UNIVERSITY of VIRGINIA SPIN PHYSICS GROUP

Polarized Noble Gases

Nucleon Spin Structure

&

Parity Violation

 

Research

Physics & Applications of Polarized Noble Gases (2009)

Currently Running JLab Experiment

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

E05-015, E08-005, E05-102: Quasi-Elastic 3He Family - [Apr 20, 2009 - Jun 15, 2009] Target Single Spin Asymmetry Ay and Asymmetries Ax and Az

E06-010/E06-014: Transversity/d_2n Cell Data Pages - Transversity/d_2n-style Target Cells (K/Rb-hybrid, PC=3.0in, TC=40cm, filled during 2007 & 2008)

Neutron Spin Structure Experiments using Polarized He-3 Targets

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

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

JLab – E94-010 - Measurement of the Neutron (³He) Spin Structure Function at Low Q² : a Connection Between the Bjorken and Drell Hearn Gerasimov sum rules

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

JLab – E99-117 - Precision Measurement of the Neutron Asymmetry A_1n at Large x using CEBAF at 6 GeV

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

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

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

JLab – E02-013 - Measurement of the Neutron Electric Form Factor GEn at High Q^2

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

E06-014: Neutron d_2n - Measurement of the Neutron d_2n: Towards the Electric X_E and the Magnetic X_B Color Polarizabilities

Parity Violation Experiments

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

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

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

JLab – E00-114 – (HAPPEX-Helium) Parity Violation from 4He at Low Q2: A Clean Measurement of rs

JLab – E00-003 - A Clean Measurement of the Neutron Skin of ²⁰⁸Pb Through Parity Violating Electron Scattering

Related Work

MRI using Polarized He-3 & Xe-129

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

Group

Faculty

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

Research Staff

Dr. Vladimir V. Nelyubin
Dr. William A. Tobias

Graduate Students

Peter A. Dolph
Karen E. Mooney

Jaideep Singh

Ryan Snyder

Former Postdocs

Dr. Alexandre Deur

Former Students

Sebastien Binet (summer 2001, visiting from Clermont-Ferrand)

Michael Carl (Fall 2003 thru Summer 2008)

Julien Chaput (summer 2001, visiting from Clermont-Ferrand)

Kai-Mei Fu (summer 2001, graduated from Princeton in Spring 2001 and off to Stanford Fall 2001)

T. Brian Humensky (visiting from Princeton, upon graduation, went to Center for Cosmological Physics at The University of Chicago

Benjamin Labonne (summer 2002, visiting from Clermont-Ferrand)

Arnaud K. Labourt-Ibarre (spring 2001, visiting from Ecole Normale Superieure)

Scott Rohrbaugh (Fall 2001 thru Fall 2007)

Kai Shen

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

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