INTRODUCTION

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DESCRIPTIVE STATEMENT

The Department of Physics has continued to expand its accomplishments both

academically and in areas of research (locally, nationally, and internationally). In the Nuclear

Physics group, Dr. Michael Kohl has achieved international renown by serving as the

Spokesperson for the OLYMPUS experiment that has been actively underway at the Deutsches

Elektronen Synchroton & Research Centre (DESY) in Hamburg, Germany. The experiment

includes Hampton University participants Dr. Juergen Diefenbach, Post Doctoral Research

Associate and Mr. Ozgur Ates (PhD degree candidate). Dr. M. Eric Christy has also achieved

international renown by serving in a number of leadership positions including being an elected

member of the executive committee and as a convener for a physics working group on the

MINERvA experiment that is underway at Fermi National Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. This

experiment also includes Hampton University graduate students Ms. Habarakada Anusha

Pushpakumari­Liyanage (PhD candidate), Wenting Tan (MS candidate) and Ms. Tammy Walton

(PhD Physics degree candidates). The contributions from the Nuclear Physics groups to both

experiments have enhanced the reputation of Hampton University worldwide. Laboratory

space, research space, and offices for nuclear physics have been established in the Biomedical

Research Building (Fountain Bldg).

The department delivers world­class education, research and training in specific areas of

physics such as: optical materials; laser spectroscopy; high energy physics; nano­scale physics;

medical physics; experimental nuclear physics; and theoretical physics. Major funded centers

are: the NSF­funded Advanced Center for Laser Science and Spectroscopy (ACLASS); the

Center for Advanced Medical Instrumentation (CAMI); and the National Superconducting

Cyclotron Facility in Michigan. Laboratory space for optical physics (Dr. Donald Lyons and Dr.

Jae Tae Seo) and for elementary particle physics (Dr. Vassilios Vassilakopoulos) has been

renovated in the Graduate Physics Research Center (GPRC) and experimental equipment has

started to return to that building. Dr. Paul Guèye has established research space in Armstrong

Slater, the Biomedical Research Building and Jefferson Lab for accelerator physics and

additional nuclear research. As part of a recent effort with the Accelerator Division at Jefferson

Lab, Dr. Paul Guèye was granted one of their 100 kV DC thermionic electron guns that was used

in the early years of the laboratory’s scientific program. The gun has been moved and it is now

being assembled for use in the new on­campus accelerator physics facility in the Armstrong

Slater Building by students and some staff from Jefferson Lab.

Undergraduate physics majors matriculate in a comprehensive and thorough course of

study which prepares them for competitive admissions to graduate schools, medical schools, as

well as other disciplines, and employment in industry, education or government. Physics majors

participate in summer research programs across the country with different universities and

research facilities. Students usually receive free travel, room and board and a stipend payment.

Opportunities are plentiful and the experience and knowledge gained is valuable. Graduate

students perform state­of­the art research under the advisement of professors while completing

course work and their dissertation or thesis. Research may lead to developing new and

innovative technology, making medical breakthroughs applicable to cancer treatment, and further

investigation into new technologies and applications.

The Department’s colloquium series has hosted and will continue to host visiting national

and international scientists throughout the academic year, to give technical talks on their

research. This along with our engaging classroom instruction and continuous research efforts in

physics will continue to build on the department’s primary goal to educate and develop students

into world­class scientist and professionals

SPECIAL FACULTY RECOGNITION AND ACTIVITIES

Retirement Announcement

Dr. Bagher Tabibi, Professor of Physics, has announced his retirement on May 17, 2013. Dr. Tabibi has been employed with Hampton University since May of 1983. In the last 30 years, he has received ten research and education grant awards with total budget over $25 million by serving as either principal investigator (PI) or co­principal investigator (Co­PI). He has authored and co­authored over two­hundred refereed journal articles, proceedings, technical papers or reports, and conference presentations. Dr. Tabibi has taught 22 different physics and mathematics courses in undergraduate and graduate programs at Hampton University. He has advised twelve graduate students in PhD and master’s degree programs and mentored numerous undergraduate students for various research projects. He has served on many committees for the physics department, school of science, university, local, national, and international communities. It is important to mention that he greatly contributed to the development and subsequent enhancement of the PhD degree program in Physics at Hampton University. He is a world renowned scientist with scientific expertise in ultrafast nonlinear laser spectroscopy of nanomaterials, surface­enhanced Raman spectroscopy, solar­pumped lasers, solar­thermal electric propulsion, electron­beam fluorescence, and laser­induced fluorescence spectroscopy.

