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HAMPTON UNIVERSITY HAMPTON, VIRGINIA

Office of Provost Date: May 12, 2015

ANNUAL REPORT

School of Science Department of Physics Jose Goity, Professor and Interim Chair May 12, 2015

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INTRODUCTION

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DESCRIPTIVE STATEMENT

The Department of Physics at Hampton University was created in 1965, and is celebrating in 2015 its 50th anniversary. This is certainly a reason for pride for Hampton University and all the faculty members, staff and students who have been and are part of the department. Another reason for pride is the trajectory of the department, which starting from undergraduate program only, progressed to include a graduate program in 1992 with the inception of the PhD program in physics, transitioning to a research intensive department. This transition has been very successfully achieved, as the research output of the department has shown. The department is one of the leading departments in the country in the number of PhD degrees conferred to African Americans, and it can be asserted that its PhD program is the strongest one among HBCUs. The department also plays an important role at Hampton University at large through the undergraduate service courses it offers.

The present areas of research in the department are optical physics, nuclear physics and medical physics, where in each area many different lines of research are being pursued.

The department has developed strong partnerships with local research institutions, namely NASA Langley Research Center, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) and the Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute (HUPTI). In particular, through an MOU between Hampton University and Jefferson Lab, three joint positions have been funded for the last twenty years at a rate of 50% by Jefferson Lab, one in nuclear theory and two in nuclear experimental. These partnerships have provided great benefits to both parties, and have played a positive role in enhancing the research capacity of the department and of its faculty and students.

In addition, faculty members have strong collaborative partnerships with researchers in other institutions in the USA and abroad. For instance with MIT, through partnering on consortium grants (MRI), collaborations on major experiments at DESY, KEK, PSI. Graduate students are spending significant time to work on site at large research facilities in pursuit of their thesis research, acquiring in this way extremely valuable experience.

The high research productivity of the department has been recognized by funding agencies, NSF, DOE, DOD, and others. A high rate of successful grant applications has attracted funding at a level where the department matches some of the leading physics departments in the country in

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terms of dollars per faculty. This merit is an endorsement to the hard and creative work being done in the department. It is also important to emphasize that the transition from the funding in the early days of the PhD program, based on centers such as NuHEP, RCOP, CAMI, COSM, and CREST, to open competitive individual grants has been very successfully made. The department's faculty members have also received prestigious awards, such as the coveted CAREER award from the NSF which was awarded to three members of the department, an almost unique case among all physics departments in the country. To date the physics department has attracted more than $40,000,000 in grant support since the inception of the PhD program 22 years ago.

The representation in physics of minorities, and in particular African Americans, is one of the most important missions of the department. The department has in place outreach, recruitment and retention programs, which have a positive impact on that endeavor.

The period May 2014 to May 2015 reported here has been very successful for the Physics Department. Its faculty, staff and research personnel were very productive across the spectrum of the department's activities. The department is proud to graduate eight students in the Spring 2015, two BS and six PhD students.

Faculty taught a total of more than forty courses in each, Fall and Spring semester, and directed numerous students in research at undergraduate and graduate levels. The research productivity of the department has kept its high profile, achieving numerous publications in high impact journals (see publications below), and leading in numerous research collaborations (see research activities below). Researchers in the department were in high demand to give invited talks at National and International conferences (see talks below).

The department carried out outreach activities with local schools, as well as summer programs, such as the HUGS summer school, Physics Day Camp, rocket launches with Spratley student of Hampton, and the ACLASS Teacher’s Program (see below).

Faculty in the department has served with distinction in different professional venues: boards, committees, panels, as referees to journals and grant agencies, and as leaders and spokespersons in research collaborations.

Faculty have kept strong ties with other institutions in the US and around the world, visiting other institutions, universities and research laboratories in the US, Argentina, Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain, South Korea, and China. Researchers in the department actively collaborate with scientists from other institutions, which has made Hampton University an important player in high profile research projects.

The department has continued with its success in research funding. Several faculty members have pending funding request for the upcoming academic school year.

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The Physics Department continues as one of the leading departments in research in the Hampton University campus, and leading by example in the quest of the university to become a research intensive institution.

Strategic Plan Update

During the Fall of 2014, the Department of Physics had our five year (2009-2014) departmental review. A detailed report was submitted to committee on December 5, 2014 and on February 20, 2015, the committee came for a site visit. The committee spoke with faculty and students and gathered important information about the functioning of the department. Through the organized reports and documents gathered, the committee was able to make a thorough review of the department. The final feedback was satisfactory and the department had a positive review.

The Physics Department kept in focus its primary mission of providing quality education in physics to physics majors, graduate physics students and students from other majors taking physics courses. The department works constantly on improving its performance in that mission, by developing course content, new elective topics or courses, and general quality of teaching and advising. Outreach and recruitment efforts were also kept at the forefront of the department's efforts, aiming at increasing the interest of K-12 students in physics as well as attracting freshman students to the department. Activities were carried out both on and off campus.

The Department operated during the reported period with a significant reduction of manpower, with 10 regular Faculty (8.5 FTEs) and one instructor. This meant a larger teaching load and a significant contraction of the time the Faculty can dedicate to research. These issues were documented and explained in the Departmental Review Report which was submitted by the Interim Chair in the fall 2014. In terms of the look towards the future and the development of long term strategic plans, the issue of “below critical mass” manpower to sustain a quality graduate program (PhD, MS) and the required strength in research must be addressed at institutional level. This is at present the overarching challenge for the Physics Department, and being a critical one, it will require serious and prompt action to be resolved.

The current Faculty personnel are shown in the table below.

Faculty Member Position Alberto Accardi, PhD Assistant Prof. Non-tenure track Eric Christy, PhD Associate Prof. Non-tenure track Lars Ewell, PhD Assistant Prof. Non-tenure track Jose Goity, PhD Professor, Tenured, joint Jefferson Lab Paul Gueye, PhD Assistant Prof. Non-tenure track Michael Kohl, PhD Associate Prof., Tenured, joint Jefferson Lab Uwe Hoemmerich, PhD Professor, Tenured Donald Lyons, PhD Professor, Tenured, joint Engineering Jaetae Seo, PhD Professor, Tenured Liguang Tang, PhD Professor, Tenured, joint Jefferson Lab Herbert Brown, MS Instructor

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SPECIAL FACULTY RECOGNITION AND ACTIVITIES

Identify special community, state, national, and international activities of faculty members which provided recognition to the individual and college. Please do not use acronyms in identifying organizations.

• Dr. M. Eric Christy research group helped lead the commissioning of Jefferson Lab Hall A in Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 in preparation for the proton magnetic form factor experiment, which will be the dissertation topic of Hampton Ph.D. student Thir Gautam, who is leading the calibration of several key detector systems to monitor the electron beam under Dr. Christy's supervision.

• Dr. M. Eric Christy research group is leading the testing of the main particle tracking detectors for the SHMS spectrometer being constructed as part of the energy upgrade to Jefferson Lab Hall C. Dr. Christy's group successfully designed and constructed these detectors at Hampton University. Key personnel were postdoctoral researchers Dr. Narbe Kalantarians and Dr. Peter Monoghan and graduate students Debayita Biswas, Thir Gautam, and Jamil Taylor, among others. Dr. Kalantarians and Mr. Biswas are currently active in the testing at Hampton and in the setup of a testing lab on site at Jefferson Lab.

• Dr. M. Eric Christy supervised two Hampton University Ph.D. students, Thir Gautam H. and Debadyita Biswas.

• Dr. M. Eric Christy and Dr. Narbe Kalantarians organized workshop on Final State Interactions in Neutrino Reactions to be held at Jefferson Lab in May 2015.

• Dr. M. Eric Christy currently serving the on Jefferson Lab Hall C SHMS Steering Committee.

• Dr. Eric Christy Co-spokesperson for three currently running or approved experiments: I) Hall A proton magnetic form factor at large momentum transfer experiment at JLab.

II) Hall C proton and deuteron inclusive structure functions at large momentum transfer. III) Hall C longitudinal structure functions for proton, deuteron, and nuclei at 12 GeV.

• Dr. Narbe Kalantarians and Dr. Eric Christy progress on a deuteron cross-section fit. The fit has been used for a paper on neutron structure –function moments and for a proposal to measure polarized EMC effect at CLAS12.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi gave an invited talk at Colloquium at Eastern Carolina U., Greenville, NC (USA), Oct 2014. The talk was titled, “Quarks, gluons and hadrons from JLab to the LHC.”

• Dr. Alberto Accardi gave a planery talk at the DIS 2015, in Dallas, Texas, in April of 2015. The title of his talk was titled “Parton distributions from protons to nuclei.”

• Dr. Alberto Accardi gave an invited talk at the Topical Meeting on Parton Hadron Duality at the University of Virginia in Richmond in March of 2015. The title of this talk was, “Parton-hadron duality and PDF fits.”

• Dr. Alberto Accardi will serve as the director for the HUGS 2015 Graduate Summer Program.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi interviewed for feature article on NOVA’s: The Nature of Reality web series.

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• Dr. Alberto Accardi provided professional services to the following during the Fall term of 2014: (1) A committee member of the HiX 2014 International conference, October 15-20, Frascati (Italy), (2) A committee member of the Jefferson Lab Theory Advisory Committee (2009-2014), (3) A peer reviewer for the International Journals: Physical Review C, (4) A peer reviewer for the Jefferson Lab – experimental proposal review, (5) A committee member on the Graduate Qualifier Exam Committee for the Hampton University Physics Department, (6) A committee member on the dissertation committee for PhD Candidate and Physics major Mr. Nuruzzaman (defended December 2014), (7) A committee member on the thesis committee and mentor for Masters Candidate and Computer Science major Mr. DeWayne Dorsey (expected graduation date August 2015), and (8) advisor to graduate student and physics major Mr. Juan Guerrero.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi attended the EIC Users Meeting Conference at Stony Brook University in New York on June 24-17, 2014.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi continues to advise graduate student Dwayne Dorsey (Masters in Applied Math major). He is expected to graduate in the fall of 2014. He is also advising Juan Guerrero (Physic graduate student – PhD Candidate)

• Dr. Alberto Accardi served as Vice Chair during the Gordon Research Conference on Photonuclear Reactions on August 10-15, 2014, in Holderness, NH. For over 75 years, the GRC’s high-quality, cost-effective meetings have been recognized as the world’s premier scientific conferences, where leading investigators from around the globe discuss their latest work and future challenges in a uniquely informal and interactive format.

• Dr. Jose L. Goity served in the Jefferson Lab Users Group Board of Directors (appointed

from June 2013 to June 2015). • Dr. Jose L. Goity has been appointed as member of the HBCU NSF subcommittee. • Dr. Jose L. Goity collaborated on the following during the Fall term of 2014: 1) Study of

the nucleon-nucleon potential with effective theory and 1/Nc expansion. Collaborator: Prof. Enrique Ruiz Arriola, Physics Department, University of Granada, Granada, Spain. 2) Study of Wilson loops in holographic models of QCD. Collaborator: Prof. Roberto Trinchero, Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche, Argentina. 3) Study of vector current form factors in baryons by means of chiral perturbation theory and the 1/Nc expansion. Collaborators: Mr. Ishara Fernando, graduate student, Hampton University, and Prof.

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Ruben Flores-Mendieta, Physics Department, University of San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, Mexico.

• Dr. Jose L. Goity is currently advising graduate student Ishara Fernando (PhD Candidate) and Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez a Mexican exchange student at Jefferson Lab.

• Dr. Paul Gueye organized and participated in The Physics Day Camp on December 5, 2014, at the Hampton Roads Convention Center. Elementary school age children from Girls Inc of the Greater Peninsula were shown demonstrations and taught some cool lesson in physics from several Hampton University graduate students.

Figure Caption: Dr. EiEi Brown and Dr. Eric Kumi-Barimah performing demonstrations in atomic light sources during a Physics Day Camp (12-5-14) organized by Dr. P. Gueye.

• Dr. Paul Gueye served as the radiation safety officer for the physics department; he was

the advisor of Sigma Pi Sigma; served as President of the National Society of Black Physicist (NSBP); is the Chair-Elect of the Liaison Committee for the Underrepresented minorities; served as the academic advisor for two graduate students Ms. Jessica Freeman and Mr. Adeleke Adeyemi; served on the physics department recruitment committee; and as the undergraduate student advisor.

• Dr. Paul Gueye was a co-organizer of a joint workshop with the National Radio Astronomy on Building a National Partnership for Future of STEM Leaders.” The workshop brought various HBCUs to Howard University for a discussion and opportunities with NRAO, its national facilities and consortium of universities.

• Dr. Paul Gueye was presented with a Certificate of Appreciation on July 24, 2014, from the Hampton University School of Business for supporting The Hampton University Business of Engineering summer Program. Dr. Gueye delivered several lectures that targeted middle and high school students.

• Dr. Paul Gueye as President of the National Society of Black Physicist (www.nsbp.org) – has began organizing new NSBP chapters that will start registration in the fall of 2014. Students will be able to obtain a dual membership with the Society of Physics Students (SPS – www.spsnational.org). This is the result of an agreement signed in July between the two organizations.

• Dr. Paul Gueye as President of NSBP organized and executed a successful 2015 Conference that was held in Baltimore, MD, on February 23-28, 2015. Hundreds of participants from around the country attended (www.nsbp.org). For his efforts, Dr. Gueye received a congratulatory letter for the Hampton University President, Dr. William Harvey.

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• Dr. Paul Gueye as President of NSBP led in the establishment of a new program between National Security Agency (NSA) laboratories (Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, Sandia and Berkeley) with Minority Institutions. This effort leads to the support of a new physics undergraduate student

• Dr. Paul Gueye attended the International Particle Accelerator Conference, May 3-8, 2015, Richmond, VA. He presented a poster titled, “MuSim – a Graphical User Interface for Multiple Simulation Programs” with fellow associate, T. Roberts.

• Dr. Paul Gueye attended and served as a member of the Advisory Committee for the American Institute of Physics during the African Americans in the Physical Sciences Workshop, July 17-18, 2014.

• Dr. Paul Gueye gave a presentation on the status of physics at HBCUs on July 14, 2014 to the Liaison Committee for Under Represented Minorities.

