Parton propagation; Heavy ion collisions; Electromagnetic interactions; Particle Physics; Nuclear Physics

Claudio San Martín, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, (William Brooks, Advisor), “Nuclear effects on the kinematic dependences of the azimuthal coefficients for positive pions produced in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering on nuclei,” MSc Physics 2023 (anticipated).

René Rios, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, (William Brooks, Advisor), “Experimental Determination of the Relationship between Quark Energy Loss and pT Broadening,” MSc Physics 2022 (anticipated).

Carolina Robles, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, (William Brooks, Advisor) “Grey Tracks as a Probe of Hadronization at the Electron Ion Collider,” PhD Physics 2021 (anticipated).

Gabriela Hamilton, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, (William Brooks, Advisor), “A Direct Measurement of Quark Energy Loss in Cold Matter,” MSc Physics 2021 (anticipated).

Andrés Bórquez, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, (Hayk Hakobyan, Advisor; William Brooks, thesis committee member), “Omega meson hadronization studies in the nuclear medium with the CLAS spectrometer,” MSc Physics April 2021. Accepted into the PhD program at Heidelberg University.

Luciano Arellano, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, (William Brooks, Advisor), “High Multiplicity in CLAS and DiHiggs at ATLAS,” MSc Physics January 2021. Now in the PhD program at the University of Manchester.

Sebastián Morán, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, (Hayk Hakobyan, Advisor; William Brooks, thesis committee member), “Study of Hadronization Process using Positive Pions with CLAS in Jefferson Lab,” MSc Physics January 2021. Accepted to the PhD program at the University of California at Riverside.

Milan Ungerer, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, (Hayk Hakobyan, Advisor; William Brooks, thesis committee member), “New Double Target for CLAS12 Experiment,” MSc Physics January 2021.

Antonio Radic, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, (Hayk Hakobyan, Advisor; William Brooks, thesis committee member), “Two-Pion Bose-Einstein Correlation measurements with CLAS detector,” MSc Physics January 2021. Applying to the PhD program at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María.

Bárbara Yaeggy, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (Jonathan Miller and William Brooks, Co-advisors), “Charged Current Single Neutral Pion Production on Hydrocarbon in the MINERvA Detector at ~ 6 GeV/c,” PhD Physics, November 2020. Now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cincinnati, stationed at Fermilab.

Sandra Nathaly Santiesteban, University of New Hampshire (Karl Slifer, advisor; William Brooks, thesis committee member) PhD Physics, November 2020. Now a postdoctoral researcher at MIT.

Pablo Antonio Aguilera Jorquera, University of Chile (Hugo Arellano, advisor; William Brooks, President of the Committee) “Study of Gamow-Teller Transitions of Tz = -2 64Se and Tz = -1 66Se,” PhD Physics, July 2020.

Jorge López, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, (William Brooks, Advisor), “Color propagation in cold and hot matter,” PhD Physics, 2018. Following a postdoctoral position at Heidelberg University, and a second postdoctoral position with CCTVal, he is now a postdoctoral Humboldt Scholar at Heidelberg University.

Sebastián Tapia, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, (William Brooks, Advisor), “Experimental Studies of Parton Propagation in Strongly Interacting Matter,” PhD Physics, 2018. Now in a second postdoctoral position at Iowa State University, following a first position at Illinois.

Orlando Soto, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, (Hayk Hakobyan, Advisor; William Brooks, thesis committee member), “Hadronization studies of eta mesons using the CLAS spectometer,” PhD Physics, July 2018. Now in an INFN International Fellow position in INFN Frascati, Italy.

Oscar Aravena, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, (Hayk Hakobyan, Advisor; William Brooks, thesis committee member), “Parton energy loss estimates using positive pions in DIS on nuclear targets,” MSc Physics, 2017. Now teaching at UTFSM.

Thomas Schaub, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, (Romain Gers, Advisor), “Determination through numerical simulation of the density profile in cryogenic hydrogen with an electron beam as a heat source,” Undergraduate thesis, 2015. Now pursuing a PhD in Germany.

Juan “Iñaki” Vega, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, (Jaime Nuñez, Advisor), “Design of the fabrication process of light guides for the barrel calorimeter for Jefferson Lab,” Undergraduate thesis, 2014. Now employed as an engineer at UTFSM.

