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At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia, a team of nuclear physicists  has come up with a way to probe the nuclear "glue" that binds quarks together inside protons and neutrons.  The probe to be used in this experiment consists of a beam of polarized particles of light called photons with a specific energy close to 10 billion electron-Volts.  The University of Connecticut Nuclear Physics group is designing a detector to “tag” the amount energy the photons will have.  This detector consists of a large array of closely-packed optical fibers made of a special plastic called "scintillator" that produces a brief flash of light whenever it is struck by a high-energy particle. These scintillators are coupled to individual photodiodes which convert the flashes of light into electrical pulses that are recorded during the course of an experiment.  This detector was designed by the UConn group, and the methods and tooling for the construction of the fiber detectors is under development by undergraduate researchers in the Physics Department at Storrs.  The immediate goal of this project is the construction of a scaled-down prototype of the tagging detector, which will be tested under realistic conditions in a photon beam at Jefferson Lab prior to launching the construction of the full-scale detector.

At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia, a team of nuclear physicists  has come up with a way to probe the nuclear "glue" that binds quarks together inside protons and neutrons.  The probe to be used in this experiment consists of a beam of polarized particles of light called photons with a specific energy close to 10 billion electron-Volts.  The University of Connecticut Nuclear Physics group has designed a detector to “tag” the amount energy the photons will have.  This detector consists of a large array of closely-packed optical fibers made of a special plastic called "scintillator" that produces a brief flash of light whenever it is struck by a high-energy particle. These scintillators are coupled to individual photodiodes which convert the flashes of light into electrical pulses that are recorded during the course of an experiment.  This detector was designed by the UConn group, and the methods and tooling for the construction of the fiber detectors is under development by undergraduate researchers in the Physics Department at Storrs.  The immediate goal of this project is the construction of a scaled-down prototype of the tagging detector, which will be tested under realistic conditions in a photon beam at Jefferson Lab prior to launching the construction of the full-scale detector.