Research in Nuclear Physics and Related Fields

[9420087] Balamuth高能电子散射研究，目的是确定核子的自旋结构，观察核子中夸克和胶子自由度的表现。在本提案的资助下，将在德国的HERA设施建造一个新的电子偏振计，用于Hermes实验，这项研究将在那里进行。这一领域的研究将促进我们从组成夸克和海夸克（围绕组成夸克的夸克-反夸克对）的角度对核子的理解。这是核物理和粒子物理中最令人兴奋的课题之一。研究生的教育是这项拨款和将实施的整个研究计划的组成部分。＊＊＊

9420087 Balamuth Research will be carried out in high energy electron scattering with the goals of determining the spin structure of nucleons and observing manifestations of quark and gluon degrees of freedom in the nucleon. With funding in the present proposal, a new electron polarimeter will be constructed for use in the Hermes experiment at the HERA facility in Germany, where this research will be carried out. Research in this area will advance our understanding of the nucleon in terms of constituent quarks and sea-quarks (quark-antiquark pairs surrounding the constituent quarks). This topic is among the most exciting in nuclear and particle physics. Education of graduate students is integral to this grant and to the overall research program which will be carried out. ***