• Dr. Paul Gueye served as a reviewer for Nuclear Instruments and Methods, Phys.Res.A. • Dr. Paul Gueye plans to continue the collaboration with Michigan State University and

the MONA Collaboration (http://wwwp.cord.edu/dept/physics/mona/ ). The primary work is in the development of a segmented target to enhance the current capabilities of the collaboration to study unbound nuclei at the National Super Conducting Laboratory at MSU.

• Dr. Paul Gueye has been working on the development of a Monte Carlo simulation tool for proton therapy based treatments of brain cancers using the Geant4 based tool for particle simulations (TOPAS). The research enables a realistic description of this technique and includes a three scintillating fiber based detectors placed around a water phantom. Final calibration of the system will be completed in the fall of 2014, including preliminary data to be acquired at the Hampton University Proton Therapy Insititute.

• Dr. Paul Gueye Participated in the High School student day and provided scholarship through physics societies to six students as a follow-up for potential recruitment

• Dr. Paul Gueye – (Accelerator Physics) Development of a preliminary Geant4 based Monte Carlo model for the thermionic electron gun and at Jefferson Lab the continuation of the data analysis for the Jefferson Lab Polarized Positron for Polarized Electron (PEPPo) experiment. The sole PhD student on this experiment is Mr. Adeleke Adeyemi, PhD candidate of the Physics Department.

• Dr. Paul Gueye attended a GradMap Spring symposium (http://gradmap.astro.umd.edu) at the University of Maryland, College Park on April 18, 2015. Part of a round table discussion on improving recruitment and retention of minority students at majority institutions and he was also an invited speaker for the closing remarks

• Dr. Paul Gueye established a new collaboration between Hampton University and Howard University to work on nuclear physics research with Michigan State University.

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• Dr. Paul Gueye participated in monthly meeting for the HU-NSF pilot project “Inquiry-based learning using cultural heritage materials and other locally accessible resources: A professional development program for public school science teachers”

, PI-Dr. Isai Urasa (Chemistry Department). Dr. Gueye will serve as the liaison for the Physics Department.

• Dr. Paul Gueye attended a one-day workshop at Thomas Nelson Community College focused on “Fostering Students Success in Physics” on April 25, 2015. The workshop on improving teaching at 4-year and 2-year colleges as a follow-up on the Spring 2014 teaching excellence workshops. With a total of 15 participants, other representatives from the Physics Department included one faculty (Dr. Jose Goity) and three graduate students (Ms. Ivy Jones, Mr. Juan Guerrero and Mr. Ishara Fernando).

• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich was awarded a new Instrumentation grant from the Army

Research Office ($171,096). The project is entitled: “Development of IR Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy employing a Mercury Cadmium Telluride (MCT) Array Detector".

• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich and Dr. EiEi Brown had two poster presentations accepted for the SPIE Photonics West 2015 conference in San Francisco, CA.

• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich and Dr. EiEi Brown submitted two manuscript for publication in SPIE Proceedings.

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• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich and Dr. EiEi Brown have three presentations accepted for the PITTCON 2015 Conference in New Orleans, LA.

• Dr. EiEi Brown received a Research Initiation Award of $199,844 funded by National Science Foundation (HBCU-UP). The project is entitled “Development of New Halide-based Rare-Earth Scintillators” and covers a time period from June 1, 2014 to May 31, 2016.

• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich submitted a proposal to the 2014 DOD Research and Education Program. The proposal is entitled "Development of IR Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy employing a Mercury Cadmium Telluride Array Detector".

• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich served as a judge at the symposium for senior mentorship projects at the Governor School of Science & Technology on May 21, 2014.

• Dr. EiEi Brown and Uwe Hömmerich hosted C. Yang from Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) on June 26-27 and August 7-8 to perform joint experiments in IR LIBS for chemical sensing of energetic materials.

• Dr. Michael Kohl gave an invited talk at a seminar held at the College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia, on September 26, 2014. His talk was titled, “The Proton Radius Puzzle – How can it be resolved?”

• Dr. Michael Kohl gave a talk at the DarkLight Collaboration meeting, held at Jefferson Lab, in Newport News, Virginia, on August 26, 2014. His talk was titled, “Lepton Tracker for phase-I DarkLight.”

• Dr. Michael Kohl gave a talk at the DarkLight collaboration meeting at Jefferson Lab on December 2, 2014. His talk was titled, “GEM lepton tracker update.”

• Dr. Michael Kohl has presented the invited talk “Recent Results of Two-Photon Exchange” at the 2014 Gordon Research Conference (GRC2014) on Photonuclear Reactions – from quarks to nuclei, Holderness, New Hampshire, August 10-15, 2014

• Dr. Michael Kohl gave a contributed talk at the 2015 APS April Meeting in Baltimore, MD on April 11, 2015. The title of his talk was “Status of the TREK/E36 experiment at J-PARC.”

• Dr. Michael Kohl is a co-spokesperson for proposed Hall C neutron electric form factor experiment at JLab

• Dr. Michael Kohl is Organizer of the biweekly HU Experimental Nuclear Physics Group Seminar

• Dr. Michael Kohl is a member of American Physical Society (APS) and a member of the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, DPG)

• Dr. Michael Kohl served on the HUGS organization committee • Dr. Anusha Liyanage, postdoctoral associate in the group of Dr. Michael Kohl, attended

the 2014 Gordon Research Conference (GRC2014) on Photonuclear Reactions – from quarks to nuclei, Holderness, New Hampshire, August 10-15, 2014, and presented a poster with the title “The MUSE Experimental Setup”.

• Dr. Anusha Liyanage attended the MUSE Collaboration Meeting at George Washington University, Washington, DC, on December 13-14, 2014.

• Dr. Anusha Liyanage attended the Workshop on Frontiers and Careers, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 7-9, 2014. She chaired the session on the “Form Factors” and presented a talk, ““Measurement of the Proton Form Factor Ratio GE/GM from the Double Spin Asymmetry”

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• Dr. Anusha Liyanage attended the Gordon Conference on Photonuclear Reactions: From Quarks to Nuclei, Holderness School, Holderness, NH, August 10-15, 2014, and presented the poster “The MUSE Experimental Setup”

• Dr. Anusha Liyanage presented the talk “Improved cluster finding in 2D GEMs” at the HU Nuclear Physics Group meeting on November 10, 2014

• Dr. Anusha Liyanage traveled to PSI in Villigen, Switzerland from December 1-23, 2014 to participate in the test beam time for the MUSE experiment

• Dr. Anusha Liyanage attended the MUSE collaboration meeting held at PSI on December 13-14, 2014, and gave a presentation with the title “GEM Analysis Updates”

• Dr. Anusha Liyanage attended the Geant4 simulation classes offered by Dr. Paul Gueye in spring 2015

• Dr. Anusha Liyanage attended the OLYMPUS collaboration meeting at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, March 9-10, 2015, and gave a presentation with the title “GEM analysis updates”

• Dr. Anusha Liyanage attended the DarkLight collaboration meeting at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, March 11-12, 2015

• Dr. Anusha Liyanage attended the 2015 HU Research Day on April 9-10, 2015 and presented a poster with the title “The MUSE Experimental Setup”.

• Dr. Peter Monaghan remotely attended the TREK/E36 collaboration meeting at J-PARC, Tokai, Japan, May, 2014 and gave a presentation with the title “Calculation of a New Magnetic Field Map”

• Dr. Peter Monaghan remotely attended the TREK/E36 collaboration meeting at J-PARC, Tokai, Japan, December 6, 2014 and gave a presentation with the title “Magnetic Field Map”

• Dr. Peter Monaghan (senior postdoctoral associate) has resigned on July 31, 2014, from his position with Dr. Kohl’s group in order to start his new position as a tenure-track assistant professor in the physics department at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA.

• Dr. Narbe Kalantarians attended the DarkLight Collaboration Meeting at Jefferson Lab, August 26, 2014

• Dr. Narbe Kalantarians remotely attended the DarkLight Collaboration Meeting at Jefferson Lab, December 2, 2014, and gave a presentation with the title “Invisible Search”

• Dr. Narbe Kalantarians attended the TREK/E36 collaboration meeting at J-PARC, Tokai, Japan, on December 6, 2014, and gave a presentation with the title “TREK-E36 Scalers Study”

• Dr. Narbe Kalantarians attended the Hall C Winter Collaboration Meeting, JLab, Newport News, VA, January 15, 2015, and gave a presentation with the title “SHMS Drift Chambers Update”

• Dr. Narbe Kalantarians remotely attended the DarkLight Collaboration Meeting at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, March 11-12, 2015, and gave a presentation with the title “Invisible Search”

• Dr. Narbe Kalantarians gave the invited Jefferson Lab Pizza Seminar with the title “(Semi)Inclusive Deuteron Data and Extraction of Neutron Structure Functions”, March 18, 2015

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• Dr. Narbe Kalantarians attended the APS April Meeting in Baltimore, MD, April 1-14, 2015, and presented a talk with the title “DarkLight Invisibles”

• Dr. Lars Ewell attended the Teaching Excellence Workshop jointly sponsored by the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) and the Center for Astronomy and Physics Education Research (CAPER) at the University of the District of Columbia on May 3, 2014.

• Dr. Lars Ewell concentrated research activity on the following three topics: 1) The work that was presented at the AAPM meeting in Austin Texas regarding proton therapy beams (see above). In particular, the Monte Carlo simulation (GATE, see http://www.opengatecollaboration.org/ ) on the linux cluster required an amount of attention. 2) A National Institute of Health (NIH) grant application about lung tumor motion (see below). 3) A Department of Defense (DoD) grant application about lung tumor location (see below).

• Dr. Lars Ewell continues to work on the accreditation of the Physics Medical Physics Program. He is being assisted by Dr. Paul Gueye. He maintains a updated medical physics webpage http://science.hamptonu.edu/physics/medical/

• Dr. Lars Ewell along with his two students, Mr. Ahmed ElMekway (Graduate Student) and Muhammet Coruh (Graduate Student) has had their recent work accepted for presentation at this year’s 2015 meeting of the American of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM, see http://www.aapm.org/meetings/2015AM/). (1) Low Activity Studies of 11C Activation via GATE Monte Carlo, A. Elmekawy et al. and (2) Proton Beam Delivery to a Moving Lung Tumor and Monte Carlo Simulation with TOPAS, M. Coruh et al.

• Dr. Lars Ewell organized a Physical Science Oncology Center (PS-OC) retreat that took place in the Biomedical Research Center on Hampton University on December 6, 2014. This center applies the principals of physical sciences, such as physics, to the study of cancer (oncology). This one day retreat included participants from Hampton University, HUPTI, Cancer Research Center, and NIH. The agenda items included individual presentations on radiation and cancer from the School of Pharmacy (Dr. Simone Heyliger & Dr. Marilyn Saulsbury), Biology (Mr. John McDonald and Dr. Luisel Ricks-Santi (Cancer Research Center), the Department of Chemistry (Dr. Kesete Ghebreyessus) and the Department of Physics (Dr. Lars Ewell (medical physics) and Dr. Paul Gueye), potential external collaborators, and brainstorming session on research projects, training, education outreach, specific aims, and administrative components.

• Dr. Liguang Tang participated in program organization for the 2015 International Conference of Hypernuclear and Strangeness Nuclear Physics.

• Dr. Liguang Tang organized and sponsored the workshop “Perspectives of the high precision hypernuclear physics at JLab” at JLab from May 27 to May 29, 2014, and gave a presentation titled “Study of Light -Hypernuclei by Spectroscopy of Two Body Weak Decay Pions.”

• Dr. Liguang Tang submitted a paper to Physics Review C titled “The experiments with the High Resolution Kaon Spectrometer at JLab Hall C and the new spectroscopy of 12

B hypernuclei”, L. Tang et al., arXiv:submit/1042796 [nucl-ex] 13 Aug 2014.

• Dr. Liguang Tang gave a presentation titled “High precision hypernuclear spectroscopy program at JLab” at the joint Low Energy Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics Town

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Meeting for the white paper to the next Long Range Plan for nuclear physics, held in Texas A&M from August 20 to 23, 2014.

• Dr. Felix Jaetae Seo served as the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Photonics and Optoelectronics; Editorial Board of International Journal of Optics Science; Editorial Board of International; Journal of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics; Editorial Board of Photonics and Optoelectronics; Editorial Board of the Open Spectroscopy Journal; Editorial Board for Optics and Photonics Journal; Editorial Advisory Board of the Open Applied Physics Journal; and Editorial Board for International Journal of Advanced Physics Research.

• Dr. Felix Jaetae Seo is served as the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Photonics and Optoelectronics; Editorial Board of International Journal of Optics Science; Editorial Board of International; Journal of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics; Editorial Board of Photonics and Optoelectronics; Editorial Board of the Open Spectroscopy Journal; Editorial Board for Optics and Photonics Journal; Editorial Advisory Board of the Open Applied Physics Journal; and Editorial Board for International Journal of Advanced Physics Research.

• Dr. Felix Jaetae Seo contributed to the following: S. Babu, J. Seo, and M. O. Claville, “Interaction of metal nanoparticles with thiol and thioether-containing compounds,” The 92nd Annual Meeting of Virginia Academy of Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, May14-16, 2014.

• Dr. Felix Jaetae Seo is served as the International Program Committee for Energy Materials Nanotechnology, Orlando, FL, U.S.A.

• Dr. Felix Jaetae Seo is certified for the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) by the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative.

• Dr. Felix Jaetae Seo served as the Chair of Department Colloquium Committee. • Dr. Felix Jaetae Seo is serving in the Safety Committee on Hazardous Materials;

Department Graduate Admission Committee; and School of Science Research Committee.

• Dr. Felix Jaetae Seo is Member of America Physics Society, Optical Society of America, American Chemical Society, Applied Spectroscopy Society, and SPIE.

• Dr. Felix Jaetae Seo successfully completed the Hazardous & Universal Waste Management (40 CFR Part 262, 273, & 279) & Hazardous Materials Transportation and Security (49 CFR Part 172 – Subpart H) Course training conducted by Potomac Environmental Inc, on the 3rd of March, 2015.

