng, X., Zhao, B., and Zhu, L.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We present a precise measurement of double-polarization asymmetries in the $^3\vec{\mathrm{He}}(\vec{\mathrm{e}},\mathrm{e}'\mathrm{d})$ reaction. This particular process is a uniquely sensitive probe of hadron dynamics in $^3\mathrm{He}$ and the structure of the underlying electromagnetic currents. The measurements have been performed in and around quasi-elastic kinematics at $Q^2 = 0.25\,(\mathrm{GeV}/c)^2$ for missing momenta up to $270\,\mathrm{MeV}/c$. The asymmetries are in fair agreement with the state-of-the-art calculations in terms of their functional dependencies on $p_\mathrm{m}$ and $\omega$, but are systematically offset. Beyond the region of the quasi-elastic peak, the discrepancies become even more pronounced. Thus, our measurements have been able to reveal deficiencies in the most sophisticated calculations of the three-body nuclear system, and indicate that further refinement in the treatment of their two- and/or three-body dynamics is required., Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication at Phys. Rev. Lett
Published: 2014
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132. Precision Measurements of $A_1^n$ in the Deep Inelastic Regime

Author: Parno, D. S., Flay, D., Posik, M., Allada, K., Armstrong, W., Averett, T., Benmokhtar, F., Bertozzi, W., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Cates, G. D., Chen, C., Chen, J. -P., Choi, S., Chudakov, E., Cusanno, F., Dalton, M. M., Deconinck, W., de Jager, C. W., Deng, X., Deur, A., Dutta, C., Fassi, L. El, Franklin, G. B., Friend, M., Gao, H., Garibaldi, F., Gilad, S., Gilman, R., Glamazdin, O., Golge, S., Gomez, J., Guo, L., Hansen, O., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmstrom, T., Huang, J., Hyde, C., Ibrahim, H. F., Jiang, X., Jin, G., Katich, J., Kelleher, A., Kolarkar, A., Korsch, W., Kumbartzki, G., LeRose, J. J., Lindgren, R., Liyanage, N., Long, E., Lukhanin, A., Mamyan, V., McNulty, D., Meziani, Z. -E., Michaels, R., Mihovilovič, M., Moffit, B., Muangma, N., Nanda, S., Narayan, A., Nelyubin, V., Norum, B., Nuruzzaman, Oh, Y., Peng, J. C., Qian, X., Qiang, Y., Rakhman, A., Riordan, S., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Shabestari, M. H., Shahinyan, A., Širca, S., Solvignon, P., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Tobias, W. A., Troth, W., Wang, D., Wang, Y., Wojtsekhowski, B., Yan, X., Yao, H., Ye, Y., Ye, Z., Yuan, L., Zhan, X., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y. -W., Zhao, B., and Zheng, X.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We have performed precision measurements of the double-spin virtual-photon asymmetry $A_1$ on the neutron in the deep inelastic scattering regime, using an open-geometry, large-acceptance spectrometer. Our data cover a wide kinematic range $0.277 \leq x \leq 0.548$ at an average $Q^2$ value of 3.078~(GeV/c)$^2$, doubling the available high-precision neutron data in this $x$ range. We have combined our results with world data on proton targets to extract the ratio of polarized-to-unpolarized parton distribution functions for up quarks and for down quarks in the same kinematic range. Our data are consistent with a previous observation of an $A_1^n$ zero crossing near $x=0.5$. We find no evidence of a transition to a positive slope in $(\Delta d + \Delta \bar{d})/(d + \bar{d})$ up to $x=0.548$., Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables. Two typos corrected in Table 3
Published: 2014
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133. Spectroscopy of Lambda-9Li by electroproduction

Author: Urciuoli, G. M., Cusanno, F., Marrone, S., Acha, A., Ambrozewicz, P., Aniol, K. A., Baturin, P., Bertin, P. Y., Benaoum, H., Blomqvist, K. I., Boeglin, W. U., Breuer, H., Brindza, P., Bydzovsky, P., Camsonne, A., Chang, C. C., Chen, J. -P., Choi, Seonho, Chudakov, E. A., Cisbani, E., Colilli, S., Coman, L., Craver, B. J., De Cataldo, G., de Jager, C. W., De Leo, R., Deur, A. P., Ferdi, C., Feuerbach, R. J., Folts, E., Fratoni, R., Frullani, S., Garibaldi, F., Gayou, O., Giuliani, F., Gomez, J., Gricia, M., Hansen, J. O., Hayes, D., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmstrom, T. K., Hyde, C. E., Ibrahim, H. F., Iodice, M., Jiang, X., Kaufman, L. J., Kino, K., Kross, B., Lagamba, L., LeRose, J. J., Lindgren, R. A., Lucentini, M., Margaziotis, D. J., Markowitz, P., Meziani, Z. E., McCormick, K., Michaels, R. W., Millener, D. J., Miyoshi, T., Moffit, B., Monaghan, P. A., Moteabbed, M., Camacho, C. Munoz, Nanda, S., Nappi, E., Nelyubin, V. V., Norum, B. E., Okasyasu, Y., Paschke, K. D., Perdrisat, C. F., Piasetzky, E., Punjabi, V. A., Qiang, Y., Reimer, P. E., Reinhold, J., Reitz, B., Roche, R. E., Rodriguez, V. M., Saha, A., Santavenere, F., Sarty, A. J., Segal, J., Shahinyan, A., Singh, J., Sirca, S., Snyder, R., Solvignon, P. H., Sotona, M., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V. A., Suzuki, T., Ueno, H., Ulmer, P. E., Veneroni, P., Voutier, E., Wojtsekhowski, B. B., Zheng, X., and Zorn, C.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: In the absence of accurate data on the free two-body hyperon-nucleon interaction, the spectra of hypernuclei can provide information on the details of the effective hyperon-nucleon interaction. Electroproduction of the hypernucleus Lambda-9Li has been studied for the first time with sub-MeV energy resolution in Hall A at Jefferson Lab on a 9Be target. In order to increase the counting rate and to provide unambiguous kaon identification, two superconducting septum magnets and a Ring Imaging CHerenkov detector (RICH) were added to the Hall A standard equipment. The cross section to low-lying states of Lambda-9Li is concentrated within 3 MeV of the ground state and can be fitted with four peaks. The positions of the doublets agree with theory while a disagreement could exist with respect to the relative strengths of the peaks in the doublets. A Lambda separation energy of 8.36 +- 0.08 (stat.) +- 0.08 (syst.) MeV was measured, in agreement with an earlier experiment., Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures
Published: 2014
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134. Single Spin Asymmetries in Charged Kaon Production from Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering on a Transversely Polarized $^3{\rm{He}}$ Target