Miguel Arratia, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (William Brooks, Advisor), “Studies of Heavy Ions in ATLAS: J/psi in Proton-Lead and Lead-Lead Collisions in the LHC as a Probe of a Possible New Regime of QCD,” MSc in Physics, 2013. PhD in Physics, University of Cambridge, 2016; postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, now an assistant professor at U. California Riverside.

Taisiya Mineeva, University of Connecticut (Kyungseon Joo, Advisor; William Brooks, thesis committee member), “Hadronization studies via neutral pion electroproduction off D, C, Fe, and Pb,” PhD in Physics 2013. Now an assistant professor in the Physics Department at UTFSM.

Cristian Peña, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, (Jaime Glaria, Advisor) “Investigation of Experimental Backgrounds in Scattering Experiments using GEANT4,” Undergraduate thesis, 2009. PhD in Physics, Caltech, 2017; currently, Leon Lederman Fellowship (Fermilab) and INQNET Fellow (Caltech), and associated researcher at UTFSM.

Maryam Moteabbed, Florida International University (Brian Raue, Advisor; William Brooks, thesis committee member), “A precise measurement of the two-photon exchange effect,” PhD in Physics, 2009. Now an Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at the Division of Radiation Biophysics, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Hayk Hakobyan, Yerevan State University (Alita Danagulyan, Advisor; William Brooks, thesis committee member), “Observation of Quark Propagation Pattern in Nuclear Medium,” PhD in Physics, 2008. Now an associate professor in the Physics Department at UTFSM.

Jeffrey Lachniet, Carnegie Mellon University (Brian Quinn, Advisor; William Brooks, thesis committee member), “A high precision measurement of the neutron magnetic form factor using the CLAS detector,” PhD in Physics, 2005. Now employed in industry.

INVITED TALKS

2020:

85. “Light flavor suppression in DIS and recent CLAS results: From HERMES to CLAS to the EIC,” CFNS Workshop on Opportunities with Heavy Flavor at the EIC, November 2020, online meeting due to COVID-19.

84. “Color Propagation Studies in CLAS: Present and Future,” invited talk for the CLAS Collaboration, April 2020, online meeting due to COVID-19.

2019:

83. “Probing diquark degrees of freedom using hadron formation dynamics,” Workshop on Diquark Correlations in Hadron Physics: Origin, Impact and Evidence, Trento, Italy, September 2019.

2018:

82. “Propagation of QCD Color through Strongly Interacting Systems,” The Eighth International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, November 2018.

81. “Experimental Overview: Jets, Energy Loss, Hadronization, and Nuclear Structure,” EIC User Group Meeting 2018, Catholic University of America, Washington DC, July 2018.

80. “pEMC and Color Propagation: Novel Aspects and Opportunities for the Future,” Workshop on “Exposing Novel Quark and Gluon Effects in Nuclei,” ECT*, Trento, Italy, April 2018.

2017:

79. Physics Colloquium, University of New Hampshire Department of Physics, November 2017.
78. “Recent heavy flavor and quarkonia measurements from ATLAS.” Workshop on Heavy Flavor Production in High Energy Collisions, Oct. 30 - Nov. 1, 2017, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.
77. “QCD Color Propagation: in Matter and in the Vacuum,” INT Program INT–17–3 on Spatial and Momentum Tomography of Hadrons and Nuclei, September 2017

2016:

76. “Experimental Studies of Color Propagation,” Workshop on Nonperturbative Aspects of QCD
and Hadro-Particle Physics, Seville, Spain, October 2016.
75. “Experimental Studies of Fundamental Processes in QCD Color Propagation and Neutralization,” invited talk at the 26th International Nuclear Physics Conference, Adelaide SA, Australia, September 2016.
74. “Partons in and through the Nuclear Medium,” Gordon Research Conference on Photonuclear Reactions, Holderness NH, USA, August 2016.
73. “Vector boson and charmonium production in p+Pb and Pb+Pb collisions with ATLAS at the LHC,” Topical conference on Strangeness and Heavy Flavor production in Heavy-Ion Collisions, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley CA, USA, June 2016.
72. “New results related to soft probes in PbPb with the ATLAS detector: Measurement of forward-backward multiplicity correlations in Pb+Pb, p+Pb and pp collisions,” Fourth Annual Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference, Lund University, Sweden, June 2016.

