Parity Violation in Deep Inelastic Scattering with the SoLID Spectrometer at JLab

Abstract

Measurements of parity-violating asymmetries in DIS region using the SoLID spectrometer at Jefferson Lab (JLab) Hall A in the 12 GeV era are presented. A proposal with a polarized electron beam on unpolarized deuteron and proton targets has been approved with an A rating by the JLab PAC. The deuteron measurement aims to measure the weak mixing angle $\sin^2 \theta_W $ with a precision of $\pm$ 0.0006 as well as to access the fundamental coupling constants $C_{2q}$ with a high precision. This measurement is ideally suited for testing the Standard Model with the potential to probe charge symmetry violation and resolve the quark-quark correlations in the DIS region. The proton experiment provides a clean measurement of $d/u$ ratio in the high-$x$ region free of nuclear corrections. To achieve these goals, the SoLID spectrometer was proposed and designed to handle a high luminosity with a large acceptance. In this article, the details of the approved measurements are discussed, along with new ideas with PVDIS using a polarized $^3$He target to access new $\gamma-Z$ interference polarized structure functions and a unpolarized $^{48}$Ca target to study the EMC effect.