| Part I: Overview of research in the Department of Physics Part II: The Electric Form Factor of the Neutron |
| Professor Bryon Anderson, Chair of the Kent State University Department of Physics, will present a seminar in two parts. The first part will be an overview of the research activities of the Department of Physics. The Department has faculty doing research in the three broad areas of high-energy nuclear physics, condensed-matter physics, and biophysics. The Physics Faculty have strong support for this research activity from the NSF, DOE, NIH, the State of Ohio, and other extramural sources. The second part of the talk will be a brief discussion of one of the research projects of Professor Anderson, namely the experimental determination of the charge form factor of the neutron. Although the neutron is overall neutral, it consists of constituents with charge that move and interact with each other resulting in a positive core with a negative outer layer. Precise determination of this distribution is now possible with recent advances in accelerator and detector technology. This determination provides an important, sensitive test of models of nucleon structure.
Professor Anderson graduated from the U. of Idaho in 1966, received his PhD from Case Western Reserve U. in 1972 and was a Postdoc for two years at Caltech and for two years at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, before joining the faculty at Kent in 1975. He has conducted research in experimental nuclear and nucleon physics performing experiments at more than a dozen accelerator facilities in three countries. He has had continuous support for his research from the NSF since coming to Kent 35 years ago. His talk today will be in two parts. He will first present a brief overview of the research activities of the Department of Physics and then a discussion of his research activities to measure the charge form factor of the neutron. |