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DOE OSTI2024

Measurements of Σ electromagnetic form factors in the timelike region using the untagged initial-state radiation technique

The process e + e − → Σ + Σ ¯ − is studied from threshold up to 3.04 GeV / c 2 via the initial-state radiation technique using data with an integrated luminosity of 12.0 fb − 1 , collected at center-of-mass energies between 3.773 and 4.258 GeV with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII collider. The pair production cross sections and the effective form factors of Σ are measured in eleven Σ + Σ ¯ − invariant mass intervals from threshold to 3.04 GeV / c 2 . The results are consistent with the previous results from Belle and BESIII. Furthermore, the branching fractions of the decays J / ψ → Σ + Σ ¯ − and ψ ( 3686 ) → Σ + Σ ¯ − are determined and the obtained results are consistent with the previous results of BESIII. Published by the American Physical Society 2024

Astronomy & Astrophysics↗
DOE OSTI2015

Charge-conjugation symmetric complete impulse approximation for the pion electromagnetic form factor in the covariant spectator theory

The pion form factor is calculated in the framework of the charge-conjugation invariant covariant spectator theory. This formalism is established in Minkowski space, and the calculation is set up in momentum space. In a previous calculation we included only the leading pole coming from the spectator quark (referred to as the relativistic impulse approximation). In this study we also include the contributions from the poles of the quark which interacts with the photon and average over all poles in both the upper and lower half-planes in order to preserve charge conjugation invariance (referred to as the C-symmetric complete impulse approximation). We find that for small pion mass these contributions are significant at all values of the four-momentum transfer Q 2 but, surprisingly, do not alter the shape obtained from the spectator poles alone.

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS↗
DOE OSTI2015

The structure of the nucleon: Elastic electromagnetic form factors

Precise proton and neutron form factor measurements at Jefferson Lab, using spin observables, have recently made a significant contribution to the unraveling of the internal structure of the nucleon. Accurate experimental measurements of the nucleon form factors are a test-bed for understanding how the nucleon's static properties and dynamical behavior emerge from QCD, the theory of the strong interactions between quarks. There has been enormous theoretical progress, since the publication of the Jefferson Lab proton form factor ratio data, aiming at reevaluating the picture of the nucleon. We will review the experimental and theoretical developments in this field and discuss the outlook for the future.

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS↗
DOE OSTI2025

Measurement of the Neutron Electromagnetic Form Factors at High Momentum Transfer Using a Polarized 3He Target at Jefferson Lab

Ever since the composite structure of nucleons was uncovered, many experiments have been commissioned with the purpose of extracting parameters that shape our understanding of this structure. Form factors are powerful tools that rest at the forefront of the nucleon structure study. In the non-relativistic limit, they describe the magnetic and charge distributions inside the nucleon. The GEn-II experiment, which ran in Hall A of Jefferson Lab as a part of the SuperBigbite Spectrometer (SBS) program, aimed to extract the ratio of the neutron’s electric to magnetic Sachs form factors (GnE/GnM. This was accomplished using the double polarization technique: scattering polarized electrons with initial energies up to 8.45 GeV off high-density polarized 3He targets. The experiment was a coincidence measurement, with the scattered electrons detected in the BigBite Spectrometer and the recoil nucleons in a hadron calorimeter, a part of the SuperBigbite Spectrometer. The convection-style target cells used in this experiment have a 60cm long target chamber, an increase from the 40 cm cell used in the most recent polarized 3He target experiment. In addition, the cells were optically pumped from two sides of the pumping chamber. These improvements in design and functionality introduced world-record-breaking luminosity. This thesis presents preliminary results of the GEn-II experiment for the following 4-momentum transfer (Q2) values: 2.93, 6.76, and 9.78 GeV2, in addition to target performance and preliminary polarimetry results.

Presley, Hunter [Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesvill↗
DOE OSTI2016

Analytic pion form factor

The pion electromagnetic form factor and two-pion production in electron-positron collisions are simultaneously fitted by a vector dominance model evolving to perturbative QCD at large momentum transfer. This model was previously successful in simultaneously fitting the nucleon electromagnetic form factors (spacelike region) and the electromagnetic production of nucleon-antinucleon pairs (timelike region). For this pion case dispersion relations are used to produce the analytic connection of the spacelike and timelike regions. The fit to all the data is good, especially for the newer sets of timelike data. The description of high-q2 data, in the timelike region, requires one more meson with ρ quantum numbers than listed in the 2014 Particle Data Group review.

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