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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

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

Author

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

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

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

Published
2024

5. High accuracy spectroscopy of 3- and 4-body Λ hypernuclei at Jefferson Lab

Author

Gogami T., Achenbach P., Akiyama T., Androic D., Asaturyan A., Brash E., Bukhari M. H., Camsonne A., Covrig Dusa S., Ebata K., Elaasar M. A., Fujii Y., Fujiwara T., Furic M., Garibaldi F., Gueye P., Higinbotham D. W., Ishige T., Itabashi K., Kaneta M., Kino R., Lashley N., Markowitz P., Meekins D., Mizuno M., Mkrtchyan H. G., Mkrtchyan A. H., Nagafusa S., Nagano S., Nagao S., Nakamura S. N., Nakamura Y. R., Niculescu G., Niculescu I., Okuyama K., Pandey B., Pochodzalla J., Reinhold J., Rodriguez V. M., Samanta C., Sawatzky B., Shabestari M. H., Shahinyan A., Sirca S., Suzuki K. N., Tachibana K., Tang L., Toyama Y., Tsutsumi K., Uehara K., Umezaki E., Urciuoli G. M., Watanabe D., and Wood S. A.

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

JLab E12-19-002 Experiment is planned to measure the Λ-binding energies of 3ΛH [Jπ = 1/2+ or 3/2+(T = 0)] and 4ΛH (1+) at JLab Hall C. The expected accuracy for the binding-energy measurement is |ΔBtotal Λ | ≃ 70 keV. The accurate spectroscopy for these light hypernuclei would shed light on the puzzle of the small binding energy and short lifetime of 3ΛH, and the chargesymmetry breaking in the ΛN interaction. We aim to perform the experiment in 2025.

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

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

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

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

Published
2022
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7. Study of the Λ/Σ0 electroproduction in the low-Q2 region at JLab

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

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

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

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

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

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

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

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2022
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9. Strong interaction physics at the luminosity frontier with 22 GeV electrons at Jefferson Lab

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Accardi, A., Achenbach, P., Adhikari, D., Afanasev, A., Akondi, C. S., Akopov, N., Albaladejo, M., Albataineh, H., Albrecht, M., Almeida-Zamora, B., Amaryan, M., Androić, D., Armstrong, W., Armstrong, D. S., Arratia, M., Arrington, J., Asaturyan, A., Austregesilo, A., Avakian, H., Averett, T., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Bacchetta, A., Balantekin, A. B., Baltzell, N., Barion, L., Barry, P. C., Bashir, A., Battaglieri, M., Bellini, V., Belov, I., Benhar, O., Benkel, B., Benmokhtar, F., Bentz, W., Bertone, V., Bhatt, H., Bianconi, A., Bibrzycki, L., Bijker, R., Binosi, D., Biswas, D., Boër, M., Boeglin, W., Bogacz, S. A., Boglione, M., Bondí, M., Boos, E. E., Bosted, P., Bozzi, G., Brash, E. J., Briceño, R. A., Brindza, P. D., Briscoe, W. J., Brodsky, S. J., Brooks, W. K., Burkert, V. D., Camsonne, A., Cao, T., Cardman, L. S., Carman, D. S., Carpinelli, M., Cates, G. D., Caylor, J., Celentano, A., Celiberto, F. G., Cerutti, M., Chang, L., Chatagnon, P., Chen, C., Chen, J.-P., Chetry, T., Christopher, A., Christy, E., Chudakov, E., Cisbani, E., Cloët, I. C., Cobos-Martinez, J. J., Cohen, E. O., Colangelo, P., Cole, P. L., Constantinou, M., Contalbrigo, M., Costantini, G., Cosyn, W., Cotton, C., Courtoy, A., Dusa, S. Covrig, Crede, V., Cui, Z.-F., D’Angelo, A., Döring, M., Dalton, M. M., Danilkin, I., Davydov, M., Day, D., De Fazio, F., De Napoli, M., De Vita, R., Dean, D. J., Defurne, M., de Paula, W., de Téramond, G. F., Deur, A., Devkota, B., Dhital, S., Di Nezza, P., Diefenthaler, M., Diehl, S., Dilks, C., Ding, M., Djalali, C., Dobbs, S., Dupré, R., Dutta, D., Edwards, R. G., Egiyan, H., Ehinger, L., Eichmann, G., Elaasar, M., Elouadrhiri, L., Alaoui, A. El, Fassi, L. El, Emmert, A., Engelhardt, M., Ent, R., Ernst, D. J., Eugenio, P., Evans, G., Fanelli, C., Fegan, S., Fernández-Ramírez, C., Fernandez, L. A., Fernando, I. P., Filippi, A., Fischer, C. S., Fogler, C., Fomin, N., Frankfurt, L., Frederico, T., Freese, A., Fu, Y., Gamberg, L., Gan, L., Gao, F., Garcia-Tecocoatzi, H., Gaskell, D., Gasparian, A., Gates, K., Gavalian, G., Ghoshal, P. K., Giachino, A., Giacosa, F., Giannuzzi, F., Gilfoyle, G.