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  • HUGS Summer School

    Hampton University Graduate Studies Program (HUGS) in association with EIC2 will organize its 2018 program around the physics of the Electron-Ion Collider.  

     

    HUGS 2018
    Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia
    May 29 - June 15, 2018

    With support from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and Jefferson Science Associates (JSA), lectures at the 33rd Annual Hampton University Graduate Studies (HUGS) Program at Jefferson Lab are scheduled to run from Tuesday, May 29 to Friday, June 15, 2018. Students will arrive on Monday, May 28 and depart on Saturday, June 16.

    The HUGS Program at Jefferson Lab is a summer school designed for experimental and theoretical nuclear and particle physics graduate students who have finished their coursework and have at least one year of research experience in these fields. Students who are well into a research project are also encouraged to apply. The program is simultaneously intensive, friendly, and casual. All lecturers are internationally renowned and leaders in their fields. The students will be housed on site at Jefferson Lab, and there will be many opportunities to interact with Jefferson Lab staff, as well as the lecturers, other graduate students and visitors. Acceptance into the program is competitive, and a limited number of scholarships is available. Deadline for scholarship application is March 16, 2018.

     

    Speakers and Topics:

    The 2018 school will focus on experimental and theoretical topics of high current interest in strong interaction physics. In particular, students will receive excellent insight into the physics to be studied at Jefferson Lab and at the Electron-Ion Collider in the upcoming years, as well as related topics of interest in nuclear and particle physics. Speakers and topics for this year include:

    • Instructors and topics to come -- for now, please look at the HUGS archives

    In addition to the main lectures, the school will offer topical seminars by Jefferson Lab researchers, and an opportunity for the students to present their research in a short seminar.

     

    Student Support:::

    Thanks to a grant from the United States Department of Energy, we will be able to offer a limited number of standard HUGS fellowships that will cover lodging at the SURA residence facility, where kitchen facilities are available, and a contribution towards meal expenses. Students interested in this opportunity should note so in the registration page, and address their financial need in the appropriate field.

    In addition to these, a JSA/HUGS fellowship for Graduate Students from Developing Countries supported by the JSA Initiatives Fund Program was separately announced and circulated, and applications are now closed. Under this fellowship, that supplements the standard one, we will be able to support one or two graduate students from a developing country, fully covering travel expenses (including international airfare), room, board and from 1 to 3 additional week at Jefferson Lab to meet with laboratory researchers and users, and to initiate or strengthen a research collaboration.

     

    Physics Careers Workshop:

    As part of the HUGS school, but open to all interested graduate students and post-docs from the Jefferson Lab community, we will also organize a mini-workshop on Physics Careers.

    The organization of this mini-workshop is in progress, and more detail will be made available later. Information on previous editions can be found in the HUGS archives 

     

    Application:

    To apply to HUGS 2018, please follow the link on the sidebar, and arrange for one letter of recommendation (ideally from your Ph.D. advisor) to be separately sent to the address below. Submission received before the deadline will automatically place the student in the standard fellowship competition.

    The deadline for application submission is March 16, 2018. Applications will still be accepted after this date but will not be included in the fellowship competition. Students will be notified by March 28, 2018 of acceptance.

    Please forward all queries to

    HUGS 2018
    Jefferson Lab
    Attn: Mary Fox, Suite 1, MS-12H2
    12000 Jefferson Avenue. Newport News, VA 23606
    Phone: (757) 269-6263 Fax: (757) 269-7002
    e-mail: hugs@jlab.org

     

    https://www.jlab.org/intralab/calendar/hugs/index.html 

  • For Physicists

    Jefferson Lab EIC (JLEIC) Design Parameter (Apr. 2019 update: 100 GeV CM)

    EIC Detector Simulations

    Laboratory Directed R&D Pages

    JLEIC Public Documents

     

    EIC Ad-hoc Meeting Series

    JLEIC email lists

     

    JLEIC Detector and IR Study Group

     

  • Visitors Program

    The US Electron Ion Collider (EIC) has received the endorsement of the National Academy of Sciences committee last year – an important milestone along the path to realizing an EIC in the US.  With this in mind, the Jefferson Lab EIC Center (EIC2, see www.eiccenter.org) established a Visitors-Program for summer 2019 to help begin to investigate, more quantitatively than previously, various aspects of the EIC. This Program will occur under the auspices of Jefferson Lab’s EIC Center; proposals for projects can be EIC site independent. Efforts have been underway to simulate science opportunities and detector performance within a generic EIC software umbrella, and similarly collaborative efforts are ongoing related to accelerator and detector R&D.

