2-6 November 2015
Playa Mazatlán Beach Hotel
Mexico/BajaSur timezone
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Contribution

Transition Form Factors

Speakers

  • Ms. Laura Xiomara GUTIERREZ GUERRERO

Primary authors

Description

My area of interest lies broadly in hadron physics. I have focused on the calculation of the electromagnetic and transition form factors, based upon a vector-vector contact interaction. The internal structure of the nucleon is a defining problem for nuclear physics. The most basic observables which reflect the composite nature of the nucleon are its electromagnetic form factors. Further, the elastic and transition form factors can be described and related to the other observables through the use of generalized parton distributions. Therefore, this topic connects strongly to other thrusts of the 12 GeV upgrade program, it will afford access to the dynamics of the non-perturbative strong interaction responsible for resonance formation, and will be crucial in understanding the nature of confinement and dynamical chiral symmetry breaking in baryons, and how excited nucleons emerge from QCD. The CLAS12 detector at Jefferson Lab is a unique instrument, which has provided data on meson photo- and electroproduction in the resonance excitation region. A basic motivation for this project is the need to document a comparison between theoretical and experimental results.