Identification Of High Energy Cosmic Ray Electrons Using Advanced Techniques In Calet And Fermi Lat,
2015
University of Denver
Identification Of High Energy Cosmic Ray Electrons Using Advanced Techniques In Calet And Fermi Lat, Aaron James Worley
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Measurements of the cosmic ray electron spectrum have received much attention over the last decade as anomalies in both electron and positron observations have been detected independently by several experiments. The profound possible implications in the fields of high energy astrophysics and particle physics have allowed for many interpretations on the origin of these inconsistencies in the spectra. This research focuses on two space-borne cosmic radiation experiments at different stages in their mission lifetimes: the Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) and the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). We explore the proton-electron discriminating capabilities of the CALET instrument through Monte Carlo simulations. …
Multiple Dalitz Plot Analysis At Cleo-C,
2015
Wayne State University
Multiple Dalitz Plot Analysis At Cleo-C, Mackenzie Smith
Wayne State University Dissertations
Dalitz Plot analysis is a standard technique for the study of weak hadronic 3-body decays. This technique allows us to extract the relative amplitudes, phases, and fit fractions of the resonances that are the primary product of such decays. A Dalitz analysis is complicated by the presence of two or more interfering resonances that appear at the same place on the plot. In this analysis I attempt to resolve the $K^{0}_{s} a_{0}(980)^{0}$ and $K^{0}_{s} f_{0}(980)$ in the decay of $D^{0} \to K^{0}_{s} K^{+} K^{-}$. Using the $K^{0}_{s} a_{0}(980)^{0}$ resonance found in $D^{0} \to K^{0}_{s} \pi^{0} \eta$, I compare equating a …
Non-Planar On-Shell Diagrams,
2015
CUNY City College
Non-Planar On-Shell Diagrams, Sebastían Franco, Daniele Galloni, Brenda Penante, Congkao Wen
Publications and Research
We initiate a systematic study of non-planar on-shell diagrams in N = 4 SYM and develop powerful technology for doing so. We introduce canonical variables generalizing face variables, which make the d log form of the on-shell form explicit. We make significant progress towards a general classification of arbitrary on-shell diagrams by means of two classes of combinatorial objects: generalized matching and matroid polytopes. We propose a boundary measurement that connects general on-shell diagrams to the Grassmannian. Our proposal exhibits two important and non-trivial properties: positivity in the planar case and it matches the combinatorial description of the diagrams in …
The Toric Approach To F-Theory Model Building,
2015
University of New Hampshire
The Toric Approach To F-Theory Model Building, Herbie L. Smith
Honors Theses and Capstones
We describe the theoretical motivation for F-theory as a non-perturbative generalization of string theory. The four complex-dimensional compactification spaces of F-theory, called elliptically-fibered Calabi-Yau manifolds, consist of the six compact dimensions of string theory, plus a two-dimensional fiber that describes the string coupling field as a function of position on the string theory manifold. The methods of toric geometry are developed and applied to construct examples of elliptically-fibered Calabi-Yau manifolds. We analyze in detail models in which the fiber is free of singularities as a test bed for a more general analysis.
Phenomenology Of A Toy Model Inspired By The Spontaneous Reduction Of The Spectral Dimension In Quantum Gravity,
2015
University of New Hampshire, Durham
Phenomenology Of A Toy Model Inspired By The Spontaneous Reduction Of The Spectral Dimension In Quantum Gravity, Patrick A. Greene
Honors Theses and Capstones
Attempts to formulate a quantum theory of gravity have generated many sophisticated models. Though fundamentally different, they necessarily exhibit behaviors resembling experimental observations and standard theoretical expectations. Often, their similarities go no further. However many models unexpectedly predict a change in the spectral dimension of spacetime at very small scales (See [1] and references therein for examples). In particular, some of the models predict the spectral dimension changes from 4 to 2. This paper investigates the phenomenological consequences of a toy model that use Planck-scale 2D hypersurfaces, specifically triangles, embedded in 4D Minkowski spacetime. We randomly generated sequences of triangles …
Search For Fully Reconstructed W Boson Decay,
2015
Wayne State University
Search For Fully Reconstructed W Boson Decay, Sangeetha Baskaran
Wayne State University Theses
We have applied techniques used in reconstructing charm and bottom hadron decays to reconstruct W Boson decay. This technique can also be used for the study of other heavy Boson decays. We search for the decay of a W Boson to a D+ meson and a K*0 meson. Events are selected based on the topology of the displaced decay vertex of the D+ → K^- π^+ π^+ . The K*0 is reconstructed in its K^± π^∓ decay mode.
