Professor Puckett awarded new three-year grant from the Department of Energy

Professor Puckett was recently awarded a new three-year grant from the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics (topic area: Medium-Energy Nuclear Physics) to support our group’s efforts in the Super BigBite Spectrometer (SBS) Collaboration in Jefferson Lab’s Experimental Hall A. The research supported by the grant, titled “Three-dimensional structure of the nucleon”, includes measurements of nucleon electromagnetic form factors at large momentum transfers and single-spin asymmetries on a transversely polarized Helium-3 target. The figure below shows the projected results of the form factor part of the program.

Projected results from SBS form factor program
Projected results on nucleon electromagnetic form factors at large momentum transfers (Q^2) from the upcoming SBS program in Hall A at Jefferson Lab. These measurements are a major component of the research supported by the new DOE grant