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Measurement of the single-spin asymmetry Ay 0 in quasi-elastic 3He(e,e′n) scattering at 0.4 < Q2 < 1.0 GeV/c2

  • E. Long
  • , Y. W. Zhang
  • , M. Mihovilovič
  • , G. Jin
  • , V. Sulkosky
  • , A. Kelleher
  • , B. Anderson
  • , D. W. Higinbotham
  • , S. Širca
  • , K. Allada
  • , J. R.M. Annand
  • , T. Averett
  • , W. Bertozzi
  • , W. Boeglin
  • , P. Bradshaw
  • , A. Camsonne
  • , M. Canan
  • , G. D. Cates
  • , C. Chen
  • , J. P. Chen
  • E. Chudakov, R. De Leo, X. Deng, A. Deur, C. Dutta, L. El Fassi, D. Flay, S. Frullani, F. Garibaldi, H. Gao, S. Gilad, R. Gilman, O. Glamazdin, S. Golge, J. Gomez, J. O. Hansen, T. Holmstrom, J. Huang, H. Ibrahim, C. W. de Jager, E. Jensen, X. Jiang, M. Jones, H. Kang, J. Katich, H. P. Khanal, P. M. King, W. Korsch, J. LeRose, R. Lindgren, H. J. Lu, W. Luo, P. Markowitz, M. Meziane, R. Michaels, B. Moffit, P. Monaghan, N. Muangma, S. Nanda, B. E. Norum, K. Pan, D. Parno, E. Piasetzky, M. Posik, V. Punjabi, A. J.R. Puckett, X. Qian, Y. Qiang, X. Qui, S. Riordan, A. Saha, B. Sawatzky, M. Shabestari, A. Shahinyan, B. Shoenrock, J. St. John, R. Subedi, W. A. Tobias, W. Tireman, G. M. Urciuoli, D. Wang, K. Wang, Y. Wang, J. Watson, B. Wojtsekhowski, Z. Ye, X. Zhan, Y. Zhang, X. Zheng, B. Zhao, L. Zhu

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Resumen

Due to the lack of free neutron targets, studies of the structure of the neutron are typically made by scattering electrons from either 2H or 3He targets. In order to extract useful neutron information from a 3He target, one must understand how the neutron in a 3He system differs from a free neutron by taking into account nuclear effects such as final state interactions and meson exchange currents. The target single spin asymmetry Ay 0 is an ideal probe of such effects, as any deviation from zero indicates effects beyond plane wave impulse approximation. New measurements of the target single spin asymmetry Ay 0 at Q2 of 0.46 and 0.96 (GeV/c)2 were made at Jefferson Lab using the quasi-elastic He↑3(e,en) reaction. Our measured asymmetry decreases rapidly, from >20% at Q2=0.46 (GeV/c)2 to nearly zero at Q2=0.96 (GeV/c)2, demonstrating the fall-off of the reaction mechanism effects as Q2 increases. We also observed a small ϵ-dependent increase in Ay 0 compared to previous measurements, particularly at moderate Q2. This indicates that upcoming high Q2 measurements from the Jefferson Lab 12 GeV program can cleanly probe neutron structure from polarized 3He using plane wave impulse approximation.

Idioma originalEnglish
Número de artículo134875
PublicaciónPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volumen797
DOI
EstadoPublished - oct 10 2019

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We thank the Jefferson Lab Hall A technical staff and the Jefferson Lab accelerator staff for their outstanding support. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation including NSF-0969129 , the U.S. Department of Energy including DE-FG02-96ER41003 , and the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council . Jefferson Science Associates, LLC, operates Jefferson Lab for the U.S. DOE under U.S. DOE contract DE-AC05-06OR23177 .

FinanciadoresNúmero del financiador
National Science Foundation including NSF-0969129
Science and Technology Facilities Council
U.S. Department of EnergyDE-FG02-96ER41003, DE-AC05-06OR23177
U.S. Department of Energy including DE-FG02-96ER41003DE-FG02-96ER41003
National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science ProgramNSF-0969129, 0969129

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    • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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