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Measurement Of The Helicity Asymmetry E For The 𝛾p → P𝛑⁰ Reaction In The Resonance Region, C. W. Kim, N. Zachariou, M. Bashkanov, W. J. Briscoe, S. Fegan, V. L. Kashevarov, K. Nikonov, A. Sarantsev, A. Schmidt, I. I. Strakovsky, D. P. Watts, R. L. Workman, P. Achenbach, Z. Akbar, M. J. Amaryan, G. Angelini, W. R. Armstrong, H. Atac, L. Baashen, M. Zurek, Et Al., The Clas Collaboration

Physics Faculty Publications

The double-spin-polarization observable E for 𝛾^→ p^→ → p𝛑⁰ has been measured with the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) at photon beam energies E𝛾 from 0.367 to 2.173 GeV (corresponding to center-of-mass energies from 1.240 to 2.200 GeV) for pion center-of-mass angles, cos θ^c.m._𝛑⁰, between - 0.86 and 0.82. These new CLAS measurements cover a broader energy range and have smaller uncertainties compared to previous CBELSA data and provide an important independent check on systematics. These measurements are compared to predictions as well as new global fits from The George Washington University, Mainz, and Bonn-Gatchina …

Measurement Of The Beam Asymmetry Sigma And The Target Asymmetry T In The Photoproduction Of Omega Mesons Off The Proton Using Clas At Jefferson Laboratory, P. Roy, Z. Akbar, S. Park, V. Crede, A. V. Anisovich, I. Denisenko, E. Klempt, Gerard P. Gilfoyle

Physics Faculty Publications

The photoproduction of omega mesons off the proton has been studied in the reaction γp -> pω using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) and the frozen-spin target in Hall B at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. For the first time, the target asymmetry T has been measured in photoproduction from the decay ω -> π⁺π^-π⁰, using a transversely polarized target with energies ranging from just above the reaction threshold up to 2.8 GeV. Significant nonzero values are observed for these asymmetries, reaching about 30-40% in the third-resonance region. New measurements for the …

Measurement Of The Beam Asymmetry Σ And The Target Asymmetry T In The Photoproduction Of Ω Mesons Off The Proton Using Clas At Jefferson Laboratory, P. Roy, K. P. Adhikari, G. Charles, G. Gavalian, A. Klein, M. Mayer, Y. Prok, B. Torayev, J. Zhang, Z. W. Zhao

Physics Faculty Publications

he photoproduction of ω mesons off the proton has been studied in the reaction γp → pω using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) and the frozen-spin target in Hall B at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. For the first time, the target asymmetry T has been measured in photoproduction from the decay ω → π⁺π⁻π⁰, using a transversely polarized target with energies ranging from just above the reaction threshold up to 2.8 GeV. Significant nonzero values are observed for these asymmetries, reaching about 30–40% in the third-resonance region. New measurements for the …

First Measurement Of The Helicity Asymmetry E In Ƞ Photoproduction On The Proton, I. Senderovich, B.T. Morrison, M. Dugger, B.G. Ritchie, E. Pasyuk, R. Tucker, J. Brock, C. Carlin, C.D. Keith, D. G. Meekins, Y. Prok

Physics Faculty Publications

Results are presented for the first measurement of the double-polarization helicity asymmetry E for the ƞ photoproduction reaction ɣp -> ηp. Data were obtained using the FROzen Spin Target (FROST) with the CLAS spectrometer in Hall B at Jefferson Lab, covering a range of center-of-mass energy W from threshold to 2.15 GeV and a large range in center-of-mass polar angle. As an initial application of these data, the results have been incorporated into the Jülich-Bonn model to examine the case for the existence of a narrow N* resonance between 1.66 and 1.70 GeV. The addition of these data to the …

Photoproduction Of Λ And Σº Hyperons Using Linearly Polarized Photons, C. A. Paterson, D. G. Ireland, K. Livingston, B. Mckinnon, D. Adikaram, M. Amaryan, Y. Prok, B. Torayev

Physics Faculty Publications

Background: Measurements of polarization observables for the reactions ^→ᵧp→K+ Λ and ^→ᵧp→ K+Σ⁰ have been performed. This is part of a program of measurements designed to study the spectrum of baryon resonances in particular, and nonperturbative QCD in general.

