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-This NSF award supports our continuing research program at Jefferson Lab using electromagnetic probes to study hadronic matter at the fundamental level.  Our group focuses on four experimental efforts that test the basic nature of particle interactions at the quark gluon level.  Five particle tracking drift chambers are currently being constructed at ISU to support Jefferson Lab's Hall B 12 GeV program.  One of our experiments extracts polarization observables from meson photoproduction with linearly-polarized photons on the proton and deuteron and will result in two ISU PhD theses during this funding period.  Another experiment will investigate quark distributions at extreme kinematics where the quarks carry most of the nucleon's momentum.  A high-precision measurement of the pion lifetime is being undertaken in Jefferson Lab's Hall B.  This experimental effort seeks to probe the mechanism through which a neutral charged pion can decay into two photons to stringently test confinement-scale quantum chromodynamics.  Another high-precision experiment in Hall A, MOLLER, uses the parity-violating property of the weak interaction to measure a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model known as the Weinberg (or mixing) angle to within a relative uncertainty of 0.1%.  When combined with other experiments, this measurement will place strong constraints on proposed extensions to our present version of the Standard Model.  These research programs at JLab, the accelerator facilities at ISU, and continuous detector construction projects in the group's Laboratory for Detector Science, combine in an active program to provide a breadth of experiences for four graduate students and to train the next generation of scientists.
+This NSF award supports our continuing research program at Jefferson Lab using electromagnetic probes to study hadronic matter at the fundamental level.  Our group focuses on four experimental efforts that test the basic nature of particle interactions at the quark gluon level.  One of our experiments extracts polarization observables from meson photoproduction with linearly-polarized photons on the proton and deuteron and will result in two ISU PhD theses during this funding period.  Another experiment will investigate quark distributions at extreme kinematics where the quarks carry most of the nucleon's momentum.   Five particle tracking drift chambers are currently being constructed at ISU to be used by the above epxeriments and Jefferson Lab's Hall B 12 GeV program. A high-precision measurement of the pion lifetime is being undertaken in Jefferson Lab's Hall B.  This experimental effort seeks to probe the mechanism through which a neutral charged pion can decay into two photons to stringently test confinement-scale quantum chromodynamics.  Another high-precision experiment in Hall A, MOLLER, uses the parity-violating property of the weak interaction to measure a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model known as the Weinberg (or mixing) angle to within a relative uncertainty of 0.1%.  When combined with other experiments, this measurement will place strong constraints on proposed extensions to our present version of the Standard Model.  These research programs at JLab, the accelerator facilities at ISU, and continuous detector construction projects in the group's Laboratory for Detector Science, combine in an active program to provide a breadth of experiences for four graduate students and to train the next generation of scientists.
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-This NSF award supports our continuing research program at Jefferson Lab using electromagnetic probes to study hadronic matter at the fundamental level.  Our group focuses on four experimental efforts that test the basic nature of particle interactions at the quark gluon level.  Five particle tracking drift chambers are currently being constructed at ISU to support Jefferson Lab's Hall B 12 GeV program.  One of our experiments extracts polarization observables from meson photoproduction with linearly-polarized photons on the proton and deuteron and will result in two ISU PhD theses during this funding period.  Another experiment will investigate quark distributions at extreme kinematics where the quarks carry most of the nucleon's momentum.  A high-precision measurement of the pion lifetime is being undertaken in Jefferson Lab's Hall B.  This experimental effort seeks to probe the mechanism through which a neutral charged pion can decay into two photons to stringently test confinement-scale quantum chromodynamics.  Another high-precision experiment in Hall A, MOLLER, uses the parity-violating property of the weak interaction to measure a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model known as the Weinberg (or mixing) angle to within a relative uncertainty of 0.1%.  When combined with other experiments, this measurement will place strong constraints on proposed extensions to our present version of the Standard Model.  This research program at JLab, the accelerator facilities at ISU, and continuous detector construction projects in the group's Laboratory for Detector Science, combine in an active program to provide a breadth of experiences for four graduate students and to train the next generation of scientists.
