Research Program in Experimental Intermediate Energy Physics

University Of Connecticut, Storrs CT

Investigators

Abstract

0072416 Jones This award supports research in connection with experiments at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF). The primary effort is directed at the RadPhi experiment, which measures radiative decays of the phi(1020) meson to scalar states a0(980) and f0(980). The relative rates of these decay modes hold an important clue that is need to resolve a long-standing puzzle surrounding the quark-gluon structure of these states. A second line of research is directed toward the proposed Hall D facility at TJNAF, which has the potential to provide qualitative new insights into the nature of confinement in mesons. UConn will play a major role by taking freponsibility for the design of a new coherent photon source and beamline.