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CLAS THESES COMPLETED
(in chronological order)

Student Institution Advisor Topic Run Period Experiment
Thierry Auger
(August, 1999)		 CEA-Saclay J.M. Laget,
C. Marchand
 Photoproduction of Vector Mesons: First Results With CLAS
(Hardcopy available, in French)		 g1
Alan Coleman
(1999)		 College of
William & Mary		 Herb Funsten,
W&M		 Search for "missing" resonance in the electroproduction of omega mesons e1 91-024
Konstantin Loukachine
(February 2000)		 Virginia Polytechnic Inst. John Ficenec, VPI
Elton Smith, JLab		 Measurement of the Polarization of the φ (1020) in Electroproduction e1 93-022
Eric Anciant
(March, 2000)		 CEA-Saclay Jean-Marc Laget
 Photoproduction of Mesons at High t
(Hardcopy available, in French)		 g6 93-031
Richard Thompson
(March 2000)		 University of Pittsburgh Steve Dytman, Pitt Amplitudes for the S11 (1535) and P11 (1710) resonances from an ep - e'pn experiment e1 89-039
Burin Asavapibhop
(May, 2000)		 University of Massachusetts R.A. Miskimen, U. Mass. Study of the Axial Anomaly using the gamma p --> π+ π0 n Reaction Near Threshold g1 94-015
Simon Taylor
(May 2000)		 Rice University Gordon Mutchler, Rice Univ. Radiative Decays of Low-Lying Excited-State Hyperons g1 89-024
Alex Skablin
(December, 2000)		 MIT William Bertozzi, MIT GDH Integral on the Proton from Cross Section Differences eg1 91-023
Catalina Cetina The George Washington University B. L. Berman, GWU Analysis of data from photo-fission g5
Raffaella De Vita
(January 2001)		 INFN Genova G. Ricco,
Genova		 Measurement of the double spin asymmetry in π+ electroproduction with CLAS eg1 93-036
Hovanes Egiyan (September 2001) College of
William & Mary
JLAB		 K. Griffioen,
V. Burkert

