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CLAS12 Charged Two-Pion Electroproduction Off the Proton

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Abstract

The study of the structure of excited states of the nucleon is one of the major fields to investigate the strong interaction dynamics that underlie baryon generation from quarks and gluons. CLAS in Hall B at Jefferson Lab has already produced the dominant part of the available world data on charged double-pion electroproduction in the nucleon resonance region for photon virtualities, Q2, up to 5 GeV2. These data have allowed us to obtain the resonance electroexcitation amplitudes for most excited states in the mass range up to 1.8 GeV. This talk will focus on acceptance-corrected yields, single-particle-detection efficiency, and other preliminary results of one of the first CLAS12 measurements, with CLAS12 being the only available detector in the world capable of exploring resonance electroexcitation amplitudes in the still almost uncharted range of Q2 > 5.0 GeV2. The charged double-pion channel offers a unique opportunity to explore the evolution of the resonance structure at the distances where the transition from quark-gluon confinement to pQCD regime is expected.

Presenters

  • Krishna C Neupane

    University of South Carolina

Authors

  • Krishna C Neupane

    University of South Carolina