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1. Ion-beam assisted sputtering of titanium nitride thin films

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Timothy Draher, Tomas Polakovic, Juliang Li, Yi Li, Ulrich Welp, Jidong Samuel Jiang, John Pearson, Whitney Armstrong, Zein-Eddine Meziani, Clarence Chang, Wai-Kwong Kwok, Zhili Xiao, and Valentine Novosad

Subjects
Medicine, Science
Abstract

Abstract Titanium nitride is a material of interest for many superconducting devices such as nanowire microwave resonators and photon detectors. Thus, controlling the growth of TiN thin films with desirable properties is of high importance. This work aims to explore effects in ion beam-assisted sputtering (IBAS), were an observed increase in nominal critical temperature and upper critical fields are in tandem with previous work on Niobium nitride (NbN). We grow thin films of titanium nitride by both, the conventional method of DC reactive magnetron sputtering and the IBAS method, to compare their superconducting critical temperatures $$T_{c}$$ T c as functions of thickness, sheet resistance, and nitrogen flow rate. We perform electrical and structural characterizations by electric transport and x-ray diffraction measurements. Compared to the conventional method of reactive sputtering, the IBAS technique has demonstrated a 10% increase in nominal critical temperature without noticeable variation in the lattice structure. Additionally, we explore the behavior of superconducting $$T_c$$ T c in ultra-thin films. Trends in films grown at high nitrogen concentrations follow predictions of mean-field theory in disordered films and show suppression of superconducting $$T_c$$ T c due to geometric effects, while nitride films grown at low nitrogen concentrations strongly deviate from the theoretical models.

Published
2023
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2. Unconventional Applications of Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors

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Tomas Polakovic, Whitney Armstrong, Goran Karapetrov, Zein-Eddine Meziani, and Valentine Novosad

Subjects
superconductivity, nanowires, particle detectors, photon detectors, quantum detectors, Chemistry, QD1-999
Abstract

Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors are becoming a dominant technology in quantum optics and quantum communication, primarily because of their low timing jitter and capability to detect individual low-energy photons with high quantum efficiencies. However, other desirable characteristics, such as high detection rates, operation in cryogenic and high magnetic field environments, or high-efficiency detection of charged particles, are underrepresented in literature, potentially leading to a lack of interest in other fields that might benefit from this technology. We review the progress in use of superconducting nanowire technology in photon and particle detection outside of the usual areas of physics, with emphasis on the potential use in ongoing and future experiments in nuclear and high energy physics.

Published
2020
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3. Room temperature deposition of superconducting niobium nitride films by ion beam assisted sputtering

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Tomas Polakovic, Sergi Lendinez, John E. Pearson, Axel Hoffmann, Volodymyr Yefremenko, Clarence L. Chang, Whitney Armstrong, Kawtar Hafidi, Goran Karapetrov, and Valentine Novosad

Subjects
Biotechnology, TP248.13-248.65, Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

We use room temperature ion beam assisted sputtering to deposit niobium nitride thin films. Electrical and structural characterizations were performed by electric transport and magnetization measurements at variable temperatures, X-ray diffraction, and atomic force microscopy. Compared to reactive sputtering of niobium nitride, films sputtered in the presence of an ion beam show a remarkable increase in the superconducting critical temperature Tc, while exhibiting lower sensitivity to nitrogen concentration during deposition. Thickness dependence of the superconducting critical temperature is comparable to films prepared by conventional methods at high substrate temperatures and is consistent with behavior driven by quantum size effects or weak localization.

Published
2018
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4. Ion-beam Assisted Sputtering of Titanium Nitride Thin Films

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Timothy Draher, Tomas Polakovic, Juliang Li, Yi Li, Ulrich Welp, Jidong Samuel Jiang, John Pearson, Whitney Armstrong, Zein-Eddine Meziani, Clarence Chang, Wai-Kwong Kwok, Zhili Xiao, and Valentine Novosad

Subjects
Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con), Condensed Matter - Materials Science, Multidisciplinary, Condensed Matter - Superconductivity, Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci), FOS: Physical sciences
Abstract

Titanium nitride is a material of interest for many superconducting devices such as nanowire microwave resonators and photon detectors. Thus, controlling the growth of TiN thin films with desirable properties is of high importance. This work aims to explore effects in ion beam-assisted sputtering (IBAS), were an observed increase in nominal critical temperature and upper critical fields are in tandem with previous work on Niobium nitride (NbN). We grow thin films of titanium nitride by both, the conventional method of DC reactive magnetron sputtering and the IBAS method, to compare their superconducting critical temperatures $$T_{c}$$ T c as functions of thickness, sheet resistance, and nitrogen flow rate. We perform electrical and structural characterizations by electric transport and x-ray diffraction measurements. Compared to the conventional method of reactive sputtering, the IBAS technique has demonstrated a 10% increase in nominal critical temperature without noticeable variation in the lattice structure. Additionally, we explore the behavior of superconducting $$T_c$$ T c in ultra-thin films. Trends in films grown at high nitrogen concentrations follow predictions of mean-field theory in disordered films and show suppression of superconducting $$T_c$$ T c due to geometric effects, while nitride films grown at low nitrogen concentrations strongly deviate from the theoretical models.

Published
2022

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

Author

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

Subjects
Nuclear physics, Physics, Spectrometer, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, 0103 physical sciences, Compton scattering, Perturbative QCD, 010306 general physics, 01 natural sciences
Published
2021

6. Ruling out Color Transparency in Quasielastic C12(e,e′p) up to Q2 of 14.2 (GeV/c)2

Author

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

Subjects
Quantum chromodynamics, Physics, Proton, Scattering, Momentum transfer, General Physics and Astronomy, Inelastic scattering, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Nuclear transparency, Transparency (graphic), 0103 physical sciences, Color confinement, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics
Abstract

Quasielastic C12(e,e′p) scattering was measured at spacelike 4-momentum transfer squared Q2=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 Q2 dependence, up to proton momenta of 8.5 GeV/c, ruling out the quantum chromodynamics effect of color transparency at the measured Q2 scales in exclusive (e,e′p) reactions. These results impose strict constraints on models of color transparency for protons.

Published
2021

7. Characterization of cubic Li 2100 MoO 4 crystals for the CUPID experiment

Author

Federico Ferri, Stefano Dell'Oro, J. Camilleri, V. Shlegel, N. Casali, R. Rizzoli, F. Bellini, A. Ressa, J. A. Scarpaci, C. Augier, Goran Karapetrov, G. Fantini, P. Gras, M. I. Martínez, F.A. Danevich, L. Pagnanini, P. T. Surukuchi, A. Drobizhev, S. H. Fu, C. Oriol, I. Dafinei, T. O'Donnell, E. Figueroa-Feliciano, P. Loaiza, Jie Yang, S. Copello, Haiping Peng, Oliviero Cremonesi, L. Wang, A. Franceschi, C. Pagliarone, Davide Chiesa, Paolo Carniti, A. Juillard, Andrea Barresi, V.I. Tretyak, E. V. Hansen, M. Xue, S. Zucchelli, C. Pira, O. G. Polischuk, X. F. Navick, R. J. Creswick, L. Marini, K. Wilson, I. Colantoni, D. Misiak, C. Rusconi, J. Billard, D. V. Poda, J. Johnston, Jonathan Ouellet, A. Charrier, A. Cruciani, S. L. Wagaarachchi, G. Bari, F. Collamati, V. Yumatov, J. Gascon, C. C. Chang, Stefano Nisi, Changbo Fu, G. Pessina, S. Pirro, L. Pattavina, S. Marnieros, Jie Zhang, G. Wang, G. D'Imperio, A. Cazes, Yuting Liu, E. Celi, Massimiliano Clemenza, A. Tsymbaliuk, Monica Sisti, Valentyn Novosad, I. Nutini, S. Milana, R. Nipoti, C. Nones, A. Puiu, M. Chapellier, H. Z. Huang, V. G. Yefremenko, R. Mariam, B. Schmidt, G. Keppel, Yu. G. Kolomensky, Luigi Cappelli, D. Mayer, O. Tellier, L. Ma, Y. Mei, R. G. Huang, F. Mancarella, M. Faverzani, L. Dumoulin, M. Madhukuttan, H. Khalife, M. Gros, Kai Vetter, S. Di Domizio, D. Baudin, P. Pari, A. Armatol, Giovanni Benato, M. Beretta, Tomas Polakovic, L. Taffarello, Virendra Singh, Danielle Speller, Laura Cardani, K. M. Heeger, B. K. Fujikawa, E. Olivieri, Eric B. Norman, L. Yan, T. Napolitano, S. Pagan, M. Biassoni, B. Mauri, V. Pettinacci, M. de Combarieu, O. Azzolini, M. M. Zarytskyy, A. Giachero, Claudio Gotti, S. I. Konovalov, L. Gironi, Lindley Winslow, M. Pavan, James Nikkel, F. T. Avignone, Whitney Armstrong, V. Sanglard, L. Imbert, C. Bucci, T. D. Gutierrez, C. Brofferio, A. S. Barabash, Ezio Previtali, B. Welliver, P. de Marcillac, D. L. Helis, A. S. Zolotarova, Ke Han, Reina H. Maruyama, B. Paul, A. Giuliani, Silvia Capelli, Massimiliano Nastasi, James R. Wilson, M. De Jesus, E. Armengaud, V. Sharma, Matias Velázquez, V. V. Kobychev, L. Bergé, A. Branca, C. Rosenfeld, V. Boldrini, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, C. Tomei, Emanuele Ferri, Joseph A. Formaggio, S. Pozzi, V. Dompè, A. D'Addabbo, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I Lyon), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Rayonnement Matière de Saclay (IRAMIS), Service de physique de l'état condensé (SPEC - UMR3680), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Science et Ingénierie des Matériaux et Procédés (SIMaP), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), CUPID, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Armatol A., Armengaud E., Armstrong W., Augier C., Avignone F.T., Azzolini O., Barabash A., Bari G., Barresi A., Baudin D., Bellini F., Benato G., Beretta M., Berge L., Biassoni M., Billard J., Boldrini V., Branca A., Brofferio C., Bucci C., Camilleri J., Capelli S., Cappelli L., Cardani L., Carniti P., Casali N., Cazes A., Celi E., Chang C., Chapellier M., Charrier A., Chiesa D., Clemenza M., Colantoni I., Collamati F., Copello S., Cremonesi O., J.Creswick R., Cruciani A., D'Addabbo A., D'Imperio G., Dafinei I., A.Danevich F., deCombarieu M., DeJesus M., deMarcillac P., Dell'Oro S., DiDomizio S., Dompe V., Drobizhev A., Dumoulin L., Fantini G., Faverzani M., Ferri E., Ferri F., Ferroni F., Figueroa-Feliciano E., Formaggio J., Franceschi A., Fu C., Fu S., Fujikawa B.K., Gascon J., Giachero A., Gironi L., Giuliani A., Gorla P., Gotti C., Gras P., Gros M., Gutierrez T.D., Han K., Hansen E.V., Heeger K.M., Helis D.L., Huang H.Z., Huang R.G., Imbert L., Johnston J., Juillard A., Karapetrov G., Keppel G., Khalife H., Kobychev V.V., Kolomensky Y.G., Konovalov S., Liu Y., Loaiza P., Ma L., Madhukuttan M., Mancarella F., Mariam R., Marini L., Marnieros S., Martinez M., Maruyama R.H., Mauri B., Mayer D., Mei Y., Milana S., Misiak D., Napolitano T., Nastasi M., Navick X.F., Nikkel J., Nipoti R., Nisi S., Nones C., Norman E.B., Novosad V., Nutini I., O'Donnell T., Olivieri E., Oriol C., Ouellet J.L., Pagan S., Pagliarone C., Pagnanini L., Pari P., Pattavina L., Paul B., Pavan M., Peng H., Pessina G., Pettinacci V., Pira C., Pirro S., V.Poda D., Polakovic T., Polischuk O.G., Pozzi S., Previtali E., Puiu A., Ressa A., Rizzoli R., Rosenfeld C., Rusconi C., Sanglard V., Scarpaci J.A., Schmidt B., Sharma V., Shlegel V., Singh V., Sisti M., Speller D., Surukuchi P.T., Taffarello L., Tellier O., Tomei C., Tretyak V.I., Tsymbaliuk A., Velazquez M., Vetter K.J., Wagaarachchi S.L., Wang G., Wang L., Welliver B., Wilson J., Wilson K., Winslow L.A., Xue M., Yan L., Yang J., Yefremenko V., Yumatov V., Zarytskyy M.M., Zhang J., Zolotarova A., Zucchelli S., Armatol, A, Armengaud, E, Armstrong, W, Augier, C, Avignone, F, Azzolini, O, Barabash, A, Bari, G, Barresi, A, Baudin, D, Bellini, F, Benato, G, Beretta, M, Berge, L, Biassoni, M, Billard, J, Boldrini, V, Branca, A, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Camilleri, J, Capelli, S, Cappelli, L, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Cazes, A, Celi, E, Chang, C, Chapellier, M, Charrier, A, Chiesa, D, Clemenza, M, Colantoni, I, Collamati, F, Copello, S, Cremonesi, O, J. Creswick, R, Cruciani, A, D'Addabbo, A, D'Imperio, G, Dafinei, I, A. Danevich, F, Decombarieu, M, Dejesus, M, Demarcillac, P, Dell'Oro, S, Didomizio, S, Dompe, V, Drobizhev, A, Dumoulin, L, Fantini, G, Faverzani, M, Ferri, E, Ferri, F, Ferroni, F, Figueroa-Feliciano, E, Formaggio, J, Franceschi, A, Fu, C, Fu, S, Fujikawa, B, Gascon, J, Giachero, A, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Gras, P, Gros, M, Gutierrez, T, Han, K, Hansen, E, Heeger, K, Helis, D, Huang, H, Huang, R, Imbert, L, Johnston, J, Juillard, A, Karapetrov, G, Keppel, G, Khalife, H, Kobychev, V, Kolomensky, Y, Konovalov, S, Liu, Y, Loaiza, P, Ma, L, Madhukuttan, M, Mancarella, F, Mariam, R, Marini, L, Marnieros, S, Martinez, M, Maruyama, R, Mauri, B, Mayer, D, Mei, Y, Milana, S, Misiak, D, Napolitano, T, Nastasi, M, Navick, X, Nikkel, J, Nipoti, R, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Norman, E, Novosad, V, Nutini, I, O'Donnell, T, Olivieri, E, Oriol, C, Ouellet, J, Pagan, S, Pagliarone, C, Pagnanini, L, Pari, P, Pattavina, L, Paul, B, Pavan, M, Peng, H, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pira, C, Pirro, S, V. Poda, D, Polakovic, T, Polischuk, O, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Ressa, A, Rizzoli, R, Rosenfeld, C, Rusconi, C, Sanglard, V, Scarpaci, J, Schmidt, B, Sharma, V, Shlegel, V, Singh, V, Sisti, M, Speller, D, Surukuchi, P, Taffarello, L, Tellier, O, Tomei, C, Tretyak, V, Tsymbaliuk, A, Velazquez, M, Vetter, K, Wagaarachchi, S, Wang, G, Wang, L, Welliver, B, Wilson, J, Wilson, K, Winslow, L, Xue, M, Yan, L, Yang, J, Yefremenko, V, Yumatov, V, Zarytskyy, M, Zhang, J, Zolotarova, A, and Zucchelli, S

