Session H3: The Long Distance Structure of the Nucleon

8:30 AM–10:18 AM, Sunday, April 13, 2008
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - St. Louis E

Sponsoring Unit: DNP
Chair: Richard Milner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Abstract ID: BAPS.2008.APR.H3.1

Abstract: H3.00001 : Long-Distance Nucleon Structure: Theoretical Overview

8:30 AM–9:06 AM

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Author:

  T. William Donnelly
    (MIT)

The electroweak form factors of the nucleon will be discussed, including the electromagnetic form factors extracted from parity-conserving electron scattering from the proton and from light nuclei, the axial-vector form factor from weak interaction studies and the strangeness form factors which can play a role in parity-violating electron scattering. The focus will be placed on what can be learned about the long-distance structure of the nucleon. Several issues of interpretation will also be discussed: higher-order electroweak contributions, problems of interpretation in coordinate space and uncertainties which arise in the case of the neutron where inevitably nuclear structure problems arise.

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