496 research outputs found
The Cryogenic Target for the G Experiment at Jefferson Lab
A cryogenic horizontal single loop target has been designed, built, tested
and operated for the G experiment in Hall C at Jefferson Lab. The target
cell is 20 cm long, the loop volume is 6.5 l and the target operates with the
cryogenic pump fully immersed in the fluid. The target has been designed to
operate at 30 Hz rotational pump speed with either liquid hydrogen or liquid
deuterium. The high power heat exchanger is able to remove 1000 W of heat from
the liquid hydrogen, while the nominal electron beam with current of 40 A
and energy of 3 GeV deposits about 320 W of heat into the liquid. The increase
in the systematic uncertainty due to the liquid hydrogen target is negligible
on the scale of a parity violation experiment. The global normalized yield
reduction for 40 A beam is about 1.5 % and the target density fluctuations
contribute less than 238 ppm (parts per million) to the total asymmetry width,
typically about 1200 ppm, in a Q bin.Comment: 27 pages, 14 figure
Measurement of the Proton's Neutral Weak Magnetic Form Factor
We report the first measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in elastic
electron scattering from the proton. The asymmetry depends on the neutral weak
magnetic form factor of the proton which contains new information on the
contribution of strange quark-antiquark pairs to the magnetic moment of the
proton. We obtain the value n.m. at
(GeV/c).Comment: 4 pages TEX, text available at
http://www.krl.caltech.edu/preprints/OAP.htm
Muon Collider/Neutrino Factory: Status and Prospects
During the 1990s an international collaboration has been studying the
possibility of constructing and operating a high-energy high-luminosity
collider. Such a machine could be the approach of choice to extend
our discovery reach beyond that of the LHC. More recently, a growing
collaboration is exploring the potential of a stored-muon-beam "neutrino
factory" to elucidate neutrino oscillations. A neutrino factory could be an
attractive stepping-stone to a muon collider. Its construction, possibly
feasible within the coming decade, could have substantial impact on neutrino
physics.Comment: 20 pages, 11 figures, invited talk presented at the 7th International
Conference on Instrumentation for Colliding-Beam Physics, Hamamatsu, Japan,
Nov. 15-19, 1999. (Revised 1/25/00 to delete misleading column from Table 2.
An Energy Feedback System for the MIT/Bates Linear Accelerator
We report the development and implementation of an energy feedback system for
the MIT/Bates Linear Accelerator Center. General requirements of the system are
described, as are the specific requirements, features, and components of the
system unique to its implementation at the Bates Laboratory. We demonstrate
that with the system in operation, energy fluctuations correlated with the 60
Hz line voltage and with drifts of thermal origin are reduced by an order of
magnitude
Separated response functions in exclusive, forward pi(+/-) electroproduction on deuterium
Background: Measurements of forward exclusive meson production at different squared four-momenta of the exchanged virtual photon, Q(2), and at different four-momentum transfer, t, can be used to probe QCD\u27s transition from meson-nucleon degrees of freedom at long distances to quark-gluon degrees of freedom at short scales. Ratios of separated response functions in pi(-) and pi(+) electroproduction are particularly informative. The ratio for transverse photons may allow this transition to be more easily observed, while the ratio for longitudinal photons provides a crucial verification of the assumed pole dominance, needed for reliable extraction of the pion form factor from electroproduction data. Purpose: We perform the first complete separation of the four unpolarized electromagnetic structure functions L/T/LT/TT in forward, exclusive pi(+/-) electroproduction on deuterium above the dominant resonances. Method: Data were acquired with 2.6-5.2-GeV electron beams and the HMS + SOS spectrometers in Jefferson Lab Hall C at central Q(2) values of 0.6, 1.0, and 1.6 GeV2 at W = 1.95 GeV, and Q(2) = 2.45 GeV2 at W = 2.22 GeV. There was significant coverage in phi and is an element of, which allowed separation of sigma(L), T, LT, TT. Results: sigma(L) shows a clear signature of the pion pole, with a sharp rise at small -t. In contrast, sigma(T) is much flatter versus t. The longitudinal/transverse ratios evolve with Q(2) and t and at the highest Q(2) = 2.45 GeV2 show a slight enhancement for pi(-) production compared to pi(+). The pi(-)/pi(+) ratio for transverse photons exhibits only a small Q(2) dependence, following a nearly universal curve with t, with a steep transition to a value of about 0.25, consistent with s-channel quark knockout. The sigma(TT)/sigma(T) ratio