88 research outputs found
First Measurement of the Ti Cross Section at Jefferson Lab
To probe CP violation in the leptonic sector using GeV energy neutrino beams
in current and future experiments using argon detectors, precise models of the
complex underlying neutrino and antineutrino interactions are needed. The
E12-14-012 experiment at Jefferson Lab Hall A was designed to perform a
combined analysis of inclusive and exclusive electron scatterings on both argon
() and titanium () nuclei using GeV energy electron beams. The
measurement on titanium nucleus provides essential information to understand
the neutrino scattering on argon, large contribution to which comes from
scattering off neutrons. Here we report the first experimental study of
electron-titanium scattering as double differential cross section at beam
energy GeV and electron scattering angle deg,
measured over a broad range of energy transfer, spanning the kinematical
regions in which quasielastic scattering and delta production are the dominant
reaction mechanisms. The data provide valuable new information needed to
develop accurate theoretical models of the electromagnetic and weak cross
sections of these complex nuclei in the kinematic regime of interest to
neutrino experiments.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures. Version published in Physical Review
Measurement of the Cross Sections for Inclusive Electron Scattering in the E12-14-012 Experiment at Jefferson Lab
The E12-14-012 experiment performed at Jefferson Lab Hall A has collected inclusive electron-scattering data for different targets at the kinematics corresponding to beam energy 2.222 GeV and scattering angle 15.54°. Here we present a comprehensive analysis of the collected data and compare the double-differential cross sections for inclusive scattering of electrons, extracted using solid targets (aluminum, carbon, and titanium) and a closed argon-gas cell. The data extend over broad range of energy transfer, where quasielastic interaction, Î-resonance excitation, and inelastic scattering yield contributions to the cross section. The double-differential cross sections are reported with high precision (âź3%) for all targets over the covered kinematic range
Measurement of the Generalized Polarizabilities of the Proton in Virtual Compton Scattering
We propose to conduct a measurement of the Virtual Compton Scattering
reaction in Hall C that will allow the precise extraction of the two scalar
Generalized Polarizabilities (GPs) of the proton in the region of
to . The Generalized Polarizabilities
are fundamental properties of the proton, that characterize the system's
response to an external electromagnetic (EM) field. They describe how easily
the charge and magnetization distributions inside the system are distorted by
the EM field, mapping out the resulting deformation of the densities in the
proton. As such, they reveal unique information regarding the underlying system
dynamics and provide a key for decoding the proton structure in terms of the
theory of the strong interaction that binds its elementary quark and gluon
constituents together. Recent measurements of the proton GPs have challenged
the theoretical predictions, particularly in regard to the electric
polarizability. The magnetic GP, on the other hand, can provide valuable
insight to the competing paramagnetic and diamagnetic contributions in the
proton, but it is poorly known within the region where the interplay of these
processes is very dynamic and rapidly changing.The unique capabilities of Hall
C, namely the high resolution of the spectrometers combined with the ability to
place the spectrometers in small angles, will allow to pin down the dynamic
signature of the GPs through high precision measurements combined with a fine
mapping as a function of . The experimental setup utilizes standard Hall C
equipment, as was previously employed in the VCS-I (E12-15-001) experiment,
namely the HMS and SHMS spectrometers and a 10 cm liquid hydrogen target. A
total of 59 days of unpolarized 75 electron beam with energy of 1100
MeV (6 days) and 2200 MeV (53 days) is requested for this experiment
Cross-Section Measurement of Virtual Photoproduction of Iso-Triplet Three-Body Hypernucleus, ânn
Missing-mass spectroscopy with the 3H(e, eâ˛K+) reaction was carried out at Jefferson Labâs (JLab) Hall A in OctâNov, 2018. The differential cross section for the 3H(Îłâ, K+)Înn was deduced at Ď = Ee â EeⲠ= 2.102 GeV and at the forward K+-scattering angle (0° ⤠θγâK ⤠5°) in the laboratory frame. Given typical predicted energies and decay widths, which are (BÎ, Î) = (â0.25, 0.8) and (â0.55, 4.7) MeV, the cross sections were found to be 11.2 Âą 4.8(stat.)+4.1â2.1(sys.) and 18.1 Âą 6.8(stat.)+4.2â2.9(sys.) nb/sr, respectively. The obtained result would impose a constraint for interaction models particularly between Î and neutron by comparing to theoretical calculations
Revealing the short-range structure of the "mirror nuclei" H and He
When protons and neutrons (nucleons) are bound into atomic nuclei, they are
close enough together to feel significant attraction, or repulsion, from the
strong, short-distance part of the nucleon-nucleon interaction. These strong
interactions lead to hard collisions between nucleons, generating pairs of
highly-energetic nucleons referred to as short-range correlations (SRCs). SRCs
are an important but relatively poorly understood part of nuclear structure and
mapping out the strength and isospin structure (neutron-proton vs proton-proton
pairs) of these virtual excitations is thus critical input for modeling a range
of nuclear, particle, and astrophysics measurements. Hitherto measurements used
two-nucleon knockout or ``triple-coincidence'' reactions to measure the
relative contribution of np- and pp-SRCs by knocking out a proton from the SRC
and detecting its partner nucleon (proton or neutron). These measurementsshow
that SRCs are almost exclusively np pairs, but had limited statistics and
required large model-dependent final-state interaction (FSI) corrections. We
report on the first measurement using inclusive scattering from the mirror
nuclei H and He to extract the np/pp ratio of SRCs in the A=3 system.
We obtain a measure of the np/pp SRC ratio that is an order of magnitude more
precise than previous experiments, and find a dramatic deviation from the
near-total np dominance observed in heavy nuclei. This result implies an
unexpected structure in the high-momentum wavefunction for He and H.
Understanding these results will improve our understanding of the short-range
part of the N-N interaction
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