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| Title | Commissioning the DIRC Detector and Searching for Axion-like Particles at GlueX | ||||
| Abstract | This thesis centers around problems in the study of the strong nuclear force. The GlueX DIRC, a Cherenkov radiation-based detector, was proposed to upgrade the particle identification capability of the GlueX experiment, which aims to perform quantitative tests of Quantum Chromodynamics in the nonperturbative regime by searching for and studying hybrid mesons. This thesis describes the construction, commissioning, reconstruction, and calibration of the GlueX DIRC detector. Originally proposed to solve the strong CP problem, axions and axion-like particles are hypothetical pseudoscalar particles found in many proposed extensions to the Standard Model of particle physics. This thesis presents a search for photoproduction of axion-like particles using data in photon-proton interactions collected by the GlueX experiment at Jefferson Laboratory in the $\gamma\gamma$ and $\pi^+\pi^-\pi^0$ final states of the axion-like particles. In addition, the Monte Carlo modeling of the strong interac | ||||
| Author(s) | Yunjie Yang | ||||
| Publication Date | June 2021 | ||||
| Document Type | Thesis | ||||
| Primary Institution | Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News | ||||
| Affiliation | Exp Nuclear Physics / Experimental Halls / Hall D | ||||
| 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. Mike Williams | MIT |
Attachments/Datasets/DOI Link
| Document(s) |
Yang_thesis.pdf
(STI Document)
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| Dataset(s) | (none) |
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