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ISU's intermediate energy nuclear physics group is presently involved in several fundamental physics measurements.  This talk will describe two ongoing measurements involving the first excited state of the proton, the Delta resonance.  The Delta resonance is a fertile testing ground to probe the response of a nucleon to electro-magnetic probes.  The excitation of the nucleon to its first excited state is commonly described in terms of a a quark spin flip induced by an electromagnetic probe.  Recently however, there has been increasing interest in a second method which uses a  different neutral particle called the Z-boson to induce the quark spin flip using the Weak force.  
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ISU's intermediate energy nuclear physics group is presently involved in several fundamental physics measurements.  This talk will describe two measurements using inelastic polarized electron scattering.  The first measurement investigates the response of the nucleons first excited state, the Delta resonance, to probe a polarized electro-magnetic probes.  The excitation of the nucleon to its first excited state is commonly described in terms of a a quark spin flip induced by an electromagnetic probe.  Recently however, there has been increasing interest in a second method which uses a  different neutral particle called the Z-boson to induce the quark spin flip using the Weak force. A fundamental constant known as d-delta will be measured using this interaction.  A second measurement measures quark polarization distributions by looking at the response of a polarized nucleon to a polarized electron.
  
  
 
Polarized positron production.
 
Polarized positron production.
Detector development.
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Detector development.
 
 
 
 
  
 
=Intro=
 
=Intro=

Revision as of 00:27, 4 January 2012

Title: Inelastic Physics Asymmetries

Abstract

ISU's intermediate energy nuclear physics group is presently involved in several fundamental physics measurements. This talk will describe two measurements using inelastic polarized electron scattering. The first measurement investigates the response of the nucleons first excited state, the Delta resonance, to probe a polarized electro-magnetic probes. The excitation of the nucleon to its first excited state is commonly described in terms of a a quark spin flip induced by an electromagnetic probe. Recently however, there has been increasing interest in a second method which uses a different neutral particle called the Z-boson to induce the quark spin flip using the Weak force. A fundamental constant known as d-delta will be measured using this interaction. A second measurement measures quark polarization distributions by looking at the response of a polarized nucleon to a polarized electron.


Polarized positron production. Detector development.

Intro

Fundamental Physics

Detector Work

TF_ResearchInterests