2026 JLUO Annual Meeting

Name: 2026 JLUO Annual Meeting
Start: 2026-06-23T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-06-25T23:35:00-04:00
Location: Jefferson Lab

Jun 23, 2026, 8:00 AM → Jun 25, 2026, 11:35 PM US/Eastern

CC AUD (Jefferson Lab)

CC AUD

Jefferson Lab

Tue, June 23
- Opening Session
  
  Convener: Ioana Niculescu (James Madison University)
  - 1
    
    Welcome and News from Jefferson Lab
    
    Speaker: Jens Dilling (Jefferson Lab)
    
    JLUO annual meeting_0623_2026_Dilling.pptx
  - 2
    
    Introducing the ALD for CEBAF
    
    Speaker: Fernanda G. Garcia (Jefferson Lab)
  - 3
    
    Accelerator Status and Future plans
    
    Speaker: Michael Spata (Jefferson Lab - Accelerator Division)
    
    20260623 JLUO Annual Meeting Spata.pptx
  - 4
    
    Experimental program (current and future)
    
    Speaker: Doug Higinbotham
    
    Higinbotham-User-Meeting-23July2026.pptx
  - 5
    
    JLUO BoD report
    
    Speaker: Matthew Shepherd (Indiana University)
    
    jluo_bod_report.pdf
- 10:50 AM
  
  Coffee Break
- Hadron Spectroscopy: I
  
  Convener: Matthew Shepherd
  - 6
    
    Update on recent work of JPAC and its support to hadron spectroscopy efforts at JLab
    
    Speakers: Adam Szczepaniak, Adam Szczepaniak (Indiana Univeristy/JLab), Adam Szczepaniak
    
    JPAC-users-meeting-June-2026.pdf
  - 7
    
    b1 photoproduction at GlueX
    
    Speaker: Amy Schertz
    
    aschertz_JLUO_06232026.pdf
  - 8
    
    J/ψ Production at CLAS12
    
    Speaker: Richard Tyson (Jefferson Lab)
    
    JLUO_Jpsi_June2026.pdf
- 12:25 PM
  
  Lunch break
- Data, AI, and Emerging Opportunities
  
  Convener: Dr Casey Morean (Jefferson Lab)
  - 9
    
    Data management and stewardship
    
    Speaker: Laura Biven
    
    202606023_JLUO_BIVENc.pptx
  - 10
    
    AI/ML Activities at Jefferson Lab: An Overview
    
    Speaker: Kishansingh Rajput (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)
    
    Rajput_JLUO_20260623.pptx
  - 11
    
    Bridging HEP and NP with a Muon Collider
    
    Speaker: Patrick Meade (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
    
    JLUO26meade.pdf
- 3:00 PM
  
  Coffee Break
- Hadron Spectroscopy: II
  
  Convener: Richard Trotta
  - 12
    
    η and η′ Production in J/ψ Radiative Decays from Quantum Chromodynamics
    
    Speaker: Jozef Dudek
    
    Dudek__2026_JLUO.pdf
  - 13
    
    near threshold J/psi production on the proton
    
    Speaker: Pierre Chatagnon
    
    JLUO_2026_Chatagnon.pdf
  - 14
    
    Preliminary Results from the PrimEx-eta Experiment in Hall D
    
    Speaker: Drew Smith (Jefferson Lab)
    
    JLUO_2026_PrimEx_Eta.pdf
  - 15
    
    eta-pi photoproduction at GlueX
    
    Speaker: Nizar Septian (Florida State University)
    
    HybridMesonsSearch_at_GlueX_JLUO_2026.pdf
Wed, June 24
- Hadron Structure: I
  
  Convener: Wally Melnitchouk
  - 16
    
    First simultaneous global QCD analysis of kaon and pion parton distributions with lattice QCD constraints
    
    Speaker: Patrick Barry
  - 17
    
    Beam Single Spin Asymmetries in Semi-Inclusive Deep-Inelastic Charged Kaon Electroproduction off Protons in the Valence Region
    