Subjects
Mo-100, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), background: induced, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Monte Carlo method, measurement methods, bolometers, neutrinoless double beta decay, energy resolution, Parameter space, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Double Beta Decay, Nuclear Experiment, background: suppression, Physics, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators), molybdenum: oxygen, Double-beta decay detector, Low Temperature Detector, lithium, Scintillation counter, Neutrino, photon: yield, numerical calculations: Monte Carlo, bolometers, FOS: Physical sciences, Cryogenic detector, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], neutrinoless double beta decay, Particle identification method, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), Double beta decay, CUPID, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), scintillation counter, Scintillation, molybdenum: nuclide, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, bibliography, crystal: geometry, Computational physics, efficiency, FIS/04 - FISICA NUCLEARE E SUBNUCLEARE, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract

The CUPID Collaboration is designing a tonne-scale, background-free detector to search for double beta decay with sufficient sensitivity to fully explore the parameter space corresponding to the inverted neutrino mass hierarchy scenario. One of the CUPID demonstrators, CUPID-Mo, has proved the potential of enriched Li$$_{2}$$ 2 $$^{100}$$ 100 MoO$$_4$$ 4 crystals as suitable detectors for neutrinoless double beta decay search. In this work, we characterised cubic crystals that, compared to the cylindrical crystals used by CUPID-Mo, are more appealing for the construction of tightly packed arrays. We measured an average energy resolution of ($$6.7\pm 0.6$$ 6.7 ± 0.6 ) keV FWHM in the region of interest, approaching the CUPID target of 5 keV FWHM. We assessed the identification of $$\alpha $$ α particles with and without a reflecting foil that enhances the scintillation light collection efficiency, proving that the baseline design of CUPID already ensures a complete suppression of this $$\alpha $$ α -induced background contribution. We also used the collected data to validate a Monte Carlo simulation modelling the light collection efficiency, which will enable further optimisations of the detector.

Published
2021

8. Novel technique for the study of pileup events in cryogenic bolometers

Author

Valentyn Novosad, Andrea Giachero, R. Nipoti, Jie Zhang, H. Z. Huang, V. G. Yefremenko, G. Keppel, D. Mayer, C. Nones, A. Puiu, S. Nisi, A. Armatol, K. Wilson, I. Colantoni, A. Barresi, P. Loaiza, C. Oriol, G. Pessina, V. Sanglard, L. Imbert, M. Faverzani, M. Beretta, S. Copello, C. Pagliarone, F.A. Danevich, A. Branca, Jonathan Ouellet, T. O'Donnell, Paolo Carniti, Massimiliano Clemenza, G. Bari, S. Di Domizio, Kai Vetter, C. Rosenfeld, D. L. Helis, Monica Sisti, Federico Ferri, H. Khalife, V. Boldrini, P. Gorla, P. Pari, F. Ferroni, Tomas Polakovic, B. Schmidt, Stefano Dell'Oro, A. Charrier, J. Billard, C. Tomei, S. H. Fu, N. Casali, Laura Cardani, G. Wang, Jie Yang, B. K. Fujikawa, R. J. Creswick, Davide Chiesa, P. Gras, M. Chapellier, C. Pira, Joseph A. Formaggio, L. Pagnanini, P. T. Surukuchi, C. Brofferio, L. Wang, Massimiliano Nastasi, Stefano Pozzi, E. Figueroa-Feliciano, Haiping Peng, V. Shlegel, V. Sharma, E. V. Hansen, A. S. Barabash, B. Paul, M. Gros, Evelyn Ferri, Oliviero Cremonesi, S. Zucchelli, James Nikkel, Ezio Previtali, J. Gascon, R. Mariam, C. C. Chang, L. Ma, Yu. G. Kolomensky, Luigi Cappelli, L. Taffarello, B. Welliver, A. Giuliani, M. Madhukuttan, Matias Velázquez, C. Augier, S. Marnieros, V. Yumatov, Goran Karapetrov, G. Fantini, A. Cazes, Danielle Speller, James R. Wilson, A. Cruciani, X. F. Navick, S. Pirro, V. V. Kobychev, J. Camilleri, A. Franceschi, Changbo Fu, C. Rusconi, J. A. Scarpaci, A. Juillard, L. Bergé, R. Rizzoli, M. M. Zarytskyy, V. Dompè, G. D'Imperio, Irene Nutini, A. D'Addabbo, P. de Marcillac, M. De Jesus, O. G. Polischuk, F. Bellini, A. Ressa, D. Baudin, M. Xue, M. Pavan, Lindley Winslow, A. Drobizhev, I. Dafinei, S. L. Wagaarachchi, F. Collamati, V. Pettinacci, Simone Capelli, E. Olivieri, S. I. Konovalov, Eric B. Norman, L. Pattavina, M. I. Martínez, T. Napolitano, L. Marini, V.I. Tretyak, D. Misiak, D. V. Poda, J. Johnston, M. Biassoni, E. Armengaud, Vasundhara Singh, S. Milana, O. Azzolini, L. Gironi, F. T. Avignone, Whitney Armstrong, Y. Liu, C. Bucci, T. D. Gutierrez, R. G. Huang, F. Mancarella, L. Yan, S. Pagan, B. Mauri, M. de Combarieu, E. Celi, C. Gotti, A. S. Zolotarova, Ke Han, Reina H. Maruyama, A. Tsymbaliuk, Y. Mei, K. M. Heeger, O. Tellier, L. Dumoulin, Giovanni Benato, Armatol A., Armengaud E., Armstrong W., Augier C., Avignone F.T., Azzolini O., Barabash A., Bari G., Barresi A., Baudin D., Bellini F., Benato G., Beretta M., Berge L., Biassoni M., Billard J., Boldrini V., Branca A., Brofferio C., Bucci C., Camilleri J., Capelli S., Cappelli L., Cardani L., Carniti P., Casali N., Cazes A., Celi E., Chang C., Chapellier M., Charrier A., Chiesa D., Clemenza M., Colantoni I., Collamati F., Copello S., Cremonesi O., Creswick R.J., Cruciani A., D'Addabbo A., D'Imperio G., Dafinei I., Danevich F.A., De Combarieu M., De Jesus M., De Marcillac P., Dell'Oro S., Di Domizio S., Dompe V., Drobizhev A., Dumoulin L., Fantini G., Faverzani M., Ferri E., Ferri F., Ferroni F., Figueroa-Feliciano E., Formaggio J., Franceschi A., Fu C., Fu S., Fujikawa B.K., Gascon J., Giachero A., Gironi L., Giuliani A., Gorla P., Gotti C., Gras P., Gros M., Gutierrez T.D., Han K., Hansen E.V., Heeger K.M., Helis D.L., Huang H.Z., Huang R.G., Imbert L., Johnston J., Juillard A., Karapetrov G., Keppel G., Khalife H., Kobychev V.V., Kolomensky Y.G., Konovalov S., Liu Y., Loaiza P., Ma L., Madhukuttan M., Mancarella F., Mariam R., Marini L., Marnieros S., Martinez M., Maruyama R.H., Mauri B., Mayer D., Mei Y., Milana S., Misiak D., Napolitano T., Nastasi M., Navick X.F., Nikkel J., Nipoti R., Nisi S., Nones C., Norman E.B., Novosad V., Nutini I., O'Donnell T., Olivieri E., Oriol C., Ouellet J.L., Pagan S., Pagliarone C., Pagnanini L., Pari P., Pattavina L., Paul B., Pavan M., Peng H., Pessina G., Pettinacci V., Pira C., Pirro S., Poda D.V., Polakovic T., Polischuk O.G., Pozzi S., Previtali E., Puiu A., Ressa A., Rizzoli R., Rosenfeld C., Rusconi C., Sanglard V., Scarpaci J., Schmidt B., Sharma V., Shlegel V., Singh V., Sisti M., Speller D., Surukuchi P.T., Taffarello L., Tellier O., Tomei C., Tretyak V.I., Tsymbaliuk A., Velazquez M., Vetter K.J., Wagaarachchi S.L., Wang G., Wang L., Welliver B., Wilson J., Wilson K., Winslow L.A., Xue M., Yan L., Yang J., Yefremenko V., Yumatov V., Zarytskyy M.M., Zhang J., Zolotarova A., Zucchelli S., Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I Lyon), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Rayonnement Matière de Saclay (IRAMIS), Science et Ingénierie des Matériaux et Procédés (SIMaP), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), CUPID, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Armatol, A, Armengaud, E, Armstrong, W, Augier, C, Avignone, F, Azzolini, O, Barabash, A, Bari, G, Barresi, A, Baudin, D, Bellini, F, Benato, G, Beretta, M, Berge, L, Biassoni, M, Billard, J, Boldrini, V, Branca, A, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Camilleri, J, Capelli, S, Cappelli, L, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Cazes, A, Celi, E, Chang, C, Chapellier, M, Charrier, A, Chiesa, D, Clemenza, M, Colantoni, I, Collamati, F, Copello, S, Cremonesi, O, Creswick, R, Cruciani, A, D'Addabbo, A, D'Imperio, G, Dafinei, I, Danevich, F, De Combarieu, M, De Jesus, M, De Marcillac, P, Dell'Oro, S, Di Domizio, S, Dompe, V, Drobizhev, A, Dumoulin, L, Fantini, G, Faverzani, M, Ferri, E, Ferri, F, Ferroni, F, Figueroa-Feliciano, E, Formaggio, J, Franceschi, A, Fu, C, Fu, S, Fujikawa, B, Gascon, J, Giachero, A, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Gras, P, Gros, M, Gutierrez, T, Han, K, Hansen, E, Heeger, K, Helis, D, Huang, H, Huang, R, Imbert, L, Johnston, J, Juillard, A, Karapetrov, G, Keppel, G, Khalife, H, Kobychev, V, Kolomensky, Y, Konovalov, S, Liu, Y, Loaiza, P, Ma, L, Madhukuttan, M, Mancarella, F, Mariam, R, Marini, L, Marnieros, S, Martinez, M, Maruyama, R, Mauri, B, Mayer, D, Mei, Y, Milana, S, Misiak, D, Napolitano, T, Nastasi, M, Navick, X, Nikkel, J, Nipoti, R, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Norman, E, Novosad, V, Nutini, I, O'Donnell, T, Olivieri, E, Oriol, C, Ouellet, J, Pagan, S, Pagliarone, C, Pagnanini, L, Pari, P, Pattavina, L, Paul, B, Pavan, M, Peng, H, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pira, C, Pirro, S, Poda, D, Polakovic, T, Polischuk, O, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Ressa, A, Rizzoli, R, Rosenfeld, C, Rusconi, C, Sanglard, V, Scarpaci, J, Schmidt, B, Sharma, V, Shlegel, V, Singh, V, Sisti, M, Speller, D, Surukuchi, P, Taffarello, L, Tellier, O, Tomei, C, Tretyak, V, Tsymbaliuk, A, Velazquez, M, Vetter, K, Wagaarachchi, S, Wang, G, Wang, L, Welliver, B, Wilson, J, Wilson, K, Winslow, L, Xue, M, Yan, L, Yang, J, Yefremenko, V, Yumatov, V, Zarytskyy, M, Zhang, J, Zolotarova, A, and Zucchelli, S

Subjects
data analysis method, double beta decay, nuclear tests of fundamental interactions, Particle decays, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, double beta decay, FOS: Physical sciences, Cryogenics, MESH: numerical calculation, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, benchmark, bolometer, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), law, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Electronic engineering, MESH: benchmark, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], numerical calculations, 010306 general physics, time resolution, nuclear tests of fundamental interactions, Physics, Signal generator, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Bolometer, Detector, Time resolution, MESH: data analysis method, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), MESH: bolometer, Gran Sasso, Neutrinoless Double Beta decay, Neutrino Physics, MESH: cryogenics, efficiency, cryogenics, pile-up, Rise time, MESH: Gran Sasso, Benchmark (computing), MESH: double-beta decay: (0neutrino), Neutrinoless double-beta decay, MESH: efficiency, Particle decays, MESH: time resolution, MESH: pile-up
Abstract

International audience; Precise characterization of detector time resolution is of crucial importance for next-generation cryogenic-bolometer experiments searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay, such as CUPID, in order to reject background due to pile-up of two-neutrino double-beta decay events. In this paper, we describe a technique developed to study the pile-up rejection capability of cryogenic bolometers. Our approach, which consists of producing controlled pile-up events with a programmable waveform generator, has the benefit that we can reliably and reproducibly control the time separation and relative energy of the individual components of the generated pile-up events. The resulting data allow us to optimize and benchmark analysis strategies to discriminate between individual and pile-up pulses. We describe a test of this technique performed with a small array of detectors at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, in Italy; we obtain a 90% rejection efficiency against pulser-generated pile-up events with rise time of ~15 ms down to time separation between the individual events of 2 ms.

