BATES PROPOSAL

                   Measuring the Delta N N Component
	                    of He-3 with BLAST  

		               Submitted by

	               Timothy Paul Smith (spokesman)
	                    Dartmouth College

                                and the 
                          BLAST Collaboration 
                               (I hope ?)
	 



                                ABSTRACT

We propose the measurement of the  (Delta N N) component of He-3 with 
the BLAST detector. This is the equivalent of observing pre-existing 
Deltas.  We will show in this proposal that BLAST is able to do this 
with three independent methods simaltatously, in the same apparatus
and experiement setup: 1) by looking from the Delta++ signature in the 
3He(e,e' p pi+); 2)  by performing a Rosenbluth longitudinal/transverse 
separation of the cross section; and  3) by measuring  the ratio of the
pion asymmetries.  The last two methods are sensitive to the fact that
photo-production of a Delta can only contribute to the transverse term 
of the cross section whereas pre-existing $\Delta$s can contribute to 
both the longitudinal and transverse terms of the cross section.

We will also discuss how this experiment can be performed in conjunction
with the spin-dependent quasielastic measurement (Bate Proposal \#89-12).