Jefferson Lab Experimental Hall B - CLAS Ph.D. Thesis Titles

This page contains two tables: CLAS completed PhD theses and CLAS PhD work in progress
Maintained by Reinhard Schumacher; send updates to schumacher@cmu.edu , last updated January 7, 2010.

CLAS THESES COMPLETED
(in chronological order of graduation)

Student	Institution	Advisor	Topic	Run Period	Experiment

Thierry Auger (August 1999)	CEA-Saclay	J.M. Laget, C. Marchand	Photoproduction de Mesons Vecteurs: Permiers Resultats Avec CLAS (in French)	g1

Konstantin Loukachine (February 2000)	Virginia Polytechnic Inst.	John Ficenec, VPI Elton Smith, JLab	Measurement of the Polarization of the phi(1020) in Electroproduction	e1	93-022

Eric Anciant (March 2000)	CEA-Saclay	Jean-Marc Laget	Photoproduction de Mesons Phi a Grand Moment Transfere (in French)	g6	93-031

Richard Thompson (March 2000)	University of Pittsburgh	Steve Dytman	Eta Electroproduction in the Region of the Isospin One Half, Spin One Half 1535 MeV Baryon Resonance	e1	89-039

Burin Asavapibhop (May 2000)	University of Massachusetts	R.A. Miskimen	Study of the Axial Anomaly using the gamma p --> pi+ pi0 n Reaction Near Threshold	g1	94-015

Simon Taylor (May 2000)	Rice University	Gordon Mutchler	Radiative Decays of Low-Lying Excited-State Hyperons	g1	89-024

Alan Coleman (November 2000)	William & Mary	Herb Funsten	Electroproduction of omega(783) mesons using CLAS at Jefferson Lab	e1	91-024

Alex Skablin (December 2000)	MIT	William Bertozzi	GDH Integral on the Proton from Cross Section Differences	eg1	91-023

Catalina Cetina (January 2001)	The George Washington University	B. L. Berman	Photofission of heavy nuclei from .2 to 3.8 GeV	g5

Raffaella De Vita (January 2001)	INFN Genova	G. Ricco	Measurement of the double spin asymmetry in pi+ electroproduction with CLAS	eg1	93-036

Hovanes Egiyan (September 2001)	College of William & Mary JLAB	K. Griffioen, V. Burkert	Single pi+ Electroproduction in the First and Second Resonance Regions Using CLAS	e1	89-037

Mike Dugger (December 2001)	Arizona State	Barry Ritchie	eta(547) and eta(958) Meson Photoproduction on the Proton	g1	91-008

Renee Fatemi (January 2002)	Univ. of Virginia	Don Crabb	The Spin Structure of the Proton in the Resonance Region	eg1	91-023

Simeon McAleer (January 2002)	Florida State University	Larry Dennis	A Measurement of the Recoil Polarization of Electroproduced Lambda(1116)	e1	89-043

Sasha Philips (January 2002)	The George Washington University	B.L. Berman	Resonance Production through the Two Neutral-Pion Channel	g1

Mathieu Guillo (February 2002)	Univ. of South Carolina	Chaden Djalali	Search for unusual mesons in photoproduction in CLAS	g6

Angela Biselli (March 2002)	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	P. Stoler	Study of the Delta(1232) using double polarization experiments	eg1	94-003

Junho Yun (May 2002)	Old Dominion University	Sebastian Kuhn	Inclusive Spin Structure Functions of the Deuteron	eg1	93-009

Ana C.S. Lima (September 2002)	Sao Paulo U.	Barry Berman	Study of Kaon Photoproduction on Deuterium	g2	89-045

Mikhail Osipenko (October 2002)	Moscow State Univ.	G. Ricco	Moments of the F2 Structure Function of the Proton	e1-e2

Haluk Denizli (October 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	Measurement of the Unpolarized K+ Lambda and K+ Sigma^0 Electroproduction Cross Sections and Interference Terms from the Proton with the CLAS Detector.	e1	93-030