Published
2021

9. A CUPID Li$_2$ $^{100} $MoO$_4$ scintillating bolometer tested in the CROSS underground facility

Author

A. S. Barabash, V. Yumatov, G. D'Imperio, M. De Deo, Ezio Previtali, J. M. Calvo-Mozota, Evelyn Ferri, B. Welliver, L. Gironi, L. Marini, E. Guerard, D. Misiak, D. V. Poda, J. Johnston, V. Dompè, F. T. Avignone, Whitney Armstrong, A. Charrier, O. Tellier, I. Colantoni, A. D'Addabbo, S. Di Domizio, P. Pari, Tomas Polakovic, Massimiliano Clemenza, V. Shlegel, R. Mariam, Yu. G. Kolomensky, Luigi Cappelli, Monica Sisti, M. Pavan, S. Zucchelli, Laura Cardani, P. de Marcillac, C. Augier, Goran Karapetrov, X.-F. Navick, B. K. Fujikawa, Stefano Pozzi, L. Pagnanini, P. T. Surukuchi, O. Azzolini, G. Fantini, Federico Ferri, B. Schmidt, C. Oriol, C. Pagliarone, E. Celi, T. O'Donnell, S. H. Fu, S. Dell'Oro, Giovanni Benato, M. Xue, Yuting Liu, Ch. Bourgeois, C. C. Chang, Stefano Nisi, James R. Wilson, S. Milana, G. Olivier, A. Cruciani, A. Franceschi, Changbo Fu, I. Dafinei, M. Chapellier, C. Gotti, S. Copello, C. Brofferio, S. Pirro, Jie Yang, V. Sharma, D. L. Helis, A. Barresi, J. Camilleri, R. Rizzoli, L. Ma, L. Dumoulin, Davide Chiesa, A. S. Zolotarova, Paolo Carniti, V. Pettinacci, A. Juillard, A. Candela, M. Gros, M. Madhukuttan, I. C. Bandac, M. De Jesus, E. V. Hansen, O. G. Polischuk, A. Drobizhev, Ke Han, F. Bellini, A. Ressa, Reina H. Maruyama, V.I. Tretyak, F.A. Danevich, J. A. Scarpaci, C. Bucci, T. D. Gutierrez, M. Faverzani, Matias Velázquez, P. Loaiza, Kai Vetter, Massimiliano Nastasi, S. I. Konovalov, L. Taffarello, D. Reynet, V. V. Kobychev, L. Bergé, J. Gascon, V. Sanglard, L. Yan, L. Imbert, Virendra Singh, M. M. Zarytskyy, Valentyn Novosad, C. Rosenfeld, Danielle Speller, Andrea Giachero, N. Casali, A. Branca, L. Pattavina, A. Ianni, E. Olivieri, R. J. Creswick, Eric B. Norman, V. Boldrini, P. Gras, K. Wilson, S. Pagan, J. Billard, S. Marnieros, Li Wang, T. Napolitano, R. Nipoti, A. Cazes, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, E. Figueroa-Feliciano, C. Tomei, C. Pira, Haiping Peng, Oliviero Cremonesi, M. Biassoni, D. Mayer, Jonathan Ouellet, G. Bari, Lindley Winslow, M. de Combarieu, Joseph A. Formaggio, A. Tsymbaliuk, Y. Mei, A. Armatol, K. M. Heeger, R. G. Huang, F. Mancarella, B. Paul, M. I. Martínez, G. Pessina, Jie Zhang, C. Nones, A. Puiu, A. Giuliani, B. Mauri, James Nikkel, Irene Nutini, G. Wang, H. Z. Huang, V. G. Yefremenko, G. Keppel, H. Khalife, E. Armengaud, D. Baudin, M. Beretta, S. L. Wagaarachchi, F. Collamati, Simone Capelli, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I Lyon), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Rayonnement Matière de Saclay (IRAMIS), Science et Ingénierie des Matériaux et Procédés (SIMaP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), CUPID, CROSS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Armatol A., Armengaud E., Armstrong W., Augier C., Iii F.T.A., Azzolini O., Bandac I.C., Barabash A.S., Bari G., Barresi A., Baudin D., Bellini F., Benato G., Beretta M., Berge L., Bourgeois C., Biassoni M., Billard J., Boldrini V., Branca A., Brofferio C., Bucci C., Calvo-Mozota J.M., Camilleri J., Candela A., Capelli S., Cappelli L., Cardani L., Carniti P., Casali N., Cazes A., Celi E., Chang C., Chapellier M., Charrier A., Chiesa D., Clemenza M., Colantoni I., Collamati F., Copello S., Cremonesi O., Creswick R.J., Cruciani A., D'Addabbo A., D'Imperio G., Dafinei I., Danevich F.A., De Combarieu M., Deo M.D., Jesus M.D., De Marcillac P., Dell'Oro S., Domizio S.D., Dompe V., Drobizhev A., Dumoulin L., Fantini G., Faverzani M., Ferri E., Ferri F., Ferroni F., Figueroa-Feliciano E., Formaggio J., Franceschi A., Fu C., Fu S., Fujikawa B.K., Gascon J., Giachero A., Gironi L., Giuliani A., Gorla P., Gotti C., Gras P., Gros M., Guerard E., Gutierrez T.D., Han K., Hansen E.V., Heeger K.M., Helis D.L., Huang H.Z., Huang R.G., Ianni A., Imbert L., Johnston J., Juillard A., Karapetrov G., Keppel G., Khalife H., Kobychev V.V., Kolomensky Y.G., Konovalov S.I., Liu Y., Loaiza P., Ma L., Madhukuttan M., Mancarella F., Mariam R., Marini L., Marnieros S., Martinez M., Maruyama R.H., Mauri B., Mayer D., Mei Y., Milana S., Misiak D., Napolitano T., Nastasi M., Navick X.-F., Nikkel J., Nipoti R., Nisi S., Nones C., Norman E.B., Novosad V., Nutini I., O'Donnell T., Olivier G., Olivieri E., Oriol C., Ouellet J.L., Pagan S., Pagliarone C., Pagnanini L., Pari P., Pattavina L., Paul B., Pavan M., Peng H., Pessina G., Pettinacci V., Pira C., Pirro S., Poda D.V., Polakovic T., Polischuk O.G., Pozzi S., Previtali E., Puiu A., Ressa A., Reynet D., Rizzoli R., Rosenfeld C., Sanglard V., Scarpaci J.A., Schmidt B., Sharma V., Shlegel V.N., Singh V., Sisti M., Speller D., Surukuchi P.T., Taffarello L., Tellier O., Tomei C., Tretyak V.I., Tsymbaliuk A., Velazquez M., Vetter K.J., Wagaarachchi S.L., Wang G., Wang L., Welliver B., Wilson J., Wilson K., Winslow L.A., Xue M., Yan L., Yang J., Yefremenko V., Yumatov V.I., Zarytskyy M.M., Zhang J., Zolotarova A.S., Zucchelli S., Armatol, A, Armengaud, E, Armstrong, W, Augier, C, Avignone F. T., I, Azzolini, O, Bandac, I, Barabash, A, Bari, G, Barresi, A, Baudin, D, Bellini, F, Benato, G, Beretta, M, Berge, L, Bourgeois, C, Biassoni, M, Billard, J, Boldrini, V, Branca, A, Brofferio, C, Bucci, C, Calvo-Mozota, J, Camilleri, J, Candela, A, Capelli, S, Cappelli, L, Cardani, L, Carniti, P, Casali, N, Cazes, A, Celi, E, Chang, C, Chapellier, M, Charrier, A, Chiesa, D, Clemenza, M, Colantoni, I, Collamati, F, Copello, S, Cremonesi, O, Creswick, R, Cruciani, A, D'Addabbo, A, D'Imperio, G, Dafinei, I, Danevich, F, De Combarieu, M, Deo, M, Jesus, M, De Marcillac, P, Dell'Oro, S, Domizio, S, Dompe, V, Drobizhev, A, Dumoulin, L, Fantini, G, Faverzani, M, Ferri, E, Ferri, F, Ferroni, F, Figueroa-Feliciano, E, Formaggio, J, Franceschi, A, Fu, C, Fu, S, Fujikawa, B, Gascon, J, Giachero, A, Gironi, L, Giuliani, A, Gorla, P, Gotti, C, Gras, P, Gros, M, Guerard, E, Gutierrez, T, Han, K, Hansen, E, Heeger, K, Helis, D, Huang, H, Huang, R, Ianni, A, Imbert, L, Johnston, J, Juillard, A, Karapetrov, G, Keppel, G, Khalife, H, Kobychev, V, Kolomensky, Y, Konovalov, S, Liu, Y, Loaiza, P, Ma, L, Madhukuttan, M, Mancarella, F, Mariam, R, Marini, L, Marnieros, S, Martinez, M, Maruyama, R, Mauri, B, Mayer, D, Mei, Y, Milana, S, Misiak, D, Napolitano, T, Nastasi, M, Navick, X, Nikkel, J, Nipoti, R, Nisi, S, Nones, C, Norman, E, Novosad, V, Nutini, I, O'Donnell, T, Olivier, G, Olivieri, E, Oriol, C, Ouellet, J, Pagan, S, Pagliarone, C, Pagnanini, L, Pari, P, Pattavina, L, Paul, B, Pavan, M, Peng, H, Pessina, G, Pettinacci, V, Pira, C, Pirro, S, Poda, D, Polakovic, T, Polischuk, O, Pozzi, S, Previtali, E, Puiu, A, Ressa, A, Reynet, D, Rizzoli, R, Rosenfeld, C, Sanglard, V, Scarpaci, J, Schmidt, B, Sharma, V, Shlegel, V, Singh, V, Sisti, M, Speller, D, Surukuchi, P, Taffarello, L, Tellier, O, Tomei, C, Tretyak, V, Tsymbaliuk, A, Velazquez, M, Vetter, K, Wagaarachchi, S, Wang, G, Wang, L, Welliver, B, Wilson, J, Wilson, K, Winslow, L, Xue, M, Yan, L, Yang, J, Yefremenko, V, Yumatov, V, Zarytskyy, M, Zhang, J, Zolotarova, A, and Zucchelli, S

Subjects
gas and liquid scintillators), Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Accurate estimation, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Bolometer, Analytical chemistry, Double-beta decay, FOS: Physical sciences, Cryogenic detector, Radiopurity, 01 natural sciences, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, law.invention, Particle identification, Particle identification methods, 03 medical and health sciences, Particle identification method, 0302 clinical medicine, CUORE, law, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Detector array, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, Event triggered, Physics, Lithium molybdate, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators), Double-beta decay detectors, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, Double-beta decay detector, Cryogenic detectors, Scintillators, Crystal scintillator, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract

A scintillating bolometer based on a large cubic Li$_{2}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ crystal (45 mm side) and a Ge wafer (scintillation detector) has been operated in the CROSS cryogenic facility at the Canfranc underground laboratory in Spain. The dual-readout detector is a prototype of the technology that will be used in the next-generation $0\nu2\beta$ experiment CUPID. The measurements were performed at 18 and 12 mK temperature in a pulse tube dilution refrigerator. This setup utilizes the same technology as the CUORE cryostat that will host CUPID and so represents an accurate estimation of the expected performance. The Li$_{2}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ bolometer shows a high energy resolution of 6 keV FWHM at the 2615 keV $\gamma$ line. The detection of scintillation light for each event triggered by the Li$_{2}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ bolometer allowed for a full separation ($\sim$8$\sigma$) between $\gamma$($\beta$) and $\alpha$ events above 2 MeV. The Li$_{2}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ crystal also shows a high internal radiopurity with $^{228}$Th and $^{226}$Ra activities of less than 3 and 8 $\mu$Bq/kg, respectively. Taking also into account the advantage of a more compact and massive detector array, which can be made of cubic-shaped crystals (compared to the cylindrical ones), this test demonstrates the great potential of cubic Li$_{2}$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ scintillating bolometers for high-sensitivity searches for the $^{100}$Mo $0\nu2\beta$ decay in CROSS and CUPID projects., Comment: 19 pages, 7 figures, 1 table

Published
2021

10. Erratum to: Dispersive corrections in elastic electron-nucleus scattering: an investigation in the intermediate energy regime and their impact on the nuclear matter

