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| Title | Measurement of Compton scattering cross sectionat a few GeV electron energy | ||||
| Abstract | Electron Compton scattering is the best known fundamental QED process, however, a precision measurement of its cross section for a beam energy above 1 GeV has been lacking up to now. An updated high precision measurement of the neutral pion lifetime via the Primakoff effect (PrimEx-II) experiment was performed in Hall B of Jefferson Lab in 2010. The experiment used small angle coherent photoproduction of pi^0’s in the Coulomb field of a nucleus, i:e: the Primakoff effect, to determine the lifetime with a precision of less than 1:5% . It therefore requires thorough understanding of the underlying systematic uncertainties. To facilitate that data for well known electromagnetic processes were taken concurrently with the photoproduction data. This analysis pertains to measuring the Compton scattering cross section, which occurs with similar kinematics to the primary process. The combination of the well established theory for this process with large collected statistics allowed to extr | ||||
| Author(s) | Li Ye | ||||
| Publication Date | August 2018 | ||||
| Document Type | Thesis | ||||
| Primary Institution | Mississippi State University, Miss. State, MS | ||||
| Affiliation | Exp Nuclear Physics / Experimental Halls / Hall B | ||||
| Funding Source | Nuclear Physics (NP) | ||||
| Proprietary? | No | ||||
| This publication conveys | Technical Science Results | ||||
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| Associated with an experiment | No | ||||
| Associated with EIC | No | ||||
| Supported by Jefferson Lab LDRD Funding | No |
Thesis
| Thesis Type | PhD |
| Advisor | Institution |
| 1. Dipangkar Dutta | Mississippi State U. |
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| Document(s) |
liye_thesis.pdf
(STI Document)
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| Dataset(s) | (none) |
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