Electromagnetic interactions with nucleons and nuclei

Our primary research effort continues to be at the LEGS project at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The LEGS facility has made a transition in the last year from a combination of experiment and facility construction to full time experimental work. The first experiment, photodisintegration of the deuteron with polarized γ rays, is completed and partially published. A second experiment, 3He(γ,NN), has also been completed and analysis has begun. We except to begin two more experiments in the next year. Other research efforts are primarily related to CEBAF and this work is growing, since major CEBAF experimental equipment is now being constructed. We are heavily involved in the CLAS collaboration in Hall B which will build the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer. Our contributions to the CEBAF experimental program and equipment construction are described. The 3He(γ, NN) experiment at LEGS was the second use, in a new format, of the University of Virginia Nucleon Detector System. It is now a fully developed system. We also describe a new area of instrument development, applications of waveshifting optical fibers to novel position sensitive detectors for neutral particles