Azimuthal Asymmetries And The Emergence Of “Collectivity” From Multi-Particle Correlations In High-Energy Pa Collisions,
2015
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College
Azimuthal Asymmetries And The Emergence Of “Collectivity” From Multi-Particle Correlations In High-Energy Pa Collisions, Adrian Dumitru, Larry Mclerran, Vladimir Skokov
Publications and Research
We show how angular asymmetries ∼ cos 2φ can arise in dipole scattering at high energies. We illustrate the effects due to anisotropic fluctuations of the saturation momentum of the target with a finite correlation length in the transverse impact parameter plane, i.e. from a domain-like structure. We compute the two-particle azimuthal cumulant in this model including both one-particle factorizable as well as genuine two-particle non-factorizable contributions to the two-particle cross section. We also compute the full BBGKY hierarchy for the four-particle azimuthal cumulant and find that only the fully factorizable contribution to c2{4} is negative while …
Virtuality Distributions And Pion Transition Form Factor,
2015
Old Dominion University
Virtuality Distributions And Pion Transition Form Factor, A. V. Radyushkin
Physics Faculty Publications
Using the example of hard exclusive transition process ᵞ*ᵞ → π⁰ at the handbag level, we outline basics of a new approach to transverse momentum dependence in hard processes. In coordinate representation, matrix elements of operators (in the simplest case, bilocal 𝒪(0, z)) describing a hadron with momentum p, are functions of (pz) and z² parametrized through virtuality distribution amplitudes (VDA) Φ(x, σ), with x being Fourier-conjugate to (pz) and σ Laplace-conjugate to z2. For intervals with z+ = 0, we introduce the transverse momentum distribution amplitude (TMDA) Ψ(x, k⊥), and write it in terms of VDA …
Cross Sections For The Exclusive Photon Electroproduction On The Proton And Generalized Parton Distributions,
2015
Old Dominion University
Cross Sections For The Exclusive Photon Electroproduction On The Proton And Generalized Parton Distributions, H. S. Jo, D. Adikaram, M. J. Amaryan, L. El Fassi, N. Guler, A. Klein, S E. Kuhn, Y. Prok, L. B. Weinstein, J. Zhang, Z. W. Zhao
Physics Faculty Publications
Unpolarized and beam-polarized fourfold cross sections (d4σ/dQ2dxBdtdϕ) for the ep → e'p'γ reaction were measured using the CLAS detector and the 5.75-GeV polarized electron beam of the Jefferson Lab accelerator, for 110 (Q2;xB;t) bins over the widest phase space ever explored in the valence-quark region. Several models of generalized parton distributions (GPDs) describe the data well at most of our kinematics. This increases our confidence that we understand the GPD H, expected to be the dominant contributor to these observables. Through a leading-twist …
Precise Determination Of The Deuteron Spin Structure At Low To Moderate Q² With Clas And Extraction Of The Neutron Contribution,
2015
Old Dominion University
Precise Determination Of The Deuteron Spin Structure At Low To Moderate Q² With Clas And Extraction Of The Neutron Contribution, The Clas Collaboration, N. Guler, S E. Kuhn, Y. Prok, K. P. Adhikari, D. Adikaram, M. J. Amaryan, L. El Fassi, C. E. Hyde, A. Klein, L. B. Weinstein, Z. W. Zhao
Physics Faculty Publications
We present the final results for the deuteron spin structure functions obtained from the full data set collected in 2000–2001 with Jefferson Lab's continuous electron beam accelerator facility (CEBAF) using the CEBAF large acceptance spectrometer (CLAS). Polarized electrons with energies of 1.6, 2.5, 4.2, and 5.8 GeV were scattered from deuteron (15ND3 ) targets, dynamically polarized along the beam direction, and detected with CLAS. From the measured double-spin asymmetry, the virtual photon absorption asymmetry Ad1 and the polarized structure function gd1 were extracted over a wide kinematic range (0.05GeV2 < Q2 < 5GeV2 and 0.9 …
Effects Of Crab Cavities Multipole Content In An Electron-Ion Collider,
2015
Old Dominion University
Effects Of Crab Cavities Multipole Content In An Electron-Ion Collider, A. Castilla, V. S. Morozov, T. Satogata, J. R. Delayen
Physics Faculty Publications
The impact on the beam dynamics of the Medium Energy Electron-Ion Colider (MEIC) due to the multipole content of the 750 MHz crab cavity was studied using thin multipole elements for 6D phase space particle tracking in ELEGANT. Target values of the sextupole component for the cavity’s field expansion were used to perform preliminary studies on the proton beam stability when compared to the case of pure dipole content of the rf kicks. Finally, important effects on the beam sizes due to non-linear components of the crab cavities’ fields were identified and some criteria for their future study were proposed.
