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Quarks and gluons are the fundamental constituents of nucleons. Their interactions rather than their mass, is responsible for $99\%$ of the mass of all visible matter in the universe. Measuring the fundamental properties of matter has had a…

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The Qweak experiment has measured the parity-violating asymmetry in polarized e-p elastic scattering at Q^2 = 0.025(GeV/c)^2, employing 145 microamps of 89% longitudinally polarized electrons on a 34.4cm long liquid hydrogen target at…

In the evaluation of weak interacting massive particles (WIMPs) detection rates, the WIMP-nucleus cross section is commonly described by using form factors extracted from charge distributions. In this work, we use different proton and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-11-09 G. Co' , V. De Donno , M. Anguiano , A. M. Lallena

The Qweak experiment at Jefferson Lab aims to make a 4% measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in elastic scattering at very low $Q^2$ of a longitudinally polarized electron beam on a proton target. The experiment will measure the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Gregory S. Mitchell

Measurement of the neutral weak vector form factors of the nucleon provides unique access to the strange quark content of the nucleon. These form factors can be studied using parity-violating electron scattering. A comprehensive program of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2012-10-29 D. S. Armstrong , R. D. McKeown

We determined the electric form factor of the neutron $G_E^n$ via the reaction ${\vec{d}(\vec{e},e'n)p}$ using a longitudinally polarized electron beam and a frozen, polarized $^{15}ND_3$ target at Jefferson Lab. The knocked out neutrons…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Savvinov

Lepton scattering is an established ideal tool for studying inner structure of small particles such as nucleons as well as nuclei. As a future high energy nuclear physics project, an Electron-ion collider in China (EicC) has been proposed.…

The nuclear reduced cross section $\sigma^{A}_{r}$, in the kinematic range of the electron-Ion collider with center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}=140~\mathrm{GeV}$ and $y{\leq}1$, is discussed. The importance of the nuclear longitudinal…

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Heavy WIMP (weakly-interacting-massive-particle) effective field theory is used to compute the WIMP-nucleon scattering rate for general heavy electroweak multiplets through order $m_W/M$, where $m_W$ and $M$ denote the electroweak and WIMP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-07 Qing Chen , Gui-Jun Ding , Richard J. Hill

We study the impact of nuclear structure uncertainties on a measurement of the weak charge of $^{12}\mathrm{C}$ at the future MESA facility in Mainz. Information from a large variety of nuclear models, accurately calibrated to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-10 Matteo Cadeddu , Nicola Cargioli , Jens Erler , Mikhail Gorchtein , Jorge Piekarewicz , Xavier Roca-Maza , Hubert Spiesberger

The impact of atomic parity violation experiments on determination of the weak mixing parameter $\sin^2 \theta$ and the Peskin-Takeuchi parameters $S$ and $T$ is reassessed in the light of recent electroweak measurements at LEP, SLAC, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 Jonathan L. Rosner

Because of a luminosity of up to five orders of magnitude larger than at LEP, electroweak precision measurements at the FCC-ee -- the Future Circular Collider with electron-positron beams -- would provide improvements by orders of magnitude…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-01-18 Mogens Dam

Measuring the region $0.1 < Q^{2} < 1.0$ GeV$^{2}$ is essential to support searches for gluon saturation at the future Electron-Ion Collider. Recent studies have revealed that covering this region at the highest beam energies is not…

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We explore the potential of conducting low-energy nuclear physics studies, including nuclear structure and decay, at the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) at Brookhaven. By comparing the standard theory of electron-nucleus scattering with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-15 C. A. Bertulani , Y. Kucuk , F. S. Navarra

A future Electron-Ion Colllider (EIC) is the ideal laboratory for studying the gluon distributions in both nucleons and nuclei for $\sqrt{s}$ = 63 - 158 (40 - 110) GeV/A for e+p (e+A) collisions. Whilst gluon distributions have been studied…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-07-15 M. A. C. Lamont

We present the proton and neutron vector form factors in a convenient parametric form that is optimized for momentum transfers $\lesssim$ few GeV$^2$. The form factors are determined from a global fit to electron scattering data and precise…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-23 Kaushik Borah , Richard J. Hill , Gabriel Lee , Oleksandr Tomalak

The prospects of extracting new physics signals in coherent elastic neutrino--nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) processes are limited by the precision with which the underlying nuclear structure physics, embedded in the weak nuclear form…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-27 N. Van Dessel , V. Pandey , H. Ray , N. Jachowicz

Electron scattering at large Q^2 probes a nucleon's quark core. This core's contribution to electromagnetic form factors may be calculated using Poincare' covariant Faddeev amplitudes combined with a nucleon-photon vertex that automatically…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A Hoell , R. Alkofer , M. Kloker , A. Krassnigg , C. D. Roberts , S. V. Wright

The fields of particle and nuclear physics have undertaken extensive programs to search for evidence of physics beyond that explained by current theories. The observation of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider completed the set of…

We report a precise measurement of the weak mixing angle from the ratio of neutral current to charged current inclusive cross-sections in deep-inelastic neutrino-nucleon scattering. The data were gathered at the CCFR neutrino detector in…

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