Author: Zhao, Y. X., Wang, Y., Allada, K., Aniol, K., Annand, J. R. M., Averett, T., Benmokhtar, F., Bertozzi, W., Bradshaw, P. C., Bosted, P., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Cates, G. D., Chen, C., Chen, J. -P., Chen, W., Chirapatpimol, K., Chudakov, E., Cisbani, E., Cornejo, J. C., Cusanno, F., Dalton, M. M., Deconinck, W., de Jager, C. W., De Leo, R., Deng, X., Deur, A., Ding, H., Dolph, P. A. M., Dutta, C., Dutta, D., Fassi, L. El, Frullani, S., Gao, H., Garibaldi, F., Gaskell, D., Gilad, S., Gilman, R., Glamazdin, O., Golge, S., Guo, L., Hamilton, D., Hansen, O., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmstrom, T., Huang, J., Huang, M., Ibrahim, H. F, Iodice, M., Jiang, X., Jin, G., Jones, M. K., Katich, J., Kelleher, A., Kim, W., Kolarkar, A., Korsch, W., LeRose, J. J., Li, X., Li, Y., Lindgren, R., Liyanage, N., Long, E., Lu, H. -J., Margaziotis, D. J., Markowitz, P., Marrone, S., McNulty, D., Meziani, Z. -E., Michaels, R., Moffit, B., Camacho, C. Muñoz, Nanda, S., Narayan, A., Nelyubin, V., Norum, B., Oh, Y., Osipenko, M., Parno, D., Peng, J. -C., Phillips, S. K., Posik, M., Puckett, A. J. R., Qian, X., Qiang, Y., Rakhman, A., Ransome, R., Riordan, S., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Schulte, E., Shahinyan, A., Shabestari, M. H., Širca, S., Stepanyan, S., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Tang, L. -G., Tobias, A., Urciuoli, G. M., Vilardi, I., Wang, K., Wojtsekhowski, B., Yan, X., Yao, H., Ye, Y., Ye, Z., Yuan, L., Zhan, X., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y. -W., Zhao, B., Zheng, X., Zhu, L., Zhu, X., and Zong, X.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report the first measurement of target single spin asymmetries of charged kaons produced in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering of electrons off a transversely polarized $^3{\rm{He}}$ target. Both the Collins and Sivers moments, which are related to the nucleon transversity and Sivers distributions, respectively, are extracted over the kinematic range of 0.1$<$$x_{bj}$$<$0.4 for $K^{+}$ and $K^{-}$ production. While the Collins and Sivers moments for $K^{+}$ are consistent with zero within the experimental uncertainties, both moments for $K^{-}$ favor negative values. The Sivers moments are compared to the theoretical prediction from a phenomenological fit to the world data. While the $K^{+}$ Sivers moments are consistent with the prediction, the $K^{-}$ results differ from the prediction at the 2-sigma level., Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures
Published: 2014
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135. Search for light massive gauge bosons as an explanation of the $(g-2)_\mu$ anomaly at MAMI

Author: Merkel, H., Achenbach, P., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Beranek, T., Beričič, J., Bernauer, J. C., Böhm, R., Bosnar, D., Correa, L., Debenjak, L., Denig, A., Distler, M. O., Esser, A., Fonvieille, H., Friščić, I., de la Paz, M. Gómez Rodríguez, Hoek, M., Kegel, S., Kohl, Y., Middleton, D. G., Mihovilovič, M., Müller, U., Nungesser, L., Pochodzalla, J., Rohrbeck, M., Ron, G., Majos, S. Sánchez, Schlimme, B. S., Schoth, M., Schulz, F., Sfienti, C., Širca, S., Thiel, M., Tyukin, A., Weber, A., and Weinriefer, M.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: A massive, but light abelian U(1) gauge boson is a well motivated possible signature of physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. In this paper, the search for the signal of such a U(1) gauge boson in electron-positron pair-production at the spectrometer setup of the A1 Collaboration at the Mainz Microtron (MAMI) is described. Exclusion limits in the mass range of 40 MeV up to 300 MeV with a sensitivity in the mixing parameter of down to $\epsilon^2 = 8\times 10^{-7}$ are presented. A large fraction of the parameter space has been excluded where the discrepancy of the measured anomalous magnetic moment of the muon with theory might be explained by an additional U(1) gauge boson., Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures
Published: 2014
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136. A Precision Measurement of the Neutron Twist-3 Matrix Element $d_2^n$: Probing Color Forces