Author

R. I. Pomatsalyuk, Yannick Rousseau, A. J. R. Puckett, C. E. Hyde, Ishay Pomerantz, A. P. Freyberger, M. Olson, A. Shahinyan, Kent Paschke, Karl Slifer, E. Piasetzky, S. Strauch, X. Jiang, Fatiha Benmokhtar, H. Arenaövel, A. T. Katramatou, J. R. Calarco, H. F. Ibrahim, T. Holmstrom, S. Frullani, Bryan J. Moffit, W.U. Boeglin, F. Cusanno, E. Chudakov, D. G. Meekins, Asghar Askarpour Kabir, Simon Širca, F. Garibaldi, M. H. Shabestari, Ronald Ransome, E. J. Brash, Guy Ron, Z. E. Meziani, R. Shneor, M. Potokar, Yordanka Ilieva, Young Do Oh, Xin Qian, E. Schulte, Whitney Armstrong, B. Craver, L. Coman, J. P. Chen, C. F. Perdrisat, A. J. Sarty, J.-O. Hansen, M. Reyhan, C. Dutta, B. E. Norum, B. Sawatzky, E. Kuchina, J. Dumas, Emily M. McCullough, Bumsung Lee, M. Meziane, J. Song, R. Michaels, B. L. Berman, G. G. Petratos, J. Roche, G. J. Kumbartzki, P. Giuliani, M. Schwamb, Smt Beck, Douglas Higinbotham, M. K. Jones, Ronald Gilman, Pete Markowitz, Michael Paolone, A. Adeyemi, A. Beck, Yujie Qiang, P. Solvignon, E. Khrosinkova, S. Choi, J. Arrington, Kalyan Allada, R. J. Feuerbach, Alexandre Camsonne, R. A. Lindgren, J. J. LeRose, Punjabi, Paul Gueye, A. Kelleher, and J. Glister

Subjects
Nuclear physics, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Hardware_MEMORYSTRUCTURES, medicine.anatomical_structure, Intermediate energy, Scattering, ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING, medicine, Elastic electron, Nuclear matter, Nucleus
Abstract

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Published
2020

11. Probing the Deuteron at Very Large Internal Momenta

Author

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

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Physics, Meson, Nuclear Theory, Plane wave, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Impulse (physics), 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Recoil, Deuterium, 0103 physical sciences, Isobar, Nuclear force, Neutron, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

$^{2}\mathrm{H}(e,e'p)n$ cross sections have been measured at 4-momentum transfers of $Q^{2} = 4.5 \pm 0.5$ (GeV/c)$^{2}$ over a range of neutron recoil momenta, $p_{\mathrm{r}}$, reaching up to $\sim1.0$ GeV/c. The data were obtained at fixed neutron recoil angles $\theta_{nq} = 35^\circ$, $45^\circ$ and $75^{\circ}$ with respect to the 3-momentum transfer $\vec q$. The new data agree well with previous data which reached $p_{\mathrm{r}}\sim500$ MeV/c. At $\theta_{nq} = 35^\circ$ and $45^\circ$, final state interactions (FSI), meson exchange currents (MEC) and isobar currents (IC) are suppressed and the plane wave impulse approximation (PWIA) provides the dominant cross section contribution. The new data are compared to recent theoretical calculations, where we observe a significant discrepancy for missing momenta $p_{\mathrm{r}}>700$ MeV/c., Comment: main article: 6 pages, 2 figures | supplemental material: 7 pages, 13 figures | numerical tables of cross sections for data and theory are provided as ancillary material | This version has minor additions in the concluding paragraph to address the light-cone / EFT formalisms in the context of this experiment. The supplemental materials have new Fig. 10, and modified Fig. 9

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2020

12. Development of transition-edge sensor based large area photon detectors for CUPID

Author

Vivek Singh, Novosad Valentine, Jianjie Zhang, Roger Huang, John Pearson, Benjamin Schmidt, Giovanni Benato, Lisovenko Marharyta, Sachinthya Wagaarachchi, Whitney Armstrong, Goran Karapetrov, Kawtar Hafidi, Zein-Eddine Meziani, Bradford Welliver, Clarence Chang, Vlad Yefremenko, Gensheng Wang, Yury Kolomensky, Brian Fujikawa, Laura Marini, and Tomas Polakovic

Subjects
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

CUPID (CUORE Upgrade with Particle ID) is a proposed tonne-scale $0\nu\beta\beta$ experiment that will use arrays of low-temperature calorimeters to probe the Majorana nature of neutrinos. CUORE has already shown the power and scalability of tonne-scale array at low temperatures (~10 mK), and CUPID aims to improve on its search sensitivity by reducing backgrounds by at least two orders of magnitude. CUPID will do background rejection by reading out phonon and photon signals simultaneously from a scintillating crystal or a Cherenkov light-emitting crystal. We are developing sensitive low temperature calorimeters that can measure tiny amounts of scintillation/Cherenkov light. The detectors use a novel Ir/Pt bilayer superconducting transition-edge-sensor (TES) that can be operated below 40 mK. We will present an overview of the fabrication, characterization, and performance of TES based large area photon detectors for CUPID.

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2020
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13. Unconventional Applications of Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors

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Whitney Armstrong, Tomas Polakovic, Zein-Eddine Meziani, Goran Karapetrov, and Valentine Novosad

Subjects
Photon, General Chemical Engineering, Nanowire, Review, 02 engineering and technology, 01 natural sciences, lcsh:Chemistry, 0103 physical sciences, General Materials Science, 010306 general physics, Quantum information science, Quantum, Jitter, Superconductivity, Quantum optics, Physics, superconductivity, photon detectors, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Engineering physics, particle detectors, Charged particle, nanowires, lcsh:QD1-999, quantum detectors, 0210 nano-technology
Abstract

Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors are becoming a dominant technology in quantum optics and quantum communication, primarily because of their low timing jitter and capability to detect individual low-energy photons with high quantum efficiencies. However, other desirable characteristics, such as high detection rates, operation in cryogenic and high magnetic field environments, or high-efficiency detection of charged particles, are underrepresented in literature, potentially leading to a lack of interest in other fields that might benefit from this technology. We review the progress in use of superconducting nanowire technology in photon and particle detection outside of the usual areas of physics, with emphasis on the potential use in ongoing and future experiments in nuclear and high energy physics.

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2020

14. Probing Few-Body Nuclear Dynamics via H3 and He3 (e,e′p)pn Cross-Section Measurements

Author

M. Mihovilovic, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, Darko Androić, D. Blyth, R. I. Pomatsalyuk, R. Obrecht, Andrew Puckett, Toshiyuki Gogami, Shalev Gilad, H. F. Ibrahim, B. Karki, Dipangkar Dutta, J. Castellanos, N. Santiesteban, Afroditi Papadopoulou, Pete Markowitz, M. Duer, Misak Sargsian, J. Arrington, M. Khachatryan, K. A. Aniol, S. Alsalmi, Nikolaos Sparveris, W. Tireman, Henryk Witała, Z. E. Meziani, J. P. Chen, Siyu Jian, T. Gautam, A. Karki, P. E. Reimer, H. Bhatt, I. Korover, R. Cruz-Torres, Nilanga Liyanage, C. Ayerbe Gayoso, V. Bellini, M. N. H. Rashad, G. M. Urciuoli, S. Covrig, Elliot Hughes, Z. Ye, S. Mey-Tal Beck, B. Schmookler, L. Ou, Weidong Li, J. Gomez, Simon Širca, B. Pandey, H. Albataineh, S. Barcus, S. Premathilake, E. Piasetzky, Ronald Ransome, D. Nguyen, Or Hen, Vladimir Nelyubin, Shanfeng Li, A. Beck, A. Camsonne, E. Fuchey, A. S. Tadepalli, Jacek Golak, P. M. King, T. Averett, D. G. Meekins, A. T. Katramatou, A. Shahinyan, Alexander Schmidt, N. Nuruzzaman, C. E. Hyde, R. E. McClellan, T. Kutz, Larry Weinstein, F. Hauenstein, Sylvester Joosten, S. A. Wood, G. Laskaris, W. U. Boeglin, D. Bulumulla, D. Biswas, F. Tortorici, Olfred Hansen, J. Roche, G. G. Petratos, L. Tang, Fatiha Benmokhtar, H. Atac, R. Skibiński, Kondo Gnanvo, Aditya R. Khanal, M. Nycz, D. Abrams, Cynthia Keppel, X. Bai, S. Park, H. Szumila-Vance, B. Duran, E.P. Segarra, S. Riordan, V. Khachatryan, V. A. Punjabi, C. Gu, Vishvas Pandey, T. Hague, D. King, M. Hattawy, D. Bhetuwal, Eliahu Cohen, R. Michaels, Hongjun Liu, M. Olson, M. Patsyuk, Kacper Topolnicki, B. Sawatzky, N. Lashley-Colthirst, Jiawen Zhang, Whitney Armstrong, S. Paul, T. Su, B. Dongwi, Hiroyuki Kamada, Douglas Higinbotham, V. Owen, J. Bane, C. Gal, A. Habarakada, Riad Suleiman, and K. Craycraft

Subjects
Physics, Scattering, Isoscalar, Nuclear Theory, Momentum transfer, General Physics and Astronomy, Few-body systems, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Cover (topology), 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear force, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Ground state, Nucleon
Abstract

We report the first measurement of the (e,e^{'}p) three-body breakup reaction cross sections in helium-3 (^{3}He) and tritium (^{3}H) at large momentum transfer [⟨Q^{2}⟩≈1.9 (GeV/c)^{2}] and x_{B}>1 kinematics, where the cross section should be sensitive to quasielastic (QE) scattering from single nucleons. The data cover missing momenta 40≤p_{miss}≤500 MeV/c that, in the QE limit with no rescattering, equals the initial momentum of the probed nucleon. The measured cross sections are compared with state-of-the-art ab initio calculations. Overall good agreement, within ±20%, is observed between data and calculations for the full p_{miss} range for ^{3}H and for 100≤p_{miss}≤350 MeV/c for ^{3}He. Including the effects of rescattering of the outgoing nucleon improves agreement with the data at p_{miss}>250 MeV/c and suggests contributions from charge-exchange (SCX) rescattering. The isoscalar sum of ^{3}He plus ^{3}H, which is largely insensitive to SCX, is described by calculations to within the accuracy of the data over the entire p_{miss} range. This validates current models of the ground state of the three-nucleon system up to very high initial nucleon momenta of 500 MeV/c.

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2020

15. Proton form factor ratio μpGEp/GMp from double spin asymmetry

Author

Ho. Kang, J. Roche, X. Qiu, Z. Ye, H. Kang, H. Mkrtchyan, S. A. Wood, M. Veilleux, C. Butuceanu, Tomofumi Maruta, Osamu Hashimoto, Nilanga Liyanage, E. J. Brash, A. Mkrtchyan, Amrendra Narayan, T. Walton, H. Baghdasaryan, Andrey Vasiliev, P. M. King, V. P. Kubarovsky, Matthew Jones, S. Choi, W.U. Boeglin, D. Gaskell, E. Christy, Satoshi Nakamura, S. Riordan, Y. Li, A. Daniel, S. Covrig, Whitney Armstrong, Rolf Ent, C. Ellis, Chunhui Chen, O. Rondon, J. Mulholland, Karl Slifer, Z. E. Meziani, K. Kovacs, D. G. Crabb, L. Z. Ndukum, C. E. Keppel, Emil Frlez, M. Elaasar, J. German, M. H. Shabestari, D. Kawama, A. Deur, Wouter Deconinck, D. Flay, V. V. Mochalov, V. Mamyan, O. Ates, Dipanwita Dutta, Ronald Gilman, Pete Markowitz, J. A. Dunne, G. M. Huber, Brian M. Davis, Lubomir Pentchev, P. Solvignon, A. Liyanage, M. Khandaker, J. Gomez, A. Ahmidouch, Douglas Higinbotham, M. K. Jones, B. Sawatzky, L. F. Soloviev, L. G. Tang, Michael Kohl, P. Carter, P. Monaghan, A. Asaturyan, J. P. Chen, Tanja Horn, P. E. Bosted, J. Reinhold, I. Albayrak, A. J. R. Puckett, M. Bychkov, F. R. Wesselmann, Geoffrey Smith, L. El Fassi, V. Tadevosyan, Toshiyuki Gogami, M. Posik, L. Y. Zhu, O. Geagla, N. Kalantarians, A. Davidenko, Dinko Pocanic, Yu.M. Mel'nik, James Maxwell, Y. Goncharenko, H. Yao, Nuruzzaman, S. Danagoulian, Y.H. Kim, and Donal Day

Subjects
Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Scattering, media_common.quotation_subject, Polarization (waves), 01 natural sciences, Asymmetry, Uncorrelated, Polarized target, Nuclear physics, Recoil, 0103 physical sciences, Magnetic form factor, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Atomic physics, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, media_common
Abstract

The ratio of the electric and magnetic form factor of the proton, $\mu_p G_E^p/G_M^p$, has been measured for elastic electron-proton scattering with polarized beam and target up to four-momentum transfer squared, $Q^2=5.66$ (GeV/c)$^2$ using the double spin asymmetry for target spin orientation aligned nearly perpendicular to the beam momentum direction. This measurement of $\mu_p G_E^p/G_M^p$ agrees with the $Q^2$ dependence of previous recoil polarization data and reconfirms the discrepancy at high $Q^2$ between the Rosenbluth and the polarization-transfer method with a different measurement technique and systematic uncertainties uncorrelated to those of the recoil-polarization measurements. The form factor ratio at $Q^2$=2.06 (GeV/c)$^2$ has been measured as $\mu_p G_E^p/G_M^p = 0.720 \pm 0.176_{stat} \pm 0.039_{sys}$, which is in agreement with an earlier measurement with the polarized target technique at similar kinematics. The form factor ratio at $Q^2$=5.66 (GeV/c)$^2$ has been determined as $\mu_p G_E^p/G_M^p=0.244\pm0.353_{stat}\pm0.013_{sys}$, which represents the highest $Q^2$ reach with the double spin asymmetry with polarized target to date.

