Selected problems in experimental intermediate energy. Progress report, February 1, 1994--January 31, 1997

A complete description of the research program of the intermediate energy group at the University of Houston may be found in previous progress reports, renewal proposals, and proposals to the various accelerator advisory committees. Recent documents are appended to this report and summaries of current research activities are presented in the next section. The objectives of the research program are to: (1) investigate selected, forefront problems in experimental intermediate energy physics; (2) educate students in this field of research; and, (3) develop the instrumentation necessary to undertake this experimental program. Generally, the research is designed to search for physical processes which cannot be explained by conventional models of elementary interactions. As one example, we use nuclear targets where the nucleus provides a many body environment of strongly interacting particles, and where one attempts to observe the perturbation of a known interaction by this environment. These effects, however, may be masked by the complexity of the many body problem and may be difficult to observe. Therefore, experiments of this type must be carefully chosen and analyzed for deviations from the more conventional models