Intermediate energy neutrons at WNR. Spin-isospin and energy dependence of the NN interaction and the nuclear response

This report summarizes results of nuclear physics studies using intermediate energy (50-800 MeV) neutron probes carried out over the past five years using the Neutron Time-of-Flight (NTOF) Facility and Optically-Pumped Ion Source (OPPIS) at LAMPF and the 'white' neutron source at the Weapons Neutron Research (WNR) facility. LAMPF did significant work in polarization transfer, while WNR took advantage of the wide neutron energy spectrum available to study energy dependent effects. The major focus of experiments with intermediate energy neutron probes for the next five years will be to explore fundamental details of the spin-isospin and energy dependence of the NN interaction and the nuclear response. To achieve this goal, the WNR white neutron source will be used for nucleon-nucleon and nucleon-nucleus interaction studies over a broad continuous range of incident neutron energy. Measurement of polarization observables using polarized targets or polarized beam should be possible, and will add an important extra dimension to these studies