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

Author

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

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

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

Published
2024

2. Quasielastic $\overrightarrow{^{3}\mathrm{He}}(\overrightarrow{e},{e'})$ Asymmetry in the Threshold Region

Author

Nycz, M., Armstrong, W., Averett, T., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Bai, X., Bane, J., Barcus, S., Benesch, J., Bhatt, H., Bhetuwal, D., Biswas, D., Camsonne, A., Cates, G., Chen, J-P., Chen, J., Chen, M., Cotton, C., Dalton, M-M., Deltuva, A., Deur, A., Dhital, B., Duran, B., Dusa, S. C., Fernando, I., Fuchey, E., Gamage, B., Gao, H., Gaskell, D., Gautam, T., Gauthier, N., Golak, J., Hansen, J. -O., Hauenstein, F., Henry, W., Higinbotham, D. W., Huber, G., Jantzi, C., Jia, S., Jin, K., Jones, M., Joosten, S., Karki, A., Karki, B., Katugampola, S., Kay, S., Keppel, C., King, E., King, P., Korsch, W., Kumar, V., Li, R., Li, S., Li, W., Mack, D., Malace, S., Markowitz, P., Matter, J., McCaughan, M., Meziani, Z-E., Michaels, R., Mkrtchyan, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Morean, C., Nelyubin, V., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, M., Peng, C., Premathilake, S., Puckett, A., Rathnayake, A., Rehfuss, M., Reimer, P., Riley, G., Roblin, Y., Roche, J., Roy, M., Sauer, P. U., Scopeta, S., Satnik, M., Sawatzky, B., Seeds, S., Širca, S. S., Skibiński, R., Smith, G., Sparveris, N., Szumila-Vance, H., Tadepalli, A., Tadevosyan, V., Tian, Y., Usman, A., Voskanyan, H., Witala, H., Wood, S., Yale, B., Yero, C., Yoon, A., Zhang, J., Zhao, Z., Zheng, X., and Zhou, J.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

A measurement of the double-spin asymmetry from electron-$^{3}$He scattering in the threshold region of two- and three-body breakup of $^{3}$He was performed at Jefferson Lab, for Q$^{2}$ values of 0.1 and 0.2 (GeV/$c$)$^{2}$. The results of this measurement serve as a stringent test of our understanding of few-body systems. When compared with calculations from plane wave impulse approximation and Faddeev theory, we found that the Faddeev calculations, which use modern nuclear potentials and prescriptions for meson-exchange currents, demonstrate an overall good agreement with data.

Published
2024

3. Flavor Dependence of Charged Pion Fragmentation Functions

Author

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

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

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

Published
2024

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

Author

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

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

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

Published
2024

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

Author

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

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

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

Published
2024

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

Author

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

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

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

Published
2024

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

Author

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

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

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

Published
2023

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

Author

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

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

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

Published
2023

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

Author

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

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

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

Published
2022
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10. Determination of the titanium spectral function from (e,e'p) data

Author

Jiang, L., Ankowski, A. M., Abrams, D., Gu, L., Aljawrneh, B., Alsalmi, S., Bane, J., Batz, A., Barcus, S., Barroso, M., Bellini, V., Benhar, O., Bericic, J., Biswas, D., Camsonne, A., Castellanos, J., Chen, J. -P., Christy, M. E., Craycraft, K., Cruz-Torres, R., Dai, H., Day, D., Dirican, A., Dusa, S. -C., Fuchey, E., Gautam, T., Giusti, C., Gomez, J., Gu, C., Hague, T. J., Hansen, J. -O., Hauenstein, F., Higinbotham, D. W., Hyde, C., Jerzyk, Z., Johnson, A. M., Keppel, C., Lanham, C., Li, S., Lindgren, R., Liu, H., Mariani, C., McClellan, R. E., Meekins, D., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Murphy, M., Nguyen, D., Nycz, M., Ou, L., Pandey, B., Pandey, V., Park, K., Perera, G., Puckett, A. J. R., Santiesteban, S. N., Širca, S., Su, T., Tang, L., Tian, Y., Ton, N., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wood, S., Ye, Z., and Zhang, J.

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

The E12-14-012 experiment, performed in Jefferson Lab Hall A, has measured the (e,e'p) cross section in parallel kinematics using a natural titanium target. Here, we report the full results of the analysis of the data set corresponding to beam energy 2.2 GeV, and spanning the missing momentum and missing energy range 15 <= pm <= 250 MeV/c and 12 <= Em <= 80 MeV. The reduced cross section has been measured with ~7% accuracy as function of both missing momentum and missing energy. We compared our data to the results of a Monte Carlo simulations performed using a model spectral function and including the effects of final state interactions. The overall agreement between data and simulations is quite good (chi2/d.o.f. = 0.9)., Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, published in Phys. Rev. D. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2203.01748

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2022
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11. Determining the Proton's Gluonic Gravitational Form Factors

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Duran, B., Meziani, Z. -E., Joosten, S., Jones, M. K., Prasad, S., Peng, C., Armstrong, W., Atac, H., Chudakov, E., Bhatt, H., Bhetuwal, D., Boer, M., Camsonne, A., Chen, J. -P., Dalton, M. M., Deokar, N., Diefenthaler, M., Dunne, J., Fassi, L. El, Fuchey, E., Gao, H., Gaskell, D., Hansen, O., Hauenstein, F., Higinbotham, D., Jia, S., Karki, A., Keppel, C., King, P., Ko, H. S., Li, X., Li, R., Mack, D., Malace, S., McCaughan, M., McClellan, R. E., Michaels, R., Meekins, D., Paolone, M., Pentchev, L., Pooser, E., Puckett, A., Radloff, R., Rehfuss, M., Reimer, P. E., Riordan, S., Sawatzky, B., Smith, A., Sparveris, N., Szumila-Vance, H., Wood, S., Xie, J., Ye, Z., Yero, C., and Zhao, Z.

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

The proton is one of the main building blocks of all visible matter in the universe. Among its intrinsic properties are its electric charge, mass, and spin. These emerge from the complex dynamics of its fundamental constituents, quarks and gluons, described by the theory of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Using electron scattering, its electric charge and spin, shared among the quark constituents, have been the topic of active investigation. An example is the novel precision measurement of the proton's electric charge radius. In contrast, little is known about the proton's inner mass density, dominated by the energy carried by the gluons, which are hard to access through electron scattering since gluons carry no electromagnetic charge. Here, we chose to probe this gluonic gravitational density using a small color dipole, the $J/\psi$ particle, through its threshold photoproduction. From our data, we determined, for the first time, the proton's gluonic gravitational form factors. We used a variety of models and determined, in all cases, a mass radius that is notably smaller than the electric charge radius. In some cases, the determined radius, although model dependent, is in excellent agreement with first-principle predictions from lattice QCD. This work paves the way for a deeper understanding of the salient role of gluons in providing gravitational mass to visible matter., Comment: Accepted for publication

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

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

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

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

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2022

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

Author

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

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

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

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2022
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14. Precision Determination of the Neutral Weak Form Factor of $^{48}$Ca

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Adhikari, D., Albataineh, H., Androic, D., Aniol, K. A., Armstrong, D. S., Averett, T., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Barcus, S. K., Bellini, V., Beminiwattha, R. S., Benesch, J. F., Bhatt, H., Pathak, D. Bhatta, Bhetuwal, D., Blaikie, B., Boyd, J., Campagna, Q., Camsonne, A., Cates, G. D., Chen, Y., Clarke, C., Cornejo, J. C., Dusa, S. Covrig, Dalton, M. M., Datta, P., Deshpande, A., Dutta, D., Feldman, C., Fuchey, E., Gal, C., Gaskell, D., Gautam, T., Gericke, M., Ghosh, C., Halilovic, I., Hansen, J. -O., Hassan, O., Hauenstein, F., Henry, W., Horowitz, C. J., Jantzi, C., Jian, S., Johnston, S., Jones, D. C., Kakkar, S., Katugampola, S., Keppel, C., King, P. M., King, D. E., Kumar, K. S., Kutz, T., Lashley-Colthirst, N., Leverick, G., Liu, H., Liyanage, N., Mammei, J., Mammei, R., McCaughan, 23 M., McNulty, D., Meekins, D., Metts, C., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Mondal, M. M., Napolitano, J., Narayan, A., Nikolaev, D., Owen, V., Palatchi, C., Pan, J., Pandey, B., Park, S., Paschke, K. D., Petrusky, M., Pitt, M. L., Premathilake, S., Quinn, B., Radloff, R., Rahman, S., Rashad, M. N. H., Rathnayake, A., Reed, B. T., Reimer, P. E., Richards, R., Riordan, S., Roblin, Y. R., Seeds, S., Shahinyan, A., Souder, P., Thiel, M., Tian, Y., Urciuoli, G. M., Wertz, E. W., Wojtsekhowski, B., Yale, B., Ye, T., Yoon, A., Xiong, W., Zec, A., Zhang, W., Zhang, J., and Zheng, X.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

We report a precise measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry $A_{\rm PV}$ in the elastic scattering of longitudinally polarized electrons from $^{48}{\rm Ca}$. We measure $A_{\rm PV} =2668\pm 106\ {\rm (stat)}\pm 40\ {\rm (syst)}$ parts per billion, leading to an extraction of the neutral weak form factor $F_{\rm W} (q=0.8733$ fm$^{-1}) = 0.1304 \pm 0.0052 \ {\rm (stat)}\pm 0.0020\ {\rm (syst)}$ and the charge minus the weak form factor $F_{\rm ch} - F_{\rm W} = 0.0277\pm 0.0055$. The resulting neutron skin thickness $R_n-R_p=0.121 \pm 0.026\ {\rm (exp)} \pm 0.024\ {\rm (model)}$~fm is relatively thin yet consistent with many model calculations. The combined CREX and PREX results will have implications for future energy density functional calculations and on the density dependence of the symmetry energy of nuclear matter., Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures Replace 6-16-22: included ancillary files, corrected errors in references, author affiliations. Small text changes for clarity

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2022
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15. Determination of the titanium spectral function from (e, e′p) data

