Madey, Richard
Research Professor and University Professor Emeritus
Past Physics Chair (1971 - 1983)
CEBAF, 12000 Jefferson Ave., Newport News, VA 23606
madey@jlab.org
804-249-7323 (FAX: 7559)
Research Interests:
My current
research interests and activities revolve primarily around the electromagnetic
structure of the nucleon; more specifically, I am spokesman for experiments
to probe the charge and current distributions within the neutron at
Jefferson Lab and at the MIT-Bates
Linear Accelerator Center. Accurate knowledge of the neutron electric and
magnetic form factors is essential to understanding the structure of
matter. These form factors are fundamental quantities needed for detailed
microscopic calculations of electromagnetic nuclear structure functions,
for testing evolving constituent quark models of particle structure,
and for extraction of strangeness form factors from parity violating (e,e')
experiments. Current knowledge of neutron form factors, particularly the
electric form factor, is insufficient to meet these needs.
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