Purpose: The accurate measurement of several polarization observables provides tight constraints for phenomenological fits, which allow the study of strangeness in nucleon and nuclear systems. Beam-recoil observables for the ^→ᵧp→ K+Σ⁰ reaction have not been reported before now.

Method: Themeasurements were carried out using linearly polarized photon beams incident on a liquid hydrogen target, and the …

Rescattering Effects In Laser-Assisted Electron-Atom Bremsstrahlung, A. N. Zheltukhin, A. V. Flegel, M. V. Frolov, N. L. Manakov, Anthony F. Starace

Anthony F. Starace Publications

Rescattering effects in non-resonant spontaneous laser-assisted electron–atom bremsstrahlung (LABrS) are analyzed within the framework of time-dependent effective-range (TDER) theory. It is shown that high energy LABrS spectra exhibit rescattering plateau structures that are similar to those that are well-known in strong field laser-induced processes as well as those that have been predicted theoretically in laser-assisted collision processes. In the limit of a low-frequency laser field, an analytic description of LABrS is obtained from a rigorous quantum analysis of the exact TDER results for the LABrS amplitude. This amplitude is represented as a sum of factorized terms involving three factors, each …

First Measurement Of The Polarization Observable E In The P→ (Ɣ→, Π+) In Reaction Up To 2.25 Gev, S. Strauch, W. J. Briscoe, M. Döring, E. Klempt, V. A. Nikonov, E. Pasyuk, D. Rönchen, A.V. Sarantsev, I. Strakovsky, R. Workman, K. P. Adhikari, D. Adikaram, L. El Fassi

Physics Faculty Publications

First results from the longitudinally polarized frozen-spin target (FROST) program are reported. The double-polarization observable E, for the reaction ɣ^→p^→→π+n, has been measured using a circularly polarized tagged-photon beam, with energies from 0.35 to 2.37 GeV. The final-state pions were detected with the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer in Hall B at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. These polarization data agree fairly well with previous partial-wave analyses at low photon energies. Over much of the covered energy range, however, significant deviations are observed, particularly in the high-energy region where high-L multipoles contribute. The data have been …

Data Analysis Techniques, Differential Cross Sections, And Spin Density Matrix Elements For The Reaction ᵞp → Φp, K.P. Adhikari, D. Adikaram, M.J. Amaryan, A. Klein, S. Koirala, Clas Collaboration

Physics Faculty Publications

High-statistics measurements of differential cross sections and spin density matrix elements for the reaction ᵞp → ϕp have been made using the CLAS detector at Jefferson Lab. We cover center-of-mass energies (√s) from 1.97 to 2.84 GeV, with an extensive coverage in the ϕ production angle. The high statistics of the data sample made it necessary to carefully account for the interplay between the ϕ natural lineshape and effects of the detector resolution, that are found to be comparable in magnitude. We study both the charged-(ϕ → K⁺ K^-) and neutral( ϕ → (K^O_SK …

Data Analysis Techniques, Differential Cross Sections, And Spin Density Matrix Elements For The Reaction 𝛾p → Φp, K. P. Adhikari, D. Adikaram, M. J. Amaryan, C. E. Hyde, S. Koirala, S. E. Kuhn, M. Mayer, I. Niculescu, Et Al., The Clas Collaboration

Physics Faculty Publications

High-statistics measurements of differential cross sections and spin density matrix elements for the reaction γp→ϕp have been made using the CLAS detector at Jefferson Lab. We cover center-of-mass energies (√s) from 1.97 to 2.84 GeV, with an extensive coverage in the ϕ production angle. The high statistics of the data sample made it necessary to carefully account for the interplay between the ϕ natural lineshape and effects of the detector resolution, that are found to be comparable in magnitude. We study both the charged- (ϕ→K⁺K⁻) and neutral- (ϕ→K⁰_SK⁰_L) K^{→ …}