-P., Girod, F.-X., Glazier, D. I., Gleason, C., Godfrey, S., Goity, J. L., Golubenko, A. A., Gonzàlez-Solís, S., Gothe, R. W., Gotra, Y., Griffioen, K., Grocholski, O., Grube, B., Guèye, P., Guo, F.-K., Guo, Y., Guo, L., Hague, T. J., Hammoud, N., Hansen, J.-O., Hattawy, M., Hauenstein, F., Hayward, T., Heddle, D., Heinrich, N., Hen, O., Higinbotham, D. W., Higuera-Angulo, I. M., Hiller Blin, A. N., Hobart, A., Hobbs, T., Holmberg, D. E., Horn, T., Hoyer, P., Huber, G. M., Hurck, P., Hutauruk, P. T. P., Ilieva, Y., Illari, I., Ireland, D. G., Isupov, E. L., Italiano, A., Jaegle, I., Jarvis, N. S., Jenkins, D. J., Jeschonnek, S., Ji, C.-R., Jo, H. S., Jones, M., Jones, R. T., Jones, D. C., Joo, K., Junaid, M., Kageya, T., Kalantarians, N., Karki, A., Karyan, G., Katramatou, A. T., Kay, S. J. D., Kazimi, R., Keith, C. D., Keppel, C., Kerbizi, A., Khachatryan, V., Khanal, A., Khandaker, M., Kim, A., Kinney, E. R., Kohl, M., Kotzinian, A., Kriesten, B. T., Kubarovsky, V., Kubis, B., Kuhn, S. E., Kumar, V., Kutz, T., Leali, M., Lebed, R. F., Lenisa, P., Leskovec, L., Li, S., Li, X., Liao, J., Lin, H.-W., Liu, L., Liuti, S., Liyanage, N., Lu, Y., MacGregor, I. J. D., Mack, D. J., Maiani, L., Mamo, K. A., Mandaglio, G., Mariani, C., Markowitz, P., Marukyan, H., Mascagna, V., Mathieu, V., Maxwell, J., Mazouz, M., McCaughan, M., McKeown, R. D., McKinnon, B., Meekins, D., Melnitchouk, W., Metz, A., Meyer, C. A., Meziani, Z.-E., Mezrag, C., Michaels, R., Miller, G. A., Mineeva, T., Miramontes, A. S., Mirazita, M., Mizutani, K., Mkrtchyan, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Moffit, B., Mohanmurthy, P., Mokeev, V. I., Monaghan, P., Montaña, G., Montgomery, R., Moretti, A., Chàvez, J. M. Morgado, Mosel, U., Movsisyan, A., Musico, P., Nadeeshani, S. A., Nadolsky, P. M., Nakamura, S. X., Nazeer, J., Nefediev, A. V., Neupane, K., Nguyen, D., Niccolai, S., Niculescu, I., Niculescu, G., Nocera, E. R., Nycz, M., Olness, F. I., Ortega, P. G., Osipenko, M., Pace, E., Pandey, B., Pandey, P., Papandreou, Z., Papavassiliou, J., Pappalardo, L. L., Paredes-Torres, G., Paremuzyan, R., Park, S., Parsamyan, B., Paschke, K. D., Pasquini, B., Passemar, E., Pasyuk, E., Patel, T., Paudel, C., Paul, S. J., Peng, J.-C., Pentchev, L., Perrino, R., Perry, R. J., Peters, K., Petratos, G. G., Phelps, W., Piasetzky, E., Pilloni, A., Pire, B., Pitonyak, D., Pitt, M. L., Polosa, A. D., Pospelov, M., Postuma, A. C., Poudel, J., Preet, L., Prelovsek, S., Price, J. W., Prokudin, A., Puckett, A. J. R., Pybus, J. R., Qin, S.-X., Qiu, J.-W., Radici, M., Rashidi, H., Rathnayake, A. D., Raue, B. A., Reed, T., Reimer, P. E., Reinhold, J., Richard, J.-M., Rinaldi, M., Ringer, F., Ripani, M., Ritman, J., West, J. Rittenhouse, Rivero-Acosta, A., Roberts, C. D., Rodas, A., Rodini, S., Rodríguez-Quintero, J., Rogers, T. C., Rojo, J., Rossi, P., Rossi, G. C., Salmè, G., Santiesteban, S. N., Santopinto, E., Sargsian, M., Sato, N., Schadmand, S., Schmidt, A., Schmidt, S. M., Schnell, G., Schumacher, R. A., Schweitzer, P., Scimemi, I., Scott, K. C., Seay, D. A., Segovia, J., Semenov-Tian-Shansky, K., Seryi, A., Sharda, A. S., Shepherd, M. R., Shirokov, E. V., Shrestha, S., Shrestha, U., Shvedunov, V. I., Signori, A., Slifer, K. J., Smith, W. A., Somov, A., Souder, P., Sparveris, N., Spizzo, F., Spreafico, M., Stepanyan, S., Stevens, J. R., Strakovsky, I. I., Strauch, S., Strikman, M., Su, S., Sumner, B. C. L., Sun, E., Suresh, M., Sutera, C., Swanson, E. S., Szczepaniak, A. P., Sznajder, P., Szumila-Vance, H., Szymanowski, L., Tadepalli, A.-S., Tadevosyan, V., Tamang, B., Tarasov, V. V., Thiel, A., Tong, X.-B., Tyson, R., Ungaro, M., Urciuoli, G. M., Usman, A., Valcarce, A., Vallarino, S., Vaquera-Araujo, C. A., Venturelli, L., Vera, F., Vladimirov, A., Vossen, A., Wagner, J., Wei, X., Weinstein, L. B., Weiss, C., Williams, R., Winney, D., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wood, M. H., Xiao, T., Xu, S.-S., Ye, Z., Yero, C., Yuan, C.-P., Yurov, M., Zachariou, N., Zhang, Z., Zhao, Y., Zhao, Z. W., Zheng, X., Zhou, X., Ziegler, V., and Zihlmann, B.

