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 put constraints on General Parton Distributions that eventually allow the construction of three-dimensional images of the proton. These studies also provide the possibility to measure the contribution from orbital angular momentum to the nucleon spin, the most elusive contribution so far in our quest to solve the nucleon spin puzzle. 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.