High multipolarity electroexcitations in 207Pb and 206Pb

We report the identification of new high multipolarity transitions in ²⁰⁷Pb and ²⁰⁶Pb by the measurement of their form factor. A comparison to the corresponding excitations in ²⁰⁸Pb is presented.     

Nucleon deformation

The conjectured deformation of hadrons and its experimental verification offer a particularly fertile ground for understanding the intricate dynamics of their constituents and QCD at the confiment scale. The detailed study of the transition is viewed as the preferred method of experimental investigation of this central issue in hadronic physics. A brief overview of the field is presented, followed by a presentation of the most recent results from Bates program. The new Bates/OOPS data at Q ² = 0.127 GeV/c ²) yield and and they exclude a spherical nucleon and/or . The magnitude and the origin of the deformation is the focus of the ongoing and planned investigations.Received: 30 September 2002, Published online: 22 October 2003PACS: 13.60.Le Meson production - 13.88. + e Polarization in interactions and scattering - 13.40.Gp Electromagnetic form factors - 14.20.Gk Baryon resonances with S = 0C.N. Papanicolas: Invited plenary talk     

Measurements of the generalized electric and magnetic polarizabilities of the proton at low Q2 using the virtual-compton-scattering reaction

The mean square polarizability radii of the proton have been measured for the first time in a virtual-Compton-scattering experiment performed at the MIT-Bates out-of-plane scattering facility. Response functions and polarizabilities obtained from a dispersion analysis of the data at Q2 = 0.057 GeV2/c2 are in agreement with O(p3) heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory. The data support the dominance of mesonic effects in the polarizabilities.     

Detecting functional magnetic resonance imaging activation in white matter: Interhemispheric transfer across the corpus callosum

Background  

It is generally believed that activation in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is restricted to gray matter. Despite this, a number of studies have reported white matter activation, particularly when the corpus callosum is targeted using interhemispheric transfer tasks. These findings suggest that fMRI signals may not be neatly confined to gray matter tissue. In the current experiment, 4 T fMRI was employed to evaluate whether it is possible to detect white matter activation. We used an interhemispheric transfer task modelled after neurological studies of callosal disconnection. It was hypothesized that white matter activation could be detected using fMRI.     

Lowest- Q2 measurement of the γp → Δ reaction: Probing the pionic contribution

To determine nonspherical angular-momentum amplitudes in hadrons at long ranges (low Q²), data were taken for the p(ˉe, e'p)π⁰ reaction in the Δ region at Q ² = 0.060 (GeV/c)² utilizing the magnetic spectrometers of the A1 Collaboration at MAMI. The results for the dominant transition magnetic dipole amplitude and the quadrupole to dipole ratios at W = 1232 MeV are , Re( )%, and Re( )%. These disagree with predictions of constituent quark models but are in reasonable agreement with lattice calculations with nonlinear (chiral) pion mass extrapolations, with chiral effective field theory, and with dynamical models with pion cloud effects. These results confirm the dominance, and general Q² variation, of the pionic contribution at large distances.