BLAST was designed to use the storage ring capability of the South Hall Ring along with internal gas targets, including polarized targets. The scientific program provided insight not only into the subatomic scale but also to the astronomic scale. It addressed issues of central importance to intermediate energy nuclear physics: the structure of the nucleon; the spin structure of the weakly bound deuteron system and the three-body 3He system; and the nature of multinucleon absorption mechanisms in electromagnetic reactions.