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2020

16. Picosecond Timing Resolution Measurements of Low Gain Avalanche Detectors with a 120 GeV Proton Beam for the TOPSiDE Detector Concept

Author

Ian C. Cloët, Whitney Armstrong, S. M. Mazza, M. Jadhav, Jessica Metcalfe, Zein-Eddine Meziani, S. Joosten, Bruce Schumm, Abraham Seiden, and Hartmut Sadrozinski

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Materials science, Proton, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, High Energy Physics - Experiment, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, law.invention, 03 medical and health sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0302 clinical medicine, Optics, Operating temperature, law, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Collider, Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Picosecond, business, Beam (structure), Voltage
Abstract

This paper presents results that take a critical step toward proving 10 ps timing resolution's feasibility for particle identification in the TOPSiDE detector concept for the Electron-Ion Collider. Measurements of LGADs with a thickness of 35 micro-m and 50 micro-m are evaluated with a 120 GeV proton beam. The performance of the gain and timing response is assessed, including the dependence on the reverse bias voltage and operating temperature. The best timing resolution of UFSDs in a test beam to date is achieved using three combined planes of 35 micro-m thick LGADs at -30 degree celsius with a precision of 14.3 ps (uncertainty 1.5 ps)., Comment: 18 pages, 16 figures, 3 tables

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2020
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17. Dispersive corrections in elastic electron-nucleus scattering: an investigation in the intermediate energy regime and their impact on the nuclear matter

Author

L. Coman, Karl Slifer, E. Schulte, Guy Ron, P. Solvignon, S. May-Tal Beck, J. Song, R. Subedi, E. Piasetzky, R. Michaels, C. F. Perdrisat, B. Craver, Young Do Oh, M. Olson, P. Gueye, C. E. Hyde, G. G. Petratos, V. A. Punjabi, E. McCullough, G. M. Urciuoli, Asghar Askarpour Kabir, Pete Markowitz, A. Kelleher, Ronald Ransome, Ishay Pomerantz, J. J. LeRose, M. Potokar, A. J. Sarty, A. J. R. Puckett, R. Pomatsalyuk, J. Dumas, Xin Qian, C. Dutta, H. F. Ibrahim, A. P. Freyberger, R. Lindgren, M. Meziane, Kent Paschke, A. Shahinyan, B. Sawatzky, E. Kuchina, R. Sparks, Xiaofeng Zhu, S. Strauch, D. G. Meekins, B. L. Berman, F. Cusanno, Z. E. Meziani, A. T. Katramatou, J. Glister, T. Holmstrom, X. Yan, R. J. Feuerbach, J. Arrington, E. Chudakov, Y. Qiang, Fatiha Benmokhtar, B. E. Norum, H. Arenaövel, M. Paolone, J. O. Hansen, J. Roche, W. U. Boeglin, Bryan J. Moffit, A. Camsonne, Franco Garibaldi, H. Yao, M. Schwamb, Byounghoon Lee, Simon Širca, X. Zhan, S. Choi, X. Jiang, R. Shneor, Whitney Armstrong, Kalyan Allada, E. J. Brash, G. J. Kumbartzki, P. Giuliani, Y. Ilieva, M. H. Shabestari, A. Beck, M. Reyhan, Salvatore Frullani, Ronald Gilman, J. P. Chen, Douglas Higinbotham, M. K. Jones, J. R. Calarco, Yannick Rousseau, K. Wang, A. Adeyemi, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, E. Khrosinkova, Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont (LPC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Jefferson Lab Hall A, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)

Subjects
Diffraction, Elastic scattering, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, [PHYS.NUCL]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Theory [nucl-th], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Scattering, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Nuclear matter, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Effective nuclear charge, Cross section (physics), 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear fusion, Atomic physics, Born approximation, 010306 general physics
Abstract

Measurements of elastic electron scattering data within the past decade have highlighted two-photon exchange contributions as a necessary ingredient in theoretical calculations to precisely evaluate hydrogen elastic scattering cross sections. This correction can modify the cross section at the few percent level. In contrast, dispersive effects can cause significantly larger changes from the Born approximation. The purpose of this experiment is to extract the carbon-12 elastic cross section around the first diffraction minimum, where the Born term contributions to the cross section are small to maximize the sensitivity to dispersive effects. The analysis uses the LEDEX data from the high resolution Jefferson Lab Hall A spectrometers to extract the cross sections near the first diffraction minimum of $$^{12}$$ C at beam energies of 362 MeV and 685 MeV. The results are in very good agreement with previous world data, although with less precision. The average deviation from a static nuclear charge distribution expected from linear and quadratic fits indicate a 30.6% contribution of dispersive effects to the cross section at 1 GeV. The magnitude of the dispersive effects near the first diffraction minimum of $$^{12}$$ C has been confirmed to be large with a strong energy dependence and could account for a large fraction of the magnitude for the observed quenching of the longitudinal nuclear response. These effects could also be important for nuclei radii extracted from parity-violating asymmetries measured near a diffraction minimum.

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2020

18. Comparing proton momentum distributions in A = 2 and 3 nuclei via 2H 3H and 3He (e,e′p) measurements

Author

Z. Ye, B. Schmookler, J. P. Chen, G. M. Urciuoli, Diego Lonardoni, P. M. King, Hongbang Liu, R. Michaels, D. King, M. Olson, Darko Androić, S. Covrig, Toshiyuki Gogami, Pete Markowitz, S. Paul, Weidong Li, M. Viviani, Whitney Armstrong, P. E. Reimer, Larry Weinstein, T. Su, M. Patsyuk, H. Atac, B. Dongwi, Or Hen, N. Santiesteban, B. Sawatzky, T. Kutz, V. Bellini, R. I. Pomatsalyuk, H. Bhatt, I. Korover, S. A. Wood, R. Obrecht, S. Riordan, V. Pandey, E. Fuchey, Shanfeng Li, A. Beck, M. Hattawy, John Arrington, S. Mey-Tal Beck, Andrew Puckett, D. Bulumulla, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, Aditya R. Khanal, F. Hauenstein, Simon Širca, A. Shahinyan, M. N. H. Rashad, Axel Schmidt, Cynthia Keppel, M. Khachatryan, J. Gomez, N. Lashley-Colthirst, D. Blyth, J. Castellanos, Ruprecht Machleidt, R. Suleiman, H. Albataineh, D. Bhetuwal, V. Khachatryan, Kondo Gnanvo, Eliahu Cohen, F. Tortorici, J. Roche, V. A. Punjabi, N. Nuruzzaman, S. Alsalmi, M. Nycz, H. Szumila-Vance, B. Duran, G. G. Petratos, Z. E. Meziani, C. Gal, Vladimir Nelyubin, G. Laskaris, L. Tang, W. Tireman, M. Mihovilovic, A. Karki, Ronald Ransome, D. G. Meekins, A. T. Katramatou, Olfred Hansen, W. U. Boeglin, Nilanga Liyanage, D. Biswas, C. Ayerbe Gayoso, Jiawen Zhang, S. Premathilake, D. Nguyen, X. Bai, E.P. Segarra, Siyu Jian, Elliot Hughes, R. Cruz-Torres, Douglas Higinbotham, L. Ou, S. Barcus, V. Owen, J. Bane, A. S. Tadepalli, R. E. McClellan, A. Habarakada, Sylvester Joosten, K. Craycraft, H. F. Ibrahim, B. Karki, Dipangkar Dutta, Laura Elisa Marcucci, M. Duer, T. Gautam, B. Pandey, Shalev Gilad, A. Papadopoulou, K. A. Aniol, A. Camsonne, D. Abrams, S. Park, F. Sammarruca, N. Sparveris, E. Piasetzky, C. Gu, T. Hague, T. Averett, and C. E. Hyde

Subjects
production [pi], Nuclear and High Energy Physics, data analysis method, Photon, Nuclear Theory, interference, FOS: Physical sciences, Electron, Impulse (physics), Inelastic scattering, 01 natural sciences, xperimental results | Jefferson Lab | electron p: scattering | parity: violation | inelastic scattering | structure function | interference | photon | Z0 | pi: production | spin: asymmetry | data analysis method, Nuclear Theory (nucl-th), structure function, 0103 physical sciences, Z0, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Momentum transfer, photon, inelastic scattering, scattering [electron p], Eikonal approximation, NATURAL SCIENCES. Physics, lcsh:QC1-999, PRIRODNE ZNANOSTI. Fizika, Deuterium, xperimental results, High Energy Physics::Experiment, violation [parity], Atomic physics, Nucleon, asymmetry [spin], lcsh:Physics, Jefferson Lab
Abstract

We report the first measurement of the $(e,e'p)$ reaction cross-section ratios for Helium-3 ($^3$He), Tritium ($^3$H), and Deuterium ($d$). The measurement covered a missing momentum range of $40 \le p_{miss} \le 550$ MeV$/c$, at large momentum transfer ($\langle Q^2 \rangle \approx 1.9$ (GeV$/c$)$^2$) and $x_B>1$, which minimized contributions from non quasi-elastic (QE) reaction mechanisms. The data is compared with plane-wave impulse approximation (PWIA) calculations using realistic spectral functions and momentum distributions. The measured and PWIA-calculated cross-section ratios for $^3$He$/d$ and $^3$H$/d$ extend to just above the typical nucleon Fermi-momentum ($k_F \approx 250$ MeV$/c$) and differ from each other by $\sim 20\%$, while for $^3$He/$^3$H they agree within the measurement accuracy of about 3\%. At momenta above $k_F$, the measured $^3$He/$^3$H ratios differ from the calculation by $20\% - 50\%$. Final state interaction (FSI) calculations using the generalized Eikonal Approximation indicate that FSI should change the $^3$He/$^3$H cross-section ratio for this measurement by less than 5\%. If these calculations are correct, then the differences at large missing momenta between the $^3$He/$^3$H experimental and calculated ratios could be due to the underlying $NN$ interaction, and thus could provide new constraints on the previously loosely-constrained short-distance parts of the $NN$ interaction., 8 pages, 3 figures (4 panels)

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2019

19. Energy Sciences Network (ESnet): Nuclear Physics Network Requirements Review Report

Author

Tom Uram, Barbara Helland, Debbie Bard, Thomas Rockwell, Jerome Lauret, Ben Brown, Jeff Porter, Jody Crisp, Rich Carlson, M. Cromaz, Robert Edwards, Chris Pinkenburg, Scott Kampel, Mike Carpenter, Laura Biven, Arjun Shankar, Vincent Bonafede, Whitney Armstrong, Paul Wefel, Eli Dart, John Arrington, Timothy Hallman, G. Heyes, Ed Balas, Inder Monga, James Sowinski, Eric Lancon, Andrew Melo, Steven Lee, Sean Liddick, Gulshan Rai, Thomas Ndousse-Fetter, Brent Draney, P. F. Mantica, Susan E. Hicks, Adam Slagell, Lauren Rotman, Jason Zurawski, Taylor Childers, Brent Morris, Bryan Hess, Chip Watson, Linda Winkler, Steve Beher, Jonathan Menard, Robinson E. Pino, and Carolyn Lauzon

Subjects
Engineering, business.industry, Nuclear engineering, business, Energy (signal processing)
Published
2019

20. Revealing Color Forces with Transverse Polarized Electron Scattering

Author

C. D. Keith, T. Walton, H. Baghdasaryan, Satoshi Nakamura, T. Horn, G. R. Smith, S. Danagoulian, Michael Kohl, P. Carter, L. Pentchev, P. Monaghan, Ronald Gilman, Chunhui Chen, X. Qiu, H. Yao, P. Solvignon, M. Jones, B. Sawatzky, C. Butuceanu, S. Riordan, Z. Ye, Amrendra Narayan, P. M. King, J. Gomez, D. Gaskell, Joerg Reinhold, M. H. Shabestari, Douglas Higinbotham, M. K. Jones, D. G. Meekins, A. Daniel, E. J. Brash, J. Mulholland, Tomofumi Maruta, A. Mkrtchyan, J. A. Dunne, O. Ates, Brian M. Davis, C. Ellis, Whitney Armstrong, Y. Li, V. P. Kubarovsky, D. Kawama, Karl Slifer, G. M. Huber, A. Nuruzzaman, L. G. Tang, J. P. Chen, Osamu Hashimoto, A. Deur, N. Kalantarians, O. Geagla, S. Covrig, L. El Fassi, W. Luo, W. U. Boeglin, M. Posik, Wouter Deconinck, V. V. Mochalov, Zein-Eddine Meziani, Nilanga Liyanage, Rolf Ent, L. Y. Zhu, Andrew Puckett, H. Mkrtchyan, Toshiyuki Gogami, A. Liyanage, V. Mamyan, M. E. Christy, P. Bosted, Ho. Kang, Y. Goncharenko, F. Wesselmann, L. Z. Ndukum, Pete Markowitz, O. Rondon, M. Khandaker, Andrey Vasiliev, J. German, D. Flay, A. Ahmidouch, V. Tadevosyan, H. Kang, Sungyeon Choi, James Maxwell, Dipangkar Dutta, K. Kovacs, C. E. Keppel, Emil Frlez, S. A. Wood, M. Veilleux, I. Albayrak, D. J. Mack, M. Bychkov, Jie Zhang, L. F. Soloviev, A. Davidenko, Dinko Pocanic, Yu.M. Mel'nik, J. Roche, A. Asaturyan, D. G. Crabb, Y.H. Kim, and Donal Day

Subjects
Physics, Quark, Proton, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, Lattice QCD, Electron, 01 natural sciences, symbols.namesake, 0103 physical sciences, symbols, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Atomic physics, 010306 general physics, Nucleon, Nuclear Experiment, Lorentz force, Electron scattering, Spin-½
Abstract

The Spin Asymmetries of the Nucleon Experiment (SANE) measured two double spin asymmetries using a polarized proton target and polarized electron beam at two beam energies, 4.7 GeV and 5.9 GeV. A large-acceptance open-configuration detector package identified scattered electrons at 40$^{\circ}$ and covered a wide range in Bjorken $x$ ($0.3 < x < 0.8$). Proportional to an average color Lorentz force, the twist-3 matrix element, $\tilde{d}_2^p$, was extracted from the measured asymmetries at $Q^2$ values ranging from 2.0 to 6.0 GeV$^2$. The data display the opposite sign compared to most quark models, including the lattice QCD result, and an apparently unexpected scale dependence. Furthermore when combined with the neutron data in the same $Q^2$ range the results suggest a flavor independent average color Lorentz force.

