Download or read book The Neutron Electric Form Factor to Q2 written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nucleon elastic electromagnetic form factors are fundamental quantities needed for an understanding of nucleon and nuclear electromagnetic structure. The evolution of the Sachs electric and magnetic form factors with Q2, the square of the four-momentum transfer, is related to the distribution of charge and magnetization within the nucleon. High precision measurements of the nucleon form factors are essential for stringent tests of our current theoretical understanding of confinement within the nucleon. Measurements of the neutron form factors, in particular, those of the neutron electric form factor, have been notoriously difficult due to the lack of a free neutron target and the vanishing integral charge of the neutron. Indeed, a precise measurement of the neutron electric form factor has eluded experimentalists for decades; however, with the advent of high duty-factor polarized electron beam facilities, experiments employing polarization degrees of freedom have finally yielded the first precise measurements of this fundamental quantity. Following a general overview of the experimental and theoretical status of the nucleon form factors, a detailed description of an experiment designed to extract the neutron electric form factor from measurements of the neutron's recoil polarization in quasielastic 2H(e, e')1H scattering is presented. The experiment described here employed the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility's longitudinally polarized electron beam, a magnetic spectrometer for detection of the scattered electron, and a neutron polarimeter designed specifically for this experiment. Measurements were conducted at three Q2 values of 0.45, 1.13, and 1.45 (GeV/c)2, and the final results extracted from an analysis of the data acquired in this experiment are reported and compared with recent theoretical predictions for the nucleon form factors.
Download or read book Measurements of the Electric Form Factor of the Neutron at Q2 written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precise measurements of the electric form factor of the neutron, Gn E, over a wide range of the square of the four-momentum transfer, Q2, are important for understanding nucleon and nuclear electromagnetic structure. In the non-relativistic limit, the electric and magnetic form factors are related to the charge and magnetization distribution inside a nucleon, respectively. The measured values of the form factors also serve as an important test for nucleon models. Among the four nucleon form factors, the electric form factor of the neutron, Gn E, is the most difficult one to measure and therefore has been very poorly known especially in the region Q2 > 1 (GeV/c)2 due to the lack of a free neutron target and the small value of Gn E. The Jefferson Laboratory E93-038 collaboration measured the ratio of the electric to magnetic form factor of the neutron, g = Gn E/Gn M, at three acceptance-averaged Q2 values of 0.45, 1.13 and 1.45 (GeV/c)2 using the quasi-elastic 2H(ẽ, e0ñ)1H reaction. In our experiment, an electron was scattered quasielastically from a neutron in a liquid-deuterium target, and the electron was detected in an electron spectrometer in coincidence with the neutron which was detected in a neutron polarimeter. The polarimeter was used to analyze the polarization of the recoil neutrons by measuring the np elastic scattering asymmetry. The experiment was performed in Hall-C at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility during the period from September 2000 to April 2001. The value of g was determined from the measured ratio of the sideways and longitudinal components of the neutron polarization vector. The values for Gn E were computed from our measured values of g = Gn E/Gn M using the Gn M values obtained from a fit to the world data. The E93-038 collaboration reported the first measurements of Gn E using polarization techniques at Q2 greater than 1 (GeV/c)2. Furthermore, our measurements of Gn E at the two higher Q2 values of 1.13 and 1.45 (GeV/c)2 are more precise than prior measurements at lower Q2. In this dissertation, the data analyses and our results for g and Gn E at Q2=0.45 (GeV/c)2 and Q2=1.13 (GeV/c)2 are given. Our high-accuracy data are included with the 'world' data for Gn E to form an improved data set that was fit with an empirical function to give a simple parameterization of Gn E as a function of Q2. In addition, the data for the ratio Gn E/Gn M are compared to theoretical models of the nucleon. We found that no theoretical model predicts both proton and neutron form factor data.
