This past week, the American Physical Society’s annual Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP) Fall Meeting was held in Boston, MA. Six students from our group attended to present their latest work.
Izzy showed their thesis results on eta-meson electroproduction. This was their triumphant final presentation under the GW banner, as they are moving to Bochum, Germany to begin a postdoctoral position at the end of the month.
In a session on short-range nucleon nucleon correlations, Phoebe and Sara both gave updates on their thesis projects. Phoebe presented her preliminary results studying short-range correlations through rho-meson photo-production. Sara discussed her theoretical work on modeling spectator tagged structure functions in helium-4. Her first result was published this past winter.
Quinn delivered her first ever conference talk at this meeting, showing preliminary results on π- meson photoproduction from deuterium, analyzing data from the 2021 Hall D Short-Range Correlations / Color-Transparency experiment. Quinn attended last year’s DNP conference, but presented a poster.
Olivia and August presented posters at the undergraduate poster session. They both earned financial support from the Conference Experience for Undergraduates program.
The end of the conference coincided with a stunning aurora over the north east, which was visible both in Boston and DC. The flight home was quite dramatic.