Elizabeth J. Beise
Professor of Physics
Room 4211-B in the Physics Bldg
- Department of Physics
- University of Maryland
- FAX: 301-405-8558
- phone: 301-405-6109
- beise at umd.edu
Here is a 2-page CV . For the long version with a full publication list, go here instead .
Recent Class Assignments
- Spring 2009: Physics
405: Advanced Experiments
- Fall 2008: Physics 405: Advanced Experiments (I like teaching this class too!)
- Spring 2008: Physics 405: Advanced Experiments and Physics 441: Subatomic Physics (with Profs. Orozco & Hall)
- Fall 2007: Physics 174: again, but I do like this class.....
- Spring 2007: Physics 405: Advanced Experiments
- Fall 2006: Physics 174: one more time!
- Fall 2005: Physics 174: Physics Laboratory Introduction
- Spring 2005/2006: I was working as a Program Director for Nuclear Physics at the National Science Foundation
- Fall 2004: Physics 174: Physics Laboratory Introduction
- Spring 2004: Physics 171: Introductory Physics: Mechanics and Relativity
- Fall 2003: Physics 276: Experimental Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism
- Spring 2003: Physics 275: Experimental Physics I: Mechanics
Research Interests: Experimental Nuclear Physics
- Parity violating electron scattering:
We completed data taking for the G0 experiment in
Hall C at JLAB in 2007. The final results were published
in Physical
Review Letters in 2010. Colleen
Ellis's
thesis
experiment was on this project.
- Experimental studies of nucleon
structure and few nucleon systems at Jefferson
Lab. Tanja
Horn's thesis experiment to measure the charge distribution of the
pion was carried out here. Jon Miller's thesis
experiment was a measurement of the charge distribution of the
neutron.
- Radiative
beta decay of the neutron (RDK) at the
nuclear reactor at NIST
in
- An
experiment to measure anti-quark
distributions in the proton and nuclei, using a process known as Drell
Yan production of muon pairs at the Fermilab
main injector, called E906.
This
experiment
is
being led by the Medium
Energy
Physics
group at Argonne National Laboratory.
- An
experiment to search for an electric dipole moment of the neutron which
will eventually take place at the new Spallation Neutron Source in Oak
Ridge, TN. Here's
some info.
- Tom Langford is working with the NIST
group to develop a fast neutron spectrometer for neutron flux
measurements deep underground and elsewhere.
Past Experiments were major activities:
- The SAMPLE
experiment at the MIT-Bates Linear Accelerator in
- The structure of the deuteron: t20 in (ee'd) in Hall C at Jefferson Lab (completed in 2000).
Representative publications:
- D. Androić et
al. (G0 Collaboration), Strange Quark
Contributions to Parity-Violating Asymmetries in the Backward Angle G0
Electron Scattering Experiment, Phys. Rev.
Lett. 104, 012001 (2010), (arXiV:
0909.5107).
- T. Horn et al., Determination of the Pion Charge Form Factor at Q2=1.60 and 2.45 (GeV/c)2, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 192001 (2006) , (nucl-ex/0607005).
- D.S. Armstrong et al., Strange Quark Contributions to Parity-Violating Asymmetries in the Forward G0 Electron-proton Scattering Experiment, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 092001 (2005), (nucl-ex/0506021).
- S. D. Covrig,
etal., The Cryogenic Target for the
G$^0$ Experiment at
- E.J. Beise, M.L. Pitt and D.T. Spayde, The SAMPLE Experiment and Weak Nucleon Structure Prog.Part.Nucl.Phys. 54 (2005) 289, (nucl-ex/0412054).
- D.T. Spayde et al., The Strange Quark Contribution to the Proton's Magnetic Moment, Phys. Lett. B 583 (2004) 79 , (nucl-ex/0312016).
- T. Ito et al., Parity-violating Electron Deuteron Scattering and the Proton's Neutral Weak Axial Vector Form Factor, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 102003 (2004) , (nucl-ex/0310001).
- R. M. Mohring et al., Separation of the longitudinal and transverse cross sections in the H(e,e' K)Lambda and H(e,e' K)Sigma reactions, Phys. Rev. C 67, 055205 (2003) , (nucl-ex/0211005).
- S.P. Wells et al., Measurement of the Vector Analyzing Power in Elastic Electron Proton Scattering as a Probe of Double Photon Exchange Amplitudes, Phys. Rev. C 63, 064001 (2001). (nucl-ex/0002010).
- R. Hasty et al., Strange Magnetism and the Anapole Structure of the Proton, Science, 290, 2117 (2000).
- D. Abbott et al., Phenomenology of the Deuteron Electromagnetic Form Factors, Euro. Phys. Jour. A 7, 421 (2000) .
- D. Abbott et al., Measurement of Tensor Polarization in Elastic Electron-Deuteron Scattering at Large Momentum Transfer, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett., Jan 2000, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5053 (2000).
- D. Abbott et al., Precise Measurement of the Deuteron Elastic Structure Function A(Q2), Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1379 (1999).
- E. J. Beise, et al., A High Power Liquid Hydrogen Target for Parity Violation Experiments, Nucl. Instrum. Methods A378, 383 (1996).
Ph.D. theses of
students who have worked with me: (you can find their theses at www.physics.umd.edu/enp/theses , and you can find out what they're doing
now by clicking here.
)
Colleen Ellis, Ph.D.
2010
Jon Miller, Ph.D. 2009
Tanja Horn, Ph.D., 2006
Jianglai Liu, Ph.D., 2006 (Jianglai won the 2006 Jefferson
Science Associates thesis award at Jefferson Laboratory)
Damon T. Spayde, Ph.D., 2001 (Damon won the 2001 Peter Demos Award at
the MIT-Bates Laboratory)
Kenneth Gustafsson, Ph.D., 2000
Richard K. Mohring, Ph.D., 1999
Here's a talk I put together in 2006 on Preparing for an Academic Career.