Measurement of the neutron magnetic form factor from inclusive quasielastic scattering of polarized electrons from polarized [sup 3]He

Journal Article · Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1994 · Physical Review, C (Nuclear Physics); (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.50.R546· OSTI ID:7160941

Gao, H; Arrington, J; Beise, E J; Bray, B; Carr, R W; Filippone, B W; Lung, A; McKeown, R D; Mueller, B; Pitt, M L ^[1]; Jones, C E ^[2]; DeSchepper, D; Dodson, G; Dow, K; Ent, R; Farkhondeh, M; Hansen, J; Korsch, W; Kramer, L H; Lee, K ; Makins, N; Milner, R G; Tieger, D R; Welch, T P ^[3]; Candell, E; Napolitano, J; Wojtsekhowski, B B; Tripp, C ^[4]; Lorenzon, W ^[5]

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1. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125 (United States)
2. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439 (United States)
3. Bates Linear Accelerator Center, Laboratory for Nuclear Science and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Masschusetts 02139 (United States)
4. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180 (United States)
5. TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 2A3 (Canada)

We report a measurement of the asymmetry in spin-dependent quasielastic scattering of longitudinally polarized electrons from a polarized [sup 3]He target. The neutron magnetic form factor [ital G][sup [ital n]][sub [ital M]] has been extracted from the measured asymmetry based on recent PWIA calculations using spin-dependent spectral functions. Our determination of [ital G][sup [ital n]][sub [ital M]] at [ital Q][sup 2]=0.19 (GeV/[ital c])[sup 2] agrees with the dipole parametrization. This experiment represents the first measurement of the neutron magnetic form factor using spin-dependent electron scattering.

• OSTI ID: 7160941
• Journal Information: Physical Review, C (Nuclear Physics); (United States), Vol. 50:2; ISSN 0556-2813
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ASYMMETRY
INCLUSIVE INTERACTIONS
POLARIZED BEAMS
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