Author: Posik, M., Flay, D., Parno, D. S., Allada, K., Armstrong, W., Averett, T., Benmokhtar, F., Bertozzi, W., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Cates, G. D., Chen, C., Chen, J. -P., Choi, S., Chudakov, E., Cusanno, F., Dalton, M. M., Deconinck, W., de Jager, C. W., Deng, X., Deur, A., Dutta, C., Fassi, L. El, Franklin, G. B., Friend, M., Gao, H., Garibaldi, F., Gilad, S., Gilman, R., Glamazdin, O., Golge, S., Gomez, J., Guo, L., Hansen, O., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmstrom, T., Huang, J., Hyde, C., Ibrahim, H. F., Jiang, X., Jin, G., Katich, J., Kelleher, A., Kolarkar, A., Korsch, W., Kumbartzki, G., LeRose, J. J., Lindgren, R., Liyanage, N., Long, E., Lukhanin, A., Mamyan, V., McNulty, D., Meziani, Z. -E., Michaels, R., Mihovilovič, M., Moffit, B., Muangma, N., Nanda, S., Narayan, A., Nelyubin, V., Norum, B., Nuruzzaman, Oh, Y., Peng, J. C., Qian, X., Qiang, Y., Rakhman, A., Riordan, S., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Shabestari, M. H., Shahinyan, A., Širca, S., Solvignon, P., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Tobias, W. A., Troth, W., Wang, D., Wang, Y., Wojtsekhowski, B., Yan, X., Yao, H., Ye, Y., Ye, Z., Yuan, L., Zhan, X., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y. -W., Zhao, B., and Zheng, X.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Double-spin asymmetries and absolute cross sections were measured at large Bjorken $x$ (0.25 $ \le x \le $ 0.90), in both the deep-inelastic and resonance regions, by scattering longitudinally polarized electrons at beam energies of 4.7 and 5.9 GeV from a transversely and longitudinally polarized $^3$He target. In this dedicated experiment, the spin structure function $g_2$ on $^3$He was determined with precision at large $x$, and the neutron twist-three matrix element $d_2^n$ was measured at $\left< Q^2\right>$ of 3.21 and 4.32 GeV$^2$/$c^2$, with an absolute precision of about $10^{-5}$. Our results are found to be in agreement with lattice QCD calculations and resolve the disagreement found with previous data at $\left< Q^2\right> =$ 5 GeV$^2$/$c^2$. Combining $d_2^n$ and a newly extracted twist-four matrix element, $f_2^n$, the average neutron color electric and magnetic forces were extracted and found to be of opposite sign and about 30 MeV/fm in magnitude., Comment: Corrected a typo in the author list and Figure 1 legend. 6 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables
Published: 2014
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137. Hall A Annual Report 2013

Author: Dalton, M. M., Allada, K., Aniol, K., Boeglin, W., Camsonne, A., Chudakov, E., Cummings, M., Flay, D., Friedman, M., Glamazdin, O., Gomez, J., Keppel, C., Khanal, H. P., Lindgren, R., Long, E., Michaels, R., Mihovilovič, M., Camacho, C. Muñoz, Nanda, S., Pomatsalyuk, R., Riordan, S., Širca, S., Smith, C., Solvignon, P., Sparveris, N. F., Vereshchaka, V., Yan, X., Ye, Z., Zhao, Y. X., and Collaboration, Jefferson Lab Hall A
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Report over the experimental activities in Hall A at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility during 2013.
Published: 2014

138. Probing the Repulsive Core of the Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction via the 4He(e,e'pN) Triple-Coincidence Reaction

Author: Muangma, I. Korover N., Hen, O., Shneor, R., Sulkosky, V., Kelleher, A., Gilad, S., Higinbotham, D. W., Watson, E. Piasetzky J., Wood, S., Rakhman, Abdurahim, Aguilera, P., Ahmed, Z., Albataineh, H., Allada, K., Anderson, B., Anez, D., Aniol, K., Annand, J., Armstrong, W., Arrington, J., Averett, T., Badman, T., Baghdasaryan, H., Bai, X., Beck, A., Beck, S., Bellini, V., Benmokhtar, F., Bertozzi, W., Bittner, J., Boeglin, W., Camsonne, A., Chen, C., Chen, J. -P., Chirapatpimol, K., Cisbani, E., Dalton, M. M., Daniel, A., Day, D., de Jager, C. W., De Leo, R., Deconinck, W., Defurne, M., Flay, D., Fomin, N., Friend, M., Frullani, S., Fuchey, E., Garibaldi, F., Gaskell, D., Gilman, R., Glamazdin, O., Gu, C., Gueye, P., Hamilton, D., Hanretty, C., Hansen, O., Shabestari, M. Hashemi, Holmstrom, T., Huang, M., Iqbal, S., Jin, G., Kalantarians, N., Kang, H., Khandaker, M., LeRose, J., Leckey, J., Lindgren, R., Long, E., Mammei, J., Margaziotis, D. J., Markowitz, P., Jimenez-Arguello, A. Marti, Meekins, D., Meziani, Z., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Monaghan, P., Camacho, C. Munoz, Norum, B., Nuruzzaman, Pan, K., Phillips, S., Pomerantz, I., Posik, M., Punjabi, V., Qian, X., Qiang, Y., Qiu, X., Reimer, P. E., Riordan, S., Ron, G., Rondon-Aramayo, O., Saha, A., Schulte, E., Selvy, L., Shahinyan, A., Sirca, S., Sjoegren, J., Slifer, K., Solvignon, P., Sparveris, N., Subedi, R., Tireman, W., Wang, D., Weinstein, L. B., Wojtsekhowski, B., Yan, W., Yaron, I., Ye, Z., Zhan, X., Zhang, J., Zhang, Y., Zhao, B., Zhao, Z., Zheng, X., Zhu, P., and Zielinski, R.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We studied simultaneously the 4He(e,e'p), 4He(e,e'pp), and 4He(e,e'pn) reactions at Q^2=2 [GeV/c]2 and x_B>1, for a (e,e'p) missing-momentum range of 400 to 830 MeV/c. The knocked-out proton was detected in coincidence with a proton or neutron recoiling almost back to back to the missing momentum, leaving the residual A=2 system at low excitation energy. These data were used to identify two-nucleon short-range correlated pairs and to deduce their isospin structure as a function of missing momentum in a region where the nucleon-nucleon force is expected to change from predominantly tensor to repulsive. Neutron-proton pairs dominate the high-momentum tail of the nucleon momentum distributions, but their abundance is reduced as the nucleon momentum increases beyond ~500 MeV/c. The extracted fraction of proton-proton pairs is small and almost independent of the missing momentum in the range we studied. Our data are compared with ab-initio calculations of two-nucleon momentum distributions in 4He., Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures
Published: 2014
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139. Measurement of pretzelosity asymmetry of charged pion production in Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering on a polarized $^3$He target