Download or read book Measurement of the Electric Form Factor of the Neutron at High Momentum Transfer written by Jonathan Miller and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Measurement of the Neutron Electric Form Factor in D e E p Quasi elastic Scattering at Q2 written by Hongguo Zhu and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Neutron Electric Form Factor to Q2 written by Bradley Robert Plaster and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Cont.) Following a general overview of the experimental and theoretical status of the nucleon form factors, a detailed description of an experiment designed to extract the neutron electric form factor from measurements of the neutron's recoil polarization in quasielastic 2H(e, e')1H scattering is presented. The experiment described here employed the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility's longitudinally polarized electron beam, a magnetic spectrometer for detection of the scattered electron, and a neutron polarimeter designed specifically for this experiment. Measurements were conducted at three Q2 values of 0.45, 1.13, and 1.45 (GeV/c)2, and the final results extracted from an analysis of the data acquired in this experiment are reported and compared with recent theoretical predictions for the nucleon form factors.
Download or read book Measurements of the Electric Form Factor of the Neutron at Q2 written by Shigeyuki Tajima and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Measurements of the Electric Form Factor of the Neutron at Q2 written by Shigeyuki Tajima and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electric Form Factor of the Neutron at Q2 written by Thomas D. Eden and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Measurement of the Neutron Electric Form Factor at Very Large Momentum Transfer Using Polaried Electrions Scattering from a Polarized Helium 3 Target written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge of the electric and magnetic elastic form factors of the nucleon is essential for an understanding of nucleon structure. Of the form factors, the electric form factor of the neutron has been measured over the smallest range in Q2 and with the lowest precision. Jefferson Lab experiment 02-013 used a novel new polarized 3 He target to nearly double the range of momentum transfer in which the neutron form factor has been studied and to measure it with much higher precision. Polarized electrons were scattered off this target, and both the scattered electron and neutron were detected. Gn E was measured to be 0.0242 ± 0.0020(stat) ± 0.0061(sys) and 0.0247 ± 0.0029(stat) ± 0.0031(sys) at Q2 = 1.7 and 2.5 GeV2 , respectively.
Download or read book Measurements of the Electric Form Factor of the Neutron at Q2 written by Seamus Patrick Riordan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Measurements of the Electric Form Factor of the Neutron Up to Q2 written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The electric form factor of the neutron was determined from studies of the reaction \rea{} in quasi-elastic kinematics in Hall A at Jefferson Lab. Longitudinally polarized electrons were scattered off a polarized target in which the nuclear polarization was oriented perpendicular to the momentum transfer. The scattered electrons were detected in a magnetic spectrometer in coincidence with neutrons that were registered in a large-solid-angle detector. More than doubling the $Q^2$-range over which it is known, we find \GEn{}$ = 0.0225 \pm 0.0017 (stat) \pm 0.0024 (syst)$, $0.0200 \pm 0.0023 \pm 0.0018$, and $0.0142 \pm 0.0019 \pm 0.0013$ for $Q^2$ = 1.72, 2.48, and 3.41~\gevsq, respectively.
Download or read book The Electric Form Factor of the Neutron at Q2 written by William L. Tireman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Measurement of the Electric Form Factor of the Neutron at High Momentum Transfer written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The E02-013 collaboration s precision measurement of the electric form factor of the neutron at high momentum took place in Hall A of Jefferson Laboratory [1]. Four kinematic points spread in Q2 from 1.2 to 3.5 (GeV/c)2 reach the region of momentum transfer where there is little ambiguity that the form factors are dominated by the valence quarks. The electric form factor provides important constraints on the generalized parton distributions (GPDs) of the nucleon and therefore to understand the currently unknown quark angular orbital moments. The talk presented newly obtained results for GnE including at Q2 of 2.5 (GeV/c)2. These measurements provide access to twice the range of momentum transfer for complete iso-spin decomposition of the nucleon form factors. The form factors of the u and d quarks were also presented. The measurement used a double polarization asymmetry method [2][3] with He polarized up to 55% (provided by a novel hybrid alkali optical pumping scheme utilizi.
