Inclusive nucleon resonance electroproduction: Recent results from Jefferson Lab

High statistics measurements of inclusive nucleon resonance electroproduction cross sections have been performed in Hall C at Jefferson Lab. The invariant mass range 1<W2<4GeV2 was probed for four-momentum transfer values between 0.5 and 4.0 (GeV/c)2 for both liquid hydrogen and deuterium targets. The cross sections will be used in conjunction with existing deep inelastic and elastic data for precision experimental tests of parton-hadron (Bloom-Gilman) duality in the nucleon structure functions. Preliminary results of such testing is discussed. The data are additionally being analyzed in order to study resonance transition form factors, in particular to compare proton and neutron resonance cross sections. copyright 1997 American Institute of Physics