Author: Zhang, Y., Qian, X., Allada, K., Dutta, C., Huang, J., Katich, J., Wang, Y., Aniol, K., Annand, J. R. M., Averett, T., Benmokhtar, F., Bertozzi, W., Bradshaw, P. C., Bosted, P., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Cates, G. D., Chen, C., Chen, J. -P., Chen, W., Chirapatpimol, K., Chudakov, E., Cisbani, E., Cornejo, J. C., Cusanno, F., Dalton, M. M., Deconinck, W., de Jager, C. W., De Leo, R., Deng, X., Deur, A., Ding, H., Dolph, P. A. M., Dutta, D., Fassi, L. El, Frullani, S., Gao, H., Garibaldi, F., Gaskell, D., Gilad, S., Gilman, R., Glamazdin, O., Golge, S., Guo, L., Hamilton, D., Hansen, O., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmstrom, T., Huang, M., Ibrahim, H. F., Iodice, M., Jiang, X., Jin, G., Jones, M. K., Kelleher, A., Kim, W., Kolarkar, A., Korsch, W., LeRose, J. J., Li, X., Li, Y., Lindgren, R., Liyanage, N., Long, E., Lu, H. -J., Margaziotis, D. J., Markowitz, P., Marrone, S., McNulty, D., Meziani, Z. -E., Michaels, R., Moffit, B., Camacho, C. Muñoz, Nanda, S., Narayan, A., Nelyubin, V., Norum, B., Oh, Y., Osipenko, M., Parno, D., Peng, J. C., Phillips, S. K., Posik, M., Puckett, A. J. R., Qiang, Y., Rakhman, A., Ransome, R. D., Riordan, S., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Schulte, E., Shahinyan, A., Shabestari, M. H., Sirca, S., Stepanyan, S., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Tang, L. -G., Tobias, W. A., Urciuoli, G. M., Vilardi, I., Wang, K., Wojtsekhowski, B., Yan, X., Yao, H., Ye, Y., Ye, Z., Yuan, L., Zhan, X., Zhang, Y. -W., Zhao, B., Zheng, X., Zhu, L., Zhu, X., and Zong, X.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: An experiment to measure single-spin asymmetries in semi-inclusive production of charged pions in deep-inelastic scattering on a transversely polarized $^3$He target was performed at Jefferson Lab in the kinematic region of $0.16
Published: 2013
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140. Single Spin Asymmetries of Inclusive Hadrons Produced in Electron Scattering from a Transversely Polarized $^3$He Target

Author: Allada, K., Zhao, Y. X., Aniol, K., Annand, J. R. M., Averett, T., Benmokhtar, F., Bertozzi, W., Bradshaw, P. C., Bosted, P., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Cates, G. D., Chen, C., Chen, J. -P., Chen, W., Chirapatpimol, K., Chudakov, E., Cisbani, E., Cornejo, J. C., Cusanno, F., Dalton, M., Deconinck, W., de Jager, C. W., De Leo, R., Deng, X., Deur, A., Ding, H., Dolph, P. A. M., Dutta, C., Dutta, D., Fassi, L. El, Frullani, S., Gao, H., Garibaldi, F., Gaskell, D., Gilad, S., Gilman, R., Glamazdin, O., Golge, S., Guo, L., Hamilton, D., Hansen, O., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmstrom, T., Huang, J., Huang, M., Ibrahim, H. F, Iodice, M., Jiang, X., Jin, G., Jones, M. K., Katich, J., Kelleher, A., Kim, W., Kolarkar, A., Korsch, W., LeRose, J. J., Li, X., Li, Y., Lindgren, R., Liyanage, N., Long, E., Lu, H. -J., Margaziotis, D. J., Markowitz, P., Marrone, S., McNulty, D., Meziani, Z. -E., Michaels, R., Moffit, B., Camacho, C. Munoz, Nanda, S., Narayan, A., Nelyubin, V., Norum, B., Oh, Y., Osipenko, M., Parno, D., Peng, J. -C., Phillips, S. K., Posik, M., Puckett, A. J. R., Qian, X., Qiang, Y., Rakhman, A., Ransome, R., Riordan, S., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Schulte, E., Shahinyan, A., Shabestari, M. H., Sirca, S., Stepanyan, S., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Tang, L. -G., Tobias, A., Urciuoli, G. M., Vilardi, I., Wang, K., Wang, Y., Wojtsekhowski, B., Yan, X., Yao, H., Ye, Y., Ye, Z., Yuan, L., Zhan, X., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y. -W., Zhao, B., Zheng, X., Zhu, L., Zhu, X., and Zong, X.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report the first measurement of target single-spin asymmetries (A$_N$) in the inclusive hadron production reaction, $e~$+$~^3\text{He}^{\uparrow}\rightarrow h+X$, using a transversely polarized $^3$He target. The experiment was conducted at Jefferson Lab in Hall A using a 5.9-GeV electron beam. Three types of hadrons ($\pi^{\pm}$, $\text{K}^{\pm}$ and proton) were detected in the transverse hadron momentum range 0.54 $
Published: 2013
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141. Measurement of the Target-Normal Single-Spin Asymmetry in Deep-Inelastic Scattering from the Reaction $^{3}\mathrm{He}^{\uparrow}(e,e')X$

