rhoCT - Jefferson Lab Experiment E02-110
Search for the onset of Color Transparency.
Experiment Overview: Physics summary page
- Spokespersons: Kawtar Hafidi and Brahim Mustapha, Argonne National Lab, Maurik Holtrop, Univ. of New Hampshire
- A Hall B Collaboration experiment
- Two thesis students: Lamiaa ElFassi (Mohammed V University, Morocco)
and Lorenzo Zana (University of New Hampshire)
- Data taken in 2003 and 2004, in
Hall B of Jefferson Lab
- Experiment E02-110 measured exclusive incoherent electroproduction of the rho^0(770) meson from
Deuterium, Carbon, and Iron targets up to Q^2=3 GeV^2 using the CLAS detector in Hall B at Jefferson
Lab. The objective of these measurements is to determine the Q^2 dependence of the nuclear transparency
ratio for the two nuclear targets, Carbon and Iron, at fixed coherence legth of the quark-antiquark
fluctuations of the virtual photon. A relatively large increase of the nuclear transparency (a decrease
in the absorption of rho^0 mesons as they travel through the nucleus) is a signature of the onset
of Color Transparency.
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