 Single p+ Electroproduction in the First and Second Resonance Regions Using CLAS e1 89-037
Mike Dugger
(December 2001)		 Arizona State Barry Ritchie
ASU		 Eta(547) and Eta(958) Meson Photoproduction on the Proton g1 91-008
Renee Fatemi
(January 2002)		 Univ. of Virginia Don Crabb, UVa The Spin Structure of the Proton in the Resonance Region eg1 91-023
Simeon McAleer
(January 2002)		 Florida State University Larry Dennis, FSU A Measurement of the Recoil Polarization of Electroproduced Λ(1116) e1 89-043
Sasha Philips
(January 2002)		 The George Washington University B.L. Berman,
GWU		 Resonance Production through the Two Neutral-Pion Channel g1
Mathieu Guillo (Feb 2002) Univ. of South Carolina Chaden Djalali, USC Search for unusual mesons in photoproduction in CLAS g6
Angela Biselli
(March, 2002)		 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute P. Stoler, RPI Study of the Δ using double polarization experiments eg1 94-003
Junho Yun
(May 2002)		 Old Dominion University Sebastian Kuhn, ODU The Polarized Structure Function G1n and the Q2 Dependence of the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn Sum Rule for the Neutron eg1 93-009
Ana C.S. Lima
Sept 2002		 Sao Paulo U. Barry Berman, GWU Study of Kaon Photoproduction on Deuterium g2 89-045
Mikhail Osipenko
(October, 2002)		 Moscow State Univ. G. Ricco, Genova Moments of F2 Structure Functions and Multiparton Correlations in Nuclei e1-e2
Haluk Denizli
(Fall, 2002)		 U. Pittsburgh James Mueller Eta electroproduction at and above the region of S11(1535) baryon resonance e1
Robert Feuerbach
(December 2002)		 Carnegie Mellon University Reinhard Schumacher, CMU Measurement of the Unpolarized K+ Λ and K+ Σ0 Electroproduction Cross Sections and Interference Terms from the Proton with the CLAS Detector. e1 93-030
Cynthia Hajidakis (Dec 2002) Orsay Michel Guidal, Orsay Rho meson electroproduction at intermediate virtuality at JLab with the CLAS detector (in French) e1, 6GeV 99-105
John McNabb
(December 2002)		 Carnegie Mellon University Reinhard Schumacher, CMU Photoproduction of Λ and Σ0 Hyperons off Protons in the Nucleon Resonance Region using CLAS at Jefferson Lab g1 89-004
Mehmet Bektasoglu
(December 2002)		 Old Dominion University Gail Dodge,
ODU		 Measurement of the Double Spin Asymmetry in π- Electroproduction with CLAS eg1 93-009
Dan Protopopescu (Dec. 2002) Univ. New Hampshire William Hersman, UNH A Survey of Beam Asymmetries in Semi-Exclusive Electron Scattering on 4He and 12C e2 89-031
Adam Weisberg (MS 2002) Ohio University Ken Hicks,
Ohio Univ.		 K* electroproduction from the proton e1
Bin Zhang (February, 2003) MIT William Bertozzi, MIT Searching for Short Range Correlations Using (e,e'NN) Reactions eg1
Silvia Niccolai (May, 2003) The George Washington University Barry Berman, GWU Three-body Forces in Photoreactions on 3He g3
Brian Carnahan
(July 2003)		 Catholic University Franz Klein, CUA Strangness Photoproduction in the gamma p --> K0 Sigma+ Reaction g1 89-004
Rustam Niyazov (May 2003) Old Dominion Univ. Larry Weinstein, ODU Measurement of Correlated Pair Momentum Distributions in 3He(e,e'pp)n with CLAS e2 89-027
Mike Klusman Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Jim Napolitano, RPI A search for missing Baryons formed in gamma p -> p π+ π- using the CLAS at CEBAF g1 93-033
Federico Ronchetti
June 28, 2003
 INFN-Frascati
 Enzo De Sanctis
 Complete angular distributions of the gamma d -> pn reaction in the few GeV region g2
 93-017
Wesley Ingram (July 2003) Glasgow Dave Ireland, Glasgow Semi-exclusive studies of Delta(1232) electroproduction in 3He e2 89-017
Steve McLauchlin (July 2003) Glasgow JD Kellie, Glasgow Delta(1232) electroproduction in 12C e2 89-017
Ji Li (Dec 2003) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Gary Adams, RPI Search for Exotic Mesons in π+ π- π0 Decays g6
Maurizio Ungaro (Dec 2003) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute P. Stoler, RPI The study of Excited Baryons at High Momentum Transfer with the CLAS Spectrometer e1 91-002
Ludyvine Morand (Dec 2003) Saclay Michel Garcon, Saclay Deeply Virtual Omega Electroproduction and the Study of Generalized Parton Distributions (JLab thesis prize 2003) e1, 6GeV 99-105
Gagik Gavalian (Jan 2004) UNH M. Holtrop, UNH Beam Spin Asymmetry Measurements in Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering e1d
Lei Guo
(April 2004)
 Vanderbilt University D. Ernst - Vanderbilt
D. Weygand - JLab		 Seach for S=+1 exotic baryon in
gp --> K+K-pi+(n)		 g6
Sylvain Bouchigny
April 23, 2004
 Orsay
 M. Guidal
 Development of a pure HD polarized target: HD analysis and distillation.
Resonant virtual Compton scattering on the nucleon
 e1-6
Vipuli Dharmawardane (May 2004) ODU Gail Dodge, ODU SPIN STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS OF THE DEUTERON MEASURED WITH CLAS IN AND ABOVE THE RESONANCE REGION eg1 93-009
Alexei Klimenko (May 2004) ODU S. Kuhn, ODU Electron Scattering From a High-Momentum Neutron in Deuterium e6
Yelena Prok
May 2004		 Univ. of Virginia Don Crabb, UVa GDH Integral on the Proton from Asymmetries eg1b 91-023
Joseph Melone
Summer 2004		 Glasgow J. Kellie, Glasgow Measurement of the photon asymmetry for the p(pol. gamma, K+) Lambda0 reaction at CLAS from 1.6 to 2.0 GeV g8
Rakhsha Nasseripour
July 2004		 Florida Intl Univ Brian Raue sigma(LT') for e +p -> e' K+ Lambda Electroproduction e1c
Joseph Santoro (August 2004) Virginia Polytechnic Institute Elton Smith, JLab, John Ficenec, VPI Electroproduction of Phi(1020) Mesons at High Q^2 with CLAS e1-6
Christopher I.O. Gordon
summer 2004		 Glasgow G. Rosner, Glasgow Rho0 Photoproduction using Linearly Polarised Photons with the CLAS Detector g8
Robert Bradford
May 2005		 CMU R, Schumacher Measurement of Differential Cross Sections and Cx and Cz for gamma p --> K+ Lambda and gamma p --> K+ Sigma^0 Using CLAS at Jefferson Lab g1 89-004
Clarisse Tur
August 10, 2005
 University of South Carolina (USC) Chaden Djalali Search for modification of vector meson properties in nuclei
 g7
 01-112
Jeff Lachniet
August 2005
 Carnegie Mellon Univ. Brian Quinn A high precision measurement of the neutron
magnetic form factor using the CLAS detector
 e5
 94-017
Cornel Butuceanu
December 2005
 W&M Keith Griffioen Quasi-Elastic Electron Scattering from a High-Momentum Nucleon in Deuterium e6 93-019
Joe Donnelly
December 2005
 Glasgow
 Dave Ireland
 Multipole Analysis of the Delta(1232) in He3
 e2b
 89-017
Ishaq Hleiqawi
February 22, 2006
 Ohio
 Ken Hicks
 K0* electro- and photoproduction at CLAS e1
Shifeng Chen
February 28, 2006
 Florida State University
 P. Eugenio
 First measurement of deeply virtual Compton scattering with polarized proton target
 eg1
Bryan McKinnon
May 15, 2006
 Glasgow
 J. Kellie
 Search for the Theta+ Pentaquark in the Reaction gamma d -> p K+ K- n
 g10
 03-113
Kijun Park
May 16, 2006
 Kyungpook National University
 V. Burkert
W. Kim
 Measurement of cross section and electron asymmetry of the $p(\vec{e},e']pi^+)n$ reaction in the $\Delta(1232)$ and higher resonances for $Q2 \le 5.0GeV2$ e1-6
 89-042
Burnham Stokes
Fall 2006
 Florida State University
 P. Eugenio
 Intermediate resonance decay to proton antiproton final state in the reaction gamma p -> p p_bar p g6
Natasha Dashyan
Nov. 14, 2006
 Yerevan
 K. Egiyan
 Measuring the probability of two-nucleon correlations in nuclei (in Russian)
 e2
 89-036
Francois-Xavier Girod,
Dec. 20, 2006
 SPhN-Saclay
 M. Garçon Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering (Beam Spin Asymmetries) for the study of Generalized Parton Distributions (in French)
 e1-dvcs
 01-113
Hyon-Suk Jo
March 7, 2007
 IPN-Orsay
 M. Guidal
 Etude de la Diffusion Compton Profondement Virtuelle sur le nucleon avec le detecteur CLAS de Jefferon Lab : mesure des sections efficaces polarisees et non polarisees
 (DVCS cross sections)
 e1-dvcs
 01-113
Hovhannes Baghdasaryan
May 2007
 Old Dominion Univ L. Weinstein Measurements of Correlated Pair Momentum Distributions in 3He(e,e'pp)n
with CLAS
 e2b 89-027