2015:

71. “Fragmentation in Nuclei,” invited talk as key speaker at the workshop entitled From 1D
Fragmentation towards 3D Correlated Fragmentation, ECT*, Trento, Italy, October 2015.
70. “Heavy Ion Physics: Recent Physics Results, Run 2 Preparations,” invited talk for the ATLAS Collaboration, October 2015, Lecce, Italy.
69. “Modeling Hadronization Measurements,” International Workshop on Experimental and Theoretical Topics in CLAS Data Mining, Canisius College, Buffalo NY, USA, July 2015.
68. “Results on hadronization in nuclei from CLAS,” invited talk and key speaker at the workshop entitled New Directions in Nuclear Deep Inelastic Scattering, ECT*, Trento, Italy, June 2015.
67. “Partonic energy loss in cold nuclear matter: QCD color propagation,” invited talk at the Second KEK Theory Center Workshop on Hadron Physics with High-momentum Hadron Beams at J- PARC in 2015, Tsukuba, Japan, March 2015.
66. “Recent results on electroweak probes in lead-lead and proton-lead collisions from the ATLAS Detector at the LHC,” invited talk at the Seventh International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics, Valparaíso, Chile, March 2015.

2014:

65. “The Emergence of Hadrons and the Nuclear Force from Color at an EIC,” invited talk at the Fourth Joint Meeting of the Nuclear Physics Divisions of the American Physical Society and The Physical Society of Japan, Hawaii, October 2014.
64. “Studying propagation, neutralization, and fluctuations of QCD color at an Electron Ion Collider,” invited talk at the LHC Forward Physics and Diffraction Working Group, joint meeting with Future Directions in Forward Heavy-Ion Physics, Lawrence, Kansas, September 2014.
63. “Distinguishing Partonic Final State Interactions from Hadronic Final State Interactions using Transverse Momentum Broadening,” International Workshop on Experimental and Theoretical Topics in CLAS Data Mining, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, August 2014.
62. “Exploring the new QCD frontier of color propagation, neutralization, and fluctuations,” invited talk at the Electron Ion Collider International Users Meeting, Stony Brook University, June
2014.
61. “The Nucleus as a QCD Laboratory,” invited talk at the Electron Ion Collider International Advisory Committee meeting, Brookhaven National Laboratory, February 2014.

2013:

60. “Experimental High Energy and Nuclear Physics,” invited lecture at the 3rd Chilean School of
High-Energy Physics, Valparaíso, Chile, December 2013.
59. “The Emergence of Hadrons from Color Charge in QCD,” invited talk at the Tenth Latin American Symposium on Nuclear Physics and Applications, Montevideo, Uruguay, December 2013.
58. “Hadronization in the Nuclear Medium: Exploring Fundamental QCD Processes Using New Experimental Tools,” invited talk at the Second International Workshop on Probing Strangeness in Hard Processes, Frascati, Italy, November 2013.
57. “The Emergence of Hadrons from QCD Color,” invited talk at the Symposium on Nuclear Physics at the Energy-Luminosity Frontier: From JLab 12 GeV to an Electron- Ion Collider, Division of Nuclear Physics Fall Meeting, Newport News, VA, October 2013.
56. “EIC: New Scientific and Technology Frontiers for Parton Femtoscopy,” invited talk at the Sixth International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High- Energy Nuclear Collisions,” Cape Town, South Africa, November 2013.
55. “e-A at Large x: Applying Parton Propagation Methods to Investigate QCD Fragmentation, Quantum Fluctuations, and Heavy Quark Energy Loss,” invited talk at the
Workshop on Physics Opportunities at an Electron-Ion Collider, Valparaíso, Chile, March 2013.
54. “New Experimental Tools for Exploring Gluon Saturation and Hadron Formation in QCD,” Physics Department Colloquium, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT, February 2013.

2012:

53. “Electron-Nucleus Interactions at High x at an Electron-Ion Collider,” Physics Opportunities at an Electron-Ion Collider, Bloomington, Indiana, August 2012.
52. “New Experimental Tools for Exploring In-Medium Parton Propagation in QCD,” Sixth International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics, Paliseau, France, April 2012.
51. “ATLAS Results for Heavy Ions,” Fourth International Workshop on High Energy Physics in the LHC Era,” Valparaíso, Chile, January 2012.

