[local physicists] Nuclear Physics Seminar

[Malin, Delicia M.]

Old Dominion University
Department of Physics

Nuclear Physics Seminar

Thursday May 24, 2012

"Nucleon Spin Structure:  What have we learned"


Dr. Yelena Prok
Christopher Newport University



Understanding the spin structure of the nucleon remains an open challenge of particle physics, nearly 30 years after the initial discovery of the ”spin crisis” by the European Muon Collaboration at CERN in 1980s. A vast set of polarization data has been accumulated over the next two decades at CERN, DESY and SLAC, with deep inelastic lepton-hadron scattering being a key tool in the investigation of the helicity structure of the nucleon. New data of unprecedented statistical precision and extensive kinematic coverage have become available more recently from the experiments conducted at Jefferson Lab. Together with the recent results from RHIC, COMPASS and HER-MES, these new data allow us to constrain polarized parton distributions, test pQCD predictions in the valence region of high-x, and put limits on the gluon contribution to the nucleon spin. In this talk I will give an overview of the current knowledge of the nucleon spin structure and the anticipated data from future experiments.


Presentation: Physics Conference Room 304 @ 2:30 pm
Refreshments: @ 2:15pm

All are Welcome!


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/loclphys/attachments/20120524/e4a9cb24/attachment.html