Pion-LT (E12-19-006)

Experiment Overview¶

The pion occupies a special place in nature as one of the lightest hadrons, with one valence quark, and one valence antiquark. Small as it might be, the pion is also responsible for the long range character of the strong interaction that binds the atomic nucleus together. If chiral symmetry (left-right symmetry of rules governing strong interactions) were an exact global symmetry of strong interactions then pions would be massless. Through gluon-quark interaction and by explicit inclusion of light quark masses, chiral symmetry of massless QCD undergoes explicit symmetry breaking, thus giving the pion its mass. This puts the pion at the core of the mechanism that dynamically generates all the mass of the hadrons and makes it a crucial element in understanding hadron structure. E12-07-105 and E12-06-101 joint experiment allows for the measurement of the pion longitudinal and transverse seperated cross section and pion form factor respectively at the highest Q 2 achievable at a 12 GeV Jefferson Lab. Carrying out this experiment at high values of Q2 can allow us to study nonperturbative dynamics of QCD wile also searching for a transition to the perturbative regime. In addition, the data obtained will provide us with information important in understanding reaction mechanisms and a benchmark for the models used to calculate the structure of light hadrons.
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E12-06-101 and E12-07-105 Documents¶

• Proposals:
  • E12-07-105
  • E12-06-101
  • PAC-47 Jeopardy Document jeopardy_pac19.pdf

• Hall C Wiki
• Hall C Electronic Logbook
• Hall C Information
• Experiment Schedule

Run Information¶

• Run Plans and Run Sheets
• PionLT Status
• PionLT Specific Shift Instructions
• Online Analysis Instructions
• Experimental Safety Asessment Documentation Summer 2019
• Conduct of Operations Summer 2019
• Information for Shift Takers
• Documentation for Running Hall C
• Beam Schedule
• Shift Signup
• Shift Signup, read only
• Hall C How-Tos: 1 , 2
• Analysis on Cdaq
• Contact Experts

Data Analysis¶

• UTIL_PION Git Repository
• SIMC
• Hall C Analyzer
• Online Replay Histograms
• Joint Hall A & C Data Analysis
• L/T Separation Software (see Sec 4.2 of https://misportal.jlab.org/ul/publications/view_pub.cfm?pub_id=15234 for description)

Meetings¶

• Hall C Commissioning Analysis Meetings
• Detector Working Group Meetings
• Pion LT Meetings
• BlueJeans Information

Collaboration¶

• Spokespersons
• Collaboration List
• Mailing List