59 research outputs found
The OLYMPUS Internal Hydrogen Target
An internal hydrogen target system was developed for the OLYMPUS experiment
at DESY, in Hamburg, Germany. The target consisted of a long, thin-walled,
tubular cell within an aluminum scattering chamber. Hydrogen entered at the
center of the cell and exited through the ends, where it was removed from the
beamline by a multistage pumping system. A cryogenic coldhead cooled the target
cell to counteract heating from the beam and increase the density of hydrogen
in the target. A fixed collimator protected the cell from synchrotron radiation
and the beam halo. A series of wakefield suppressors reduced heating from beam
wakefields. The target system was installed within the DORIS storage ring and
was successfully operated during the course of the OLYMPUS experiment in 2012.
Information on the design, fabrication, and performance of the target system is
reported.Comment: 9 pages, 13 figure
Hard Two-Photon Contribution to Elastic Lepton-Proton Scattering: Determined by the OLYMPUS Experiment
The OLYMPUS collaboration reports on a precision measurement of the
positron-proton to electron-proton elastic cross section ratio, ,
a direct measure of the contribution of hard two-photon exchange to the elastic
cross section. In the OLYMPUS measurement, 2.01~GeV electron and positron beams
were directed through a hydrogen gas target internal to the DORIS storage ring
at DESY. A toroidal magnetic spectrometer instrumented with drift chambers and
time-of-flight scintillators detected elastically scattered leptons in
coincidence with recoiling protons over a scattering angle range of to . The relative luminosity between the two beam species
was monitored using tracking telescopes of interleaved GEM and MWPC detectors
at , as well as symmetric M{\o}ller/Bhabha calorimeters at
. A total integrated luminosity of 4.5~fb was collected. In
the extraction of , radiative effects were taken into account
using a Monte Carlo generator to simulate the convolutions of internal
bremsstrahlung with experiment-specific conditions such as detector acceptance
and reconstruction efficiency. The resulting values of , presented
here for a wide range of virtual photon polarization ,
are smaller than some hadronic two-photon exchange calculations predict, but
are in reasonable agreement with a subtracted dispersion model and a
phenomenological fit to the form factor data.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, 2 table
The Two-Photon Exchange Experiment at DESY
We propose a new measurement of the ratio of positron-proton to
electron-proton elastic scattering at DESY. The purpose is to determine the
contributions beyond single-photon exchange, which are essential for the
Quantum Electrodynamic (QED) description of the most fundamental process in
hadronic physics. By utilizing a 20 cm long liquid hydrogen target in
conjunction with the extracted beam from the DESY synchrotron, we can achieve
an average luminosity of
cmssr ( times the luminosity
achieved by OLYMPUS). The proposed TPEX experiment entails a commissioning run
at 2 GeV, followed by measurements at 3 GeV, thereby providing new data up to
(GeV/) (twice the range of current measurements). We present
and discuss the proposed experimental setup, run plan, and expectations.Comment: 10 pages, 14 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with
arXiv:2301.0470
OLYMPUS: First measurement of the charge-averaged elastic lepton-proton scattering cross section
We report the first measurement of the average of the electron-proton and
positron-proton elastic scattering cross sections. This lepton charge-averaged
cross section is insensitive to the leading effects of hard two-photon
exchange, giving more robust access to the proton's electromagnetic form
factors. The cross section was extracted from data taken by the OLYMPUS
experiment at DESY, in which alternating stored electron and positron beams
were scattered from a windowless gaseous hydrogen target. Elastic scattering
events were identified from the coincident detection of the scattered lepton
and recoil proton in a large-acceptance toroidal spectrometer. The luminosity
was determined from the rates of M{\o}ller, Bhabha and elastic scattering in
forward electromagnetic calorimeters. The data provide some selectivity between
existing form factor global fits and will provide valuable constraints to
future fits.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PR
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