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Title: Measurement of the EMC effect in light and heavy nuclei

Abstract

In this work, inclusive electron scattering from nuclear targets has been measured to extract the nuclear dependence of the inelastic cross section in Hall C at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator facility. Results are presented for 2H, 3He, 4He, 9B, 12C, 63Cu and 197Au at an incident electron beam energy of 5.77 GeV for a range of momentum transfer from Q2 = 2 to 7 (GeV/c)2. These data improve the precision of the existing measurements of the EMC effect in the nuclear targets at large x, and allow for more detailed examinations of the A dependence of the EMC effect.

Authors:
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  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  2. Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  3. Univ. of Houston, TX (United States); Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
  4. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
  5. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
  6. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
  7. Yerevan Physics Inst. (YerPhI) (Armenia)
  8. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
  9. Florida International Univ., Miami, FL (United States)
  10. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  11. Hampton Univ., Hampton, VA (United States)
  12. Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States); Univ. of Johannesburg (South Africa)
  13. Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States); Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
  14. Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
  15. Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS (United States)
  16. Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS (United States); Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States). Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory
  17. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  18. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States). Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory
  19. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States); Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States); The Catholic Univ. of America, Washington, DC (United States)
  20. Basel University (Switzerland)
  21. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States); Hampton Univ., Hampton, VA (United States)
  22. Basel University (Switzerland); Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland)
  23. James Madison Univ., Harrisonburg, VA (United States)
  24. College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA (United States)
  25. Norfolk State Univ., Norfolk, VA (United States)
  26. Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States). Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory
  27. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States). Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory; Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); National Science Foundation (NSF); South African National Research Foundation; Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
OSTI Identifier:
1907560
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1838019; OSTI ID: 1845301; OSTI ID: 1868986; OSTI ID: 1873222; OSTI ID: 1882228
Report Number(s):
JLAB-PHY-21-3466; DOE/OR/23177-5277; arXiv:2110.08399
Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985; TRN: US2311908
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-97ER41033; AC02-05CH11231; AC02-06CH11357; SC0013615; AC05-06OR23177; FE02-96ER40950; FG02-07ER41528
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review. C
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 104; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; lepton induced nuclear reactions; QCD in nuclear reactions

