RICHARD G. MILNER, Professor
of Physics; Director, Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Research Interests
Professor Milner is the Director of MIT's Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS), and a
member of its Medium Energy Physics Group. His research is focused
on studying the spin structure of strongly interacting systems.
A major focus of his research effort over the last decade has been
the HERMES experiment
to study the spin structure of the nucleon. This work was carried
out in collaboration with Prof. Robert
P. Redwine. HERMES has provided important new data on the flavor
decomposition of the quark spin and on the contribution of the glue,
yielding a number of new, unexpected results.
One of Prof. Milner's most recent efforts was at the MIT Bates
Linear Accelerator Center, where the construction of a new large
detector called the "Bates
Large Acceptance Spectrometer Toroid" (BLAST) was completed. This work was carried out in collaboration with Profs.
Bill Bertozzi, Haiyan
Gao, June Matthews, and Bob
Redwine. BLAST is used with the stored polarized beam to measure
spin-dependent electron scattering from polarized hydrogen, deuterium
and He-3 targets. BLAST provides important information on the spin
structure of light nuclei as well as on the neutron form-factors.
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Biographical Sketch
Professor Richard Milner joined the MIT faculty
in 1988, where he served as Director of the Bates Linear Accelerator
Center, and now as Director of MIT's Laboratory for Nuclear Science. He received his B.Sc. in 1978 and his M.Sc. in 1979 in Physics
from the University College,
Cork, Ireland, and his Ph.D., also in Physics, in 1984 from
the California Institute of Technology, where he was was a Research
Fellow from 1985 to 1988.
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Selected Publications
Ackerstaff, K. et al. (THE HERMES Collaboration),
Flavor Decomposition of the Polarized Quark Distributions in the
Nucleon from Inclusive and Semi-Inclusive Deep-inelastic Scattering.
Phys. Lett. B464, 123 (1999).
Ackerstaff, K. et al. (THE HERMES Collaboration),
Observation of a Coherence Length Effect in Exclusive Rho^0 Electroproduction.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3025 (1999).
Ackerstaff, K. et al. (THE HERMES Collaboration),
Beam Induced Nuclear Depolarisation in a Gaseous Polarised Hydrogen
Target. Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1164 (1999).
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