# Measurement of the Electric Form Factor of the Neutron at High Momentum Transfer

 dc.contributor.advisor Beise, Elizabeth J en_US dc.contributor.author Miller, Jonathan Andrew en_US dc.date.accessioned 2010-02-19T06:58:00Z dc.date.available 2010-02-19T06:58:00Z dc.date.issued 2009 en_US dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1903/9949 dc.description.abstract The electric form factor of the neutron, $G_{E}^{n}$, provides key understanding of the structure of one of the basic building blocks of visible matter in the universe. Recent interest in this quantity is the result of the improved quality of data provided by double polarization experiments, which have substantially improved in the last decade. This thesis presents precision measurements of $G_{E}^{n}$ by the E02-013 collaboration at $Q^{2}$ of 1.7, 2.5, and 3.5 GeV$^{2}$. This measurement used a double polarization technique, a highly polarized $^{3}$He target, a polarized electron beam, a large acceptance spectrometer to detect the scattered electrons, and a large neutron detector to detect the recoiling hadrons in the reaction $^{3}\vec{\mathrm{He}}(\vec{e},e'n)$. These measurements will be compared to a variety of models of the nucleon's internal structure, as well as used to extract individual contributions of the up and down quarks to the nucleon form factors. en_US dc.title Measurement of the Electric Form Factor of the Neutron at High Momentum Transfer en_US dc.type Dissertation en_US dc.contributor.publisher Digital Repository at the University of Maryland en_US dc.contributor.publisher University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) en_US dc.contributor.department Physics en_US dc.subject.pqcontrolled Physics, Nuclear en_US dc.subject.pquncontrolled double polarization measurement en_US dc.subject.pquncontrolled E02013 en_US dc.subject.pquncontrolled form factor en_US dc.subject.pquncontrolled helium-3 en_US dc.subject.pquncontrolled neutron en_US dc.subject.pquncontrolled nucleon structure en_US
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