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20202026
most citedAn experimental program with high duty-cycle polarized and unpolarized positron beams at Jefferson Lab

45 citations · 140 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

nucl-ex2026

First measurement of polarized spin-density matrix elements and differential cross sections d/d in ~photoproduction off the proton for GeV using CLAS at Jefferson Lab

T. Hu, Z. Akbar, V. Crede +147

We report on the differential cross sections d/d, the unpolarized spin-density matrix elements , , Re\,, and the first extraction of the polari…

physics.atom-ph2025

Optimizing Antihydrogen Production via Slow Plasma Merging

E D Hunter, M Bumbar, C Amsler +29

We measure the time-dependent temperature and density distribution of antiprotons and positrons while slowly combining them to make antihydrogen atoms in a nested Penning-Malmberg…

physics.ins-det2025

Measured Properties of an Antihydrogen Beam

E. D. Hunter, M. Bumbar, C. Amsler +29

We report a factor of increase in the antihydrogen beam intensity downstream of ASACUSA's Cusp trap: atoms detected per -minute run. The beam contains many Rydberg…

physics.ins-det2025

Towards a Study of Low Energy Antiproton Annihilations on Nuclei

Viktoria Kraxberger, Marcus Bumbar, Angela Gligorova +30

A study of antiproton annihilations at rest on thin solid targets is underway at the ASACUSA facility, which now features a dedicated beam line for slow extraction at 250 eV. The e…

nucl-ex2024★ 2 cited

Measurement of the nucleon spin structure functions for 0.01<<1 GeV using CLAS

A. Deur, S. E. Kuhn, M. Ripani +147

The spin structure functions of the proton and the deuteron were measured during the EG4 experiment at Jefferson Lab in 2006. Data were collected for longitudinally polarized elect…

nucl-ex2024

Antiproton annihilation at rest in thin solid targets and comparison with Monte Carlo simulations

Claude Amsler, Horst Breuker, Marcus Bumbar +33

The mechanism of antiproton-nucleus annihilation at rest is not fully understood, despite substantial previous experimental and theoretical work. In this study we used slow extract…

hep-ex2024

First Measurement of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering on the Neutron with Detection of the Active Neutron

CLAS Collaboration, A. Hobart, S. Niccolai +146

Measuring Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering on the neutron is one of the necessary steps to understand the structure of the nucleon in terms of Generalized Parton Distributions (GP…

nucl-ex2024

Dihadron Azimuthal Correlations in Deep-Inelastic Scattering Off Nuclear Targets

CLAS Collaboration

We measured the nuclear dependence of the di-pion azimuthal correlation function in deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) and a 5 GeV…

physics.acc-ph2024

Injection and capture of antiprotons in a Penning-Malmberg trap using a drift tube accelerator and degrader foil

C. Amsler, H. Breuker, M. Bumbar +33

The Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN provides antiproton bunches with a kinetic energy of 5.3 MeV. The Extra-Low ENergy Antiproton ring at CERN, commissioned at the AD in 2018,…

nucl-ex2023★ 1 cited

Beam Charge Asymmetries for Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering on the Proton at CLAS12

E. Voutier, V. Burkert, S. Niccolai +76

The parameterization of the nucleon structure through Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) shed a new light on the nucleon internal dynamics. For its direct interpretation, Deep…

physics.atom-ph2023

Upgrade of the positron system of the ASACUSA-Cusp experiment

A. Lanz, C. Amsler, H. Breuker +35

The ASACUSA-Cusp collaboration has recently upgraded the positron system to improve the production of antihydrogen. Previously, the experiment suffered from contamination of the va…

physics.plasm-ph2023

Slow positron production and storage for the ASACUSA-Cusp experiment

D. J. Murtagh, C. Amsler, H. Breuker +35

The ASACUSA Cusp experiment requires the production of dense positron plasmas with a high repetition rate to produce a beam of antihydrogen. In this work, details of the positron p…

physics.plasm-ph2023

SDR, EVC, and SDREVC: Limitations and Extensions

E. D. Hunter, C. Amsler, H. Breuker +34

Methods for reducing the radius, temperature, and space charge of nonneutral plasma are usually reported for conditions which approximate an ideal Penning Malmberg trap. Here we sh…

nucl-ex2023

Measurement of the helicity asymmetry for the reaction in the resonance region

K. Chan, N. Zachariou, M. Bashkanov +9

The double-spin-polarization observable for has been measured with the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) at photon beam energies …

hep-ex2023

First measurement of hard exclusive electroproduction beam-spin asymmetries off the proton

S. Diehl, N. Trotta, K. Joo +142

The polarized cross section ratio from hard exclusive electroproduction off an unpolarized hydrogen target has been extracted based on beam-spin asym…

nucl-ex2023★ 1 cited

A new direct detection electron scattering experiment to search for the X17 particle

D. Dutta, H. Gao, A. Gasparian +57

A new electron scattering experiment (E12-21-003) to verify and understand the nature of hidden sector particles, with particular emphasis on the so-called X17 particle, has been a…

hep-ex2022

First CLAS12 measurement of DVCS beam-spin asymmetries in the extended valence region

CLAS Collaboration, G. Christiaens, M. Defurne +168

Deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS) allows one to probe Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) describing the 3D structure of the nucleon. We report the first measurement of…

hep-ex2022

A multidimensional study of the structure function ratio from hard exclusive electro-production off protons in the GPD regime

S. Diehl, A. Kim, K. Joo +151

A multidimensional extraction of the structure function ratio from the hard exclusive reaction above the resonance region has been pe…

nucl-ex2022

First Measurement of Electroproduction off Nuclei in the Current and Target Fragmentation Regions

T. Chetry, L. El Fassi, W. K. Brooks +151

We report results of hyperon production in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering off deuterium, carbon, iron, and lead targets obtained with the CLAS detector and the Contin…

hep-ex2022★ 1 cited

First observation of correlations between spin and transverse momenta in back-to-back dihadron production at CLAS12

H. Avakian, T. B. Hayward, A. Kotzinian +153

We report the first measurements of deep inelastic scattering spin-dependent azimuthal asymmetries in back-to-back dihadron electroproduction, where two hadrons are produced in opp…

physics.ins-det2022★ 1 cited

Alignment of the CLAS12 central hybrid tracker with a Kalman Filter

S. J. Paul, A. Peck, M. Arratia +131

Several factors can contribute to the difficulty of aligning the sensors of tracking detectors, including a large number of modules, multiple types of detector technologies, and no…

nucl-ex2022★ 9 cited

Observation of azimuth-dependent suppression of hadron pairs in electron scattering off nuclei

S. J. Paul, S. Moran, M. Arratia +142

We present the first measurement of di-hadron angular correlations in electron-nucleus scattering. The data were taken with the CLAS detector and a 5.0 GeV electron beam incident o…

physics.ins-det2022

Upgrade of ASACUSA's Antihydrogen Detector

V. Kraxberger, C. Amsler, H. Breuker +35

The goal of the ASACUSA (Atomic Spectroscopy And Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons) CUSP experiment at CERN's Antiproton Decelerator is to measure the ground state hyperfine splitt…

physics.plasm-ph2022

Cyclotron cooling to cryogenic temperature in a Penning-Malmberg trap with a large solid angle acceptance

C. Amsler, H. Breuker, S. Chesnevskaya +35

Magnetized nonneutral plasma composed of electrons or positrons couples to the local microwave environment via cyclotron radiation. The equilibrium plasma temperature depends on th…