nEDM R&D

Gold plated ultra-pure copper is used to provide thermal contact from the dilution refrigerator to the grooved acrylic cell. Pyrex injection cell is one important part of the nEDM experiment.

People

MEPG group members (from left to right): Georgios Laskaris, Pinghan Chu, Yang Zhang, Xiaqing Li, Qiujian Ye, Haiyan Gao, Chao Peng, Min Huang, Mehdi Meziane, Xuefei Yan, Sucheta Jawalkar

Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn (GDH) sum rule

The GDH sum rule provides an elegant connection between the nucleon excitation spectrum and its static properties.

Transversity

Neutron TRANSVERSITY experiment will study nucleon transverse spin structure together with other transverse momentum dependent structure functions (TMDs).

Proton Charge Radius

The proton charge radius (PRad) experiment in Hall B at Jefferson Lab.

JLab

JLab's CEBAF accelerator provides continuous electron beam up to 12 GeV after the upgrade with four experimental halls.

Hall-A at JLab

The two High Resolution Spectrometers (HRS) in Hall-A are designed for detailed investigation of nuclear structure.

Injection Test

Test the polarization loss of 3He injected from the ABS and collected within superfluid 4He at 0.3 - 0.5K. Very important part of the new nEDM experiment.

Relaxation time

3He relaxation time measurement from dTPB coated acrylic cell at 1.9K and 0.3 - 0.5K.

Duke FEL Lab

The storage ring based FEL provides precisely tunable coherent radiation and a novel light source (Hiγs) with unprecedented photon flux by internal backscattering.

Former Ph.D. Students

  • Wang Xu(Ph.D. MIT, Jun 2002)
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  • Feng Xiong(Ph.D. MIT, Sep 2002) Financial analyst, Renaissance Technologies
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  • Lingyan Zhu(Ph.D. MIT, Feb 2004) Hampton University
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  • Chris Crawford
    (Ph.D. MIT, Jun 2005), Professor of Physics, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington Thesis:    Download
  • Jason Seely(Ph.D. MIT, Aug 2006) Arete Associates
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  • Ben Clasie(Ph.D. MIT, Aug 2006) Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University
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  • Qiang (Alan) Ye(Ph.D. Duke, Aug 2008) Assistant Research Scientist, University of Maryland
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  • Xing Zong(Ph.D. Duke, May 2010) Partner, Inforesight Investment, Shanghai, China
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  • Wei Chen(Ph.D. Duke, May 2010) Vice President, Goldman & Sachs
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  • Xin Qian(Ph.D. Duke, September 2010) Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory
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  • Wangzhi Zheng(Ph.D. Duke, May 2012) Vice President (Quantitative Analyst), Citi
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  • Qiujian Ye(Ph.D. Duke, December 2013) Financial Software Developer, Bloomberg
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  • Georgios Laskaris(Ph.D. Duke, May 2015) Internal Consultant, Ab Initio Software Company
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  • Min Huang(Ph.D. Duke, May 2016) Software Engineer, Bloomberg, L.P.
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  • Xuefei Yan(Ph.D. Duke, August 2017), Deep Learning Engineer, Camputer Lab of Aqueti
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  • Yang Zhang(Ph.D. Duke, May 2018), Quantitative Researcher, JP Morgan Chase & Co.
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  • Chao Peng(Ph.D. Duke, May 2018), Assistant Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
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  • Weizhi Xiong(Ph.D. Duke, May 2020), Faculty, Shandong University
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  • Xiaqing Li(Ph.D. Duke, December 2020), Faculty, Shandong University
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  • Drew Smith(Ph.D. Duke, May 2024), Postdoc, JLab
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Former Postdocs

Former Undergraduate Students

  • V. MarinovFall 1997, Summer 2000, Fall 2000 (published in Phys. Rev. C 63, R022201 (2001)
  • Roy EmanuelFall 1997 - January 1999 (Honor's thesis, MIT)
  • B. DemirkozSummer 1998
  • Z. JeevunjeeFall 1998 - Fall 2000
  • Paulina KuoFall 1998 - Spring 1999
  • Chris ChouJanuary 1999, Spring 2000
  • Omer N. OzkulFall 1999 (Honor's thesis, MIT)
  • Z. ChenSpring 2001
  • Seyi AdeyemiCambridge University (CMI program), Summer 2002
  • Scott SingerCaltech, Summer 2003 at Duke
  • Adero PaigeREU program, Summer 2003 at Duke
  • Bernadette HeyburnCaltech, Summer 2004 at Duke
  • Dan LissREU program, Summer 2004 at Duke
  • Crystal StoreyREU program, Summer 2004 at Duke
  • Jonathan AdkinsDuke, Summer 2005
  • Hannah DeBergREU program, Summer 2005 at Duke
  • Amber NelsonREU program, Summer 2005 at Duke
  • Kate BellDuke, Fall 2005 - Spring 2006 (Honor's thesis), Ph.D. Cornell, Sandia National Laboratories
  • Alvaro ChavarriaDuke, Fall 2005 - Fall 2006 (Ph.D. Princeton 2012) Assistant Professor University of Washington, Seattle
  • Chris Waite-JonesUNC-Chapel Hill, Summer 2006 - Fall 2006
  • Meredith ReitzREU program, Summer 2006 at Duke
  • Troy MestlerDuke, Spring 2006 -April 2007 (Honor's thesis), Ph.D. Princeton, CEO at Skyfront
  • Sebastian LiskaDuke, Summer 2006 - Fall 2007 (Honor's thesis with High Distinction, published in Phys.Rev. C75, 058201 (2007)) Ph.D. Caltech, Senior Scientist at Nanohmics
  • Pantana Tor-ngernDuke, Fall 2007 - 2008
  • Michelle DancsecsREU program, Summer 2007 at Duke
  • Danielle BennettREU program, Summer 2008 at Duke
  • Sarah ClairborneREU program, Summer 2009 at Duke
  • Nadira WilliamsREU program, Summer 2008 at Duke
  • Jessica DoehrmannREU program, Summer 2010 at Duke
  • Stephanie MahalchickREU program, Summer 2011 at Duke
  • William WeirDuke, Summer 2011
  • Anna Hughes REU program, Summer 2012 at Duke
  • Wolfe Greene REU program, Summer 2012 at Duke
  • Yusheng Huang Duke, 2012
  • Xiaqing Li Visiting student from Shandong University, August 2012 - July 2013 at Duke
  • Joseph Heideman Class 2014, UNC-Chapel Hill, Jan 2013 - June 31, 2014
  • Chris Flower Class 2016, Duke University, Fall 2013 - 2015, currently Ph.D. student at University of Maryland, College Park
  • Lydia Thurman Class 2015, Duke University, Fall 2013
  • Dominic Labella Class 2016, Duke University, Spring 2014
  • Yuqi Yun Class 2018, Duke University, Fall 2016
  • Bo Yu Class 2019, Shandong University, August 2017 - May 2018
  • Yunshan Cheng Class 2021, Shandong University, August 2019 - May 2020
  • Jiawei Guo Class 2021, Shandong University, August 2019 - May 2020
  • Natalia Escobar Class 2022, Duke University, August 2020 - May 2022
  • Simon Gorbaty Class 2022, Duke University, December 2021 - June 2023