Elton Smith / Recent Work

Projects: | Jlab   | Hall D |

Experiments: | GlueX   | Charged Pion Polarizability   | Neutral Pion Polarizability   | Beam-Dump Experiment (BDX) |

Accelerator: | Accelerator Operations   | Epics Web Interface |

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Presentations

• Can you Stretch a Pion? [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      Colloquium at the Physics Department, College of William and Mary, September 30, 2022
• Search for Light Dark Matter with the Beam Dump eXperiment (BDX) at Jefferson Lab [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      QNP2022 - "The 9th International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics" Online Venue, hosted by Florida State University, September 5-9, 2022
• The GlueX Beamline and Detector [arXiv] [ Publication ]
      Accepted for publication by Nuclear Instruments and Methods A, Oct 17, 2020
• Measuring the Polarizability of the Neutral Pion with GlueX [Presentation to PAC48] [Proposal to PAC48]
      JLab Program Advisory Committee, August 13, 2020
• Scintillation Detectors [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      JLab Introduction to Experimental Nuclear and Accelerator Physics Summer Lecture Series, June 25, 2020
• Light Dark Matter 2019
      Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Fundamental Physics Innovation Awards
      Convening Award to organize the Light Dark Matter @ Accelerators (Phil Cole, Mike Wood, Elton Smith)
      Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venezia, 20-22 Nov, 2019
• Search for Light Dark Matter in the Beam Dump eXperiment (BDX) at Jefferson Lab [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      Seminar at the Physics Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, April 12, 2019
• The GlueX Program at Jefferson Lab [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      APCTP Workshop on “The Nature of Hadron Mass and Quark-Gluon Confinement from JLab Experiments in the 12-GeV Era” Pohang, South Korea, July 1-4, 2018
• Beam Dump Experiments with Photon and Electron Beams [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      APS 2018 April Meeting – Focus Session on sub-GeV Dark Matter, April 16, 2018
• JLab Beams for Dark Photon Experiments [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      Light Dark Matter @ Accelerators (LDMA2017), La Biodola - Isola d'Elba, May 24-28, 2017
• Beam Dump Experiments at JLab and SLAC [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      Light Dark Matter @ Accelerators (LDMA2017), La Biodola - Isola d'Elba, May 24-28, 2017
• Latest results from GlueX [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      7th Workshop of the APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics (GHP2017), Washington, DC, Feb 1-3, 2017
• Photoproduction at 12 GeV with GlueX [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      Physics Seminar, Ohio University, Athens, OH, January 24, 2017
• Development of Silicon Photomultipliers and their Applications to GlueX [Powerpoint] [pdf] [proceedings]
      The XI Latin American Symposium on Nuclear Physics and Applications, Nov 30 - Dec 4, 2015
• Users Group Board of Directors Update [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      Hall A Collaboration Meeting, December 8, 2014
• The Light Meson Spectroscopy Program [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      13th International Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon, Rome, Italy, September 30 - October 4, 2013
• Introduction to Probability and Statistics
      Probability Distributions and Monte Carlo Techniques [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      Parameter Estimation and Fitting to Data [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      Confidence Intervals and Limits [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      Examples using ROOT [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      HUGS Summer School, Jefferson Lab, May 29-June 14, 2013
• Hall D Highlights and Spectroscopy [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      HUGS Summer School, Jefferson Lab, May 29-June 14, 2013
• Characteristics of S12045(X) photon sensors for GlueX [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      APS April Meeting, Denver, CO, April 13-16, 2013
• Exploration of Exotic Mesons with GlueX [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      5th Workshop of the APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics, Denver, CO, April 10-12, 2013
• GlueX: Photoproduction of Hybrid Mesons [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      PANDA Collaboration meeting, GSI, Germany, December 10-14, 2012.
• Masses, Forces, Higgs and Gluons [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      Mid-Atlantic Senior Physicists visit to JLab, August 17, 2012.
• GlueX: Photoproduction of Hybrid Mesons [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      12th International Workshop on Meson Production, Properties and Interaction, Krakow, Poland, May 31- June 5, 2012
• Use of SiPMs in the GlueX Barrel Calorimeter [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      PHENIX Decadal R and D Workshop, December 14, 2010.
