Aug 7 – 10, 2024
MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science
US/Eastern timezone

Contribution List

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  1. Dr Douglas Higinbotham (Jefferson Lab), Or Hen (MIT)
    8/7/24, 9:30 AM

    Welcome and introductions to the Early Career & Photonuclear workshop.

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  2. Dr Douglas Higinbotham (Jefferson Lab)
    8/7/24, 10:00 AM
  3. Or Hen (MIT)
    8/7/24, 11:00 AM

    This talk consists of an introduction to electron scattering

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  4. Dr Douglas Higinbotham (Jefferson Lab)
    8/7/24, 2:00 PM

    I will present a history of the US national lab system from the Manhattan project to today.

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  5. Frank Vera (Jefferson Lab)
    8/8/24, 9:30 AM

    Starting from the Weinberg formalism for fields of arbitrary spin, we discuss a method for the decomposition of matrix elements of QCD operators (local currents, quark/gluon bilinears) for targets with arbitrary spin. This procedure is advantageous for the systematic study of the structure of hadrons and nuclei, particularly in the case of spin-dependent observables. As higher spin targets...

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  6. Jacob Peyton (New Mexico State Unversity)
    8/8/24, 10:00 AM

    One of the foremost goals of research into Quantum Chromodynamics
    (QCD) is to quantify the internal structure of the proton from
    first principles. Ab initio calculations of QCD matrix elements
    like transverse momentum distributions (TMDs) using lattice QCD
    are an essential part of achieving that goal. I present first
    explorations of effects on TMDs induced by the more intricate
    color...

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  7. Lawrence Weinstein (Old Dominion University)
    8/8/24, 11:00 AM

    This talk will discuss how (and how not) to present data, including some amazingly good (and amazingly bad) examples. It was inspired by Edward Tufte (“The Visual Display of Quantitative Information”) and some truly terrible physics talks.

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  8. Andrew Denniston (MIT)
    8/8/24, 2:00 PM

    I will discuss Short Range Correlations (SRCs) in the Nucleus.

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  9. Florian Hauenstein (Jefferson Lab)
    8/8/24, 2:30 PM

    In my talk, I will give an overview of the experiments at Jefferson Lab's experiment hall B with the CLAS12 and ALERT detector which allows to measure low energy recoils from electron interactions with a He-4 target.
    The detection of d, t and He-3 remnants from He-4 gives an opportunity to unique experiments for tagged measurements of the EMC effect, of DVCS on light nuclei and of...

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  10. Abhyuday Sharda
    8/8/24, 3:30 PM

    I will report on the Jefferson Lab (JLab) Hall C experiment E12-10-008 that finished data taking in February last year. Multiple cryogenic and solid targets were used to measure inclusive electron scattering using a 10.5 GeV beam from the accelerator at JLab. The EMC effect is the phenomenon that the internal structure of the bound nucleon is different from that of a free nucleon. In this...

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  11. Carlos Ayerbe Gayoso (Old Dominion University)
    8/8/24, 4:00 PM
  12. Elham Gorgannejad
    8/8/24, 4:30 PM

    Bayesian analysis provides an essential transition from traditional frequentist methods, where probability defines the long-term frequency of events, to a framework that expresses probability as a degree of belief about the occurrence of an event or the validity of a hypothesis. This conceptual divergence is crucial in Parity Violating Electron Scattering (PVES) experiments, such as QWeak and...

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  13. Sean Foster (University of Kentucky)
    8/9/24, 9:30 AM

    The Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab is on track to measure the muon magnetic anomaly to better than 140 parts-per-billion (ppb), an unprecedented level of precision. The muon's magnetic anomaly is sensitivity to all sectors of the Standard Model (SM), and thus provides a stringent test of the SM's completeness. The Muon g-2 Collaboration published its most recent result last summer (August...

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  14. Tyler Kutz (MIT/GW)
    8/9/24, 10:00 AM

    The upcoming Mainz Energy-Recovery Superconducting Accelerator (MESA) facility at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz will use cutting-edge accelerator technology to facilitate a range of precision electron-scattering experiments. In energy-recovery mode, MESA will generate high intensity electron beams incident on windowless gas targets, allowing clean measurements using the multipurpose...

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  15. Axel Schmidt (George Washington University)
    8/9/24, 11:00 AM

    One of the future upgrade scenarios proposed for Jefferson Lab is the addition of a positron beam capabilities. Positron scattering from hadronic targets can provide new information that cannot be accessed from electron scattering alone. Asymmetries between electron- and positron-scattering can isolate interference effects, such as those between deeply virtual Compton scattering and the...

