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Exploring Qcd Factorization At Moderate Energy Scales, Eric Alan Moffat
Exploring Qcd Factorization At Moderate Energy Scales, Eric Alan Moffat
Physics Theses & Dissertations
Asymptotic freedom in QCD facilitates the use of partonic degrees of freedom over short distances, but physical processes are sensitive to a wide range of scales. Thus, it is necessary in QCD calculations to utilize a factorization scheme to separate a process into perturbative and non-perturbative factors. This separation relies on an assumption that one energy scale is infinitely larger than the other scales involved in the process. However, much experimental research in areas such as nucleon structure and quark-hadron duality occur at more moderate energy scales where that basic assumption may not be true but perturbative calculations should still …
Spectator Proton Detection And Reconstruction In Deep Inelastic D(E,EpS) Scattering, David Payette
Spectator Proton Detection And Reconstruction In Deep Inelastic D(E,EpS) Scattering, David Payette
Physics Theses & Dissertations
A Radial Time Projection Chamber (RTPC) was designed and installed in Jefferson Lab's Hall B as part of the BONuS12 (Barely Off-shell Nucleon Structure) experiment. The goal of BONuS12 is to accurately measure the structure function of the neutron by scattering 11 GeV electrons and detecting them with the CLAS12 spectrometer. Deuterium gas was used as an effective neutron target, and the new RTPC was used to detect low- momentum spectator protons. Protons follow a curved path in the 5 Tesla solenoid that is part of CLAS12, ionizing the He-CO2 gas in an annular drift region surrounding the target. These …