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most citedConstraints on the symmetry energy and neutron skins from experiments and theory

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91 papers

nucl-ex2026

Precision Neutron Skins of Pb and Ca from Parity-Violating Electron Scattering

PREX Collaboration, D. Adhikari, H. Albataineh +100

We have measured the parity-violating elastic electron scattering asymmetry in the PREX and CREX experiments on Pb and Ca respectively; these are both doubly-mag…

nucl-ex2026

Near-Threshold J/ Photoproduction and the Gluonic Gravitational Form Factors of the Proton

007 Collaboration, S. Joosten, Z. -E. Meziani +56

We report on the measurement of the two-dimensional differential cross section for near-threshold J/ photoproduction from the J/-007 experiment in Hall C at Jeffers…

physics.ins-det2026

The BigBite Calorimeter for the Super Bigbite Spectrometer Program at Jefferson Lab

Provakar Datta, Katherine Evans, Jason Bane +24

We report features of the design, construction, installation, and performance of the BigBite Calorimeter (BBCal), a lead-glass electromagnetic calorimeter constructed as part of th…

nucl-ex2025

Backward-angle electroproduction of mesons off protons at and

T. Akiyama, P. Bydžovský, T. Gogami +83

The electroproduction of mesons from a target at , and $\cos θ^{\text{CM}}_{γ^{*}η'} \approx…

nucl-ex2025

Measuring short-range correlations and quasi-elastic cross sections in A(e,e') at x>1 and modest Q

Y. P. Zhang, Z. H. Ye, D. Nguyen +96

We present results from the Jefferson Lab E08-014 experiment, investigating short-range correlations (SRC) through measurements of inclusive quasi-elastic scattering from H, $^…

nucl-ex2024

The EMC Effect of Tritium and Helium-3 from the JLab MARATHON Experiment

D. Abrams, H. Albataineh, B. S. Aljawrneh +131

Measurements of the EMC effect in the tritium and helium-3 mirror nuclei are reported. The data were obtained by the MARATHON Jefferson Lab experiment, which performed deep inelast…

nucl-ex2024

Inclusive studies of two- and three-nucleon short-range correlations in H and He

S. Li, S. N. Santiesteban, J. Arrington +113

Inclusive electron scattering at carefully chosen kinematics can isolate scattering from the high-momentum nucleons in short-range correlations (SRCs). SRCs are produced by the har…

nucl-ex2024

Electroproduction of the Lambda/Sigma^0 hyperons at Q^2~0.5 (GeV/c)^2 at forward angles

K. Okuyama, K. Itabashi, S. Nagao +83

In 2018, the E12-17-003 experiment was conducted at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) to explore the possible existence of an nnLambda state in the reconstr…

nucl-ex2023

A novel measurement of the neutron magnetic form factor from A=3 mirror nuclei

S. N. Santiesteban, S. Li, D. Abrams +103

The electromagnetic form factors of the proton and neutron encode information on the spatial structure of their charge and magnetization distributions. While measurements of the pr…

nucl-ex2023★ 3 cited

Measuring the cross section of the N(,)F reaction using a single-fluid bubble chamber

D. Neto, K. Bailey, J. F. Benesch +17

N(,)F is believed to be the primary means of stellar nucleosynthesis of fluorine. Here we present the use of a single-fluid bubble chamber to measure the cross…

nucl-ex2022★ 45 cited

Revealing the short-range structure of the "mirror nuclei" H and He

S. Li, R. Cruz-Torres, N. Santiesteban +113

When protons and neutrons (nucleons) are bound into atomic nuclei, they are close enough together to feel significant attraction, or repulsion, from the strong, short-distance part…

nucl-ex2022

Determining the Proton's Gluonic Gravitational Form Factors

B. Duran, Z. -E. Meziani, S. Joosten +52

The proton is one of the main building blocks of all visible matter in the universe. Among its intrinsic properties are its electric charge, mass, and spin. These emerge from the c…

