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Teaching & Service Activities

I currently Undergraduate Program Director.

Research Activities
(with Ronald Gilman)

My major research focus is the MINERvA experiment at Fermilab, a high statistic neutrino experiment. My other research is centered on studies of spin physics and subnucleonic effects in light nuclei using electron beams at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLAB) 6 GeV accelerator, CEBAF, in Virginia. The primary goal of our experiments is to determine the basic structure of the nucleon and how that is modified in the nuclear environment. We are particularly interested in using spin degrees of freedom as a sensitive tool for probing nucleon structure. In order to study spin structure we built a large polarimeter that is mounted in the focal plane of the hadron spectrometer at CEBAF Hall A.

More information, with links and some future plans, can be found in the nuclear group experimental online projects page .

Some Recent Publications

• Phys. Rev. Lett. vol 99, p. 242501, 2007 , M. Mazouz et al., Deeply virtual Compton scattering off the neutron.
• Phys. Rev. Lett. vol 97, p. 262002, 2006 , C. Munoz Camacho et al. : Scaling tests of the cross section for deeply virtual Compton scattering.
• Phys. Rev. Lett. vol 99, p. 202002, 2007, G. Ron, et al. : Measurement of the proton elastic form factor ratio G_Ep/G_Mp at low momentum transfer

Revised Nov 2, 2020