TF ResearchInterests

My research pursues understanding the structure of a nucleon, a proton or neutron using polarized electron probes. My work is based at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab), a Department of Energy lab located in Newport News, Va. Specifically, I am currently involved in measuring the ratio of polarized to unpolarized quarks in the nucleon as a means to discriminate between models of the nucleon and calculation from perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics. I am also leading a measurement of a new fundamental coupling constant ([math]d_{\Delta}[/math]) which determines the strength of the weak forces ability to excite a nucleon to its first excited state.