Forward-angle charged-pion electroproduction in the deuteron.
A direct experimental determination has been made of the ratio of the forward-angle positive-pion electroproduction cross section for a proton bound in the deuteron with that of a free proton for invariant masses of 1160 and 1232 MeV. A significant quenching of the reaction in the deuteron is observed.

title: A polarized gas internal target using a storage cell in an electron storage ring
abstract: The first experiment using a storage cell to increase the thickness of an internal polarized gas target in an electron beam storage ring was performed at the VEPP-3 facility. We describe the storage cell technique as applied in this measurement of elastic and inelastic electron scattering from tensor polarized deuterium. An analysis of electron-beam-induced depolarization of the target was performed and experimental tests were carried out which verify the effect. Other effects causing depolarization of the target are discussed as well as the means by which they are overcome. The effective p zz of the target, shown to be stable over 8 months, was 0.57±0.05; the total target thickness was increased over that of a jet target by a factor of fifteen.

title: Systematics of pion double-charge-exchange reactions on T = 0 nuclei
abstract: Pion induced double charge exchange on 12 C, 16 O, 24 Mg, 28 Si, 32 S, and 40 Ca exhibits forward-angle cross sections that vary rapidly with pion energy and fall off roughly as A −4 3 . Angular distributions at 164 MeV appear diffractive for targets of 12 C, 16 O, and 40 Ca.

title: Higher Twists and Color Polarizabilities in the Neutron
abstract: Color polarizabilities of the neutron are extracted from data on the lowest moment of the spin-dependent g 1 structure function. New data in the resonance region from Jefferson Lab at Q 2 ≲ 1 GeV 2 , in combination with world data at higher Q 2 , allow a systematic determination of the 1 / Q 2 corrections, and provide the first constraints on 1 / Q 4 corrections. The results suggest that higher-twist effects in the neutron are small, and that quark–hadron duality may be approximately valid, even down to Q 2 ∼ 1 GeV 2 .

title: Status of the focal plane polarimeter for Hall A at TJNAF
abstract: The focal plane polarimeter (FPP) for Hall A at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF) is ready for experiments. The ability to calibrate the FPP on-site using elastic scattering of polarized electrons from an unpolarized hydrogen target is demonstrated. The ratio of the proton electric form factor to its magnetic form factor has been measured at Q2=0.810(GeV/c)2.

title: Measurement of the high energy two-body deuteron photodisintegration differential cross section.
abstract: The first measurements of the d(gamma,p)n differential cross section at forward angles and photon energies above 4 GeV were performed at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab). The results indicate evidence of an angular dependent scaling threshold. Results at straight theta(cm) = 37 degrees are consistent with the constituent counting rules for E(gamma) greater, similar 4 GeV, while those at 70 degrees are consistent with the constituent counting rules for E(gamma) greater, similar 1.5 GeV.

title: Phenomenology of an extra neutral gauge boson in electron-positron collisions.
abstract: Models with an extra neutral gauge boson (Z') are discussed. We review present limits on the properties of such a Z' which follow from requiring that the Z/sup 0/ mass not be shifted excessively through mixing, from neutral-current experiments, and from the structure of the mass matrix which follows from the Higgs-boson content of particular theories. We then examine what extensions in sensitivity can come from electron-positron annihilation experiments at the Z peak, with emphasis on the importance of cross-section measurements for final states involving lepton or quark pairs, followed by asymmetry measurements with polarized beams. Finally, we consider the additional information provided by asymmetry measurements in electron-positron collisions at energies above the Z.

title: Splitting of the P states in heavy quarkonium systems and the nature of the spin-dependent potential.
abstract: We consider the behavior of the splittings between the L = 1 states in heavy quarkonium systems. With standard assumptions, the ratio of mass splittings, R/sub chi/ = (M/sub 2/-M/sub 1/)/(M/sub 1/-M/sub 0/) is shown to grow slowly as we go from the lowest P states to their radial excitations, a behavior which is in accord with other theoretical calculations and is consistent with experiment. This behavior is the opposite of what is expected from a naive argument which we present. We show why the naive argument fails and how the phenomenological division of the potential into components which correspond to the exchange of a Lorentz scalar and vector can be made so as to obtain other behaviors.

title: Analysis of semileptonic decays of mesons containing heavy quarks.
abstract: We analyze semileptonic decays of mesons containing heavy quarks and indicate how to extract the signs and magnitudes of the helicity amplitudes for the exclusive decay modes involving a vector meson, lepton, and neutrino by using the joint distribution of the decay products of the vector meson (into a pair of pseudoscalar mesons) and of the virtual {ital W} (into a charged lepton and its neutrino). We apply this to specific cases of charm- and bottom-meson decays with form factors calculated from quark models.