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The Scattering of Polarized Electrons from Polarized 3He: First Experiments and Implications for the Measurement of G n E

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Few-Body Problems in Physics

Part of the book series: Few-Body Systems ((FEWBODY,volume 6))

Abstract

The fact that the neutron is not an elementary particle was discovered long ago when the magnetic moment was measured and found not to be equal to the Dirac value of zero. Subsequent quasi-elastic electron deuteron scattering data showed that the neutron magnetic form factor was not point like.1 This internal structure can be explained as due to the presence of (at least) up and down quarks. If the up and down quark wave functions have the same radial dependence the charge form factor of the neutron G n E (q2) = 0; if they are not equal then G n E ≠ 0. We do not have much accurate data for G n E , but the measurement of the charge RMS radius from thermal neutron electron scattering2 demonstrates that the up and down quark wave functions are not equal. This has been explained by the tensor part of the color hyperfine interaction3,4 causing the up and down quark wave functions to differ.4,5 A measurement of G n E (q2) would provide a test of nucleon models.6

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  1. Physics Department and Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Perugia, Via A. Pascoli, 06100, Perugia, Italy

    Claudio Ciofi degli Atti

  2. Department of Physics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Via E.Carnevale, I-00173, Roma, Italy

    Emanuele Pace

  3. Sezione Sanità, INFN, V.le Regina Elena, 299, 00161, Rome, Italy

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Bernstein, A.M. (1992). The Scattering of Polarized Electrons from Polarized 3He: First Experiments and Implications for the Measurement of G n E . In: Ciofi degli Atti, C., Pace, E., Salmè, G., Simula, S. (eds) Few-Body Problems in Physics. Few-Body Systems, vol 6. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-7581-1_51

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