CLAS12 - The Hall B 12GeV Upgrade
Project
CLAS12 Technical Working Groups
Objectives
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The primary goal of experiments using the CLAS12
detector at energies up to 12 GeV is
the study of the internal nucleon
dynamics by accessing the ucleon's generalized parton distributions
(GPD's). This is accomplished
through the measurement of Deeply Vrtual
Compton Scattering (DVCS),
Deeply Virtual Meson production (DVMP),
and
single spin asymetries (SSA).
Towards this end, the detector has been
tuned for studies of exclusive and semi-inclusive reactions in a wide
kinematic range. The large acceptance and high luminosity capabilities
of CLAS12 are essential for
this program. Inclusive processes,
for which the unique properties of the Hall B instrumentation are
essential, for example the study of the proton and neutron spin
structure at high x using polarized solid state targets, or experiments
requiring neutron tagging will be measured as well. The large
acceptance of CLAS12 will be
ideal for studies of quark
hadronization in the nuclear medium. A novel way of studying the
spectroscopy of hadrons is through the of hadron spectroscopy through
forward electron detection.