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Jiang, L, Ankowski, AM, Abrams, D, Gu, L, Aljawrneh, B, Alsalmi, S, Bane, J, Batz, A, Barcus, S, Barroso, M, Bellini, V, Benhar, O, Bericic, J, Biswas, D, Camsonne, A, Castellanos, J, Chen, J-P, Christy, ME, Craycraft, K, Cruz-Torres, R, Dai, H, Day, D, Dirican, A, Dusa, S-C, Fuchey, E, Gautam, T, Giusti, C, Gomez, J, Gu, C, Hague, TJ, Hansen, J-O, Hauenstein, F, Higinbotham, DW, Hyde, C, Jerzyk, Z, Johnson, AM, Keppel, C, Lanham, C, Li, S, Lindgren, R, Liu, H, Mariani, C, McClellan, RE, Meekins, D, Michaels, R, Mihovilovic, M, Murphy, M, Nguyen, D, Nycz, M, Ou, L, Pandey, B, Pandey, V, Park, K, Perera, G, Puckett, AJR, Santiesteban, SN, Širca, S, Su, T, Tang, L, Tian, Y, Ton, N, Wojtsekhowski, B, Wood, S, Ye, Z, and Zhang, J

Subjects
Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract

The E12-14-012 experiment, performed in Jefferson Lab Hall A, has measured the (e,e′p) cross section in parallel kinematics using a natural titanium target. In this paper, we report the analysis of the dataset obtained in different kinematics for our solid natural titanium target. Data were obtained in a range of missing momentum and missing energy between 15?pm?250 MeV/c and 12?Em?80 MeV, respectively, and using an electron beam energy of 2.2 GeV. We measured the reduced cross section with ∼7% accuracy as a function of both missing momentum and missing energy. Our Monte Carlo simulation, including both a model spectral function and the effects of final-state interactions, satisfactorily reproduces the data.

Published
2023

16. Proton spin structure and generalized polarizabilities in the strong quantum chromodynamics regime

Author

Ruth, D, Zielinski, R, Gu, C, Allada (Cummings), M, Badman, T, Huang, M, Liu, J, Zhu, P, Allada, K, Zhang, J, Camsonne, A, Chen, J-P, Slifer, K, Aniol, K, Annand, J, Arrington, J, Averett, T, Baghdasaryan, H, Bellini, V, Boeglin, W, Brock, J, Carlin, C, Chen, C, Cisbani, E, Crabb, D, Daniel, A, Day, D, Duve, R, Fassi, L El, Friedman, M, Fuchey, E, Gao, H, Gilman, R, Glamazdin, S, Gueye, P, Hafez, M, Han, Y, Hansen, O, Shabestari, M Hashemi, Hen, O, Higinbotham, D, Horn, T, Iqbal, S, Jensen, E, Kang, H, Keith, CD, Kelleher, A, Keller, D, Khanal, H, Korover, I, Kumbartzki, G, Li, W, Lichtenstadt, J, Lindgren, R, Long, E, Malace, S, Markowitz, P, Maxwell, J, Meekins, DM, Meziani, ZE, McLean, C, Michaels, R, Mihovilovič, M, Muangma, N, Camacho, C Munoz, Musson, J, Myers, K, Oh, Y, Carmignotto, M Pannunzio, Perdrisat, C, Phillips, S, Piasetzky, E, Pierce, J, Punjabi, V, Qiang, Y, Reimer, PE, Roblin, Y, Ron, G, Rondon, O, Russo, G, Saenboonruang, K, Sawatzky, B, Shahinyan, A, Shneor, R, Širca, S, Sjoegren, J, Solvignon-Slifer, P, Sparveris, N, Sulkosky, V, Wesselmann, F, Yan, W, Yang, H, Yao, H, Ye, Z, Yurov, M, Zhang, Y, Zhao, YX, and Zheng, X

Subjects
Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Fluids & Plasmas
Abstract

The strong interaction is not well understood at low energies or for interactions with low momentum transfer. Chiral perturbation theory gives testable predictions for the nucleonic generalized polarizabilities, which are fundamental quantities describing the nucleon’s response to an external field. We report a measurement of the proton’s generalized spin polarizabilities extracted with a polarized electron beam and a polarized solid ammonia target in the region where chiral perturbation theory is expected to be valid. The investigated structure function g2 characterizes the internal spin structure of the proton. From its moments, we extract the longitudinal–transverse spin polarizability δLT and twist-3 matrix element and polarizability d2¯. Our results provide discriminating power between existing chiral perturbation theory calculations and will help provide a better understanding of this strong quantum chromodynamics regime.

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2022

17. The Proton Spin Structure Function $g_2$ and Generalized Polarizabilities in the Strong QCD Regime

Author

Ruth, D., Zielinski, R., Gu, C., Allada, M., Badman, T., Huang, M., Liu, J., Zhu, P., Allada, K., Zhang, J., Camsonne, A., Chen, J. P., Slifer, K., Aniol, K., Annand, J., Arrington, J., Averett, T., Baghdasaryan, H., Bellini, V., Boeglin, W., Brock, J., Carlin, C., Chen, C., Cisbani, E., Crabb, D., Daniel, A., Day, D., Duve, R., Fassi, L. El, Friedman, M., Fuchey, E., Gao, H., Gilman, R., Glamazdin, S., Gueye, P., Hafez, M., Han, Y., Hansen, O., Shabestari, M. Hashemi, Hen, O., Higinbotham, D., Horn, T., Iqbal, S., Jensen, E., Kang, H., Keith, C. D., Kelleher, A., Keller, D., Khanal, H., Korover, I., Kumbartzki, G., Li, W., Lichtenstadt, J., Lindgren, R., Long, E., Malace, S., Markowitz, P., Maxwell, J., Meekins, D. M., Meziani, Z. E., McLean, C., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Muangma, N., Camacho, C. Munoz, Musson, J., Myers, K., Oh, Y., Carmignotto, M. Pannunzio, Perdrisat, C., Phillips, S., Piasetzky, E., Pierce, J., Punjabi, V., Qiang, Y., Reimer, P. E., Roblin, Y., Ron, G., Rondon, O., Russo, G., Saenboonruang, K., Sawatzky, B., Shahinyan, A., Shneor, R., Sjoegren, J., Solvignon-Slifer, P., Sparveris, N., Sulkosky, V., Wesselmann, F., Yan, W., Yang, H., Yao, H., Ye, Z., Yurov, M., Zhang, Y., Zhao, Y. X., and Zheng, X.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The strong interaction is not well understood at low energy, or for interactions with low momentum transfer $Q^2$, but one of the clearest insights we have comes from Chiral Perturbation Theory ($\chi$PT). This effective treatment gives testable predictions for the nucleonic generalized polarizabilities -- fundamental quantities describing the nucleon's response to an external field. We have measured the proton's generalized spin polarizabilities in the region where $\chi$PT is expected to be valid. Our results include the first ever data for the transverse-longitudinal spin polarizability $\delta_{LT}$, and also extend the coverage of the polarizability $\bar{d_2}$ to very low $Q^2$ for the first time. These results were extracted from moments of the structure function $g_2$, a quantity which characterizes the internal spin structure of the proton. Our experiment ran at Jefferson Lab using a polarized electron beam and a polarized solid ammonia (NH$_3$) target. The $\delta_{LT}$ polarizability has remained a challenging quantity for $\chi$PT to reproduce, despite its reduced sensitivity to higher resonance contributions; recent competing calculations still disagree with each other and also diverge from the measured neutron data at very low $Q^2$. Our proton results provide discriminating power between existing calculations, and will help provide a better understanding of this strong QCD regime.

Published
2022

18. Determination of the argon spectral function from (e,e'p) data

Author

Jiang, L., Ankowski, A. M., Abrams, D., Gu, L., Aljawrneh, B., Alsalmi, S., Bane, J., Batz, A., Barcus, S., Barroso, M., Bellini, V., Benhar, O., Bericic, J., Biswas, D., Camsonne, A., Castellanos, J., Chen, J. -P., Christy, M. E., Craycraft, K., Cruz-Torres, R., Dai, H., Day, D., Dirican, A., Dusa, S. -C., Fuchey, E., Gautam, T., Giusti, C., Gomez, J., Gu, C., Hague, T. J., Hansen, J. -O., Hauenstein, F., Higinbotham, D. W., Hyde, C., Jerzyk, Z., Keppel, C., Li, S., Lindgren, R., Liu, H., Mariani, C., McClellan, R. E., Meekins, D., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Murphy, M., Nguyen, D., Nycz, M., Ou, L., Pandey, B., Pandey, V., Park, K., Perera, G., Puckett, A. J. R., Santiesteban, S. N., Širca, S., Su, T., Tang, L., Tian, Y., Ton, N., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wood, S., Ye, Z., and Zhang, J.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The E12-14-012 experiment, performed in Jefferson Lab Hall A, has measured the $(e, e'p)$ cross section in parallel kinematics using a natural argon target. Here, we report the full results of the analysis of the data set corresponding to beam energy 2.222 GeV, and spanning the missing momentum and missing energy range $15 \lesssim p_m \lesssim 300$ MeV/c and $12 \lesssim E_m \lesssim 80$ MeV. The reduced cross section, determined as a function of $p_m$ and $E_m$ with $\approx$4\% accuracy, has been fitted using the results of Monte Carlo simulations involving a model spectral function and including the effects of final state interactions. The overall agreement between data and simulations turns out to be quite satisfactory ($\chi^2$/n.d.o.f.=1.9). The resulting spectral function will provide valuable new information, needed for the interpretation of neutrino interactions in liquid argon detectors., Comment: Published version

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2022
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19. Revealing the short-range structure of the mirror nuclei 3H and 3He