Dr. Alberto Accardi

• Dr. Alberto Accardi has been elected Vice­chair of the 2014 Gordon Research Conference on Photonuclear Reactions, and will become Chair of this conference in 2016. The Gordon Research Conferences provide since 75 years a time­honored and world renowned international forum for the presentation and discussion of frontier research in the biological, chemical, and physical sciences, and their related technologies. In particular, the Photonuclear GRC is a forum for presentation and discussion of the most recent results on frontier studies. Dr. Accardi's position will be critical in the planned enlargement of the conference scope to include, beside nuclear physics with photon and neutrino probes, the most recent activities in high­energy particle physics and Quark­Gluon Plasma physics, thus establishing this conference as the premier forum for discussion of frontier research on the fundamental structure of matter.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi has been elected member of the Coordinated Theoretical­ Experimental Project on QCD (CTEQ) collaboration. CTEQ is an invitation­only multi­ institutional collaboration devoted to a broad program of research projects and cooperative enterprises in high­energy physics centered on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and its implications in all areas of the Standard Model and beyond. The collaboration consists of 33 theorists and experimentalists at 19 national and international universities and 5 national laboratories.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi is serving on Jefferson Lab's “Electron­Ion Collider” study group, which is developing a project to build a new particle accelerator dedicated to the study of the inner structure and workings of subatomic particles, and envisioned as embodying the vision for the future of nuclear physics in the 2007 long range plan of the United States Nuclear Science Advisory Committee.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi organized the 2012 annual meeting of the CTEQ collaboration, hosted by Jefferson Lab on November 15­17, 2012

• Dr. Alberto Accardi was elected co­Chair of the 2014 Photonuclear Gordon Research Conference, to be held from August 10–15 at the Holderness School, in Holderness, NH, and as Chair of the 2016 conference in this series.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi is co­organizer of the “QCD Frontier 2013” international workshop, to be held at Jefferson Lab on October 21­22, 2013.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi is chair of the 28th “Hampton University Graduate School” (HUGS) in nuclear physics, a 3 week international summer school in nuclear physics for graduate students.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi served as program committee member and local organizer of the 27th HUGS summer school.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi served as member of the Jefferson Laboratory Theory Advisor Committee.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi served as grant proposals reader for the Department of Energy • Dr. Alberto Accardi is serving as coordinator of the CTEQ­JLab collaboration, which

brings together scientists from the CTEQ collaboration, Jefferson Lab and Hampton University to specifically focus on the determination of the substructure of protons and neutrons under conditions as yet little studied in the broader CTEQ collaboration.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi is participating in an international collaboration designing a future particle accelerator which is being proposed to the Nuclear Physics community as the

next major American accelerator to become operative at Jefferson Lab in the 2020's. The design report appeared recently as an on­line preprint and will be submitted for publication to an international journal: S. Abeyratne, Alberto Accardi, S. Ahmed, D. Barber, J. Bisognano, A. Bogacz, A. Castilla, P. Chevtsov, S. Corneliussen, W. Deconinck et al., “Science Requirements and Conceptual Design for a Polarized Medium Energy Electron­Ion Collider at Jefferson Lab”, JLAB­ACC­12­1619, e­Print: arXiv:1209.0757

• Dr. Alberto Accardi reviewed manuscripts for Physical Review C. • Dr. Alberto Accardi co­authored a mini review paper on “Nuclear physics with a

medium­energy Electron­Ion Collider” that was also featured on the cover of the European Physical Journal A June 2012 issue.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi presented a poster at the School of Science Research Symposium on April 18, 2013. The title was, “Jefferson Lab: Exploring the Nature of Matter.” The work was a collaborated effort by Dr. M. Eric Christy, Dr. José Goity, Dr. Paul Guèye, Dr. Michael Kohl, and Dr. Liguang Tang of the Physics Department at Hampton University.

Dr. M. Eric Christy

• Dr. M. Eric Christy was appointed to the Fermilab National Accelerator Faculty (Fermilab) as a guest scientist during the fall semester of 2012 in Batavia, IL. While on sabbatical there, Christy’s primary responsibility was to lead a physics analysis effort for the MINERvA neutrino experiment. Fermilab contributed $47,000 towards Dr. Christy’s contribution towards the MINERvA Cryogenic Target and Medium Energy Analysis roles, which included directing the Cryogenic Instrumentation Calibration, Data Analysis, and the incorporation into MINERvA Neutrino Physics Analyses.

