Deep Inelastic Electron Scattering on Nuclear Targets (at SLAC)(Physics):VPW

预期的研究项目包括SLAC各种核目标电子的深度非弹性散射。获得的实验数据将在SLAC和加州大学伯克利分校进行分析。研究者将参与的几个核能和高能项目包括：1)测量x、Q和氢氘对R的依赖（纵向与横向光吸收截面的比值）；2)电子-气核相互作用数据分析，电子能量为14.5 GeV；3) 50gev极化电子束的实验规划。在后者中，PEGASYS的前合作者期望为未来的终端站A （SLAC）实验提出建议，以研究高能极化电子束在各种核目标上的相互作用。这些项目涉及深度非弹性电子-核散射的各个方面，并将产生关于微扰QCD效应、核标度和粒子与核物理界面中其他现象的新信息。该项目进一步推进了VPW项目的目标，即通过研究为女性提供在科学或工程领域发展的机会，并通过研究人员在东道国校园中作为榜样的知名度提高，鼓励其他女性在这些领域追求职业。在这个项目中，有助于第二个目标的拟议活动包括：教授物理专业的高级课程，领导/协助核/粒子物理研究生研讨会，为研究生提供非正式的客座讲座或午餐谈话，指导女研究生，并作为特别非正式会议的催化剂。同时也促进了物理学领域的女性与其他科学/工程学科的女性之间的联系。

Anticipated research involves projects on deep inelastic scattering of electrons from various nuclear targets at SLAC. Experimental data obtained will be analyzed at SLAC and at UC- Berkeley. The several nuclear and high energy projects in which the investigator will participate include: 1) the measurement of x, Q , and HydrogeDeuterium Dependence of R (ratio of longitudinal to transverse photoabsorption cross section); 2) the analysis of data on electron-gas-nuclei interactions at electron energy of 14.5 GeV; and 3) the planning of future experiments utilizing a 50-GeV polarized electron beam. In the latter, former PEGASYS collaborators expect to develop proposals for future End Station A (SLAC) experiments to study interactions of high-energy polarized electron beams on various nuclear targets. These projects are concerned with aspects of deep inelastic electron-nucleus scattering, and will yield new information on perturbative QCD effects, nuclear scaling, and other phenomena in the interface between particle and nuclear physics. The project furthers VPW program objectives to provide opportunities for women to advance their careers in science or engineering through research, and to encourage other women to pursue careers in these areas through the investigators' enhanced visibility as role models on the host campuses. In this project, the proposed activities which contribute to the second objective include: teaching an upper-division course for physics majors, leading/assisting with graduate seminars on nuclear/particle physics, presenting informal guest lectures or lunch talks for graduate students, mentoring of women graduate students, and serving as a catalyst for special informal meetings of women in physics, as well as stimulating contacts between women in physics and those in other scientific/engineering disciplines.