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

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

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

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2022

20. Deeply virtual Compton scattering cross section at high Bjorken $x_B$

Author

Georges, F., Rashad, M. N. H., Stefanko, A., Dlamini, M., Karki, B., Ali, S. F., Lin, P-J., Ko, H-S, Israel, N., Adikaram, D., Ahmed, Z., Albataineh, H., Aljawrneh, B., Allada, K., Allison, S., Alsalmi, S., Androic, D., Aniol, K., Annand, J., Atac, H., Averett, T., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Bai, X., Bane, J., Barcus, S., Bartlett, K., Bellini, V., Beminiwattha, R., Bericic, J., Biswas, D., Brash, E., Bulumulla, D., Campbell, J., Camsonne, A., Carmignotto, M., Castellano, J., Chen, C., Chen, J-P., Chetry, T., Christy, M. E., Cisbani, E., Clary, B., Cohen, E., Compton, N., Cornejo, J. C., Dusa, S. Covrig, Crowe, B., Danagoulian, S., Danley, T., De Persio, F., Deconinck, W., Defurne, M., Desnault, C., Di, D., Duer, M., Duran, B., Ent, R., Fanelli, C., Franklin, G., Fuchey, E., Gal, C., Gaskell, D., Gautam, T., Glamazdin, O., Gnanvo, K., Gray, V. M., Gu, C., Hague, T., Hamad, G., Hamilton, D., Hamilton, K., Hansen, O., Hauenstein, F., Henry, W., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmstrom, T., Horn, T., Huang, Y., Huber, G. M., Hyde, C., Ibrahim, H., Jen, C-M., Jin, K., Jones, M., Kabir, A., Keppel, C., Khachatryan, V., King, P. M., Li, S., Li, W. B., Liu, J., Liu, H., Liyanage, A., Magee, J., Malace, S., Mammei, J., Markowitz, P., McClellan, E., Mazouz, M., Meddi, F., Meekins, D., Mesik, K., Michaels, R., Mkrtchyan, A., Montgomery, R., Camacho, C. Muñoz, Myers, L. S., Nadel-Turonski, P., Nazeer, S. J., Nelyubin, V., Nguyen, D., Nuruzzaman, N., Nycz, M., Obretch, O. F., Ou, L., Palatchi, C., Pandey, B., Park, S., Park, K., Peng, C., Pomatsalyuk, R., Pooser, E., Puckett, A. J. R., Punjabi, V., Quinn, B., Rahman, S., Reimer, P. E., Roche, J., Sapkota, I., Sarty, A., Sawatzky, B., Saylor, N. H., Schmookler, B., Shabestari, M. H., Shahinyan, A., Sirca, S., Smith, G. R., Sooriyaarachchilage, S., Sparveris, N., Spies, R., Su, T., Subedi, A., Sulkosky, V., Sun, A., Thorne, L., Tian, Y., Ton, N., Tortorici, F., Trotta, R., Urciuoli, G. M., Voutier, E., Waidyawansa, B., Wang, Y., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wood, S., Yan, X., Ye, L., Ye, Z., Yero, C., Zhang, J., Zhao, Y., and Zhu, P.

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

We report high-precision measurements of the Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering (DVCS) cross section at high values of the Bjorken variable $x_B$. DVCS is sensitive to the Generalized Parton Distributions of the nucleon, which provide a three-dimensional description of its internal constituents. Using the exact analytic expression of the DVCS cross section for all possible polarization states of the initial and final electron and nucleon, and final state photon, we present the first experimental extraction of all four helicity-conserving Compton Form Factors (CFFs) of the nucleon as a function of $x_B$, while systematically including helicity flip amplitudes. In particular, the high accuracy of the present data demonstrates sensitivity to some very poorly known CFFs.

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2022
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21. New Measurements of the Beam-Normal Single Spin Asymmetry in Elastic Electron Scattering Over a Range of Spin-0 Nuclei

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PREX, Collaborations, CREX, Adhikari, D., Albataineh, H., Androic, D., Aniol, K., Armstrong, D. S., Averett, T., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Barcus, S., Bellini, V., Beminiwattha, R. S., Benesch, J. F., Bhatt, H., Pathak, D. Bhatta, Bhetuwal, D., Blaikie, B., Boyd, J., Campagna, Q., Camsonne, A., Cates, G. D., Chen, Y., Clarke, C., Cornejo, J. C., Dusa, S. Covrig, Dalton, M. M., Datta, P., Deshpande, A., Dutta, D., Feldman, C., Fuchey, E., Gal, C., Gaskell, D., Gautam, T., Gericke, M., Ghosh, C., Halilovic, I., Hansen, J. -O., Hauenstein, F., Henry, W., Horowitz, C. J., Jantzi, C., Jian, S., Johnston, S., Jones, D. C., Karki, B., Kakkar, S., Katugampola, S., Keppel, C. E., King, P. M., King, D. E., Knauss, M., Kumar, K. S., Kutz, T., Lashley-Colthirst, N., Leverick, G., Liu, H., Liyange, N., Malace, S., Mammei, J., Mammei, R., McCaughan, M., McNulty, D., Meekins, D., Metts, C., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Mondal, M. M., Napolitano, J., Nikolaev, D., Rashad, M. N. H., Owen, V., Palatchi, C., Pan, J., Pandey, B., Park, S., Paschke, K. D., Petrusky, M., Pitt, M. L., Premathilake, S., Puckett, A. J. R., Quinn, B., Radloff, R., Rahman, S., Rathnayake, A., Reed, B. T., Reimer, P. E., Richards, R., Riordan, S., Roblin, Y., Seeds, S., Shahinyan, A., Souder, P. A., Tang, L., Thiel, M., Tian, Y., Urciuoli, G. M., Wertz, E. W., Wojtsekhowski, B., Xiong, W., Yale, B., Ye, T., Zec, A., Zhang, W., Zhang, J., and Zheng, X.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We report precision determinations of the beam normal single spin asymmetries ($A_n$) in the elastic scattering of 0.95 and 2.18~GeV electrons off $^{12}$C, $^{40}$Ca, $^{48}$Ca, and $^{208}$Pb at very forward angles where the most detailed theoretical calculations have been performed. The first measurements of $A_n$ for $^{40}$Ca and $^{48}$Ca are found to be similar to that of $^{12}$C, consistent with expectations thus demonstrating the validity of theoretical calculations for nuclei with Z~$\leq20$. We also report $A_n$ for $^{208}$Pb at two new momentum transfers (Q$^2$) extending the previous measurement. Our new data confirm the surprising result previously reported, with all three data points showing significant disagreement with the results from the $Z\leq 20$ nuclei. These data confirm our basic understanding of the underlying dynamics that govern $A_n$ for nuclei containing $\lesssim 50$ nucleons, but point to the need for further investigation to understand the unusual $A_n$ behaviour discovered for scattering off $^{208}$Pb., Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures

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2021
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22. Determination of the argon spectral function from (e,e′p) data

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Jiang, L, Ankowski, AM, Abrams, D, Gu, L, Aljawrneh, B, Alsalmi, S, Bane, J, Batz, A, Barcus, S, Barroso, M, Bellini, V, Benhar, O, Bericic, J, Biswas, D, Camsonne, A, Castellanos, J, Chen, J-P, Christy, ME, Craycraft, K, Cruz-Torres, R, Dai, H, Day, D, Dirican, A, Dusa, S-C, Fuchey, E, Gautam, T, Giusti, C, Gomez, J, Gu, C, Hague, TJ, Hansen, J-O, Hauenstein, F, Higinbotham, DW, Hyde, C, Jerzyk, Z, Keppel, C, Li, S, Lindgren, R, Liu, H, Mariani, C, McClellan, RE, Meekins, D, Michaels, R, Mihovilovic, M, Murphy, M, Nguyen, D, Nycz, M, Ou, L, Pandey, B, Pandey, V, Park, K, Perera, G, Puckett, AJR, Santiesteban, SN, Širca, S, Su, T, Tang, L, Tian, Y, Ton, N, Wojtsekhowski, B, Wood, S, Ye, Z, and Zhang, J

Subjects
Astronomical and Space Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics
Abstract

The E12-14-012 experiment, performed in Jefferson Lab Hall A, has measured the (e,e′p) cross section in parallel kinematics using a natural argon target. Here, we report the full results of the analysis of the data set corresponding to beam energy 2.222 GeV, and spanning the missing momentum and missing energy range 1 pm 300 MeV/c and 12 Em 80 MeV. The reduced cross section, determined as a function of pm and Em with ≈4% accuracy, has been fitted using the results of Monte Carlo simulations involving a model spectral function and including the effects of final state interactions. The overall agreement between data and simulations turns out to be quite satisfactory (χ2/d.o.f.=1.9). The resulting spectral function will provide valuable new information, needed for the interpretation of neutrino interactions in liquid argon detectors.

Published
2022

23. Probing for high-momentum protons in He4 via the He4(e,e′p)X reactions

Author

Iqbal, S, Benmokhtar, F, Ivanov, M, See, N, Aniol, K, Higinbotham, DW, Boyd, C, Gadsby, A, Goodwill, JS, Finton, D, Boyer, A, Gilad, S, Saha, A, Udias, JM, Ye, Z, Solvignon, P, Aguilera, P, Ahmed, Z, Albataineh, H, Allada, K, Anderson, B, Anez, D, Annand, J, Arrington, J, Averett, T, Baghdasaryan, H, Bai, X, Beck, A, Beck, S, Bellini, V, Camsonne, A, Chen, C, Chen, J-P, Chirapatpimol, K, Cisbani, E, Dalton, MM, Daniel, A, Day, D, Deconinck, W, Defurne, M, Flay, D, Fomin, N, Friend, M, Frullani, S, Fuchey, E, Garibaldi, F, Gaskell, D, Gilman, R, Glamazdin, S, Gu, C, Guèye, P, Hanretty, C, Hansen, J-O, Shabestari, M Hashemi, Huang, M, Jin, G, Kalantarians, N, Kang, H, Kelleher, A, Korover, I, LeRose, J, Leckey, J, Lindgren, R, Long, E, Mammei, J, Margaziotis, DJ, Markowitz, P, Meekins, D, Meziani, Z, Michaels, R, Mihovilovic, M, Muangma, N, Camacho, C Munoz, Norum, B, Nuruzzaman, Pan, K, Phillips, S, Piasetzky, E, Pomerantz, I, Posik, M, Punjabi, V, Qian, X, Qiang, Y, Qiu, X, Reimer, PE, Rakhman, A, Riordan, S, Ron, G, Rondon-Aramayo, O, Selvy, L, Shahinyan, A, Shneor, R, Sirca, S, Slifer, K, Sparveris, N, Subedi, R, Sulkosky, V, Wang, D, Watson, JW, and Weinstein, LB

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

Experimental cross sections for the He4(e,e′p)X reactions in the missing energy range from 0.017 to 0.022 GeV and up to a missing momentum of 0.632 GeV/c at xB=1.24 and Q2=2 (GeV/c)2 are reported. The data are compared to relativistic distorted-wave impulse approximation calculations for the He4(e,e′p)H3 channel. Significantly more events are observed for pm≥0.45 GeV/c than are predicted by the theoretical model, and striking fluctuations in the ratio of data to the theoretical model around pm=0.3GeV/c are possible signals of initial-state multinucleon correlations.

