Nuclear & Particle Physics

Experimental Nuclear Physics
Theoretical Nuclear Physics

Our research interests focus on outstanding questions in our understanding of electromagnetic phenomena of nucleons and few body systems. Topics being investigated include:

Electroproduction of strangeness
Meson electroproduction
Short range correlations
Meson exchange currents
Internal structure of hadrons including elastic and inelastic form factors
Hadron spectroscopy in photoproduction, including cascade physics, hyperon physics, and baryon-antibaryon physics

We conduct experiments at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) in Newport News, Virginia. We serve as spokespeople on a number of experiments that use Jefferson Lab's electron and photon beams to study the internal structure of nuclei and nucleons.

We are involved in a variety of research activities, from the physics of economic systems to particle, nuclear and astrophysics. Our topics include the physics of economics, Lattice Gauge Field Theory, Computational Physics, the physics of neutron stars, astrophysical neutrino emissions, Baryon models, Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics, Quantum Chromodynamics, short range correlations in nuclei, and cold dense matter.