Author: Katich, J., Qian, X., Zhao, Y. X., Allada, K., Aniol, K., Annand, J. R. M., Averett, T., Benmokhtar, F., Bertozzi, W., Bradshaw, P. C., Bosted, P., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Cates, G. D., Chen, C., Chen, J. -P., Chen, W., Chirapatpimol, K., Chudakov, E., Cisbani, E., Cornejo, J. C., Cusanno, F., Dalton, M. M., Deconinck, W., de Jager, C. W., De Leo, R., Deng, X., Deur, A., Ding, H., Dolph, P. A. M., Dutta, C., Dutta, D., Fassi, L. El, Frullani, S., Gao, H., Garibaldi, F., Gaskell, D., Gilad, S., Gilman, R., Glamazdin, O., Golge, S., Guo, L., Hamilton, D., Hansen, O., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmstrom, T., Huang, J., Huang, M., Ibrahim, H. F., Iodice, M., Jiang, X., Jin, G., Jones, M. K., Kelleher, A., Kim, W., Kolarkar, A., Korsch, W., LeRose, J. J., Li, X., Li, Y., Lindgren, R., Liyanage, N., Long, E., Lu, H. -J., Margaziotis, D. J., Markowitz, P., Marrone, S., McNulty, D., Meziani, Z. -E., Michaels, R., Moffit, B., Camacho, C. Muńoz, Nanda, S., Narayan, A., Nelyubin, V., Norum, B., Oh, Y., Osipenko, M., Parno, D., Peng, J. C., Phillips, S. K., Posik, M., Puckett, A. J. R., Qiang, Y., Rakhman, A., Ransome, R. D., Riordan, S., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Schulte, E., Shahinyan, A., Shabestari, M. H., Širca, S., Stepanyan, S., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Tang, L. -G., Tobias, A., Urciuoli, G. M., Vilardi, I., Wang, K., Wang, Y., Wojtsekhowski, B., Yan, X., Yao, H., Ye, Y., Ye, Z., Yuan, L., Zhan, X., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y. -W., Zhao, B., Zheng, X., Zhu, L., Zhu, X., and Zong, X.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report the first measurement of the target-normal single-spin asymmetry in deep-inelastic scattering from the inclusive reaction $^3$He$^{\uparrow}\left(e,e' \right)X$ on a polarized $^3$He gas target. Assuming time-reversal invariance, this asymmetry is strictly zero in the Born approximation but can be non-zero if two-photon-exchange contributions are included. The experiment, conducted at Jefferson Lab using a 5.89 GeV electron beam, covers a range of $1.7 < W < 2.9$ GeV, $1.02$ GeV, which is non-zero at the $2.89\sigma$ level. Our measured asymmetry agrees both in sign and magnitude with a two-photon-exchange model prediction that uses input from the Sivers transverse momentum distribution obtained from semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering., Comment: This is the final edited version as published in PRL
Published: 2013
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142. Measurement of the neutron electric to magnetic form factor ratio at Q2 = 1.58 GeV2 using the reaction 3He(e,e'n)pp

Author: Schlimme, B. S., Achenbach, P., Gayoso, C. A. Ayerbe, Bernauer, J. C., Böhm, R., Bosnar, D., Challand, Th., Distler, M. O., Doria, L., Fellenberger, F., Fonvieille, H., Rodríguez, M. Gómez, Grabmayr, P., Hehl, T., Heil, W., Kiselev, D., Krimmer, J., Makek, M., Merkel, H., Middleton, D. G., Müller, U., Nungesser, L., Ott, B. A., Pochodzalla, J., Potokar, M., Majos, S. Sánchez, Sargsian, M. M., Sick, I., Širca, S., Weinriefer, M., Wendel, M., and Yoon, C. J.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: A measurement of beam helicity asymmetries in the reaction 3He(e,e'n)pp has been performed at the Mainz Microtron in quasielastic kinematics in order to determine the electric to magnetic form factor ratio of the neutron, GEn/GMn, at a four momentum transfer Q2 = 1.58 GeV2. Longitudinally polarized electrons were scattered on a highly polarized 3He gas target. The scattered electrons were detected with a high-resolution magnetic spectrometer, and the ejected neutrons with a dedicated neutron detector composed of scintillator bars. To reduce systematic errors data were taken for four different target polarization orientations allowing the determination of GEn/GMn from a double ratio. We find mu_n GEn/GMn = 0.250 +/- 0.058(stat.) +/- 0.017 (sys.).
Published: 2013
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143. The electric and magnetic form factors of the proton

Author: A1 Collaboration, Bernauer, J. C., Distler, M. O., Friedrich, J., Walcher, Th., Gayoso, P. Achenbach C. Ayerbe, Böhm, R., Debenjak, L., Doria, L., Esser, A., Fonvieille, H., de la Paz, M. Gómez Rodrígues, Friedrich, J. M., Makek, M., Merkel, H., Middleton, D. G., Müller, U., Nungesser, L., Pochodzalla, J., Potokar, M., Majos, S. Sánchez, Schlimme, B. S., Širca, S., and Weinriefer, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The paper describes a precise measurement of electron scattering off the proton at momentum transfers of $0.003 \lesssim Q^2 \lesssim 1$\ GeV$^2$. The average point-to-point error of the cross sections in this experiment is $\sim$ 0.37%. These data are used for a coherent new analysis together with all world data of unpolarized and polarized electron scattering from the very smallest to the highest momentum transfers so far measured. The extracted electric and magnetic form factors provide new insight into their exact shape, deviating from the classical dipole form, and of structure on top of this gross shape. The data reaching very low $Q^2$ values are used for a new determination of the electric and magnetic radii. An empirical determination of the Two-Photon-Exchange (TPE) correction is presented. The implications of this correction on the radii and the question of a directly visible signal of the pion cloud are addressed., Comment: 38 pages, 20 figures. Updated data files. PRC version
Published: 2013
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144. Measurements of the \gamma * p --> \Delta(1232) reaction at low Q2