Published
2022

24. Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering Cross Section at High Bjorken x_{B}.

Author

Georges, F, Rashad, MNH, Stefanko, A, Dlamini, M, Karki, B, Ali, SF, Lin, P-J, Ko, H-S, Israel, N, Adikaram, D, Ahmed, Z, Albataineh, H, Aljawrneh, B, Allada, K, Allison, S, Alsalmi, S, Androic, D, Aniol, K, Annand, J, Atac, H, Averett, T, Ayerbe Gayoso, C, Bai, X, Bane, J, Barcus, S, Bartlett, K, Bellini, V, Beminiwattha, R, Bericic, J, Biswas, D, Brash, E, Bulumulla, D, Campbell, J, Camsonne, A, Carmignotto, M, Castellano, J, Chen, C, Chen, J-P, Chetry, T, Christy, ME, Cisbani, E, Clary, B, Cohen, E, Compton, N, Cornejo, JC, Covrig Dusa, S, Crowe, B, Danagoulian, S, Danley, T, De Persio, F, Deconinck, W, Defurne, M, Desnault, C, Di, D, Duer, M, Duran, B, Ent, R, Fanelli, C, Franklin, G, Fuchey, E, Gal, C, Gaskell, D, Gautam, T, Glamazdin, O, Gnanvo, K, Gray, VM, Gu, C, Hague, T, Hamad, G, Hamilton, D, Hamilton, K, Hansen, O, Hauenstein, F, Henry, W, Higinbotham, DW, Holmstrom, T, Horn, T, Huang, Y, Huber, GM, Hyde, CE, Ibrahim, H, Jen, C-M, Jin, K, Jones, M, Kabir, A, Keppel, C, Khachatryan, V, King, PM, Li, S, Li, WB, Liu, J, Liu, H, Liyanage, A, Magee, J, Malace, S, Mammei, J, Markowitz, P, McClellan, E, Mazouz, M, and Meddi, F

Subjects
Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, General Physics
Abstract

We report high-precision measurements of the deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS) cross section at high values of the Bjorken variable x_{B}. DVCS is sensitive to the generalized parton distributions of the nucleon, which provide a three-dimensional description of its internal constituents. Using the exact analytic expression of the DVCS cross section for all possible polarization states of the initial and final electron and nucleon, and final state photon, we present the first experimental extraction of all four helicity-conserving Compton form factors (CFFs) of the nucleon as a function of x_{B}, while systematically including helicity flip amplitudes. In particular, the high accuracy of the present data demonstrates sensitivity to some very poorly known CFFs.

Published
2022

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

Author

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

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

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

Published
2022

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

Author

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

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

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

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2021
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27. Deeply virtual Compton scattering off the neutron

Author

Benali, M., Desnault, C., Mazouz, M., Ahmed, Z., Albataineh, H., Allada, K., Aniol, K. A., Bellini, V., 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., 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., Jimenez-Arguello, A. Marti, Meddi, F., Meekins, D., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Muangma, N., Camacho, C. Munoz, Nadel-Turonski, P., Nuruzzaman, N., Paremuzyan, R., Pomatsalyuk, R., Puckett, A., Punjabi, V., Qiang, Y., Rakhman, A., Rashad, M. N. H., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Russo, G., Sabatie, 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 - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The three-dimensional structure of nucleons (protons and neutrons) is embedded in so-called generalized parton distributions, which are accessible from deeply virtual Compton scattering. In this process, a high energy electron is scattered off a nucleon by exchanging a virtual photon. Then, a highly-energetic real photon is emitted from one of the quarks inside the nucleon, which carries information on the quark's transverse position and longitudinal momentum. By measuring the cross-section of deeply virtual Compton scattering, Compton form factors related to the generalized parton distributions can be extracted. Here, we report the observation of unpolarized deeply virtual Compton scattering off a deuterium target. From the measured photon-electroproduction cross-sections, we have extracted the cross-section of a quasi-free neutron and a coherent deuteron. Due to the approximate isospin symmetry of quantum chromodynamics, we can determine the contributions from the different quark flavours to the helicity-conserved Compton form factors by combining our measurements with previous ones probing the proton's internal structure. These results advance our understanding of the description of the nucleon structure, which is important to solve the proton spin puzzle.

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

Author

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

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

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

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2022

29. Form Factors and Two-Photon Exchange in High-Energy Elastic Electron-Proton Scattering

Author

Christy, ME, Gautam, T, Ou, L, Schmookler, B, Wang, Y, Adikaram, D, Ahmed, Z, Albataineh, H, Ali, SF, Aljawrneh, B, Allada, K, Allison, SL, Alsalmi, S, Androic, D, Aniol, K, Annand, J, Arrington, J, Atac, H, Averett, T, Gayoso, C Ayerbe, Bai, X, Bane, J, Barcus, S, Bartlett, K, Bellini, V, Beminiwattha, R, Bericic, J, Bhatt, H, Bhetuwal, D, Biswas, D, Brash, E, Bulumulla, D, Camacho, CM, Campbell, J, Camsonne, A, Carmignotto, M, Castellanos, J, Chen, C, Chen, J-P, Chetry, T, Cisbani, E, Clary, B, Cohen, E, Compton, N, Cornejo, JC, Dusa, S Covrig, Crowe, B, Danagoulian, S, Danley, T, Deconinck, W, Defurne, M, Desnault, C, Di, D, Dlamini, M, Duer, M, Duran, B, Ent, R, Fanelli, C, Fuchey, E, Gal, C, Gaskell, D, Georges, F, Gilad, S, Glamazdin, O, Gnanvo, K, Gramolin, AV, Gray, VM, Gu, C, Habarakada, A, Hague, T, Hamad, G, Hamilton, D, Hamilton, K, Hansen, O, Hauenstein, F, Hernandez, AV, Henry, W, Higinbotham, DW, Holmstrom, T, Horn, T, Huang, Y, Huber, GM, Hyde, C, Ibrahim, H, Israel, N, Jen, C-M, Jin, K, Jones, M, Kabir, A, Karki, B, Keppel, C, Khachatryan, V, King, PM, Li, S, Li, W, Liu, H, Liu, J, Liyanage, AH, Mack, D, and Magee, J

Subjects
Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Engineering, General Physics, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Abstract

We present new precision measurements of the elastic electron-proton scattering cross section for momentum transfer (Q^{2}) up to 15.75  (GeV/c)^{2}. Combined with existing data, these provide an improved extraction of the proton magnetic form factor at high Q^{2} and double the range over which a longitudinal or transverse separation of the cross section can be performed. The difference between our results and polarization data agrees with that observed at lower Q^{2} and attributed to hard two-photon exchange (TPE) effects, extending to 8  (GeV/c)^{2} the range of Q^{2} for which a discrepancy is established at >95% confidence. We use the discrepancy to quantify the size of TPE contributions needed to explain the cross section at high Q^{2}.

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2022

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

Author

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

Subjects
Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences
Abstract

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

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2022

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

Author

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

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

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

Published
2021

32. Form Factors and Two-Photon Exchange in High-Energy Elastic Electron-Proton Scattering

Author

Christy, M. E., Gautam, T., Ou, L., Schmookler, B., Wang, Y., Adikaram, D., Ahmed, Z., Albataineh, H., Ali, S. F., Aljawrneh, B., Allada, K., Allison, S. L., Alsalmi, S., Androic, D., Aniol, K., Annand, J., Arrington, J., Atac, H., Averett, T., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Bai, X., Bane, J., Barcus, S., Bartlett, K., Bellini, V., Beminiwattha, R., Bericic, J., Bhatt, H., Bhetuwal, D., Biswas, D., Brash, E., Bulumulla, D., Camacho, C. M., Campbell, J., Camsonne, A., Carmignotto, M., Castellanos, J., Chen, C., Chen, J-P., Chetry, T., Cisbani, E., Clary, B., Cohen, E., Compton, N., Cornejo, J. C., Dusa, S. Covrig, Crowe, B., Danagoulian, S., Danley, T., Deconinck, W., Defurne, M., Desnault, C., Di, D., Dlamini, M., Duer, M., Duran, B., Ent, R., Fanelli, C., Fuchey, E., Gal, C., Gaskell, D., Georges, F., Gilad, S., Glamazdin, O., Gnanvo, K., Gramolin, A. V., Gray, V. M., Gu, C., Habarakada, A., Hague, T., Hamad, G., Hamilton, D., Hamilton, K., Hansen, O., Hauenstein, F., Hernandez, A. V., Henry, W., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmstrom, T., Horn, T., Huang, Y., Huber, G. M., Hyde, C., Ibrahim, H., Israel, N., Jen, C-M., Jin, K., Jones, M., Kabir, A., Karki, B., Keppel, C., Khachatryan, V., King, P. M., Li, S., Li, W., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liyanage, A. H., Mack, D., Magee, J., Malace, S., Mammei, J., Markowitz, P., Mayilyan, S., McClellan, E., Meddi, F., Meekins, D., Mesick, K., Michaels, R., Mkrtchyan, A., Moffit, B., Montgomery, R., Myers, L. S., Nadel-Turonski, P., Nazeer, S. J., Nelyubin, V., Nguyen, D., Nuruzzaman, N., Nycz, M., Obrecht, R. F., Ohanyan, K., Palatchi, C., Pandey, B., Park, K., Park, S., Peng, C., Persio, F. D., Pomatsalyuk, R., Pooser, E., Puckett, A. J. R., Punjabi, V., Quinn, B., Rahman, S., Rashad, M. N. H., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Sapkota, I., Sarty, A., Sawatzky, B., Saylor, N. H., Shabestari, M. H., Shahinyan, A., Sirca, S., Smith, G. R., Sooriyaarachchilage, S., Sparveris, N., Spies, R., Stefanko, A., Su, T., Subedi, A., Sulkosky, V., Sun, A., Tan, Y., Thorne, L., Ton, N., Tortorici, F., Trotta, R., Uniyal, R., Urciuoli, G. M., Voutier, E., Waidyawansa, B., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wood, S., Yan, X., Ye, L., Ye, Z. H., Yero, C., Zhang, J., Zhao, Y. X., and Zhu, P.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We present new precision measurements of the elastic electron-proton scattering cross section for momentum transfer (Q$^2$) up to 15.75~\gevsq. Combined with existing data, these provide an improved extraction of the proton magnetic form factor at high Q$^2$ and double the range over which a longitudinal/transverse separation of the cross section can be performed. The difference between our results and polarization data agrees with that observed at lower Q$^2$ and attributed to hard two-photon exchange (TPE) effects, extending to 8~(GeV/c)$^2$ the range of Q$^2$ for which a discrepancy is established at $>$95\% confidence. We use the discrepancy to quantify the size of TPE contributions needed to explain the cross section at high Q$^2$., Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures

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2021
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33. Accurate Determination of the Neutron Skin Thickness of $^{208}$Pb through Parity-Violation in Electron Scattering

Author

Adhikari, D., Albataineh, H., Androic, D., Aniol, K., Armstrong, D. S., Averett, T., Barcus, S., Bellini, V., Beminiwattha, R. S., Benesch, J. F., Bhatt, H., Pathak, D. Bhatta, Bhetuwal, D., Blaikie, B., Campagna, Q., Camsonne, A., Cates, G. D., Chen, Y., Clarke, C., Cornejo, J. C., Dusa, S. Covrig, Datta, P., Deshpande, A., Dutta, D., Feldman, C., Fuchey, E., Gal, C., Gaskell, D., Gautam, T., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Gericke, M., Ghosh, C., Halilovic, I., Hansen, J. -O., Hauenstein, F., Henry, W., Horowitz, C. J., Jantzi, C., Jian, S., Johnston, S., Jones, D. C., Karki, B., Katugampola, S., Keppel, C., King, P. M., King, D. E., Knauss, M., Kumar, K. S., Kutz, T., Lashley-Colthirst, N., Leverick, G., Liu, H., Liyange, N., Malace, S., Mammei, R., Mammei, J., McCaughan, M., McNulty, D., Meekins, D., Metts, C., Michaels, R., Mondal, M. M., Napolitano, J., Narayan, A., Nikolaev, D., Rashad, M. N. H., Owen, V., Palatchi, C., Pan, 14 J., Pandey, B., Park, S., Paschke, K. D., Petrusky, M., Pitt, M. L., Premathilake, S., Puckett, A. J. R., Quinn, B., Radloff, R., Rahman, S., Rathnayake, A., Reed, B. T., Reimer, P. E., Richards, R., Riordan, S., Roblin, Y., Seeds, S., Shahinyan, A., Souder, P., Tang, L., Thiel, 16 M., Tian, Y., Urciuoli, G. M., Wertz, E. W., Wojtsekhowski, B., Yale, B., Ye, T., Yoon, A., Zec, A., Zhang, W., Zhang, J., and Zheng, X.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We report a precision measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry $A_{PV}$ in the elastic scattering of longitudinally polarized electrons from $^{208}$Pb. We measure $A_{PV}=550\pm 16 {\rm (stat)}\pm 8\ {\rm (syst)}$ parts per billion, leading to an extraction of the neutral weak form factor $F_W(Q^2 = 0.00616\ {\rm GeV}^2) = 0.368 \pm 0.013$. Combined with our previous measurement, the extracted neutron skin thickness is $R_n-R_p=0.283 \pm 0.071$~fm. The result also yields the first significant direct measurement of the interior weak density of $^{208}$Pb: $\rho^0_W = -0.0796\pm0.0036\ {\rm (exp.)}\pm0.0013\ {\rm (theo.)}\ {\rm fm}^{-3}$ leading to the interior baryon density $\rho^0_b = 0.1480\pm0.0036\ {\rm (exp.)}\pm0.0013\ {\rm (theo.)}\ {\rm fm}^{-3}$. The measurement accurately constrains the density dependence of the symmetry energy of nuclear matter near saturation density, with implications for the size and composition of neutron stars.

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2021
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34. Measurement of the Ar(e,e$^\prime$ p) and Ti(e,e$^\prime$ p) cross sections in Jefferson Lab Hall A

Author

Gu, L., Abrams, D., Ankowski, A. M., Jiang, L., Aljawrneh, B., Alsalmi, S., Bane, J., Batz, A., Barcus, S., Barroso, M., Benhar, O., Bellini, V., Bericic, J., Biswas, D., Camsonne, A., Castellanos, J., Chen, J. -P., Christy, M. E., Craycraft, K., Cruz-Torres, R., Dai, H., Day, D., Dusa, S. -C., Fuchey, E., Gautam, T., Giusti, C., Gomez, J., Gu, C., Hague, T., Hansen, J. -O., Hauenstein, F., Higinbotham, D. W., Hyde, C., Keppel, C., Li, S., Lindgren, R., Liu, H., Mariani, C., McClellan, R. E., Meekins, D., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Murphy, M., Nguyen, D., Nycz, M., Ou, L., Pandey, B., Pandey, V., Park, K., Perera, G., Puckett, A. J. R., Santiesteban, S. N., Širca, S., Su, T., Tang, L., Tian, Y., Ton, N., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wood, S., Ye, Z., and Zhang, J.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

The E12-14-012 experiment, performed in Jefferson Lab Hall A, has collected exclusive electron-scattering data (e,e$^\prime$p) in parallel kinematics using natural argon and natural titanium targets. Here, we report the first results of the analysis of the data set corresponding to beam energy of 2,222 MeV, electron scattering angle 21.5 deg, and proton emission angle -50 deg. The differential cross sections, measured with $\sim$4% uncertainty, have been studied as a function of missing energy and missing momentum, and compared to the results of Monte Carlo simulations, obtained from a model based on the Distorted Wave Impulse Approximation., Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures (submitted to PRC)

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2020
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35. Deep exclusive electroproduction of $\pi^0$ at high $Q^2$ in the quark valence regime

Author

The Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration, Dlamini, M., Karki, B., Ali, S. F., Lin, P-J., Georges, F., Ko, H-S, Israel, N., Rashad, M. N. H., Stefanko, A., Adikaram, D., Ahmed, Z., Albataineh, H., Aljawrneh, B., Allada, K., Allison, S., Alsalmi, S., Androic, D., Aniol, K., Annand, J., Atac, H., Averett, T., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Bai, X., Bane, J., Barcus, S., Bartlett, K., Bellini, V., Beminiwattha, R., Bericic, J., Biswas, D., Brash, E., Bulumulla, D., Campbell, J., Camsonne, A., Carmignotto, M., Castellano, J., Chen, C., Chen, J-P., Chetry, T., Christy, M. E., Cisbani, E., Clary, B., Cohen, E., Compton, N., Cornejo, J. C., Dusa, S. Covrig, Crowe, B., Danagoulian, S., Danley, T., De Persio, F., Deconinck, W., Defurne, M., Desnault, C., Di, D., Duer, M., Duran, B., Ent, R., Fanelli, C., Franklin, G., Fuchey, E., Gal, C., Gaskell, D., Gautam, T., Glamazdin, O., Gnanvo, K., Gray, V. M., Gu, C., Hague, T., Hamad, G., Hamilton, D., Hamilton, K., Hansen, O., Hauenstein, F., Henry, W., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmstrom, T., Horn, T., Huang, Y., Huber, G. M., Hyde, C., Ibrahim, H., Jen, C-M., Jin, K., Jones, M., Kabir, A., Keppel, C., Khachatryan, V., King, P. M., Li, S., Li, W., Liu, J., Liu, H., Liyanage, A., Magee, J., Malace, S., Mammei, J., Markowitz, P., McClellan, E., Meddi, F., Meekins, D., Mesik, K., Michaels, R., Mkrtchyan, A., Montgomery, R., Camacho, C. Munoz, Myers, L. S., Nadel-Turonski, P., Nazeer, S. J., Nelyubin, V., Nguyen, D., Nuruzzaman, N., Nycz, M., Obretch, O. F., Ou, L., Palatchi, C., Pandey, B., Park, S., Park, K., Peng, C., Pomatsalyuk, R., Pooser, E., Puckett, A. J. R., Punjabi, V., Quinn, B., Rahman, S., Reimer, P. E., Roche, J., Sapkota, I., Sarty, A., Sawatzky, B., Saylor, N. H., Schmookler, B., Shabestari, M. H., Shahinyan, A., Sirca, S., Smith, G. R., Sooriyaarachchilage, S., Sparveris, N., Spies, R., Su, T., Subedi, A., Sulkosky, V., Sun, A., Thorne, L., Tian, Y., Ton, N., Tortorici, F., Trotta, R., Urciuoli, G. M., Voutier, E., Waidyawansa, B., Wang, Y., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wood, S., Yan, X., Ye, L., Ye, Z., Yero, C., Zhang, J., Zhao, Y., and Zhu, P.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We report measurements of the exclusive neutral pion electroproduction cross section off protons at large values of $x_B$ (0.36, 0.48 and 0.60) and $Q^2$ (3.1 to 8.4 GeV$^2$) obtained from Jefferson Lab Hall A experiment E12-06-014. The corresponding structure functions $d\sigma_L/dt+\epsilon d\sigma_T/dt$, $d\sigma_{TT}/dt$, $d\sigma_{LT}/dt$ and $d\sigma_{LT'}/dt$ are extracted as a function of the proton momentum transfer $t-t_{min}$. The results suggest the amplitude for transversely polarized virtual photons continues to dominate the cross-section throughout this kinematic range. The data are well described by calculations based on transversity Generalized Parton Distributions coupled to a helicity flip Distribution Amplitude of the pion, thus providing a unique way to probe the structure of the nucleon.