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2024
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10. Strong Interaction Physics at the Luminosity Frontier with 22 GeV Electrons at Jefferson Lab

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Accardi, A., Achenbach, P., Adhikari, D., Afanasev, A., Akondi, C. S., Akopov, N., Albaladejo, M., Albataineh, H., Albrecht, M., Almeida-Zamora, B., Amaryan, M., Androić, D., Armstrong, W., Armstrong, D. S., Arratia, M., Arrington, J., Asaturyan, A., Austregesilo, A., Avagyan, H., Averett, T., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Bacchetta, A., Balantekin, A. B., Baltzell, N., Barion, L., Barry, P. C., Bashir, A., Battaglieri, M., Bellini, V., Belov, I., Benhar, O., Benkel, B., Benmokhtar, F, Bentz, W., Bertone, V., Bhatt, H., Bianconi, A., Bibrzycki, L., Bijker, R., Binosi, D., Biswas, D., Boër, M., Boeglin, W., Bogacz, S. A., Boglione, M., Bondí, M., Boos, E. E., Bosted, P., Bozzi, G., Brash, E. J., Briceño, R. A., Brindza, P. D., Briscoe, W. J., Brodsky, S. J, Brooks, W. K., Burkert, V. D., Camsonne, A., Cao, T., Cardman, L. S., Carman, D. S., Carpinelli, M, Cates, G. D., Caylor, J., Celentano, A., Celiberto, F. G., Cerutti, M., Chang, Lei, Chatagnon, P., Chen, C., Chen, J-P, Chetry, T., Christopher, A., Christy, E., Chudakov, E., Cisbani, E., Cloët, I. C., Cobos-Martinez, J. J., Cohen, E. O., Colangelo, P., Cole, P. L., Constantinou, M., Contalbrigo, M., Costantini, G., Cosyn, W., Cotton, C., Courtoy, A., Dusa, S. Covrig, Crede, V., Cui, Z. -F., D'Angelo, A., Döring, M., Dalton, M. M., Danilkin, I., Davydov, M., Day, D., De Fazio, F., De Napoli, M., De Vita, R., Dean, D. J., Defurne, M., Deur, A., Devkota, B., Dhital, S., Di Nezza, P., Diefenthaler, M., Diehl, S., Dilks, C., Ding, M., Djalali, C., Dobbs, S., Dupré, R., Dutta, D., Edwards, R. G., Egiyan, H., Ehinger, L., Eichmann, G., Elaasar, M., Elouadrhiri, L., Alaoui, A. El, Fassi, L. El, Emmert, A., Engelhardt, M., Ent, R., Ernst, D. J, Eugenio, P., Evans, G., Fanelli, C., Fegan, S., Fernández-Ramírez, C., Fernandez, L. A., Fernando, I. P., Filippi, A., Fischer, C. S., Fogler, C., Fomin, N., Frankfurt, L., Frederico, T., Freese, A., Fu, Y., Gamberg, L., Gan, L., Gao, F., Garcia-Tecocoatzi, H., Gaskell, D., Gasparian, A., Gates, K, Gavalian, G., Ghoshal, P. K., Giachino, A., Giacosa, F., Giannuzzi, F., Gilfoyle, G. -P., Girod, F-X, Glazier, D. I., Gleason, C., Godfrey, S., Goity, J. L., Golubenko, A. A., Gonzàlez-Solís, S., Gothe, R. W., Gotra, Y., Griffioen, K., Grocholski, O., Grube, B., Guèye, P., Guo, F. -K., Guo, Y., Guo, L., Hague, T. J., Hammoud, N., Hansen, J. -O., Hattawy, M., Hauenstein, F., Hayward, T., Heddle, D., Heinrich, N., Hen, O., Higinbotham, D. W., Higuera-Angulo, I. M., Blin, A. N. Hiller, Hobart, A., Hobbs, T., Holmberg, D. E, Horn, T., Hoyer, P., Huber, G. M., Hurck, P., Hutauruk, P. T. P., Ilieva, Y., Illari, I., Ireland, D. G, Isupov, E. L., Italiano, A., Jaegle, I., Jarvis, N. S., Jenkins, DJ, Jeschonnek, S., Ji, C-R., Jo, H. S., Jones, M., Jones, R. T., Jones, D. C., Joo, K., Junaid, M., Kageya, T., Kalantarians, N., Karki, A., Karyan, G., Katramatou, A. T., Kay, S. J. D, Kazimi, R., Keith, C. D., Keppel, C., Kerbizi, A., Khachatryan, V., Khanal, A., Khandaker, M., Kim, A., Kinney, E. R., Kohl, M., Kotzinian, A., Kriesten, B. T., Kubarovsky, V., Kubis, B., Kuhn, S. E., Kumar, V., Kutz, T., Leali, M., Lebed, R. F., Lenisa, P., Leskovec, L., Li, S., Li, X., Liao, J., Lin, H. -W., Liu, L., Liuti, S., Liyanage, N., Lu, Y., MacGregor, I. J. D., Mack, D. J., Maiani, L, Mamo, K. A., Mandaglio, G., Mariani, C., Markowitz, P., Marukyan, H., Mascagna, V., Mathieu, V., Maxwell, J., Mazouz, M., McCaughan, M., McKeown, R. D., McKinnon, B., Meekins, D., Melnitchouk, W., Metz, A., Meyer, C. A., Meziani, Z. -E., Mezrag, C., Michaels, R., Miller, G. A., Mineeva, T., Miramontes, A. S., Mirazita, M., Mizutani, K., Mkrtchyan, H., Mkrtchyan, A., Moffit, B., Mohanmurthy, P., Mokeev, V. I., Monaghan, P., Montaña, G., Montgomery, R., Moretti, A., Chàvez, J. M. Morgado, Mosel, U., Movsisyan, A., Musico, P., Nadeeshani, S. A, Nadolsky, P. M., Nakamura, S. X., Nazeer, J., Nefediev, A. V., Neupane, K., Nguyen, D., Niccolai, S., Niculescu, I., Niculescu, G., Nocera, E. R., Nycz, M., Olness, F. I., Ortega, P. G., Osipenko, M., Pace, E., Pandey, B, Pandey, P., Papandreou, Z., Papavassiliou, J., Pappalardo, L. L., Paredes-Torres, G., Paremuzyan, R., Park, S., Parsamyan, B., Paschke, K. D., Pasquini, B., Passemar, E., Pasyuk, E., Patel, T., Paudel, C., Paul, S. J., Peng, J-C., Pentchev, L., Perrino, R., Perry, R. J., Peters, K., Petratos, G. G., Phelps, W., Piasetzky, E., Pilloni, A., Pire, B., Pitonyak, D., Pitt, M. L., Polosa, A. D., Pospelov, M., Postuma, A. C., Poudel, J., Preet, L., Prelovsek, S., Price, J. W., Prokudin, A., Puckett, A. J. R., Pybus, J. R., Qin, S. -X., Qiu, J. -W., Radici, M., Rashidi, H., Rathnayake, A. D, Raue, B. A., Reed, T., Reimer, P. E., Reinhold, J., Richard, J. -M., Rinaldi, M., Ringer, F., Ripani, M., Ritman, J., West, J. Rittenhouse, Rivero-Acosta, A., Roberts, C. D., Rodas, A., Rodini, S., Rodríguez-Quintero, J., Rogers, T. C., Rojo, J., Rossi, P., Rossi, G. C., Salmè, G., Santiesteban, S. N., Santopinto, E., Sargsian, M., Sato, N., Schadmand, S., Schmidt, A., Schmidt, S. M, Schnell, G., Schumacher, R. A., Schweitzer, P., Scimemi, I., Scott, K. C, Seay, D. A, Segovia, J., Semenov-Tian-Shansky, K., Seryi, A., Sharda, A. S, Shepherd, M. R., Shirokov, E. V., Shrestha, S., Shrestha, U., Shvedunov, V. I., Signori, A., Slifer, K. J., Smith, W. A., Somov, A., Souder, P., Sparveris, N., Spizzo, F., Spreafico, M., Stepanyan, S., Stevens, J. R., Strakovsky, I. I., Strauch, S., Strikman, M., Su, S., Sumner, B. C. L., Sun, E., Suresh, M., Sutera, C., Swanson, E. S., Szczepaniak, A. P, Sznajder, P., Szumila-Vance, H., Szymanowski, L., Tadepalli, A. -S., Tadevosyan, V., Tamang, B., Tarasov, V. V., Thiel, A., Tong, X. -B., Tyson, R., Ungaro, M., Urciuoli, G. M., Usman, A., Valcarce, A., Vallarino, S., Vaquera-Araujo, C. A., Venturelli, L., Vera, F., Vladimirov, A., Vossen, A., Wagner, J., Wei, X., Weinstein, L. B., Weiss, C., Williams, R., Winney, D., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wood, M. H., Xiao, T., Xu, S. -S., Ye, Z., Yero, C., Yuan, C. -P., Yurov, M., Zachariou, N., Zhang, Z., Zhao, Z. W., Zhao, Y., Zheng, X., Zhou, X., Ziegler, V., Zihlmann, B., de Paula, W, and de Téramond, G. F.

