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.H3.3

Abstract: H3.00003 : New Results from BLAST at MIT-Bates

9:42 AM–10:18 AM

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Author:

  Christopher Crawford
    (University of Kentucky)

The BLAST experiment was designed to study in a systematic manner the spin-dependent electromagnetic interaction on few-body nuclei. Utilizing the polarized electron beam in the MIT-Bates South Hall Storage Ring, highly-polarized isotopically pure targets of hydrogen and deuterium, and the symmetric toroidal BLAST detector; precise measurements have been made which permit the extraction of the proton and neutron electric and magnetic form factors. The neutron electric form factor especially is now known to a precision comparable to that of the other nucleon form factors. In this talk, I will present these measurements, as well as their transform into spatial coordinates.

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