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2020
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36. Ruling out color transparency in quasi-elastic $^{12}$C(e,e'p) up to $Q^2$ of 14.2 (GeV/c)$^2$

Author

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

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

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

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2020
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37. Deep Exclusive Electroproduction of π0 at High Q2 in the Quark Valence Regime

Author

Dlamini, M, Karki, B, Ali, SF, Lin, P-J, Georges, F, Ko, H-S, Israel, N, Rashad, MNH, Stefanko, A, Adikaram, D, Ahmed, Z, Albataineh, H, Aljawrneh, B, Allada, K, Allison, S, Alsalmi, S, Androic, D, Aniol, K, Annand, J, Atac, H, Averett, T, Ayerbe Gayoso, C, Bai, X, Bane, J, Barcus, S, Bartlett, K, Bellini, V, Beminiwattha, R, Bericic, J, Biswas, D, Brash, E, Bulumulla, D, Campbell, J, Camsonne, A, Carmignotto, M, Castellano, J, Chen, C, Chen, J-P, Chetry, T, Christy, ME, Cisbani, E, Clary, B, Cohen, E, Compton, N, Cornejo, JC, Covrig Dusa, S, Crowe, B, Danagoulian, S, Danley, T, De Persio, F, Deconinck, W, Defurne, M, Desnault, C, Di, D, Duer, M, Duran, B, Ent, R, Fanelli, C, Franklin, G, Fuchey, E, Gal, C, Gaskell, D, Gautam, T, Glamazdin, O, Gnanvo, K, Gray, VM, Gu, C, Hague, T, Hamad, G, Hamilton, D, Hamilton, K, Hansen, O, Hauenstein, F, Henry, W, Higinbotham, DW, Holmstrom, T, Horn, T, Huang, Y, Huber, GM, Hyde, C, Ibrahim, H, Jen, C-M, Jin, K, Jones, M, Kabir, A, Keppel, C, Khachatryan, V, King, PM, Li, S, Li, W, Liu, J, Liu, H, Liyanage, A, Magee, J, Malace, S, Mammei, J, Markowitz, P, McClellan, E, Meddi, F, and Meekins, D

Subjects
Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, General Physics
Abstract

We report measurements of the exclusive neutral pion electroproduction cross section off protons at large values of x_{B} (0.36, 0.48, and 0.60) and Q^{2} (3.1 to 8.4  GeV^{2}) obtained from Jefferson Lab Hall A experiment E12-06-014. The corresponding structure functions dσ_{T}/dt+εdσ_{L}/dt, dσ_{TT}/dt, dσ_{LT}/dt, and dσ_{LT^{'}}/dt are extracted as a function of the proton momentum transfer t-t_{min}. The results suggest the amplitude for transversely polarized virtual photons continues to dominate the cross section throughout this kinematic range. The data are well described by calculations based on transversity generalized parton distributions coupled to a helicity flip distribution amplitude of the pion, thus providing a unique way to probe the structure of the nucleon.

Published
2021

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

Author

Accardi, A, Afanasev, A, Albayrak, I, Ali, SF, Amaryan, M, Annand, JRM, Arrington, J, Asaturyan, A, Atac, H, Avakian, H, Averett, T, Gayoso, C Ayerbe, Bai, X, Barion, L, Battaglieri, M, Bellini, V, Beminiwattha, R, Benmokhtar, F, Berdnikov, VV, Bernauer, JC, Bertone, V, Bianconi, A, Biselli, A, Bisio, P, Blunden, P, Boer, M, Bondì, M, Brinkmann, K-T, Briscoe, WJ, Burkert, V, Cao, T, Camsonne, A, Capobianco, R, Cardman, L, Carmignotto, M, Caudron, M, Causse, L, Celentano, A, Chatagnon, P, Chen, J-P, Chetry, T, Ciullo, G, Cline, E, Cole, PL, Contalbrigo, M, Costantini, G, D’Angelo, A, Darmé, L, Day, D, Defurne, M, De Napoli, M, Deur, A, De Vita, R, D’Hose, N, Diehl, S, Diefenthaler, M, Dongwi, B, Dupré, R, Dutrieux, H, Dutta, D, Ehrhart, M, El Fassi, L, Elouadrhiri, L, Ent, R, Erler, J, Fernando, IP, Filippi, A, Flay, D, Forest, T, Fuchey, E, Fucini, S, Furletova, Y, Gao, H, Gaskell, D, Gasparian, A, Gautam, T, Girod, F-X, Gnanvo, K, Grames, J, Grauvogel, GN, Gueye, P, Guidal, M, Habet, S, Hague, TJ, Hamilton, DJ, Hansen, O, Hasell, D, Hattawy, M, Higinbotham, DW, Hobart, A, Horn, T, Hyde, CE, Ibrahim, H, Ilyichev, A, Italiano, A, Joo, K, Joosten, SJ, Khachatryan, V, Kalantarians, N, and Kalicy, G

Subjects
Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle and High Energy Physics, Synchrotrons and Accelerators, Physical Sciences, Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Nuclear and plasma physics, Particle and high energy physics, Synchrotrons and accelerators
Abstract

Positron beams, both polarized and unpolarized, are identified as important ingredients for the experimental programs at the next generation of lepton accelerators. In the context of the hadronic physics program at Jefferson Lab (JLab), positron beams are complementary, even essential, tools for a precise understanding of the electromagnetic structure of nucleons and nuclei, in both the elastic and deep-inelastic regimes. For instance, elastic scattering of polarized and unpolarized electrons and positrons from the nucleon enables a model independent determination of its electromagnetic form factors. Also, the deeply-virtual scattering of polarized and unpolarized electrons and positrons allows unambiguous separation of the different contributions to the cross section of the lepto-production of photons and of lepton-pairs, enabling an accurate determination of the nucleons and nuclei generalized parton distributions, and providing an access to the gravitational form factors of the energy-momentum tensor. Furthermore, positron beams offer the possibility of alternative tests of the Standard Model of particle physics through the search of a dark photon, the precise measurement of electroweak couplings, and the investigation of charged lepton flavor violation. This document discusses the perspectives of an experimental program with high duty-cycle positron beams at JLab.

Published
2021

39. Determining the gluonic gravitational form factors of the proton

Author

Duran, B., Meziani, Z.-E., Joosten, S., Jones, M. K., Prasad, S., Peng, C., Armstrong, W., Atac, H., Chudakov, E., Bhatt, H., Bhetuwal, D., Boer, M., Camsonne, A., Chen, J.-P., Dalton, M. M., Deokar, N., Diefenthaler, M., Dunne, J., El Fassi, L., Fuchey, E., Gao, H., Gaskell, D., Hansen, O., Hauenstein, F., Higinbotham, D., Jia, S., Karki, A., Keppel, C., King, P., Ko, H. S., Li, X., Li, R., Mack, D., Malace, S., McCaughan, M., McClellan, R. E., Michaels, R., Meekins, D., Paolone, Michael, Pentchev, L., Pooser, E., Puckett, A., Radloff, R., Rehfuss, M., Reimer, P. E., Riordan, S., Sawatzky, B., Smith, A., Sparveris, N., Szumila-Vance, H., Wood, S., Xie, J., Ye, Z., Yero, C., and Zhao, Z.

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2023
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40. Backward-angle Exclusive pi0 Production above the Resonance Region

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Li, W. B., Huber, G. M., Stevens, J. R., Semenov-Tian-Shansky, K., Szymanowski, L., Pire, B., Amaryan, M., Androic, D., Aniol, K., Armstrong, D., Averett, T., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Boeglin, W., Boer, M., Camsonne, A., Chen, J., Dusa, S. Covrig, Deconinck, W., Defurne, M., Delcarro, F., Diefenthaler, M., Diehl, S., Elaasar, M., Fanelli, C., Fegan, S., Fuchey, E., Gaskell, D., Hansen, O., Hauenstein, F., Higinbotham, D., Blin, A. Hiller, Hurley, A., Hyde, C., Joo, K., Junaid, M., Kalantarians, N., Kay, S., Khachatryan, M., King, P., Kumar, V., Lersch, D., Lorenti, L., Markowitz, P., McCaughan, M., Mkrtchyan, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, I., Papandreou, Z., Paremuzyan, R., Park, K., Paudyal, D., Roche, J., Rodas, A., Sawatzky, B., Schertz, A., Smith, G., Strakovsky, I., Tadevosyan, V., Usman, A., Voskanyan, H., and Yero, C.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The proposed measurement is a dedicated study of the exclusive electroproduction process,1H(e,e'p)pi0, in the backward-angle regime (u-channel process) above the resonance region. The produced pi0 is emitted 180 degrees opposite to the virtual-photon momentum. This study also aims to apply the well-known Rosenbluth separation technique that provides the model-independent differential cross-sections at the never explored u-channel kinematics region. Currently, the "soft-hard transition" in u-channel meson production remains an interesting and unexplored subject. The available theoretical frameworks offer competing interpretations for the observed backward-angle cross section peaks. In a "soft" hadronic Regge exchange description, the backward meson production comes from the interference between nucleon exchange and the meson produced via re-scattering within the nucleon. Whereas in the "hard" GPD-like backward collinear factorization regime, the scattering amplitude factorizes into a hard subprocess amplitude and baryon to meson transition distribution amplitudes (TDAs), otherwise known as super skewed parton distributions (SuperSPDs). Both TDAs and SPDs are universal non-perturbative objects of nucleon structure accessible only through backward-angle kinematics. The separated cross sections:sigma_T,sigma_L and T/L ratio at Q2=2-6 GeV2, provide a direct test of two predictions from the TDA model. The magnitude and u-dependence of the separated cross sections also provide a direct connection to the re-scattering Regge picture. The extracted interaction radius (from u-dependence) at different Q2 can be used to study the soft-hard transition in the u-channel kinematics. The acquisition of these data will be an important step forward in validating the existence of a backward factorization scheme of the nucleon structure function and establishing its applicable kinematic range.

