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BEYOND THE BORN APPROXIMATION: A PRECISE COMPARISON OF ep AND e−p ELASTIC SCATTERING IN THE CEBAF LARGE ACCEPTANCE SPECTROMETER (CLAS) Megh Raj Niroula Old Dominion University, 2010 Director: Dr. Lawrence B. Weinstein How well we know the structure of the proton depends on our knowledge of the form factors of the proton. The ratio of the electromagnetic form factors of the proton measured by the Rosenbluth and the polarization transfer methods differ by a factor of 3 at four momentum transfer squared (Q)=5.6 GeV. The two photon exchange (TPE) effect is the leading candidate to explain this discrepancy. The theoretical estimates of the TPE effect are model dependent so precise measurement is required to resolve this problem. The TPE effect can be measured in a model independent way by measuring the ratio of positron-proton to electron-proton elastic scattering cross-sections. We produced a simultaneously mixed electron-positron beam in the engineering test run conducted in October 2006 and measured the ep/ep ratio using the CEBAF large acceptance spectrometer (CLAS). Due to the luminosity constraint our kinematic coverage is limited to low Q and high ε (longitudinal polarization of the virtual photon). We continued our background study through GEANT4 simulation developed for the test run design in order to find more background sources and to design required shielding. The simulation is validated by using the test run data and is used further to optimize the luminosity for the final experiment. We are able to increase the luninosity by an order of magnitude for the upcoming final run. The final experiment will extend the data in high Q and low ε region where TPE effect is expected to be large.

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Beyond the Born Appr ond the Born Approximation: A Pr ximation: A Precise Comparison of e+p ecise Comparison of e+p and e-p Elastic Scattering in the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS)