The Backscattering Page

Do not try and backscatter the electron. That's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth.

What truth?

There is no electron.

There is no electron?

Then you'll see that it is not the electron that backscatters, but yourself.

• NEW PAPER: Phys. Rev. C 73, 015501 (2006), nucl-ex/0508004, (local pdf)
• Our previous article Phys. Rev. C 68, 055503 (2003), nucl-ex/0310002, (local pdf)

• Jeff's interpretation of Junhua's fit results. Based on this, appropriate changes have been made to "dynamic updates" version of the paper below.
• Junhua's chi2-minimization fits
  • (Double-differential distribution at 120 keV) Note that I have added a column to this listing the scale factors we use for graphing purposes only.
  • (Angular distribution at 120 keV)
  • (NIBF at 40 to 120 keV)
  • (Chi2 for NIBF with no degrees of freedom)
• The Backscattering Brief Report on the work Michael Betancourt did in the summer of 2004.
• Michael Betancourt's SURF Report
• Page for dynamic updates of the new (2nd) paper
• Comments received for an old version.
• A note on how those comments were addressed.
• Seth's comments and how they were addressed.
• Link to my old site at Caltech where very detailed, long reports on systematic uncertainties abound.

Jeff Martin