Published
2020

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

Author

Accardi, A., Afanasev, A., Albayrak, I., Ali, S. F., Amaryan, M., Annand, J. R. M., Arrington, J., Asaturyan, A., Atac, H., Avakian, H., Averett, T., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Bai, X., Barion, L., Battaglieri, M., Bellini, V., Beminiwattha, R., Benmokhtar, F., Berdnikov, V. V., Bernauer, J. C., Bertone, V., Bianconi, A., Biselli, A., Bisio, P., Blunden, P., Boer, M., Bondì, M., Brinkmann, K. -T., Briscoe, W. J., Burkert, V., Cao, T., Camsonne, A., Capobianco, R., Cardman, L., Carmignotto, M., Caudron, M., Causse, L., Celentano, A., Chatagnon, P., Chen, J. -P., Chetry, T., Ciullo, G., Cline, E., Cole, P. L., Contalbrigo, M., Costantini, G., D'Angelo, A., Darmé, L., Day, D., Defurne, M., De Napoli, M., Deur, A., De Vita, R., D'Hose, N., Diehl, S., Diefenthaler, M., Dongwi, B., Dupré, R., Dutrieux, H., Dutta, D., Ehrhart, M., Fassi, L. El, Elouadrhiri, L., Ent, R., Erler, J., Fernando, I. P., Filippi, A., Flay, D., Forest, T., Fuchey, E., Fucini, S., Furletova, Y., Gao, H., Gaskell, D., Gasparian, A., Gautam, T., Girod, F. -X., Gnanvo, K., Grames, J., Grauvoge, G. N., Gueye, P., Guidal, M., Habet, S., Hague, T. J., Hamilton, D. J., Hansen, O., Hasell, D., Hattawy, M., Higinbotham, D. W., Hobart, A., Horn, T., Hyde, C. E., Ibrahim, H., Ilyichev, A., Italiano, A., Joo, K., Joosten, S. J., Khachatryan, V., Kalantarians, N., Kalicy, G., Karky, B., Keller, D., Keppel, C., Kerver, M., Khandaker, M., Kim, A., Kim, J., King, P. M., Kinney, E., Klimenko, V., Ko, H. -S., Kohl, M., Kozhuharov, V., Kriesten, B. T., Krnjaic, G., Kubarovsky, V., Kutz, T., Lanza, L., Leali, M., Lenisa, P., Liyanage, N., Liu, Q., Liuti, S., Mammei, J., Mantry, S., Marchand, D., Markowitz, P., Marsicano, L., Mascagna, V., Mazouz, M., McCaughan, M., McKinnon, B., McNulty, D., Melnitchouk, W., Metz, A., Meziani, Z. -E., Migliorati, S., Mihovilovic, M., Milner, R., Mkrtchyan, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Movsisyan, A., Moutarde, H., Muhoza, M., Camacho, C. Muñoz, Murphy, J., Nadel-Turonski, P., Nardi, E., Nazeer, J., Niccolai, S., Niculescu, G., Novotny, R., Owens, J. F., Paolone, M., Pappalardo, L., Paremuzyan, R., Pasquini, B., Pasyuk, E., Patel, T., Pegg, I., Peng, C., Perera, D., Poelker, M., Price, K., Puckett, A. J. R., Raggi, M., Randazzo, N., Rashad, M. N. H., Rathnayake, M., Raue, B., Reimer, P. E., Rinaldi, M., Rizzo, A., Roblin, Y., Roche, J., Rondon-Aramayo, O., Sabatié, F., Salmè, G., Santopinto, E., Estrada, R. Santos, Sawatzky, B., Schmidt, A., Schweitzer, P., Scopetta, S., Sergeyeva, V., Shabestari, M., Shahinyan, A., Sharabian, Y., Širca, S., Smith, E. S., Sokhan, D., Somov, A., Sparveris, N., Spata, M., Spiesberger, H., Spreafico, M., Stepanyan, S., Stoler, P., Strakovsky, I., Suleiman, R., Suresh, M., Sznajder, P., Szumila-Vance, H., Tadevosyan, V., Tadepalli, A. S., Thomas, A. W., Tiefenback, M., Trotta, R., Ungaro, M., Valente, P., Vanderhaeghen, M., Venturelli, L., Voskanyan, H., Voutier, E., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wood, M. H., Wood, S., Xie, J., Xiong, W., Ye, Z., Yurov, M., Zaunick, H. -G., Zhamkochyan, S., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhao, S., Zhao, Z. W., Zheng, X., Zhou, J., and Zorn, C.

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

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

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2020
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42. Novel observation of isospin structure of short-range correlations in calcium isotopes

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Nguyen, D., Ye, Z., Aguilera, P., Ahmed, Z., Albataineh, H., Allada, K., Anderson, B., Anez, D., Aniol, K., Annand, J., Arrington, J., Averett, T., Baghdasaryan, H., Bai, X., Beck, A., Beck, S., Bellini, V., Benmokhtar, F., Camsonne, A., Chen, C., Chen, J. -P., Chirapatpimol, K., Cisbani, E., Dalton, M. M., Daniel, A., Day, D., Deconinck, W., Defurne, M., Flay, D., Fomin, N., Friend, M., Frullani, S., Fuchey, E., Garibaldi, F., Gaskell, D., Gilad, S., Gilman, R., Glamazdin, S., Gu, C., Guèye, P., Hanretty, C., Hansen, J. -O., Shabestari, M. Hashemi, Higinbotham, D. W., Huang, M., Iqbal, S., Jin, G., Kalantarians, N., Kang, H., her, A. Kelle, Korover, I., LeRose, J., Leckey, J., Li, S., Lindgren, R., Long, E., Mammei, J., Margaziotis, D. J., Markowitz, P., Meekins, D., Meziani, Z. -E., Michaels, R., Mihovilovi\v, M., Muangma, N., Camacho, C. Munoz, Norum, B. E., Nuruzzaman, Pan, K., Phillips, S., Piasetzky, E., Pomerantz, I., Posik, M., Punjabi, V., Qian, X., Qiang, Y., Qiu, X., Reimer, P. E., Rakhman, A., Riordan, S., Ron, G., Rondon-Aramayo, O., Saha, A., Selvy, L., Shahinyan, A., Shneor, R., \v, S., Slifer, K., Solvignon, P., Sparveris, N., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Wang, D., Watson, J. W., Weinstein, L. B., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wood, S. A., Yaron, I., Zhan, X., Zhang, J., Zhang, Y. W., Zhao, B., Zheng, X., Zhu, P., and Zielinski, R.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Short Range Correlations (SRCs) have been identified as being responsible for the high momentum tail of the nucleon momentum distribution, n(k). Hard, short-range interactions of nucleon pairs generate the high momentum tail and imprint a universal character on n(k) for all nuclei at large momentum. Triple coincidence experiments have shown a strong dominance of np pairs, but these measurements involve large final state interactions. This paper presents the results from Jefferson Lab experiment E08014 which measured inclusive electron scattering cross-section from Ca isotopes. By comparing the inclusive cross section from 48Ca to 40Ca in a kinematic region dominated by SRCs we provide a new way to study the isospin structure of SRCs., Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures

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2020
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43. Probing few-body nuclear dynamics via 3H and 3He (e,e'p)pn cross-section measurements

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

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

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

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

Author

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

Subjects
hep-ex
Abstract

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

Published
2021

45. Form Factors and Two-Photon Exchange in High-Energy Elastic Electron-Proton Scattering

Author

Christy, ME, Gautam, T, Ou, L, Schmookler, B, Wang, Y, Adikaram, D, Ahmed, Z, Albataineh, H, Ali, SF, Aljawrneh, B, Allada, K, Allison, SL, Alsalmi, S, Androic, D, Aniol, K, Annand, J, Arrington, J, Atac, H, Averett, T, Gayoso, C Ayerbe, Bai, X, Bane, J, Barcus, S, Bartlett, K, Bellini, V, Beminiwattha, R, Bericic, J, Bhatt, H, Bhetuwal, D, Biswas, D, Brash, E, Bulumulla, D, Camacho, CM, Campbell, J, Camsonne, A, Carmignotto, M, Castellanos, J, Chen, C, Chen, J-P, Chetry, T, Cisbani, E, Clary, B, Cohen, E, Compton, N, Cornejo, JC, Dusa, S Covrig, Crowe, B, Danagoulian, S, Danley, T, Deconinck, W, Defurne, M, Desnault, C, Di, D, Dlamini, M, Duer, M, Duran, B, Ent, R, Fanelli, C, Fuchey, E, Gal, C, Gaskell, D, Georges, F, Gilad, S, Glamazdin, O, Gnanvo, K, Gramolin, AV, Gray, VM, Gu, C, Habarakada, A, Hague, T, Hamad, G, Hamilton, D, Hamilton, K, Hansen, O, Hauenstein, F, Hernandez, AV, Henry, W, Higinbotham, DW, Holmstrom, T, Horn, T, Huang, Y, Huber, GM, Hyde, C, Ibrahim, H, Israel, N, Jen, C-M, Jin, K, Jones, M, Kabir, A, Karki, B, Keppel, C, Khachatryan, V, King, PM, Li, S, Li, W, Liu, H, Liu, J, Liyanage, AH, Mack, D, and Magee, J

Subjects
nucl-ex, hep-ex
Abstract

We present new precision measurements of the elastic electron-protonscattering cross section for momentum transfer (Q$^2$) up to 15.75~\gevsq.Combined with existing data, these provide an improved extraction of the protonmagnetic form factor at high Q$^2$ and double the range over which alongitudinal/transverse separation of the cross section can be performed. Thedifference between our results and polarization data agrees with that observedat lower Q$^2$ and attributed to hard two-photon exchange (TPE) effects,extending to 8~(GeV/c)$^2$ the range of Q$^2$ for which a discrepancy isestablished at $>$95\% confidence. We use the discrepancy to quantify the sizeof TPE contributions needed to explain the cross section at high Q$^2$.

Published
2021

46. Measurement of the Ar(e,e′p) and Ti(e,e′p) cross sections in Jefferson Lab Hall A

Author

Gu, L, Abrams, D, Ankowski, AM, Jiang, L, Aljawrneh, B, Alsalmi, S, Bane, J, Batz, A, Barcus, S, Barroso, M, Benhar, O, Bellini, V, Bericic, J, Biswas, D, Camsonne, A, Castellanos, J, Chen, J-P, Christy, ME, Craycraft, K, Cruz-Torres, R, Dai, H, 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, Keppel, C, Li, S, Lindgren, R, Liu, H, Mariani, C, McClellan, RE, Meekins, D, Michaels, R, Mihovilovic, M, Murphy, M, Nguyen, D, Nycz, M, Ou, L, Pandey, B, Pandey, V, Park, K, Perera, G, Puckett, AJR, Santiesteban, SN, Širca, S, Su, T, Tang, L, Tian, Y, Ton, N, Wojtsekhowski, B, Wood, S, Ye, Z, and Zhang, J

Subjects
Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Synchrotrons and Accelerators, Physical Sciences, nucl-ex, nucl-th, Nuclear and plasma physics
Abstract

The E12-14-012 experiment, performed in Jefferson Lab Hall A, has collected exclusive electron-scattering data (e,e′p) in parallel kinematics using natural argon and natural titanium targets. Here we report the first results of the analysis of the data set corresponding to beam energy 2222 GeV, electron scattering angle 21.5∘, and proton emission angle -50∘. The differential cross sections, measured with ≈4% uncertainty, have been studied as a function of missing energy and missing momentum, and compared to the results of Monte Carlo simulations, obtained from a model based on the distorted-wave impulse approximation.

