Parity Violation in Moller Scattering and Real Photon Experiments

Smith College, Northampton MA

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Abstract

Proposal: "Parity Violation in Moller Scattering and Real Photon Experiments" PI: Piotr Decowski, Smith College Abstract: The grant will support involvement of undergratuate women students in cutting edge experiments at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center: in the high precision measurements of electroweak mixing angle at very low momentum transfer and in the first two experiments that will use the new photon facility in the SLAC End Station A. The photon experiments will measure nuclear mass dependence of J/psi and psi-prime photoproduction cross sections and will determine gluon spin density in protons from open charm photoproduction. Students will participate in building and testing parts of detection systems at Smith College, and in analysis of data at SLAC.