Workshop on the Physics Program with High Luminosity Facilities

Oct 5, 2026, 8:00 AM → Oct 9, 2026, 6:01 PM US/Eastern

CEBAF CENTER F113 (Jefferson Lab)

Ciprian Gal (Jefferson Lab), Garth Huber (University of Regina), Haiyan Gao (Duke University), Harut Avagyan (Jefferson Lab), Jian-ping Chen (JLab), Mark Jones (Jefferson Lab), Pierre Chatagnon (CEA Saclay), Rafayel Paremuzyan (Jefferson Lab), Stepan Stepanyan (Jefferson Lab), Sylvester Joosten (Argonne National Laboratory), Vladimir Khachatryan (Duke University), Volker Burkert (Jefferson Lab), Xiaochao Zheng (University of Virginia), Yuxun Guo (LBL), Zhiwen Zhao (Duke)

Jefferson Lab, with its electron beam energies up to 12 GeV, is the world’s main facility for cold QCD. To explore the full potential of Jefferson Lab for precision studies of multi-dimensional nucleon structure, QCD dynamics, and precision searches for physics beyond the Standard Model, detector systems with large acceptance and capable of handling the high luminosity available from JLab's CEBAF become critical. This workshop aims to highlight the significance of the physics program at the luminosity frontier, with a focus on the main physics topics for the proposed SoLID and CLAS12 upgrades. The workshop will have sessions for each topic dedicated to discussion. The outcome of the workshop will be summarized in a whitepaper, which will serve as an input to JLab and the nuclear physics community for future planning in maximizing scientific achievements. 

Workshop registration

Mon, October 5

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Coffee

9:00 AM → 10:35 AM Overview

Convener: Jian-ping Chen (JLab)

9:00 AM Welcome and Goals of the Workshop

Speaker: Mark Jones (Jefferson Lab)

9:30 AM CEBAF ADL addressing the meeting

Speaker: Fernanda G. Garcia (Jefferson Lab)

9:45 AM Input from Physics Division

Speaker: Dr Douglas Higinbotham (Jefferson Lab)

10:05 AM Overview of QCD Physics at Intensity Frontier

Speaker: Xiangdong Ji (U. Maryland)

10:35 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Accelerator, Detectors

Convener: Stepan Stepanyan (Jefferson Lab)

11:00 AM Accelerator status for high luminosity experiments

Speaker: Michael Spata (Jefferson Lab - Accelerator Division)

11:30 AM SoLID and SoLID-Lite

Speaker: Zein-Eddine Meziani (Argonne National Laboratory)

12:00 PM CLAS12 Upgrades

Speaker: Raffaella De Vita (Jefferson Lab)

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Joint Charmonium/GPD

2:00 PM High Q2 N* Resonance Study

Speaker: Victor Mokeev (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

2:30 PM Gluonic GPDs

Speaker: Yuxun Guo (LBL)

3:00 PM Vector meson helicity amplitudes (include u-channel)

Speaker: Bhawani Singh (Jefferson Lab)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM Charmonium (Session 1)

4:00 PM Holographic QCD Observables {speaker invited, not confirmed)

Speaker: ismail zahed (stony brook university)

4:30 PM Observables through J/psi and phi production

Speaker: Yoshitaka Hatta (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

5:00 PM Open charm, pentaquarks, u-channel (remote speaker)

Speaker: Daniel Winney (Bonn University (HISKP))

Tue, October 6

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Coffee

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Charmonium (Session 2)

9:00 AM Charmonium in Hall A + Hall C

Speaker: Sylvester Joosten (Argonne National Laboratory)

9:30 AM Charmonium in Hall B

Speaker: Pierre Chatagnon (CEA Saclay)

10:00 AM Charmonium in Hall D

Speaker: Lubomir Pentchev (Jefferson Lab)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee and Cookies

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Charmonium (session 3)

11:00 AM SIDIS SoLID and SoLID-Lite

Speaker: Vladimir Khachatryan (Duke University)

