Prof. Richard G Milner

Professor Milner 's 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 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.