Rapidity Evolution Of Gluon Tmd From Low To Moderate X,
2015
Old Dominion University
Rapidity Evolution Of Gluon Tmd From Low To Moderate X, I. Balitsky, A. Tarasov
Physics Faculty Publications
We study how the rapidity evolution of gluon transverse momentum dependent distribution changes from nonlinear evolution at small x << 1 to linear evolution at moderate x ∼ 1.
Progress On The Design Of The Polarized Medium Energy Electron Ion Collider At Jlab,
2015
Old Dominion University
Progress On The Design Of The Polarized Medium Energy Electron Ion Collider At Jlab, F. Lin, S. A. Bogacz, P. D. Brindza, A Camsonne, E. Daly, Y. S. Derbenev, D. Douglas, R. Ent, D. Gaskell, R. L. Geng, A. Castilla, J. R. Delayen, C. E. Hyde, K. Park
Physics Faculty Publications
The Medium-energy Electron Ion Collider (MEIC) at JLab is designed to provide high luminosity and high polarization needed to reach new frontiers in the exploration of nuclear structure. The luminosity, exceeding 1033 cm-2s−1 in a broad range of the center-of-mass (CM) energy and maximum luminosity above 1034 cm-2s−1, is achieved by high-rate collisions of short small-emittance low-charge bunches made possible by high-energy electron cooling of the ion beam and synchrotron radiation damping of the electron beam. The polarization of light ion species (p, d, 3He) can be easily preserved and …
The Heavy Photon Search Test Detector,
2015
Old Dominion University
The Heavy Photon Search Test Detector, M. Battaglieri, S. Boyarinov, S. Bueltmann, V. Burkert, A. Celentano, G. Charles, W. Cooper, C. Cuevas, N. Dashyan, R. Devita, L. B. Weinstein
Physics Faculty Publications
The Heavy Photon Search (HPS), an experiment to search for a hidden sector photon in fixed target electroproduction, is preparing for installation at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) in the Fall of 2014. As the first stage of this project, the HPS Test Run apparatus was constructed and operated in 2012 to demonstrate the experiment׳s technical feasibility and to confirm that the trigger rates and occupancies are as expected. This paper describes the HPS Test Run apparatus and readout electronics and its performance. In this setting, a heavy photon can be identified as a narrow peak in the …
Double Spin Asymmetries Of Inclusive Hadron Electroproduction From A Transversely Polarized He-3 Target,
2015
Old Dominion University
Double Spin Asymmetries Of Inclusive Hadron Electroproduction From A Transversely Polarized He-3 Target, Y. X. Zhao, K. Allada, K. Aniol, J.R.M. Annand, T. Averett, F. Benmokhtar, M. Canan
Physics Faculty Publications
We report the measurement of beam-target double spin asymmetries (ALT) in the inclusive production of identified hadrons, →e + 3He↑ → h + X, using a longitudinally polarized 5.9-GeV electron beam and a transversely polarized 3He target. Hadrons (π±, K±, and proton) were detected at 16 ° with an average momentum ( Ph ) = 2.35 GeV/c and a transverse momentum (pT) coverage from 0.60 to 0.68 GeV/c. Asymmetries from the He-3 target were observed to be nonzero for π± production when the target was polarized …
Beam-Energy-Dependent Two-Pion Interferometry And The Freeze-Out Eccentricity Of Pions Measured In Heavy Ion Collisions At The Star Detector,
2015
Old Dominion University
Beam-Energy-Dependent Two-Pion Interferometry And The Freeze-Out Eccentricity Of Pions Measured In Heavy Ion Collisions At The Star Detector, L. Adamczyk, J.K. Adkins, G. Agakishiev, M.M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, I. Koralt, Star Collaboration
Physics Faculty Publications
We present results of analyses of two-pion interferometry in Au + Au collisions at root s(NN) = 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, 39, 62.4, and 200 GeV measured in the STAR detector as part of the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Beam Energy Scan program. The extracted correlation lengths (Hanbury-Brown-Twiss radii) are studied as a function of beam energy, azimuthal angle relative to the reaction plane, centrality, and transverse mass (m(T)) of the particles. The azimuthal analysis allows extraction of the eccentricity of the entire fireball at kinetic freeze-out. The energy dependence of this observable is expected to be sensitive to …
