Overview of Photoproduction Physics at Jefferson Lab
Yordanka Ilieva
University of South Carolina
PHOTON2017, 22 - 26 May 2017, CERN, Geneva
Research supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility QCD Machine: Electromagnetic Probes of Hadron Structure
Recirculating Arcs
0.55-GeV Linac
45-MeV Injector
0.55-GeV Linac
Experimental A B C Halls 6-GeV Era: 1995 - 2012 C.W. electron beam: 2-ns wide bunch JLab in Newport News, VA • period, 0.2-ps bunch length Superconducting RF electron linacs • • Polarized Source: Pe ~ 86% with up to 5 times recirculation • Beam energies up to E0 = 6 GeV • Up to 1.1 GeV energy gain per pass • Beam Current up to 200 µA Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility QCD Machine: Electromagnetic Probes of Hadron Structure D 12-GeV Era: 2016 - ... 5.5- pass beam 1.1-GeV Linac 11 GeV
123-MeV Injector
1.1-GeV Linac
5-pass beam 11 GeV A B C • C.W. electron beam: 2-ns wide bunch period, 0.2-ps bunch length • Polarized Source: Pe ~ 85% • Beam energies up to E0 = 11 (12) GeV • Beam Current up to 85 µA Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Detector Systems CLAS12 Hall B
Hall A
high-resolution spectrometers specialized installations
large acceptance L=1035 s-1cm-2
Hall C GlueX
super-high-momentum spectrometer 9-GeV tagged γ beam L=1038 s-1cm-2 Hall D 4π hermetic detector JLab Photoproduction Scientific Program Probing Hadron Structure and Strong Interaction with Real and Virtual Photons
• The Hadron Spectra as Probes of QCD (Halls B, D) – Baryon and Meson Spectroscopy • The Transverse Structure of Hadrons (Halls A, B, C, D) – Elastic Form Factors – Transition Form Factors • The Longitudinal Structure of Hadrons (Halls A, B, C) – Unpolarized and Polarized Parton Distribution Functions • The 3D Structure of Hadrons (Halls A, B, C) – Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) – Transverse Momentum Distributions (TMDs) • Hadrons and Cold Nuclear Matter (Halls A, B, C) – Nucleon Medium Modifications; Quark Hadronization – NN Correlations; Hypernuclear Spectroscopy; Few-Body Experiments – Near Threshold J/ψ Photoproduction • Heavy Photon Search
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1000 3* or 4* 939 **** J 1/2+ 3/2+ 5/2+ 7/2+ 9/2+ 11/2+ 13/2+ 1/2- 3/2- 5/2- 7/2- 9/2- 11/2- 13/2- LP2T 2J P11 13 FF15 17 HH19 1 11 K1 13 SD11 D13 15 GI17 G19 1 11 I1 13 Quark Models! Constituent Quark Models predict many more of excited states than have been Quark •Models observed; some of the states may only couple weakly to πN.! • Constituent• Quark-Diquark Quark Models Models predict with a tightlymany more bound of diquark excited predict states fewer than states.have been! observed; some• ofQuark the statesand Flux-Tube may only Models couple predict weakly increased to πN. number of states. • Quark-DiquarkCQM: U. Löring, B.C.Models Metsch, andwith H.R. aPetry, tightly Eur. Phys. bound J. A10 395 diquark (2001) predict fewer states. 3 • Quark and Flux-Tube Models predict increased number of states.
CQM: U. Löring, B.C. Metsch, and H.R. Petry, Eur. Phys. J. A10 395 (2001) Polarization observablesBaryon Spectroscopy give access to reaction amplitudesExperimental Observables Polarization observables give access to reaction amplitudes !p "N: Four complex amplitudes enhancing sensitivity describe0 the reaction to weak resonance γ n → K Λ : Four complex amplitudes describe σ in the presence of … the reaction dσ 2 2 2 2 dσ ∝ S21 + S22 + N 2+ D 2 dΩ~| N | + | S1 | + | S2 | + | D | non-resonant! dΩ background Double polarization observable E! + Beam - Target polarizationK Eγ σ γ n strong !Λ ! resonance γ p dσ 2 2 2 2 Cz ~| S2 | − | S1 | − | N | + | D | dΩ 2 2 Eγ dσ 2 2 E ∝ − S1 + S2 + N − D ddσ * * P Ω ~ 2Im(S N − S D ) I.S. Barker, A. Donnachie, J.K. Storrow, Nucl. Phys. B 79, 431 (1974). 2 1 dΩ 5
I.S. Barker, A. Donnachie, J.K. Storrow, Nucl. Phys. B 79, 431 (1974). Baryon Spectroscopy Extracting Nucleon-Resonance Information from Experimental Data
Database of Experimental Observables γ(*)N→ πN, ππN, ηN, η’N, KY, ρN,... πN→πN, ππN, ηN, η’N, KY, ρN,...
Amplitude Dynamical Reaction Analysis Theory
N* Properties
Models LQCD
QCD Baryon Spectroscopy Examples of New Data (CLAS) 0 γ (n) → K Λ dσ 11 ~ [ b] Cz –Polarization Transfer from ~ to ⇤ Along z–axis CM µ 0 d cosθKDifferential Cross Section of γd→ K Λ(p) Cz K 0 K 0 K 0 1.6 θ θ θ 1.6 -0.70 < cos CM < -0.60 -0.60 < cos CM < -0.50 -0.50 < cos CM < -0.40 Eγ <1.0 1.0