From Parity Violation to Hadronic Structure and more (eBook)

Foreword 5
Contents 7
List of Participants 10
Sponsors 15
I Introductory talks 16
Today's view on strangeness 17
Strange and gluonic contributions to the nucleon spin 25
II Form factors and two- photon effects 29
Electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon 30
Two photon effects in electron scattering 35
Single spin asymmetries in elastic electron- nucleon scattering 40
Transverse single spin asymmetry in elastic electron- proton scattering 44
Transverse spin asymmetry at the A4 experiment 46
Normal beam spin asymmetries during the G° forward angle measurement 50
Ill Weak form factors of the nucleon 52
III- 1 PV experiment 52
The axial form factor of the nucleon 53
Parity violating electron scattering at the MAM I facility in Mainz 57
Updated results from the SAMPLE experiment 61
The next generation HAPPEX experiments 65
The GO experiment: Parity violation in e- N elastic scattering 69
Study of the parity violation in the ^( 1232) region 74
Don't forget to measure As 75
III- 2 Theory 79
Getting to grips with hadrons 80
Systematic uncertainties in the precise determination of the strangeness magnetic moment of the nucleon 86
Current status of parton charge symmetry 92
Pion- nucleon interaction and the strangeness content of the nucleon 96
Strange form factors of the nucleon in the chiral quark- soliton model 100
Strange form factors and Chiral Perturbation Theory 104
Time- like compton scattering and the Bethe- Heitler process 108
Corrections to the nuclear axial vector coupling in a nuclear medium 110
Strangeness- conserving effective weak chiral Lagrangian 111
IV Experimental techniques in PV electron scattering 112
IV-1 Beam asymmetry 112
Overview of laser systematics 113
Beam optics for electron scattering parity- violation experiments 119
GO beam quality and multiple linear regression corrections 123
IV-2 Polarimetry 125
M0ller polarimetry with atomic hydrogen targets 126
Progress report on the A4 Compton backscattering polarimeter 130
The transmission Compton polarimeter of the A4 experiment 132
Stabilization system of the laser system of the A4 Compton backscattering polarimeter 134
Electron beam line design of A4 Compton backscattering polarimeter 135
IV-3 Detection 136
Background substraction in parity violation experiments 137
Redesign of the A4 calorimeter for the measurement at backward angles 141
Performance of the G° superconducting magnet system 142
Cherenkov counter for the G° backward angle measurements 143
A bin- per- bin dead- time control technique for time- of- flight measurements in the G° experiment: The differential buddy 144
V Hadronic structure... and more 145
V- 1 Test of the SM at low energy 145
A precise measurement of sin2Ow at low Q2 in M0ller scattering 146
Qweak: A precision measurement of the proton's weak charge 150
The Qweak tracking system 154
Neutral currents and strangeness of the nucleon from the NuTeV experiment 156
V-2 PV in nuclear systems 160
Parity violation in astrophysics 161
Parity violation in nuclear systems 165
Parity violation in nuclear systems 169
Parity violating asymmetry in y + d - n + p at low energy 173
//-3 Neutrino beam 175
Precision physics at a neutrino factory 176
The MINERvA experiment at FNAL 180
VI Concluding talks 181
Frontiers of polarized electron scattering experiments 182
Parity- violation with electrons: Theoretical perspectives 187
Workshop summary 195