Eur. Phys. J. A 24, s2.119-s2.120 (2005)
DOI: 10.1140/epjad/s2005-04-027-9

G0 beam quality and multiple linear regression corrections

Kazutaka Nakahara

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green St. Urbana, IL 61801, USA

nakahara@jlab.org

(Received 15 October 2004 / Published online 08 February 2005)

Abstract

The G0 experiment measures parity-violating elastic e-p scattering asymmetries to probe the strange quark content of the nucleon. The goal is to measure the asymmetries with an overall uncertainty of 5% of the measured asymmetries which will be of order 10^-5 to 10^-6. In order to achieve the above precision, systematic effects which can induce false asymmetries must be controlled. One such systematic error is helicity-correlated changes in beam parameters, which, coupled with the sensitivity of the G0 spectrometer to such beam variations, can induce false asymmetries. Beam parameters monitored for helicity-correlation are beam current, beam position, beam angle, and beam energy. A feedback loop was successfully used to reduce the helicity-correlation in beam current and beam position. The sensitivity of the G0 spectrometer to fluctuations in beam parameters has also been measured, and the false asymmetries have been determined to be of order 10^-8. This contribution will address the sensitivity of the G0 spectrometer to changes in beam conditions, the performance of the feedback loops as well as the resulting parity quality of the G0 beam, and the resulting false asymmetry.

PACS: 29.27.Hj Polarized beams - 13.60.-r Photon and charged-lepton interactions with hadrons - 25.30.-c Elastic electron scattering

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