Symmetry Tests in Nuclear Physics

Test the low-energy limit of QCD as implemented in Chiral Perturbation Theory

Experiments
These experiments test predictions of QCD at energies where Chiral Perturbation Theory is an exact low-energy representation.

E-03-006 M. Battaglieri, R. De Vita, M. Ripani:
The GDH Sum Rule with Nearly Real Photons and the Proton g₁ Structure Function at Low Momentum Transfer

E-02-103 D. Dale, S. Danagoulian, A. Gasparian, R. Miskimen:
A Precision Measurement of the Neutral Pion Lifetime via the Primakoff Effect

E-97-110 J.P. Chen, A. Deur, F. Garibaldi :
The GDH Rule and the Spin Structure of ³He and the Neutron Using Nearly Real Photons

Talks

Ashot Gasparian: The &pi^o Lifetime Experiment and Future Plans at JLab (.pdf file)
(talk given at the 4^th International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics, Bonn/Germany, September 8-13, 2003)

Background material

maintained by Bernhard Mecking (mecking@jlab.org)
updated October 30, 2003