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

This document presents the initial scientific case for upgrading the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at Jefferson Lab (JLab) to 22 GeV. It is the result of a community effort, incorporating insights from a series of workshops conducted between March 2022 and April 2023. With a track record of over 25 years in delivering the world's most intense and precise multi-GeV electron beams, CEBAF's potential for a higher energy upgrade presents a unique opportunity for an innovative nuclear physics program, which seamlessly integrates a rich historical background with a promising future. The proposed physics program encompass a diverse range of investigations centered around the nonperturbative dynamics inherent in hadron structure and the exploration of strongly interacting systems. It builds upon the exceptional capabilities of CEBAF in high-luminosity operations, the availability of existing or planned Hall equipment, and recent advancements in accelerator technology. The proposed program cover various scientific topics, including Hadron Spectroscopy, Partonic Structure and Spin, Hadronization and Transverse Momentum, Spatial Structure, Mechanical Properties, Form Factors and Emergent Hadron Mass, Hadron-Quark Transition, and Nuclear Dynamics at Extreme Conditions, as well as QCD Confinement and Fundamental Symmetries. Each topic highlights the key measurements achievable at a 22 GeV CEBAF accelerator. Furthermore, this document outlines the significant physics outcomes and unique aspects of these programs that distinguish them from other existing or planned facilities. In summary, this document provides an exciting rationale for the energy upgrade of CEBAF to 22 GeV, outlining the transformative scientific potential that lies within reach, and the remarkable opportunities it offers for advancing our understanding of hadron physics and related fundamental phenomena., Comment: Updates to the list of authors; Preprint number changed from theory to experiment; Updates to sections 4 and 6, including additional figures

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2023

11. 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

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2023

12. 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

13. The Qweak High Performance LH2 Target

Author

Brock, J., Dusa, S. Covrig, Dunne, J., Keith, C., Meekins, D., Pierce, J., Smith, G. R., and Subedi, A.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

A high-power liquid hydrogen target was built for the Jefferson Lab Qweak experiment, which measured the tiny parity-violating asymmetry in $\vec{e}$p scattering at an incident energy of 1.16 GeV, and a Q$^2 = 0.025$ GeV$^{2}$. To achieve the luminosity of $1.7 \times 10^{39}$ cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$, a 34.5 cm-long target was used with a beam current of 180 $\mu$A. The ionization energy-loss deposited by the beam in the target was 2.1 kW. The target temperature was controlled to within $\pm$0.02 K and the target noise (density fluctuations) near the experiment's beam helicity-reversal rate of 960 Hz was only 53 ppm. The 58 liquid liter target achieved a head of 11.4 m (7.6 kPa) and a mass flow of 1.2 $\pm$ 0.3 kg/s (corresponding to a volume flow of 17.4 $\pm$ 3.8 l/s) at the nominal 29 Hz rotation frequency of the recirculating centrifugal pump. We describe aspects of the design, operation, and performance of this target, the highest power LH2 target ever used in an electron scattering experiment to date., Comment: 52 pages, 21 figures, 9 tables, submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods A

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2023
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14. The Present and Future of QCD

