2026 JLUO Annual Meeting

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

CC AUD (Jefferson Lab)

Tue, June 23

9:00 AM → 10:50 AM Opening Session

Convener: Ioana Niculescu (James Madison University)

9:00 AM Welcome and News from Jefferson Lab

Speaker: Jens Dilling (Jefferson Lab)

JLUO annual meeting_0623_2026_Dilling.pptx

9:25 AM Introducing the ALD for CEBAF

Speaker: Fernanda G. Garcia (Jefferson Lab)

9:35 AM Accelerator Status and Future plans

Speaker: Michael Spata (Jefferson Lab - Accelerator Division)

20260623 JLUO Annual Meeting Spata.pptx

10:00 AM Experimental program (current and future)

Speaker: Doug Higinbotham

Higinbotham-User-Meeting-23July2026.pptx

10:25 AM JLUO BoD report

Speaker: Matthew Shepherd (Indiana University)

jluo_bod_report.pdf

10:50 AM → 11:10 AM Coffee Break

11:10 AM → 12:25 PM Hadron Spectroscopy: I

Convener: Matthew Shepherd

11:10 AM 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

11:35 AM b1 photoproduction at GlueX

Speaker: Amy Schertz

aschertz_JLUO_06232026.pdf

12:00 PM J/ψ Production at CLAS12

Speaker: Richard Tyson (Jefferson Lab)

JLUO_Jpsi_June2026.pdf

12:25 PM → 1:45 PM Lunch break

1:45 PM → 3:00 PM Data, AI, and Emerging Opportunities

Convener: Dr Casey Morean (Jefferson Lab)

1:45 PM Data management and stewardship

Speaker: Laura Biven

202606023_JLUO_BIVENc.pptx

2:10 PM AI/ML Activities at Jefferson Lab: An Overview

Speaker: Kishansingh Rajput (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

Rajput_JLUO_20260623.pptx

2:35 PM Bridging HEP and NP with a Muon Collider

Speaker: Patrick Meade (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

JLUO26meade.pdf

3:00 PM → 3:20 PM Coffee Break

3:20 PM → 5:00 PM Hadron Spectroscopy: II

Convener: Richard Trotta

3:20 PM η and η′ Production in J/ψ Radiative Decays from Quantum Chromodynamics

Speaker: Jozef Dudek

Dudek__2026_JLUO.pdf

3:45 PM near threshold J/psi production on the proton

Speaker: Pierre Chatagnon

JLUO_2026_Chatagnon.pdf

4:10 PM Preliminary Results from the PrimEx-eta Experiment in Hall D

Speaker: Drew Smith (Jefferson Lab)

JLUO_2026_PrimEx_Eta.pdf

4:35 PM eta-pi photoproduction at GlueX

Speaker: Nizar Septian (Florida State University)

HybridMesonsSearch_at_GlueX_JLUO_2026.pdf

Wed, June 24

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

Convener: Wally Melnitchouk

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: Áron Kripkó (JLU Gießen)

9:50 AM Probing Pion Structure with L/T-Separated Cross Sections in Hall C at Jefferson Lab

Speaker: Junaid Muhammad

10:15 AM Probing hard/soft factorization via beam-spin asymmetry in exclusive pion electroproduction from the proton

Speaker: Alicia Postuma (University of Regina)

10:40 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM Funding Agencies

Convener: Ioana Niculescu (James Madison University)

11:00 AM News from DOE

Speaker: Sharon Stephenson (DOE)

11:30 AM News from NSF

Speaker: Allena Opper (National Science Foundation)

12:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 3:40 PM Hadron Structure: II

Convener: Raphael Dupre

2:00 PM GMn and nTPE measurements from Super Bigbite Spectrometer

Speaker: Eric Fuchey

2:25 PM Measurement of Neutron Spin Asymmetry A1n in the High-x Region

Speaker: Jianping Chen

2:50 PM Global QCD analysis of spin PDFs in the proton with high-x data and lattice constraints

Speaker: Christina Cocuzza

3:15 PM Study of SIDIS Unpolarized Cross Sections from a 3He Target with the Solenoidal Large Intensity Device at JLab

Speaker: Alexei Prokudin

3:40 PM → 4:10 PM Coffee Break and Photo

4:10 PM → 5:00 PM JSA Awards

4:10 PM Poster awards

4:25 PM PhD Thesis Award

Thu, June 25

9:00 AM → 10:40 AM Nuclear Effects: I

Convener: John Arrington

9:00 AM The EMC Effect of Tritium and Helium-3 from the JLab MARATHON Experiment

Speaker: Michael Nycz (University of Virginia)

9:25 AM Isospin dependence of nuclear EMC effect from global QCD analysis

Speaker: Wally Melnitchouk

9:50 AM Which nucleons form SRC pairs?

Speaker: Lawrence Weinstein (Old Dominion University)

10:15 AM Measuring short-range correlations and quasi-elastic cross sections in A(e,e’) at x > 1 and modest $Q^2$

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Speaker: Zhihong Ye

10:40 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:15 PM Nuclear Effects: II

Convener: Florian Hauenstein

11:00 AM Inclusive studies of two- and three-nucleon short-range correlations in tritium and He-3

Speaker: John Arrington (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

11:25 AM d(eep) experiment

Speaker: Gema Villegas Minyety (Florida International University)

11:50 AM 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 → 1:45 PM Lunch break

1:45 PM → 3:25 PM Future plans and updates

Convener: Michael Gericke

1:45 PM The BDX experiment

Speaker: Mariangela Bondi

2:10 PM SoLID updates

Speaker: Ching Him Leung (Jefferson Lab)

2:35 PM MOLLER update

Speaker: Hanjie Liu (Jefferson Lab)

3:00 PM Development of a GEM-Based Transition Radiation Detector for GlueX-III

Speaker: Lauren Kasper (Vanderbilt University (US))

3:25 PM → 3:40 PM Coffee Break

3:40 PM → 4:55 PM Other topics

Convener: Ioana Niculescu (James Madison University)

3:40 PM overview of DVMP / exclusive processes at CLAS

Speaker: Valery Kubarovsky (Jefferson Lab)

4:05 PM Heavy Photon Search collaboration (HPS) recently published new results on the SIMPs using the displaced vertex search.

Speaker: Nathan Baltzell (Jefferson Lab)

4:30 PM muCLAS

Speaker: Dr Rafayel Paremuzyan (Jefferson Lab)