Data is coming in on two of our group’s new experiments at Jefferson Lab investigating how protons and neutrons form short-range correlations within nuclei. In experimental hall B, we are colliding electrons accelerated to an energy of 6 Giga-electron Volts (GeV) on, hydrogen, deuterium, helium, carbon, argon, calcium, and tin nuclei, with the goal of knocking out protons and neutrons and detecting the emerging particles in the CLAS12 spectrometer. At the same time in experimental hall D, we are colliding photons with energies in the range of 8 to 8.5 GeV on deuterium, helium, and carbon, hoping to cause reactions that produce short-lived mesons that we can identify with the GlueX spectrometer. We are still in the early stages of calibrating the instruments, and teams are working around the clock to make sure the data is looking good, but we are already starting to see the reactions we expect!
Hall B
Hall D