• Dr. M. Eric Christy has been currently working on finishing the development and construction at Hampton of the tracking drift chambers for the SHMS spectrometer in

Hall C at Jefferson Lab through an NSF Major Instrumentation Grant (PI). These chambers will be the main particle tracking detectors for this new spectrometer, which will serve as standard equipment for experiments in Hall C as part of the major DOE project to double the beam energy available from the JLab accelerator. Several graduate and undergraduate students have been and will continue to be involved in construction and testing these detectors.

• Dr. M. Eric Christy, co­authored and presented a poster on April 19, 2013, at the School of Science Research Symposium titled, “Hampton University at the MINERvA Experiment.” Collaborators for the poster included Wenting Tan, PhD candidate and Tammy Walton, PhD candidate.

Dr. José Goity

• Dr. José Goity was the Chair of the 7 th International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics at Jefferson Lab August 6­10, 2012.

• Dr. José Goity will be the co­organizer of the session B “Light quarks” at the International Conference and the Hadron Spectrum that will take place in Munich, Germany, in October 2012.

• Dr. José Goity is currently active on several service areas. They include: • Dr. José Goity is a member of the Qualifying Exam Committee in the Physics

Department. • Dr. José Goity is a member of the Provost’s Academic Personnel Committee. • Dr. José Goity is a member of the programs and organizational committee with Hampton

University Graduate School (HUGS). • Dr. José Goity is a member and active participate of the Theory Group at Jefferson Lab. • Dr. José Goity serves as a referee for the Physical Review C and D, the Physical Review

Letters, Nuclear Physics, the European Journal of Physics, Physics Letters, and the Canadian Journal of Physics.

• Dr. José Goity serves as a referee of proposals submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Energy (DoE), CONCYT (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia or the National Council of Science and Technology) in Argentina, and NSERC (the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council) in Canada.

• Dr. José Goity serves on the panel for the National Science Foundation (NSF). • Dr. José Goity serves as an advisor of visiting students and postdoctoral students at

Jefferson Lab. • Dr. José Goity, authored and presented a poster at the School of Science Symposium on

April 19, 2013, titled, “Probing Quantum Chromodynamics with Effective Theories.”

Dr. Paul Guèye

• Dr. Paul Guèye received the President's Ambassador of Excellence Award for Extraordinary Efforts in grantsmanship and commitment to Hampton University. The award was given to him by President Harvey on April 16, 2013 at the University­Wide Faculty Meeting.

• Dr. Paul Guèye has initiated the accreditation process for medical physics. In December of 2012, he along with Dr. William Harvey, President of Hampton University, conducted an interview with Dr. Lars Ewell, as a possible candidate for Director of Medical Physics program.

• Dr. Paul Guèye has started assembly of an electron gun in January of 2013. The electron gun will be used to help begin the development of a mini research facility similar to Jefferson Laboratory here at Hampton University.

• Dr. Paul Guèye was selected as a member of the 2013 Physics Panel Committee Review and assisted in issuing a report on the curriculum standards for grades K­12 in science for the United States.

• Dr. Paul Guèye has initiated the process of having a Physics Day Camp at the Hampton Convention Center on April 13, 2013. With the cooperation of the Girls Inc. of the Greater Peninsula, The National Society of Black Physicists, and Hampton School District, the plan is to eventually host the event annually. The target is middle and high school students and teachers from Hampton County Schools to come out for a day of presentations, talks, activities, and demonstrations that will be given by various representatives from many different physics organizations, other HBCUs, and other colleges and universities. Students will gain knowledge on the subject of physics and learn of college programs and opportunities. Teachers that attend the event will be given recertification points.

• Dr. Paul Guèye is the President of the National Society of Black Physicists and chair of the African Affairs Sub­Committee of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.

• Dr. Paul Guèye conducted research at Jefferson Lab for the production of a polarized positron beam. The Polarized Electrons for Polarized Positrons (PEPPo) experiment is a completely new technique to provide a new capability at JLab. Adeleke Adeyemi, (PhD candidate) is the only graduate student on this project. Dr. Guèye is also involved in the development and maintenance of the Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation toolkit. He supervises three PhD students in Senegal (Africa) in the area of nuclear, accelerator and medical physics.