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2019

21. Exposing novel quark and gluon effects in nuclei

Author

Wim Cosyn, David Gaskell, John Arrington, Cynthia Keppel, Whitney Armstrong, Ian C. Cloët, S. Riordan, Emanuele Pace, Anthony W. Thomas, S. Platchkov, S. Fucini, P. E. Reimer, Sergio Scopetta, Gerald A. Miller, R. Dupré, N. Fomin, P. Zurita, Adam Freese, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Drell-Yan process, nuclear modification, generalized parton distribution, tagged scattering, Nuclear Theory, High Energy Physics::Lattice, EMC effect, parton: distribution function, spin, Atomic, 01 natural sciences, Particle and Plasma Physics, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Nuclear Experiment, Physics, Quantum chromodynamics, strong interaction, short-range correlations, Nuclear & Particles Physics, short ranged correlation, confinement, nuclear matter, quantum chromodynamics: effect, Quark, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, deep inelastic scattering, medium modification, [PHYS.NUCL]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Theory [nucl-th], Strong interaction, FOS: Physical sciences, momentum dependence, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], correlation: short-range, Nuclear Theory (nucl-th), quark, nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, 010306 general physics, flavor, nucleus: target, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Molecular, gluon, Deep inelastic scattering, Nuclear matter, Gluon, Quark–gluon plasma, High Energy Physics::Experiment
Abstract

International audience; The fundamental theory of the strong interaction-quantum chromodynamics (QCD)—provides the foundational framework with which to describe and understand the key properties of atomic nuclei. A deep understanding of the explicit role of quarks and gluons in nuclei remains elusive however, as these effects have thus far been well-disguised by confinement effects in QCD which are encapsulated by a successful description in terms of effective hadronic degrees of freedom. The observation of the EMC effect has provided an enduring indication for explicit QCD effects in nuclei, and points to the medium modification of the bound protons and neutrons in the nuclear medium. Understanding the EMC effect is a major challenge for modern nuclear physics, and several key questions remain, such as understanding its flavor, spin, and momentum dependence. This manuscript provides a contemporary snapshot of our understanding of the role of QCD in nuclei and outlines possible pathways in experiment and theory that will help deepen our understanding of nuclei in the context of QCD.

Published
2019

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

Author

Whitney Armstrong, John E. Pearson, Zein-Eddine Meziani, Tomas Polakovic, V. G. Yefremenko, Goran Karapetrov, Valentine Novosad, and K. Hafidi

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Niobium nitride, Photon, Ion beam, Nanowire, FOS: Physical sciences, Physics::Optics, 02 engineering and technology, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con), High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), chemistry.chemical_compound, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Instrumentation, Physics, Superconductivity, business.industry, Condensed Matter - Superconductivity, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Magnetic field, chemistry, Picosecond, Optoelectronics, Quantum efficiency, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 0210 nano-technology, business
Abstract

Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors are capable of single-photon detection across a large spectral range with near unity detection efficiency, picosecond timing jitter, and sub-10 μ m position resolution, at rates as high as 109 counts/s. In an effort to bring this technology into nuclear physics experiments, we fabricate niobium nitride (NbN) nanowire detectors using ion beam assisted sputtering and test their performance in strong magnetic fields. We demonstrate that these devices are capable of detection of 400 nm wavelength photons with saturated internal quantum efficiency at temperatures of 3 K and in magnetic fields of up to 5 T at high count rates and with nearly zero dark counts.

Published
2020

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

Author

Z. W. Zhao, S. Strauch, Whitney Armstrong, M. Battaglieri, K. Park, Volker D. Burkert, H. Hakobyan, R. A. Schumacher, A. S. Biselli, P. Eugenio, T. Mineeva, Barry Ritchie, M. Khandaker, Y. Ilieva, M. Khachatryan, S. Johnston, N. Markov, M. Hattawy, I. Bedlinskiy, Nicholas Zachariou, M. L. Kabir, Maxime Defurne, F. X. Girod, G. Khachatryan, G. Charles, D. G. Ireland, P. Nadel-Turonski, B. A. Clary, Y. Prok, F. Sabatié, X. Wei, R. De Vita, K. Hicks, Michael Paolone, S. Procureur, M. Ungaro, R. A. Montgomery, Sylvester Joosten, M. Osipenko, K. Livingston, J. W. Price, G. Ciullo, J. P. Ball, D. S. Carman, D. Heddle, K. A. Griffioen, I. I. Strakovsky, G. D. Smith, M. Holtrop, S. Niccolai, I. J. D. MacGregor, Jie Zhang, Avraham Klein, Nikos Sparveris, A. Deur, Hovanes Egiyan, C. Munoz Camacho, A. D'Angelo, V. Mokeev, E. De Sanctis, Y. Ghandilyan, N. Dashyan, G. V. Fedotov, A. Celentano, R. W. Gothe, R. Paremuzyan, Taya Chetry, L. Lanza, P. Lenisa, W. K. Brooks, Nicholas M. Harrison, Gerard Gilfoyle, D. I. Sober, M. Ripani, A. Kim, D. Sokhan, G. Gavalian, Y. G. Sharabian, D. G. Jenkins, M. Bashkanov, S. Adhikari, Iu. Skorodumina, B. McKinnon, L. Guo, Sergey Kuleshov, W. Kim, G. Niculescu, E. Golovatch, R. Dupre, L. El Fassi, Alessandro Rizzo, V. Batourine, L. Barion, Friedrich Klein, M. Contalbrigo, N. Tyler, C. Djalali, J. A. Tan, C. Hanretty, H. S. Jo, B. S. Ishkhanov, M. Taiuti, R. G. Fersch, P. L. Cole, C. Salgado, O. Cortes, E. L. Isupov, S. Boiarinov, D. Protopopescu, E. Voutier, I. Balossino, Dustin Keller, Michael Wood, K. Hafidi, H. Avakian, H. Voskanyan, W. J. Briscoe, E. Pasyuk, V. P. Kubarovsky, D. Riser, and O. Pogorelko

Subjects
Physics, Photon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Cross section (physics), Reaction model, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Invariant mass, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Nucleon
Abstract

New results on the single-differential and fully integrated cross sections for the process γvp→p′π+π- are presented. The experimental data were collected with the CLAS detector at Jefferson Laboratory. Measurements were carried out in the kinematic region of the reaction invariant mass W from 1.3 to 1.825 GeV and the photon virtuality Q2 from 0.4 to 1.0 GeV2. The cross sections were obtained in narrow Q2 bins (0.05 GeV2) with the smallest statistical uncertainties achieved in double-pion electroproduction experiments to date. The results were found to be in agreement with previously available data where they overlap. A preliminary interpretation of the extracted cross sections, which was based on a phenomenological meson-baryon reaction model, revealed substantial relative contributions from nucleon resonances. The data offer promising prospects to improve knowledge on the Q2 evolution of the electrocouplings of most resonances with masses up to ∼1.8 GeV.

Published
2018

24. Precision measurements of A1n in the deep inelastic regime

Author

S. Choi, Mustafa Canan, Kalyan Allada, H. Yao, M. Friend, A. Deur, Wouter Deconinck, Nuruzzaman, J. P. Chen, B. Sawatzky, F. Garibaldi, M. H. Shabestari, G. D. Cates, S. K. Nanda, Yujie Qiang, R. Subedi, A. Camsonne, N. Muangma, A. Shahinyan, Vincent Sulkosky, O. Glamazdin, Z. Ye, B. E. Norum, V. Mamyan, J. Huang, R. A. Lindgren, J. J. LeRose, Olfred Hansen, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, X. Deng, X. Zhan, W. Troth, Y. Zhang, D. Flay, A. Lukhanin, B. Moffit, G. Jin, M. Posik, Douglas Higinbotham, C. Dutta, X. Zheng, Zein-Eddine Meziani, Diana Parno, William A. Tobias, D. McNulty, Arijit Saha, P. Solvignon, J. Gomez, Jen-Chieh Peng, S. Golge, Chunhui Chen, S. Širca, Haiyan Gao, Y. X. Ye, Wolfgang Korsch, L. Yuan, X. Jiang, Whitney Armstrong, G. Kumbartzki, B. Zhao, Yiyang Zhang, William Bertozzi, Yingxiao Wang, Amrendra Narayan, Joseph M. Katich, Shalev Gilad, C. W. de Jager, G. B. Franklin, M. M. Dalton, T. Holmstrom, S. Riordan, D. Wang, Ronald Gilman, R. Michaels, Abdurahim Rakhman, L. Guo, E. Long, M. Mihovilovič, A. Kelleher, Vladimir Nelyubin, Young Do Oh, H. F. Ibrahim, E. Chudakov, A. Kolarkar, Nilanga Liyanage, T. Averett, C. E. Hyde, F. Cusanno, Fatiha Benmokhtar, X. Yan, Xin Qian, and L. El Fassi

Subjects
Quantum chromodynamics, Physics, Nuclear physics, Quark, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Proton, media_common.quotation_subject, Up quark, Neutron, Parton, Deep inelastic scattering, Asymmetry, media_common
Abstract

We have performed precision measurements of the double-spin virtual-photon asymmetry A 1 on the neutron in the deep inelastic scattering regime, using an open-geometry, large-acceptance spectrometer and a longitudinally and transversely polarized 3 He target. Our data cover a wide kinematic range 0.277 ≤ x ≤ 0.548 at an average Q 2 value of 3.078 (GeV/c) 2 , doubling the available high-precision neutron data in this x range. We have combined our results with world data on proton targets to make a leading-order extraction of the ratio of polarized-to-unpolarized parton distribution functions for up quarks and for down quarks in the same kinematic range. Our data are consistent with a previous observation of an A 1 n zero crossing near x = 0.5 . We find no evidence of a transition to a positive slope in ( Δ d + Δ d ¯ ) / ( d + d ¯ ) up to x = 0.548 .

Published
2015

25. Design and Performance of the Spin Asymmetries of the Nucleon Experiment

Author

P. M. King, Dipangkar Dutta, C. Ellis, Osamu Hashimoto, T. Walton, H. Baghdasaryan, E. J. Brash, Y. Goncharenko, Satoshi Nakamura, G. R. Smith, Yu Kyeong Kim, A. Deur, M. H. Shabestari, O. Geagla, Pete Markowitz, H. Kang, H. Yao, M. Khandaker, Donal Day, O. Ates, F.R. Wesselmann, J. Roche, N. Kalantarians, Michael Kohl, Z. Ye, Toshiyuki Gogami, L. G. Tang, P. Carter, J. Brock, S. Riordan, Tanja Horn, C. Carlin, Karl Slifer, P. Solvignon, Nuruzzaman, L. Z. Ndukum, Jian-Ping Chen, J. German, A. Daniel, Y. Li, Douglas Higinbotham, M. K. Jones, M. E. Christy, P. Bosted, L. Y. Zhu, D. Flay, A. Ahmidouch, C. D. Keith, T. Maruta, V. Tadevosyan, W. Luo, V. Mamyan, Andrey Vasiliev, B. Sawatzky, J. Mulholland, Nilanga Liyanage, Chunhui Chen, James Maxwell, D. Kawama, Brian M. Davis, P. Monaghan, O. Rondon, Wouter Deconinck, V. V. Mochalov, D. G. Crabb, G. M. Huber, Andrew Puckett, Joerg Reinhold, K. Kovacs, Cynthia Keppel, J. Gomez, L. Pentchev, A. Liyanage, J. A. Dunne, D. G. Meekins, A. Davidenko, S. Covrig, Rolf Ent, Dinko Pocanic, Yu.M. Mel'nik, L. El Fassi, W. U. Boeglin, C. Butuceanu, Amrendra Narayan, Sungyeon Choi, D. Gaskell, S. Danagoulian, Ronald Gilman, A. Mkrtchyan, V. P. Kubarovsky, M. Elaasar, L. F. Soloviev, X. Qiu, S. A. Wood, M. Veilleux, I. Albayrak, M. Bychkov, Emil Frlez, M. Posik, Zein-Eddine Meziani, H. Mkrtchyan, Whitney Armstrong, M. Jones, and A. Asaturyan

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Proton, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Electron, Deep inelastic scattering, 01 natural sciences, Magnetic field, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics, Nucleon, Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation, Electron scattering, Beam (structure), Spin-½
Abstract

The Spin Asymmetries of the Nucleon Experiment (SANE) performed inclusive, double-polarized electron scattering measurements of the proton at the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility at Jefferson Lab. A novel detector array observed scattered electrons of four-momentum transfer 2 . 5 Q 2 6 . 5 GeV 2 and Bjorken scaling 0 . 3 x 0 . 8 from initial beam energies of 4.7 and 5.9 GeV. Employing a polarized proton target whose magnetic field direction could be rotated with respect to the incident electron beam, both parallel and near perpendicular spin asymmetries were measured, allowing model-independent access to transverse polarization observables A 1 , A 2 , g 1 , g 2 and moment d 2 of the proton. This document summarizes the operation and performance of the polarized target, polarized electron beam, and novel detector systems used during the course of the experiment, and describes analysis techniques utilized to access the physics observables of interest.

