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Download or read book SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) Experiment E142 written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep inelastic scattering experiments to measure the proton spin- dependent structure function were first pioneered in SLAC experiments in the 1970's (1). These early experiments established the existence of large asymmetries in the spin structure of the proton predicted by the parton model. Despite the success, the results did not appear to be revealing new fundamental insights into the models. The experiments were, moreover, difficult, and SLAC's interest in constructing a linear collider to study the Z0 boson ended the program to study in more detail the nucleon spin-dependent structure functions. In May of this year, SLAC reopened the study of this field of physics by approving experiment E142--an experiment to measure the neutron spin-dependent structure function. In this report, I describe the goals of experiment E142 and how we hope to achieve them.