+This NSF award supports our continuing research program at Jefferson Lab using electromagnetic probes to study hadronic matter at the fundamental level.  Our group focuses on four experimental efforts that test the basic nature of particle interactions at the quark gluon level.  Five particle tracking drift chambers are currently being constructed at ISU to support Jefferson Lab's Hall B 12 GeV program.  One of our experiments extracts polarization observables from meson photoproduction with linearly-polarized photons on the proton and deuteron and will result in two ISU PhD theses during this funding period.  Another experiment will investigate quark distributions at extreme kinematics where the quarks carry most of the nucleon's momentum.  A high-precision measurement of the pion lifetime is being undertaken in Jefferson Lab's Hall B.  This experimental effort seeks to probe the mechanism through which a neutral charged pion can decay into two photons to stringently test confinement-scale quantum chromodynamics.  Another high-precision experiment in Hall A, MOLLER, uses the parity-violating property of the weak interaction to measure a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model known as the Weinberg (or mixing) angle to within a relative uncertainty of 0.1%.  When combined with other experiments, this measurement will place strong constraints on proposed extensions to our present version of the Standard Model.  These research programs at JLab, the accelerator facilities at ISU, and continuous detector construction projects in the group's Laboratory for Detector Science, combine in an active program to provide a breadth of experiences for four graduate students and to train the next generation of scientists.
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-This NSF award supports our continuing research program at Jefferson Lab using electromagnetic probes to study hadronic matter at the fundamental level.  Our group focuses on four experimental efforts that test the basic nature of particle interactions at the quark gluon level.  Five particle tracking drift chambers are currently being constructed at ISU to support Jefferson Lab's Hall B 12 GeV program.  One of our experiments extracts polarization observables from meson photoproduction with linearly-polarized photons on the proton and deuteron and will result in two ISU PhD theses during this funding period.  Another experiment will investigate quark distributions at extreme kinematics where the quarks carry most of the nucleon's momentum.  A high-precision measurement of the pion lifetime is being undertaken in Jefferson Lab's Hall B.  This experimental effort seeks to probe the mechanism through which a neutral charged pion can decay into two photons to stringently test confinement-scale quantum chromodynamics.  Another high-precision experiment in Hall A, MOLLER, uses the parity-violating property of the weak interaction to measure a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model known as the Weinberg (or mixing) angle to within a relative error of 0.1%.  When combined with other experiments, this measurement will place strong constraints on proposed extensions to our present version of the Standard Model.  This research program at JLab, the accelerator facilities at ISU, and continuous detector construction projects in the group's Laboratory for Detector Science, combine in an active program to provide a breadth of experiences for four graduate students and to train the next generation of scientists.
+This NSF award supports our continuing research program at Jefferson Lab using electromagnetic probes to study hadronic matter at the fundamental level.  Our group focuses on four experimental efforts that test the basic nature of particle interactions at the quark gluon level.  Five particle tracking drift chambers are currently being constructed at ISU to support Jefferson Lab's Hall B 12 GeV program.  One of our experiments extracts polarization observables from meson photoproduction with linearly-polarized photons on the proton and deuteron and will result in two ISU PhD theses during this funding period.  Another experiment will investigate quark distributions at extreme kinematics where the quarks carry most of the nucleon's momentum.  A high-precision measurement of the pion lifetime is being undertaken in Jefferson Lab's Hall B.  This experimental effort seeks to probe the mechanism through which a neutral charged pion can decay into two photons to stringently test confinement-scale quantum chromodynamics.  Another high-precision experiment in Hall A, MOLLER, uses the parity-violating property of the weak interaction to measure a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model known as the Weinberg (or mixing) angle to within a relative uncertainty of 0.1%.  When combined with other experiments, this measurement will place strong constraints on proposed extensions to our present version of the Standard Model.  This research program at JLab, the accelerator facilities at ISU, and continuous detector construction projects in the group's Laboratory for Detector Science, combine in an active program to provide a breadth of experiences for four graduate students and to train the next generation of scientists.
