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-I submit for your consideration my application for tenure at the rank of Associate Research Professor in the Physics program of the College of Arts and Sciences at Idaho State University.
+I submit for your consideration my application for promotion to the rank of Full Professor at Idaho State University (ISU).  This cover letter is intended to introduce the general aspects of my career at ISU that are more fully described in the promotion application package.
-My research activities at ISU have resulted a series of external grant totaling $1.4 Million, the creation of a Laboratory for Detector Science, and research program in nuclear physics based at Jefferson Lab and the Idaho Accelerator Center.
+	I joined ISU as a tenure track Research Associate Professor on August 14, 2006.  I was fortunate to join a department that is focused on my discipline, nuclear physics, and is associated with a dedicated research facility, the Idaho Accelerator Center (IAC).   I was awarded tenure at ISU on March 15, 2011.  The Dean of the College of Science and Engineering changed my position to a tenured Associate Professor to align my “skills and efforts with the needs of the College of Science and Engineering and the funding available” on October 29, 2013.  As a result, my teaching and research duties became commensurate with a regular academic faculty position in the Physics Department at ISU.
-My teaching activities at ISU have focused on graduate student instruction and advising as well as developing three new classes for the graduate curricula.
+	I established the Laboratory for Detector Science at ISU to teach students the art of detector development and to facilitate the construction of detectors for research.   I used this facility to design, construct, and test detector systems for research at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) managed by the Department of Energy in Newport News, Va.  A project to construct five drift chambers for the detector upgrade in JLab’s Hall B was successfully completed recently.    The detectors have been delivered to JLab and shown to be functioning normally.  In addition to students, the project trained three people from the Pocatello area who moved on to technical jobs at ON semiconductor.  Three Ph. D. students have used the facility to complete their graduate studies.
-My service acitivities at ISU have been in the form of a GFR, a member of the Engineering Graduate ???, and a Faculty Senator.
+	My research program at ISU investigates both fundamental physics as well as physics applications.   My work at Jefferson Lab is focused on using polarized electrons to probe the quark contribution to polarized nucleon observables.  While my main focus was an evaluation of the duality principle for polarized structure functions, I have also been one of the main contributors to the collection and analysis of polarized structure function data for Hall B’s EG1 group at JLab.   I am currently preparing to continue those measurements with a focus on measuring the fractional down quark polarization in the nucleon using the energy upgraded accelerator at JLab and Hall B’s detectors.   This research program has been continuously funded by the National Science foundation since I started my second year at ISU in 2007.
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 I received an award to measure the efficiency of producing positrons in a Tungsten target from the bremmstrahlung photons produced by a 10 MeV incident electron beam.  An achromatic beam line was designed, constructed, and instrumented to collect positrons emmitted by the downstream side of the tungsten target using a quard triplet.  t least one positron was produced for every million electrons impinging the target.   The work is documented in a Ph.D. thesis at ISU.   The work also led to performing a similar measurement as part of the Polarized Electron Polarized Position (PEPPo) collaboration using the JLab injector during the accelerator upgrade.   The PEPPo experiment's main goal was to determine the polarization transferred to the positron from the polarized electron.  The results are in final preparation for release.
-My current efforts are focused on using JLab's upgraded Hall B to measure the fractional down quark polarization in the nucleon.  I will use the CLAS12 detector in Jefferson Lab's Hall B to measure the cross-section helicity differences for positive and negative pion production from a polarized proton and deuteron.  This combination of measurements will allow an extraction of the down quark polarization as a function of how large a fraction of the nucleon's momentum was carried by the struck quark.  Perturbative quantum chromodynamics predicts that the down quarks will carry all of the nucleon's polarization if they carry all of its momentum.  A modern quark model, with hyperfine interactions, predicts that the down quark's polarization contribution will appose the nucleon's net polarization.  The planned measurements should discriminate between these contradictory predictions with a statistical precision of two standard deviations.
+My current efforts are focused on using JLab's upgraded Hall B to measure the fractional down quark polarization in the nucleon.  I will use the CLAS12 detector in Jefferson Lab's Hall B to measure the cross-section helicity differences for positive and negative pion production from a polarized proton and deuteron.  This combination of measurements will allow an extraction of the down quark polarization as a function of how large a fraction of the nucleon's momentum was carried by the struck quark.  Perturbative quantum chromodynamics predicts that the down quarks will carry all of the nucleon's polarization if they carry all of its momentum.  A modern quark model, with hyperfine interactions, predicts that the down quark's polarization contribution will oppose the nucleon's net polarization.  The planned measurements should discriminate between these contradictory predictions with a statistical precision of two standard deviations.
