Electromagnetic Studies of Nucleon and Nuclear Structure
Karl J. Slifer, University of New Hampshire (Principal Investigator)
Maurik W. Holtrop, University of New Hampshire (Co-Principal Investigator)
Elena Long, University of New Hampshire (Co-Principal Investigator)
The University of New Hampshire Nuclear and Particle Physics Group carries out experiments to elucidate the structure of the nucleon and light nuclei, to test the fundamental nature of the strong interaction and the limits of the Standard Model in a search for the new physics that must exist beyond. Our research is motivated by the following general questions: "How does nucleon and nuclear structure arise from partonic interactions, and what role does spin –or intrinsic angular momentum– play?" and "What exactly is Dark Matter?"
To address these questions we perform research at the world class accelerator facilities of Jefferson Laboratory and Fermi National Laboratory. Over the next three years, the NPG will continue developing new techniques to enhancing tensor polarization in deuterated materials, run the Jefferson Lab tensor target b1 and Azz experiments, publish the data from the ‘high impact’ Heavy Photon Search data, and Hyperfine Splitting calculations from the spin structure data of the g2p experiment. In the long term, we are establishing a program which will probe the relationship between the tensor spin structure of nuclei and short-range nucleon-nucleon correlations at existing facilities as well as the up-coming Electron Ion Collider.