Cynthia Hajidakis (December 2002)	Orsay	Michel Guidal	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	Photoproduction of Lambda and Sigma^0 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	Measurement of the Double Spin Asymmetry in pi- Electroproduction with CLAS	eg1	93-009

Dan Protopopescu (December 2002)	Univ. New Hampshire	William Hersman	A Survey of Beam Asymmetries in Semi-Exclusive Electron Scattering on 4He and 12C	e2	89-031

Steve McLauchlin (January 2003)	Glasgow	JD Kellie	Delta(1232) electroproduction in ¹²C	e2	89-017

Bin Zhang (February 2003)	MIT	William Bertozzi	Searching for Short Range Correlations Using (e,e'NN) Reactions	eg1

Silvia Niccolai (May 2003)	The George Washington University	Barry Berman	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	Measurement of Correlated Pair Momentum Distributions in 3He(e,e'pp)n with CLAS	e2	89-027

Mike Klusman	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Jim Napolitano	A search for missing Baryons formed in gamma p --> p pi+ pi- using the CLAS at CEBAF	g1	93-033

Federico Ronchetti (June 2003)	INFN-Frascati	Enzo De Sanctis	Complete angular distributions of the gamma d -> pn reaction in the few GeV region	g2	93-017

Westley Ingram (June 2003)	Glasgow	Dave Ireland	Semi-exclusive studies of Delta(1232) electroproduction in ³He	e2	89-017

Maurizio Ungaro (December 2003)	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	P. Stoler	pi0 Electroproduction off the Delta(1232) Resonance at High Momentum Transfer	e1	91-002

Ludyvine Morand (December 2003)	Saclay	Michel Garcon	Deeply Virtual Omega Electroproduction and the Study of Generalized Parton Distributions (JLab thesis prize 2003)	e1, 6GeV	99-105

Ji Li (December 2003)	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Gary Adams	Search for Exotic Mesons in Ï€+ Ï€- Ï€0 Decays	g6

Matthew Bellis (December 2003)	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Jim Napolitano	A Search for Missing Baryon States	g1

Gagik Gavalian (January 2004)	UNH	M. Holtrop	Beam Spin Asymmetry Measurements in Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering	e1d

Christopher I.O. Gordon (March 2004)	Glasgow	G. Rosner	Rho0 Photoproduction using Linearly Polarised Photons with the CLAS Detector	g8

Sylvain Bouchigny (April 2004)	Orsay	M. Guidal	Development of a pure HD polarized target: HD analysis and distillation. Resonant virtual Compton scattering on the nucleon (in French)	e1-6

Lei Guo (May 2004)	Vanderbilt University	D. Ernst - Vanderbilt D. Weygand - JLab	Search for S=+1 exotic baryon in gamma p --> K⁺K^-pi⁺(n)	g6

Vipuli Dharmawardane (May 2004)	ODU	Gail Dodge	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	Electron Scattering From a High-Momentum Neutron in Deuterium	e6

Yelena Prok (May 2004)	Univ. of Virginia	Don Crabb	GDH Integral on the Proton from Asymmetries	eg1b	91-023

Rakhsha Nasseripour (July 2004)	Florida Intl Univ	Brian Raue	Measurement of Single Spin Asymmetry and Fifth Structure Function for the p(pol-e,e'K^+)Lambda Reaction with CLAS	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

Joseph Melone (March 2005)	Glasgow	J. Kellie	Measurement of the photon asymmetry for the p(pol. gamma, K+) Lambda0 reaction at CLAS from 1.6 to 2.0 GeV	g8

Robert Bradford (May 2005)	Carnegie Mellon Univ.	Reinhard 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 2005)	University of South Carolina (USC)	Chaden Djalali	Search for modification of vector meson properties in nuclei	g7	01-112

Jeff Lachniet (June 2005)	Carnegie Mellon University	Brian Quinn	A high precision measurement of the neutron magnetic form factor using the CLAS detector	e5	94-017

