Precision measurement of the proton electric to magnetic form factor ratio with BLAST

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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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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2005

Author dc:creator

• Crawford, Christopher Blair

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Haiyan Gao.

• Physics.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32301

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/32301