CHARGE STRUCTURE OF THE NEUTRON

这项奖励将资助首席研究员参加即将在弗吉尼亚州纽波特纽斯的杰斐逊实验室进行的一项实验的旅费。这项实验得到了高度优先的批准，它将涉及电子与重氢的散射，并将通过分析提供迄今使用的最高动量转移时的中子电荷形状因子的测量结果。这一测量将进一步洞察中子(电中性，但内部非零正负电荷)中的电荷分布，并有助于我们更好地了解夸克和胶子是如何结合到中子等复合粒子中的。参与这项实验还包括与学生、博士后学者和其他初级科学家进行广泛的互动。

This award will support travel expenses of the principal investigator to participate in an upcoming experiment at Jefferson Laboratory in Newport News, VA. The experiment, approved with high priority, will involve electron scattering from deuterium, and will provide through analysis a measurement of the neutron charge form factor at the highest momentum transfer yet employed. This measurement will provide further insight into the distribution of charge in the neutron (electrically neutral, but non-zero positive and negative charge inside) and will help us to understand better how quarks and gluons are bound into composite particles such as the neutron. Participation in this experiment will also involve extensive interaction with students, postdoctoral scholars, and other junior scientists.