Nuclear Transparency from Quasi-elastic ¹²C(e, e'p) scattering reaction up to Q2 = 14.2 (GeV/c)2 in Hall C at Jefferson Lab
- Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS (United States)
Color Transparency (CT) is a unique prediction of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) where the final (and/or initial) state interactions of hadrons with the nuclear medium are suppressed for exclusive processes at high momentum transfers. While this phenomenon has been observed for mesons, there has never been a conclusive observation for baryons. A clear signal of CT for baryons would be the first evidence of baryons fluctuating to a small size in the nucleus, and the onset would show the transition from nucleon-meson picture to quark-gluon degrees of freedom. The experiment E1206107, searching for the onset of CT in protons was completed in Hall C at Jefferson Laboratory (JLab) using the upgraded 12 GeV e- beam. It used the High Momentum Spectrometer (HMS) and the new Super High Momentum spectrometer (SHMS) in coincidence to measure the e- + ¹²C ? e-' + p + X reaction in quasi-elastic kinematics. Data were collected on a ¹²C target over the range of Q2 = 8 - 14.3 (GeV/c)2, covering the region where a previous p + A ? p' + p + X experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) had observed an enhancement. Proton Transparency (PT) was extracted from these data. A rise in the PT as a function of Q2 (defined as the square of the negative of the 4-momentum transfer by the scattered electron) is predicted to be a signature of the onset of CT. Our data showed no significant increase and consistent with the traditional nuclear physics calculation. This dissertation discusses the theory and implementation of the CT experiment, summarizes the data analysis and presents results on hydrogen normalization and nuclear transparency.
- Research Organization:
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG02-07ER41528; AC05-06OR23177
- OSTI ID:
- 1882382
- Report Number(s):
- JLAB-PHY-21-3603; DOE/OR/23177-5590
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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