2011:

50. “New Experimental Tools for Exploring Parton Propagation in QCD,” invited talk as a key speaker at International Workshop on Short Range Correlations in Nuclei and Hard QCD Phenomena, European Center for Theoretical Studies (ECT*) Trento, Italy, 14 November 2011.
49. “ATLAS Capabilities for the 2012 p-Pb Run,” W. K. Brooks, invited talk at LPCC Workshop on Prospects of p-Pb collisions during the 2012 LHC HI Run, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 18 October 2011.
48. “Studies of Hadronization using Pion Electroproduction in Deep Inelastic Scattering from Nuclei,” invited talk at International Workshop on Partons in Nucleons and Nuclei, Marrakesh, Morocco, September 2011.
47. “ATLAS Heavy Ion Collisions 2011,” presentation to the ATLAS collaboration at the ATLAS Weekly meeting, Sept. 20, 2011.
46. “Studies of Hadronization Mechanisms using Pion Electroproduction in Deep Inelastic Scattering from Nuclei,” contributed talk at the 19th Particles and Nuclei International Conference, Cambridge Massachusetts, July 2011.
45. “The Quark Matter Conference and 2011 plans for the ATLAS heavy ion working group,” Physics Plenary meeting presentation to ATLAS collaboration, ATLAS Week, June 2011.
44. “Jets in Heavy Ions with ATLAS,” invited talk at High-pT Probes of High-Density QCD at the LHC, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, May 30 - June 1, 2011.
43. “Overview of the New Experimental Activities within the USM HEP Group,” invited talk at Valparaíso International Symposium on Particle Physics, Valparaíso, Chile, May 2011.
42. “First Results from Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC,” Physics Division Seminar, Jefferson Lab, January 2011.

2010:

41. “Quark fragmentation in the Cold Nuclear Medium: using Kaons and Nuclei to Discover the Mechanisms of Hadronization,” invited talk at Workshop on Probing Strangeness in Hard Processes, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy, October 2010.
40. “Parton Propagation studies at EIC: measuring the saturation scale, quark energy loss, and the mechanisms of hadronization,” contributed talk at the Electron-Ion Collider workshop at Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, July 2010.
39. “Experimental Opportunities in High Energy Physics with the ATLAS detector at LHC,” invited talk at Escuela Bicentenario en Topicos de la Fisica Contemporanea, Valparaíso, Chile, June 2010.
38. “Physics with Nuclei at EIC,” invited talk at XVIII International Workshop on Deep- Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects, Florence, Italy, April 2010.
37. “Search for the Onset of Color Transparency using Rho Electroproduction,” invited talk at XVIII International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects, Florence, Italy, April 2010.
36. “Coming Unglued: the Life and Times of Quasi-Free Quarks,” Physics Division Colloquium and invited talk at the Workshop on Nuclear Chromo-Dynamic Studies with a Future Electron Ion Collider, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, April 2010.
35. “Heavy Ions with ATLAS,” invited talk at the Third International Workshop on High Energy Physics in the LHC Era, Valparaíso, Chile, January 2010.

2009:

34. “Jet quenching measurements with ATLAS at LHC,” invited talk at the VIII Latin American Symposium on Nuclear Physics and Applications, Santiago, Chile, December 2009.
33. “The “Polarized EMC Effect” in 7Li,” invited talk at the INT program “The Jefferson Laboratory Upgrade to 12 GeV,” Seattle, Washington, October 2009.
32. "The CLAS12 Program of Parton Propagation and Hadron Formation Studies," invited talk at the INT program “The Jefferson Laboratory Upgrade to 12 GeV,” Seattle, Washington, October 2009.
31. “Microscopic Studies of Parton Propagation and Hadron Formation,” invited talk at the INT Workshop INT-09-43W: “Physics at a High Energy Electron Ion Collider,” Seattle, Washington, October 2009.
30. “Semi-Inclusive eA Scattering and Final State Interactions,” invited talk at the 2nd CERN- ECFA-NuPECC Workshop on the LHeC, Divonne-les-Bains, France, September 2009.
29. “Experimental Studies of Hadronisation and Parton Propagation in the Space-Time Domain,” plenary invited talk at the 21st International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, Knoxville, Tennessee, April 2009.
28. “Microscopic Studies of Hadronisation and Parton Propagation in the Space-Time Domain,” Physics Department Seminar, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, March 2009.
27. “Microscopic Studies of Hadronisation and Parton Propagation in the Space-Time Domain,” VII Latin American Symposium on High Energy Physics (SILAFAE) and IX Argentine Symposium of Particles and Fields (SAPyC), San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, January 2009.