11:30 AM Phi production at high luminosities

Speaker: Henry Klest (Argonne National Laboratory)

12:00 PM Discussion and White Paper Planning

Speaker: Conveners

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM Joint TMD/GPD

2:00 PM Theory Overview of TMDs and GPDs

Speaker: Feng Yuan

2:30 PM TMDs and GPDs with LQCD

Speaker: Huey-Wen Lin (Michigan State University)

3:00 PM TMDs and GPDs at EIC

Speaker: Elke-Caroline Aschenauer (BNL)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee and Cookies

4:00 PM → 5:35 PM TMD (session 1)

Convener: Haiyan Gao (Duke University)

4:00 PM TMDs phenomenology/global fits

Speaker: Nobuo Sato (Jefferson Lab)

4:30 PM SIDIS L/T Separation R-SIDIS (Theory)

Speaker: Leonard Gamberg (Penn State Berks)

5:00 PM QED radiative corrections in SIDIS: the best approximation and radiative azimuthal mixing in spin asymmetries

Speaker: Igor Akushevich (Duke University)

Wed, October 7

8:30 AM → 8:50 AM Coffee

8:50 AM → 10:20 AM TMD (session 2)

Convener: Harut Avagyan (Jefferson Lab)

8:50 AM SIDIS & Fragmentation Functions (remote)

Speaker: Ralf Seidl (RIKEN)

9:10 AM Pol. PYTHIA (remote)

Speaker: Albi Kerbizi (INFN Trieste)

9:30 AM TMD from COMPASS/AMBER (remote)

Speaker: B, Parsamyan

9:50 AM Charmonium at the EIC and LHC (remote)

Speaker: Charlotte Van Hulse (IJCLab)

10:20 AM → 10:45 AM Coffee and Cookies

10:45 AM → 12:25 PM TMD (session 3)

Convener: Vladimir Khachatryan (Duke University)

10:45 AM SIDIS CLAS12&CLAS12 + (pol)

Speaker: Anselm Vossen (Duke University/JLab)

11:05 AM SIDIS CLAS12&CLAS12 + (unpol)

Speaker: Valerii Klimenko (Argonne National Laboratory)

11:25 AM SIDIS SBS

Speaker: Andrew Puckett (University of Connecticut)

11:45 AM SIDIS L/T Separation (Exp)

Speaker: Dave Gaskell (Jefferson Lab)

12:05 PM SIDIS & VM

Speaker: Fatiha Benmokhtar (Duquesne University)

12:25 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM GPD (Session 1)

Volker Burkert (chair)

Convener: Volker Burkert (Jefferson Lab)

2:00 PM GPDs on the Lattice (remote)

Speaker: Dimitra Anastasia Pefkou

2:30 PM Mechanical structure of the nucleon (theory)

Speaker: Adam Freese (Jefferson Lab)

3:00 PM E-tilde via Transverse Target Single Spin Asym w/ SoLID

Speaker: Garth Huber (University of Regina)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee and Cookies

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM GPD (session 2)

Convener: Garth Huber (University of Regina)

4:00 PM GPD studies with CLAS12 (including polarized targets)

Speaker: Timothy Hayward (William & Mary)

4:30 PM TCS and DDVCS with uCLAS12

Speaker: Dr Rafayel Paremuzyan (Jefferson Lab)

5:00 PM TCS and DDVCS with SoLID

Speaker: Zhiwen Zhao

Thu, October 8

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Coffee

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM GPD (session 3)

Convener: Zhiwen Zhao (Duke)

9:00 AM TDA u-channel theory (remote)

Speaker: Kirill Semenov-Tian-Shanskiy

9:30 AM u-channel TDAs via pi0/DVCS in SoLID & Hall C

Speaker: Wenliang Li (Mississippi State University)

10:00 AM Discussion on GPD content for White Paper

Speaker: conveners

10:30 AM → 10:50 AM Coffee and Cookies

10:50 AM → 12:30 PM BSM (Session 1)

