Scattering and Reactions of Intermediate Energy Projectiles

这笔拨款将支持罗格斯大学中能实验核物理小组的实验研究计划的继续。实验工作将在弗吉尼亚州纽波特纽斯的杰斐逊实验室和伊利诺伊州巴达维亚的费米实验室进行。该小组和实验室的主要兴趣在于开展旨在揭示原子核和核子的夸克结构的实验。JLab的实验集中于揭示核子的结构和亚结构。这些研究将继续之前关于形状因子的工作，并开始一系列新的实验来研究横向夸克动量分布。伊利诺斯州巴达维亚的费米实验室正在进行实验，该实验室将利用中微子探索自由和束缚原子核的夸克结构，利用质子束探索核子的夸克海洋，并通过drel - yan过程探索夸克-反夸克湮灭。高通量中微子束将使高统计实验成为可能，首次提供有关中微子深非弹性散射核效应的信息。这个项目更广泛的影响主要在于培养研究生和博士后水平的学生。他们在进行基础研究的过程中接受的培训使他们在各种领域从事职业，从医学物理学到国家安全再到金融分析，此外还继续从事基础物理研究工作。这项提案延续了罗格斯大学核物理专业长期以来对女学生的支持和培训。

This grant will support the continuation of the experimental research program of the intermediate energy experimental nuclear physics group at Rutgers University. The experimental work will be carried out at Jefferson Laboratory in Newport News, Virginia, and Fermilab, in Batavia, Illinois.The main interests of the group, and of the laboratory, are in experiments designed to unfold the quark structure of nuclei and nucleons. The JLab experiments concentrate on uncovering the structure and substructure of the nucleon. These will continue previous work on the form factors and begin a new series of experiments studying the transverse quark momentum distributions. The experiments being developed for Fermilab, in Batavia, Illinois, which will explore the quark structure of free and bound nuclei using neutrinos, and the quark sea of the nucleon using proton beams and quark-anti-quark annihilation through the Drell-Yan process. The high flux neutrino beams will allow high statistics experiments providing information on the nuclear effects in deep inelastic scattering of neutrinos for the first time.The broader impact of this project is primarily in the training of students, both at the graduate and post-doctoral level. The training they receive in the process of doing basic research has led to careers in a variety of areas, from medical physics to national security to financial analysis, in addition to continued work in fundamental physics research. This proposal continues the support and training of women students that has been a long tradition of the Rutgers nuclear physics program.