Author: Sparveris, N., Stave, S., Achenbach, P., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Baumann, D., Bernauer, J., Bernstein, A. M., Bohm, R., Bosnar, D., Botto, T., Christopoulou, A., Dale, D., Ding, M., Distler, M. O., Doria, L., Friedrich, J., Karabarbounis, A., Makek, M., Merkel, H., Muller, U., Nakagawa, I., Neuhausen, R., Nungesser, L., Papanicolas, C. N., Piegsa, A., Pochodzalla, J., Potokar, M., Seimetz, M., Sirca, S., Stiliaris, S., Walcher, Th., and Weis, M.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report new p$(\vec{e},e^\prime p)\pi^\circ$ measurements in the $\Delta^{+}(1232)$ resonance at the low momentum transfer region utilizing the magnetic spectrometers of the A1 Collaboration at MAMI. The mesonic cloud dynamics are predicted to be dominant and appreciably changing in this region while the momentum transfer is sufficiently low to be able to test chiral effective calculations. The results disagree with predictions of constituent quark models and are in reasonable agreement with dynamical calculations with pion cloud effects, chiral effective field theory and lattice calculations. The reported measurements suggest that improvement is required to the theoretical calculations and provide valuable input that will allow their refinements.
Published: 2013
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145. Measurement of the Parity-Violating Asymmetry in Electron-Deuteron Scattering in the Nucleon Resonance Region

Author: Wang, D., Pan, K., Subedi, R., Deng, X., Ahmed, Z., Allada, K., Aniol, K. A., Armstrong, D. S., Arrington, J., Bellini, V., Beminiwattha, R., Benesch, J., Benmokhtar, F., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Cates, G. D., Chen, J. -P., Chudakov, E., Cisbani, E., Dalton, M. M., de Jager, C. W., De Leo, R., Deconinck, W., Deur, A., Dutta, C., Fassi, L. El, Flay, D., Franklin, G. B., Friend, M., Frullani, S., Garibaldi, F., Giusa, A., Glamazdin, A., Golge, S., Grimm, K., Hafidi, K., Hansen, O., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmes, R., Holmstrom, T., Holt, R. J., Huang, J., Hyde, C. E., Jen, C. M., Jones, D., Kang, H., King, P., Kowalski, S., Kumar, K. S., Lee, J. H., LeRose, J. J., Liyanage, N., Long, E., McNulty, D., Margaziotis, D. J., Meddi, F., Meekins, D. G., Mercado, L., Meziani, Z. -E., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Muangma, N., Myers, K. E., Nanda, S., Narayan, A., Nelyubin, V., Nuruzzaman, Oh, Y., Parno, D., Paschke, K. D., Phillips, S. K., Qian, X., Qiang, Y., Quinn, B., Rakhman, A., Reimer, P. E., Rider, K., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Rubin, J., Russo, G., Saenboonruang, K., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Shahinyan, A., Silwal, R., Sirca, S., Souder, P. A., Suleiman, R., Sulkosky, V., Sutera, C. M., Tobias, W. A., Urciuoli, G. M., Waidyawansa, B., Wojtsekhowski, B., Ye, L., Zhao, B., and Zheng, X.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report on parity-violating asymmetries in the nucleon resonance region measured using $5 - 6$ GeV longitudinally polarized electrons scattering off an unpolarized deuterium target. These results are the first parity-violating asymmetry data in the resonance region beyond the $\Delta(1232)$, and provide a verification of quark-hadron duality in the nucleon electroweak $\gamma Z$ interference structure functions at the (10-15)% level. The results are of particular interest to models relevant for calculating the $\gamma Z$ box-diagram corrections to elastic parity-violating electron scattering measurements., Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
Published: 2013
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146. Hall A Annual Report 2012

Author: Riordan, S., Keppel, C., Aniol, K., Annand, J., Arrington, J., Averett, T., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Brash, E., Cates, G. D., Chen, J. -P., Chudakov, E., Flay, D., Franklin, G. B., Friedman, M., Glamazdin, O., Gomez, J., Hanretty, C., Hansen, J. -O., Hyde, C., Jones, M. K., Korover, I., LeRose, J. J., Lindgren, R. A., Liyanage, N., Long, E., Mamyan, V., Mihovilovic, M., Muangma, N., Nanda, S., Parno, D., Perdrisat, C. F., Pomatsalyuk, R., Posik, M., Punjabi, V., Rosner, G., Sjogren, J., Sirca, S., Smith, L. C., Solvignon, P., Sparveris, N. F., Sulkosky, V., Vereshchaka, V., Wojtsekhowski, B., Ye, Z., Zhang, J., Zhang, Y. W., Zheng, X., Zielinski, R., and Collaboration, the Hall A
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: Report over the experimental activities in Hall A at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
Published: 2013

