2026 JLUO Annual Meeting

Jun 23, 2026, 8:00 AM → Jun 25, 2026, 6:00 PM US/Eastern

CC AUD (Jefferson Lab)

Tue, June 23

9:00 AM → 10:45 AM Opening Session

9:00 AM Welcome and News from Jefferson Lab

Speaker: Jens Dilling

9:25 AM Accelerato Status and Future plans

Speaker: Mike Spata

9:50 AM Experimental program (current and future)

Speaker: Doug Higinbotham

10:15 AM JLUO BoD report

Speaker: Matthew Shepherd

10:45 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:15 PM Hadron Spectroscopy: I

11:00 AM Update on recent work of JPAC and its support to hadron spectroscopy efforts at JLab

Speaker: Adam Szczepaniak

11:25 AM b1 photoproduction at GlueX

Speaker: Amy Schertz

11:50 AM J/psi production on deuterium

Speaker: Richard Tyson

12:15 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch break

1:30 PM → 3:10 PM Hadron Spectroscopy: II

1:30 PM η and η′ Production in J/ψ Radiative Decays from Quantum Chromodynamics

Speaker: Jozef Dudek

1:55 PM near threshold J/psi production on the proton

Speaker: Pierre Chatagnon

2:20 PM Preliminary Results from the PrimEx-eta Experiment in Hall D

Speaker: Andrew Smith

2:45 PM eta-pi photoproduction at GlueX

Speaker: Nizar Septian

3:10 PM → 3:30 PM Coffee Break

3:30 PM → 5:35 PM Nuclear Effects

3:30 PM Isospin dependence of nuclear EMC effect from global QCD analysis

Speaker: Wally Melnitchouk

3:55 PM The EMC Effect of Tritium and Helium-3 from the JLab MARATHON Experiment

4:20 PM CAFE Experiment (Hall C)

4:45 PM Measuring short-range correlations and quasi-elastic cross sections in A(e,e’) at x > 1 and modest $Q^2$

Zhihong Ye, Phys. Lett. B (2025)

5:10 PM Inclusive studies of two- and three-nucleon short-range correlations in tritium and He-3

Speaker: Shujie Li

Wed, June 24

9:00 AM → 10:40 AM Hadron Structure: I

9:00 AM First simultaneous global QCD analysis of kaon and pion parton distributions with lattice QCD constraints

Speaker: Patrick Barry

9:25 AM Beam Single Spin Asymmetries in Semi-Inclusive Deep-Inelastic Charged Kaon Electroproduction off Protons in the Valence Region

Speaker: Aaron Kripko

9:50 AM pion form factors for the lowest Q2 (Vijay's results) and at Q2 = 3 (Junaid's analysis)

10:15 AM pi+pi- asymmetries (SIDIS related) or overview of SIDIS results

Speaker: Gregory Matousek

10:40 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM Funding Agencies

12:00 PM → 1:25 PM Lunch break

1:25 PM → 3:30 PM Hadron Structure: II

1:25 PM Probing hard/soft factorization via beam-spin asymmetry in exclusive pion electroproduction from the proton

Speaker: Alicia Postuma

1:50 PM GMn and nTPE measurements from Super Bigbite Spectrometer

Speaker: Eric Fuchey

2:15 PM A1n

2:40 PM Global QCD analysis of spin PDFs in the proton with high-x data and lattice constraints

Speaker: Christina Cocuzza

3:05 PM Study of SIDIS Unpolarized Cross Sections from a 3He Target with the Solenoidal Large Intensity Device at JLab

Speaker: Alexei Prokudin

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break and Photo

4:00 PM → 5:00 PM JSA Awards

4:00 PM Poster awards

4:15 PM PhD Thesis Award

Thu, June 25

9:00 AM → 10:45 AM Instrumentation, etc

9:00 AM Development and Performance of a Triple-GEM Transition Radiation Detector for Electron 5. ID and Tracking at GlueX

Speaker: Lauren Kasper

9:25 AM Polarized Injector including recent studies

Speaker: Riad Suleiman

9:50 AM Electron beam characterization via quantum coherent electric field imaging

Speaker: Rob Behary

10:45 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:15 PM Other topics

11:00 AM Measurement of the Parity-Violating Asymmetry in the N to Delta Transition at Low Q2

Speaker: David Armstrong

11:25 AM overview of DVMP / exclusive processes at CLAS

Speaker: Valery Lubarovsky

11:50 AM Heavy Photon Search collaboration (HPS) recently published new results on the SIMPs using the displaced vertex search.

12:15 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch break