Measurement of pion transparency in electron-nucleus scattering.
Document Type
Event
Faculty Mentor
Brandon Eberly
Abstract
Emerging research shows that knowledge of the interactions between electrons and nuclei are useful to understanding fundamental properties of neutrinos. One such interaction that is particularly important involves the production of a pion, which could re-scatter on its way out of the nucleus, changing the particle's momentum. This talk presents a method for measuring pion re-scattering probability, also called pion transparency, for electroproduction of pions on carbon-12 in the CLAS6 detector. I will describe the measurement methodology in detail and present a preliminary distribution of the pion transparency as a function of pion momentum using simulated data. Completion of this work will result in the first measurement of pion transparency at energies useful to neutrino research.
Measurement of pion transparency in electron-nucleus scattering.
Emerging research shows that knowledge of the interactions between electrons and nuclei are useful to understanding fundamental properties of neutrinos. One such interaction that is particularly important involves the production of a pion, which could re-scatter on its way out of the nucleus, changing the particle's momentum. This talk presents a method for measuring pion re-scattering probability, also called pion transparency, for electroproduction of pions on carbon-12 in the CLAS6 detector. I will describe the measurement methodology in detail and present a preliminary distribution of the pion transparency as a function of pion momentum using simulated data. Completion of this work will result in the first measurement of pion transparency at energies useful to neutrino research.
