UNIVERSITY of VIRGINIA SPIN PHYSICS GROUP

Polarized Noble Gases

Nucleon Spin Structure

&

Parity Violation

 

Research

JLab Hall A: EEL Target Lab - Convection Cell and A1n Target Development (current)

UVa Spinphysics Lab A1n documents directory (current)

Physics & Applications of Polarized Noble Gases (Pre-DAMOP 2009)

Currently Running JLab Experiment

Hall A Web at JLab - Current information on Hall A Experiment, Shift Schedule and HALOG

Neutron Spin Structure Experiments using Polarized ³He Targets

SLAC EXPERIMENTS: SLAC

E154 - Precision Measurement of the Neutron Spin Structure Function Using a Polarized ³He Target

E142 - The Spin Structure Function of the Neutron Determined Using a Polarized ³He Target

JLAB EXPERIMENTS: JLAB

E05-015, E08-005, E05-102 - The Quasi-Elastic Family: Target Single Spin Asymmetry A_y and Asymmetries A_x and A_z

E06-014 - Measurement of the Neutron d₂ⁿ: Towards the Electric X_E and the Magnetic X_B Color Polarizabilities

E06-010 - Measurement of Single Target-Spin Asymmetry in Semi-Inclusive Pion Electroproduction on a Transversely Polarized ³He Target

E02-013 - Measurement of the Neutron Electric Form Factor G_Eⁿ at High Q²

E01-012 - Measurement of Neutron (³He) Spin Structure Functions in the Resonance Region

E99-117 - Precision Measurement of the Neutron Asymmetry A₁ⁿ at Large x using CEBAF at 6 GeV

E97-103 - Search for Higher Twist Effects in the Neutron Spin Structure Function g₂ⁿ(x,Q²)

E97-110 - The GDH Sum Rule and the Spin Structure of ³He and the Neutron Using Nearly Real Photons

E95-001 - Precise Measurement of the Transverse Asymmetry A_T in Quasi-Elastic Electron Scattering from ³He at low Q²

E94-010 - Measurement of the Neutron (³He) Spin Structure Function at Low Q² : Connection Between the Bjorken and GDH sum rules

Parity Violation Experiments

SLAC EXPERIMENTS: SLAC

E158 - A Precision Measurement of the Weak Mixing Angle in MÆller Scattering

JLAB EXPERIMENTS: JLAB

E06-002 - (PREX) Clean Measurement of the Neutron Skin of ²⁰⁸Pb Through Parity Violating Electron Scattering

E08-011 - (PVDIS) Parity Violation in Deep Inelastic Scattering

E05-009 - (HAPPEX-III) Measurement of Nucleon Strange Form Factors at High Q²

E00-114 - (HAPPEX-He) Parity Violation from ⁴He at Low Q²: A Clean Measurement of r_s

E99-115 - (HAPPEX-H) Constraining the Nucleon Strangeness Radius in Parity Violating Electron Scattering

E91-010 - (HAPPEX) Parity Violation in Elastic Scattering from the Proton

Hyperpolarized Gas Related Work

MRI using Polarized ³He & ¹²⁹Xe

Study of Optical Pumping and Spin Exchange Coupling between Alkali Metals and Noble Gas Atoms

People

Faculty

Dr. Gordon D. Cates, Professor of Physics and Radiology

Research Staff

Dr. Vladimir V. Nelyubin
Dr. William A. Tobias (now with Demo Lab since Fall 2012)

Graduate Students

Maduka Kaluarachchi

Yunxiao Wang

Yuan Zheng

Former Postdocs

Dr. Alexandre Deur

Former Students

Sebastien Binet (Summer Research 2001, visiting from Clermont-Ferrand)

Michael Carl (Biomedical PhD: Fall 2003 thru Summer 2008)

Julien Chaput (Summer Research 2001, visiting from Clermont-Ferrand)

Peter A. Dolph (Physics PhD: Fall 2004 thru Fall 2010)

Kai-Mei Fu (Summer Research 2001, from Princeton)

Brian Humensky (Princeton Physics PhD)

Yuehaw Khoo (Research Tech)

Benjamin Labonne (Summer Research 2002, visiting from Clermont-Ferrand)

Arnaud K. Labourt-Ibarre (Spring & Summer Research 2001, visiting from Ecole Normale Superieure)

Karen E. Mooney

Scott Rohrbaugh (Physics PhD: Fall 2001 thru Fall 2007)

Kai Shen

Rupesh Silwal

Jaideep Singh (Physics PhD: Fall 2000 thru Fall 2010)

Ryan Snyder (Physics PhD: ? thru Spring 2010)

James Hsuan-Tsung Wang (Summer 2002 thru Spring 2007)

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