THESES IN PROGRESS
(in alphabetical order)

Student Institution Advisor Topic Run Period Experiment
Krishna Adhikari
 ODU
 S. Kuhn
 The Extended GDH Sum Rule at Low Q2 on the Neutron
 eg4
Nathan Baillie W&M Keith Griffioen Tagged neutron structure functions e8 03-012
Jim Ball Arizona State U Barry Ritchie dcs for eta photoproduction from the proton g1c
Nathan Baltzell Univ. of South Carolina David Tedeschi
 Search for the Theta+
03-113
Ivan Bedlinsky ITEP Valery Kubarovsky
 Electroproduction of the pi0 and eta mesons from proton in the region of W > 2 GeV
 e1-dvcs
Sharon Careccia ODU Gail Dodge Deuteron pion electroproduction double polarization asymmetry in the resonance region eg1
Liam Casey
 CUA
 Franz Klein Beam asymmetry and Recoil polarization in Sigma+
photoproduction		 g11/ g8b CAA01-003
CAA05-xx
Wei Chen
 Duke University 
Haiyan Gao Single charged pion gamma n -> pi- p photoproduction from
deuterium		 g10 CAA
Lu Cheng
 CUA
 Franz Klein
 Beam asymmetry and tensor polarization in omega
photoproduction		 g8b E99-013
Patrick Collins Arizona State U Barry Ritchie Spin observables in eta and eta' photoproduction from the proton FROST
Ryan Dickson CMU R. Schumacher Production and decay of the f1/eta(1285) in the g11 data set g11
Lamiaa El Fassi Mohammed V Univ., Rabat, Morocco Kawtar Hafidi ANL The search for the onset of color transparency in rho electroproduction from nuclei eg2 02-110
Vitaliy Fedotov ITEP Nikolai Pivnyuk
 Production of Hadronic Systems Near Threshold in Electron-Nucleus Interactions at High Momentum Transfer e2 97-001
Robert Fersch W&M Keith Griffioen Double Spin Asymmetries in the Resonance Region eg1b
Ahmed Fradi
 IPN-Orsay
 M. Guidal
 Exclusive electroproduction of the rho+ meson on the proton
 e1-dvcs
 01-113
Marianna Gabrielyan
 FIU
 Brian Raue
 Kaon electroproduction (tbc)
 e1f
 E00-112
John Goetz UCLA J. Price Cascade Photoproduction on Hydrogen g12
Wes Gohn
 U. Connecticut
 K. Joo
 Probing the protons quark's dynamics in the semi-inclusive pion electroproduction
 e1f
Atilla Gonenc Florida Intl University Brian Raue Color Transparency in Coherent Vector Meson Production off the Deuteron e5, e6
Nevzat Guler
 Old Dominion University Sebastian Kuhn
 GDH Integral eg1b
Khadija Hafnaoui
 Argonne Nat. Lab.
 Kawtar Hafidi
 Study of quark propagation in the cold nuclear medium

