John Arrington
- Group Leader, Medium Energy Physics, Argonne National Laboratory
- Research home page: www.jlab.org/~johna
- Phone: (630)252-3619
- Email: johna@anl.gov
Research interests
Nucleon structure: Involved in a series of measurements of nucleon structure via elastic and inelastic electron scattering to measure the nucleon structure functions and study quark-hadron duality. Performed detailed analysis of the discrepancy between Rosenbluth and Polarization transfer measurements of the proton form factor, as well as the effects of higher-order radiative corrections (two-photon exchange and Coulomb distortion). Performed "Super-Rosenbluth" measurement to more precisely understand the discrepancy. Have follow-up measurements approved at Jefferson Lab and Novosibirsk to study the effect of two-photon exchange corrections to the form factors. Examining impact of two-photon exchange in the extraction of the proton charge radius and involved in measurements to test the 'proton radius puzzle'.Nuclear structure functions: Measured high-x scattering from nuclei, aimed at isolating the short-range structure of the nucleus and understanding modification to nucleon structure within the nuclear medium. Performed duality studies with high-precision nucleon and nuclear structure function measurements. Recently completed experiments to study Short-Range correlations and to measure the EMC effect at large x, focusin on light nuclei. In both cases, the anomolous behavior of Be-9 suggests the importance of the alpha-like cluster structure, which appears to have a significant impact, even in high-energy5D scattering
Color Transparency: Involved in SLAC and JLab studies of color transparency in A(e,e'p) reactions, the recent JLab Hall B measurement of color transparency in rho electroproduction, and JLab Hall C measurement of transparency in pion electroproduction.
The majority of my work is performed in Hall C and Hall A at Jefferson lab, though I am (or have been) involved in Hall B experiments as well as experiments at MIT-Bates, SLAC, HERMES at DESY, Fermilab, and Novosibirsk.
Biographical sketch
- 2014-present Group Leader, Medium Energy Physics, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
- 2005-present Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
- 2001-2005 Assistant Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
- 1998-2000 Postdoctoral appointee, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
- 1998 Ph.D., Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
- 1990 B.S., with distinction, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, and Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Awards
- 2012 Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 2005 Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering (PECASE)
- 2005 U. S. DOE Office of Science Early Career Scientist and Engineer Award
- 2000 APS/DNP Dissertation Award in Nuclear Physics
- 1991 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Professional Activities
- Member of the American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2013-present   Chair, Jefferson Lab Users Group Board of Directors
- 2013-present   Member, ex-officio, Jefferson Lab Program Advisory Committee
- 2013-present   National Advisory Committee, Institute for Nuclear Theory
- 2012-present   Editorial Board Member, Physical Review C
- 2012 Vice Chair, Jefferson Lab Users Group Board of Directors
- 2011-present   Chair, APS Topical Group on Hadron Physics (GHP)
- 2010-2011 Chair, Nuclear effects sub-group of EIC Nuclear Chromo-Dynamics Working Group
- 2009-2012 Board Member, SHMS/HMS collaboration executive board
- 2008-2010 Member, Hall C 12 GeV committee/SHMS collaboration committee
- 2008 Organizer for ECT* workshop on Hadron Electromagnetic Form Factors
- 2007-2009 Member, Jefferson Lab 12 GeV Steering Committee
- 2006-2008 Chair, Jefferson Lab Hall A Coordinating Committee
- 2005-2008 Argonne National Laboratory Outreach Initiative
- 2004-2006 Board of Directors, Jefferson Lab Users' Group
- 2003-2004 Steering Committee, Hall C at Jefferson Lab
- 2002-2004 Editorial board for preliminary and final JLab 12 GeV Conceptual Design Report
- 2001 Non-oscillation physics working group for the Fermilab proton driver study
Selected Publications (Full list from INSPIRE)
- "Measurement of parity violation in electron-quark scattering",
D. Wang, et al., Nature 506 (2014) 67
- "Coulomb corrections in the extraction of the proton radius",
J. Arrington, J. Phys. G 40 (2013) 115003 - JPG Highlight of 2013
- "Demonstration of a novel technique to measure two-photon exchange effects in elastic $e^\pm p$ scattering",