147. Measurement of the 12C(e,e'p)11B Two-Body Breakup Reaction at High Missing Momentum Values

Author: Monaghan, P., Shneor, R., Subedi, R., Anderson, B. D., Aniol, K., Annand, J., Arrington, J., Benaoum, H., Benmokhtar, F., Bertin, P., Bertozzi, W., Boeglin, W., Chen, J. P., Choi, Seonho, Chudakov, E., Atti, C. Ciofi degli, Cisbani, E., Cosyn, W., Craver, B., de Jager, C. W., Feuerbach, R. J., Folts, E., Frullani, S., Garibaldi, F., Gayou, O., Gilad, S., Gilman, R., Glamazdin, O., Gomez, J., Hansen, O., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmstrom, T., Ibrahim, H., Igarashi, R., Jans, E., Jiang, X., Jiang, Y., Kaufman, L., Kelleher, A., Kolarkar, A., Kuchina, E., Kumbartzki, G., LeRose, J. J., Lindgren, R., Liyanage, N., Margaziotis, D. J., Markowitz, P., Marrone, S., Mazouz, M., Meekins, D., Michaels, R., Moffit, B., Morita, H., Nanda, S., Perdrisat, C. F., Piasetzky, E., Potokar, M., Punjabi, V., Qiang, Y., Reinhold, J., Reitz, B., Ron, G., Rosner, G., Ryckebusch, J., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Segal, J., Shahinyan, A., Sirca, S., Slifer, K., Solvignon, P., Sulkosky, V., Thompson, N., Ulmer, P. E., Urciuoli, G. M., Voutier, E., Wang, K., Watson, J. W., Weinstein, L. B., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wood, S., Yao, H., Zheng, X., and Zhu, L.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The five-fold differential cross section for the 12C(e,e'p)11B reaction was determined over a missing momentum range of 200-400 MeV/c, in a kinematics regime with Bjorken x > 1 and Q2 = 2.0 (GeV/c)2. A comparison of the results and theoretical models and previous lower missing momentum data is shown. The theoretical calculations agree well with the data up to a missing momentum value of 325 MeV/c and then diverge for larger missing momenta. The extracted distorted momentum distribution is shown to be consistent with previous data and extends the range of available data up to 400 MeV/c., Comment: 12 pages, 1 table and 3 figures for submission to Journal Physics G
Published: 2013
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148. New Measurements of the Transverse Beam Asymmetry for Elastic Electron Scattering from Selected Nuclei

Author: HAPPEX, The, Collaborations, PREX, Abrahamyan, S., Acha, A., Afanasev, A., Ahmed, Z., Albataineh, H., Aniol, K., Armstrong, D. S., Armstrong, W., Arrington, J., Averett, T., Babineau, B., Bailey, S. L., Barber, J., Barbieri, A., Beck, A., Bellini, V., Beminiwattha, R., Benaoum, H., Benesch, J., Benmokhtar, F., Bertin, P., Bielarski, T., Boeglin, W., Bosted, P., Butaru, F., Burtin, E., Cahoon, J., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Carter, P., Chang, C. C., Cates, G. D., Chao, Y. C., Chen, C., Chen, J. P., Choi, Seonho, Chudakov, E., Cisbani, E., Craver, B., Cusanno, F., Dalton, M. M., De Leo, R., de Jager, K., Deconinck, W., Decowski, P., Deepa, D., Deng, X., Deur, A., Dutta, D., Etile, A., Ferdi, C., Feuerbach, R. J., Finn, J. M., Flay, D., Franklin, G. B., Friend, M., Frullani, S., Fuchey, E., Fuchs, S. A., Fuoti, K., Garibaldi, F., Gasser, E., Gilman, R., Giusa, A., Glamazdin, A., Glesener, L. E., Gomez, J., Gorchtein, M., Grames, J., Grimm, K., Gu, C., Hansen, O., Hansknecht, J., Hen, O., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmes, R. S., Holmstrom, T., Horowitz, C. J., Hoskins, J., Huang, J., Humensky, T. B., Hyde, C. E., Ibrahim, H., Itard, F., Jen, C. M., Jensen, E., Jiang, X., Jin, G., Johnston, S., Katich, J., Kaufman, L. J., Kelleher, A., Kliakhandler, K., King, P. M., Kolarkar, A., Kowalski, S., Kuchina, E., Kumar, K. S., Lagamba, L., Lambert, D., LaViolette, P., Leacock, J., Leckey IV, J., Lee, J. H., LeRose, J. J., Lhuillier, D., Lindgren, R., Liyanage, N., Lubinsky, N., Mammei, J., Mammoliti, F., Margaziotis, D. J., Markowitz, P., Mazouz, M., McCormick, K., McCreary, A., McNulty, D., Meekins, D. G., Mercado, L., Meziani, Z. E., Michaels, R. W., Mihovilovic, M., Moffit, B., Monaghan, P., Muangma, N., Munoz-Camacho, C., Nanda, S., Nelyubin, V., Neyret, D., Nuruzzaman, Oh, Y., Otis, K., Palmer, A., Parno, D., Paschke, K. D., Phillips, S. K., Poelker, M., Pomatsalyuk, R., Posik, M., Potokar, M., Prok, K., Puckett, A. J. R., Qian, X., Qiang, Y., Quinn, B., Rakhman, A., Reimer, P. E., Reitz, B., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Rogan, P., Ron, G., Russo, G., Saenboonruang, K., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Shahinyan, A., Silwal, R., Singh, J., Sirca, S., Slifer, K., Snyder, R., Solvignon, P., Souder, P. A., Sperduto, M. L., Subedi, R., Stutzman, M. L., Suleiman, R., Sulkosky, V., Sutera, C. M., Tobias, W. A., Troth, W., Urciuoli, G. M., Ulmer, P., Vacheret, A., Voutier, E., Waidyawansa, B., Wang, D., Wang, K., Wexler, J., Whitbeck, A., Wilson, R., Wojtsekhowski, B., Yan, X., Yao, H., Ye, Y., Ye, Z., Yim, V., Zana, L., Zhan, X., Zhang, J., Zhang, Y., Zheng, X., Ziskin, V., and Zhu, P.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We have measured the beam-normal single-spin asymmetry $A_n$ in the elastic scattering of 1-3 GeV transversely polarized electrons from $^1$H and for the first time from $^4$He, $^{12}$C, and $^{208}$Pb. For $^1$H, $^4$He and $^{12}$C, the measurements are in agreement with calculations that relate $A_n$ to the imaginary part of the two-photon exchange amplitude including inelastic intermediate states. Surprisingly, the $^{208}$Pb result is significantly smaller than the corresponding prediction using the same formalism. These results suggest that a systematic set of new $A_n$ measurements might emerge as a new and sensitive probe of the structure of heavy nuclei., Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted by PRL. v3: fixed one author name and affiliation, otherwise no change
Published: 2012
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149. Measurement of the Neutron Radius of 208Pb Through Parity-Violation in Electron Scattering

