for the Charged Pion Form Factor (F_\pi) Collaboration at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (E93021).

The \piNN form factor g_\piNN(t) is important for an understanding of the structure of the nucleon and the pion.

Recent theoretical models are in favor of a soft g_\piNN(t) form factor with a cut off mass \Lambda_\pi as low as 0.5 GeV in a monopole representation. This is compared to a value of 1.3 GeV obtained from the study of one boson exchange potential for the NN interaction.

We studied the pion electroproduction off proton target at four Q^2 settings and separated the longitudinal and transverse cross sections.

We used the longitudinal cross sections at the two low Q^2 settings, 0.6 and 0.75 (GeV/c)^2, to determine the piNN form factor piNN(t), assuming the dominance of the t-channel one pion exchange. We will present preliminary results and compare with theoretical predictions.

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