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Achenbach, P., Adhikari, D., Afanasev, A., Afzal, F., Aidala, C. A., Al-bataineh, A., Almaalol, D. K., Amaryan, M., Androić, D., Armstrong, W. R., Arratia, M., Arrington, J., Asaturyan, A., Aschenauer, E. C., Atac, H., Avakian, H., Averett, T., Gayoso, C. Ayerbe, Bai, X., Barish, K. N., Barnea, N., Basar, G., Battaglieri, M., Baty, A. A., Bautista, I., Bazilevsky, A., Beattie, C., Behera, S. C., Bellini, V., Bellwied, R., Benesch, J. F., Benmokhtar, F., Bernardes, C. A., Bernauer, J. C., Bhatt, H., Bhatta, S., Boer, M., Boettcher, T. J., Bogacz, S. A., Bossi, H. J., Brandenburg, J. D., Brash, E. J., Briceño, R. A., Briscoe, W. J., Brodsky, S. J., Brown, D. A., Burkert, V. D., Caines, H., Cali, I. A., Camsonne, A., Carman, D. S., Caylor, J., Cerci, S., Llatas, M. Chamizo, Chatterjee, S., Chen, J. P., Chen, Y., Chen, Y. -C., Chien, Y. -T., Chou, P. -C., Chu, X., Chudakov, E., Cline, E., Cloët, I. C., Cole, P. L., Connors, M. E., Constantinou, M., Cosyn, W., Dusa, S. Covrig, Cruz-Torres, R., D'Alesio, U., da Silva, C., Davoudi, Z., Dean, C. T., Dean, D. J., Demarteau, M., Deshpande, A., Detmold, W., Deur, A., Devkota, B. R., Dhital, S., Diefenthaler, M., Dobbs, S., Döring, M., Dong, X., Dotel, R., Dow, K. A., Downie, E. J., Drachenberg, J. L., Dumitru, A., Dunlop, J. C., Dupre, R., Durham, J. M., Dutta, D., Edwards, R. G., Ehlers, R. J., Fassi, L. El, Elaasar, M., Elouadrhiri, L., Engelhardt, M., Ent, R., Esumi, S., Evdokimov, O., Eyser, O., Fanelli, C., Fatemi, R., Fernando, I. P., Flor, F. A., Fomin, N., Frawley, A. D., Frederico, T., Fries, R. J., Gal, C., Gamage, B. R., Gamberg, L., Gao, H., Gaskell, D., Geurts, F., Ghandilyan, Y., Ghimire, N., Gilman, R., Gleason, C., Gnanvo, K., Gothe, R. W., Greene, S. V., Grießhammer, H. W., Grossberndt, S. K., Grube, B., Hackett, D. C., Hague, T. J., Hakobyan, H., Hansen, J. -O., Hatta, Y., Hattawy, M., Havener, L. B., Hen, O., Henry, W., Higinbotham, D. W., Hobbs, T. J., Hodges, A. M., Holmstrom, T., Hong, B., Horn, T., Howell, C. R., Huang, H. Z., Huang, M., Huang, S., Huber, G. M., Hyde, C. E., Isupov, E. L., Jacobs, P. M., Jalilian-Marian, J., Jentsch, A., Jheng, H., Ji, C. -R., Ji, X., Jia, J., Jones, D. C., Jones, M. K., Kalantarians, N., Kalicy, G., Kang, Z. B., Karthein, J. M., Keller, D., Keppel, C., Khachatryan, V., Kharzeev, D. E., Kim, H., Kim, M., Kim, Y., King, P. M., Kinney, E., Klein, S. R., Ko, H. S., Koch, V., Kohl, M., Kovchegov, Y. V., Krintiras, G. K., Kubarovsky, V., Kuhn, S. E., Kumar, K. S., Kutz, T., Lajoie, J. G., Lauret, J., Lavrukhin, I., Lawrence, D., Lee, J. H., Lee, K., Lee, S., Lee, Y. -J., Li, S., Li, W., Li, Xiaqing, Li, Xuan, Liao, J., Lin, H. -W., Lisa, M. A., Liu, K. -F., Liu, M. X., Liu, T., Liuti, S., Liyanage, N., Llope, W. J., Loizides, C., Longo, R., Lorenzon, W., Lunkenheimer, S., Luo, X., Ma, R., McKinnon, B., Meekins, D. G., Mehtar-Tani, Y., Melnitchouk, W., Metz, A., Meyer, C. A., Meziani, Z. -E., Michaels, R., Michel, J. K. L., Milner, R. G., Mkrtchyan, H., Mohanmurthy, P., Mohanty, B., Mokeev, V. I., Moon, D. H., Mooney, I. A., Morningstar, C., Morrison, D. P., Müller, B., Mukherjee, S., Mulligan, J., Camacho, C. Munoz, Quijada, J. A. Murillo, Murray, M. J., Nadeeshani, S. A., Nadel-Turonski, P., Nam, J. D., Nattrass, C. E., Nijs, G., Noronha, J., Noronha-Hostler, J., Novitzky, N., Nycz, M., Olness, F. I., Osborn, J. D., Pak, R., Pandey, B., Paolone, M., Papandreou, Z., Paquet, J. -F., Park, S., Paschke, K. D., Pasquini, B., Pasyuk, E., Patel, T., Patton, A., Paudel, C., Peng, C., Peng, J. C., Da Costa, H. Pereira, Perepelitsa, D. V., Peters, M. J., Petreczky, P., Pisarski, R. D., Pitonyak, D., Ploskon, M. A., Posik, M., Poudel, J., Pradhan, R., Prokudin, A., Pruneau, C. A., Puckett, A. J. R., Pujahari, P., Putschke, J., Pybus, J. R., Qiu, J. -W., Rajagopal, K., Ratti, C., Read, K. F., Reed, R., Richards, D. G., Riedl, C., Ringer, F., Rinn, T., West, J. Rittenhouse, Roche, J., Rodas, A., Roland, G., Romero-López, F., Rossi, P., Rostomyan, T., Ruan, L., Ruimi, O. M., Saha, N. R., Sahoo, N. R., Sakaguchi, T., Salazar, F., Salgado, C. W., Salmè, G., Salur, S., Santiesteban, S. N., Sargsian, M. M., Sarsour, M., Sato, N., Satogata, T., Sawada, S., Schäfer, T., Scheihing-Hitschfeld, B., Schenke, B., Schindler, S. T., Schmidt, A., Seidl, R., Shabestari, M. H., Shanahan, P. E., Shen, C., Sheng, T. -A., Shepherd, M. R., Sickles, A. M., Sievert, M. D., Smith, K. L., Song, Y., Sorensen, A., Souder, P. A., Sparveris, N., Srednyak, S., Leiton, A. G. Stahl, Stasto, A. M., Steinberg, P., Stepanyan, S., Stephanov, M., Stevens, J. R., Stewart, D. J., Stewart, I. W., Stojanovic, M., Strakovsky, I., Strauch, S., Strickland, M., Cerci, D. Sunar, Suresh, M., Surrow, B., Syritsyn, S., Szczepaniak, A. P., Tadepalli, A. S., Tang, A. H., Takaki, J. D. Tapia, Tarnowsky, T. J., Tawfik, A. N., Taylor, M. I., Tennant, C., Thiel, A., Thomas, D., Tian, Y., Timmins, A. R., Tribedy, P., Tu, Z., Tuo, S., Ullrich, T., Umaka, E., Upton, D. W., Vary, J. P., Velkovska, J., Venugopalan, R., Vijayakumar, A., Vitev, I., Vogelsang, W., Vogt, R., Vossen, A., Voutier, E., Vovchenko, V., Walker-Loud, A., Wang, F., Wang, J., Wang, X., Wang, X. -N., Weinstein, L. B., Wenaus, T. J., Weyhmiller, S., Wissink, S. W., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wong, C. P., Wood, M. H., Wunderlich, Y., Wyslouch, B., Xiao, B. W., Xie, W., Xiong, W., Xu, N., Xu, Q. H., Xu, Z., Yaari, D., Yao, X., Ye, Z., Ye, Z. H., Yero, C., Yuan, F., Zajc, W. A., Zhang, C., Zhang, J., Zhao, F., Zhao, Y., Zhao, Z. W., Zheng, X., Zhou, J., and Zurek, M.

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

This White Paper presents the community inputs and scientific conclusions from the Hot and Cold QCD Town Meeting that took place September 23-25, 2022 at MIT, as part of the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC) 2023 Long Range Planning process. A total of 424 physicists registered for the meeting. The meeting highlighted progress in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) nuclear physics since the 2015 LRP (LRP15) and identified key questions and plausible paths to obtaining answers to those questions, defining priorities for our research over the coming decade. In defining the priority of outstanding physics opportunities for the future, both prospects for the short (~ 5 years) and longer term (5-10 years and beyond) are identified together with the facilities, personnel and other resources needed to maximize the discovery potential and maintain United States leadership in QCD physics worldwide. This White Paper is organized as follows: In the Executive Summary, we detail the Recommendations and Initiatives that were presented and discussed at the Town Meeting, and their supporting rationales. Section 2 highlights major progress and accomplishments of the past seven years. It is followed, in Section 3, by an overview of the physics opportunities for the immediate future, and in relation with the next QCD frontier: the EIC. Section 4 provides an overview of the physics motivations and goals associated with the EIC. Section 5 is devoted to the workforce development and support of diversity, equity and inclusion. This is followed by a dedicated section on computing in Section 6. Section 7 describes the national need for nuclear data science and the relevance to QCD research., Comment: QCD Town Meeting White Paper, as submitted to 2023 NSAC LRP committee on Feb. 28, 2023