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-This NSF award supports our continuing research program at Jefferson Lab using electromagnetic probes to study hadronic matter at the fundamental level.  Our group focuses on four experimental efforts that test the basic nature of particle interactions at the quark gluon level.  Five particle tracking drift chambers are currently being constructed at ISU to support Jefferson Lab's Hall B 12 GeV program.  One of our experiments extracts polarization observables from meson photoproduction with linearly-polarized photons on the proton and deuteron and will result in two ISU PhD theses during this funding period.  Another experiment will investigate quark distributions at extreme kinematics where the quarks carry most of the nucleon's momentum.  A high-precision measurement of the pion lifetime is being undertaken in Jefferson Lab's Hall B.  This experimental effort seeks to probe the mechanism through which a neutral charged pion can decay into two photons to stringently test confinement-scale quantum chromodynamics.  Another high-precision experiment in Hall A, MOLLER, uses the parity-violating property of the weak interaction to measure a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model known as the Weinberg (or mixing) angle to within a relative error of 0.1%.  When combined with other experiments, this measurement will place strong constraints on proposed extensions to our present version of the Standard Model.  This research program at JLab, the accelerator facilities at ISU, and continuous detector construction projects in the group's Laboratory for Detector Science, combine in an active program to provide a breadth of experiences for four graduate students to train the next generation of scientists.
+This NSF award supports our continuing research program at Jefferson Lab using electromagnetic probes to study hadronic matter at the fundamental level.  Our group focuses on four experimental efforts that test the basic nature of particle interactions at the quark gluon level.  Five particle tracking drift chambers are currently being constructed at ISU to support Jefferson Lab's Hall B 12 GeV program.  One of our experiments extracts polarization observables from meson photoproduction with linearly-polarized photons on the proton and deuteron and will result in two ISU PhD theses during this funding period.  Another experiment will investigate quark distributions at extreme kinematics where the quarks carry most of the nucleon's momentum.  A high-precision measurement of the pion lifetime is being undertaken in Jefferson Lab's Hall B.  This experimental effort seeks to probe the mechanism through which a neutral charged pion can decay into two photons to stringently test confinement-scale quantum chromodynamics.  Another high-precision experiment in Hall A, MOLLER, uses the parity-violating property of the weak interaction to measure a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model known as the Weinberg (or mixing) angle to within a relative error of 0.1%.  When combined with other experiments, this measurement will place strong constraints on proposed extensions to our present version of the Standard Model.  This research program at JLab, the accelerator facilities at ISU, and continuous detector construction projects in the group's Laboratory for Detector Science, combine in an active program to provide a breadth of experiences for four graduate students and to train the next generation of scientists.
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 =Public statement=
-This NSF award supports our continuing Jefferson Lab research program using electromagnetic probes to study hadronic matter at the fundamental level.  Our group focuses on four experimental efforts that test the basic nature of particle interactions at the quark gluon level.  Five particle tracking drift chambers are currently being constructed at ISU to support Jefferson Lab's Hall B 12 GeV program.  One of our experiments extracts polarization observables from meson photoproduction with linearly-polarized photons on the proton and deuteron and will result in two ISU PhD theses during this funding period.  Another experiment will investigate quark distributions at extreme kinematics where the quarks carry most of the nucleon's momentum.  A high-precision measurement of the pion lifetime is being undertaken in Jefferson Lab's Hall B.  This experimental effort seeks to probe the mechanism through which a neutral charged pion can decay into two photons to stringently test confinement-scale quantum chromodynamics.
+This NSF award supports our continuing research program at Jefferson Lab using electromagnetic probes to study hadronic matter at the fundamental level.  Our group focuses on four experimental efforts that test the basic nature of particle interactions at the quark gluon level.  Five particle tracking drift chambers are currently being constructed at ISU to support Jefferson Lab's Hall B 12 GeV program.  One of our experiments extracts polarization observables from meson photoproduction with linearly-polarized photons on the proton and deuteron and will result in two ISU PhD theses during this funding period.  Another experiment will investigate quark distributions at extreme kinematics where the quarks carry most of the nucleon's momentum.  A high-precision measurement of the pion lifetime is being undertaken in Jefferson Lab's Hall B.  This experimental effort seeks to probe the mechanism through which a neutral charged pion can decay into two photons to stringently test confinement-scale quantum chromodynamics.  Another high-precision experiment in Hall A, MOLLER, uses the parity-violating property of the weak interaction to measure a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model known as the Weinberg (or mixing) angle to within a relative error of 0.1%.  When combined with other experiments, this measurement will place strong constraints on proposed extensions to our present version of the Standard Model.  This research program at JLab, the accelerator facilities at ISU, and continuous detector construction projects in the group's Laboratory for Detector Science, combine in an active program to provide a breadth of experiences for four graduate students to train the next generation of scientists.