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  16. August Friebolin (George Washington University)
    8/9/24, 11:30 AM

    Two photon exchange is one possible explanation for the disparity in the proton form factor ratio when comparing results from Rosenbluth scattering and polarization transfer experiments. To measure the effect of two photon exchange alone we intend to compare the different scattering asymmetries for electrons and positrons scattering off a polarized proton target. The asymmetry difference in...

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  17. Jason Phelan (MIT)
    8/9/24, 12:00 PM

    Presenting preliminary measurements of pion fragmentation functions

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  18. William Briscoe (GWU)
    8/9/24, 2:00 PM

    Advice and suggestions in seeking postdoctoral and entry-level faculty positions in US academic institutions from the point of view of a long-time chair and PI and with supplemental advice and suggestions gleaned from a recent presentation of someone who has more recently gone through the process.

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  19. Axel Schmidt (George Washington University)
    8/9/24, 4:30 PM
  20. Phoebe Sharp (George Washington University)
    8/10/24, 9:30 AM

    Short Range Correlations (SRCs) are a feature of the internal structure of all types of nuclei. SRC pairs have been well-studied with quasi-elastic electron scattering experiments. These experiments have suggested that that SRCs can be characterized by high relative momentum and low center of mass momentum. This reliance on electron scattering, however, makes it difficult to assess the...

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  21. Julian Kahlbow (MIT)
    8/10/24, 10:00 AM

    Recent experiments at JINR and GSI aim at studying long- and short-range nuclear structure in inverse kinematic experiments with nuclear beams at few GeV/c/u. I will discuss preliminary results.

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  22. Arun Tadepalli (Jefferson Lab)
    8/10/24, 11:00 AM

    The A1n, d2n, GEn-II and A_LL experiments at Jefferson lab utilized a high luminosity polarized He3 target for precise measurements at high x and/or Q^2 settings. The target consists of a pumping chamber (where polarization of He3 takes place), a target chamber (where e- beam interacts with the target material) and transfer tubes (which facilitate a convective flow of the polarized material)....

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  23. Hang Qi (MIT)
    8/10/24, 11:30 AM

    Nucleon-nucleon short-range correlations (SRCs) in atomic nuclei have traditionally been investigated using electron scattering. SRCs are predominantly found as proton-neutron pairs, as has been observed for light and heavy nuclei. We have extended SRC measurements for the first time to very neutron-rich short-lived nuclei by employing scattering of high-energy ion beams at 1.25 AGeV off a...

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  24. Jackson Pybus (MIT)
    8/10/24, 12:00 PM

    Nuclear Short Range Correlations (SRCs) are pairs of nucleons which exist at short relative distance and high relative momentum within the nucleus. These SRC pairs have significant impacts on nuclear structure and have been extensively studied using hard quasi-elastic electron-scattering data. Interpretations of these hard scattering data rely heavily on our understanding of reaction...

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  25. Bhesha Devkota (Mississippi State Uiversity)
    8/10/24, 2:00 PM

    Experiment E12-19-003, carried out in Jefferson Lab's Hall D in 2021, aimed to explore the predicted QCD phenomenon known as Color Transparency in photons, mesons, and baryons. The experiment used low atomic mass nuclei such as helium, deuterium, and carbon targets through photoproduction. In my discussion, I will present the preliminary cross-section ratio of the ρ0 meson between the targets...

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  26. Edmundo Barriga (Florida State University)
    8/10/24, 2:30 PM

    The GlueX experiment has produced the world’s largest data sample for peripheral photoproduction of mesons with a goal to expand our understanding of the strong interaction and search for hybrid mesons. The data set was obtained at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility utilizing the GlueX detector and a tagged linearly polarized photon beam that peaks between 8 - 9 GeV incident on...

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  27. Olivia Nippe-Jeakins (George Washington University)
    8/10/24, 3:30 PM

    The installation of a new lead tungstate calorimeter (ECAL) insert in Hall D’s GlueX detector at Jefferson Lab (JLab) will allow for the improved reconstruction of η/η’ decay channels. The ECAL is necessary for the upcoming Jefferson Lab Eta Factory (JEF) experiment, which aims to study rare decays of eta mesons. The insert consists of 1596 lead tungstate scintillating crystals which have been...

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  28. Lucas Ehinger (MIT)
    8/10/24, 4:00 PM

    I will discuss the first measurement of near- and sub-threshold J/ψ photoproduction off nuclei taken in Jefferson Lab's Hall D.

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