Tyler delivers GW’s Physics Dept. Colloquium

Title slide from Tyler Kutz's Fall 2020 GW ColloquiumThis past week, the Physics Department Colloquium Series resumed for the fall semester, though with Covid restrictions it will be an online affair. Tyler was the opening speaker, and talked about the connections between his PhD work—investigating the structure of the neutron by scattering electrons from helium-3 and tritium—and his current work—investigating how proton and neutron structure can change within nuclei. The two topics are inexorably linked. Since there is no way to make a free neutron target, one can only study neutrons within nuclei. But at the same time, one needs to understand the structure of the neutron to study nuclei. Tyler’s work on the BAND experiment and (upcoming) LAD experiment will hopefully give us a clear picture of the neutron’s (and proton’s) structure inside nuclei.

 

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