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 A majority of my research has involved asymmetry measurements using polarized electrons.  My Ph. D. thesis reported a measurement of the neutral weak magnetic form factor of the proton using parity violation at MIT bates <ref name="SAMPLE"> {{cite Measurement of the Proton's Neutral Weak Magnetic Form Factor, B. Mueller et. al. , Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, (1997), 3824}}</ref>.
-I performed double spin asymmetry measurements to extract polarized structure functions at Jefferson Lab during my postdoctoral work.  As a faculty member I have continued polarized structure function measurements and I have branched out to include physics applications research at the Idaho Accelerator Center.  The highlights of this work is described below.
+My post graduate work focused on asymmetry measurements using polarized electrons and polarized nucleons to extract polarized structure functions at Jefferson Lab.  As a faculty member at ISU, I continued polarized structure function measurements and I have branched out to include physics applications research at the Idaho Accelerator Center.  The highlights of this work are described below.
-Even though measurements of polarized structure functions have been taking place for more than three decades with substantial improvements in target polarization and kinematic coverage, fundamental questions remain unanswered yet within reach.  Earlier experiments demonstrated that the quarks are not the main contributers to the spin of a nucleon.  Contributions from gluons and the angular momentum of a nucleons constituents have become the focus of investigation for more than a decade.  The polarized structure function measurements I performed thus far have helped to further constrain the uncertainty in measurements of the gluon contribution.  I plan to continue these measurements (E12-06-109) with the upgraded facility at Jefferson Lab as it has become clear that the statistical and systematic uncertainties in the analysis used to extract the gluon contributions will benefit from a data set taken with an apparatus that has a large kinematic coverage.
+Even though measurements of polarized structure functions have been taking place for more than three decades, with substantial improvements in target polarization and kinematic coverage, fundamental questions remain unanswered yet within reach.  Earlier experiments demonstrated that the quarks in a nucleon are not the main contributers to the spin of a nucleon.  Contributions from gluons and the angular momentum of a nucleon's constituents have become the focus of investigation for more than a decade.  The polarized structure function measurements I participated in have helped to further constrain the uncertainty in measurements of the gluon contribution.  I plan to continue these measurements (E12-06-109) with the upgraded facility at Jefferson Lab as it has become clear that the statistical and systematic uncertainties in the analysis used to extract the gluon contributions will benefit from a data set taken with an apparatus that has a large kinematic coverage.
-My contribution to the polarized structure function research has been testing the concept of quark-hadron duality, in addition my work supporting fellow collaborators.  Quark-hardron duality considers the possibility that the resonance region in inelastic electron scattering can have observables that, on average, are quantitatively similar to those produced in the non resonant scattering region.  The polarized structure function , g_1, was such an observable that I measured in the resonant and non-resonant region to test the concept of quark-hadron duality.  My published results on the test showed that g_1, when averaged in the resonance region, was  consistent with the same average using deep inelastic structure function data when the four momentum transfer squared (Q^2) was larger than 1.7 GeV^2/c^2.  It also appears that the onset of quark-hadron duality for polarized structure functions occurs at a higher Q^2 than if an analagous  comparison were made using unpolarized structure functions.
+My main contribution to polarized structure function research thus far has been testing the concept of quark-hadron duality, in addition my work supporting my fellow collaborators.  Quark-hardron duality postulates that the resonance region in inelastic electron scattering can have observables that, on average, are quantitatively similar to those produced in the non resonant scattering region.  The polarized structure function , g_1, was such an observable that I measured in the resonant and non-resonant region to test the concept of quark-hadron duality.  My published results on the test showed that g_1, when averaged in the resonance region, was  consistent with the same average using deep inelastic structure function data when the four momentum transfer squared (Q^2) was larger than 1.7 GeV^2/c^2.  It also appears that the onset of quark-hadron duality for polarized structure functions occurs at a higher Q^2 than if an analagous  comparison were made using unpolarized structure functions.
 <re> http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.69.014505</ref>
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 I received an award to measure the efficiency of producing positrons in a Tungsten target from the bremmstrahlung photons produced by a 10 MeV incident electron beam.  An achromatic beam line was designed, constructed, and instrumented to collect positrons emmitted by the downstream side of the tungsten target using a quard triplet.  t least one positron was produced for every million electrons impinging the target.   The work is documented in a Ph.D. thesis at ISU.   The work also led to performing a similar measurement as part of the Polarized Electron Polarized Position (PEPPo) collaboration using the JLab injector during the accelerator upgrade.   The PEPPo experiment's main goal was to determine the polarization transferred to the positron from the polarized electron.  The results are in final preparation for release.
