Date of Award
2017
Document Type
Open Access Dissertation
Department
Physics and Astronomy
Sub-Department
College of Arts and Sciences
First Advisor
Steffen Strauch
Abstract
The theory that describes the interaction of quarks is Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), but how quarks are bound inside a nucleon is not yet well understood. Pion photoproduction experiments reveal important information about the nucleon excited states and the dynamics of the quarks within it and thus provide a useful tool to study QCD. Detailed information about this reaction can be obtained in experiments that utilize polarized photon beams and polarized targets.
Pion photoproduction in the yp -> pi p reaction has been measured in the FROST experiment at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. In this experiment circularly polarized photons with electron-beam energies up to 3.082 GeV impinged on a transversely polarized frozen-spin target. Final-state protons were detected in the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer. Results of the polarization observables T and F have been extracted. The data generally agree with predictions of present partial wave analyses, but also show marked differences. The data will constrain further partial wave analyses and improve the extraction of proton resonance properties.
Rights
© 2017, Hao Jiang
Recommended Citation
Jiang, H.(2017). Polarization Observables T and F in the yp -> pi p Reaction. (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/4337