Precision Measurements Of Aⁿ1 In The Deep Inelastic Regime,
2015
Old Dominion University
Precision Measurements Of Aⁿ1 In The Deep Inelastic Regime, D. S. Parno, D. Flay, M. Posik, M. Canan, C. Hyde, The Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration
Physics Faculty Publications
We have performed precision measurements of the double-spin virtual-photon asymmetry A1 on the neutron in the deep inelastic scattering regime, using an open-geometry, large-acceptance spectrometer and a longitudinally and transversely polarized 3He target. Our data cover a wide kinematic range 0.277 <= x <= 0.548 at an average Q2 value of 3.078(GeV/c)2, doubling the available high-precision neutron data in this xrange. We have combined our results with world data on proton targets to make a leading-order extraction of the ratio of polarized-to-unpolarized parton distribution functions for up quarks and for down quarks in the same kinematic range. Our data are consistent with …
Direct Observation Of Quark-Hadron Duality In The Free Neutron F2 Structure Function,
2015
Old Dominion University
Direct Observation Of Quark-Hadron Duality In The Free Neutron F2 Structure Function, I. Niculescu, G. Niculescu, W. Melnitchouk, J. Arrington, M. E. Christy, S. Kuhn
Physics Faculty Publications
Using the recently published data from the BONuS(Barely Off-shell Nucleon Structure) experiment at Jefferson Lab, which utilized a spectator tagging technique to extract the inclusive electron-free neutron scattering cross section, we obtain the first direct observation of quark-hadron duality in the neutron F2 structure function. The data are used to reconstruct the lowest few (N = 2, 4, and 6) moments of F2 in the three prominent nucleon resonance regions, as well as the moments integrated over the entire resonance region. Comparison with moments computed from global parametrizations of parton distribution functions suggest that quark-hadron duality holds locally …
Measurement Of The Emc Effect In The Deuteron,
2015
Old Dominion University
Measurement Of The Emc Effect In The Deuteron, K. A. Griffioen, J. Arrington, M. E. Christy, R. Ent, N. Kalantarians, C. E. Keppel, S E. Kuhn
Physics Faculty Publications
We determined the structure function ratio RdEMC=Fd2/(Fn2+Fp2) from recently published Fn2/Fd2 data taken by the BONuS experiment using CLAS at Jefferson Lab. This ratio deviates from unity, with a slope dRdEMC/dx=−0.10 ± 0.05 in the range of Bjorken x from 0.35 to 0.7, for invariant mass W>1.4 GeV and Q2>1 GeV2 . The observed EMC effect for these kinematics is consistent with conventional nuclear physics models that include off-shell corrections, as well as with empirical analyses …
Towards A Resolution Of The Proton Form Factor Problem: New Electron And Positron Scattering Data,
2015
Old Dominion University
Towards A Resolution Of The Proton Form Factor Problem: New Electron And Positron Scattering Data, Clas Collaboration, D. Adikaram, L. B. Weinstein, R. P. Bennett, K. P, Adhikari, M. J. Amaryan, S. Careccia, L. El Fassi, C. E. Hyde, A. Klein, S E. Kuhn, M. Mayer, Z. W. Zhao
Physics Faculty Publications
There is a significant discrepancy between the values of the proton electric form factor, GpE, extracted using unpolarized and polarized electron scattering. Calculations predict that small two-photon exchange (TPE) contributions can significantly affect the extraction of GpEfrom the unpolarized electron-proton cross sections. We determined the TPE contribution by measuring the ratio of positron-proton to electron-proton elastic scattering cross sections using a simultaneous, tertiary electron-positron beam incident on a liquid hydrogen target and detecting the scattered particles in the Jefferson Lab CLAS detector. This novel technique allowed us to cover a wide range in virtual …
