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Study Of The Etaprimepi0 System In Gluex, Rupesh Dotel
Study Of The Etaprimepi0 System In Gluex, Rupesh Dotel
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The η′π is an important decay channel for the potentially exotic hybrid meson π1(1600) that has been detected in the COMPASS, VES and E852 experiments. These previous experiments used a charged pion beam as a probe. In contrast, the GlueX experiment is designed to search for the exotic hybrid mesons using a linearly polarized photon beam. This thesis project analyzes the η′π0 system produced in GlueX by the reaction γp → η′π0p. After optimizing the event selection to minimize background contributions, a mass independent partial wave analysis is performed in search of an exotic signature. Within the currently available statistical …
The Valence Quark Structure Of The Nucleon, Christopher A. Leon
The Valence Quark Structure Of The Nucleon, Christopher A. Leon
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The nucleon is a composite object, formed from a sea of quarks, anti-quarks and gluons being continuously created and annihilated. Among this complexity, however, there are three valence quarks that give the nucleon its baryon and flavor numbers. Here we investigate the dynamical structure of valence quarks inside the nucleon. The primary tool used will be patron distribution functions (PDFs), which give the distribution of momentum fraction, x, of the quarks and gluons inside the nucleon. By examining the PDFs of the valence quarks from phenomenological fits, we derive a new model-independent relation of PDF peaks and connect it to …