M. Moteabbed, et al., Phys. Rev. C 88 (2013) 025210
- "Flavor decomposition of the nucleon electromagnetic form factors",
I. A. Qattan and J. Arrington, Phys. Rev. C 86 (2012) 065210
- "A detailed study of the nuclear dependence of the EMC effect and short-range correlations",
J. Arrington, et al., Phys. Rev. C 86 (2012) 065204 - Editor's Suggestion
- "Hard probes of short-range nucleon-nucleon correlations",
J. Arrington, D. Higinbotham, G. Rosner, and M. Sargsian, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 67 (2012) 898
- "How well do we know the neutron structure function?",
J. Arrington, J. G. Rubin, and W. Melnitchouk, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 (2012) 252001
- "New measurements of high-momentum nucleons and short-range structures in nuclei ",
N. Fomin, J. Arrington, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 (2012) 092502
- "High precision measurements of the proton elastic form factor ratio mu_p G_E/G_M at low Q^2",
X. Zhan, et al., Phys. Lett. B 705 (2011) 59
- "Review of two-photon exchange in electron scattering",
J. Arrington, P. Blunden, and W. Melnitchouk, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 66 (2011) 782
- "Realistic transverse images of the proton charge and magnetization densities",
S. Venkat, J. Arrington, G. Miller, and X. Zhan, Phys. Rev. C 83 (2011) 015203
- "New measurements of the EMC effect in very light nuclei ",
J. Seely, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103 (2009) 202301
Phys. Rev. Focus article
- "Neutron Structure Functions",
J. Arrington, F. Coester, R. J. Holt, and T.-S. H. Lee, J. Phys. G 36 (2009) 025005
- "Neutron negative central charge density: An inclusive-exclusive connection",
G. A. Miller and J. Arrington, Phys. Rev. C 78 (2008) 032201(R)
Phys. Rev. Focus article
- "Global analysis of proton elastic form factor data with two-photon exchange corrections",
J. Arrington, W. Melnitchouk and J. Tjon, Phys. Rev. C. 76 (2008) 035205
- "Precise determination of low-Q nucleon electromagnetic form factors and their impact on parity-violating e-p elastic scattering",
J. Arrington and I. Sick, Phys. Rev. C. 76 (2007) 035201
- "Nucleon electromagnetic form factors",
J. Arrington, C. D. Roberts, and J. M. Zanotti, J. Phys. G 34 (2007) S23
- "Low-Q scaling, duality, and the EMC effect",
J. Arrington, R. Ent, C. E. Keppel, J. Mammei, and I. Niculescu, Phys. Rev. C 73 (2006) 035205
- "Precision Rosenbluth measurement of the proton elastic form-factors",
I. A. Qattan, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (2005) 142301
- "Extraction of two-photon contributions to the proton form factors",
J. Arrington, Phys. Rev. C 71 (2005) 015202
- "Evidence for two-photon exchange contributions in electron-proton and positron-proton elastic scattering",
J. Arrington, Phys. Rev. C 69 (2004) 032201(R)
- "Implications of the discrepancy between proton form factor measurements",
J. Arrington, Phys. Rev. C 69 (2004) 022201(R)
- "How well do we know the electromagnetic form factors of the proton?",
J. Arrington, Phys. Rev. C 68 (2003) 034325
- "Hadrons in the Nuclear Medium",
M. M. Sargsian, et al., J. Phys. G 29 (2003) R1
Approved Experiments
E01-001: "New Measurement of (G_E/G_M) for the Proton"
R. E. Segel and J. Arrington, spokespersons. Approved for 10 days in Hall A with an A- scientific rating.
view HTML version or download postscript version of E01-001 proposal.
Experiment ran May 2002. Published results on G_E/G_M
E02-019: "Inclusive Scattering from Nuclei at x>1 and High Q^2 with a 6 GeV Beam"
J. Arrington, D. B. Day, B. W. Filippone, and A. F. Lung, spokespersons. Approved for 28 days in Hall C with an A- scientific rating
view HTML version or download postscript version of the E02-019 proposal.
Experiment ran June-November 2004. Published results on High-x structure functions (PRL) and Short-range correlations (PRL)
E03-103 (was E00-101): "A Precise Measurement of the Nuclear Dependence of Structure Functions in Light Nuclei"
J. Arrington, spokesperson. Approved for 10 days in Hall C with a B+ scientific rating.
view HTML version or download postscript version of original E00-101 proposal.
Download postscript version of jeopardy resubmission (E03-103).
Experiment ran June-November 2004. Results published in Physical Review Letters
Web page with figures and data tables: hallcweb.jlab.org/experiments/E03103
VEPP-3 Proposal: "Two-photon exchange and elastic scattering of electrons/positrons on the proton"
J. Arrington and D. Nikolenko, spokespersons; Proposal for measurement at the VEPP-3 ring in Novosibirsk (2004).
download postscript or pdf version of the proposal.
