Spin-Dependent Electron Scattering from Polarized Protons and Deuterons with the BLAST Experiment at MIT-Bates

Douglas K. Hasell; Richard G. Milner; Robert P. Redwine; Ricardo Alarcon; Haiyan Gao; Michael Kohl; John R. Calarco

doi:10.1146/annurev-nucl-100809-131956

Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science

Volume 61, 2011

Review Article

Spin-Dependent Electron Scattering from Polarized Protons and Deuterons with the BLAST Experiment at MIT-Bates

Douglas K. Hasell¹, Richard G. Milner¹, Robert P. Redwine¹, Ricardo Alarcon², Haiyan Gao³, Michael Kohl⁴, and John R. Calarco⁵
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Affiliations: ¹Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139; email: [email protected] ²Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287 ³Department of Physics and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 ⁴Department of Physics, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia 23668 ⁵Department of Physics, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824
Vol. 61:409-433 (Volume publication date November 2011) https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-nucl-100809-131956
First published as a Review in Advance on August 01, 2011
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Abstract

The Bates Large Acceptance Spectrometer Toroid (BLAST) experiment was operated at the MIT-Bates Linear Accelerator Center from 2003 until 2005. The experiment was designed to exploit the power of a polarized electron beam incident on polarized targets of hydrogen and deuterium to measure, in a systematic manner, the neutron, proton, and deuteron form factors as well as other aspects of the electromagnetic interaction on few-nucleon systems. We briefly describe the experiment, and present and discuss the numerous results obtained.

Keyword(s): deuteron form factor, few-body structure, neutron form factor, proton form factor

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