Precision measurement of the proton electric to magnetic form factor ratio with BLAST
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Author(s)
Crawford, Christopher Blair
Advisor(s)
Haiyan Gao.
Date Issued
2005
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
We have measured ... in the South Hall Ring of the MIT-Bates Linear Accelerator Facility. This experiment used a polarized electron beam, a pure hydrogen internal polarized target, and the symmetric Bates Large Acceptance Spectrometer Toroid (BLAST) detector. By measuring the spin-dependent elastic ... asymmetry in both sectors simultaneously, we could extract the form factor ratio independent of beam and target polarization. This was the first experiment to measure ... using a polarized target, which is complementary to recoil polarimetry experiments.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-195).
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Physics.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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