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Manpower

Faculty

• Prof. Igor Strakovsky, 50% of research time on KLF, 20% on GlueX, 20% on CLAS, and 10% on PWAs and SAID DB support.
• Prof. Bill Briscoe, 15% of research time on KLF, 35% on JEF/GlueX, 30% on CLAS, 10% on MUSE.
• Prof. Axel Schmidt will devote 10% of active research time to KLF (20% to GlueX, 20% to LAD Experiment in Hall C, 50% to CLAS).

PostDocs

• Dr. Olga Cortes, 15% of research time on KLF, 65% on GlueX, 20% on CLAS.
• We submitted a Supplement Request for a postdoctoral fellow to address critical software tasks for the K-Long Facility upgrade at Jefferson Lab. These tasks include implementing new KLF equipment into simulation, modeling the response of new detectors, adapting reconstruction algorithms, and establishing new methods of calibration for use with a pulsed Kaon beam. This work is critical to passing upcoming ERR-II, and furthermore cannot be covered by current group personnel. Now the supplemental award for the KLF postdoc has been approved.

Responsibilities

1. Igor Strakovsky devotes his time to the modification of the Hall D beamline including Be-target assembly and Kaon Flux monitor. He also will devote part of his time to expand the proposal Goal for identification of missing hyperons.
2. William Briscoe plans to assist in the modification of the Hall D beamline as needed. Additionally, he also will devote a portion of his time to the search of missing hyperons.
3. Axel Schmidt will assist with the modification of the K-Long beamline as needed.
4. Axel Schmidt will serve as a run coordinator during data collection.
5. Axel Schmidt will work to develop new experimental questions that can be answered with KLF, particularly regarding intrinsic strangeness in short-range correlations.
6. Axel Schmidt will assist with CDC calibration as needed.
7. Olga Cortes Becerra will help update Monitoring (RootSpy) and work part of her research time on understanding the Hyperon spectrum.

Physics Interests

1. Formation of \Sigma* and \Lambda* hyperons with K-long beam interacting with cryo LH2 and LD2 targets.
2. Exploring reactions with final state K\Xi reaction for a search of \Xi* hyperons.
3. Search for exited \Omega* hyperons in a KK\Omega* final states.
4. The possiblity studies for \beta decay of K-long with the Flux Monitor of KLF.

Disclosure of Other Research Activities

Profs. Strakovsky, Briscoe, and Schmidt also work on the GlueX, CLAS, and SRC Collaborations studying baryon and meson spectroscopy and short-range correlations. However, because the production mechanisms and decay channels are different, there does not seem to be a conflict of interest with the ongoing work in the KLF Collaboration.