• Dr. Paul Guèye was successful in securing new scholarships from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational­Waves Observatory (LIGO) collaboration for minority students to perform research in gravitational waves. These fellowships result from an effort between the National Society of Black Physicists and LIGO.

• Dr. Paul Guèye will initiate a pilot program this summer for middle and high­school students to expose them in STEM disciplines, with an emphasis in physics.

• Dr. Paul Guèye submitted a poster he co­authored to be displayed the American Physical Society April Meeting in Denver, Colorado on April 13­16, 2013. The title of the poster

was, “A Multi­layered target for the Study of Neutron­Unbound Nuclei.” (Other co­ authors were, Nathan Frank and Michael Thoennessen.)

Dr. Uwe Hömmerich

• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich received a one year extension for a Joined Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program with Brim rose Technology Corporation on the development of Infrared Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy for chemical sensing.

• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich published jointly with Dr. Ei Ei Brown four manuscripts in peer­ reviewed journals and/or conference proceedings. They also presented their research at seven national and international conferences.

• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich hosted a program meeting on IR Laser­Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy at Hampton University on January 10, 2013. Research from Brimrose Corporation, Edgewood Biological Chemical Center, and the Army Research Laboratory participated in the meeting.

• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich Received an invitation to serve as a judge at the symposium for senior mentorship projects at the Governor School of Science & Technology on May 20, 2013.

• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich reviewed a research proposal for the Army Research Office during spring 2013.

• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich presented his research during the 2012 External Advisory Board meeting for the NSF supported Advanced Center for Laser Science and Spectroscopy. He also co­authored a paper accepted for publication in the refereed journal Applied Spectroscopy.

• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich co­authored and presented a poster on April 19, 2013 at the School of Science Research Symposium titled, “Spectroscopic Characterization of Thulium Doped Potassium Lead Halides for 2µm Photonic Applications.” Research collaborators were Dr. Ei Ei Brown, research assistant professor and Eric Kumi­Barimah, physics PhD candidate.

(Poster Above: Dr. Uwe Hömmerich’s poster that was presented at the School of Science Research Symposium on April 19, 2013.)

Dr. Michael Kohl

• Dr. Michael Kohl – The Experiment E6 “Measurement of Γ(K + →e + ν)/Γ(K + →μ + ν)and Search for heavy sterile neutrinos using the TREK detector system” which was initially approved in the summer of 2012, has been endorsed by the 16 th J­PARC Program Advisory Committee (PAC) in January 2013.

• Dr. Michael Kohl – The recently proposed “MUon Scattering Experiment” (MUSE) at PSI has been approved by the Program Advisory Committee at its 44 th annual meeting at PSI, Villigen, Switzerland, on January 14­15, 2013.

• On July 5, 2012, Dr. Michael Kohl was re­confirmed as spokesman of OLYMPUS. The term is extended until January 2013, when OLYMPUS running is expected to be complete.

• Dr. Michael Kohl has been co­initiator of a new experiment (MUSE, muon scattering experiment) proposed by an international team of physicists at the Paul­Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland, to measure the proton charge radius with muon scattering. Recently, controversy had arisen about the size of the proton in articles published in Nature and the NY Times. After an initial proposal review in February 2012, the project has now undergone a technical review by an international review committee on July 25,

2012. If a beam test scheduled for October 2012 proves successful, the experiment is likely to be approved at the Program Advisory Committee (PAC) meeting in January 2013. The experiment will be prepared for about two years, to be run in 2015.

• Dr. Michael Kohl has been international spokesman of the TREK program (Time Reversal Experiment with Kaons) at the Japanese Proton Accelerator Complex (J­PARC) in Japan since fall 2008. Recently, an additional experiment with the TREK apparatus was proposed (experiment E36), with the goal to test lepton flavor universality in kaon decays to a higher precision than by any previous experiment. Dr. Kohl was elected co­ spokesman of E36 in April 2012 and represented the project as speaker in the open and closed sessions of the 15 th PAC meeting for J­PARC held at the Japanese High­Energy Research Association (KEK) in Tsukuba, Japan, on July 13­15, 2012. The PAC has recommended approval of E36 and endorsed a schedule that calls for running of E36 between fall 2014 and spring 2015.

• Dr. Michael Kohl continued to lead the OLYMPUS project at DESY in Hamburg, Germany. OLYMPUS is a precision experiment to explore how electrons and positrons interact with protons; OLYMPUS is conducted by a collaboration of over 50 physicists from six countries. After a first successful running period in February 2012, the experiment has been improved and upgraded over the summer. The final two months of data taking are scheduled to take place from October 22 – December 22, 2012.

