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Paul Stoler
Professor of Physics
Education:
B.S., Brooklyn College.
Ph.D., Experimental nuclear physics, Rutgers University.
Career Highlights:
Stoler joined Rensselaer in 1966, where he has conducted experimental work on particles and nuclei. Among his professional affiliations are the American Physical Society (fellow), and the JLAB users group.
Research Interests:
Properties of Hadronic Matter
The experimental study of the properties of strongly interacting particles (hadrons). These studies are being carried out using precision multi-GeV electron and photon beams at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. Of particular interest is the excitation of baryons at high momentum transfer (high Qsq or high t) using exclusive reactions in which the excited baryons decay by emission of one or more fully detected particles such as pions or other mesons.
Currently, graduate students are completing Ph.D. theses studying the electroproduction from protons of excited baryons, and observing their decays via pions and other mesons. Both polarized and unpolarized electron beams and proton targets are used. New students will carry these measurements out at momentum transfers and spatial resolutions which have never before been attained. The purpose of these measurements is to map the distributions of quarks/partons in the nucleon, and to understand the interactions leading to the structure of strongly interacting matter. This work is fully supported by the National Science Foundation via grants to RPI.
Selected Publications:
Exclusive Reactions at High Momentum Transfer, Elba - 1993, C.Carlson, P.Stoler and M.Taiuti, eds., World Scientific, Singapore (1994).
Baryon Form Factors at High Q^2 and the Transition to Perturbative QCD, P. Stoler, Physics Reports 226, (1993) 103.
CEBAF at Higher Energies, CEBAF-1994, N. Isgur and P. Stoler, eds., CEBAF (1994).
Hadronic Form-Factors and Perturbative QCD, George Sterman and Paul Stoler, Annual Reviews of Nuclear and Particle Science, 47,193 (1997)
Electroproduction of the Delta(1232) Resonance at High Momentum Transfer, V.V~Frolov and the JLAB E94-014 Collaboration., Physical Review Letters, 82, 4576 (1999).
Workshop on CEBAF at Higher Energies, Co-editor and chairman of workshop, Nathan Isgur and Paul Stoler, CEBAF, Newport News (1994).
Contact:
(518) 276-8388
stolep@rpi.edu
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