• Dr. Mahmoud Abdel-Fattah gave a physics seminar talk at Hampton University

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Conference Presentations

• Dr. EiEi Brown, Dr. Uwe Hömmerich, and Sudhir Trivedi; "Comparative spectroscopic studies of Ho: KPb2Cl5, Ho: KPb2Br5, and Ho: YAG for 2 µm laser cooling applications", accepted for presentation at SPIE Photonics West 2015, San Francisco, CA.

• Dr. EiEi Brown, Dr. Uwe Hömmerich, Althea Bluiett, and Sudhir Trivedi; "Optical properties of Pr3+, Ce3+, and Eu3+ doped KPC", accepted for presentation at SPIE Photonics West 2015, San Francisco, CA.

• Clayton Yang, Dr. EiEi Brown, Dr. Uwe Hömmerich, Feng Jin, S. Trivedi, A P Snyder, A. C. Samuals, "MIR and LWIR (4-12um) Atomic and Molecular Emission Signatures from Inorganic and Organic Chemical using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy", accepted for presentation at PITTCON 2015, March 8-12, 2015, New Orleans, LA.

• Feng Jin, Ken Jia, Emir Haskovic, Chen-Chia Wang, Susan Kutcher, Sudhir Trivedi, Dr. Uwe Hömmerich, Dr. EiEi Brown, Clayton Yang, Priyalal Wijewarnasuriya, Eric Decuir, Jacob Khurgin, Fow-Sen Chao, Alan C. Samuals, Arvind D'Souza, "Instrumentation for Long Wave Infrared Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy", accepted for presentation at PITTCON 2015, March 8-12, 2015, New Orleans, LA.

• Laslo Nemes, Dr. EiEi Brown, Clayton Yang, Dr. Uwe Hömmerich, "Mid-Infrared LIB Spectroscopy of Carbon Plasma", accepted for presentation at PITTCON 2015, March 8-12, 2015, New Orleans, LA.

• EiEi Brown, Uwe Hömmerich, Amber Simmons, Bria Andrews, Althea Bluiett, and Sudhir Trivedi; "Crystal Growth and Spectroscopic Properties of Rare-Earth doped KPb2Cl5", presented at HBCU-UP/CREST PI/PD Meeting, Washington, DC, February 18-19, 2015. STEM Research, Paper: 58.

• Amber Simmons, Bria Andrews, EiEi Brown, Uwe Hömmerich, Althea Bluiett, and Sudhir Trivedi; "Spectroscopic Properties of Pr3+ and Ce3+ doped KPb2Cl5", presented at 2015 Conference of The National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP), Baltimore, MD, February 26-28, 2015.

• Dr. Mahmoud Abdel-Fattah, Veronica Maria Rigo, Wan-Joong Kim, SungSoo Jung, Dr. Bagher Tabibi, and Dr. Felix Jaetae Seo, “Vibration Mode Enhancement and Displacement of Pyridine-linked Gold Plasmonic Nanoparticles,” Old Dominion University, November 21, 2014. (invited talk).

• K. Zhang, X. Chen, P. Lin, Q. Rice, M. Abdel-Fattah, F. J. Seo, Q. Li, and H. Baumgart, “Synthesis of Transition Metal Dichalcogenide WSe2 thin Films By Atomic Layer Deposition,” 228th Electrochemical Society Meeting, in Phoenix, Arizona, October 11-16, 2015.

• K. Zhang, P. Lin, X. Chen, F. J. Seo, and H. Baumgart, “Synthesis of ALD Tungsten Trioxide Thin Films from W(CO)6 and H2O Precursors,” 228th Electrochemical Society Meeting, in Phoenix, Arizona, October 11-16, 2015.

• Felix Jaetae Seo, Bagher Tabibi, Uwe Hömmerich, and M. Patrick McCormick, “Advanced Center for Laser Science and Spectroscopy,” NSF HRD PIs’ Meeting, Washington DC, Feb 18-19, 2015.

• Quinton Rice, Sangram Raut, Rahul Chib, Zygmunt Gryczynski, Ignacy Gryczynski, Wenjin Zhang, Xinhua Zhong, Mahmoud Abdel-Fattah, Bagher Tabibi, and Jaetae Seo, “Plasmon-coupled CuInS2/ZnS core-shells for developing hybrid white LEDs,”

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SPIE Photonics West 2015, Feb 7-12, Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA. (Paper No.: OE117-32; Tracking No.: PW15O-OE117-32, Invited to Oral Presentation).

• Anderson Hayes, Saara A. Khan, Gennifer T. Smith, Audrey K. Ellerbee, and Felix Seo, “Colorimetric Flocculation and Vibration Frequency Modification of Nicotine under Plasmonic Mode, Old Dominion University, November 21, 2014. (invited talk).

• Quinton Rice, Anderson Hayes, Young-Kuk Kim, Sangram Raut, Rahul Chib, Zygmunt Gryczynski, Ignacy Gryczynski, Mahmoud Abdel-Fattah, Bagher Tabibi, and Jaetae Seo, “Selective Time Evolution and PL Enhancement of Plasmon-coupled CuInS2 and CuInS2/ZnS,” Old Dominion University, November 21, 2014. (invited talk).

• Mahmoud Abdel-Fattah, Veronica Maria Rigo, Wan-Joong Kim, SungSoo Jung, Bagher Tabibi, and Jaetae Seo, “Vibration Mode Enhancement and Displacement of Pyridine-linked Gold Plasmonic Nanoparticles,” Old Dominion University, November 21, 2014. (Invited talk).

• Quinton Rice, Roopchan Ramdon, Maria Veronica Rigo, Rafal Fudala, Wan-Joong Kim, Ryan Rich, Bagher Tabibi, Hyoyeong Cho, Zygmunt Gryczynski, Ignacy Gryczynski, Mahmoud Abdel-Fattah, William Yu, and Jaetae Seo, “Purcell Enhancement of Plasmon-coupled Semiconductor QDs for Photonic Applications,” 2014 NanoTechnology for Defense Conference, November 17-20, 2014, Chantilly, VA, U.S.A.

• Quinton Rice, Anderson Hayes, Sangram Raut, Mahmoud Abdel-Fattah, Ignacy Gryczynski, Zygmunt Gryczynski, Wenjin Zhang, Xinhua Zhong, Young-Kuk Kim, Bagher Tabibi, and Jaetae Seo, “Time-resolved Photoluminescence of Plasmon-coupled CuInS2 with ZnS,” ICANM2014, International Conference & Exhibition on Advanced & Nano Materials, August 11-13, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

• Anderson Hayes, Quinton Rice, Mahmoud Abdel-Fattah, Min Namkung, Wan-Joong Kim, Sungsoo Jung, Bagher Tabibi, and Jaetae Seo, “Colorimetric Analysis and Spectral Coupling of SERS for Biomedical Sensing,” ICANM2014, International Conference & Exhibition on Advanced & Nano Materials, August 11-13, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

• Quinton Rice, Sangram Raut, Ignacy Gryczynski, Zygmunt Gryczynski, Wenjin Zhang, Xinhua Zhong, Young-Kuk Kim, Bagher Tabibi, and Jaetae Seo, “Optical Properties of CuInS2 QDs with ZnS Coreshells and Alloys for Developing Hybrid LEDs,” International Conference on Superlattices, Nanostructures and Nanodevices, Savannah, Georgia, August 3-8, 2014.

• Quinton Rice, Sangram Raut, Wan-Joong Kim, Ryan Rich, Rafal Fudala, Mahmoud Abdel-Fattah, Bagher Tabibi, Ignacy Gryczynski, Zygmunt Gryczynski, Sungsoo Jung, and Jaetae Seo, “Temporal Distributions of Optical Energy Transitions and Photoluminescence Quenching in CuInS2 with ZnS Capping and Alloy,” 45th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Madison, WI, June 2-6, 2014.

• Quinton Rice, Maria Veronica Rigo, Rafal Fudala, Hyoyeong Cho, Wan-Joong Kim, Ryan Rich, Bagher Tabibi, Zygmunt Gryczynski, Ignacy Gryczynski, William Yu, and Jaetae Seo, “Plasmon and Exciton Coupling and Purcell Enhancement,” 45th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Madison, WI, June 2-6, 2014.

• Anderson Hayes, Quinton Rice, Mahmoud Abdel-Fattah, Wan-Joong Kim, Sungsoo Jung, Bagher Tabibi, and Jaetae Seo, “Time-resolved Colorimetric Flocculation and

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Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering of Molecule-linked Plasmonic Nanoparticles,” The 92nd Annual Meeting of Virginia Academy of Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, May 14-16, 2014.

• Anderson Hayes, Quinton Rice, Wan-Joong Kim, Sungsoo Jung, and Felix Jaetae Seo, “Colorimetric Flocculation and Vibration Frequency Modification of Nicotine under Plasmonic Mode,” The 12th International Conference on Nano Science and Nano Technology, November 6-7, 2014, Mokpo, South Korea.

• Quinton Rice, Anderson Hayes, Andrew Wang, William Yu, Wan-Joong Kim, Sungsoo Jung, and Felix Jaetae Seo, “Plasmon-Coupled CdSe Quantum Dots for Hybrid Light Emitting Devices,” The 12th International Conference on Nano Science and Nano Technology, November 6-7, 2014, Mokpo, South Korea.

• Quinton Rice, Sangram Raut, Ignacy Gryczynski, Zygmunt Gryczynski, Bagher Tabibi, and Jaetae Seo, “Temperature- and Time-resolved Spectroscopy of CuInS2 Semiconductor Nanocrystals with ZnS Capping,” The 92nd Annual Meeting of Virginia Academy of Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, May 14-16, 2014.

• S. Babu, J. Seo, and M. O. Claville, “Interaction of metal nanoparticles with thiol and thioether-containing compounds,” The 92nd Annual Meeting of Virginia Academy of Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, May 14-16, 2014.

• S. Babu, J. Seo, and M. O. Claville, “Interaction of metal nanoparticles with thiol and thioether-containing compounds,” The 92nd Annual Meeting of Virginia Academy of Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, May 14-16, 2014.

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SPECIAL CONSULTANTS, SCHOLARS, AND VISITORS

Identify special consultants, scholars, and visitors who have served your program/area. Provide full name, position, date, and description of service.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi – Invited a physics seminar speaker to Hampton University on October 30, 2014, Dr Tomasz G. Drozda (NASA Langley Research Center). His talk was titled, “The Physics of high speed propulsion: Experiments and simulations.”

• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich - Dr. C. S.-C Yang from Battelle Eastern Science and Technology Center visited HU during Fall 2014 to perform Infrared Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy experiments.

• Dr. Lars Ewell – Invited a physics seminar speaker to Hampton University on October 9, 2014, Dr. Basit Athar (Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute/HUPTI). His talk was titled, “Physics of Proton Therapy.”

• Dr. Felix Jaetae Seo – Invited some speakers from the University of California- Berkley to Hampton University on September 25, 2014. The speakers discussed Research Projects in Physics and Summer Research Internship at UC Berkley.

• Dr. Felix Jaetae Seo – Invited Hampton University’s Math and Physics Professor Dr. Alkesh Punjabi, to give a physics seminar talk on November 13, 2014. His talk was titled, “Homoclinic tangle of separatrix in divertortokamaks.”

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• Dr. Felix Jaetae Seo – Invited a physics seminar speaker to Hampton University on December 4, 2014, Dr. Won J. Yi (Plasma Scientist/Engineer & PLAnET/Core Plasma). His talk was titled, “Environmental Applications of Plasma Technology.”

• Dr. Felix Jaetae Seo – invited a physics seminar speaker to Hampton University on February 12, 2015, Dr. Hargsoon Yoon (Norfolk State University & Eastern Virginia Medical School). His talk was titled, “In-vivo Neural Sensing of Neural Activity in the Brain.”

• Dr. Lars Ewell – Invited a guest speaker for the physics seminar to Hampton University on March 19, 2015, Dr. Edsel Ammons. The title of his talk was, “Computing the Response of the Electrically Charged Pion to Electron Scattering.”

• Dr. Felix Jaetae Seo – Invited a physics seminar speaker to Hampton University on April 21, 2015, Dr. Min Namkung (formerly of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center). His talk was titled, “Volatiles on Lunar Craters.”

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STUDENT RECOGNITION AND SPECIAL HONORS

Identify special recognition received by students and graduates. Give name of student and description of honor or recognition.

• Mr. Nebi Demez (PhD Candidate) defended his dissertation on October 31, 2014. It was titled “Characterization of Uniform Scanning Proton Beams with Analytical Models.” His dissertation was accepted and he was awarded his PhD in Philosophy on May 10th, 2015. Advisor Dr. Paul Gueye

Graduate Students

• Mr. John Okine (PhD Candidate) defended his dissertation on November 6, 2014. It was titled, “Plastic Scintillator Detector Measurements of Enhanced Dynamic Wedges Isodose Lines.” His dissertation was accepted and he was awarded his PhD in Philosophy in December. Advisor Dr. Lars Ewell

• Mr. Fnu Nuruzzaman (PhD Candidate) defended his dissertation on December 19, 2014. It was titled, “Beam Normal Single Spin Asymmetry in Forward Angle Inelastic Electron-Proton Scattering Using the Q-weak Apparatus.” His dissertation was accepted and he was awarded his PhD in Philosophy on May 10th, 2015. Advisor Dr. Liguang Tang

• Ms. Tammy Walton (PhD Candidate) successfully completed all requirements for the Ph.D. in physics during summer 2014 under the direction of Dr. Eric Christy and began a postdoctoral research position at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Ms. Walton was awarded her PhD in August.

• Ms. Tammy Walton (PhD Candidate) Ph.D. dissertation has been nominated for Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory thesis award.

• Mr. Eric Kumi-Barimah (Graduate Student) successfully defended his dissertation research entitled "Laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy for applications in chemical sensing and optical refrigeration" on July 11, 2014. Dr. Hömmerich and Dr. Brown served on the dissertation committee. Mr. Kumi-Barimah received his Ph.D. degree in Physics in August 2014. Advisor Dr. Uwe Hommerich

• Ms. Chunhua Chen, (Graduate Student), defended her dissertation “Spectroscopic Investigation of p-shell hypernuclei by the (e, e’K+) reaction” on July 2, 2014. She was awarded her PhD in August 2014. Advisor Dr. Liguang Tang

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Congratulations to our PhD in Philosophy graduates: Pictured from Left to Right – Mr. John Okine, Mr. Nebi Demex, Ms. Chunhua Chen, & Mr. Eric Kumi-Barimah. (not pictured) Mr. Nuruzzaman and Ms. Tammy Walton – both have already accepted positions at FermiLab in Chicago, IL.

