UNIVERSITY of VIRGINIA SPIN PHYSICS GROUP

Polarized Noble Gases

Nucleon Spin Structure

&

Parity Violation

 

Research

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

Graduate Students

Peter A. Dolph
Yuehaw Khoo
Karen E. Mooney

Jaideep Singh

Ryan Snyder

Yuan Zheng

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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