The George Washington University.

Graduate Students

• Phoebe Sharp, working primarily on Hall D Color-Transparency/Short-Range Correlations experiment, and also on GlueX calibrations
• Peter Solazo, working primarily on the analysis of the a0 photoproduction, and also on testing bases+preams for FCAL-II.

Responsibilities

1. Igor Strakovsky involves in an interpretation of gp-->pi0p, gp-->eta p, and gp-->a0(980)p sigma-beam asymmetries at 9 GeV.
2. Igor Strakovsky involves in an interpretation of the J/psi photoproduction at the threshold (he made an essential contribution to the first GlueX paper).
3. Olga Cortes is responsible for the analysis of the Omega-baryon. Now, she will do analysis of 2017 data to look for an Omega signal.
4. Olga Cortes was responsible for the CDC monitoring which is done in 2018.
5. Olga Cortes is involved in the analysis of low-energy data collected fall 2018.
6. Olga Cortes is responsible for the analysis of the Dalitz plot for the eta’-> eta pi pi channel.
7. Olga Cortes was responsible for the CDC monitoring.
8. Olga Cortes is part of the Committee for the analysis note of \Lambda(1520).
9. Olga Cortes is part of the GlueX Diversity and inclusion group.
10. Phoebe Sharp is responsible for the PS calibration.
11. Peter Solazo is responsible for the a0 project - advisors Briscoe and Strakovsky.
12. Olga Cortes and Peter Solazo are responsible for testing bases+preams for FCAL-II.
13. Olga Cortes is supervising GWU summer students (2022 and 2023) who helping to construct and install FCAL-II.
14. Briscoe and Strakovsky are working on FCAL-II project as needed.

Physics Interests

1. Meson photoproduction, particularly the pi0, eta, eta’, a0(980) above resonance regime.
2. Omega-baryon photoproduction.
3. J/psi photoproduction at the threshold.
4. Short-range correlations.
5. Eta' decay.

Disclosure of Other Research Activities

Profs. Briscoe, Schmidt, and Strakovsky also work on the KLF & CLAS 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 GlueX Collaboration.

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