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ANALYTICAL AND MONTE CARLO CALCULATIONS FOR ELASTIC ELECTRON-TRITON SCATTERING AT JEFFERSON LABORATORY

by Walaa M Alahmade




Institution: Kent State University
Department: College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Physics
Degree: MS
Year: 2015
Keywords: Nuclear Physics; Physics
Record ID: 2061185
Full text PDF: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1429465640


Abstract

This thesis is devoted on calculations and simulations of an experiment on elastic scattering of high energy electrons by tritons using the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator and the Hall A spectrometers of the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Laboratory). The aspects of the experiment that have been investigated are: calculation of the expected counting rates for the scattered electron and the recoil triton events, and determination of the statistical errors in a measurement of the charge and magnetic form factors of the triton at large momentum transfer (up to Q^2 = 43.00 fm^-2). In addition, Monte Carlo simulations were per- formed for electron-triton scattering recoil events using the TRANSPORT formalism to transport recoil nuclei through the Hadron High Resolution Spectrometer (HRSH). The energy loss of the recoil tritons and of possible background passing through the two HRSH planes of scintillation counters, and the time of flight (TOF) of the recoil tritons between the two scintillation counter planes were studied. The possibility of performing the backward electron scattering part of the experiment by detecting only recoil tritons has been investigated.