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

Opening Session

1 Welcome and News from Jefferson Lab

Speaker: Jens Dilling

2 Accelerato Status and Future plans

Speaker: Mike Spata

3 Experimental program (current and future)

Speaker: Doug Higinbotham

4 JLUO BoD report

Speaker: Matthew Shepherd

10:45 AM Coffee Break

Hadron Spectroscopy: I

5 Update on recent work of JPAC and its support to hadron spectroscopy efforts at JLab

Speaker: Adam Szczepaniak

6 b1 photoproduction at GlueX

Speaker: Amy Schertz

7 J/psi production on deuterium

Speaker: Richard Tyson

12:15 PM Lunch break

Hadron Spectroscopy: II

8 η and η′ Production in J/ψ Radiative Decays from Quantum Chromodynamics

Speaker: Jozef Dudek

9 near threshold J/psi production on the proton

Speaker: Pierre Chatagnon

10 Preliminary Results from the PrimEx-eta Experiment in Hall D

Speaker: Andrew Smith

11 eta-pi photoproduction at GlueX

Speaker: Nizar Septian

3:10 PM Coffee Break

Nuclear Effects

12 Isospin dependence of nuclear EMC effect from global QCD analysis

Speaker: Wally Melnitchouk

13 The EMC Effect of Tritium and Helium-3 from the JLab MARATHON Experiment

14 CAFE Experiment (Hall C)

15 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)

16 Inclusive studies of two- and three-nucleon short-range correlations in tritium and He-3

Speaker: Shujie Li

Wed, June 24

Hadron Structure: I

17 First simultaneous global QCD analysis of kaon and pion parton distributions with lattice QCD constraints

Speaker: Patrick Barry

18 Beam Single Spin Asymmetries in Semi-Inclusive Deep-Inelastic Charged Kaon Electroproduction off Protons in the Valence Region

Speaker: Aaron Kripko

19 pion form factors for the lowest Q2 (Vijay's results) and at Q2 = 3 (Junaid's analysis)

20 pi+pi- asymmetries (SIDIS related) or overview of SIDIS results

Speaker: Gregory Matousek

10:40 AM Coffee Break

Funding Agencies

12:00 PM Lunch break

Hadron Structure: II

21 Probing hard/soft factorization via beam-spin asymmetry in exclusive pion electroproduction from the proton

Speaker: Alicia Postuma

22 GMn and nTPE measurements from Super Bigbite Spectrometer

Speaker: Eric Fuchey

23 A1n

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

3:30 PM Coffee Break and Photo

JSA Awards

26 Poster awards

27 PhD Thesis Award

Thu, June 25

Instrumentation, etc

28 Development and Performance of a Triple-GEM Transition Radiation Detector for Electron 5. ID and Tracking at GlueX

Speaker: Lauren Kasper

29 Polarized Injector including recent studies

Speaker: Riad Suleiman

30 Electron beam characterization via quantum coherent electric field imaging

Speaker: Rob Behary

10:45 AM Coffee Break

Other topics

31 Measurement of the Parity-Violating Asymmetry in the N to Delta Transition at Low Q2

Speaker: David Armstrong

32 overview of DVMP / exclusive processes at CLAS

Speaker: Valery Lubarovsky

33 Heavy Photon Search collaboration (HPS) recently published new results on the SIMPs using the displaced vertex search.

12:15 PM Lunch break