Citation Formats

Arrington, J., Bane, J., Daniel, A., Fomin, N., Gaskell, D., Seely, J., Asaturyan, R., Benmokhtar, F., Boeglin, W., Bosted, P., Bukhari, M. H. S., Christy, M. E., Connell, S., Dalton, M. M., Day, D., Dunne, J., Dutta, D., El Fassi, L., Ent, R., Fenker, H., Gao, H., Holt, R. J., Horn, T., Hungerford, E., Jones, M. K., Jourdan, J., Kalantarians, N., Keppel, C. E., Kiselev, D., Lung, A. F., Malace, S., Meekins, D. G., Mertens, T., Mkrtchyan, H., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, I., Potterveld, D. H., Perdrisat, C., Punjabi, V., Qian, X., Reimer, P. E., Roche, J., Rodriguez, V. M., Rondon, O., Schulte, E., Slifer, K., Smith, G. R., Solvignon, P., Tadevosyan, V., Tang, L., Testa, G., Trojer, R., Tvaskis, V., Wesselmann, F. R., Wood, S. A., Yuan, L., and Zheng, X. Measurement of the EMC effect in light and heavy nuclei. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevc.104.065203.
Arrington, J., Bane, J., Daniel, A., Fomin, N., Gaskell, D., Seely, J., Asaturyan, R., Benmokhtar, F., Boeglin, W., Bosted, P., Bukhari, M. H. S., Christy, M. E., Connell, S., Dalton, M. M., Day, D., Dunne, J., Dutta, D., El Fassi, L., Ent, R., Fenker, H., Gao, H., Holt, R. J., Horn, T., Hungerford, E., Jones, M. K., Jourdan, J., Kalantarians, N., Keppel, C. E., Kiselev, D., Lung, A. F., Malace, S., Meekins, D. G., Mertens, T., Mkrtchyan, H., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, I., Potterveld, D. H., Perdrisat, C., Punjabi, V., Qian, X., Reimer, P. E., Roche, J., Rodriguez, V. M., Rondon, O., Schulte, E., Slifer, K., Smith, G. R., Solvignon, P., Tadevosyan, V., Tang, L., Testa, G., Trojer, R., Tvaskis, V., Wesselmann, F. R., Wood, S. A., Yuan, L., & Zheng, X. Measurement of the EMC effect in light and heavy nuclei. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.104.065203
Arrington, J., Bane, J., Daniel, A., Fomin, N., Gaskell, D., Seely, J., Asaturyan, R., Benmokhtar, F., Boeglin, W., Bosted, P., Bukhari, M. H. S., Christy, M. E., Connell, S., Dalton, M. M., Day, D., Dunne, J., Dutta, D., El Fassi, L., Ent, R., Fenker, H., Gao, H., Holt, R. J., Horn, T., Hungerford, E., Jones, M. K., Jourdan, J., Kalantarians, N., Keppel, C. E., Kiselev, D., Lung, A. F., Malace, S., Meekins, D. G., Mertens, T., Mkrtchyan, H., Niculescu, G., Niculescu, I., Potterveld, D. H., Perdrisat, C., Punjabi, V., Qian, X., Reimer, P. E., Roche, J., Rodriguez, V. M., Rondon, O., Schulte, E., Slifer, K., Smith, G. R., Solvignon, P., Tadevosyan, V., Tang, L., Testa, G., Trojer, R., Tvaskis, V., Wesselmann, F. R., Wood, S. A., Yuan, L., and Zheng, X. Wed . "Measurement of the EMC effect in light and heavy nuclei". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.104.065203. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1907560.
@article{osti_1907560,
title = {Measurement of the EMC effect in light and heavy nuclei},
author = {Arrington, J. and Bane, J. and Daniel, A. and Fomin, N. and Gaskell, D. and Seely, J. and Asaturyan, R. and Benmokhtar, F. and Boeglin, W. and Bosted, P. and Bukhari, M. H. S. and Christy, M. E. and Connell, S. and Dalton, M. M. and Day, D. and Dunne, J. and Dutta, D. and El Fassi, L. and Ent, R. and Fenker, H. and Gao, H. and Holt, R. J. and Horn, T. and Hungerford, E. and Jones, M. K. and Jourdan, J. and Kalantarians, N. and Keppel, C. E. and Kiselev, D. and Lung, A. F. and Malace, S. and Meekins, D. G. and Mertens, T. and Mkrtchyan, H. and Niculescu, G. and Niculescu, I. and Potterveld, D. H. and Perdrisat, C. and Punjabi, V. and Qian, X. and Reimer, P. E. and Roche, J. and Rodriguez, V. M. and Rondon, O. and Schulte, E. and Slifer, K. and Smith, G. R. and Solvignon, P. and Tadevosyan, V. and Tang, L. and Testa, G. and Trojer, R. and Tvaskis, V. and Wesselmann, F. R. and Wood, S. A. and Yuan, L. and Zheng, X.},
abstractNote = {In this work, inclusive electron scattering from nuclear targets has been measured to extract the nuclear dependence of the inelastic cross section in Hall C at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator facility. Results are presented for 2H, 3He, 4He, 9B, 12C, 63Cu and 197Au at an incident electron beam energy of 5.77 GeV for a range of momentum transfer from Q2 = 2 to 7 (GeV/c)2. These data improve the precision of the existing measurements of the EMC effect in the nuclear targets at large x, and allow for more detailed examinations of the A dependence of the EMC effect.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevc.104.065203},
journal = {Physical Review. C},
number = 6,
volume = 104,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Dec 22 00:00:00 EST 2021},
month = {Wed Dec 22 00:00:00 EST 2021}
}

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