also drops rapidly with Q(2), qualitatively consistent with s-channel helicity conservation. The pi(-)/pi(+) ratio for longitudinal photons indicates a small isoscalar contamination at W = 1.95 GeV, consistent with what was observed in our earlier determination of the pion form factor at these kinematics. Conclusions: The separated cross sections are compared to a variety of theoretical models, which generally describe sigma(L) but have varying success with sigma(T). Further theoretical input is required to provide a more profound insight into the relevant reaction mechanisms for longitudinal and transverse photons, such as whether the observed transverse ratio is indeed attributable to a transition from pion to quark knockout mechanisms and provide useful information regarding the twist-3 transversity generalized parton distribution, H-
A High Power Hydrogen Target for Parity Violation Experiments
Parity-violating electron scattering measurements on hydrogen and deuterium,
such as those underway at the Bates and CEBAF laboratories, require
luminosities exceeding cms, resulting in large beam
power deposition into cryogenic liquid. Such targets must be able to absorb 500
watts or more with minimal change in target density. A 40~cm long liquid
hydrogen target, designed to absorb 500~watts of beam power without boiling,
has been developed for the SAMPLE experiment at Bates. In recent tests with
40~A of incident beam, no evidence was seen for density fluctuations in
the target, at a sensitivity level of better than 1\%. A summary of the target
design and operational experience will be presented.Comment: 13 pages, 9 postscript figure
Progress in Absorber R&D for Muon Cooling
A stored-muon-beam neutrino factory may require transverse ionization cooling
of the muon beam. We describe recent progress in research and development on
energy absorbers for muon-beam cooling carried out by a collaboration of
university and laboratory groups.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure, presented at the 3rd International Workshop on
Neutrino Factory Based on Muon Storage Rings (NuFACT'01), May 24-30, 2001,
Tsukuba, Japa
Bifocal emotion regulation through acupoint tapping in fear of flying
Very few studies have investigated the neural underpinnings of bifocal-multisensory interventions such as acupoint tapping (tapping) despite their well-documented efficacy. The present study aims to investigate the neural and behavioral responses to tapping during the perception of phobic and generally fear-inducing stimulation in a group of participants with fear of flying. We studied 29 flight-phobic participants who were exposed to phobia-related, fear-inducing and neutral stimulation while undergoing fMRI and a bifocal-multisensory intervention session consisting of tapping plus cognitive restructuring in a within-subject design. During tapping we found an up-regulation of neural activation in the amygdala, and a down-regulation in the hippocampus and temporal pole. These effects were different from automatic emotion regulatory processes which entailed down-regulation in the amygdala, hippocampus, and temporal pole. Mean scores (±SD) on the Fear of Flying scale dropped from 2.51(±0.65) before the intervention to 1.27(±0.68) after the intervention (p <.001). The proportion of participants meeting the criteria for fear of flying also dropped from 89.7 percent before the intervention to 24.0 percent after the intervention (p <.001). Taken together, our results lend support to the effectiveness of tapping as a means of emotion regulation across multiple contexts and add to previous findings of increased amygdala activation during tapping, as opposed to amygdala down-regulation found in other emotion regulation techniques. They expand on previous knowledge by suggesting that tapping might modulate the processing of complex visual scene representations and their binding with visceral emotional reponses, reflected by the down-regulation of activation in the hippocampus and temporal pole. Bifocal emotion regulation was useful in ameliorating aversive reactions to phobic stimuli in people with fear of flying
Electromagnetic radiative corrections in parity-violating electron-proton scattering
QED radiative corrections have been calculated for leptonic and hadronic
variables in parity-violating elastic ep scattering. For the first time, the
calculation of the asymmetry in the elastic radiative tail is performed without
the peaking-approximation assumption in hadronic variables configuration. A
comparison with the PV-A4 data validates our approach. This method has been
also used to evaluate the radiative corrections to the parity-violating
asymmetry measured in the G0 experiment. The results obtained are here
presented.Comment: 12 pages, 11 figure
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