-My current efforts are focused on using JLab's upgraded Hall B to measure the fractional down quark polarization in the nucleon.  Semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering will be used to detect
+My current efforts are focused on using JLab's upgraded Hall B to measure the fractional down quark polarization in the nucleon.  I will use the CLAS12 detector in Jefferson Lab's Hall B to measure the cross-section helicity differences for positive and negative pion production from a polarized proton and deuteron.  This combination of measurements will allow an extraction of the down quark polarization as a function of how large a fraction of the nucleon's momentum was carried by the struck quark.  Perturbative quantum chromodynamics predicts that the down quarks will carry all of the nucleon's polarization if they carry all of its momentum.  A modern quark model, with hyperfine interactions, predicts that the down quark's polarization contribution will appose the nucleon's net polarization.  The planned measurements should discriminate between these contradictory predictions with a statistical precision of two standard deviations.
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 A majority of my research has involved asymmetry measurements using polarized electrons.  My Ph. D. thesis reported a measurement of the neutral weak magnetic form factor of the proton using parity violation at MIT bates <ref name="SAMPLE"> {{cite Measurement of the Proton's Neutral Weak Magnetic Form Factor, B. Mueller et. al. , Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, (1997), 3824}}</ref>.
-I performed double spin asymmetry measurements to extract polarized structure functions at Jefferson Lab during my postdoctoral work.  Even though these measurements have been taking place for more than three decades and there have been improvements in target polarization and kinematic coverage, fundamental questions remain unanswered yet within reach.  Earlier experiments demonstrated that the quarks are not the main contributers to the spin of a nucleon.  Contributions from gluons and the angular momentum of a nucleons constituents have become the focus of investigation for more than a decade.  The polarized structure function measurements I performed during my postoctoral work has helped to further constrain the uncertainty in measurements of the gluon contribution.  I plan to continue these measurements (E12-06-109) with the upgraded facility at Jefferson Lab as it has become clear that the statistical and systematic uncertainties in the analysis used to extract the gluon contributions will benefit from a data set taken with an apparatus that has a large kinematic coverage.
+I performed double spin asymmetry measurements to extract polarized structure functions at Jefferson Lab during my postdoctoral work.  As a faculty member I have continued polarized structure function measurements and I have branched out to include physics applications research at the Idaho Accelerator Center.  The highlights of this work is described below.
-I focused on testing the concept of quark-hadron duality for polarized structure functions, in addition my collaborative efforts extracting the polarized structure function.  Quark-hardron duality considers the possibility that the resonance region in inelastic electron scattering can exhibit, on average, observables that are quantitatively similar to those produced in the non resonant scattering region.  The polarized structure function , g_1, was averaged from pion threshold to the conventional missing mass (W) value of 2 GeV.  This region of "global" duality was found to be consistent with the same average using deep inelastic structure function data when the four momentum transfer squared (Q^2) was larger than 1.7 GeV^2/c^2.  The onset of Quark-Hardron duality for polarized structure functions occurs at a higher Q^2 than if an analagous  comparison were made using unpolarized structure functions.
+Even though measurements of polarized structure functions have been taking place for more than three decades with substantial improvements in target polarization and kinematic coverage, fundamental questions remain unanswered yet within reach.  Earlier experiments demonstrated that the quarks are not the main contributers to the spin of a nucleon.  Contributions from gluons and the angular momentum of a nucleons constituents have become the focus of investigation for more than a decade.  The polarized structure function measurements I performed thus far have helped to further constrain the uncertainty in measurements of the gluon contribution.  I plan to continue these measurements (E12-06-109) with the upgraded facility at Jefferson Lab as it has become clear that the statistical and systematic uncertainties in the analysis used to extract the gluon contributions will benefit from a data set taken with an apparatus that has a large kinematic coverage.
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	I received an award to measure the efficiency of producing positrons in a Tungsten target from the bremmstrahlung photons produced by a 10 MeV incident electron beam. An achromatic beam line was designed, constructed, and instrumented to collect positrons emmitted by the downstream side of the tungsten target using a quard triplet. t least one positron was produced for every million electrons impinging the target. The work is documented in a Ph.D. thesis at ISU. The work also led to performing a similar measurement as part of the Polarized Electron Polarized Position (PEPPo) collaboration using the JLab injector during the accelerator upgrade. The PEPPo experiment's main goal was to determine the polarization transferred to the positron from the polarized electron. The results are in final preparation for release.		I received an award to measure the efficiency of producing positrons in a Tungsten target from the bremmstrahlung photons produced by a 10 MeV incident electron beam. An achromatic beam line was designed, constructed, and instrumented to collect positrons emmitted by the downstream side of the tungsten target using a quard triplet. t least one positron was produced for every million electrons impinging the target. The work is documented in a Ph.D. thesis at ISU. The work also led to performing a similar measurement as part of the Polarized Electron Polarized Position (PEPPo) collaboration using the JLab injector during the accelerator upgrade. The PEPPo experiment's main goal was to determine the polarization transferred to the positron from the polarized electron. The results are in final preparation for release.