11:00 AM Theory overview

Speaker: Sonny Mantry (University of North Georgia)

11:25 AM PVDIS with SoLID : SM tests (tenative speaker)

Speaker: Xiaochao Zheng (University of Virginia)

11:45 AM PVDIS with SoLID : PVDIS and hadronic Physics

Speaker: John Arrington (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

12:05 PM DM overview

Speaker: Mathew Graham (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

12:30 PM → 1:45 PM Lunch

1:45 PM → 2:00 PM Q&A with Eric Brown (Deputy Lab Director for Science and Technology)

Speaker: Eric Brown (TJNAF)

2:00 PM → 3:30 PM BSM (session 2)

2:00 PM CLFV with mu-SoLID and mu-CLAS12

Speaker: Yulia Furletova (JLAB)

2:25 PM Lepton Double Charge Exchange Reactions as Probes for Lepton Number Violation

Speaker: Francesco Cappuzzello (Università di Catania)

2:50 PM Discussion on HL observables

Speaker: Conveners

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee and Cookies

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM BSM (session 3): Half-Century of Parity Violating Electron Scattering: In Honor of Paul Souder

4:00 PM TBD

Speaker: Gordon Cates (University of Virginia)

4:30 PM The PVES Legacy that made MOLLER feasible

Speaker: Krishna Kumar (UMass)

5:00 PM Memories from 50 years of parity violation electron scattering

Speaker: Paul Souder (Syracuse University)

Fri, October 9

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Coffee

9:00 AM → 10:20 AM Summary discussions on Charmonium, TMDs topics

Convener: Mark Jones (Jefferson Lab)

9:00 AM Summary from Charmonium Working Group

Speaker: conveners

9:20 AM Discussions

Speaker: Conveners

9:40 AM Summary from TMD Working Group

Speaker: conveners

10:00 AM Discussion

Speaker: convener

10:20 AM → 10:50 AM Coffee and Cookies

10:50 AM → 12:10 PM Summary discussions on GPDs and BSM topics

Convener: Mark Jones (Jefferson Lab)

10:50 AM Summary from GPD Working Group

Speaker: Volker Burkert (Jefferson Lab)

11:10 AM Discussion

Speaker: conveners

11:30 AM Summary from BSM Working Group

Speaker: conveners

11:50 AM Discussion

Speaker: conveners

12:10 PM → 12:30 PM Conclusion

Convener: Jian-ping Chen (JLab)

12:10 PM Conclusion

Speaker: Jian-ping Chen (JLab)

2:00 PM → 2:15 PM Update on SoLID and SoLID-Lite

Speaker: Jian-ping Chen (JLab)

2:15 PM → 2:20 PM Discussion

2:20 PM → 2:40 PM SoLID-Lite Options for J/psi

Speaker: Sylverster Joosten

2:40 PM → 2:50 PM Discussion

2:50 PM → 3:10 PM SoLID-Lite Options for SIDIS

Speaker: Zhiwen Zhao (Duke)

3:10 PM → 3:20 PM Discussion

3:20 PM → 3:35 PM Ecal Option for SoLID-Lite

Speaker: Xiaochao Zheng (University of Virginia)

3:35 PM → 3:40 PM Discussion

3:40 PM → 4:00 PM Break

4:00 PM → 4:20 PM Overview of Beam Test

Speaker: Eric Fuchey (College of William and Mary)

4:20 PM → 4:30 PM Discussion

4:30 PM → 4:50 PM Beam Test: Tracking Detectors

Speaker: Ching Him Leung (Jefferson Lab)

4:50 PM → 5:00 PM Discussion

5:00 PM → 5:20 PM DAQ: Beam Test and Future Plan

Speaker: Alexandre Camsonne (Jefferson Laboratory)

5:20 PM → 5:30 PM Discussion

5:30 PM → 6:00 PM General Discussions

6:00 PM → 6:01 PM End of the Collaboration Meeting