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Title Exploring the Neutron Substructure with Advanced Polarized Helium-3 Targets (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Spectroscopy)
Abstract As we seek to understand the smallest, physical aspects of our universe, we cannot simply rely on our senses to probe the world around us as we did in the past. The smallest physical elements of our universe behave in strange, probabilistic ways and are completely invisible to the naked eye/ear/etc. So, we design clever experiments (such as scattering experiments) to probe these minute realms. Then, just as with the larger, observable world, we devise models and equations to describe what we think is happening. Due to the nature of the physical universe at the quantum scale and with the aid of symmetries such as Lorentz invariance, we can write down equations that describe the scattering, but the expressions contain functions, which we call ¿form factors¿ and ¿structure functions¿, that we cannot compute from first principles. We can, however, formulate models that make predictions for these functions. By comparing our predictions with the observed data, we can gain insight into the
Author(s) Christopher Jantzi
Publication Date July 2024
Document Type Thesis
Primary Institution Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News
Affiliation Exp Nuclear Physics / Experimental Halls / Hall A
Funding Source Nuclear Physics (NP)
Proprietary? No
This publication conveys Technical Science Results
Document Numbers
JLAB Number: JLAB-PHY-24-4156 OSTI Number: 2438301
LANL Number: Other Number: DOE/OR/23177-7614
Associated with an experiment No
Associated with EIC No
Supported by Jefferson Lab LDRD Funding No
Thesis
Thesis Type PhD
Advisor Institution
1. Gordon Cates UVA
2. Bogdan Wojtsekhowski JLAB
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