The Oops N ! Program at Bates

A series of high precision measurements on the N ! transition involving polarized beams, out-of-plane detection and focal plane polarimetry in the H(~ e; e 0 p) 0 and H(~ e; e 0 +)n channels have been pursued at Bates during the last three years. They are geared towards the precise determination of the quadrupole amplitudes in the N ! transition and the isolation of the coherent, competing processes (e.g. born terms, tails of higher resonances). The program will be continued in the near future by mapping a larger kinematic region and more responses and adding measurements of the H(~ e; e 0 p) channel.