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 =Public statement=
-This NSF award supports our continuing Jefferson Lab research program using electromagnetic probes to study hadronic matter at the fundamental level.  Our group focuses on four experimental efforts that test the basic nature of particle interactions at the quark gluon level.  Five particle tracking drift chambers are currently being constructed at ISU to support Jefferson Lab's Hall B 12 GeV program.  One of our experiments extracts polarization observables from meson photoproduction with linearly-polarized photons on the proton and deuteron and will result in two ISU PhD theses during this funding period.  Another experiment will investigate quark distributions at extreme kinematics where the quarks carry most of the nucleon's momentum.
+This NSF award supports our continuing Jefferson Lab research program using electromagnetic probes to study hadronic matter at the fundamental level.  Our group focuses on four experimental efforts that test the basic nature of particle interactions at the quark gluon level.  Five particle tracking drift chambers are currently being constructed at ISU to support Jefferson Lab's Hall B 12 GeV program.  One of our experiments extracts polarization observables from meson photoproduction with linearly-polarized photons on the proton and deuteron and will result in two ISU PhD theses during this funding period.  Another experiment will investigate quark distributions at extreme kinematics where the quarks carry most of the nucleon's momentum.  A high-precision measurement of the pion lifetime is being undertaken in Jefferson Lab's Hall B.  This experimental effort seeks to probe the mechanism through which a neutral charged pion can decay into two photons to stringently test confinement-scale quantum chromodynamics.
-In another experiment, a member of our group leads the pion lifetime measurements undertaken in Jefferson Lab's Hall B
+This group's research program at JLab,
 the accelerator facilities at ISU, and
 continuous detector construction projects in the groups Laboratory for Detector Science, combine in an active
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-One experiment, Qweak,
+One experiment, MOLLER, uses the parity-violating  property of the weak interaction to measure a fundamental parameter of
-uses the parity-violating  property of the weak interaction to measure a fundamental parameter of
+the Standard Model known as the Weinberg (or mixing) angle to within a relative error of 0.1%.
 This angle is related to the ratio of two particle masses, the W and Z bosons,
 and varies as a function of the momentum transferred to the scattering target.

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-The focus of this grant goes towards supporting our continuing research program at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) using electromagnetic probes to study hadronic matter at the very fundamental and basic levels.  Our group has taken crucial roles in three separate experiments that test the nature of particle interactions which falls under the rubric of the "Standard Model".
+This NSF award supports our continuing Jefferson Lab research program using electromagnetic probes to study hadronic matter at the fundamental level.  Our group focuses on four experimental efforts that test the basic nature of particle interactions at the quark gluon level.  Five particle tracking drift chambers are currently being constructed at ISU to support Jefferson Lab's Hall B 12 GeV program.  One of our experiments extracts polarization observables from meson photoproduction with linearly-polarized photons on the proton and deuteron and will result in two ISU PhD theses during this funding period.  Another experiment will investigate quark distributions at extreme kinematics where the quarks carry most of the nucleon's momentum.
-One experiment, Qweak,
 In another experiment, a member of our group leads the pion lifetime measurements undertaken in Jefferson Lab's Hall B
 which seeks to probe the mechanism through which a neutrally charged pion can decay into two photons.
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 calculated in the context of chiral perturbation theory and represents one of
 the few stringent experimental tests of QCD that can be made in the confinement scale regime.
-Our group also conducts experiments to extract polarization observables from vector meson photoproduction with linearly-polarized photons
 Our group is planning to construct a set of six drift chambers to be used as the region 1 particle tracking system
 in Jefferson Lab's  Hall B.  This group's research program at JLab,
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 effectively train the next generation of scientists.