Joe Donnelly (September 2005)	Glasgow	Dave Ireland	Multipole Analysis of the Delta(1232) in He3	e2b	89-017

Cornel Butuceanu (December 2005)	W&M	Keith Griffioen	Quasi-Elastic Electron Scattering from a High-Momentum Nucleon in Deuterium	e6	93-019

Ishaq Hleiqawi (February 2006)	Ohio	Ken Hicks	K0* Photoproduction and Electroproduction Measured at CLAS	e1

Shifeng Chen (February 2006)	Florida State University	P. Eugenio	First Measurement of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering with a Polarized Proton Target	eg1

Bryan McKinnon (May 2006)	Glasgow	J. Kellie	Search for the Theta+ Pentaquark in the Reaction gamma d -> p K+ K- n	g10	03-113

Kijun Park (May 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 Q^2 <= 5.0 GeV^2	e1-6	89-042

Burnham Stokes (Fall 2006)	Florida State University	P. Eugenio	Search for Resonances in the Photoproduction of Proton-Antiproton Pairs	g6

Natasha Dashyan (Nov 2006)	Yerevan	K. Egiyan	Measuring the probability of two-nucleon correlations in nuclei (in Russian)	e2	89-036

Francois-Xavier Girod, (December 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 2007)	IPN-Orsay	M. Guidal	Etude de la Diffusion Compton Profondement Virtuelle sur le nucleon avec le detecteur CLAS de Jefferson Lab: mesure des sections efficaces polarisees et non polarisees (in French)	e1-dvcs	01-113

Hovhannes Baghdasaryan (May 2007)	Old Dominion University	L. Weinstein	Measurements of Correlated Pair Momentum Distributions in 3He(e,e'pp)n with CLAS	e2b	89-027

Zebulun Krahn (October 2007)	Carnegie Mellon University	C. Meyer	Production of eta and eta_prime mesons using CLAS at JLab	g11

Michael Williams (November 2007)	Carnegie Mellon University	C. Meyer	Measurement of Differential Cross Sections and Spin Density Matrix Elements along with a Partial Wave Analysis for gamma p --> p omega using CLAS at Jefferson Lab	g11

Michael McCracken (November 2007)	Carnegie Mellon University	C. Meyer	A Study of K+ Lambda Photoproduction in the CLAS g11a Dataset: Differential Cross Section, Recoil Polarization, and a Partial-Wave Analysis	g11

Lamiaa El Fassi (May 2008)	University Mohammed V, Morocco	K. Hafidi	Etude de la Transparence de Couleur du Meson Vecteur rho^0 (in French)	eg2

Craig Paterson (June 2008)	Glasgow University	G. Rosner, D. Ireland	Polarization Observables in Strangeness Photoproduction with CLAS at Jefferson Lab	g8b

Atilla Gonenc (June 2008)	Florida International U.	Brian Raue	Coherent rho Meson Electroproduction off Deuteron	e5, e6

Robert Fersch (August 2008)	William & Mary	Keith Griffioen	Measurement of Inclusive Proton Double-Spin Asymmetries and Polarized Structure Functions	eg1b

Narbe Kalantarians (August 2008)	University of Houston	Ed Hungerford	Semi-Inclusive Single Pion Electroproduction From Deuteron and Proton Targets	e8 e6	03-012

Hayk Hakobyan (December 2008)	Yerevan State University	W. Brooks & A. Danagulyan	Observation of Quark Propagation Pattern in Nuclear Medium	eg2

Maryam Moteabbed (March 2009)	Florida International University	Brian Raue	A Precise Measurement of the Two-Photon Exchange Effect	TPE

Nathan Baltzell (May 2009)	Univ. of South Carolina	David Tedeschi	A Search for the Exotic Theta+ Pentaquark in g D --> p p K0 K-	g10	03-113

Ahmed Fradi (July 2009)	IPN-Orsay	Michel Guidal	Electroproduction Exclusive du Meson rho+ sur le Proton a JLab avec le Detecteur CLAS (in French)	e1-dvcs	01-113