• Mr. Thir Gautam (Graduate Student) under the supervision of Dr. M. Eric Christy successfully passed all sections of the physics qualifying exam.

• Mr. Adeleke Adeyemi (Graduate Student) participated in the 2015 International Particle Accelerator Conference Participated held in Richmond, VA on May 3-8, 2015. Adeleke Adeyemi for the PEPPo COllaboration: PEPPo – Using a Polarized Electron Beam to Produced Polarized Positrons, Poster presentation

• Mr. Quinton Rice’s research (Adviser: Dr. Felix Jaetae Seo) was invited to the SPIE Photonics West 2015 for his oral presentation. His presentation title was “Plasmon-coupled CuInS2/ZnS core-shells for developing hybrid white LEDs,” by Quinton Rice, Sangram Raut, Rahul Chib, Zygmunt Gryczynski, Ignacy Gryczynski, Wenjin Zhang, Xinhua Zhong, Mahmoud Abdel-Fattah, Bagher Tabibi, and Jaetae Seo

• Mr. Quinton Rice (Graduate Student) attended the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science in Richmond Virginia on May 14th through May 16th 2014 at

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Virginia Commonwealth University. He presented on “Temperature- and time-resolved spectroscopy of CuInS2 semiconductor nanocrystals with ZnS capping” in the Astronomy, Math, and Physics with Material Science Section with Thomas C. Mosca III presiding as Chair. Mr. Rice was awarded 1st place in the oral presentation competition for Best Student Paper Presentation.

• Mr. Ishara Fernando (Graduate Student) organized two physics brown bag lunch discussion on Nobel Prize papers. On September 30, 2014, the group discussed the paper, “Demonstration of a Fundamental Quantum Logic Gate,” (C. Monroe, et al. 1995). On October 21, 2014, the group discussed the paper “Observed Behavior of Highly Inelastic Electron-Proton Scattering,” (M. Breidenbach, et al. 1969).

• Mr. Ishara Fernando (Graduate Student) gave a talk at Jefferson Lab’s Pizza Seminar on May 21, 2014. His talk was titled, “Study of the spin-flavor structure of excited baryon masses from lattice QCD in 1/Nc expansion.”

• Mr. Ishara Fernando (Graduate Student) attended the Gordon Conference in New Hampshire on August 10-15, 2014. He presented the poster, “Spin-flavor structure of excited baryons from a 1/Nc expansion analysis with physical and lattice QCD baryon masses”

• Mr. Ishara Fernando (Graduate Student) attended the Jefferson Laboratory, Theory Seminar on November 24th, 2014. He presented the poster, “Baryon spin-flavor structure from an analysis of lattice QCD results of the baryon spectrum”

• Mr. Ishara Fernando (Graduate Student) gave at talk at the User Group Meeting at Jefferson Laboratory that was held on June 2-3, 2014. His talk was titled, “1/Nc analysis of the spin-flavor structure and mass relations of excited baryons using physical and lattice QCD data.”

• Mr. Juan Guerrero (Graduate Student) under the supervision of Dr. Alberto Accardi attended the 2014 HUGS summer school program at Jefferson Lab, June 2-20, 2014. He also presented a seminar at HUGS titled, “Target Mass Corrections in Semi-inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering”

• Mr. Juan Guerrero (Graduate Student) attended the Gordon Conference on Photonuclear Reactions, Holderness, NH, in August 2014. While at the conference, he presented a poster titled, “Target Mass Corrections in Semi-inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering.”

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• Mr. Bishoy Dongwi (Graduate Student) has passed the PhD qualifying exam in May 2014. His dissertation research will be focused on thre TREK/E36 experiment at J-PARC in Japan, which is expected to run in 2015

• Mr. Bishoy Dongwi (Graduate Student) traveled to J-PARC and KEK two times (November 4, 2014 – January 29, 2015 and February 17 – April 14, 2015) to contribute to the construction of the TREK/E36 experiment at J-PARC

• Mr. Bishoy Dongwi (Graduate Student) remotely attended the TREK/E36 collaboration meeting at KEK, Tsukuba, Japan, May 8-9, 2014 and gave a presentation with the title “GEANT4 Tracking Element (C1-4) Simulation Using QT”

• Mr. Bishoy Dongwi (Graduate Student) attended the HUGS2014 summer school, Jefferson Lab, June 1-20, 2014. He gave a HUGS seminar with the title “The TREK experiment at J-PARC”

• Mr. Bishoy Dongwi (Graduate Student) attended the TREK/E36 collaboration meeting at KEK, Tsukuba, Japan, December 6, 2014 and gave a presentation with the title “Acceptance Study”

• Mr. Bishoy Dongwi (Graduate Student) remotely attended the TREK/E36 collaboration meeting at J-PARC. Tokai, Japan, May 8, 2015 and gave a presentation with the title “Acceptance study and optimum magnetic field determination”

• Mr. Ahmed Elmekawy (Graduate Student), third year medical physics graduate student presented a poster at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), 7/20/2014 Austin, Texas: Distal Edge of Induced PET Activity From Proton Therapy Beams (see http://science.hamptonu.edu/physics/medical/ ).

• Ms. Jessica Freeman (Graduate Student) and Mr. Adeleke Adeyemi (Graduate Student) actively participated in the Physicists Inspiring the Next Generation pilot program (www.nsbping.org) on June 22-June 29, 2014. Ms Freeman delivered several lectures and mentored the students throughout the entire first week in addition to overseeing the daily updates of the social media tools (Twitter, Facebook and Instagram). Mr. Adeyemi mentored the students on one day that also included bringing them to the Green Bank site in West Virginia.

• Ms. Jessica Freeman (Graduate Student) participated in the Girls Inc. Eureka program during which she delivered one lecture to middle and high school students in July of 2014.

• Ms. Jessica Freeman (Graduate Student) under the supervision of Dr. Paul Gueye began preparation for the segmented target experiment with Michigan State University. Calibration tests were performed and will continue through June 2015. Also, a continuation of the data analysis for the MSU 56N(d,n) experiment.

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• Ms. Jesmin Nazeer (Graduate Student) attended the OLYMPUS collaboration meeting at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, March 9-10, 2015

• Ms. Jesmin Nazeer (Graduate Student)attended the DarkLight collaboration meeting at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, March 11-12, 2015

• Ms. Jesmin Nazeer (Graduate Student) attended the Geant4 simulation classes offered by Dr. Paul Gueye in spring 2015

• Mr. Bilal Jones (Junior) gave a physics seminar talk at Hampton University on September 11, 2014. His talk was titled, “Developing the Anode of the Li-Air Flow Battery.”

Undergraduate Students

• Mr. Michael Johnson (Senior) completed all degree requirements and received a B.S. degree in Physics in August 2014. Dr. Hömmerich and Dr. Brown served as research advisors for his capstone research project.

• Mr. Keith Tukes (Senior) performed research in IR Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) during summer 2014. His research results on mid-infrared LIBS of potassium chlorate films on various substrate materials were communicated to collaborators at Brimrose Corporation and Edgewood Chemical Biological Center.

• Mr. Keith Tukes (Senior) successfully defended his capstone thesis entitled "Visible & Infrared Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy of Potassium based Energetic Materials Deposited on Substrates" on April 16, 2015. He graduated with a B.S. degree in Physics in May 2015. Dr. Hömmerich and Dr. Brown served as research advisors on his capstone research project.

• Mr. Keith Tukes (Senior) presented his research at the NSBP meeting (Feb. 28, 2015) and received an award for first place student presentation from the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). Dr. Hömmerich and Dr. Brown served as research advisors.

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• Mr. Cesar Brodowski (Senior) successfully defended his capstone thesis entitled "Optical Spectroscopy and Heat Loading Studies of Yb3+ doped Crystals” on April 16, 2015. He graduated with a B.S. degree in Physics in May 2015. Dr. Hömmerich and Dr. Brown served as research advisors on his capstone research project.

Congratulations Cesar Brodowski and Keith Tukes - B.S. graduates Class of 2015!

• Miss Bria Andrews (sophomore) received a 2014-2015 STEM Bridge Scholarship award from the Virginia Space Grant Consortium.

• Miss Bria Andrews (sophomore) was awarded a $1000 scholarship from Virginia Space Grant Consortium for the academic year 2014-2015. Ms. Andrews will be doing research in photonic materials under supervision by Dr. Brown and Dr. Hömmerich.

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• Miss Amber Simmons (Junior), Miss Bria Andrews (Sophomore) and Mr. Keith Tukes all presented posters at the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) meeting (Feb. 25-28, 2015) and received the SPIE-first place student presentation award and poster of the year award. Dr. EiEi Brown and Dr. Uwe Hömmerich serves as the research advisor these students.

Figure Caption: Keith Tukes, Bria Andrews, and Amber Simmons won SPIE and poster of the year awards at the NSBP conference in Spring 2015.

• Ms. Paige Greenwood under the advisement of Dr. Paul Gueye, presented her research on Geant4-DNA of keloids at the HU Research Symposium on April 10, 2015.

Figure Caption: Simone Hyater-Adams (former HU student), Keith Tukes, Bria Andrews, Amber Simmons, and faculty advisor Dr. Gueye showing their APS, SPIE, and poster of the year awards at the NSBP conference in Spring 2015.

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MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND/OR INNOVATIONS

OF DIVISION/DEPARTMENT

Briefly describe significant activities which brought recognition to your area and Hampton University during the academic school year.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi served as director of HUGS 2014 Graduate Summer Program from June 2-21, 2014. HUGS is now in its 29th edition and was recognized by the DOE Secretary Muniz during his visit on campus in January as an outstanding example of nuclear physics workforce training for the future of the country. Organized in partnership with Jefferson Lab, the 2014 HUGS program saw 32 students from across the globe gathering to attend lectures by distinguished speakers and seminars by Jefferson Lab and Hampton University researchers. During the last week, the students attended a special workshop on “Physics Careers at HUGS,” organized for the first time this year by Dr. Accardi and Ms. Natalie Walford, and presented their own research in a two-day long student seminar series. This workshop presented graduate students and post-graduate researchers in nuclear physics a perspective on academic and non-academic careers open to them as they graduate, or look for their next step in their post-doc career; it included a hands-on session with practical advice on resume and CV writing. The school received excellent student evaluations, and is projected to continue growing in attendance in the next years.

• Dr. Paul Gueye successfully coordinated and launched the Physicists Inspiring the Next Generation (www.nsbping.org ) pilot program. Twenty middle school students from Hampton School and Yorktown School District were a part of a two week long pilot program from June 22-July 5, 2014. The program main focus was to increase interest in students to pursue STEM related careers. The students conducted hands-on laboratory activities at Hampton University, Norfolk State University, Jefferson Lab and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (Greenbank Telescope, in West Virginia). Four undergraduate students from Alabama A& M University, Howard University, Morehouse

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College and Morgan State University and graduate student Ms. Jessica Freeman served as student mentors during the period. The program is now entering its second phase as a full 12-month program and it is expected to provide funding for the Physics Departments to enhance its K-12 outreach.

• Dr. Paul Gueye mentored and supervised for an undergraduate student research experience as part of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. Ms. Garbiela Tesfay from Reyson University, Canada spent two months at Hampton University on research focused on the development of a model for a real time dose monitoring system for brain cancer based proton therapy using the TOPAS tool. She also assisted in PING.

• Dr. Paul Gueye helped to coordinate the EUREKA Summer STEM Program at Hampton University. 30 middle and high school students from the Girls Inc. after school program spent five weeks on campus at Hampton University between Jun 22, 2014 – August 16,

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2014, to conduct various activities in STEM related subjects. This is the second year that this program has been conducted at HU and hosted by the Department of Physics under the guidance of Dr. Gueye. Other departments around the university, including; the School of Science, School of Engineering and Technology, and the School of Journalism have offered lectures and talks. This program is a part of the National Girls Inc. program and is expected to provide new venues to significantly increase the participation of girls in STEM fields. A dedicated collaborative grant between the Physics Dept. and Girls Inc. of the Greater Peninsula will be submitted in the fall of 2014.

• Dr. Paul Gueye conducted part two of a day-long workshop on Physic Education Research. The workshop took place on May 3, 2014, at the University of the District of Columbia. The workshop was in collaboration with the University of Wyoming, the CAPER Center, and Hampton University and included 15 participants from Hampton University, University of Wyoming, University of the District of Columbia, Thomas Nelson Community College, Howard University and Loyola University Maryland and one professional organization (the National Society of Black Physicists). Dr. Jose Goity, Dr. Lars Ewell, and Ms. Ivy K. Jones (graduate student) were amongst the Hampton University participants.

• Dr. Felix Jaetae Seo organized the 2014 Optics Workshop for 6-12 Science Teachers: ACLaSS. The 2014 Optics and Laser Science Summer Workshop was held at Hampton University on June 23-27, 2014 in order to promote the science education in grades 6 – 12. The participating science teachers were selected from forty-nine public and private high-schools in Hampton Roads which covers Chesapeake, Hampton, Jamestown, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Virginia Beach, Williamsburg and Yorktown in the state of Virginia. One of the science teachers participated from Pennsylvania. The participating teachers performed four modules. The first module

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entitled “Polarization of Light” aimed to introduce the property of polarization of light through reflection, Brewster’s angle, and applications. The second module entitled “Reasons for Seasons” was proposed to explain the true reason for seasonal variations in temperature. This module was inspired by the fact that many people believe that the distance from the sun is the reason for seasons, this module shows, with simple supplies, that the angular tilt of the earth axis with respect to the normal to earth’s rotational plane is the true factor. The third module of “The Pretty Colors” was based on spectroscopy. Different light sources were used to analyze their spectral components using spectroscopes and spectrometers. The fourth and last module “Reflection of Light” had an interesting idea of recycling household items and using arts and crafts to build a kaleidoscope where the students experiment with the reflections of light. Four invited speakers presented to the teachers; Dr. Tarek Abdel-Fattah from Christopher Newport University (CNU) presented about his research on carbon nanotubes, Dr. Mahmoud Abdel-Fattah from Hampton University presented about the properties of light, Dr. Sainath Babu from Hampton University presented about PBA toxicology, and Dr. Wei Cao from Old Dominion University (ODU) presented about the electron microscope. The teachers enjoyed a site visit to the Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute (HUPTI) where they received a tour by the executive director Mr. Keith Gregory that was very interesting and educational. Finally, the teachers gave their own presentations that included their comments and tweaks of the four modules.

