[Theory-seminars] Workshop "Nuclear Photoproduction with GlueX, " JLab, April 28-29 (Thursday/Friday THIS WEEK)

[Christian Weiss]

Dear Colleagues,


We would like to remind you of the upcoming topical workshop

   Nuclear Photoproduction with GlueX
   Thu 28 Apr -- Fri 29 Apr, 2016  (** THIS WEEK **)
   Jefferson Lab, CC Room F224/225
   https://www.jlab.org/conferences/photoproduction16/


Everyone is welcome to listen to the presentations and participate in the discussions.
The meeting is intended to be informal and enable in-depth discussions.
Please see the webpage for the agenda.


Photoproduction on nuclear targets (A > 1) at multi-GeV energies is being considered as 
an interesting future application of the GlueX detector beyond the meson spectroscopy program. 
The aim of the workshop is to explore the physics potential of nuclear photoproduction 
with GlueX, including theoretical motivation, experimental methods, equipment needs, 
and wider context of such measurements. Unique capabilities that GlueX would bring to 
photoproduction physics are linear photon polarization, excellent energy resolution 
through tagging, and wide energy coverage from ~5 GeV to ~12 GeV. Physics topics include:

  * Medium modification of light vector mesons (rho, omega, phi)
  * Color transparency and short-range nuclear structure
  * Coherent nuclear processes, including Primakoff production
  * Polarization observables in nuclear photoproduction
  * J/psi as a probe of nuclear color fields

A Letter of Intent for nuclear photoproduction with GlueX was favorably reviewed by JLab's 
PAC43 in 2015. The workshop aims to solicit the advice of experts and stimulate further 
development, in order to initiate preparation of a full proposal to PAC44 in 2016.


The workshop is part of a broader effort by the GlueX collaboration and Jefferson Lab to explore 
new physics applications of the GlueX detector beyond the meson spectroscopy program. An initial 
assessment of the physics potential of nuclear photoproduction with GlueX was made at the 
2008 Workshop "Photon-hadron physics with the GlueX detector at Jefferson Lab".

 
Sincerely


   Ch. (with Curtis Meyer, Eugene Chudakov, Sergey Gevorkyan, Alexander Somov)


-- 
Christian Weiss
Theory Center
Jefferson Lab
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Newport News, VA 23606, USA
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E-mail: weiss at jlab.org