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L. Jiang, Artur M. Ankowski, D. Abrams, L. Gu, B. Aljawrneh, S. Alsalmi, J. Bane, Austin Batz, S. Barcus, Marta F. Barroso, Vincenzo Bellini, Omar Benhar, J. Beričič, D. Biswas, A. Camsonne, J. Castillo Castellanos, J.-P. Chen, M. E. Christy, K. Craycraft, R. Cruz-Torres, H. L. Dai, Donal B. Day, A. Dirican, S. Covrig Dusa, E. Fuchey, T. Gautam, C. Giusti, J. Gómez, C. Gu, T. J. Hague, O. Hansen, F. Hauenstein, D. W. Higinbotham, C. E. Hyde-Wright, Z. Jerzyk, Anthony Johnson, C. Keppel, Christopher M. Lanham, S. Li, R. Lindgren, H. Liu, C. Mariani, R. E. McClellan, D. Meekins, R. Michaels, M. Mihovilovic, M. Murphy, D. Nguyen, M. Nycz, Li Ou, B. Pandey, V. Pandey, K. Park, G. Shani Nimeshika Perera, A. J. R. Puckett, S. N. Santiesteban, S. Širca, T. Su, L. Tang, Y. Tian, N. Ton, B. Wojtsekhowski, S. A. Wood, Z. Ye, J. Zhang
Abstract
The E12-14-012 experiment, performed in Jefferson Lab Hall A, has measured the $(e,{e}^{\ensuremath{'}}p)$ cross section in parallel kinematics using a natural titanium target. In this paper, we report the analysis of the dataset obtained in different kinematics for our solid natural titanium target. Data were obtained in a range of missing momentum and missing energy between $15\ensuremath{\lesssim}{p}_{m}\ensuremath{\lesssim}250\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{MeV}/\mathrm{c}$ and $12\ensuremath{\lesssim}{E}_{m}\ensuremath{\lesssim}80\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{MeV}$, respectively, and using an electron beam energy of 2.2 GeV. We measured the reduced cross section with $\ensuremath{\sim}7%$ accuracy as a function of both missing momentum and missing energy. Our Monte Carlo simulation, including both a model spectral function and the effects of final-state interactions, satisfactorily reproduces the data.