2014 Optics Workshop for 6-12 Science Teachers: ACLaSS

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• Dr. Felix Jaetae Seo and his ACLASS group consisting of Mr. Quinton Rice, Mr. Anderson Hayes, Ms. LeAnna Austin, Dr. Mahmoud Abdel-fattah, and Dr. Bagher Tabibi visited Lake Taylor Middle School in Norfolk, Virginia on July 16, 2014 to explain the concepts of optics and fun physics. Mr. Quinton Rice and Mr. Anderson Hayes demonstrated spectroscopy of white light, spectroscopy on halogen lamps, as well as the polarization of light. Dr. Mahmoud Abdel-fattah, Dr. Bagher Tabibi, Ms. LeAnna Austin, and Dr. Jaetae Seo also assisted in demonstrating the gyroscope and hoverboard props to teach fundamental physics concepts.

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• Dr. Felix Jaetae Seo organized “Collaborative Workshop on Advanced Materials and Device Development,” on October 03, Friday, 2014 in order to strengthen collaborative research activities between Old Dominion University, George Mason University, University of Tyoko, and Hampton University. The faculties and students at both institutions presented and discussed their research activities, and discussed collaborative activities.

• Dr. Bagher Tabibi did some mentoring over the summer. Two high school students participated in research during the summer of 2014 by collaborating with the NSF-funded HBCU-UP program at HU. The high school students were Mr. James Crawford (rising Junior, Poquoson High School, Poquoson, VA) and Mr. Ryan Kilduff (rising Junior, King’s Fork High School, Suffolk, VA). Dr. Bagher Tabibi provided them lectures every morning, and advised them research activities. Mr. Quinton Rice mentored Mr. James Crawford on the research project of Spectroscopic Emission Studies of CdSe/ZnS Quantum Dots while Mr. Anderson Hayes mentored Mr. Ryan Kilduff on the research project of Absorption and Emission Properties of Gold Nanoparticles.

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• Dr. Felix Jaetae Seo, Dr. Mahmoud Abdel-Fattah, Mr. Anderson Hayles, Mr. Quinton Rice, Ms. LeAnna Austin, and three high school students mailed out “Promote the Legacy and Impact of Hampton University” and “Application Process and Admission Requirement” to 50 high schools in the Hampton Roads area. Also, the information was given to Jason Stoudt Bethel High School; Christopher Basic Denbigh High School; and Connor McKnight Windsor High School.

• Ms. Radha Venkatesan (Grafton High School, Yorktown, VA) participated in Dr. Felix Jaetae Seo’s research group. Her research project was “Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering for Quinine-linked Gold Nanoparticles”. As her research awards were reported in the second fiscal year, she received 1st place award in Materials and Bio-engineering category at the 62nd Tidewater Science Fair Competition. Ms. Venkatesan received two special awards for the project at the State Science Fair. One was from SAIC for Applied Sciences. The other one was the Yale Science and Engineering Award. Recently, she was admitted to the physics program at the University of Richmond with the Presidential Scholarship $60,000, and is chosen to be a Richmond Science Scholar with Robins Science Scholar designation with $229,880.

• Dr. Felix Jaetae Seo, Dr. Bagher Tabibi, Dr. Mahmoud Abdel-Fattah, and Mr. Quinton Rice invited high school students (Jason Stoudt Bethel High School, and Connor McKnight Windsor High School) for their research experience at Hampton University. Jason and Connor, two high school students representing the Virginia Governor's School for gifted students, are preparing several Quantum Dot samples for LED research. Mr. McKnight and Mr. Stoudt are being trained on several different

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techniques involving high vacuum systems in order to further characterize their samples. The students measured absorption and luminescence of their respective quantum dot samples for spectral analysis and were also instructed on fundamental concepts of Raman Spectroscopy. Both students used several different optical setups to analyze different nanoparticles to further aid in the development of photonic devices. Bright white LEDs were eventually developed using quantum dots by each high school student. Both Connor and Jason demonstrated superb understanding of fundamentals of optoelectronics and nanotechnology through oral presentation and writing and gained valuable hands-on lab experience.

• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich and Dr. EiEi Brown continued experiments and modeling on infrared laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (IR-LIBS) for sensing of chemical, biological and energetic materials. The work is of relevance for the development of a new laser based detection technique for applications in homeland security and DOD. The work was done in collaboration with Brimrose Technology Corporation, Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), and the Army Research Laboratory.

• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich and Dr. EiEi Brown continued efforts in the development and spectroscopy of new infrared fluorescent materials for applications in eye-safe lasers and optical refrigeration. During the 2014-2015 academic year new Pr3+ and Ho3+ doped chloride and bromide materials were synthesized, purified, and grown as crystals at HU using a horizontal and vertical Bridgman technique.

• Dr. EiEi Brown initiated a new research effort focusing on the development of novel scintillator materials based on rare-earth doped binary and ternary lead based halides. She developed a new research collaboration with Dr. William Boncher from the Materials Science & Technology division at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich and Dr. EiEi Brown provided a hands-on rocket workshop at for ~70 students (4th graders) at Spratley Gifted Center on May 1 and 6, 2015. On May 7th, a group of 8th graders (+20 students) visited Hampton University for a tour of the optics labs.

Figure Caption: 4th graders from Spratley Gifted Center in Hampton building model rockets during spring 2015.

Figure Caption: Dr. U. Hömmerich and Dr. EiEi Brown performing lab demonstrations for 8th graders from Spratley Gifted Center (May 7, 2015).

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CURRICULUM AND PROGRAM CHANGES

List new curriculum and program changes implemented during the academic year.

• The new undergraduate curriculum was implemented for the Freshman class in the Fall 2014, following the requirement of core competencies established by the University.

• Dr. Paul Gueye developed two new courses for an accelerator physics program and submitted the course description to the department chairman for review and approval.

• Dr. Paul Gueye has implemented and running a trial group on a new teaching method with his Intro Physics class. The process was learned from the two-part one-day long Teaching Excellence workshops he organized in conjunction with the Center for Astronomy and Physics Education Research (CAPER) of the University of Wyoming at Hampton University and the University of District of Columbia.

• Dr. Paul Gueye Completed part 2 of to test a new teaching innovation approach that utilizes a new textbook based on the AAPT/Physics teaching excellence created by the University of the District of Columbia. A report and evaluation will be provided to the Physics Department to assess its impact for non-majors and physics majors.

• Dr. Paul Gueye is working with Howard University to establish a physics/science policy program at HBCUs. A preparatory workshop was held on February 15, 2015 and a preliminary website was created.

• Dr. Lars Ewell initiated an official Hampton University, Department of Physics twitter account, Monday, May 19, 2014. As of 8/26/2014, there are 50 followers and there have been 35 tweets. Account name, HamptonU Physics (@hampton_physics). See https://twitter.com/ .

• Dr. Paul Gueye has submitted two courses for accelerator physics program to be submitted for review in the fall 2014.

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GRANTSMANSHIP/RESEARCH ACTIVITY

List all grantsmanship/research activity conducted by faculty members during the academic year.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi - Received 3rd year continuation award DOE - “Large-x partons from Jefferson Lab to the LHC” – $46,000

• Dr. Alberto Accardi - Submitted, DOE grant renewal, “Large-x partons from JLab to the LHC”, $192,000/3 yrs

• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich - “Development of Laser-Induced Infrared Emission (LITE) for Chemical Sensing Applications”, P.I. U. Hömmerich, Brimrose Corporation, STTR-Phase III subcontract; Total: $40,000. 1. “Laser-Induced Fluorescence Spectroscopy for Optical Refrigeration and Chemical

Sensing”, DOD, P.I.: U. Hömmerich, Total: $615,000, current year: $140,000. 2. “CREST-Advanced Center for Laser Science & Spectroscopy”, NSF, P.I. J.T. Seo,

Co-PI: U. Hömmerich, P. McCormick, Total: $5,000,000, current year: $1,000,000. Proposals submitted:

3. “Instrumentation for Infrared Solid-State Fluorescent Materials Development”, P.I. U. Hömmerich, submitted to the Air Force of Scientific Research (DURIP program); Proposed amount: $162,102; Proposed duration: 08/15/15-08/14/16.

4. Detection of chemical, biological, and energetic surface contaminants using combined UV-VIS & IR Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, P.I. U. Hömmerich, submitted to the Army Research Office, Proposed amount: $600,000; Proposed duration: 08/21/15-08/20/2018

• Dr. Felix Jaetae Seo served as Director and PI for the NSF-funded “Advanced Center

for Laser Science and Spectroscopy,” with a total budget $5M, and submitted the final report as the PI for the ARO-funded “Optical Spectroscopy of Hybrid Metal Nanoparticles and Semiconductor Quantum Dots,” with a total budget $575,000. Dr. Felix Jaetae Seo, as a Co-I with the PI Dr. William Moore, is recently received additional grant “Center for Atmospheric Research and Education (CARE)” from the NASA with a total budget $5M. He also submitted two research grant proposals to DoD and NSF with a total budget $2.6M as listed below.

Grant Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF) Title: Advanced Center for Laser Science and Spectroscopy Program Director and P.I.: Felix Jaetae Seo with Co-PIs: Uwe Hömmerich, Pat McCormick, and Bagher Tabibi Amount: $5,000,000; Time Period: September 01, 2011 – August 31, 2016 Grant Agency: Army Research Office (ARO) Title: Optical Spectroscopy of Hybrid Metal Nanoparticles and Semiconductor Quantum Dots

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P.I.: Felix Jaetae Seo; Amount: $575,000 Time Period: May 09, 2011 – August 08, 2014 Grant Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Title: Center for Atmospheric Research and Education (CARE) Co-I: Felix Jaetae Seo with PI: William Moore; Amount: $5,000,000 Sub-Project: Nonlinear Classical and Quantum Photons for Advanced Lidar PI of Sub-Project: Felix Jaetae Seo; Amount: $762,500 Time period: May 2015 – April 2020

Grant Agency: Department of Defense (DoD) Submitted Proposals

Title: Cubic Nonlinearity of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides in Atomic Layers for Defense Applications PI: Felix Jaetae Seo Amount: $600,000; Time Period: September 01, 2015 – August 31, 2018 Grant Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF) Title: Quantum Coherence in Atomic Layers PI: Felix Jaetae Seo (Hampton University), Audrey K. Ellerbee (Stanford University), and Helmut Baumgart (Old Dominion University) Amount: $2,000,000; Time Period: September 01, 2015 – August 31, 2018

• Dr. Jose Goity - Grant Agency: National Science Foundation, Title: Hadronic and Nuclear Structure and Dynamics Amount $215,000 - Time period: June 1, 2013-May 31, 2016

• Dr. Liguang Tang - Submitted renewal grant proposal to DOE, total amount of $480,000 for three years.

• Dr. Paul Gueye had the following grants: - National Nuclear Science Agency (University of California- Berkeley)

o Active target development to study neutron-unbound nuclei – PI: 0.9 person-month per year, $245,958 (01/01/13-12/31/15)

o Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility o Memorandum of Understanding to fund undergraduate and graduate students

doing research in Accelerator Physics – signed on February 21, 2014 – I: 0 person-month per year, amount: student-dependent (03/01/14-open)

- Pending o National Science Foundation

▪ MRI: Acquisition of a Low Energy Linear Accelerator (LELIA) at Hampton University – PI: Paul Gueye, PI: 2.25 person-month per year, $3,147,580 (08/01/15-07/31/18)

▪ Hampton University Accelerator Science Institute – PI: Paul Gueye, PI: 2.25 person-month per year, $3,782,879 (08/01/15-07/31/18)National Nuclear Science Agency

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• Dr. M. Eric Christy submitted a funding proposal in October of 2014 to the National Science Foundation for $440,000.

• Michael Kohl (PI) has received the third year ($145,000) of a three-year award (totaling $435,000) from the National Science Foundation Nuclear Physics Division:

Exploring Fundamental Properties of Matter with Electromagnetic Probes, National Science Foundation (NSF) Nuclear Physics funding proposal, continuing grant awarded $435,000 for three years ($145,000 for the first year), grant active August 15, 2012 – July 31, 2015

• Michael Kohl (PI) has received an award from DOE ($70,000) in R&D funding for establishing upgrades of the MUSE beam particle GEM tracking system

Collaborative Research: Equipment for and Running of the PSI MUSE Experiment, Department of Energy (DOE) Medium Energy funding proposal, awarded $70,000 for 16 months, grant active September 1, 2014 – February 29, 2016

• Michael Kohl (PI) has received an award from NSF ($329,125) in the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program for the Lepton Tracker of phase I of the DarkLight experiment

MRI Consortium: Collaborative Research: Development of the Phase-I DarkLight Experiment at Jefferson Laboratory, National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation award, awarded $329,125, grant active August 15, 2014 – July 31, 2016

• Michael Kohl (PI) continued research and education facilitated by the Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Award (totaling $799,000):

Search for Time Reversal Symmetry Violation with TREK at J-PARC, Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Research Program, awarded $799,000 under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) for five years, grant active from April 15, 2010 – April 14, 2015

• Michael Kohl (PI) has submitted three new funding proposals to the National Science Foundation and one to the Department of Energy:

Collaborative Research: Equipment for and Running of the PSI MUSE Experiment, Collaborative proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF), submitted on October 30, 2014, requested $215,524 to maintain GEM detectors and to conduct the MUSE experiment at PSI

Investigating Nucleon Structure and Phenomena Beyond the Standard Model, Renewal proposal to the Department of Energy (DOE), submitted on October 28, 2014, requested $1,296,956 for three years

Investigating Nucleon Structure and Phenomena Beyond the Standard Model, Renewal proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF), submitted on October 29, 2014, requested $1,296,956 for three years

Investigating Nucleon Structure and Phenomena Beyond the Standard Model, new proposal to the Department of Energy (DOE), submitted on April 30, 2015, requested $431,000 for two years.

