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Description
The Mainz Microtron MAMI is an ideal facility to study the hadron structure with the electromagnetic probe. High-intensity polarized electron and photon beams with energies up to 1.6 GeV are delivered to several experimental halls. Polarized targets and recoil polarimeters in combination with dedicated detectors are available for precision experiments in hadron physics.
Supplementary, the electron accelerator MESA (Mainz Energy-recovering Superconducting Accelerator) is under construction. Its operating principle of an energy-recovering linac is a key to precision physics. MESA will provide very high luminosities with nearly massless targets, thereby increasing the possible resolution of low energy electron scattering experiments by orders of magnitude.
In this talk, highlights from the physics program will be presented.
