Bulletin of the American Physical Society
76th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of APS
Volume 54, Number 16
Wednesday–Saturday, November 11–14, 2009; Atlanta, Georgia
Session GA: Exploring the Nature of Hadronic Matter at Jefferson Lab |
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Chair: Xiaochun He, Georgia State University Room: Brussels |
Friday, November 13, 2009 8:30AM - 9:00AM |
GA.00001: Prospects in neutron transverse spin study with polarized 3He at 12 GeV Jefferson Laboratory Invited Speaker: Due to the unique ground state spin structure of the $^3$He nucleus, polarized $^3$He nuclear targets have been used widely in experiments ranging from measurements of the neutron electric and magnetic form factors to the study of the neutron spin structure. In this talk, I will discuss the recently completed neutron transversity experiment in Hall A at Jefferson Laboratory using a vertically polarized $^3$He target. This is the first time that a polarized $^3$He target has been used in probing the neutron transverse spin structure. I will focus in my talk the future prospects of neutron transverse spin study at 12-GeV Jefferson Laboratory after the energy upgrade. The work is supported by a U.S. Department of Energy grant DE-FG02-03ER41231. [Preview Abstract] |
Friday, November 13, 2009 9:00AM - 9:30AM |
GA.00002: A medium-energy electron-ion collider for Jefferson Lab Invited Speaker: One of the main goals of the 12 GeV program is to map out the spin and flavor structure of the nucleon.in the valence region. After this, the next step in the evolution of our understanding, and of the Jefferson Lab program, is to explore the sea (quarks and gluons). This can be realized through a high-luminosity, medium-energy collider, which will provide both answers to key questions, and a broad range of opportunities for the JLab user community. [Preview Abstract] |
Friday, November 13, 2009 9:30AM - 10:00AM |
GA.00003: In Search of Missing Baryons Invited Speaker: Nucleons are complex systems of confined quarks and exhibit characteristic spectra of excited states. Highly excited nucleon states are sensitive to details of quark confinement which is poorly understood within Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the fundamental theory of strong interactions. Thus, measurements of excited nucleon states and the corresponding determination of their properties are needed to come to a better understanding of how confinement works in nucleons. However, the excited states of the nucleon cannot simply be inferred from cleanly separated spectral lines. Quite the contrary, a {\it spectral analysis} in nucleon resonance physics is challenging because of the fact that these resonances are broadly overlapping states which decay into a multitude of final states involving mesons and baryons. To provide a consistent and complete picture of an individual nucleon resonance, the various possible production and decay channels must eventually be treated in a multi-channel framework that permits separating resonance from background contributions. A long-standing question in hadron physics is whether the large number of so-called {\it missing} baryon resonances really exists, i.e. experimentally not established baryon states which are predicted by all quark models based on three constituent quark effective degrees of freedom. It is important to emphasize that nearly all existing data on non-strange production of baryon resonances result from $N\pi$ scattering experiments. However, quark models predict strong couplings of these {\it missing} states to $\gamma p$ rendering the study of these resonances in photo-induced reactions a very promising approach. Several new states have in fact been proposed in recent experiments. Current and upcoming experiments at Jefferson Laboratory will determine polarization (or spin) observables for photoproduction processes involving baryon resonances. Differences between the predictions for these observables can be large, and so conversely they provide strong constraints on the analysis. An interesting question is whether it is possible to design a complete set of experiments which will uniquely determine the scattering amplitude for a given process. The current effort with the CLAS detector at Jefferson Lab is to utilize highly-polarized frozen-spin (butanol) and deuterium targets in combination with polarized photon beams. In particular, the very successful FROST experiment took the first double-polarization data from November '07 to February '08 paving the way for such a {\it complete experiment} in $K\Lambda$ and $K\Sigma$ photoproduction. This contribution will review recent results and also discuss open questions and perspectives in $N^{\ast}$ physics. [Preview Abstract] |
Friday, November 13, 2009 10:00AM - 10:30AM |
GA.00004: TBD Invited Speaker: |
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