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Include name of project, description, participants, (faculty and students), funding source, expiration date.

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY

• Dr. Liguang Tang collaborates with researchers at MAMI-C in Mainz, Germany to carry out the new experiment on decay pion spectroscopy from May 25 to July 4, 2014.

• Dr. Liguang Tang gave an invited talk at the 2014 International Symposium on Strangeness Nuclear Physics (SNP2014) in Changsha, China from December 12-15, 2014. His talk was titled, “Precision pion spectroscopy on light hypernuclei.”

• Dr. Liguang Tang gave an invited talk, at the 4th joint DNP meeting between JSPS (Japan) and APS (U.S.) in Hawaii, October 7 – 11, 2014. His talk was titled, “Study light hypernuclei from decay pion spectroscopy at MAMI and JLab.”

• Dr. Liguang Tang gave an invited talk at the SPHERE Meeting at Prague, September 9 – 11, 2014. His talk was titled, “High precision hypernuclear spectroscopy at JLab – Past and Future.”

• Dr. Chenhua Chen a new postdoc for Dr. Liguang Tang gave an invited talk at the 2014 International Symposium on Strangeness Nuclear Physics (SNP2014) in Changsha, China from December 12-15, 2014. Her talk was titled, “Spectroscopy of p-shell hypernuclei by the (e,e’K+) reaction.”

• Dr. Liguang Tang served as an international advisory committee member in organizing the 2014 International Workshop on Strangeness Nuclear Physics (SNP2014), to be held in Changsha, China, from December 3 to 6, 2014.

• Dr. Liguang Tang collaborates with researchers from US, Japan, Italy and Germany in planning and designing the future hypernuclear physics experiments at JLab.

• Dr. Jose L. Goity continued his research activities in several areas of theoretical nuclear physics, namely: 1) Completed a work on the calculation of SU(3) symmetry breaking effects on the vector form factors of baryons, a topic of high importance for precision analysis of the semileptonic weak decays of hyperons. 2) In collaboration with graduate student Ishara Fernando a work analyzing the baryon spectrum obtained in lattice QCD calculation using the framework of the 1/Nc expansion has been brought to near completion, and will be submitted for publication during the Fall. 3) In collaboration with Enrique Ruiz Arriola, Univ. of Granada, Spain, a project studying the nucleon-nucleon interactions with effective theories was continued. 4) A new project in collaboration with Enrique Ruiz Arriola and Conrrado Albertus Torres, Univ. of Granada, Spain, studying heavy baryons in the 1/Nc expansion was initiated.

• Dr. Jose L. Goity visited the Department of Physics of the University of Granada, Spain from June 7-26, 2014, and collaborated with Prof. Enrique Ruiz Arriola and Dr. Conrado Albertus Torres.

• Dr. Jose L. Goity served as organizer of the section B “Light Quarks” at the International Conference “Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum XI”, Saint Petersburg, Russia (September 8-12, 2014).

• Dr. Jose L. Goity has been invited to give a plenary talk at the International Conference “Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum XI” in Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 2014, and is organizer of one of the parallel sections of the conference. His talk was

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titled, “The 1/Nc expansion in baryons.”He has also been invited to moderate a round table discussion at the conference.

• Dr. Jose L. Goity visited the Instituto Balseiro, in Bariloche, Argentina, from December 8-19, 2015. During his visit, he gave 12 hours of lectures for graduate students. The topic of his lectures was, “Introduction to Quantum Chromodynamics.”

• Dr. Jose L. Goity has been named Convener for the section on “Light quarks” at the Confinement XII International Conferenece, Thessaloniki, Greece, August 29-September 2, 2016.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi hosted two visitors to Hampton University during the month of May 2014. Dr. Daniele Paolo Anderle and Dr. Felix Ringer (Tuebingen U., Germany). During their visit, there are two papers in preparation as a result. Dr. Accardi also visited Dr. Anderle, Dr. Ringer, and Dr. Vogelsang in July-Aug of 2014 for further collaboration at Tuebingen University in Germany. During his visit, he gave one seminar and one lecture titled “A novel inclusive DIS term form the non perturbative chiral condensate” and “Updates on the CTEQ-JLAB PDF fits.”

• Dr. Alberto Accardi traveled to Frascati National Laboratory (LNF), in Frascati, Italy in July of 2014. He presented one seminar.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi traveled to Frascati National Laboratory (LNF), in Frascati, Italy in November of 2014 for the HiX 2014 International Workshop. He gave an invited talk titled, “PDFs from the CTEQ-JLab collaboration.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi traveled to Benasque, Spain, for the International Workshop on Parton Distributions for the LHC in February of 2015. There he gave an invited talk titled, “CTEQ-JLab plans(and future data from JLab)”

• Dr. Alberto Accardi traveled to Pavia University in Italy several times during the months of Jul-August of 2014. During this time, he collaboration with Dr. A. Bacchetta to prepare one paper for publication. He also gave one invited talk during his visit.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi attended the DIS 2014 (XXII. International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects) in Warsaw, Poland in May of 2014. During this conference, he gave one invited talk titled “The JAM fits of polarized PDFs” and one contributed talk titled, “Global fits of (un)polarized parton distributions”.

• Dr. Eric Christy served on the Scientific Program Committee for the 9th International Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the Few-GeV Region, NuInt14, May 19-24, Seldson Park Hotel, Surrey, UK.

• Dr. Eric Christy presented two invited talks at the 9th International Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the Few-GeV Region, NuInt14, May 19-24, Seldson Park Hotel, Surrey, UK: “High-x, lower W (transition) PDFs” and “TEM model fits to e-A data and ν-A”.

• Dr. Anusha Liyanage, postdoctoral associate in the group of Dr. Michael Kohl, has visited Paul-Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland from June 14-27, 2014 to participate in the test beamtime at the PSI piM1 beamline in preparation of the MUSE experiment.

• Dr. Anusha Liyanage visited PSI, Villigen, Switzerland, to participate in the MUSE test beam experiment from December 2 – 22, 2014.

• Dr. Michael Kohl gave an invited talk at Tel Aviv University, in Tel Aviv, Israel on January 4, 2015. The talk was titled, “The dark side of light.”

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• Dr. Michael Kohl gave an invited talk for a department seminar at INFN Rome, La Sapienza University Rome, in Rome, Italy on January 26, 2015. The title of his talk was “The Proton Charge Radius Puzzle and the MUSE Experiment.”

• Dr. Michael Kohl visited the High-Energy Research Association (KEK) in Tsukuba, Japan from May 4-10, 2014, to attend the TREK collaboration meeting.

• Dr. Michael Kohl has visited Paul-Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland from June 15-22, 2014 to participate in the test beamtime at the PSI piM1 beamline in preparation of the MUSE experiment.

• Dr. Michael Kohl gave an invited talk at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland on September 9, 2014. His talk was titled, “Investigation of two-photon exchange with the OLYMPUS experiment.”

• Dr. Michael Kohl gave a contributed talk at the 2014 Joint APS/JPS Division of Nuclear Physics Fall Meeting (HAW2014), Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii, on October 7- 11, 2014. His talk was titled, “Status of the TREK/E36 experiment at J-PARC.”

• Dr. Michael Kohl gave a talk at the MUSE collaboration meeting, PSI, Villigen, Switzerland, on December 13-14, 2014. His talk was titled, “GEM chambers – Plans to improve and finalize GEM setup.”

• Dr. Michael Kohl has given a nuclear physics lecture series at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, held on December 30, 2014 and January 6, 2015.

• Dr. Michael Kohl gave an invited seminar talk on June 10, 2014, at the Joint Experiment-Theory Seminar, Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, with the title “What is so puzzling about the electric charge of the proton?”

• Dr. Michael Kohl presented a technical design report /experimental proposal in November 2014 and the technical review on February 9, 2015. It was titled, “Studying the Proton “Radius” Puzzle with μp Elastic Scattering,” The MUon proton Scattering Experiment (MUSE) Collaboration, R. Gilman et al.

• Dr. Michael Kohl has presented the invited talk ”The TREK experiment at J-PARC” at the Proton Radius Puzzle Workshop, Mainz, Germany, June 2-6, 2014

• Dr. Michael Kohl has presented the invited talk “EM Formfactors and OLYMPUS” at the 13th International Workshop on Meson Production, Properties and Interaction (MESON2014), Cracow, Poland, May 29-June 3, 2014. • “Muon Elastic Scattering with MUSE at PSI”, MUSE Collaboration (M. Kohl for the

MUSE collaboration), Proc. Int. Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC2013), Florence, Italy, June 2-7, 2013, EPJ Web Conf. 66 (2014) 06010, DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/20146606010; “Probing two-photon exchange with OLYMPUS”, OLYMPUS Collaboration (Michael Kohl for the OLYMPUS collaboration), Proc. Int. Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC2013), Florence, Italy, June 2-7, 2013, EPJ Web Conf. 66 (2014) 06009, DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/20146606009

• “EM Form Factors and OLYMPUS”, OLYMPUS Collaboration (Michael Kohl for the OLYMPUS collaboration), Proc. 13th International Workshop on Production, Properties and Interaction of Mesons (MESON2014), Cracow, Poland, May 29 - June 3, 2014, EPJ Web of Conferences 81, 01006 (2014), DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/20148101006

• “The Muon Scattering Experiment (MUSE) at PSI and the proton radius puzzle”, MUSE Collaboration (Michael Kohl for the MUSE collaboration), Proc. 13th International Workshop on Production, Properties and Interaction of Mesons

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(MESON2014), Cracow, Poland, May 29 - June 3, 2014, EPJ Web of Conferences 81, 02008 (2014), DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/20148102008.

• Dr. Michael Kohl was a lead in the TREK/E36 construction at K1.1BR beam line at J-PARC November 2014 – April 2015, data taking started April 7, 2015

• Dr. Michael Kohl served as physics coordinator for OLYMPUS project at DESY, Hamburg, Germany. Served previously as elected spokesman from July 2011 until April 2013. Dr. Kohl co-initiated the OLYMPUS project, which is to determine the two-photon exchange effect in elastic lepton-proton scattering. The OLYMPUS experiment has ~50 PhD members from 13 institutions in six countries. The OLYMPUS analysis is progressing well, with preliminary results expected by end of 2014.

• Dr. Michael Kohl serves as an international spokesperson of the TREK program (Time Reversal Violation Experiment with Kaons) at J-PARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex). The TREK collaboration has ~40 PhD members from USA, Japan, Canada, Russia, S. Korea and Vietnam).

• Dr. Michael Kohl is a co-initiated the muon-proton scattering experiment MUSE at Paul-Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland to address the proton radius puzzle. The experiment has been PAC-approved in January 2013. A collaborative funding proposal of Hampton University, Rutgers University, George Washington University and University of South Carolina was submitted in October 2014. The experiment has been technically reviewed in February 2015. Negotiations with NSF and DOE have continued. MUSE is receiving seed funding to carry out R&D before the project can be fully funded.

• Dr. Paul Gueye hosted visiting scientist Dr. Eric Voutier from the University of Grenoble (France) for a month this summer to assist in the data analysis of the PEPPo experiment with one of the graduate students he advises, Mr. Adeleke Adeyemi. Data analysis on this experiement will also continue to be conducted at Jefferson Lab during the fall of 2014. (http://positron.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page )

• Dr. Narbe Kalantarians traveled to J-PARC and KEK four times (October 25 – November 7 and December 1-19, 2014; January 14-29 and March 28 – April 7, 2015) to contribute to the construction of the TREK/E36 experiment at J-PARC

• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich and Dr. EiEi Brown continued to collaborate with Dr. L. Nemes from the Natural Science Research Center in Budapest, Hungary on IR LIBS studies on carbon.

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• Ei Ei Brown, Uwe Hömmerich, and Sudhir Trivedi; "Comparative spectroscopic studies of Ho: KPb2Cl5, Ho: KPb2Br5, and Ho: YAG for 2 µm laser cooling applications", submitted for publication in Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 9380.

PUBLICATIONS

• EiEi Brown, Uwe Hömmerich, Althea Bluiett, and Sudhir Trivedi; "Optical properties of Pr3+, Ce3+, and Eu3+ doped KPC", submitted for publication in Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 9359.

• A. Accardi, D.P. Anderle, F.Ringer “Interplay of Threshold Resummation and Hadron Mass Corrections in Deep Inelastic Processes” accepted in Phys. Rev. D

• P. J. Ehlers, A. Accardi, L. T. Brady and W. Melnitchouk, “Nuclear effects in the proton-deuteron Drell-Yan process,” Phys. Rev. D 90 (2014) 014010

• Quinton Rice, Sangram Raut, Rahul Chib, Zygmunt Gryczynski, Ignacy Gryczynski, Wenjin Zhang, Xinhua Zhong, Mahmoud Abdel-Fattah, Bagher Tabibi, and Felix Jaetae Seo, “Fractional Contributions of Defect-originated Photoluminescence from CuInS2/ZnS Coreshells for Hybrid White LEDs,” Journal of Nanomaterials 2014, 979875 (2014).

• Saara A. Khan, Gennifer T. Smith, Felix Seo, and Audrey K. Ellerbee, “Label-free and non-contact optical biosensing of glucose with quantum dots,” Biosensors and Bioelectronics 64, 30 (2015).

• Quinton Rice, Sangram Raut, Rahul Chib, Zygmunt Gryczynski, Ignacy Gryczynski, Wenjin Zhang, Xinhua Zhong, Mahmoud Abdel-Fattah, Bagher Tabibi, and Jaetae Seo, “Optical Properties of CuInS2/ZnS Coreshells for Hybrid White LEDs,” Journal of Nanomaterials (2014).

• Quinton Rice, Anderson Hayes, Sungsoo Jung, Andrew Wang, Hyoyeong Cho, Wan-Joong Kim, William Yu, Mahmoud Abdel-Fattah, Bagher Tabibi, and Felix Jaetae Seo, “Plasmon-Coupled CdSe/ZnS and CdTe/CdS/ZnS Coreshells for Hybrid Light Emitting Devices,” Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2014, submitted).

