Electromagnetic Structure of the Neutron

将在实验核物理领域进行研究。中心活动是一系列旨在确定中子电荷分布的实验。这些实验将在麻省理工学院/贝茨实验室和CEBAF进行。这些实验的独特之处在于探测被极化电子束击出的氚靶中的极化中子。将使用一种专门的中子探测器来测量中子极化，方法是确定碳分析器散射的中子的不对称性，这是一种二次散射实验。这些测量将为核子的电荷和磁结构的基本不受约束的理论提供重要的约束。拟议的测量是当代核物理学中最优先的实验之一。研究生参与了实验的所有阶段。

Research will be carried out in experimental nuclear physics. The central activity is a series of experiments designed to determine the charge distribution of the neutron. The experiments will be carried out at the MIT/Bates laboratory and at CEBAF. The unique aspect of these experiments is detection of polarized neutrons which are knocked out of a deuterium target by a polarized electron beam. A specialized neutron detector will be used to measure the neutron polarization by determining the asymmetry of neutrons scattered from a carbon analyzer, a secondary scattering experiment. These measurements will provide important constraints to largely unconstrained theories of the charge and magnetic structure of the nucleon. The proposed measurements are among the highest priority experiments within contemporary nuclear physics. Graduate students are involved in all phases of the experiment.