Dave Gaskell's XEM Page

GENERAL INFO:

Link to main XEMPT page:
XEMPT-04
Check out the analysis logbook.
Or how about the RUNLIST.


PEOPLE:

I.  Useful people (students)
     1) Aji Daniel
     2) Nadia Fomin
     3) Jason Seely
     4) Roman Trojer

II.  Helpful people (post-docs)
    1) Karl Slifer
    2) Shige Tajima
    3) Xiaochao Zheng
   
4) Patricia Solvignon

III. "Spokes"-people (?)
    1) John Arrington
    2) Donal Day
    3) Brad Filippone
    4) Dave Gaskell
    5) Allison Lung
   
   
TALKS and PUBLICATIONS:

Talks
    1) "Inclusive Scattering from Nuclei at x>1 and High Q2 with a 5.75 GeV Beam,"
         Nadia Fomin, Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting: Chicago, IL, October 2004 (ppt)
    2)
"Inclusive Scattering from Nuclei at x>1 and High Q2 with a 5.75 GeV Beam,"
         Nadia Fomin, UVa Seminar:  February, 2005 (ppt)
    3)
"Inclusive Electron Scattering from Nuclei at x>1 and High Q2 with a 5.75 GeV Beam,"
         Nadia Fomin, Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting: Maui, HI, September 2005 (ppt)
    4) "A Precise Measurement of the EMC Effect in Light Nuclei,"
         Dave Gaskell, PANIC: Santa Fe, NM, October 2005 (ppt)
    5) "Precise Measurement of the Nuclear Dependence of Structure Functions in Light Nuclei,"
         Aji Daniel's, Hall C Users Meeting: Newport News, VA, January 2006 (pdf)
    6)
"Inclusive Electron Scattering from Nuclei at x>1 and High Q2 with a 5.75 GeV Beam,"
         Nadia Fomin, Hall C Users Meeting: Newport News, VA, January 2006 (ppt)
    7) "New Measurement of the EMC Effect in 3He and 4He,"
         Jason Seely, DIS06: Tsukuba, Japan, April 2006 (pdf)
    8) "Precise Measurement of the EMC Effect  in Few Body Nuclei and at Large x,"
         Aji Daniel, Hall C Users Meeting: Newport News, VA, January 2007 (pdf)
    9)
"Inclusive Electron Scattering from Nuclei at x>1 and High Q2 with a 5.75 GeV Beam,"
         Nadia Fomin, Jefferson Lab  User Group Meeting: Newport News, VA, June, 2006 (ppt)
  10) "New Measurements of the EMC Effect in Few-Body Nuclei,"
         John Arrington, APS Topical Group Meeting on Hadron Physics: Nashville, TN,  October 2006 (ppt)
  11)
"Inclusive Electron Scattering from Nuclei at x>1 and High Q2 with a 5.75 GeV Beam,"
         Nadia Fomin, Hall C Users Meeting: Newport News, VA, January 2007 (ppt)

Papers, proceedings, etc.
   1) Jason Seely's thesis, M.I.T., 2006 (pdf)
   2) Proceedings from DIS 2006 (ps)
   3) Proceedings from GHP 2006 (nucl-ex/0701017)
   4) Aji Daniel's thesis, Univeristy of Houston, 2007 (pdf)
   5) Proceedings from ICTP 2008 (AIP conference proceedings)
   6) "New Measuements of the EMC Effect in Very Light Nuclei", J. Seely, A. Daniel,  et al (nucl-ex/0904.4448).  Submitted to PRL.


ANALYSIS STUFF:

General
1) Analysis task list.
2) Eric Christy's talk about analyzing inclusive data in Hall C.
3) John's "long paper/report" containing info that may be helpful for analyzers.

Meeting Minutes
1) Feb. 9 2005
2) Feb. 24, 2005
3) Mar. 9, 2005
4) Mar. 23, 2005
5) Apr. 6, 2005
6) Apr. 20, 2005
7) May 4, 2005
8) May 18, 2005
9) Jun. 1, 2005
10) Jun. 15, 2005

Collaboration Meeting
June 23, 2005. (agenda and talks)

Targets and Beam position
1) Pictures of the target ladder (Sep. 1 2004) can be found  here.
2) Meek's report on the target configuration is
here.
3) Target surveys: a)  target_survey_june_2004.jpg    b) target_survey_sept_2004.jpg
    Check out the Fpi2 target survey for info on where each survey monument is located:  fpi2_target_survey.gif
4) The thermometry was a little off for the June-July period. Here you can find my estimate of the effect on the cryotargets.
5) Dummy to target cell ratio calculation.  (Updated 7/13/2007)
6) The He-4 target had a leak this fall. Aji has calculated the change in the target density. See his log entry here.
    He has a summary of the target density for each run in text format: he4density.dat
7) The He-3 target also apparently had a slow leak. Here is Aji's log entry and his run-by-run target density file: he3density.dat
     UPDATE: A small mistake was found - Aji has updated densities here.
8) He-3 pressure sensor: small note here. (
NEW 7/13/2007)
8) Discussion of beam and target offsets. (Updated 7/13/2007: vacuum motion effects had been ignored.)
Note that in the above discussion, I used the carbon target. The cryotargets are slightly offset relative to carbon. See this log entry.
9)  Jim Dunne (Miss. State) had a student re-examine some of the solid target thicknesses from the 2004 running.  The copper target came out identical to Meek's measurement, but he found the carbon target to be about 0.6% thicker. See his e-mail here.
(NEW 7/13/2007)

Efficiencies
1) Report on calculating the computer dead time with the pion-prescaling circuit enabled.
2) Nadia's 3/4 efficiency studies

Calibrations
1) BCM global calibration using "local zero" method and "run-averaged zero" method.
2) HMS gas cerenkov
3) HMS calorimeter

Kinematics
1) Beam energy measurements: summer 2004 and fall 2004.  Quick summary of energies:
        a) E = 2038.64 +/- 1.1 MeV (June 21, 2004)
        b) E = 5010.79 +/- 1.5 MeV (June 27, 2004)
        c) E = 5011.99 +/- 1.5 MeV (July 21, 2004)   <- Taken during pionCT running
        d) E = 5767.13 +/- 1.65 MeV (September 27, 2004)
        e) E = 5767.17 +/- 1.65 MeV (November 3, 2004)
        f) E = 5766.26 +/- 1.65 MeV (December 20, 2004)  <- Taken during pionCT running

2) HMS momentum and angle offsets
Currently, it seems that our best offsets are more consistent with those that Eric Christy found using the 1999 data rather than those that Tanja found from the Fpi-2 data. See my disscussion here.
In the above link, I found the best offsets to be -0.6 mrad for the HMS angle and +0.03% for the HMS momentum (relative to Tanja's -0.13% that we have in the analyzer - so net -0.1%).  If I do a combined chi-squared minimization of the 6 GeV and 2 GeV data, it favors -0.4 mrad instead, but it could also be accounted for by a small beam energy shift (smaller than the uncertainty in the measurement).


Results (public)
1. Short paper on light target ratios: nucl-ex/0904.448 (Figures and tables).

Results (password protected)
Quick links to some of Jason's analysis results
       a)  Cross sections
       b)  Target ratios
       c)  Work done at Argonne

       d)  Plots from Jason's thesis


This site is maintained by David Gaskell
Last updated 2007-April-13