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Early Results from the Qweak Experiment
Androic, D. Armstrong, David S. Asaturyan, A. Averett, Todd
Androic, D.
Armstrong, David S.
Asaturyan, A.
Averett, Todd
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A subset of results from the recently completed Jefferson Lab Qweak experiment are reported. This experiment, sensitive to physics beyond the Standard Model, exploits the small parity-violating asymmetry in elastic ~ep scattering to provide the first determination of the proton’s weak charge Q p w. The experiment employed a 180 µA longitudinally polarized 1.16 GeV electron beam on a 35 cm long liquid hydrogen target. Scattered electrons in the angular range 6◦ < θ < 12◦ corresponding to Q2 = 0.025 GeV2 were detected in eight Cerenkov detectors arrayed symmetrically around the beam axis. The goals of the experiment were to provide a measure of Q p w to 4.2% (combined statistical and systematic error), which implies a measure of sin2 (θw) at the level of 0.3%, and to help constrain the vector weak quark charges C1u and C1d. The experimental method is described, with particular focus on the challenges associated with the world’s highest power LH2 target. The new constraints on C1u and C1d provided by the subset of the experiment’s data analyzed to date will also be shown, together with the extracted weak charge of the neutron.
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2014-03-01
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https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20146605002