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The analyzing powers in proton-deuteron elastic and proton-neutron quasi-elastic scattering have been measured at small angles using a polarized proton beam at the COSY storage ring incident on an unpolarized deuterium target. The data were…

At the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC), the Polarized Atomic Hydrogen Gas Jet Target polarimeter (HJET) is employed for the precise measurement of the absolute transverse (vertical) polarization of proton beams, achieving low…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-01-17 Andrei Poblaguev

We report the most precise measurement to date of a parity-violating asymmetry in elastic electron-proton scattering. The measurement was carried out with a beam energy of 3.03 GeV and a scattering angle <theta_lab>=6 degrees, with the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 The HAPPEX Collaboration

The PP2PP experiment is devoted to the proton-proton elastic scattering measurement at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the centre-of-mass energies between 50 and 500 GeV and the four-momentum transfer $0.0004 \leq |t| \leq 1.3$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-08-17 J. Chwastowski

TRIUMF experiment 497 has measured the parity violating longitudinal analyzing power, A_z, in pp elastic scattering at 221.3 MeV incident proton energy. This paper includes details of the corrections, some of magnitude comparable to A_z…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 A. R. Berdoz , TRIUMF E497 Collaboration

Elastic electron scattering has been used to paint the most accurate picture of the proton distribution in atomic nuclei. Spurred by new experimental developments, it is now possible to gain valuable insights into the neutron distribution…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-11-06 Junjie Yang , Jesse A. Hernandez , J. Piekarewicz

The electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon characterize the effect of its internal structure on its response to an electromagnetic probe as studied in elastic electron-nucleon scattering. These form factors are functions of the squared…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-08-07 Andrew J. R. Puckett

The cross section of atomic electron Compton scattering $\gamma + e \rightarrow \gamma^\prime + e^\prime $ was measured in the 4.40--5.475 GeV photon beam energy region by the {\em PrimEx} collaboration at Jefferson Lab with an accuracy of…

The first measurements of the transferred polarization for the exclusive ep --> e'K+ Lambda reaction have been performed in Hall B at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility using the CLAS spectrometer. A 2.567 GeV electron beam…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-04-06 CLAS Collaboration , D. S. Carman

We analyze the parity-violating (PV) components of the analyzing power in elastic electron-proton scattering and discuss their sensitivity to the strange quark contributions to the proton weak form factors. We point out that the component…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Moscani , B. Mosconi , P. Ricci

We report the first measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry APV in the elastic scattering of polarized electrons from 208Pb from the Lead Radius Experiment PREX which ran in Hall A at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Juliette Mammei

The Compton scattering cross section on the proton has been measured at laboratory angles of 90$^\circ$ and 135$^\circ$ using tagged photons in the energy range 70--100 MeV and simultaneously using untagged photons in the range…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 B. E. MacGibbon , G. Garino , M. A. Lucas , A. M. Nathan , G. Feldman , B. Dolbilkin

It is demonstrated that new JLAB proton polarization data, which are in a rather strong disagreement with the proton electric form factor data in the space-like region obtained by Rosenbluth technique, are consistent with all known form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Dubnicka , A. -Z. Dubnickova

In a global analysis of the latest parity-violating electron scattering measurements on nuclear targets, we demonstrate a significant improvement in the experimental knowledge of the weak neutral-current lepton-quark interactions at low…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. D. Young , R. D. Carlini , A. W. Thomas , J. Roche

The electric form factor of the neutron was determined from measurements of the \vec{d}(\vec{e},e' n)p reaction for quasielastic kinematics. Polarized electrons were scattered off a polarized deuterated ammonia target in which the deuteron…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Warren , F. R. Wesselmann , H. Zhu , D. Day , P. McKee , N. Savvinov , M. Zeier

A measurement is presented for the electroweak production of a W boson, a photon ($\gamma$), and two jets (j) in proton-proton collisions. The leptonic decay of the W boson is selected by requiring one identified electron or muon and large…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-29 CMS Collaboration

The main objective of the FROST experiment at Jefferson Lab is the study of baryon resonances. The polarization observable E for the reaction gamma p to pi+n has been measured as part of this program. A circularly polarized tagged photon…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Steffen Strauch

We report on a measurement of the constancy and anisotropy of the speed of light relative to the electrons in photon-electron scattering. We used the Compton scattering asymmetry measured by the new Compton polarimeter in Hall~C at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-11-29 P. Mohanmurthy , A. Narayan , D. Dutta

The proton analysing power in $\vec{p}p$ elastic scattering has been measured at small angles at COSY-ANKE at 796 MeV and five other beam energies between 1.6 and 2.4 GeV using a polarised proton beam. The asymmetries obtained by detecting…