Published
2021

47. Novel observation of isospin structure of short-range correlations in calcium isotopes

Author

Nguyen, D, Ye, Z, Aguilera, P, Ahmed, Z, Albataineh, H, Allada, K, Anderson, B, Anez, D, Aniol, K, Annand, J, Arrington, J, Averett, T, Baghdasaryan, H, Bai, X, Beck, A, Beck, S, Bellini, V, Benmokhtar, F, Camsonne, A, Chen, C, Chen, JP, Chirapatpimol, K, Cisbani, E, Dalton, MM, Daniel, A, Day, D, Deconinck, W, Defurne, M, Flay, D, Fomin, N, Friend, M, Frullani, S, Fuchey, E, Garibaldi, F, Gaskell, D, Gilad, S, Gilman, R, Glamazdin, S, Gu, C, Guèye, P, Hanretty, C, Hansen, JO, Shabestari, MH, Higinbotham, DW, Huang, M, Iqbal, S, Jin, G, Kalantarians, N, Kang, H, Kelleher, A, Korover, I, Lerose, J, Leckey, J, Li, S, Lindgren, R, Long, E, Mammei, J, Margaziotis, DJ, Markowitz, P, Meekins, D, Meziani, ZE, Michaels, R, Mihovilovic, M, Muangma, N, Camacho, CM, Norum, BE, Nuruzzaman, Pan, K, Phillips, S, Piasetzky, E, Pomerantz, I, Posik, M, Punjabi, V, Qian, X, Qiang, Y, Qiu, X, Reimer, PE, Rakhman, A, Riordan, S, Ron, G, Rondon-Aramayo, O, Saha, A, Selvy, L, Shahinyan, A, Shneor, R, Širca, S, Slifer, K, Solvignon, P, Sparveris, N, Subedi, R, Sulkosky, V, Wang, D, Watson, JW, Weinstein, LB, Wojtsekhowski, B, Wood, SA, Yaron, I, Zhan, X, Zhang, J, and Zhang, YW

Subjects
nucl-ex
Abstract

Short-range correlations (SRCs) have been identified as being responsible for the high-momentum tail of the nucleon momentum distribution, n(k). Hard, short-range interactions of nucleon pairs generate the high-momentum tail and imprint a universal character on n(k) for all nuclei at large momentum. Triple coincidence experiments have shown a strong dominance of np pairs, but these measurements involve large final-state interactions. This paper presents the results from Jefferson Lab experiment E08014 which measured inclusive electron scattering cross section from Ca isotopes. By comparing the inclusive cross section from Ca48 to Ca40 in a kinematic region dominated by SRCs we provide a new way to study the isospin structure of SRCs.

Published
2020

48. Deep exclusive electroproduction of $π^0$ at high $Q^2$ in the quark valence regime

Author

Collaboration, The Jefferson Lab Hall A, Dlamini, M, Karki, B, Ali, SF, Lin, P-J, Georges, F, Ko, H-S, Israel, N, Rashad, MNH, Stefanko, A, Adikaram, D, Ahmed, Z, Albataineh, H, Aljawrneh, B, Allada, K, Allison, S, Alsalmi, S, Androic, D, Aniol, K, Annand, J, Atac, H, Averett, T, Gayoso, C Ayerbe, Bai, X, Bane, J, Barcus, S, Bartlett, K, Bellini, V, Beminiwattha, R, Bericic, J, Biswas, D, Brash, E, Bulumulla, D, Campbell, J, Camsonne, A, Carmignotto, M, Castellano, J, Chen, C, Chen, J-P, Chetry, T, Christy, ME, Cisbani, E, Clary, B, Cohen, E, Compton, N, Cornejo, JC, Dusa, S Covrig, Crowe, B, Danagoulian, S, Danley, T, Persio, F De, Deconinck, W, Defurne, M, Desnault, C, Di, D, Duer, M, Duran, B, Ent, R, Fanelli, C, Franklin, G, Fuchey, E, Gal, C, Gaskell, D, Gautam, T, Glamazdin, O, Gnanvo, K, Gray, VM, Gu, C, Hague, T, Hamad, G, Hamilton, D, Hamilton, K, Hansen, O, Hauenstein, F, Henry, W, Higinbotham, DW, Holmstrom, T, Horn, T, Huang, Y, Huber, GM, Hyde, C, Ibrahim, H, Jen, C-M, Jin, K, Jones, M, Kabir, A, Keppel, C, Khachatryan, V, King, PM, Li, S, Li, W, Liu, J, Liu, H, Liyanage, A, Magee, J, Malace, S, Mammei, J, Markowitz, P, McClellan, E, and Meddi, F

Subjects
hep-ex, nucl-ex
Abstract

We report measurements of the exclusive neutral pion electroproduction crosssection off protons at large values of $x_B$ (0.36, 0.48 and 0.60) and $Q^2$(3.1 to 8.4 GeV$^2$) obtained from Jefferson Lab Hall A experiment E12-06-014.The corresponding structure functions $d\sigma_L/dt+\epsilon d\sigma_T/dt$,$d\sigma_{TT}/dt$, $d\sigma_{LT}/dt$ and $d\sigma_{LT'}/dt$ are extracted as afunction of the proton momentum transfer $t-t_{min}$. The results suggest theamplitude for transversely polarized virtual photons continues to dominate thecross-section throughout this kinematic range. The data are well described bycalculations based on transversity Generalized Parton Distributions coupled toa helicity flip Distribution Amplitude of the pion, thus providing a unique wayto probe the structure of the nucleon.

Published
2020

49. Measurement of the cross sections for inclusive electron scattering in the E12-14-012 experiment at Jefferson Lab

Author

Murphy, M., Dai, H., Gu, L., Abrams, D., Ankowski, A. M., Aljawrneh, B., Alsalmi, S., Bane, J., Barcus, S., Benhar, O., Bellini, V., Bericic, J., Biswas, D., Camsonne, A., Castellanos, J., Chen, J. -P., Christy, M. E., 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, D. W., Hyde, C., Jen, C. M., Keppel, C., Li, S., Lindgren, R., Liu, H., Mariani, C., McClellan, R. E., Meekins, D., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Nguyen, D., Nycz, M., Ou, L., Pandey, B., Pandey, V., Park, K., Perera, G., Puckett, A. J. R., Santiesteban, S. N., Širca, S., Su, T., Tang, L., Tian, Y., Ton, N., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wood, S., Ye, Z., and Zhang, J.

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

The E12-14-012 experiment performed at Jefferson Lab Hall A has collected inclusive electron-scattering data for different targets at the kinematics corresponding to beam energy 2.222 GeV and scattering angle 15.54 deg. Here we present a comprehensive analysis of the collected data and compare the double-differential cross sections for inclusive scattering of electrons, extracted using solid targets (aluminum, carbon, and titanium) and a closed argon-gas cell. The data extend over broad range of energy transfer, where quasielastic interaction, Delta-resonance excitation, and inelastic scattering yield contributions to the cross section. The double-differential cross sections are reported with high precision (~3%) for all targets over the covered kinematic range., Comment: 11 pages, 10 figures

Published
2019
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50. Probing for high momentum protons in $^4$He via the $^4He(e,e'p)X$ reaction

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Iqbal, S., Benmokhtar, F., Ivanov, M., See, N., Aniol, K., Higinbotham, D. W., Boyd, C., Gadsby, A., Gilad, S., Saha, A., Udias, J. M., Goodwill, J. S., Finton, D., Boyer, A., Ye, Z., Solvignon, P., Aguilera, P., Ahmed, Z., Albataineh, H., Allada, K., Anderson, B., Anez, D., Annand, J., Arrington, J., Averett, T., Baghdasaryan, H., Bai, X., Beck, A., Beck, S., Bellini, V., Camsonne, A., Chen, C., Chen, J. -P., Chirapatpimol, K., Cisbani, E., Dalton, M. M., Daniel, A., Day, D., Deconinck, W., Defurne, M., Flay, D., Fomin, N., Friend, M., Frullani, S., Fuchey, E., Garibaldi, F., Gaskell, D., Gilman, R., Glamazdin, S., Gu, C., Gueye, P., Hanretty, C., Hansen, J. -O., Shabestari, M. Hashemi, Huang, M., Jin, G., Kalantarians, N., Kang, H., Kelleher, A., Korover, I., LeRose, J., Leckey, J., Lindgren, R., Long, E., Mammei, J., Margaziotis, D. J., Markowitz, P., Meekins, D., Meziani, Z., Michaels, R., Mihovilovic, M., Muangma, N., Camacho, C. Munoz, Norum, B., Nuruzzaman, Nuruzzaman, Pan, K., Phillips, S., Piasetzky, E., Pomerantz, I., Posik, M., Punjabi, V., Qian, X., Qiang, Y., Qiu, X., Reimer, P. E., Rakhman, A ., Riordan, S., Ron, G., Rondon-Aramayo, O., Selvy, L., Shahinyan, A., Shneor, R., Sirca, S., Slifer, K., Sparveris, N., Subedi, R., Sulkosky, V., Wang, D., Watson, J. W., Weinstein, L. B., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wood, S. A., Yaron, I., Zhan, X., Zhang, J., Zhang, Y. W., Zhao, B., Zheng, X., Zhu, P., and Zielinski, R.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Experimental cross sections for the $^4He(e,e'p)X$ reaction up to a missing momentum of 0.632 GeV/$c$ at $x_B=1.24$ and $Q^2$=2(GeV/$c$)$^2$ are reported. The data are compared to Relativistic Distorted Wave Impulse Approximation(RDWIA) calculations for $^4He(e,e'p)^3H$ channel. Significantly more events in the triton mass region are measured for $p_{m}$$>$0.45 GeV/$c$ than are predicted by the theoretical model, suggesting that the effects of initial-state multi-nucleon correlations are stronger than expected by the RDWIA model., Comment: Submitted to PRC

Published
2019

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