Engineering run, May-July 2007.E04-116: "Beyond the Born approximation: A precise comparison of positron-proton and electron-proton elastic scattering in CLAS"
W. Brooks, J. Arrington, K. Joo, B. Raue, A. Afanasev, L. Weinstein, spokespersons. Approved for 5 days in Hall B with an A- scientific rating.
download postscript or pdf version of the proposal.
Successful engineering run in Oct 2006 led to full proposal (E07-005)
E05-017: "A Measurement of two-photon effects in upolarized electron-proton scattering"
J. Arrington, spokesperson. Approved for 13 days in Hall C with an A- scientific rating.
download postscript or pdf version of the proposal (or the older PAC 26 versions: postscript or pdf).
Experiment ran May-July 2007
E12-06-105: "Inclusive Scattering from Nuclei at x>1 in the quasielastic and deeply inelastic regimes"
J. Arrington, D. B. Day, spokespersons. Approved by PAC30.
download postscript or pdf version of the proposal.E07-005: "Beyond the Born approximation: A precise comparison of positron-proton and electron-proton elastic scattering in CLAS"
W. Brooks, J. Arrington, K. Joo, B. Raue, A. Afanasev, L. Weinstein, spokespersons. Approved by PAC31 with an A scientific rating.
download pdf version of the proposal.E12-07-107: "Precision Measurement of the Proton Elastic Cross Section at High Q^2"
B. Moffit, J. Arrington, S. Gilad, and B. Wojtsekhowski, spokespersons. Approved by PAC32.
download postscript or pdf version of the proposal.E08-007: "Measurement of the Proton Elastic Form Factor Ratio at Low Q^2"
G. Ron, J. Arrington, R. Gilman, A. Sarty, D. W. Higinbotham, D. Day, spokespersons. Approved by PAC33 with an A- scientific rating.
download pdf version of the proposal.
Phase-I (recoil polarimeter) ran in Summer 2008. Results published in Physics Letters B
Phase-II (polarized target) ran in Spring 2012E08-014: "Three-nucleon short range correlation studies in inclusive scattering for 0.8 < Q^2 < 2.8 GeV^2"
J. Arrington, D. B. Day, D. Higinbotham, and P. Solvignon, spokespersons. Approved by PAC33 with an A- scientific rating.
download pdf version of the proposal. Ran in May 2011.E12-10-008: "Detailed studies of the nuclear dependence of F_2 in light nuclei."
J. Arrington, A. Daniel, and D. Gaskell, spokespersons. Approved by PAC36.
download pdf version of the proposal.E12-11-009: "The Neutron Electric Form Factor at Q^2 up to 7 (GeV/c)^2 from the Reaction 2H(\vec{e},e'\vec{n})1H via Recoil Polarimetry"
A. Semenov, B. Anderson, J. Arrington, S. Kowalski, R. Madey, and B. Plaster spokespersons. Approved by PAC37.
download pdf version of the proposal.E12-11-112: "Precision measurement of the isospin dependence in the 2N and 3N short range correlation region"
J. Arrington, D. B. Day, D. Higinbotham, and P. Solvignon, spokespersons. Approved by PAC38 with A- scientific rating.
download pdf version of the proposal.
PhD Students and Theses
- Issam A. Qattan: Northwestern University, 2005
JLab E01-001: Precision Rosenbluth Measurements of the Proton Elastic Electromagnetic Form Factors and Their Ratio at Q^2=2.64,3.20, and 4.10 GeV^2 - Jason Seely: Massachusettes Institute of Technology, 2006
JLab E03-103: Precise Measurement of the Nuclear Dependence of Structure Functions in Light Nuclei - Aji Daniel: University of Houston, 2007
JLab E03-103: Precise Measurement of the Nuclear Dependence of the EMC effect at large x - Nadia Fomin: University of Virginia, 2007
JLab E02-019: Inclusive electron scattering from nuclei in the quasielastic region at large momentum transfer - Maryam Moteabbed: Florida International University, 2009
JLab E04-116: A Precise Measurement of the Two-Photon Exchange Effect - Xiaohui Zhan: Massachusettes Institute of Technology, 2010
JLab E08-007: Precise Measurement of the Nuclear Dependence of Structure Functions in Light Nuclei - Megh Niroula: Old Dominion University, 2010
JLab E04-116: Beyond the Born Approximation: A Precise Comparison of e+p and e-p Elastic Scattering in the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) - Myriam J. Johnson: Northwestern University, 2013
JLab E05-007: Two-photon effects in unpolarized elastic electron-proton scattering
JLab E08-014: Short Range Correlations in Nuclei at Large x_{bj} through Inclusive Quasi-Elastic Electron Scattering