Short Bio

Karl Slifer received his PhD in experimental nuclear physics from Temple University in 2004. He then joined the University of Virginia solid polarized target group, and led the efforts to publish the sum rule analysis of the RSS experiment, which studied proton and deuteron spin structure using a dynamically polarized nuclear target. He was awarded the Southeastern Universities Research Association Thesis Prize for his work on the E94010 polarized 3He experiment. In 2008, he joined the faculty at the University of New Hampshire as Assistant Professor, where he lead the Jefferson Lab g2p collaboration. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014, and served two elected terms on the Jefferson Lab User Group Board of Directors. Slifer is lead PI on the UNH Nuclear and Particle Physics Group Department of Energy Grant DEFG0288ER4041, which supports 3 fulltime faculty, 2 post-docs and 6 graduate students. Slifer plays a central role in the Jefferson Lab spin physics program, and is also involved with the Fermilab polarized Drell Yan measurement E1039. His current research focus is on polarized target development for tensor spin observables.

Current Projects

E12-13-011The Deuteron b1 Tensor Structure Function (lead spokesman)
E12-15-005The Deuteron Tensor Asymmetry (co-spokesperson).
E08-027 Proton g2 spin structure functions (lead spokesman)
EG4 Proton and Deuteron g1 structure function (co-spokesperson)
RSSResonant Spin Structure experiment
SANESpin Asymmetries of the Nucleon Experiment

Past projects

Thesis experiment (here)
My E94-010 Thesis (here)
Several talks on GDH. (here)
Some E94-010 Technical Notes I wrote (here)
Some E94-010 Short Reports (here)
Asymmetry analysis for E94-010 (here)

Other

Some useful electron scattering fortran codes (here)
Unix software Manuals and Tutorials (here)