Brahim Moreno (July 2009)	IPN-Orsay	M. MacCormick	Etude de l'Asymetrie de Spin du Faisceau a 6 GeV Pour l'Electroproduction d'un Etat Resonnant Delta+ et d'un Photon sur le Proton (e p --> e Delta+ g) avec le Detecteur CLAS (in French)	e1-dvcs	01-113

Patrick Collins (August 2009)	Arizona State U	Barry Ritchie	Beam Asymmetry in eta(547) and eta(958) Meson Photoproduction From the Proton	g8b

Daria Sokhan (August 2009)	Edinburgh	Dan Watts	Beam Asymmetry Measurement from Pion Photoproduction on the Neutron	g13	CAA

Nevzat Guler (December 2009)	Old Dominion University	Sebastian Kuhn	Spin Structure of the Deuteron	eg1b

Slava Tkachenko (December 2009)	Old Dominion University	Sebastian Kuhn	Tagged Neutron Structure Function Measured with Spectator Tagging	e8	03-012

Nathan Baillie (January 2010)	William & Mary	Keith Griffioen	Electron Scattering from an Almost Free Neutron in Deuterium	e8	03-012

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

Dasuni Adikaram	ODU	Larry Weinstein	Two-Photon Elastic Scattering	TPE

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

Biplab Dey	Carnegie Mellon Univ.	C. Meyer	K+ Sigma0 photoproduction off the proton	g11

Ryan Dickson	Carnegie Mellon Univ.	R. Schumacher	Production and decay of the f1/eta(1285) in the g11 data set	g11

Marianna Gabrielyan	FIU	Brian Raue	Kaon Electroprod. Induced Polarization	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

Raphael Dupre	Argonne Nat. Lab.	Kawtar Hafidi	DVCS off He-4	eg6

Charles Hanretty	Florida State University	Volker Crede	Determination of the Beam Asymmtries in Double-Pion Photoproduction	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

Hyekoo Kang	Seoul	S. Choi	GDH at low Q2	eg4

Dustin Keller	Ohio	K. Hicks	Sigma*+ Radiative Decays	g13

Puneet Khetarpal	RPI	P. Stoler	Near Threshold Pion Electroproduction at High Q2 in CLAS	e16, e1f

Vivien Lane	Clermont-Ferrand	Alexandre Deur	Target Studies	HDIce

Nikolay Markov	Univ. of Connecticut	Kyungseon Joo	pi^0 electroproduction in the resonance region	e1-6/e1-e

Paul Mattione	Rice	D. Carman	K0 Lambda and K+ Sigma- Photoproduction on the Deuteron	eg3

Michael Mayer	ODU	S. Kuhn	QCD Effects electroproduction

Taisiya Mineeva	Connecticut	Kyungseon Joo	Quark Propagation Through Cold QCD Matter	eg2	02-104

Josephine McAndrew	Edinburgh	Daniel Watts	G polarization in pi photoproduction	g9-FROST

Kei Moriya	Carnegie Mellon Univ.	R. Schumacher	The Lambda(1405) lineshape measured in the g11 data set	g11

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 H. Areti (JLab)	Beyond the Born Approximation: Comparison of e- and e+ elastic scattering from the proton

Rafael Paremuzyan	Yerevan	Stepan Stepanyan	Timelike Compton Scattering	e1-6, e1f

Sungkyun Park	FSU	V. Crede	Measurement of the Helicity Difference in Double-Pion Photoproduction	FROST

Evan Phelps	Univ. So. Carolina	R. Gothe	(tbc)	g9-FROST

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	pi(1400) Search	g12

Erin Seder	U. Conn.	K. Joo	Target Asymmetry in DVCS	eg1-DVCS

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

Charles Taylor	Idaho	P. Cole	(tbc)	g13

Bayram Torayev	ODU	Stephen Bueltmann	Exotic Mesons	eg6

Brian Vernarsky	CMU	C. Meyer	omega Meson Spin Observables	g1c

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

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