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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 on, e.g., the TCS analysis.

Kaon Aerogel Detector: already machined and pre-assembled at CUA!		Last News Marco was awarded a 2015/16 JSA Graduate Fellowship for research at Jefferson Lab (26 May 2015 news release). Alex presented the project he worked during the Summer at the DNP/2014. Call for new graduate students View all news and events		Upcoming events 13th International Conference on Inorganic Scintillators and their Applications (June 7-12, 2015) Jefferson Lab Hall A/Hall C Joint Summer Workshop (17-18 July, 2015) List of Hadronic Physics Conferences, Workshops, and Summer Schools

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

• Nucleon Structure

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

• 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

• Kaon Aerogel Cerenkov Detector
• Neutral Particle Spectrometer
• DIRC detector for PID at an EIC
• Crystal Calorimeter Development for EIC based on PbWO4, p. 21ff

Members of the Group

Dr. Tanja Horn Dr. Arthur Mkrtchyan (Postdoc) Marco Carmignotto (Graduate Student/Researcher) Indra Sapkota (Graduate Student/Researcher) Nathaniel Hlavin (Student/Researcher) Summer 2015 Student Researchers Alex Dittmann William Lash Christian Runyon		Alumni of the Group Mike Metz (Undergraduate Student/Researcher) Laura Rothgeb (Undergraduate Student/Researcher) Nathaniel Hlavin (Undergraduate Student/Researcher) Dr. Ibrahim Albayrak (Postdoc)		Summer Student Researchers 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)

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!

Other internal links

To see the last updates of the entire wiki, click here.

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Summer 2015 work Summer 2014 work Summer 2013 work Summer 2012 work

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External links

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