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Precise Determination of the Neutron Magnetic Form Factor to Higher $Q^2$

Nuclear Experiment 2009-09-24 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The neutron elastic magnetic form factor GMnG_M^n has been extracted from quasielastic scattering from deuterium in the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer, CLAS. The kinematic coverage of the measurement is continuous over a broad range, extending from below 1 GeV2GeV^2 to nearly 5 GeV2GeV^2 in four-momentum transfer squared. High precision is achieved by employing a ratio technique in which most uncertainties cancel, and by a simultaneous in-situ calibration of the neutron detection efficiency, the largest correction to the data. Preliminary results are shown with statistical errors only.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/0504028,
  title  = {Precise Determination of the Neutron Magnetic Form Factor to Higher $Q^2$},
  author = {W. K. Brooks and J. D. Lachniet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/0504028},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Contribution to the proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Baryons (2004), to be published in Nuclear Physics, Section A