Date of Completion
Spring 5-1-2021
Thesis Advisor(s)
Kyungseon Joo
Honors Major
Physics
Second Honors Major
Electrical Engineering
Disciplines
Elementary Particles and Fields and String Theory | Nuclear
Abstract
Analysis and detection of the phi(1020) vector meson from exclusive electroproduction decay into Kaons have been performed. Studying exclusive phi electroproduction is an ideal channel for quantifying the gluonic properties of the nucleon. This detection used the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS12) at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) with a 10.6 GeV longitudinally polarized electron beam and an unpolarized hydrogen target. Using the detected final state particles phase space, x_B, Q^2, W, and by developing specialized exclusivity cuts as well as several additional cuts, events containing the production of a phi(1020) meson were able to be extracted. Additionally, a unified wagon has been developed that uses these measurements and cuts to perform advanced real-time visualization of the data processing and eventually will be applied to detect and identify events that contain the phi vector meson across all applicable data-sets with CLAS12 at JLab.
Recommended Citation
Simmerling, Paul, "Detecting the Phi Meson with CLAS12" (2021). Honors Scholar Theses. 856.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/srhonors_theses/856