nucl-ex2022★ 303 cited

Precision Determination of the Neutral Weak Form Factor of Ca

D. Adhikari, H. Albataineh, D. Androic +99

We report a precise measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in the elastic scattering of longitudinally polarized electrons from . We measure $A_{…

physics.ins-det2022★ 27 cited

Neutral Bremsstrahlung emission in xenon unveiled

C. A. O. Henriques, P. Amedo, J. M. R. Teixeira +90

We present evidence of non-excimer-based secondary scintillation in gaseous xenon, obtained using both the NEXT-White TPC and a dedicated setup. Detailed comparison with first-prin…

nucl-ex2021★ 23 cited

New Measurements of the Beam-Normal Single Spin Asymmetry in Elastic Electron Scattering Over a Range of Spin-0 Nuclei

PREX, CREX Collaborations, : +104

We report precision determinations of the beam normal single spin asymmetries () in the elastic scattering of 0.95 and 2.18~GeV electrons off C, Ca, Ca, a…

nucl-ex2021★ 12 cited

The cross-section measurement for the reaction

K. N. Suzuki, T. Gogami, B. Pandey +80

The small binding energy of the hypertrition leads to predictions of non-existence of bound hypernuclei for isotriplet three-body systems such as . However, invariant mass spe…

hep-ph2021

Deeply virtual Compton scattering off the neutron

M. Benali, C. Desnault, M. Mazouz +96

The three-dimensional structure of nucleons (protons and neutrons) is embedded in so-called generalized parton distributions, which are accessible from deeply virtual Compton scatt…

hep-ex2021★ 9 cited

Measurement of the Nucleon Structure Function Ratio by the Jefferson Lab MARATHON Tritium/Helium-3 Deep Inelastic Scattering Experiment

MARATHON Collaboration, D. Abrams, H. Albataineh +129

The ratio of the nucleon structure functions, , is determined by the MARATHON experiment from measurements of deep inelastic scattering of electrons from H a…

nucl-ex2021★ 32 cited

Form Factors and Two-Photon Exchange in High-Energy Elastic Electron-Proton Scattering

M. E. Christy, T. Gautam, L. Ou +167

We present new precision measurements of the elastic electron-proton scattering cross section for momentum transfer (Q) up to 15.75~\gevsq. Combined with existing data, these p…

physics.ins-det2020★ 13 cited

Dependence of polytetrafluoroethylene reflectance on thickness at visible and ultraviolet wavelengths in air

S. Ghosh, J. Haefner, J. Martín-Albo +88

Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is an excellent diffuse reflector widely used in light collection systems for particle physics experiments. However, the reflectance of PTFE is a fun…

hep-ex2020★ 6 cited

Sensitivity of the NEXT experiment to Xe-124 double electron capture

G. Martínez-Lema, M. Martínez-Vara, M. Sorel +88

Double electron capture by proton-rich nuclei is a second-order nuclear process analogous to double beta decay. Despite their similarities, the decay signature is quite different,…

nucl-ex2020★ 23 cited

Novel observation of isospin structure of short-range correlations in calcium isotopes

D. Nguyen, Z. Ye, P. Aguilera +101

Short Range Correlations (SRCs) have been identified as being responsible for the high momentum tail of the nucleon momentum distribution, n(k). Hard, short-range interactions of n…

physics.ins-det2020★ 11 cited

Mitigation of Backgrounds from Cosmogenic Xe in Xenon Gas Experiments using He Neutron Capture

L. Rogers, B. J. P. Jones, A. Laing +89

\Xe{136} is used as the target medium for many experiments searching for \bbnonu. Despite underground operation, cosmic muons that reach the laboratory can produce spallation neutr…

nucl-ex2020★ 27 cited

Probing few-body nuclear dynamics via 3H and 3He (e,e'p)pn cross-section measurements

R. Cruz-Torres, D. Nguyen, F. Hauenstein +125

We report the first measurement of the \eep three-body breakup reaction cross sections in helium-3 (He) and tritium (H) at large momentum transfer ($\langle Q^2 \rangle \ap…