Download or read book A Measurement of the Neutron Electric Form Factor written by Robin J. Watson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electric Form Factor of the Neutron written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent polarization-based precision measurements of the nucleons' elastic electric form factors have led to surprising results. The measurement of the ratio of the proton's electromagnetic form factors, $\mu_p G_E^p/G_M^p$, was found to drop nearly linearly with $Q^2$ out to at least $5 \mathrm{GeV}^2$, inconsistent with the older Rosenbluth-type experiments. A recent measurement of $G_E^n$, the neutron's electric form-factor saw $G_E^n$ does not fall off as quickly as commonly expected up to $Q^2 \approx 1.5 \mathrm{GeV}^2$. Extending this study, a precision measurement of $G_E^n$ up to $Q^2=3.5 \mathrm{GeV}^2$ was completed in Hall A at Jefferson Lab. The ratio $G_E^n/G_M^n$ was measured through the beam-target asymmetry $A_\perp$ of electrons quasi-elastically scattered off polarized neutrons in the reaction ${}^{3}\overrightarrow{He}(\overrightarrow{e}, e' n)$. The experiment took full advantage of the electron beam, recent target developments, as well as two detectors new to Jefferson Lab. The measurement used the accelerator's 100\% duty-cycle high-polarization (typically 84\%) electron beam and a new, hybrid optically-pumped polarized ${}^{3}\overrightarrow{He}$ target which achieved in-beam polarizations in excess of 50\%. A medium acceptance (80msr) open-geometry magnetic spectrometer (BigBite) detected the scattered electron, while a geometrically matched neutron detector observed the struck neutron. Preliminary results from this measurement will be discussed and compared to modern calculations of $G_E^n$.
Download or read book Electric Form Factor of the Neutron from Asymmetry Measurements written by Richard Frederick Obrecht (Jr) and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The overwhelming majority of visible mass in the universe is composed of protons and neutrons, collectively known as nucleons, which are arguably the most important strongly interacting systems to study. A nucleon may naively be thought of as a composite object built out of three non-interacting sub-objects, known as quarks, in the large energy limit; however, the structure of the nucleon is much more complicated, and consequently far richer, than a simple valence-quark picture. There are sea quarks in addition to valence quarks that interact strongly via the exchange of gluons resulting in a complex vacuum structure, and the collective system must give rise to the observed properties of the nucleon, e.g. the radius and mass. The nucleon is the most well-studied hadron and yet there are still unresolved complexities in the calculation of properties from first principles of QCD; this represents a central problem in nuclear physics. The theoretical difficulty with the nucleon requires experimentation, which is steadily increasing the knowledge of nucleon structure and the strong interaction. The subject of this thesis pertains to nucleon electromagnetic form factors which are fundamental quantities containing information on the spatial and momentum distributions of charge and current within the nucleon. Nucleon form factors may be accessed through well-understood leading order electromagnetic processes with a leptonic probe, and provide strong constraints on testing non-perturbative QCD and nuclear structure models. The form factor ratio of the neutron has been extracted via a beam-target helicity asymmetry measurement. The Jefferson Lab Hall A experiment E02-013 ran in 2006 utilizing the 6 GeV CEBAF for its high-duty, longitudinally polarized electron beam. The double-arm coincidence experiment detected the quasielastically scattered electrons in a large angular and momentum acceptance spectrometer. The recoiling nucleons were detected and momentum analyzed in a large scintillator-iron based neutron detector. The analysis of a previously unpublished extraction of the electric form factor of the neutron is presented.
Download or read book The Electric Form Factor of the Neutron at Q2 written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jefferson Laboratory E93-038 collaboration measured the ratio of the electric form factor to the magnetic form factor of the neutron, g = Gne/Gnm, via recoil polarimetry from the quasielastic 2H(e,en)1 H reaction at q2 = 0.45, 1.17 and 1.47 (GeV/c)2 in Hall C of the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. A polarimeter designed specifically for E93-038 was used to measure the up-down scattering asymmetry from the transverse component of the recoil neutron's polarization vector, and a dipole magnet located in front of the polarimeter was used to precess the polarization vector in the scattering plane through an angle of x. Sequential measurements of the scattering asymmetry with the polarization vector precessed through angles ? = 0° and ? = ±90° for Q2 = 1.47 (GeV/c)2 were made during January 2001 and through angles ? = ±40° for Q2 = 1.17 (GeV/c)2 during April 2001 and will be reported on in this dissertation. This ratio method removes the need to know the analyzing power.