2008:

26. "Experimental Opportunities in High Energy Physics with ATLAS at LHC," XVI Simposio Chileno de Física, Valparaíso, Chile, November 2008.
25. "The Role of Kaons in Studies of Hadronization Dynamics," Workshop on CLAS Ring Imaging Cerenkov Detector, Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia, August 2008.
24. "Parton propagation and hadron formation in the space-time domain," Sixth International Conference on Perspectives in Hadronic Physics, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, May 2008.
23. "Parton propagation and hadron formation in the space-time domain," UTFSM Seminar, Valparaiso, Chile, March 2008.
22. “Hadron Attenuation and Medium Effects in Photoproduction: QCD in the Spacetime Domain,” Workshop on Photon-hadron Physics with the GlueX detector at Jefferson Lab, Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia, March 2008.
21. “Parton Propagation and Hadron Formation: Present Status, Future Prospects,” Workshop on Parton Fragmentation Processes in the Vacuum and in the Medium, European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics (ECT*), Trento, Italy, February 2008.
20. “Space-Time Properties Of Hadronization: What Physics can be Gained from a CLAS12 RICH?” CLAS 12 RICH Detector Workshop, Jefferson Lab, Newport News,
Virginia, January 2008.

2007:

19. “Space-time Properties of Hadronization: Insights from Semi-inclusive DIS on Nuclei,” Workshop on Short-Range Structure of Nuclei at 12 GeV, Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia, October 2007.
18. “QCD Processes in the Nucleus,” Nuclear Science Advisory Committee Long Range Plan, QCD and Hadron Physics Town Meeting, Rutgers, New Jersey, January 2007.

2006:

17. “Partonic Propagation Through Strongly Interacting Systems,” Workshop on High Energy Physics in the LHC Era – Valparaiso, Chile, December 2006.
16. “The 12 GeV Upgrade of Jefferson Lab: Physics Program and Project Status,” Workshop on High Energy Physics in the LHC Era – Valparaiso, Chile, December 2006.
15. “Overview of the 12 GeV Upgrade at Jefferson Lab,” 73rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society, Williamsburg, Virginia, November 2006.
14. “QCD Confinement in Forming Systems: Measuring Characteristic Times in Hadronization Processes,” Jefferson Lab User Group Summer Workshop, Newport News, Virginia, June 2006.

2005:

13. “Quark Propagation, the Strong Force, and the Mystery of QCD Confinement,” Old Dominion University Physics Department Colloquium, Norfolk, Virginia, November 2005.
12. “Deep Inelastic Scattering Data on Nuclei with CLAS at Jefferson Lab: Present and Future,” Workshop on Parton Propagation through Strongly Interacting Matter, European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics (ECT*), Trento, Italy, September 2005.
11. “Nucleon Form Factors – Experimental Perspectives,” Electromagnetic Interactions with Nucleons and Nuclei, Milos, Greece, September 2005.
10. “Space-Time Properties of Hadronization from Nuclear Deep Inelastic Scattering,” Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics seminar, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, March 2005.

2004:

9. “A Precise Determination of the Neutron Magnetic Form Factor to Higher Q2,” Tenth International Baryons Conference, Palaiseau, France, October 2004.
8. “Quark Propagation and Fundamental Processes in QCD,” Jefferson Lab User Group Meeting, Newport News, Virginia, June 2004.

2003:

7. “Space-Time Properties of Hadronization from Nuclear Deep Inelastic Scattering,” Nuclear and Particle Physics seminar, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, November 2003.
6. “Space-Time Studies of Hadronization at Jefferson Lab,” Physics Department Colloquium, University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, June 2003.
5. “Space-Time Properties of Hadronization from Nuclear Deep Inelastic Scattering,” Second International Conference on Nuclear and Particle Physics with CEBAF at Jefferson Laboratory, Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2003.
4. “The Neutron Magnetic Form Factor GMn – Status of the CLAS/E5 Measurement,” Topical Workshop on the Deuteron, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, March 2003.

2002 and earlier:

3. “Hadronic Multi-particle Final State Measurements with CLAS at Jefferson Lab,” Second International Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the Few-GeV Region, University of California, Irvine, California, December 2002.
2. “CLAS – A Large Acceptance Spectrometer for Intermediate Energy Electromagnetic Nuclear Physics,” 15th International Conference on Particles and Nuclei, Uppsala, Sweden, June 1999.
1. “First Results from CLAS,” Gordon Research Conference on Photonuclear Physics, Tilton School, Tilton, New Hampshire, July 1998.