     

    The envisioned visits to Jefferson Lab would take place between now and mid-September and would be 1 to 2 weeks duration with travel expenses including hotel and airfare covered by the laboratory.  The visitors will be chosen by the EIC2 Director and Co-Directors based on a written proposal that outlines:

    1. Proposed project to be accomplished during the visit.
    2. The deliverable for the project.
    3. Collaborators and/or resources required while at Jefferson Lab.
    4. Preferred dates for the visit.

     

    The possible projects to be proposed include (but are not limited to)

    • Physics studies related to the EIC
    • Detector studies related to the EIC
    • Accelerator studies related to the EIC
    • Aspects of EIC considered as pre-project planning

     

    Examples of project deliverables can be a plot with EIC-projected conceptual data illustrating EIC energy, polarization, luminosity or versatility needs; a detector conceptualization including possible channel count and requirements; conceptualization towards polarization, luminosity and background measurements at an EIC; conceptualization of accelerator elements for diagnostics and beam transport and manipulation; and other such examples. We request the project deliverable, in the form of a one-to-two page document, to be submitted latest the last day of the visit.

     

    If interested, please send a written proposal containing points 1 to 4 above in no more than two pages, to Douglas Higinbotham <doug@jlab.org>.

    We are currently open to receive proposals and will continue to be so contingent upon funding availability.

    PDF version of this announcement

  • Detector Testing

    Jefferson Lab has a rich history of doing parasitic detector tests in the experimental halls to ensure successful future experiments. One very high impact example was the test of neutron detector shielding in Hall A, which demonstrated how to clearly best shield the neutron detector and allow the triple coincidence short-range correlation experiment to proceed. This led to Hall A's first publication in the journal, Science.

    Areas at Jefferson Lab where parasitic testing is possible are the high luminosity Halls A and C, and the low luminosity Hall B and Hall D. Dedicated testing is possible using the upgraded injector test facility, a 10 MeV electron beam area.

    To order to do tests in any of these areas, the following must occur:

    • Permission must be obtained from the hall leader and the area work coordinator.
    • All required trainings must be obtained, with all required safety documentation provided.

    It is expected that the group doing the test will provide the detectors and electronics. Minimum help is needed from hall technical staff. 

    A copy of the Jefferson Lab beam schedule to the four experimental halls can be found here.

    To facilitate outside groups who wish to test detectors for the future EIC in an electron beam environment, the EIC center is accepting requests and will help in determining which area at the lab would be best suited for a particular test. The EIC center will also help explain the training and safety requirement of Jefferson Lab to new users.

    Further details about the areas and equipment avaliable in Hall B can be found here

    Contact Douglas Higinbotham for more details.

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  • EIC Center at Jefferson Lab

    The Electron-Ion Collider Center at Jefferson Lab (EIC2@JLab) is an organization to advance and promote the science program at a future electron-ion collider (EIC) facility. Particular emphasis is on the close connection of EIC science to the current Jefferson Lab 12 GeV CEBAF science program.   

     

    EIC2@JLab consolidates and connects the EIC physics and detector development activities in and around Jefferson Lab. These activities include:

    • Activities of the Jefferson Lab EIC groups
    • JLab EIC weekly general meetings.
    • Organizing and hosting of EIC related ad-hoc workshops.
    • Documentation of EIC and JLEIC relevant topics.

     

    Further, EIC2 coordinates with the following activities:

    • Relevant Jefferson Lab LDRD projects.
    • Relevant EIC Detector R&D funded activities.
    • HUGS Summer School.
    • Local hosting of relevant national and international conferences.
    • Planning of the EIC component in the annual JLab Users Group meeting.

     

    In addition, EIC2 establishes the following new activities:

    • Graduate and post-doc Fellowship program.
    • Series of seminar talks related to EIC.

     

     

    EIC2@JLab Management

    EIC2@JLab Advisory Board

     

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    At Jefferson Lab we believe in giving back to our community and encouraging the next generation of scientists and engineers. Our staff reaches out to students to advance awareness and appreciation of the range of research carried out within the DOE national laboratory system, to increase interest in STEM careers for women and minorities, and to encourage everyone to become a part of the next-generation STEM workforce. We are recognized for our innovative programs like:

    • 1,500 students from 15 Title I schools engage in the Becoming Enthusiastic About Math and Science (BEAMS) program at the lab each school year.

    • 60 teachers are enrolled in the Jefferson Science Associates Activities for Teachers (JSAT) program at the lab inspiring 9,000 students annually.

    • 24 high school students have internships and 34 college students have mentorships at the lab.

       

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    • Seungjoon Lee is shown with the VASH collimator he developed.