• Search for Gluonic Excitations with the 12 GeV Upgrade [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      Seminar at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, June 28, 2010.
• Hadron Physics with Real and Virtual Photons at JLab [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      4th Yamada Symposium on Advanced Photons and Science Evolution 2010, June 14-18, 2010.
• Introduction to Probability and Statistics
      Probability Distributions and Monte Carlo Techniques [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      Parameter Estimation and Hypothesis Testing [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      Confidence Intervals and Limits [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      High Energy Physics School, Valparaiso, Chile, January 11-14, 2010
• The 12 GeV JLab Upgrade Project [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      High Energy Physics in the LHC Era, 3rd International Conference, Valparaiso, Chile, January 4-8, 2010
• Reconstructing multi-particle final states with GlueX [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      Workshop on Hadron Spectroscopy, Institute for Nuclear Theory, November 16-20, 2009.
• Scintillation Detectors [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      JLab Detector/Computer Summer Lecture Series, June 23, 2009.
• Production and Searches for Cascade Baryons with CLAS [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      SENDAI08 Presymposium, Sendai, Japan, December 14, 2008.
• The 12 GeV JLab Upgrade Project [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      PANIC08, Eilat, Israel, November 10, 2008.
• Incorporating systematic uncertainties into upper limits [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      Hall B collaboration meeting, Oct 31, 2008.
• Scintillation Detectors [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      JLab Detector/Computer Summer Lecture Series, July 3, 2008.
• Electroproduction of Phi Mesons at High Q2 with CLAS [pdf]
      Hall B Collaboration Meeting, Nov 1, 2007.
• Key concepts in our understanding of atoms [Powerpoint]
      JLab Academies Creating Teacher Scientists, July 18, 2007.
• Electroproduction of Phi mesons in CLAS [Powerpoint]
      Exclusive Reactions at High Momentum Transfer, May 21-24, 2007.
• The Physics Program of Jefferson Lab at 12 GeV [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      Seminar at Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay, March 19, 2007.
• Pentaquarks: Fact or Fiction? [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      JLab's Teacher Academy in Physical Science, July 27, 2006.
• Search for Gluonic Excitations in Hall D [Powerpoint]
      Seminar at Jefferson Lab, May 30, 2006.
• Search for Exotic Hadrons at Jefferson Lab [Powerpoint]
      Seminar at Ohio State University, January 6, 2006.
• Search for Gluonic Excitations at Jefferson Lab [Powerpoint]
      Seminar at the University of Virginia, October 26, 2005.
• Recent Results from Jefferson Lab [Powerpoint] [pdf]   (JLAB-PHY-05-435)   [nucl-ex/0510078]
      XI International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy
      Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug 21-26, 2005.
• The 12 GeV Upgrade of the CEBAF Accelerator at Jefferson Lab [Powerpoint]
      Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society, Oak Ridge, November 11, 2004.
• Current Status of Pentaquark States [Powerpoint] [pdf]
      Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society, Oak Ridge, November 12, 2004.
• Experimental Status of Pentaquark States [Powerpoint]
      Invited Talk to APS Meeting, Denver, May 1, 2004.
• Pentaquarks: Discovering new particles [Powerpoint]
      Colloquium at the College of William and Mary, October 24, 2003.
• JLab: Probing Hadronic Physics with Electrons and Photons [ Powerpoint] [ pdf slides]    (JLAB-PHY-03-179) [ pdf contribution]
      V Latinamerican Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Santos, Brazil, September 1-5, 2003.
• DVCS with CLAS [pdf]
      Conference on Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics, May 20-24, 2003.
• The CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) (JLAB-PHY-03-01) [postscript] [pdf]
      Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A503 (2003) 513-553.
• Physics Prospects with the JLab 12 GeV Upgrade (JLAB-PHY-02-62) [Power Point Show] [postscript] [pdf]
      PaNic02, XVI Particles and Nuclei International Conference, Osaka, Japan, Sep 30 - Oct 4, 2002.
• CLAS: A Wide-angle Lens for Hadronic Physics [Powerpoint]
      Gordon Conference on Photonuclear Reactions, Tilton, New Hampshire, Aug 19-23, 2002.
• Searching for Gluonic Excitations - The Hall D Project at Jlab [pdf]
      IV Latinamerican Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Colegio Nacional, Mexico, D.F., Sep 24-28, 2001
• Exclusive electroproduction of phi mesons at 4.2 GeV [Documentation] [ PRC64 (2001) 059901E]
      The CLAS Collaboration, K. Lukashin, E.S. Smith et.al.
• Recent Results from Jefferson Lab [pdf]
      International Conference on Quark Nuclear Physics, Adelaide, Australia, 21-25 February, 2000
• Physics with CLAS [pdf]
      III Latinamerican Workshop on Nuclear and Heavy Ion Physics, San Andres, Colombia, 13-17 September, 1999
• The Time-of-Flight System for CLAS [ pdf]
      Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A432, 265-298 (1999)