Author: Abrahamyan, S., Ahmed, Z., Albataineh, H., Aniol, K., Armstrong, D. S., Armstrong, W., Averett, T., Babineau, B., Barbieri, A., Bellini, V., Beminiwattha, R., Benesch, J., Benmokhtar, F., Bielarski, T., Boeglin, W., Camsonne, A., Canan, M., Carter, P., Cates, G. D., Chen, C., Chen, J. -P., Hen, O., Cusanno, F., Dalton, M. M., De Leo, R., de Jager, K., Deconinck, W., Decowski, P., Deng, X., Deur, A., Dutta, D., Etile, A., Flay, D., Franklin, G. B., Friend, M., Frullani, S., Fuchey, E., Garibaldi, F., Gasser, E., Gilman, R., Giusa, A., Glamazdin, A., Gomez, J., Grames, J., Gu, C., Hansen, O., Hansknecht, J., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmes, R. S., Holmstrom, T., Horowitz, C. J., Hoskins, J., Huang, J., Hyde, C. E., Itard, F., Jen, C. -M., Jensen, E., Jin, G., Johnston, S., Kelleher, A., Kliakhandler, K., King, P. M., Kowalski, S., Kumar, K. S., Leacock, J., Leckey IV, J., Lee, J. H., LeRose, J. J., Lindgren, R., Liyanage, N., Lubinsky, N., Mammei, J., Mammoliti, F., Margaziotis, D. J., Markowitz, P., McCreary, A., McNulty, D., Mercado, L., Meziani, Z. -E., Michaels, R. W., Mihovilovic, M., Muangma, N., Muñoz-Camacho, C., Nanda, S., Nelyubin, V., Nuruzzaman, N., Oh, Y., Palmer, A., Parno, D., Paschke, K. D., Phillips, S. K., Poelker, B., Pomatsalyuk, R., Posik, M., Puckett, A. J. R., Quinn, B., Rakhman, A., Reimer, P. E., Riordan, S., Rogan, P., Ron, G., Russo, G., Saenboonruang, K., Saha, A., Sawatzky, B., Shahinyan, A., Silwal, R., Sirca, S., Slifer, K., Solvignon, P., Souder, P. A., Sperduto, M. L., Subedi, R., Suleiman, R., Sulkosky, V., Sutera, C. M., Tobias, W. A., Troth, W., Urciuoli, G. M., Waidyawansa, B., Wang, D., Wexler, J., Wilson, R., Wojtsekhowski, B., Yan, X., Yao, H., Ye, Y., Ye, Z., Yim, V., Zana, L., Zhan, X., Zhang, J., Zhang, Y., Zheng, X., and Zhu, P.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: We report the first measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry A_PV in the elastic scattering of polarized electrons from 208Pb. A_PV is sensitive to the radius of the neutron distribution (Rn). The result A_PV = 0.656 \pm 0.060 (stat) \pm 0.014 (syst) ppm corresponds to a difference between the radii of the neutron and proton distributions Rn - Rp = 0.33 +0.16 -0.18 fm and provides the first electroweak observation of the neutron skin which is expected in a heavy, neutron-rich nucleus., Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure
Published: 2012
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150. Methods for Optical Calibration of the BigBite Hadron Spectrometer

Author: Mihovilovic, M., Allada, K., Anderson, B. D., Annand, J. R. M., Averett, T., Camsonne, A., Chan, R. W., Chen, J. -P., Chirapatpimol, K., de Jager, C. W., Gilad, S., Hamilton, D. J., Hansen, J. -O., Higinbotham, D. W., Juang, J., Jiang, X., Jin, G., Korsch, W., LeRose, J. J., Lindgren, R. A., Liyanage, N., Long, E., Michaels, R., Moffit, B., Monaghan, P., Nelyubin, V., Norum, B. E., Piasetzky, E., Qian, X., Qiang, Y., Riordan, S., Ron, G., Rosner, G., Sawatzky, B., Shabestari, M., Shahinyan, A., Shneor, R., Sirca, S., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Watson, J. W., and Zhang, Y. -W.
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment
Abstract: The techniques for optical calibration of Jefferson Lab's large-acceptance magnetic hadron spectrometer, BigBite, have been examined. The most consistent and stable results were obtained by using a method based on singular value decomposition. In spite of the complexity of the optics, the particles' positions and momenta at the target have been precisely reconstructed from the coordinates measured in the detectors by means of a single back-tracing matrix. The technique is applicable to any similar magnetic spectrometer and any particle type. For 0.55 GeV/c protons, we have established the vertex resolution of 1.2 cm, angular resolutions of 7 mrad and 16 mrad (in-plane and out-of-plane, respectively), and a relative momentum resolution of 1.6%., Comment: 26 pages, 13 figures
Published: 2012
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