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2023
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15. Measuring the cross section of the $^{15}$N($\alpha$,$\gamma$)$^{19}$F reaction using a single-fluid bubble chamber

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Neto, D., Bailey, K., Benesch, J. F., Cade, B., DiGiovine, B., Freyberger, A., Grames, J. M., Hofler, A., Holt, R. J., Kazimi, R., Meekins, D., McCaughan, M., Moser, D., O'Connor, T., Poelker, M., Rehm, K. E., Riordan, S., Suleiman, R., Talwar, R., and Ugalde, C.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

$^{15}$N($\alpha$,$\gamma$)$^{19}$F is believed to be the primary means of stellar nucleosynthesis of fluorine. Here we present the use of a single-fluid bubble chamber to measure the cross section of the time-inverse photo-dissociation reaction. The method benefits from a luminosity increase of several orders of magnitude due to the use of a thicker liquid target -- when compared to thin films or gas targets -- and from the reciprocity theorem. We discuss the results of an experiment at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, where the cross section of the photodisintegration process $^{19}$F($\gamma$, $\alpha$)$^{15}$N was measured by bombarding a superheated fluid of C$_3$F$_8$ with bremsstrahlung $\gamma$-rays produced by impinging a 4 - 5.5 MeV electron beam on a Cu radiator. From the photodissociation yield the cross section was extracted by performing a convolution with a Monte Carlo-generated $\gamma$-ray beam spectrum. The measurement produced a cross section that was then time inverted using the reciprocity theorem. The cross section for the $^{15}$N($\alpha$,$\gamma$)$^{19}$F reaction was determined down to a value in the range of hundreds of picobarns. With further improvements of the experimental setup the technique could potentially push cross section measurements down to the single picobarn range., Comment: Corrected Typos. Accepted for Publication in Physical Review C

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2023
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16. Revealing the short-range structure of the 'mirror nuclei' $^3$H and $^3$He

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

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

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

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2022
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17. 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.

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2023

18. 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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19. 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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20. 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

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

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

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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

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

Author

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

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

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

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2017
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25. Determination of the argon spectral function from (e,e'p) data

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

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

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

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

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

Published
2022

28. First Determination of the 27Al Neutron Distribution Radius from a Parity-Violating Electron Scattering Measurement

Author

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

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We report the first measurement of the parity-violating elastic electron scattering asymmetry on 27Al. The 27Al elastic asymmetry is A_PV = 2.16 +- 0.11 (stat) +- 0.16 (syst) ppm, and was measured at =0.02357 +- 0.0001 GeV^2, = 7.61 +- 0.02 degrees, and = 1.157 GeV with the Qweak apparatus at Jefferson Lab. Predictions using a simple Born approximation as well as more sophisticated distorted-wave calculations are in good agreement with this result. From this asymmetry the 27Al neutron radius R_n = 2.89 +- 0.12 fm was determined using a many-models correlation technique. The corresponding neutron skin thickness R_n-R_p = -0.04 +- 0.12 fm is small, as expected for a light nucleus with a neutron excess of only 1. This result thus serves as a successful benchmark for electroweak determinations of neutron radii on heavier nuclei. A tree-level approach was used to extract the 27Al weak radius R_w = 3.00 +- 0.15 fm, and the weak skin thickness R_wk - R_ch = -0.04 +- 0.15 fm. The weak form factor at this Q^2 is F_wk = 0.39 +- 0.04., Comment: Revised version after referee's comments and suggestions. Some improvements and clarification to the text, no changes to the figures, tables, results or conclusions. 7 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables

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2021
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29. 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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30. The cross-section measurement for the $^3{\textrm H}(e,e'K^+)nn\Lambda$ reaction

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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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31. Measurement of the EMC effect in light and heavy nuclei

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Arrington, J., Bane, J., Daniel, A., Fomin, N., Gaskell, D., Seely, J., Asaturyan, R., Benmokhtar, F., Boeglin, W., Bosted, P., Bukhari, M. H. S., Christy, M. E., Connell, S., Dalton, M. M., Day, D., Dunne, J., Dutta, D., Fassi, L. El, Ent, R., Fenker, H., Gao, H., Holt, R. J., Horn, T., Hungerford, E., Jones, M. K., Jourdan, J., Kalantarians, N., Keppel, C. E., Kiselev, D., Lung, A. F., Malace, S., Meekins, D. G., Mertens, T., Mkrtchyan, H., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, I., Potterveld, D. H., Perdrisat, C., Punjabi, V., Qian, X., Reimer, P. E., Roche, J., Rodriguez, V. M., Rondon, O., Schulte, E., Slifer, K., Smith, G. R., Solvignon, P., Tadevosyan, V., Tang, L., Testa, G., Trojer, R., Tvaskis, V., Wesselmann, F. R., Wood, S. A., Yuan, L., and Zheng, X.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

Inclusive electron scattering from nuclear targets has been measured to extract the nuclear dependence of the inelastic cross section in Hall C at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator facility. Results are presented for 2H, 3He, 4He, 9B, 12C, 63Cu and 197Au at an incident electron beam energy of 5.77 GeV for a range of momentum transfer from Q^2 = 2 to 7 (GeV/c)^2. These data improve the precision of the existing measurements of the EMC effect in the nuclear targets at large x, and allow for more detailed examinations of the A dependence of the EMC effect., Comment: 28 pages, 23 figures, archival paper for Jefferson Lab experiment E03-103

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2021
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32. 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

33. Measurement of R=σL/σT and the separated longitudinal and transverse structure functions in the nucleon-resonance region

Author

Liang, Y, Tvaskis, V, Christy, ME, Ahmidouch, A, Armstrong, CS, Arrington, J, Asaturyan, R, Avery, S, Baker, OK, Beck, DH, Blok, HP, Bochna, CW, Boeglin, W, Bosted, P, Bouwhuis, M, Breuer, H, Brown, DS, Bruell, A, Carlini, RD, Cha, J, Chant, NS, Cochran, A, Cole, L, Danagoulian, S, Day, DB, Dunne, J, Dutta, D, Ent, R, Fenker, HC, Fox, B, Gan, L, Gao, H, Garrow, K, Gaskell, D, Gasparian, A, Geesaman, DF, Gilman, R, Guèye, PLJ, Harvey, M, Holt, RJ, Jiang, X, Jones, M, Keppel, CE, Kinney, E, Lorenzon, W, Lung, A, Mack, DJ, Markowitz, P, Martin, JW, McIlhany, K, McKee, D, Meekins, D, Miller, MA, Milner, RG, Mitchell, JH, Mkrtchyan, H, Mueller, BA, Nathan, A, Niculescu, G, Niculescu, I, O'Neill, TG, Papavassiliou, V, Pate, SF, Piercey, RB, Potterveld, D, Ransome, RD, Reinhold, J, Rollinde, E, Rondon, O, Roos, P, Sarty, AJ, Sawafta, R, Schulte, EC, Segbefia, E, Smith, C, Stepanyan, S, Strauch, S, Tadevosyan, V, Tang, L, Tieulent, R, Uzzle, A, Vulcan, WF, Wood, SA, Xiong, F, Yuan, L, Zeier, M, Zihlmann, B, and Ziskin, V

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

We report on a detailed study of longitudinal strength in the nucleon resonance region, presenting new results from inclusive electron-proton cross sections measured at Jefferson Lab Hall C in the four-momentum transfer range 0.2

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2022

34. 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.