• Saara A. Khan, Gennifer T. Smith, Felix Seo, and Audrey K. Ellerbee, “Label-free and non-contact optical biosensing of glucose with quantum dots,” Biosensors and Bioelectronics (2014, submitted)

• The Nc dependencies of baryon masses: Analysis with Lattice QCD and Effective Theory. A. Calle Cordon, Th. DeGrand and J.L. Goity, Phys.Rev. D90 (2014) 014505.

• QCD and Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories: Challenges and Perspectives. J.L. Goity et al, Eur. Phys. J. C74 (2014) 10, 2981.

• Baryon vector current in the chiral and 1/Nc expansions. R. Flores-Mendieta and J.L. Goity, Phys. Rev. D90 (2014) 11, 114008.

• Baryon spin-flavor structure from an analysis of lattice QCD results of the baryon spectrum. I. Fernando (HU graduate student) and J.L. Goity, Phys.Rev. D91 (2015) 3, 036005.

• P. Gueye. “A Rigidity Spectrometer for the Facility for Rare Isotopes Beams (FRIB), White Paper, December 2014.

• P. Gueye. Conference on Introductory Physics for the Life Sciences Report, American Association for Physics Teachers, Spring 2015

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• Alberto Accardi, “Nuclear effects in the proton-deuteron Drell-Yan process. By P.J. Ehlers, A. Accardi, L.T. Brady, W. Melnitchouk. Phys.Rev. D90 (2014) 014010 Note: this was coauthored with a HU summer graduate student

• A. Accardi, D.P. Anderle, F.Ringer. “Interplay of Threshold Resummation and Hadron Mass Corrections in Deep Inelastic Processes”, Phys.Rev. D91 (2015) 034008

• "Hadron mass corrections in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering," J. V. Guerrero (Hu Graduate Student), J. J. Ethier, A. Accardi, S. W. Casper, W. Melnitchouk, arXiv:1505.02739

• Lars Ewell C Butuceanu, L Zhu and L Ewell, ‘Distal Edge Activity Fall Off Of Proton Therapy Beams’, Med. Phys. 41, 166 (2014); http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.4888101

• Jose L. Goity, Calle Cordon, T. DeGrand, and J.L. Goity. “Nc dependencies of baryon masses: Analysis with lattice QCD and effective theory.” Phys. Rev. D 90, 014505 – Published 14 July 2014.

• Eric Christy, B. G. Tice et al. (MINERvA Collaboration) “Measurement of Ratios of νμ Charged-Current Cross Sections on C, Fe, and Pb to CH at Neutrino Energies 2–20 GeV”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 231801, June 2014.

• Eric Christy, G. M. Huber et al. (Jefferson Lab F_{π} Collaboration), “Separated Response Function Ratios in Exclusive, Forward π± Electroproduction”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 182501, May 2014.

• Ei Ei Brown, Uwe Hömmerich, Althea Bluiett, Courtney Kucera, John Ballato, and Sudhir Trivedi; Near-Infrared and Upconversion Luminescence Properties in Transparent Er doped Yttria Ceramics under ~1.5 m Excitation, Journal of t he American Ceramic Society, Vol. 97, Issue 7, pages 2105-2110, July 2014.

• Ei Ei Brown, Uwe Hömmerich, and Sudhir Trivedi; "Comparative spectroscopic studies of Ho: KPb2Cl5, Ho: KPb2Br5, and Ho: YAG for 2 µm laser cooling applications" abstract submitted to SPIE Photonics West 2015.

• Dr. Paul Gueye, Tesfamicael B., Avery S., Gueye, P., Lyons, D., & Mahesh M. Scintillating fiber based in-vivo dose monitoring system to the rectum in proton therapy of prostate cancer: A Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation. Int J Cancer Ther Oncol 2014; 2(2):02024.

• Performance test of a lead-glass counter for the J-PARC E36 experiment, Y. Miyazaki, S. Shimizu, S. Bianchin, C. Djalali, D. Gill, J. Jiang, M. Hasinoff, K. Horie, Y. Igarashi, J. Imazato, A. Ivashkin, M. Kohl, R. Narikawa, R. Pywell, S. Strauch, M. Tabata, A. Toyoda, H. Yamazaki, and T. Yoshioka, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A779, 13-17 (2015).

• Experiments with the High Resolution Kaon Spectrometer at JLab Hall C and the new spectroscopy of 12

ΛB hypernuclei, L. Tang, C. Chen, T. Gogami, D. Kawama, Y. Han, L. Yuan, A. Matsumura, Y. Okayasu, T. Seva, V. M. Rodriguez, P. Baturin, A. Acha, P. Achenbach, A. Ahmidouch, I. Albayrak, D. Androic, A. Asaturyan, R. Asaturyan, O. Ates, R. Badui, O. K. Baker, F. Benmokhtar, W. Boeglin, J. Bono, P. Bosted, E. Brash, P. Carter, R. Carlini, A. Chiba, M. E. Christy, L. Cole, M. M. Dalton, S. Danagoulian, A. Daniel, R. De Leo, V. Dharmawardane, D. Doi, K. Egiyan, M. Elaasar, R. Ent, H. Fenker, Y. Fujii, M. Furic, M. Gabrielyan, L. Gan, F. Garibaldi, D. Gaskell, A. Gasparian, E. F. Gibson, P. Gueye, O. Hashimoto, D. Honda, T. Horn, B. Hu, Ed V. Hungerford, C. Jayalath, M. Jones, K.

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• “Separated Response Functions in Exclusive, Forward π± Electroproduction on Deuterium” Jefferson Lab Fπ Collaboration, (G.M. Huber (Regina U.) , H.P. Blok (Vrije U., Amsterdam & NIKHEF, Amsterdam) , C. Butuceanu (Regina U.) , D. Gaskell (Jefferson Lab) , T. Horn (Catholic U.) , D.J. Mack, D. Abbott (Jefferson Lab) , K. Aniol (Cal State, L.A.) , H. Anklin (Florida Intl. U. & Jefferson Lab) , C. Armstrong (William-Mary Coll.) , J. Arrington (Argonne) , K. Assamagan, S. Avery (Hampton U.) , O.K. Baker (Hampton U. & Jefferson Lab) , B. Barrett (St. Mary's U., Halifax) , E.J. Beise (Maryland U.) , C. Bochna (Illinois U., Urbana) , W. Boeglin (Florida Intl. U.) , E.J. Brash (Regina U.) , H. Breuer, C.C. Chang, N. Chant (Maryland U.) , M.E. Christy (Hampton U.) , J. Dunne (Jefferson Lab) , T. Eden (Jefferson Lab & Norfolk State U.) , R. Ent, H. Fenker (Jefferson Lab) , E.F. Gibson (Cal State, Sacramento) , R. Gilman (Rutgers U., Piscataway & Jefferson Lab) , K. Gustafsson (Maryland U.) , W. Hinton (Hampton U.) , R.J. Holt, H. Jackson (Argonne) , S. Jin (Kyungpook Natl. U.) , M.K. Jones (William-Mary Coll.) , C.E. Keppel (Hampton U. & Jefferson Lab) , P.H. Kim, W. Kim (Kyungpook Natl. U.) , P.M. King (Maryland U.) , A. Klein (Old Dominion U.) , D. Koltenuk (Pennsylvania U.) , V. Kovaltchouk (Regina U.) , M. Liang (Jefferson Lab) , J. Liu (Maryland U.) , G.J. Lolos (Regina U.) , A. Lung (Jefferson Lab) , D.J. Margaziotis (Cal State, L.A.) , P. Markowitz (Florida Intl. U.) , A. Matsumura (Tohoku U.) , D. McKee (New Mexico State U.) , D. Meekins, J. Mitchell (Jefferson Lab) , T. Miyoshi (Tohoku U.) , H. Mkrtchyan (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) , B. Mueller (Argonne) , G. Niculescu, I. Niculescu (James Madison U.) , Y. Okayasu (Tohoku U.) , L. Pentchev, C. Perdrisat (William-Mary Coll.) , D. Pitz (SPhN, DAPNIA, Saclay) , D. Potterveld (Argonne) , V. Punjabi (Norfolk State U.) , L.M. Qin (Old Dominion U.) , P.E. Reimer (Argonne) , J. Reinhold (Florida Intl. U.) , J. Roche (Jefferson Lab) , P.G. Roos (Maryland U.) , A. Sarty (St. Mary's U., Halifax) , I.K. Shin (Kyungpook Natl. U.) , G.R. Smith (Jefferson Lab) , S. Stepanyan (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) , L.G. Tang (Hampton U. & Jefferson Lab) , V. Tadevosyan (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) , V. Tvaskis (Vrije U., Amsterdam & NIKHEF, Amsterdam) , R.L.J. van der Meer (Regina U.) , K. Vansyoc (Old Dominion U.) , D. Van Westrum (Colorado U.) , S. Vidakovic (Regina U.) , J. Volmer (Vrije U., Amsterdam & DESY) , W. Vulcan, G. Warren, S.A. Wood (Jefferson Lab) , C. Xu (Regina U.) , C. Yan (Jefferson Lab) , W.X. Zhao (MIT) , X. Zheng (Argonne) , B. Zihlmann (Virginia U. & Jefferson Lab) ). Published in Phys.Rev. C91 (2015) 1, 015202.

• “MINERvA neutrino detector response measured with test beam data”, MINERvA Collaboration MINERvA Collaboration (L. Aliaga (William-Mary Coll.) , O. Altinok

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(Tufts U.) , C. Araujo Del Castillo (Lima, Pont. U. Catolica) , L. Bagby, L. Bellantoni (Fermilab) , W.F. Bergan (William-Mary Coll.) , A. Bodek, R. Bradford (Rochester U.) , A. Bravar (Geneva U.) , H. Budd (Rochester U.) , A. Butkevich (Moscow, INR) , D.A. Martinez Caicedo (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF & Fermilab) , M.F. Carneiro (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF) , M.E. Christy (Hampton U.) , J. Chvojka (Rochester U.) , H. da Motta (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF) , J. Devan (William-Mary Coll.) , G.A. Diaz (Rochester U. & Lima, Pont. U. Catolica) , S.A. Dytman, B. Eberly (Pittsburgh U.) , J. Felix (Guanajuato U.) , L. Fields (Northwestern U.) , R. Fine, R. Flight (Rochester U.) , A.M. Gago (Lima, Pont. U. Catolica) , T. Golan (Rochester U. & Fermilab) , A. Gomez (Rochester U.) , R. Gran (Minnesota U., Duluth) , D.A. Harris (Fermilab) , A. Higuera (Rochester U. & Guanajuato U.) , I.J. Howley (William-Mary Coll.) , K. Hurtado (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF & Lima, Natl. Eng. U.) , J. Kleykamp (Rochester U.) , M. Kordosky (William-Mary Coll.) , M. Lanari (Minnesota U., Duluth) , T. Le (Rutgers U., Piscataway) , A.J. Leister (William-Mary Coll.) , A. Lovlein (Minnesota U., Duluth) , E. Maher (North Adams State Coll.) , W.A. Mann (Tufts U.) , C.M. Marshall (Rochester U.) , K.S. McFarland (Rochester U. & Fermilab) , C.L. McGivern (Pittsburgh U.) , A.M. McGowan (Rochester U.) , B. Messerly (Pittsburgh U.) , J. Miller (Santa Maria U., Valparaiso) , W. Miller (Minnesota U., Duluth) , A. Mislivec (Rochester U.) , J.G. Morfin (Fermilab) , J. Mousseau (Florida U.) , T. Muhlbeier (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF) , D. Naples (Pittsburgh U.) , J.K. Nelson, A. Norrick (William-Mary Coll.) , N. Ochoa (Lima, Pont. U. Catolica) , C.D. O'Connor (William-Mary Coll.) , B. Osmanov (Florida U.) , J. Osta (Fermilab) , V. Paolone (Pittsburgh U.) , C.E. Patrick, L. Patrick (Northwestern U.) , G.N. Perdue (Fermilab & Rochester U.) , C.E. Perez Lara (Lima, Pont. U. Catolica) , L. Rakotondravohitra (Fermilab) , M.A. Ramirez (Guanajuato U.) , H. Ray (Florida U.) , L. Ren (Pittsburgh U.) , P.A. Rodrigues (Rochester U.) , P. Rubinov (Fermilab) , C.R. Rude (Minnesota U., Duluth) , D. Ruterbories (Rochester U.) , H. Schellman (Northwestern U.) , D.W. Schmitz (Chicago U., EFI & Fermilab) , C.J. Solano Salinas (Lima, Natl. Eng. U.) , N. Tagg (Otterbein Coll.) , B.G. Tice (Rutgers U., Piscataway) , Z. Urrutia, E. Valencia (Guanajuato U.) , T. Walton (Hampton U.) , A. Westerberg (Minnesota U., Duluth) , J. Wolcott (Rochester U.) , N. Woodward (Minnesota U., Duluth) , M. Wospakrik (Florida U.) , G. Zavala (Guanajuato U.) , D. Zhang (William-Mary Coll.) , B.P. Ziemer (UC, Irvine) ). Jan 26, 2015. 15 pp. Published in Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A789 (2015) 28-42.