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 One of the main reasons I came to ISU was the availability of a local electron accellerator facility at the Idaho Accelerator Center.  At first, I used the IAC to test detectors and measure radiation damage of detector materials.  I then found an opportunity to develop a positron source at the IAC that had the potential to advance a program of charge symmetry based experiments at Jefferson Lab.  Experiments using both positrons and electrons have the potential to remove model dependencies.  For example, a measurement of polarized electron and proton scattering from a polarized nucleon target has the potential to be a model independent measurement of a nucleon's electromagnetic form factors.  Such a measurement has the potential to reconcile the current discrepancy between cross-section based and polarization transfer based measurements of these form factors.
-I received an award to measure the efficiency of producing positrons in a Tungsten target from the bremmstrahlung photons produced by a 10 MeV incident electron beam.  An achromatic beam line was designed, constructed, and instrumented to collect positrons emmitted by the downstream side of the tungsten target using a quard triplet.  At least one positron was produced for every million electrons impinging the target.
+I received an award to measure the efficiency of producing positrons in a Tungsten target from the bremmstrahlung photons produced by a 10 MeV incident electron beam.  An achromatic beam line was designed, constructed, and instrumented to collect positrons emmitted by the downstream side of the tungsten target using a quard triplet.  t least one positron was produced for every million electrons impinging the target.   The work is documented in a Ph.D. thesis at ISU.   The work also led to performing a similar measurement as part of the Polarized Electron Polarized Position (PEPPo) collaboration using the JLab injector during the accelerator upgrade.   The PEPPo experiment's main goal was to determine the polarization transferred to the positron from the polarized electron.  The results are in final preparation for release.
 == Publications==

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−	One of the main reasons I came to ISU was the availability of a local electron accellerator facility at the Idaho Accelerator Center. At first, the IAC was used to test detectors and measure radiation damage of detector materials. Later, I found an opportunity to develop a positron source at the IAC that had the potential to advance a program of charge symmetry based experiments at Jefferson Lab. Experiments using both positrons and electrons have the potential to remove many model dependencies if not be a fundamental test. For example, a measurement of polarized electron and proton scattering from a polarized nucleon target has the potential to be a model independent measurement of a nucleon's electromagnetic form factors. Such a measurement has the potential to reconcile the current discrepancy between cross-section based and polarization transfer based measurements of these form factors. Fortuitously, the positron production efficienty of using the 10 MeV energy of electrons at JLab's injector was available for use during the shutdown period being used to upgrade JLab's accelerator energy.	+	One of the main reasons I came to ISU was the availability of a local electron accellerator facility at the Idaho Accelerator Center. At first, the IAC was used to test detectors and measure radiation damage of detector materials. Later, I found an opportunity to develop a positron source at the IAC that had the potential to advance a program of charge symmetry based experiments at Jefferson Lab. Experiments using both positrons and electrons have the potential to remove many model dependencies if not be a fundamental test. For example, a measurement of polarized electron and proton scattering from a polarized nucleon target has the potential to be a model independent measurement of a nucleon's electromagnetic form factors. Such a measurement has the potential to reconcile the current discrepancy between cross-section based and polarization transfer based measurements of these form factors. I receved an award to measure the efficiency of producing positrons in a Tungsten target from the bremmstrahlung photons produced by an 10 MeV incident electron beam.
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		+	Fortuitously, the positron production efficienty of using the 10 MeV energy of electrons at JLab's injector was available for use during the shutdown period being used to upgrade JLab's accelerator energy.

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−	One of the main reasons I came to ISU was the availability of a local electron accellerator facility at the Idaho Accelerator Center. At first, the IAC was used to test detectors or measure radiation damage of detector materials. I found an opportunity to develop a positron source at the IAC that had the potential to ~~be in~~ a program of charge symmetry based experiments at Jefferson Lab. Fortuitously, the positron production efficienty of using the 10 MeV energy of electrons at JLab's injector was available for use during the shutdown period being used to upgrade JLab's accelerator energy.	+	One of the main reasons I came to ISU was the availability of a local electron accellerator facility at the Idaho Accelerator Center. At first, the IAC was used to test detectors and measure radiation damage of detector materials. Later, I found an opportunity to develop a positron source at the IAC that had the potential to advance a program of charge symmetry based experiments at Jefferson Lab. Experiments using both positrons and electrons have the potential to remove many model dependencies if not be a fundamental test. For example, a measurement of polarized electron and proton scattering from a polarized nucleon target has the potential to be a model independent measurement of a nucleon's electromagnetic form factors. Such a measurement has the potential to reconcile the current discrepancy between cross-section based and polarization transfer based measurements of these form factors. Fortuitously, the positron production efficienty of using the 10 MeV energy of electrons at JLab's injector was available for use during the shutdown period being used to upgrade JLab's accelerator energy.

	During the JLab accelerator upgrade, I		During the JLab accelerator upgrade, I