      Seungjoon Lee, Detector Scientist

      Seungjoon Lee contributes groundbreaking invention to life-saving breast imaging technology

      From his second-floor office in the Advanced Research Center (ARC) building at Jefferson Lab, Detector Scientist Seungjoon Lee is making the final tweaks to a patented technology that enables 3D nuclear medicine imaging of the breast. Once the machine utilizing the technology is installed in hospitals and medical clinics, it may be used by millions of patients and could help save thousands of lives.

      The new technology is called the Variable Angle Slant Hole collimator, or VASH collimator.

      “It will be a milestone in the lab,” says Lee.

      The technology has already been licensed to Newport News-based Dilon Technologies, which has offices for ten to fifteen employees located just upstairs from Jefferson Lab’s Radiation and Detector Imaging group, to which Lee belongs.

      Detector Group’s Role in Breast Cancer Detection

      To understand the importance of Lee’s invention, it is critical to be aware of the existing breast cancer detection technologies widely used on the market. The current standard for breast cancer screening is the mammogram.

      “A mammogram is an X-ray image of the breast,” explains Lee. “To get a good X-ray image the breast needs to be tightly compressed.”

      Yet, for women with dense breast tissue, a mammogram may not provide accurate enough images. For that reason, the group’s gamma imaging technology was widely celebrated and adopted around the world. According to Lee, gamma imaging can provide a clearer image of cancerous masses within the breast, particularly in women with dense breasts. To take an image via the gamma camera, a patient is first given a radioactive chemical intravenously.

      “The chemical binds to cancer cells and a few of minutes later, you image the breast,” explains Lee. “If there is a cancer, it lights up in the detector. That’s molecular imaging.”

      While gamma imaging can provide another imaging tool for doctors, the chemical injected into the patient does emit radiation.

      “People are worried about the dose of the chemical that is injected into the patient, because that’s radiation inside the body,” explains Lee. “A mammogram also subjects patients to radiation in the form of X-rays, but it’s lower exposure.”

      Adding the new VASH collimator to a gamma imaging system will allow for a much smaller amount of radioactive chemical to be given to patients. Once the complete system is on the market, it’s expected to have a similar safety level as a mammogram. Plus, it provides a 3D view of the breast, providing a better, more accurate image of potential cancers.

      Solving a Rotating Problem

      To create 3D images of the breast with the VASH collimator, Lee had to combine his background as a mechanical engineer with his post-graduate and post-doctorate experience in biomedical optics.

      “For the common CT or SPECT scans, a detector rotates around the patient, which is why these devices look like a cylinder,” explains Lee. “For breast imaging, it’s hard to rotate around the breast because there’s limited space. Also, the breast needs to be under compression. It’s difficult to rotate a device around it while also compressing.”

      To solve these issues, Lee began by starting with a standard parallel collimator that is shaped like a honeycomb with square openings. He then designed one able to have the angle of the openings to be variable under computer control.

      “The parallel collimator passes gamma rays that travel perpendicular to the detector face. If the honeycomb structure is skewed in one direction or the other, you can change the angle,” says Lee. “Imagine a window screen. If you stack multiple window screens, that makes the collimator structure. If you move the screens a little on the side, the angle of light passing through will be changed. If you stack multiple screens and don’t change the bottom screen, but change the top screen or middle screen, we can get multiple projection images with a stationary detector.”

      In order to further reduce radiation exposure to patients and get even better images, Lee is also developing a dual-headed detector that will take one image from below and one from above the breast.

      “It’s a game-changer,” confirms Lee.

      Maintaining Strong Ties to Korean Community

      Lee’s mother may have predicted his success in mechanical engineering when he was a young boy growing up in Seoul, Korea.

      “My mom told me I tried to disassemble a telephone at age five,” he laughs. “That’s my blood—pure mechanical engineering.”

      So, it came as no surprise when he earned his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering. Afterwards he moved to the U.S. to attend Texas A&M University, where he earned a master’s degree and went on to earn his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering with a special interest in optics.

      Although he has settled in the U.S., Lee hopes to pass on his Korean heritage to his children. He returns to Korea every other year with his wife and two children. At home, the family speaks only Korean, and the children attend Korean school every Saturday, where they learn Korean culture and language.

      Through the Korean school, Lee connected with a group of three other tennis partners. The group has been gathering to play every Wednesday for more than 10 years now.

      “One player is a medical doctor, one works for NASA, and the other is an engineering professor,” says Lee. “There are a lot of common interests around work topics, and everyone is so busy, we play once a week for four hours.”

      Lee’s busy schedule is likely to continue over the next few years as he works to test and refine his VASH technology. If all goes according to plan, he hopes to see the VASH collimator hit the market in approximately two years.

      By Carrie Rogers

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