• “Measurement of muon plus proton final states in νμ Interactions on Hydrocarbon at <Eν> = 4.2 GeV”, By MINERvA Collaboration , MINERvA Collaboration (T. Walton (Hampton U.) , M. Betancourt (Fermilab) , L. Aliaga (William-Mary Coll. & Lima, Pont. U. Catolica) , O. Altinok (Tufts U.) , A. Bodek (Rochester U.) , A. Bravar (Geneva U.) , H. Budd (Rochester U.) , M.J. Bustamante (Lima, Pont. U. Catolica) , A. Butkevich (Moscow, INR) , D.A. Martinez Caicedo (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF & Fermilab) , M.F. Carneiro, C.M. Castromonte (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF) , M.E. Christy (Hampton U.) , J. Chvojka (Rochester U.) , H. da Motta (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF) , M. Datta (Hampton U.) , J. Devan (William-Mary Coll.) , S.A. Dytman (Pittsburgh U.) , G.A. Diaz (Lima, Pont. U. Catolica) , B. Eberly (Pittsburgh U.) , J. Felix (Guanajuato U.) , L. Fields (Northwestern U.) , R. Fine (Rochester U.) , G.A. Fiorentini (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF) , A.M. Gago (Lima, Pont. U. Catolica) , H. Gallagher (Tufts U.) , R. Gran (Minnesota U., Duluth) , D.A. Harris (Fermilab) , A. Higuera (Rochester U. & Guanajuato U.) , K. Hurtado (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF & Lima, Natl. Eng. U.) , J. Kleykamp (Rochester U.) , M. Kordosky

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(William-Mary Coll.) , S.A. Kulagin (Moscow, INR) , T. Le (Rutgers U., Piscataway) , E. Maher (North Adams State Coll.) , S. Manly (Rochester U.) , W.A. Mann (Tufts U.) , C.M. Marshall (Rochester U.) , C.Martin Mari (Geneva U.) , K.S. McFarland (Rochester U. & Fermilab) , C.L. McGivern (Pittsburgh U.) , A.M. McGowan (Rochester U.) , B. Messerly (Pittsburgh U.) , J. Miller (Santa Maria U., Valparaiso) , A. Mislivec (Rochester U.) , J.G. Morfin (Fermilab) , J. Mousseau (Florida U.) , T. Muhlbeier (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF) , D. Naples (Pittsburgh U.) , J.K. Nelson, A. Norrick (William-Mary Coll.) , J. Osta (Fermilab) , V. Paolone (Pittsburgh U.) , J. Park (Rochester U.) , C.E. Patrick (Northwestern U.) , G.N. Perdue (Fermilab & Rochester U.) , L. Rakotondravohitra (Fermilab) , R.D. Ransome (Rutgers U., Piscataway) , H. Ray (Florida U.) , L. Ren (Pittsburgh U.) , P.A. Rodrigues, D. Ruterbories (Rochester U.) , H. Schellman (Northwestern U.) , D.W. Schmitz (Chicago U., EFI & Fermilab) , C. Simon (UC, Irvine) , F.D. Snider, J.T. Sobczyk (Fermilab) , C.J. Solano Salinas (Lima, Natl. Eng. U.) , N. Tagg (Otterbein Coll.) , B.G. Tice (Rutgers U., Piscataway) , E. Valencia (Guanajuato U.) , J. Wolcott (Rochester U.) , M. Wospakrik (Florida U.) , G. Zavala (Guanajuato U.) , D. Zhang (William-Mary Coll.) , B.P. Ziemer (UC, Irvine) ) Phys.Rev. D91 (2015) 7, 071301.

• "Measurement of the structure function of the nearly free neutron using spectator tagging in inelastic 2H(e, e'ps)X scattering with CLAS", CLAS Collaboration (S. Tkachenko (Old Dominion U.) , N. Baillie (William-Mary Coll. & Hampton U.) , S.E. Kuhn (Old Dominion U.) , J. Zhang (Old Dominion U. & Jefferson Lab) , J. Arrington (Argonne) , P. Bosted (William-Mary Coll. & Jefferson Lab) , S. Bultmann (Old Dominion U.) , M.E. Christy (Hampton U.) , H. Fenker (Jefferson Lab) , K.A. Griffioen (William-Mary Coll.) , N. Kalantarians (Old Dominion U. & Virginia U.) , C.E. Keppel (Hampton U. & Jefferson Lab) , W. Melnitchouk, V. Tvaskis (Jefferson Lab) , K.P. Adhikari (Old Dominion U.) , M. Aghasyan (Frascati) , M.J. Amaryan (Old Dominion U.) , S. Anefalos Pereira (Frascati) , H. Avakian (Jefferson Lab) , J. Ball (DAPNIA, Saclay) , N.A. Baltzell (Argonne & South Carolina U.) , M. Battaglieri (INFN, Genoa) , I. Bedlinskiy (Moscow, ITEP) , A.S. Biselli (Fairfield U. & Carnegie Mellon U.) , W.J. Briscoe (George Washington U.) , W.K. Brooks (Santa Maria U., Valparaiso & Jefferson Lab) , V.D. Burkert, D.S. Carman (Jefferson Lab) , A. Celentano (INFN, Genoa) , S. Chandavar (Ohio U.) , G. Charles (DAPNIA, Saclay) , P.L. Cole (Idaho State U.) , M. Contalbrigo (INFN, Ferrara) , O. Cortes (Idaho State U.) , V. Crede (Florida State U.) , A. D'Angelo (INFN, Rome & Rome U.) , N. Dashyan (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) , R. De Vita (INFN, Genoa) , E. De Sanctis (Frascati) , A. Deur (Jefferson Lab) , C. Djalali (South Carolina U.) , G.E. Dodge (Old Dominion U.) , D. Doughty (Christopher Newport U. & Jefferson Lab) , R. Dupre (Orsay, IPN) , H. Egiyan (Jefferson Lab & New Hampshire U.) , A. El Alaoui, L. El Fassi (Argonne) , L. Elouadrhiri (Jefferson Lab) , P. Eugenio (Florida State U.) , G. Fedotov (South Carolina U. & Moscow State U.) , J.A. Fleming (Edinburgh U.) , B. Garillon (Orsay, IPN) , N. Gevorgyan, Y. Ghandilyan (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) , G.P. Gilfoyle (Richmond U.) , K.L. Giovanetti (James Madison U.) , F.X. Girod (Jefferson Lab & DAPNIA, Saclay) , J.T. Goetz (Ohio U.) , E. Golovatch (Moscow State U.) , R.W. Gothe (South Carolina U.) , M. Guidal (Orsay, IPN) , L. Guo (Florida Intl. U.) , K. Hafidi (Argonne) , H. Hakobyan (Santa Maria U., Valparaiso & Yerevan Phys. Inst.) , C. Hanretty (Virginia U.) , N. Harrison (Connecticut U.) , M. Hattawy (Orsay, IPN) , K. Hicks (Ohio U.) , D. Ho (Carnegie Mellon U.) , M. Holtrop (New Hampshire U.) , C.E.

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• "Measurement of Ratios of νμ Charged-Current Cross Sections on C, Fe, and Pb to CH at Neutrino Energies 2-20 GeV", MINERvA Collaboration (L. Aliaga (William-Mary Coll.) , O. Altinok (Tufts U.) , C. Araujo Del Castillo (Lima, Pont. U. Catolica) , L. Bagby, L. Bellantoni (Fermilab) , W.F. Bergan (William-Mary Coll.) , A. Bodek, R. Bradford (Rochester U.) , A. Bravar (Geneva U.) , H. Budd (Rochester U.) , A. Butkevich (Moscow, INR) , D.A. Martinez Caicedo (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF & Fermilab) , M.F. Carneiro (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF) , M.E. Christy (Hampton U.) , J. Chvojka (Rochester U.) , H. da Motta (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF) , J. Devan (William-Mary Coll.) , G.A. Diaz (Rochester U. & Lima, Pont. U. Catolica) , S.A. Dytman, B. Eberly (Pittsburgh U.) , J. Felix (Guanajuato U.) , L. Fields (Northwestern U.) , R. Fine, R. Flight (Rochester U.) , A.M. Gago (Lima, Pont. U. Catolica) , T. Golan (Rochester U. & Fermilab) , A. Gomez (Rochester U.) , R. Gran (Minnesota U., Duluth) , D.A. Harris (Fermilab) , A. Higuera (Rochester U. & Guanajuato U.) , I.J. Howley (William-Mary Coll.) , K. Hurtado (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF & Lima, Natl. Eng. U.) , J. Kleykamp (Rochester U.) , M. Kordosky

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(William-Mary Coll.) , M. Lanari (Minnesota U., Duluth) , T. Le (Rutgers U., Piscataway) , A.J. Leister (William-Mary Coll.) , A. Lovlein (Minnesota U., Duluth) , E. Maher (North Adams State Coll.) , W.A. Mann (Tufts U.) , C.M. Marshall (Rochester U.) , K.S. McFarland (Rochester U. & Fermilab) , C.L. McGivern (Pittsburgh U.) , A.M. McGowan (Rochester U.) , B. Messerly (Pittsburgh U.) , J. Miller (Santa Maria U., Valparaiso) , W. Miller (Minnesota U., Duluth) , A. Mislivec (Rochester U.) , J.G. Morfin (Fermilab) , J. Mousseau (Florida U.) , T. Muhlbeier (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF) , D. Naples (Pittsburgh U.) , J.K. Nelson, A. Norrick (William-Mary Coll.) , N. Ochoa (Lima, Pont. U. Catolica) , C.D. O'Connor (William-Mary Coll.) , B. Osmanov (Florida U.) , J. Osta (Fermilab) , V. Paolone (Pittsburgh U.) , C.E. Patrick, L. Patrick (Northwestern U.) , G.N. Perdue (Fermilab & Rochester U.) , C.E. Perez Lara (Lima, Pont. U. Catolica) , L. Rakotondravohitra (Fermilab) , M.A. Ramirez (Guanajuato U.) , H. Ray (Florida U.) , L. Ren (Pittsburgh U.) , P.A. Rodrigues (Rochester U.) , P. Rubinov (Fermilab) , C.R. Rude (Minnesota U., Duluth) , D. Ruterbories (Rochester U.) , H. Schellman (Northwestern U.) , D.W. Schmitz (Chicago U., EFI & Fermilab) , C.J. Solano Salinas (Lima, Natl. Eng. U.) , N. Tagg (Otterbein Coll.) , B.G. Tice (Rutgers U., Piscataway) , Z. Urrutia, E. Valencia (Guanajuato U.) , T. Walton (Hampton U.) , A. Westerberg (Minnesota U., Duluth) , J. Wolcott (Rochester U.) , N. Woodward (Minnesota U., Duluth) , M. Wospakrik (Florida U.) , G. Zavala (Guanajuato U.) , D. Zhang (William-Mary Coll.) , B.P. Ziemer (UC, Irvine) ), Phys.Rev.Lett. 112 (2014) 23, 231801.

• "Separated Response Function Ratios in Exclusive, Forward π± Electroproduction", Jefferson Lab Fpi Collaboration (G.M. Huber (Regina U.) , H.P. Blok (Vrije U., Amsterdam & NIKHEF, Amsterdam) , C. Butuceanu (Regina U.) , D. Gaskell (Jefferson Lab) , T. Horn (Catholic U.) , D.J. Mack, D. Abbott (Jefferson Lab) , K. Aniol (Cal State, L.A.) , H. Anklin (Florida Intl. U. & Jefferson Lab) , C. Armstrong (William-Mary Coll.) , J. Arrington (Argonne) , K. Assamagan, S. Avery (Hampton U.) , O.K. Baker (Hampton U. & Jefferson Lab) , B. Barrett (St. Mary's U., Halifax) , E.J. Beise (Maryland U.) , C. Bochna (Illinois U., Urbana) , W. Boeglin (Florida Intl. U.) , E.J. Brash (Regina U.) , H. Breuer, C.C. Chang, N. Chant (Maryland U.) , M.E. Christy (Hampton U.) , J. Dunne (Jefferson Lab) , T. Eden (Jefferson Lab & Norfolk State U.) , R. Ent, H. Fenker (Jefferson Lab) , E.F. Gibson (Cal State, Sacramento) , R. Gilman (Rutgers U., Piscataway & Jefferson Lab) , K. Gustafsson (Maryland U.) , W. Hinton (Hampton U.) , R.J. Holt, H. Jackson (Argonne) , S. Jin (Kyungpook Natl. U.) , M.K. Jones (William-Mary Coll.) , C.E. Keppel (Hampton U. & Jefferson Lab) , P.H. Kim, W. Kim (Kyungpook Natl. U.) , P.M. King (Maryland U.) , A. Klein (Old Dominion U.) , D. Koltenuk (Pennsylvania U.) , V. Kovaltchouk (Regina U.) , M. Liang (Jefferson Lab) , J. Liu (Maryland U.) , G.J. Lolos (Regina U.) , A. Lung (Jefferson Lab) , D.J. Margaziotis (Cal State, L.A.) , P. Markowitz (Florida Intl. U.) , A. Matsumura (Tohoku U.) , D. McKee (New Mexico State U.) , D. Meekins, J. Mitchell (Jefferson Lab) , T. Miyoshi (Tohoku U.) , H. Mkrtchyan (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) , B. Mueller (Argonne) , G. Niculescu, I. Niculescu (James Madison U.) , Y. Okayasu (Tohoku U.) , L. Pentchev, C. Perdrisat (William-Mary Coll.) , D. Pitz (SPhN, DAPNIA, Saclay) , D. Potterveld (Argonne) , V. Punjabi (Norfolk State U.) , L.M. Qin (Old Dominion U.) , P.E. Reimer (Argonne) , J. Reinhold (Florida Intl. U.) , J. Roche (Jefferson Lab) , P.G. Roos (Maryland U.) , A. Sarty (St. Mary's U., Halifax) , I.K. Shin (Kyungpook Natl. U.) , G.R. Smith (Jefferson Lab) , S. Stepanyan (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) , L.G. Tang (Hampton U. & Jefferson Lab) , V.

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• Measurement of Coherent Production of π± in Neutrino and Antineutrino Beams on Carbon from Eν of 1.5 to 20 GeV, MINERvA Collaboration (A. Higuera (Rochester U. & Guanajuato U.) et al.), Published in Phys.Rev.Lett. 113 (2014) 26, 261802.

• Baryon spin-flavor structure from an analysis of lattice QCD results of the baryon spectrum. I. Fernando (HU Graduate Student) and J.L. Goity, Phys. Rev. D91 (2015) 3, 036005.

• J. L. Goity - A precision measurement of the p(e,e′p)π0 reaction at threshold Hall A Collaboration (K. Chirapatpimol et al.). To appear in Physical Review Letters.

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• Saara A. Khan, Gennifer T. Smith, Felix Seo, and Audrey K. Ellerbee, “Label-free and non-contact optical biosensing of glucose with quantum dots,” Biosensors and Bioelectronics (2014, accepted).

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• J. L. Goity et al, QCD and Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories: Challenges and Perspectives. Accepted for publication, in press by THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C (articles and Fields).

• R. Flores-Mendieta and J. L. Goity, The baryon vector current in the combined chiral and 1/Nc expansions, submitted for publication to Physicsl Review D.