Research Statement

FSU physicists are exploring the hadronic nuclear matter utilizing the continuous electron beam accelerator at Thomas Jefferson National Laboratory. They are working to uncover how quarks and gluons behave in atomic nuclei with electron scattering and photproduction experiments. Dr. Paul Eugenio and Dr. Volker Crede are leaders in the effort to double the energy of Jefferson Lab's accelerator, which will make possible the production of a whole new class of matter-- gluonic matter. A major part of the Jefferson Lab upgrade is the construction of a hermetic detector (GlueX Experiment) in a new experimental hall (Hall D) which will be used to detect this new family of matter. The group has focused in part on the computing issues associated with the enormous amounts of data resulting from these experiments and has collaborated with computer scientists to make important advances in the handling of very large databases. Dr.Ostrivodov's expertise in partial wave analysis allows FSU to build on its strengths in theoretical and computational physics and apply these techniques to further enhance the nuclear research at CLAS, Jefferson Lab's large acceptence spectrometer in Hall B, and eventually to take full advantage of the upgrade to Jefferson Lab.

HNP Alumnus

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Doctoral Students
Student		Thesis		Graduated
Shifeng Chen		First Measurement of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering with a Polarized Proton Target		2006
Burnham Stokes		Search for Resonances in the Photoproduction of Proton-Antiproton Pairs		2006
Charles Hanretty		Measurement of the Polarization Observables Is and Ic for gp -> p pi+pi- Using the CLAS Spectrometer		2011
Craig Bookwalter		A Search for Exotic Mesons in gp ->npi+pi+pi- with CLAS at Jefferson Lab		2012
Andrew Wilson		Photoproduction of omega Mesons and omega pizero Meson Pairs Off the Free Proton		2012
Mukesh Saini		Search for New and Unusual Strangeonia in Photoproduction Using CLAS		2013
Sungkyun Park		MEASUREMENT OF POLARIZATION OBSERVABLES IN gamma p -> p pi+ pi- USING CIRCULAR BEAM AND LONGITUDINAL TARGET POLARIZATION AND THE CLAS SPECTROMETER AT JEFFERSON LABORATORY		2013
Nathan Sparks		Extraction of the Photon Beam Asymmetry Sigma in pi0 Photoproduction off the Proton Using the CBELSA/TAPS Experiment		2013
Aristeidis Tsaris		Study of the 3 pi production in gamma p -> n pi+ pi+ pi- and gamma p -> Delta++ pi+ pi- pi- with CLAS at Jefferson Lab		2016
Hussein Al Ghoul		Production of Strangeness in gamma p -> Lambda K+ pi+ pi- with CLAS at Jefferson Lab		2016
Christopher Zeoli		Omega Production in gamma p -> p pi+ pi+ pi0 with CLAS at Jefferson Lab		2016
Priyashree Roy		Measurement of Polarization Observables in Vector Meson Photoproduction Using a Transversely-Polarized Frozen-Spin Target and Polarized Photons at CLAS, Jefferson Lab		2016
Zulkaida Akbar		The Search for N* Resonances: Measurement of Differential Cross Sections adn Polarization Oberservables for gp -> p omega and gp-> K0Sigma+ Using Circularly-Polarized Photos at CLAS, Jefferson Lab		2018
Bradford Cannon		A Search for New and Unusual Strangeonia States Using γp → pϕη with GlueX at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility		2019
Ashley Ernst		Phoptoproduction of Cascade Baryons Using the GlueX Detector at Jefferson Laboratory		2020
Jason Barlow		STUDY OF THE REACTION γp→η′ηp		2023
Edmundo Barriga		SEARCH FOR ISOSCALAR RESONANCES IN γp → ωηp AT GLUEX		2023
Lawrence Ng		Photoproduction of the ηπ0 System off a Proton Target at Eγ = 8.5 GeV^2		2023
Gabriel Rodriguez Linera		PHOTOPRODUCTION OF K0K0 WITH THE GLUEX EXPERIMENT		2024
Donovan Ebersole		MEASUREMENT OF J/ψ PRODUCTION NEAR THRESHOLD IN J/ψ→µ+µ−		2024
Jesse Hernandez		DOUBLY-STRANGE BARYON SPECTROSCOPY WITH THE GLUEX EXPERIMENT: GROUND STATE Ξ(1320) PHOTOPRODUCTION CROSS SECTION AND PROPERTIES		2025
Masters Students
Student		Professional Residence		Graduated
Philip Coltharp		Florida State University		2005
Blake Sharon		Florida State University		2006
Aaron McVeigh		Florida State University		2007
Lukasz Blaszczyk		Florida State University		2007
Tadamasa Takeuchi		Florida State University		2008
Chrisopher Pederson		Florida State University		2012
Alicia Remington		Florida State University		2025
Physics Bachelor Honors Thesis Students
Student				Graduated
James Custer		Florida State University		2007
Evan McClellan		Florida State University		2009
Anna Woodard		Florida State University		2010
Peter Morales		Florida State University		2012
John Norris		Florida State University		2014
Andrew Hurley		Florida State University		2016
Kyle Romines		Florida State University		2017
Zachary Beach		Florida State University		2021
Shelby Arrigo		Florida State University		2022
Shelby Arrigo		Florida State University		2022
Richard Brunner		Florida State University		2024
Diya Choudhary		Florida State University		2024