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2022

35. 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

36. 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

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

Author

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

Subjects
Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences
Abstract

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

Published
2022

39. 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

40. Measurement of the Beam-Normal Single-Spin Asymmetry for Elastic Electron Scattering from $^{12}$C and $^{27}$Al

Author

QWeak Collaboration, Androic, D., Armstrong, D. S., Asaturyan, A., Bartlett, K., Beminiwattha, R. S., Benesch, J., Benmokhtar, F., Birchall, J., Carlini, R. D., Christy, M. E., Cornejo, J. C., Dusa, S. Covrig, Dalton, M. M., Davis, C. A., Deconinck, W., Dowd, J. F., Dunne, J. A., Dutta, D., Duvall, W. S., Elassar, M., Falk, W. R., Finn, J. M., Forest, T., Gal, C., Gaskell, D., Gericke, M. T. W., Gray, V. M., Guo, F., Hoskins, J. R., Jones, D. C., Kargiantoulakis, M., King, P. M., Korkmaz, E., Kowalski, S., Leacock, J., Leckey, J. P., Lee, A. R., Lee, J. H., Lee, L., MacEwan, S., Mack, D., Magee, J. A., Mahurin, R., Mammei, J., Martin, J. W., McHugh, M. J., Meekins, D., Mesick, K. E., Michaels, R., Mkrtchyan, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Narayan, A., Ndukum, L. Z., Nuruzzaman, Nelyubin, V., van Oers, W. T. H, Owen, V. F., Page, S. A., Pan, J., Paschke, K. D., Phillips, S. K., Pitt, M. L., Radloff, R. W., Rajotte, J. F., Ramsay, W. D., Roche, J., Sawatzky, B., Seva, T., Shabestari, M. H., Silwal, R., Simicevic, N., Smith, G. R., Solvignon, P., Spayde, D. T., Subedi, A., Subedi, R., Tadevosyan, V., Tobias, W. A., Waidyawansa, B., Wang, P., Wells, S. P., Wood, S. A., Zang, P., and Zhamkochyan, S.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We report measurements of the parity-conserving beam-normal single-spin elastic scattering asymmetries $B_n$ on $^{12}$C and $^{27}$Al, obtained with an electron beam polarized transverse to its momentum direction. These measurements add an additional kinematic point to a series of previous measurements of $B_n$ on $^{12}$C and provide a first measurement on $^{27}$Al. The experiment utilized the Qweak apparatus at Jefferson Lab with a beam energy of 1.158 GeV. The average lab scattering angle for both targets was 7.7 degrees, and the average $Q^2$ for both targets was 0.02437 GeV$^2$ (Q=0.1561 GeV). The asymmetries are $B_n$ = -10.68 $\pm$ 0.90 stat) $\pm$ 0.57 (syst) ppm for $^{12}$C and $B_n$ = -12.16 $\pm$ 0.58 (stat) $\pm$ 0.62 (syst) ppm for $^{27}$Al. The results are consistent with theoretical predictions, and are compared to existing data. When scaled by Z/A, the Q-dependence of all the far-forward angle (theta < 10 degrees) data from $^{1}$H to $^{27}$Al can be described by the same slope out to $Q \approx 0.35$ GeV. Larger-angle data from other experiments in the same Q range are consistent with a slope about twice as steep., Comment: Minor changes after refereeing; version as accepted for Physical Review C. Cosmetic changes to several figures, one author added. 22 pages, 8 figures

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2021
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41. 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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42. The PRad Windowless Gas Flow Target

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Pierce, J., Brock, J., Carlin, C., Keith, C., Maxwell, J., Meekins, D., Bai, X., Deur, A., Dutta, D., Gao, H., Gasparian, A., Gnanvo, K., Gu, C., Higinbotham, D., Khandaker, M., Liyanage, N., Meziane, M., Pasyuk, E., Peng, C., Punjabi, V., Xiong, W., Yan, X., Ye, L., and Zhang, Y

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We report on a windowless, high-density, gas flow target at Jefferson Lab that was used to measure $r_p$, the root-mean-square charge radius of the proton. To our knowledge, this is the first such system used in a fixed-target experiment at a (non-storage ring) electron accelerator. The target achieved its design goal of an areal density of 2$\times$10$^{18}$ atoms/cm$^2$, with the gas uniformly distributed over the 4 cm length of the cell and less than 1% residual gas outside the cell. This design eliminated scattering from the end caps of the target cell, a problem endemic to previous measurements of the proton charge radius in electron scattering experiments, and permitted a precise, model-independent extraction of $r_p$ by reaching unprecedentedly low values of $Q^2$, the square of the electron's transfer of four-momentum to the proton.

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

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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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44. Spectroscopy of $A=9$ hyperlithium by the $(e,e^{\prime}K^{+})$ reaction