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 an understanding of the underlying symmetry of the quark degrees of freedom in the nucleon, the nature of the parity exchange
 between the incident photon and the target nucleon, and the mechanism of associated strangeness production in electromagnetic
-reactions. As a natural extension
+reactions. .
 Our group is planning to construct a set of six drift chambers to be used as the region 1 particle tracking system
 in Jefferson Lab's  Hall B.  This group's research program at JLab,

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		+	=Pbulic statement=
		+	The focus of this grant goes towards supporting our continuing research program at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) using electromagnetic probes to study hadronic matter at the very fundamental and basic levels. Our group has taken crucial roles in three separate experiments that test the nature of particle interactions which falls under the rubric of the "Standard Model".
		+	One experiment, Qweak,
		+	uses the parity-violating property of the weak interaction to measure a fundamental parameter of
		+	the Standard Model known as the Weinberg (or mixing) angle to within a relative error of 0.3%.
		+	This angle is related to the ratio of two particle masses, the W and Z bosons,
		+	and varies as a function of the momentum transferred to the scattering target.
		+	A precise measurement from this experiment, when combined with other experiments, will
		+	place strong constraints on proposed extensions to our present version of the Standard Model.
		+	In another experiment, a member of our group leads the pion lifetime measurements undertaken in Jefferson Lab's Hall B
		+	which seeks to probe the mechanism through which a neutrally charged pion can decay into two photons.
		+	In this experiment, neutral pions will be photoproduced from the Coulomb field of nuclei via the Primakoff effect,
		+	and will be detected in a highly segmented calorimeter. The experiment measures a fundamental quantity which can be
		+	calculated in the context of chiral perturbation theory and represents one of
		+	the few stringent experimental tests of QCD that can be made in the confinement scale regime.
		+	Our group also conducts experiments to extract polarization observables from vector meson photoproduction with linearly-polarized photons
		+	in the g8b (proton) and g13a/b (deuteron) datasets, which is the subject of three ISU PhD theses.
		+	Recent CLAS results on the extraction of single- and double-polarization observables in photo- and electroproduction
		+	show their high sensitivity to small production amplitudes, which is key in extracting excited baryon state by affording
		+	an understanding of the underlying symmetry of the quark degrees of freedom in the nucleon, the nature of the parity exchange
		+	between the incident photon and the target nucleon, and the mechanism of associated strangeness production in electromagnetic
		+	reactions. As a natural extension
		+	to the JLab baryon resonance studies component, we expect to expand our research to the
		+	Beijing Electron Positron Collider, where we will
		+	extract excited baryons states decaying through charmed mesons at the Beijing Electron
		+	Spectrometer (BES). We
		+	seek to coordinate this research with BES by analyzing the decay of the J/psi into baryon-antibaryon channels,
		+	where we expect a complementary means for probing nucleon resonances (N*) in the mass region up to 2 GeV.
		+	Our group is planning to construct a set of six drift chambers to be used as the region 1 particle tracking system
		+	in Jefferson Lab's Hall B. This group's research program at JLab,
		+	the accelerator facilities at ISU, and
		+	continuous detector construction projects in the groups Laboratory for Detector Science, combine in an active
		+	program to provide a
		+	breadth of experiences in an educational environment which can be used to
		+	effectively train the next generation of scientists.
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	This proposal requests support to continue a program using electromagnetic probes to study hadronic matter		This proposal requests support to continue a program using electromagnetic probes to study hadronic matter
	on a fundamental level at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. The Nuclear Physics group at Idaho State University has added a new faculty member since the last proposal three years ago. The group has also begun constructing five drift chambers for Jefferson Lab's Hall B upgrade. We are requesting support from the NSF to allow our graduate students to complete their Ph.D. degrees under our current physics program and facilitate the construction of the above equipment for the 12 GeV JLab upgrade.		on a fundamental level at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. The Nuclear Physics group at Idaho State University has added a new faculty member since the last proposal three years ago. The group has also begun constructing five drift chambers for Jefferson Lab's Hall B upgrade. We are requesting support from the NSF to allow our graduate students to complete their Ph.D. degrees under our current physics program and facilitate the construction of the above equipment for the 12 GeV JLab upgrade.