High-energy physics. Progress report, March 1, 1982-February 28, 1983

Considerable progress has been made in high-energy physics research on several fronts during the present contract year. Analysis of the data from ZGS polarized beam experiments E-460 and E-462 has continued and is nearing completion. This, along with our data from LAMPF E-504/505, will have considerable bearing on the question of dibaryon resonances. Work has continued on the project to accelerate polarized-proton beams in the Brookhaven AGS. One of our contributions to this project, the 200-MeV polarimeter, will be completed, calibrated, and installed in the AGS LINAC during this contract year. The combined proposal E-704 for the first-round polarized-beam experiment at FNAL was approved and an agreement was reached among the various collaborators and submitted to the laboratory. The first run of the hadron-jet-calorimeter experiment, FNAL E-609, was completed during this contract year. Data analysis is underway which will constitute three Ph.D. theses for Rice students. We have also investigated additional future directions for the program, such as neutrino oscillation studies, high energy e-p collisions, underground detectors, and experiments at LAMPF II