Design Of Electronics For A High-Energy Photon Tagger For The Gluex Experiment, Mitchell "Woody" Underwood

Honors Scholar Theses

In quantum chromodynamics (QCD), quarks and antiquarks are held together inside hadrons by the nuclear strong force, which is mediated by exchange particles known as gluons. The simplest type of hadron, the meson, consists of a single quark and a single antiquark bound by a gluonic field. The flux-tube model of QCD says that this gluonic field forms a tube of color-electric field lines between the quark and the antiquark which can under the right conditions be made to vibrate. Such mesons with excited glue are called hybrid mesons.

GlueX is a high-energy nuclear physics experiment which will study hybrid …

Search For The Photoexcitation Of Exotic Mesons In The Π+Π+Π- System, Clas Collaboration, M. J. Amaryan, H. Bagdasaryan, S. Bektasoglu, S. Bültmann, G. E. Dodge, G. Gavalian, N. Guler, C. E. Hyde-Wright, N. Kalantarians, A. Klein, S. E. Kuhn, J. Lachniet, M. R. Niroula, L. M. Qin, S. Tkachenko, L. B. Weinstein, J. Zhang

Physics Faculty Publications

A search for exotic mesons in the π⁺π⁺π⁻ system photoproduced by the charge exchange reaction γp→π⁺π⁺π⁻(n) was carried out by the CLAS Collaboration at Jefferson Lab. A tagged-photon beam with energies in the 4.8 to 5.4 GeV range, produced through bremsstrahlung from a 5.744 GeV electron beam, was incident on a liquid-hydrogen target. A partial wave analysis was performed on a sample of 83 000 events, the highest such statistics to date in this reaction at these energies. The main objective of this study was to look for the …

First Measurement Of Beam-Recoil Observables CX And CZ In Hyperon Photoproduction, M. J. Amaryan, H. Bagdasaryan, H. Bektasoglu, S. Bültmann, S. L. Careccia, K. V. Dharmawardane, G. E. Dodge, T. A. Forest, N. Guler, C. E. Hyde-Wright, N. Kalantarians, A. Klein, S. E. Kuhn, J. Lachniet, M. R. Niroula, R. A. Niyazov, L. M. Qin, F. Sabatié, S. Tkachenko, L. B. Weinstein, J. Yun, Et Al., Clas Collaboration

Physics Faculty Publications

Spin transfer from circularly polarized real photons to recoiling hyperons has been measured for the reactions ^→γ + p → K⁺ + ^→Λ and ^→γ+p → K⁺ + ^→Σ⁰. The data were obtained using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) detector at the Jefferson Lab for center-of-mass energies W between 1.6 and 2.53 GeV, and for -0.85 < cos θ^c.m._K+ < +0.95. For the Λ, the polarization transfer coefficient along the photon momentum axis, C_z, was found to be near unity for a wide range of energy and kaon production angles. The associated transverse polarization coefficient C_x is smaller than C_z by a roughly …

Beam-Helicity Asymmetries In Double-Charged-Pion Photoproduction On The Proton, H. Bagdasaryan, M. Bektasoglu, S. Bültmann, Gail Dodge, N. Guler, C. E. Hyde-Wright, H. G. Juengst, A. Klein, S. E. Kuhn, L. M. Qin, W. Roberts, F. Sabatié, S. Tkachenko, L. B. Weinstein, J. Yun, J. Zhang, Et Al., Clas Collaboration

Physics Faculty Publications

Beam-helicity asymmetries for the two-pion-photoproduction reaction 𝛾⃗p → p π⁺π^- have been studied for the first time in the resonance region for center-of-mass energies between 1.35 and 2.30 GeV. The experiment was performed at Jefferson Lab with the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer using circularly polarized tagged photons incident on an unpolarized hydrogen target. Beam-helicity-dependent angular distributions of the final-state particles were measured. The large cross-section asymmetries exhibit strong sensitivity to the kinematics and dynamics of the reaction. The data are compared with the results of various phenomenological model calculations, and show that these models currently do not …