Hadronic Physics with Electromagnetic Probes at HERMES

Regents Of The University Of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor MI

Investigators

Abstract

The physics program supported by this grant is directed at the study of experimental nuclear physics at the HERA collider ring in Germany. Research will be carried out in high energy electron scattering to determine the contribution of quarks and gluons to the intrinsic angular momentum of the proton and neutron by measuring the scattering of polarized electrons on polarized targets. The main emphasis will be on studying the gluon polarization, the orbital angular momentum contribution to the nucleon spin, and transverse polarization effects in nucleons. Education and training of both, undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars, as well as outreach aimed at the general public is an important aspect of this research program.