Speaker
Michael Paolone
(Temple University)
Description
In order to determine the Coulomb sum in nuclei, a precision measurement of inclusive electron scattering cross sections in the quasi-elastic region was performed at Jefferson Lab. Incident electrons with energies ranging from 0.4 GeV to 4 GeV scattered from $^{4}He$,$^{12}C$,$^{56}Fe$ and $^{208}Pb$ nuclei at four scattering angles ($15^{\circ},60^{\circ},90^{\circ},120^{\circ}$) and scattered energies ranging from 0.1 GeV to 4 GeV. The Rosenbluth separation method is used to extract the transverse and longitudinal response functions at three-momentum transfers in the range 0.55 GeV/c$\leq \mid \overrightarrow{q}\mid\leq$1.0 GeV/c. The Coulomb Sum is obtained for $^{56}Fe$ and $^{12}C$, and compared to predictions. The latest preliminary results will be shown. The impact of a similar positron beam measurement, and its importance in testing coulomb corrections used to extract the Born cross-section, will also be discussed.
Primary author
Michael Paolone
(Temple University)