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Gogami, T., Chen, C., Kawama, D., Achenbach, P., Ahmidouch, A., Albayrak, I., Androic, D., Asaturyan, A., Asaturyan, R., Ates, O., Baturin, P., Badui, R., Boeglin, W., Bono, J., Brash, E., Carter, P., Chiba, A., Christy, E., Danagoulian, S., De Leo, R., Doi, D., Elaasar, M., Ent, R., Fujii, Y., Fujita, M., Furic, M., Gabrielyan, M., Gan, L., Garibaldi, F., Gaskell, D., Gasparian, A., Han, Y., Hashimoto, O., Horn, T., Hu, B., Hungerford, Ed. V., Jones, M., Kanda, H., Kaneta, M., Kato, S., Kawai, M., Khanal, H., Kohl, M., Liyanage, A., Luo, W., Maeda, K., Margaryan, A., Markowitz, P., Maruta, T., Matsumura, A., Maxwell, V., Meekins, D., Mkrtchyan, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Nagao, S., Nakamura, S. N., Narayan, A., Neville, C., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, M. I., Nunez, A., Nuruzzaman, Okayasu, Y., Petkovic, T., Pochodzalla, J., Qiu, X., Reinhold, J., Rodriguez, V. M., Samanta, C., Sawatzky, B., Seva, T., Shichijo, A., Tadevosyan, V., Tang, L., Taniya, N., Tsukada, K., Veilleux, M., Vulcan, W., Wesselmann, F. R., Wood, S. A., Yamamoto, T., Ya, L., Ye, Z., Yokota, K., Yuan, L., Zhamkochyan, S., and Zhu, L.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Missing mass spectroscopy with the $(e,e^{\prime}K^{+})$ reaction was performed at Jefferson Laboratory's Hall C for the neutron rich $\Lambda$ hypernucleus $^{9}_{\Lambda}{\rm Li}$. The ground state energy was obtained to be $B_{\Lambda}^{\rm g.s.}=8.84\pm0.17^{\rm stat.}\pm0.15^{\rm sys.}~{\rm MeV}$ by using shell model calculations of a cross section ratio and an energy separation of the spin doublet states ($3/2^{+}_1$ and $5/2^{+}_1$). In addition, peaks that are considered to be states of [$^{8}{\rm Li}(3^{+})\otimes s_{\Lambda}=3/2^{+}_{2}, 1/2^{+}$] and [$^{8}{\rm Li}(1^{+})\otimes s_{\Lambda}=5/2^{+}_{2}, 7/2^{+}$] were observed at $E_{\Lambda}({\rm no.~2})=1.74\pm0.27^{\rm stat.}\pm0.11^{\rm sys.}~{\rm MeV}$ and $E_{\Lambda}({\rm no.~3})=3.30\pm0.24^{\rm stat.}\pm0.11^{\rm sys.}~{\rm MeV}$, respectively. The $E_{\Lambda}({\rm no.~3})$ is larger than shell model predictions by a few hundred keV, and the difference would indicate that a ${\rm ^{5}He}+t$ structure is more developed for the $3^{+}$ state than those for the $2^{+}$ and $1^{+}$ states in a core nucleus $^{8}{\rm Li}$ as a cluster model calculation suggests., Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures

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2021
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45. Measurement of the proton spin structure at long distances

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Zheng, X., Deur, A., Kang, H., Kuhn, S. E., Ripani, M., Zhang, J., Adhikari, K. P., Adhikari, S., Amaryan, M. J., Atac, H., Avakian, H., Barion, L., Battaglieri, M., Bedlinskiy, I., Benmokhtar, F., Bianconi, A., Biselli, A. S., Boiarinov, S., Bondi, M., Bossu, F., Bosted, P., Briscoe, W. J., Brock, J., Brooks, W. K., Bulumulla, D., Burkert, V. D., Carlin, C., Carman, D. S., Carvajal, J. C., Celentano, A., Chatagnon, P., Chetry, T., Chen, J. -P., Choi, S., Ciullo, G., Clark, L., Cole, P. L., Contalbrigo, M., Crede, V., D'Angelo, A., Dashyan, N., De Vita, R., Defurne, M., Diehl, S., Djalali, C., Drozdov, V. A., Dupre, R., Ehrhart, M., Alaoui, A. El, Elouadrhiri, L., Eugenio, P., Fedotov, G., Fegan, S., Fersch, R., Filippi, A., Forest, T. A., Ghandilyan, Y., Gilfoyle, G. P., Giovanetti, K. L., Girod, F. -X., Glazier, D. I., Gothe, R. W., Griffioen, K. A., Guidal, M., Guler, N., Guo, L., Hafidi, K., Hakobyan, H., Hattawy, M., Hayward, T. B., Heddle, D., Hicks, K., Hobart, A., Holmstrom, T., Holtrop, M., Ilieva, Y., Ireland, D. G., Isupov, E. L., Jo, H. S., Joo, K., Joosten, S., Keith, C. D., Keller, D., Khanal, A., Khandaker, M., Kim, C. W., Kim, W., Klein, F. J., Kripko, A., Kubarovsky, V., Lanza, L., Leali, M., Lenisa, P., livingston, K., Long, E., MacGregor, I. J. D., Markov, N., Marsicano, L., Mascagna, V., McKinnon, B., Meekins, D. G., Mineeva, T., Mirazita, M., Mokeev, V., Mullen, C., Nadel-Turonski, P., Neupane, K., Niccolai, S., Osipenko, M., Ostrovidov, A. I., Paolone, M., Pappalardo, L., Park, K., Pasyuk, E., Phelps, W., Phillips, S. K., Pogorelko, O., Poudel, J., Prok, Y., Raue, B. A., Ritman, J., Rizzo, A., Rosner, G., Rossi, P., Rowley, J., Sabatie, F., Salgado, C., Schmidt, A., Schumacher, R. A., Seely, M. L., Sharabian, Y. G., Shrestha, U., Sirca, S., Slifer, K., Sparveris, N., Stepanyan, S., Strakovsky, I. I., Strauch, S., Sulkosky, V., Tyler, N., Ungaro, M., Venturelli, L., Voskanyan, H., Voutier, E., Watts, D. P., Wei, X., Weinstein, L. B., Wood, M. H., Yale, B., Zachariou, N., and Zhao, Z. W.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

Measuring the spin structure of protons and neutrons tests our understanding of how they arise from quarks and gluons, the fundamental building blocks of nuclear matter. At long distances the coupling constant of the strong interaction becomes large, requiring non-perturbative methods to calculate quantum chromodynamics processes, such as lattice gauge theory or effective field theories. Here we report proton spin structure measurements from scattering a polarized electron beam off polarized protons. The spin-dependent cross-sections were measured at large distances, corresponding to the region of low momentum transfer squared between 0.012 and 1.0 GeV$^2$. This kinematic range provides unique tests of chiral effective field theory predictions. Our results show that a complete description of the nucleon spin remains elusive, and call for further theoretical works, e.g. in lattice quantum chromodynamics. Finally, our data extrapolated to the photon point agree with the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule, a fundamental prediction of quantum field theory that relates the anomalous magnetic moment of the proton to its integrated spin-dependent cross-sections., Comment: Published version. 10 pages, 5 figures. 20 pages of supplementary material (data tables and a figure)

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2021
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46. Deep Exclusive Electroproduction of π0 at High Q2 in the Quark Valence Regime

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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

47. Early Results from the Qweak Experiment

Author

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

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

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

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2014
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48. 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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49. 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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50. 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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