    Speaker: Áron Kripkó (JLU Gießen)
  - 18
    
    Precision Rosenbluth Separation for the Pion Form Factor in Hall C at Jefferson Lab
    
    Speaker: Junaid Muhammad
  - 19
    
    Probing hard/soft factorization via beam-spin asymmetry in exclusive pion electroproduction from the proton
    
    Speaker: Alicia Postuma (University of Regina)
- 10:40 AM
  
  Coffee Break
- Funding Agencies
  
  Convener: Ioana Niculescu (James Madison University)
  - 20
    
    News from DOE
    
    Speaker: Sharon Stephenson (DOE)
  - 21
    
    News from NSF
    
    Speaker: Allena Opper (National Science Foundation)
- 12:00 PM
  
  Lunch break
- Hadron Structure: II
  
  Convener: Raphael Dupre
  - 22
    
    GMn and nTPE measurements from Super Bigbite Spectrometer
    
    Speaker: Eric Fuchey
  - 23
    
    Measurement of Neutron Spin Asymmetry A1n in the High-x Region
    
    Speaker: Jianping Chen
  - 24
    
    Global QCD analysis of spin PDFs in the proton with high-x data and lattice constraints
    
    Speaker: Christina Cocuzza
  - 25
    
    Study of SIDIS Unpolarized Cross Sections from a 3He Target with the Solenoidal Large Intensity Device at JLab
    
    Speaker: Alexei Prokudin
- 3:40 PM
  
  Coffee Break and Photo
- JSA Awards
  - 26
    
    Poster awards
  - 27
    
    PhD Thesis Award
Thu, June 25
- Nuclear Effects: I
  
  Convener: John Arrington
  - 28
    
    The EMC Effect of Tritium and Helium-3 from the JLab MARATHON Experiment
    
    Speaker: Michael Nycz (University of Virginia)
  - 29
    
    Isospin dependence of nuclear EMC effect from global QCD analysis
    
    Speaker: Wally Melnitchouk
  - 30
    
    Which nucleons form SRC pairs?
    
    Speaker: Lawrence Weinstein (Old Dominion University)
  - 31
    
    Measuring short-range correlations and quasi-elastic cross sections in A(e,e’) at x > 1 and modest $Q^2$
    
    remote
    
    Speaker: Zhihong Ye
- 10:40 AM
  
  Coffee Break
- Nuclear Effects: II
  
  Convener: Florian Hauenstein
  - 32
    
    Inclusive studies of two- and three-nucleon short-range correlations in tritium and He-3
    
    Speaker: John Arrington (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
  - 33
    
    d(eep) experiment
    
    Speaker: Gema Villegas Minyety (Florida International University)
  - 34
    
    First Study of the Nuclear Response to Fast Hadrons via Angular Correlations between Pions and Slow Protons in Electron-Nucleus Scattering
    
    Speaker: Sebouh Paul
- 12:15 PM
  
  Lunch break
- Future plans and updates
  
  Convener: Michael Gericke
  - 35
    
    The BDX experiment
    
    Speaker: Mariangela Bondi
  - 36
    
    SoLID updates
    
    Speaker: Ching Him Leung (Jefferson Lab)
  - 37
    
    MOLLER update
    
    Speaker: Hanjie Liu (Jefferson Lab)
  - 38
    
    Development of a GEM-Based Transition Radiation Detector for GlueX-III
    
    Speaker: Lauren Kasper (Vanderbilt University (US))
- 3:25 PM
  
  Coffee Break
- Other topics
  
  Convener: Ioana Niculescu (James Madison University)
  - 39
    
    overview of DVMP / exclusive processes at CLAS
    
    Speaker: Valery Kubarovsky (Jefferson Lab)
  - 40
    
    Heavy Photon Search collaboration (HPS) recently published new results on the SIMPs using the displaced vertex search.
    
    Speaker: Nathan Baltzell (Jefferson Lab)
  - 41
    
    muCLAS
    
    Speaker: Dr Rafayel Paremuzyan (Jefferson Lab)