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The CUA_JLab group

Visit pages of some of our instrumentation:

• Kaon Aerogel Detector page.
• Neutral Particle Spectrometer page.

Visit our Secure Wiki at JLab for more information.

Joining forces with VSL at CUA to characterize PbWO4 crystals! This is an important step towards the construction of the Neutral Particle Spectrometer for Hall C @ JLab and for R&D of the eletromagnetic calorimeter of the future Electron Ion Collider.		Latest News SHMS aerogel Cherenkov detector successfully detects kaons! SP-15 aerogel tray is now installed in SHMS 190/320 SICCAS PbWO4 crystals being characterized at CUA - Current Results Preparations for CUA's SHMS aerogel detector commissioning Next NP group meeting: Wednesday, 18 April, 10:00AM (EDT) VSL participates in South African Leadership Program - A story about Blessed's work in the NP group in summer 2017 All NPS magnet magnet components have arrived - see this picture HMS aerogel Cherenkov detector PMTs have large after-pulses and have to be replaced Call for new graduate students View all news and events		Upcoming events Tech Transfer Workshop 2018 NPS/CPS Collaboration Meeting 2018 Transversity 2017 - 11-15 December in Frascati/Italy APS DNP 2017 in Pittsburgh - talks from our group on Thursday and Friday - check out the program (25-28 October, 2017) Spatial and momentum tomography of hadrons and nuclei at the INT at University of Washington/Seattle (28 August-29 September, 2017) Workshop on pion and kaon structure at Argonne National Lab (1-2 June, 2017) List of Hadronic Physics Conferences, Workshops, and Summer Schools

Meetings

Projects Pages

• Hadron Structure and Factorization

• Extraction of the transverse pion charge distribution from spatial pion form factor data
• Charged pions at 12 GeV JLab (Experiment E12-07-105)
• Charged kaons at 12 GeV JLab (Experiment E12-09-011)
• Analysis of 6 GeV JLab kaon cross sections
• Analysis of neutral pion cross sections from 12 GeV DVCS data

• DVCS-3

• Pion and Kaon Structure Functions

• Neutral Particle Spectrometer Collaboration: Hadron Structure Studies with Neutral Final States

• White Paper
• Science Slides 2014
• Approved experiments:

• Exclusive Deeply Virtual Compton and Neutral Pion Cross Section Measurements in Hall C (Experiment E12-13-010)
• Measurements of Semi-inclusive pi0 production as Validation of Factorization (Experiment E12-13-007)
• Wide-angle Compton Scattering at 8 and 10 GeV Photon Energies (Experiment E12-14-003)
• Wide-angle Exclusive Photoproduction of pi0 mesons (Experiment E12-14-005)
• Initial State Helicity Correlation in Wide-angle Compton Scattering (Experiment E12-14-006)

• Detector projects

• SHMS Aerogel Cerenkov Detector
• Neutral Particle Spectrometer
• Compact Photon Source
• PbWO4 Crystal Calorimeter Development for EIC based on PbWO4, p. 21ff
• HMS Aerogel Cerenkov Detector

• Nucleon Structure

• Timelike Compton Scattering Analysis at 6 GeV (g12)
• Timelike Compton Scattering at 12 GeV (Experiment E12-07-105)

Members of the Group

Dr. Tanja Horn Dr. Vladimir Berdnikov (Postdoc) Richard Trotta (Graduate Student/Researcher) Salina Ali (Graduate Student/Researcher) Andrés Vargas (Graduate Student/Researcher) Summer 2018 Student Researchers TBA		Alumni of the Group Dr. Arthur Mkrtchyan (Postdoc) Marco Carmignotto (PhD, 2017) Mike Metz (B.S. engineering) Nathaniel Hlavin (B.S. Physics 2014) Laura Rothgeb (B.S.) Dr. Ibrahim Albayrak (Postdoc)		Summer Student Researchers Casey Lauer (Highschool/Undergraduate Summer Researcher 2017) Blessed Ngwenya (University of Capetown, South Africa, 2017) Abby McShane (High School Intern 2016) Dannie Griggs (High School Intern 2016, 2017) Johann Mejia-Ott (Undergraduate Summer Researcher 2016) Salim Roustom (High School Intern 2016, 2017) Jacob Wacht (High School Intern 2016) Alex Dittmann (Undergraduate Summer Researcher 2015) William Lash (Undergraduate Summer Researcher 2015) Christian Runyon (High School Intern 2015) Ruhi Pavartam (High School Intern 2014) Alex Dittman (High School Intern 2014) William Lash (Undergraduate Summer Researcher 2014) Derek Boylan (High School Intern 2013, 2014) Stephanie Durham (High School Intern 2013, 2014) Abigail Justen (High School Intern 2013) Alex Maleski (High School Intern 2013) Sergio Ribeiro (High School Intern 2013, Undergraduate Researcher 2014) Jonathan Young (High School Intern 2013) Lilian Anderson (Undergraduate Summer Researcher 2012) Daniel Rice (High School Intern 2012) Gina Repole (High School Intern 2012) Mike Wang (High School Intern 2012) Adam Battle (Undergraduate Summer Researcher 2012) Katya Gilbo (High School Intern 2011) Robert Macedo (High School Intern 2011) Lilian Anderson (High School Intern 2011) Josh Kelly (Undergraduate Summer Researcher 2011) Steven Rowe (High School Intern 2010)

Other internal links

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Group Meetings page Publications page Private Space (just for group users)

Summer 2017 work Summer 2016 work Summer 2015 work Summer 2014 work Summer 2013 work Summer 2012 work

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External links

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Acknowledgement!

Thanks a lot for:

• Nick and Rich and also the VSL group for giving us a space to host our wiki!
• Dr. Marek Brandys and Dr. Ian Pegg, from VSL group
• All the people (from several Universities, Institutes and also JLab) that are collaborating to make these projects happen!

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