Hayk Hakobyan
 Yerevan State Univ.
 ? (Yerevan)
W. Brooks (JLab)
 Quark propagation in  nuclei from (e,e'pi+)
 eg2
Charles Hanretty Florida State University Volker Crede Polarization Asymmetries with FROST

Neil Hassall
 Glasgow
 G. Rosner
 Kaon photoproduction on the deuteron using polarized photons
 g13
 06-103
Hideko Iwamoto
 George Washington University
 Bill Briscoe
 Pseudoscalar Meson Production Using Polarized Photons and Targets
 FROST
 03-105
Russell Johnstone
 Glasgow
 Dave Ireland
 Kaon photoproduction on the deuteron using polarized photons
 g13
 06-103
Narbe Kalantarians
 University of Houston
 Ed Hungerford
(+ P. Bosted)
 Transverse momentum dependent distributions in
semi-inclusive (single) pion electro-production
 e8 (BoNuS)
e6
 03-012
Hyekoo Kang
 Seoul
 S. Choi
 GDH at low Q2
 eg4
Dustin Keller
 Ohio
 K. Hicks
 (tbd)

Zebulan Krahn Carnegie Mellon Univ.
 Curtis Meyer
 Search for rare decays of the eta'(958) using CLAS; eta' -> pi+ pi- and eta' -> pi+ pi- pi0

Nikolay Markov Univ. of Connecticut Kyungseon Joo pi^0 electroproduction in the resonance region e1-6/e1-e
Paul Mattione RICE G. Mutchler Fitting the multiple vertexes in the cascade++ decays eg3
Taisiya Mineeva
 Connecticut
 Kyungseon Joo
 Quark Propagation Through Cold QCD Matter
 eg2
 02-104
Brahim Moreno
 IPN-Orsay
 M. MacCormick
 Beam Spin Asymmetry measurement for Deeply Virtual Exclusive
Delta+ production
 e1-dvcs
 01-113
Kei Moriya CMU R. Schumacher The Lambda(1405) lineshape measured in the g11 data set g11
Maryam Moteabbed
 Florida International University (FIU)
 Brian A. Raue
 Two-Photon Exchange Measurement- Comparison of e+p and e-p Elastic Scattering in CLAS

Edwin Munevar
 GWU
 B. Berman
 gamma n -> K0 Lambda with circularly polarized photons, measuring the spin transfer to the lambda
 g13
Megh Niroula ODU L. Weinstein (ODU),
 H. Areti (JLab)		 Beyond the Born Approximation: Comparison of e- and e+ elastic scattering from the proton

Sungkyun Park
 FSU
 V. Crede
FROST
Craig Paterson
 Glasgow
 G. Rosner
 Kaon photoproduction with linearly polarized photons
 g8b
 CAA
Joshua J. Pierce
 UVa
 D. Crabb
 Double spin asymmetry in exclusive pi+ production
 eg1b
Jorge de Oliveira Echeimberg
 INFN - Frascati
 P. Rossi
 gamma d -> Lambda K+n  and  gamma d -> Lambda K0 p reactions with CLAS

Julian Salamanca Idaho S. U. Phil Cole Photoproduction of phi mesons with linearly polarized photons
 g8b
 98-109
Diane Schott
 FIU
 Brian Raue
 Two-photon experiment

Heghine Seraydaryan
 ODU
 M. Amarian
 Phi-meson photoproduction on hydrogen (tbc)
 g11
Vladimiv Serov ITEP Mikhail Serov
 Electroproduction of light quark mesons e1 93-012
Dmitrii Sharov
 Moscow S.U./JLab
 B.S.Ishkhanov
D. Weygand
 Cascade studies in photoproduction off protons
 g12
 04-017
Daria  Sokhan Edinburgh Dan Watts Pion photoproduction  with linear photons g13
 CAA
Slava Tkachenko ODU Sebastian Kuhn Tagged structure function of the neutron e8 (BONUS) 03-012
Mike Williams Carnegie Mellon University Curtis Meyer
 Search for baryons in the omega proton final state g1c
Mikhail Yurov
 Kyungpook
JLab
 W. Kim
L. Elouadrhiri
 DVCS
 (tbd)
Lorenzo Zana UNH M. Holtrop
 Color Transparency in rho production from nuclei eg2 02-110
Jixie Zhang ODU Gail Dodge (e,e' pi- p) BoNuS, e6
Bo Zhao Univ. of Connecticut Kyungseon Joo Deeply Virtual Exclusive Meson Production e1-dvcs

Name University advisor topic run group expt