Published
2017

26. First Exclusive Measurement of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering off He4 : Toward the 3D Tomography of Nuclei

Author

M. J. Amaryan, Laura Clark, C. Gleason, P. Lenisa, W. Phelps, H. Moutarde, X. Wei, K. A. Griffioen, B. S. Ishkhanov, K. L. Giovanetti, Taya Chetry, M. Hattawy, Hovanes Egiyan, Larry Weinstein, G. Ciullo, J. P. Ball, Y. Prok, D. S. Carman, P. Eugenio, E. Golovatch, S. Strauch, J. W. Price, Friedrich Klein, L. Guo, Alessandro Rizzo, C. Munoz Camacho, D. G. Ireland, E. Voutier, Latifa Elouadrhiri, R. De Vita, V. Crede, M. Taiuti, C. Djalali, Michael Paolone, A. Movsisyan, O. Cortes, E. L. Isupov, S. Niccolai, Z. W. Zhao, C. A. Meyer, H. Y. Lu, L. Lanza, Whitney Armstrong, A. I. Ostrovidov, K. Park, G. V. Fedotov, D. P. Watts, G. Rosner, R. A. Montgomery, A. Celentano, Martin K. Mayer, R. W. Gothe, K. Livingston, A. Deur, H. Jiang, Volker D. Burkert, A. S. Biselli, D. G. Jenkins, R. Paremuzyan, Sergey Kuleshov, M. Khachatryan, A. Simonyan, Y. Ghandilyan, V. I. Mokeev, D. Heddle, H. Hakobyan, M. H. Wood, R. Dupre, S. Boiarinov, L. Colaneri, Iu. Skorodumina, S. Adhikari, S. Anefalos Pereira, S. Fegan, Jie Zhang, I. Niculescu, F. Cao, E. Pasyuk, Nikolaos Sparveris, N. Markov, K. Hicks, D. Adikaram, B. Torayev, M. Guidal, G. Charles, F. X. Girod, Z. E. Meziani, Nicholas M. Harrison, Gerard Gilfoyle, I. Bedlinskiy, N. A. Baltzell, C. Hanretty, W. Kim, P. Nadel-Turonski, William Brooks, A. Filippi, G. D. Smith, M. Holtrop, Lorenzo Zana, G. Khachatryan, M. Battaglieri, G. Niculescu, E. Seder, R. G. Fersch, F. Sabatié, W. Gohn, P. Rossi, V. P. Kubarovsky, D. Sokhan, P. L. Cole, M. Khandaker, O. Pogorelko, D. Protopopescu, B. G. Ritchie, M. Bashkanov, R. A. Schumacher, M. Ungaro, S. M. Hughes, M. Garçon, N. Dashyan, A. D'Angelo, E. De Sanctis, Sylvester Joosten, B. McKinnon, M. E. McCracken, L. A. Net, L. El Fassi, C. Salgado, M. Osipenko, Dustin Keller, A. El Alaoui, N. K. Walford, Y. Perrin, T. Mineeva, Nicholas Zachariou, S. Bültmann, M. Mirazita, E. Phelps, K. P. Adhikari, T. A. Forest, K. Hafidi, N. Gevorgyan, I. J. D. MacGregor, V. Batourine, H. Avakian, S. Stepanyan, Y. G. Sharabian, S. Pisano, K. Joo, Simonetta Liuti, Avraham Klein, M. Contalbrigo, H. Voskanyan, A. Kim, W. J. Briscoe, A. Fradi, S. E. Kuhn, J. A. Fleming, Z. Akbar, and M. Ripani

Subjects
Physics, Particle physics, Time projection chamber, Photon, Proton, Meson, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Compton scattering, General Physics and Astronomy, Electron, HERA, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Nuclear physics, Recoil, 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics
Abstract

We report on the first measurement of the beam-spin asymmetry in the exclusive process of coherent deeply virtual Compton scattering off a nucleus. The experiment uses the 6 GeV electron beam from the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) accelerator at Jefferson Lab incident on a pressurized $^{4}\mathrm{He}$ gaseous target placed in front of the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS). The scattered electron is detected by CLAS and the photon by a dedicated electromagnetic calorimeter at forward angles. To ensure the exclusivity of the process, a specially designed radial time projection chamber is used to detect the recoiling $^{4}\mathrm{He}$ nuclei. We measure beam-spin asymmetries larger than those observed on the free proton in the same kinematic domain. From these, we are able to extract, in a model-independent way, the real and imaginary parts of the only $^{4}\mathrm{He}$ Compton form factor, ${\mathcal{H}}_{A}$. This first measurement of coherent deeply virtual Compton scattering on the $^{4}\mathrm{He}$ nucleus, with a fully exclusive final state via nuclear recoil tagging, leads the way toward 3D imaging of the partonic structure of nuclei.

Published
2017

27. Measurements ofd2nandA1n: Probing the neutron spin structure

Author

T. Averett, C. E. Hyde, A. Saha, R. Subedi, Nilanga Liyanage, R. A. Lindgren, J. J. LeRose, V. Sulkosky, S. K. Nanda, Yujie Qiang, D. Flay, S. Riordan, Fatiha Benmokhtar, Simon Širca, M. H. Shabestari, F. Garibaldi, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, H. Yao, Wolfgang Korsch, Young Do Oh, V. Mamyan, G. D. Cates, A. Kolarkar, R. Michaels, M. M. Dalton, Douglas Higinbotham, Whitney Armstrong, X. Deng, C. Dutta, H. F. Ibrahim, N. Muangma, William A. Tobias, M. Friend, W. Troth, E. Chudakov, Diana Parno, M. Mihovilovic, D. McNulty, Haiyan Gao, X. Zhan, G. J. Kumbartzki, G. Jin, J. P. Chen, J. Gomez, B. Sawatzky, M. Posik, X. Zheng, X. Jiang, Chunhui Chen, X. Yan, Ronald Ransome, Wouter Deconinck, G. B. Franklin, B. Zhao, L. Guo, Z. Ye, B. E. Norum, T. Holmstrom, Xin Qian, A. Shahinyan, E. Long, Y. Zhang, S. Choi, Jen-Chieh Peng, A. Kelleher, J. Huang, A. Lukhanin, Yingxiao Wang, L. El Fassi, Mustafa Canan, Kalyan Allada, Vladimir Nelyubin, Shalev Gilad, L. Yuan, C. W. de Jager, Bryan J. Moffit, S. Golge, Abdurahim Rakhman, Z. E. Meziani, F. Cusanno, P. Solvignon, A. Deur, Yiyang Zhang, Y. X. Ye, William Bertozzi, Amrendra Narayan, Joseph M. Katich, D. Wang, Ronald Gilman, O. Glamazdin, Olfred Hansen, Alexandre Camsonne, and Nuruzzaman

Subjects
Quark, Physics, Quantum chromodynamics, QCD sum rules, Particle physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Constituent quark, Lattice QCD, Deep inelastic scattering, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutron, Atomic physics, 010306 general physics, Electron scattering
Abstract

We report on the results of the E06-014 experiment performed at Jefferson Lab in Hall A, where a precision measurement of the twist-3 matrix element d_2 of the neutron (d^n_2) was conducted. The quantity dn_2 represents the average color Lorentz force a struck quark experiences in a deep inelastic electron scattering event off a neutron due to its interaction with the hadronizing remnants. This color force was determined from a linear combination of the third moments of the ^3He spin structure functions, g_1 and g_2, after nuclear corrections had been applied to these moments. The structure functions were obtained from a measurement of the unpolarized cross section and of double-spin asymmetries in the scattering of a longitudinally polarized electron beam from a transversely and a longitudinally polarized ^3He target. The measurement kinematics included two average Q^2 bins of 3.2 GeV^2 and 4.3 GeV^2, and Bjorken-x 0.25≤ x ≤0.90 covering the deep inelastic and resonance regions. We have found that d^n_2 is small and negative for ⟨Q^2⟩=3.2 GeV^2, and even smaller for ⟨Q^2⟩=4.3 GeV^2, consistent with the results of a lattice QCD calculation. The twist-4 matrix element f^n_2 was extracted by combining our measured d^n_2 with the world data on the first moment in x of g^n_1, Γ^n_1. We found f^n_2 to be roughly an order of magnitude larger than dn2. Utilizing the extracted d^n_2 and f^n_2 data, we separated the Lorentz color force into its electric and magnetic components, F^(y,n)_E and F^(y,n)_B, and found them to be equal and opposite in magnitude, in agreement with the predictions from an instanton model but not with those from QCD sum rules. Furthermore, using the measured double-spin asymmetries, we have extracted the virtual photon-nucleon asymmetry on the neutron A^n_1, the structure function ratio g^n_1/F^n_1, and the quark ratios (Δu+Δu)/(u+u) and (Δd+Δd)/(d+d). These results were found to be consistent with deep-inelastic scattering world data and with the prediction of the constituent quark model but at odds with the perturbative quantum chromodynamics predictions at large x.

Published
2016

28. Room temperature deposition of superconducting niobium nitride films by ion beam assisted sputtering

Author

Axel Hoffmann, C. L. Chang, Goran Karapetrov, Valentine Novosad, Volodymyr Yefremenko, Tomas Polakovic, Whitney Armstrong, Sergi Lendinez, John E. Pearson, and K. Hafidi

Subjects
Niobium nitride, Materials science, Ion beam, lcsh:Biotechnology, Analytical chemistry, FOS: Physical sciences, 02 engineering and technology, Substrate (electronics), 01 natural sciences, Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con), Condensed Matter::Materials Science, chemistry.chemical_compound, Sputtering, lcsh:TP248.13-248.65, Condensed Matter::Superconductivity, 0103 physical sciences, General Materials Science, Thin film, 010306 general physics, Ion beam-assisted deposition, Superconductivity, Condensed Matter - Superconductivity, General Engineering, Sputter deposition, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, lcsh:QC1-999, chemistry, 0210 nano-technology, lcsh:Physics
Abstract

We use room temperature ion beam assisted sputtering (IBAS) to deposit niobium nitride thin films. Electrical and structural characterizations were performed by electric transport and magnetization measurements at variable temperatures, X-ray diffraction and atomic force microscopy. Compared to reactive sputtering of NbN, films sputtered in presence of an ion beam show remarkable increase in the superconducting critical temperature T$_{\rm{c}}$, while exhibiting lower sensitivity to nitrogen concentration during deposition. Thickness dependence of the superconducting critical temperature is comparable to films prepared by conventional methods at high substrate temperatures and is consistent with behavior driven by quantum size effects or weak localization., 7 pages, 6 figures

Published
2018

30. A Threshold Gas \v{C}erenkov Detector for the Spin Asymmetries of the Nucleon Experiment

Author

E. Kaczanowicz, Brad D. Sawatzky, Alexander Lukhanin, Seonho Choi, Zein-Eddine Meziani, and Whitney Armstrong

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Photon, Luminosity (scattering theory), Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Cherenkov detector, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Electron, Particle identification, law.invention, Nuclear physics, Positron, law, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Nucleon, Instrumentation, Spin-½
Abstract

We report on the design, construction, commissioning, and performance of a threshold gas \v{C}erenkov counter in an open configuration, which operates in a high luminosity environment and produces a high photo-electron yield. Part of a unique open geometry detector package known as the Big Electron Telescope Array, this \v{C}erenkov counter served to identify scattered electrons and reject produced pions in an inclusive scattering experiment known as the Spin Asymmetries of the Nucleon Experiment E07-003 at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF) also known as Jefferson Lab. The experiment consisted of a measurement of double spin asymmetries $A_{\parallel}$ and $A_{\perp}$ of a polarized electron beam impinging on a polarized ammonia target. The \v{C}erenkov counter's performance is characterised by a yield of about 20 photoelectrons per electron or positron track. Thanks to this large number of photoelectrons per track, the \v{C}erenkov counter had enough resolution to identify electron-positron pairs from the conversion of photons resulting mainly from $\pi^0$ decays., Comment: 24 pages, 18 figures. In preparation for submission to Nuclear Instruments and Methods

