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The CUA NP group

Quick links to our experiments, data analysis, and instrumentation:

• Kaon LT Experiment Redmine page.
• EIC Global Studies page.
• Neutral Particle Spectrometer project page.
• Compact Photon Source project page.
• Kaon Aerogel Detector page.
• Neutral Particle Spectrometer - calorimeter 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 NPS magnet passes tests with field within 2% of nominal Glass scintillators are radiation hard to 1000 Gy EM and 10^15 n/cm2 hadron NPS experiments pass Experiment Readiness Review (ERR); beam time request submitted for 2021/22 KaonLT experiment successfully completed on 15 April 2019! High-intensity Compact Photon Source (CPS) design passes technical review SP-11 aerogel tray is installed in SHMS, SP-15 is in Hall C, SP-30 and SP-20 in ESB 350 CRYTUR crystals being characterized at CUA Call for new graduate students		Upcoming events EIC Detector R&D meeting 30-31 January 2020 at BNL Strong QCD Workshop 4-8 November NSAC Meeting 18 October APS DNP 14-17 October - Salina will present her DVCS results! List of Hadronic Physics Conferences, Workshops, and Summer Schools

Projects Pages

SCIENCE GOALS

1. Precision Measurements of Pion and Kaon Form Factors and Structure Functions.

• Form factors are the most basic quantity towards understanding light hadron structure. The structure functions in terms of sea quarks and gluons are expected to be different for pions, kaons, and nucleons and to provide basic information about their origin of mass.

1. Validation of understanding of hard exclusive and semi-inclusive reactions towards 3D hadron imaging and potential future flavor decomposition.

• The key to this validation is precision longitudinal-transverse separated data.

NEAR TERM: Pion and Kaon L/T separated cross sections and form factors from Jefferson Lab

• 12 GeV experiments

• Charged pions at 12 GeV JLab (Experiment E12-19-006) (Contact: T. Horn, M. Muhoza PhD project)
• Charged kaons at 12 GeV JLab (Experiment E12-09-011) (Contact: T. Horn, R. Trotta PhD project)
• Analysis of neutral pion cross sections from 12 GeV DVCS data (S. Ali PhD project)

• DVCS-3

• DVCS Computing and Software

• Detector Projects

• HMS Aerogel Cerenkov Detector
• SHMS Aerogel Cerenkov Detector

• Analysis of 6 GeV data

• Analysis of 6 GeV JLab kaon cross sections (M. Carmignotto PhD thesis)
• Extraction of the transverse pion charge distribution from spatial pion form factor data
• Timelike Compton Scattering Analysis at 6 GeV (g12) by I. Albayrak

INTERMEDIATE TERM: Reaction mechanism validation and hadron imaging with NPS and CPS

• Collaboration and NPS Construction

• Neutral Particle Spectrometer Collaboration (spokesperson: T. Horn): Hadron Structure Studies with Neutral Final States
• Neutral Particle Spectrometer Project (spokesperson: T. Horn)
• NPS ERR 2019

• Compact Photon Source (spokesperson: T. Horn) - required for experiments E12-17-008 and C12-18-005)

• Compact Photon Source

• NPS Science Program:

• White Paper
• Science Slides 2014

• 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)
• Polarization Observables in Wide-Angle Compton Scattering at large s, t and u (Experiment E12-17-008)
• https://misportal.jlab.org/mis/physics/experiments/viewProposal.cfm?paperId=947 (Experiment C12-18-005)

FUTURE: Electron-Ion Collider - Science and Detector R&D

• EIC science developement

• Pion and Kaon Structure Functions
• Pion and kaon production kinematic projections
• Pion form factor

• EIC Detector R&D

• Homogeneous EM Calorimeter Development for EIC, p. 14ff
• Development of novel glass scintillators for homogeneous calorimeters
• Development of high quality aerogels with refractive index <1.01 for nuclear and high energy physics

Meetings

Members of the Group

Dr. Tanja Horn Dr. Vladimir Berdnikov (Postdoc) Richard Trotta (Graduate Student/Researcher) Salina Ali (Graduate Student/Researcher) Mireille Muhoza (Graduate Student/Researcher) Callum Walton (Undergraduate Student/Researcher)		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 Ethan Nguyen (High School Summer Researcher 2019) Diana Damenova (Highschool/Undergraduate Summer Researcher 2018) Juan Jose Paez Chavez (Highschool/Undergraduate Summer Researcher 2018) Callum Walton (Undergraduate Summer Researcher 2018) 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)

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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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