Group members Phoebe, Olga, and Axel travelled to Sacramento, CA this April to present their research at the APS April Meeting. Phoebe presented on the Hall D Short-Range Correlations / Color Transparency Experiment, and how the use of photoproduction reactions to probe short-range correlations in nuclei can help us verify that what we’ve learned about correlations does not depend on the reaction mechanism. Olga gave an update on her work on the Dalitz Analysis of the eta’ meson (GlueX), showcasing the agreement between the background-subtracted data, and a parameterized model of the decay. Axel gave an update on the BAND analysis (CLAS), as well as presenting results from a recently accepted paper on the phenomenology of short-range correlations in helium-3 (two protons and one neutron) and tritium (two neutrons and one proton).
In addition to these research talks, Phoebe and Olga helped organize the Jefferson Lab Users Organization’s (JLUO’s) satelite workshop, both speaking about their great work leading the Jefferson Lab’s Graduate Student and Postdoc Association. Olga also delivered an overview of the recent highlights from Hall D.