Published
2015

31. Precision Measurement of the Neutron Twist-3 Matrix Elementd2n: Probing Color Forces

Author

H. F. Ibrahim, T. Averett, C. E. Hyde, B. Zhao, V. Mamyan, E. Chudakov, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, F. Cusanno, Fatiha Benmokhtar, Whitney Armstrong, R. Michaels, A. Kolarkar, S. Choi, Y. Zhang, X. Yan, Xin Qian, Mustafa Canan, G. D. Cates, Kalyan Allada, Yiyang Zhang, Amrendra Narayan, Joseph M. Katich, G. B. Franklin, Young Do Oh, W. Troth, A. Saha, N. Muangma, Wouter Deconinck, A. Shahinyan, T. Holmstrom, M. Mihovilovic, M. H. Shabestari, Haiyan Gao, D. Wang, G. Jin, X. Zheng, R. A. Lindgren, L. Guo, J. J. LeRose, R. Subedi, Ronald Gilman, H. Yao, E. Long, S. Golge, M. Posik, X. Deng, Wolfgang Korsch, Douglas Higinbotham, A. Kelleher, M. Friend, S. K. Nanda, Yujie Qiang, X. Jiang, D. Flay, Y. X. Ye, P. Solvignon, D. McNulty, G. Kumbartzki, Nuruzzaman, Z. E. Meziani, Simon Širca, Chunhui Chen, F. Garibaldi, B. Moffit, B. Sawatzky, A. Deur, Yingxiao Wang, O. Glamazdin, Olfred Hansen, A. Camsonne, Z. Ye, B. E. Norum, Vincent Sulkosky, J. Gomez, Shalev Gilad, Jen-Chieh Peng, X. Zhan, L. Yuan, C. W. de Jager, Diana Parno, C. Dutta, William A. Tobias, J. P. Chen, J. Huang, A. Lukhanin, William Bertozzi, L. El Fassi, Nilanga Liyanage, Abdurahim Rakhman, Vladimir Nelyubin, M. M. Dalton, and S. Riordan

Subjects
Physics, Scattering, General Physics and Astronomy, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutron, Electron, Lattice QCD, Atomic physics, Spin structure, Deep inelastic scattering, Resonance (particle physics), Beam (structure)
Abstract

Double-spin asymmetries and absolute cross sections were measured at large Bjorken x (0.25≤x≤0.90), in both the deep-inelastic and resonance regions, by scattering longitudinally polarized electrons at beam energies of 4.7 and 5.9 GeV from a transversely and longitudinally polarized ^3He target. In this dedicated experiment, the spin structure function g^3He_2 was determined with precision at large x, and the neutron twist-3 matrix element dn2 was measured at ⟨Q2⟩ of 3.21 and 4.32 GeV^2/c^2, with an absolute precision of about 10^(−5). Our results are found to be in agreement with lattice QCD calculations and resolve the disagreement found with previous data at ⟨Q^2⟩=5 GeV^2/c^2. Combining d^n_2 and a newly extracted twist-4 matrix element f^n_2, the average neutron color electric and magnetic forces were extracted and found to be of opposite sign and about 30 MeV/fm in magnitude.

Published
2014

32. Probing the Repulsive Core of the Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction via theHe4(e,e′pN)Triple-Coincidence Reaction

Author

I. Korover, B. Zhao, Chunhui Chen, Karl Slifer, R. Shneor, Whitney Armstrong, Larry Weinstein, Salvatore Frullani, Franco Garibaldi, Wouter Deconinck, D. J. Margaziotis, A. Daniel, Simon Širca, N. Muangma, L. Selvy, J. P. Chen, G. Jin, X. Zheng, Bellini, S. K. Phillips, R. Subedi, E. Long, D. Wang, Ronald Gilman, John Arrington, E. Cisbani, Maxime Defurne, I. Yaron, P. Monaghan, Z. Ahmed, P. E. Reimer, Or Hen, H. Kang, O. Rondon-Aramayo, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, T. Badman, Douglas Higinbotham, Z. E. Meziani, H. Baghdasaryan, M. Mihovilovič, T. Averett, William Bertozzi, Xin Qian, Marti Jimenez-Arguello A, Ping Zhu, Z. W. Zhao, Z. Ye, B. E. Norum, A. Saha, O. Glamazdin, K. Chirapatpimol, D. G. Meekins, Juliette Mammei, P. Solvignon, Ishay Pomerantz, Yujie Qiang, David Hamilton, Kalyan Allada, W. B. Yan, J. R. M. Annand, Pete Markowitz, M. Posik, Hashemi Shabestari M, D. Anez, K. Pan, X. Bai, Munoz Camacho C, W. U. Boeglin, B. D. Anderson, R. A. Lindgren, J. J. LeRose, Nuruzzaman, E. Piasetzky, H. Albataineh, Fatiha Benmokhtar, Nikolaos Sparveris, J. O. Hansen, Beck S, Yiyang Zhang, M. M. Dalton, N. Fomin, A. Beck, Punjabi, E. Fuchey, D. Gaskell, D. Flay, P. Aguilera, S. Riordan, E. Schulte, de Jager Cw, Paul Gueye, Donal Day, A. Camsonne, M. Huang, S. A. Wood, T. Holmstrom, C. Hanretty, J. Sjoegren, Kalantarians N, A. Kelleher, Abdurahim Rakhman, X. Qiu, R. Michaels, A. Shahinyan, Gu C, S. Iqbal, Guy Ron, J. Bittner, W. Tireman, J. Leckey, De Leo R, Sulkosky, Jie Zhang, R. Zielinski, J. W. Watson, Khandaker M, X. Zhan, M. Friend, Shalev Gilad, and K. A. Aniol

Subjects
Physics, Range (particle radiation), Proton, Nuclear Theory, General Physics and Astronomy, Momentum, Nuclear physics, Isospin, Neutron, Tensor, Atomic physics, Nuclear Experiment, Nucleon, Excitation
Abstract

We studied simultaneously the 4He(e,e'p), 4He(e,e'pp), and 4He(e,e'pn) reactions at Q2=2 [GeV/c]2 and xB >1, for a (e,e'p) missing-momentum range of 400 to 830 MeV/c. The knocked-out proton was detected in coincidence with a proton or neutron recoiling almost back to back to the missing momentum, leaving the residual A=2 system at low excitation energy. These data were used to identify two-nucleon short-range correlated pairs and to deduce their isospin structure as a function of missing momentum in a region where the nucleon-nucleon force is expected to change from predominantly tensor to repulsive. Neutron-proton pairs dominate the high-momentum tail of the nucleon momentum distributions, but their abundance is reduced as the nucleon momentum increases beyond ~500 MeV/c. The extracted fraction of proton-proton pairs is small and almost independent of the missing momentum in the range we studied. Our data are compared with ab-initio calculations of two-nucleon momentum distributions in 4He.

Published
2014

33. New Measurements of the Transverse Beam Asymmetry for Elastic Electron Scattering from Selected Nuclei

Author

P. M. King, H. Yao, H. Albataineh, B. Craver, William A. Tobias, J. Leckey, A. Kolarkar, Jie Zhang, Kiadtisak Saenboonruang, S. Frullani, B. Waidyawansa, P. Y. Bertin, J. P. Chen, M. L. Sperduto, E. Kuchina, Jaideep Singh, K. de Jager, M. Friend, B. Reitz, J. Barber, K. Otis, Charles Horowitz, Yiyang Zhang, J. Huang, G. M. Urciuoli, C. M. Jen, A. Barbieri, M. M. Dalton, Young Do Oh, C. M. Sutera, S. K. Nanda, Yujie Qiang, E. Cisbani, Eric L. N. Jensen, D. Neyret, A. J. R. Puckett, G. B. Franklin, Joseph M. Katich, M. Poelker, D. J. Margaziotis, R. Holmes, N. Muangma, S. K. Phillips, B. P. Quinn, A. Etile, J. Roche, Wouter Deconinck, V. Yim, S. Riordan, D. Deepa, T. Bielarski, D. Lhuillier, G.V. Russo, K. Grimm, E. Fuchey, R. Michaels, Douglas Higinbotham, R. A. Lindgren, J. J. LeRose, S. Kowalski, V. Bellini, F. Itard, R. Subedi, S. Johnston, A. Palmer, A. Beck, T. Averett, F. Mammoliti, M. Mihovilovic, A. Shahinyan, J. M. Finn, M. Stutzman, D. S. Armstrong, J. Wexler, Z. Ahmed, L. Zana, E. Voutier, C. E. Hyde, E. Burtin, Guy Ron, E. Gasser, X. Zhan, F. Cusanno, F. Butaru, Pete Markowitz, P. E. Reimer, K. Wang, Lindsay Glesener, P. Carter, M. Posik, S. Abrahamyan, P. Monaghan, Peter S. LaViolette, B. Babineau, Simon Širca, A. Giusa, John Arrington, X. Yan, F. Garibaldi, Nilanga Liyanage, L. Lagamba, Kent Paschke, Olfred Hansen, T. Holmstrom, S. Fuchs, D. Flay, M. Mazouz, Richard Wilson, R. Suleiman, V. Ziskin, J. Leacock, Fatiha Benmokhtar, P. Solvignon, Mustafa Canan, Amber McCreary, J. R. Hoskins, R. De Leo, A. V. Glamazdin, Antonin Vacheret, A. Acha, L. Mercado, Seonho Choi, R. S. Beminiwattha, Paul Souder, Diana Parno, R. Snyder, D. Lambert, Whitney Armstrong, X. Deng, Z. E. Meziani, S. L. Bailey, N. Lubinsky, G. D. Cates, J. Gomez, D. Wang, Juliette Mammei, C. Muñoz-Camacho, K. A. Aniol, Jongmin Lee, P. Bosted, Bryan J. Moffit, B. Sawatzky, R. J. Feuerbach, R. I. Pomatsalyuk, A. Deur, D. McNulty, Arijit Saha, Ronald Gilman, A. Whitbeck, X. Jiang, Jay Benesch, J. Hansknecht, C. Gu, Z. Ye, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, Xin Qian, Vladimir Nelyubin, Andrei Afanasev, C. Ferdi, K. Kliakhandler, D. G. Meekins, H. Benaoum, H. F. Ibrahim, W. Troth, K. Prok, A. Camsonne, Ping Zhu, L. J. Kaufman, Chunhui Chen, Vincent Sulkosky, J. Cahoon, K. Fuoti, Dipangkar Dutta, Nuruzzaman, T. B. Humensky, P. Decowski, P. E. Ulmer, Y. C. Chao, K. McCormick, A. Kelleher, G. Jin, Abdurahim Rakhman, R. Silwal, Y. X. Ye, X. Zheng, J. Grames, Mikhail Gorchtein, C. C. Chang, K. S. Kumar, W. U. Boeglin, P. Rogan, E. Chudakov, M. Potokar, Or Hen, Karl Slifer, Département de Physique Nucléaire (ex SPhN) (DPHN), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), HAPPEX, and Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Elastic scattering, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Scattering, media_common.quotation_subject, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, Elastic electron, chemistry.chemical_element, Electron, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, Asymmetry, Amplitude, chemistry, Excited state, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Atomic physics, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Helium, media_common
Abstract

We have measured the beam-normal single-spin asymmetry $A_n$ in the elastic scattering of 1-3 GeV transversely polarized electrons from $^1$H and for the first time from $^4$He, $^{12}$C, and $^{208}$Pb. For $^1$H, $^4$He and $^{12}$C, the measurements are in agreement with calculations that relate $A_n$ to the imaginary part of the two-photon exchange amplitude including inelastic intermediate states. Surprisingly, the $^{208}$Pb result is significantly smaller than the corresponding prediction using the same formalism. These results suggest that a systematic set of new $A_n$ measurements might emerge as a new and sensitive probe of the structure of heavy nuclei., 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted by PRL. v3: fixed one author name and affiliation, otherwise no change

Published
2012

34. Low-Q2measurements of the proton form factor ratioμpGE/GM

Author

C. Dutta, J. P. Chen, Ronald Ransome, Xin Qian, A. Saha, L. Coman, W. U. Boeglin, Karl Slifer, B. Craver, G. M. Urciuoli, Douglas Higinbotham, M. K. Jones, S. Strauch, Yannick Rousseau, Xiaofeng Zhu, S. May Tal Beck, Olfred Hansen, F. Cusanno, E. Piasetzky, Emily M. McCullough, Young Do Oh, K. Wang, R. Pomatsalyuk, R. J. Feuerbach, M. Potokar, Yujie Qiang, R. Sparks, Guy Ron, C. W. de Jager, Bryan J. Moffit, Pete Markowitz, E. Khrosinkova, V. A. Punjabi, Kalyan Allada, A. Kelleher, Simon Širca, E. J. Brash, F. Garibaldi, A. Camsonne, X. Zhan, M. H. Shabestari, H. F. Ibrahim, A. J. Sarty, E. Schulte, Seonho Choi, M. Reyhan, P. Solvignon, G. J. Kumbartzki, J. Arrington, E. Chudakov, Ronald Gilman, A. Shahinyan, B. Sawatzky, F. Benmokhtar, X. Jiang, J. Dumas, B. L. Berman, J. Glister, M. Paolone, Z. E. Meziani, J. Roche, S. Frullani, R. Subedi, H. Yao, Y. Ilieva, A. Beck, C. F. Perdrisat, R. A. Lindgren, C. E. Hyde, J. J. LeRose, Ishay Pomerantz, A. P. Freyberger, Kent Paschke, X. Yan, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, M. Meziane, J. R. Calarco, Bumsung Lee, J. Song, R. Michaels, M. Olson, B. E. Norum, T. Holmstrom, E. Kuchina, A. J. R. Puckett, R. Shneor, and Whitney Armstrong

Subjects
Nuclear physics, Baryon, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Proton, Hadron, Form factor (quantum field theory), Analytical chemistry, Elementary particle, Fermion, Nucleon, Dimensionless quantity
Abstract

We present an updated extraction of the proton electromagnetic form factor ratio, {mu}{sub p}G{sub E}/G{sub M}, at low Q{sup 2}. The form factors are sensitive to the spatial distribution of the proton, and precise measurements can be used to constrain models of the proton. An improved selection of the elastic events and reduced background contributions yielded a small systematic reduction in the ratio {mu}{sub p}G{sub E}/G{sub M} compared to the original analysis.

Published
2011

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