• Dr. Michael Kohl co­authored and presented research for four posters on April 19, 2013, at the School of Science Research Symposium. The four titles were; “Measurement of the Proton Electric to Magnetic Form Factor Ratio with Polarized Beam and Target,” (with Anusha Pushpakumari Liyanage, PhD candidate); “Studying Tow­Photon Exchange with Olympus,” (with Ozgur Ates, PhD candidate); “TREK/E36 Experiment at J­PARC,” (with Bishoy Dongwi, PhD candidate); and “The MUSE Experiment at PSI.”

(Poster above: Presented by Dr. Michael Kohl on April 19, 2013, at the School of Science Research Symposium)

(Poster above: Presented by Dr. Michael Kohl on April 19, 2013, at the School of Science Research Symposium)

(Poster above: Presented by Dr. Michael Kohl on April 19, 2013, at the School of Science Research Symposium)

Dr. Mahmoud Abdel­Fattah

• Dr. Mahmoud Abdel­Fattah, co­authored and presented a poster on April 19, 2013, at the School of Science Research Symposium titled, “Plasmon­coupled Nanoparticles and Molecules for Photonic Applications.” Collaborators include Roopchan Random, PhD candidate; Quinton Rice, senior physics student; Anderson Hayes, senior physics student; and Quinn Hailes, senior physics student.

Dr. JaeTae Seo

• Dr. Jaetae Seo, invited Dr. Paul Danehy, Dr. Jennifer Ann Inman, and Mr. Brett Bathel (PhD student, UVA) from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) on January 31, 2013 to campus. Dr. Seo, a scientist at NASA LaRC, and Dr. Richard Miles in Mechanical Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, are developing a femtosecond laser electronic excitation tagging (FLEET) project which will be placed at the National Institute Aeronautics (NIA) where Dr. Pamela Hammond (Provost) is currently serving as the Chair of Board of Trustee, and Dr Calvin Lowe (Dean of the School of Science) was the Vice President. The visitors also had a meeting with Dr.

Donald Whitney (Physics Department, Interim Chair) and Dr. Lowe and they reached a verbal agreement for the collaborative project at NIA. Dr. Seo currently has a research laboratory reserved at NIA.

• Dr. Jaetae Seo is serving as an Editor­in­Chief of the Journal of Photonics and Optoelectronics. Photonics and Optoelectronics (JPO) is an international open­access and refereed journal dedicated to publishing the latest advancements in photonics and optoelectronics. The goal of this journal is to record the latest findings and promote further research in these areas. Scholars from all relevant academic fields are invited to submit high­quality manuscripts that describe the latest, state­of­the­art research results or innovations.

• Dr. Jaetae Seo serves on the editorial board of several publications, including: • Dr. Jaetae Seo serves as an Associate Editor for the World Journal of Engineering. • Dr. Jaetae Seo serves on the editorial board of the Open Spectroscopy. • Dr. Jaetae Seo serves on the editorial board for Optics and Photonics. • Dr. Jaetae Seo serves on the editorial advisory board of the Open Applied Physics

Journal. • Dr. Jaetae Seo serves on the editorial board for the International Journal of Advanced

Physics Research. • Dr. Jaetae Seo served as an Editor­in­Chief of the refereed journal: Journal of Photonics

and Optoelectronics. • Dr. Jaetae Seo served as an Editorial Board of the refereed journal: Open Spectroscopy.

Dr. Bagher Tabibi

• Dr. Bagher Tabibi, co­authored and presented a poster on April 19, 2013, at the School of Science Symposium titled, “Advanced Center for Laser Science and Spectroscopy.” (ACLASS) The poster represented statistics from research conducted by the ACLASS group (Dr. Jaetae Seo, Dr. Uwe Hömmerich, and Dr. M. Patrick McCormick).

Dr. Vassilios Vassilakopoulos,

• Dr. Vassilios Vassilakopoulos, whom has been actively involved in research at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) on the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus) experiment. One of the main physics goals for this experiment was to search for the elusive Higgs boson. Last semester, an observation of a boson was reported (presumably the Higgs boson) in the Large Hadron Collider experiments CMS and ATLAS. The press releases from CERN and US management are at the referenced links below.

CERN: http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2012/PR17.12E.html US DOE: http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_releases/2012/Higgs­Search­LHC­ 20120704.html

Also, if you are interested in learning about the discovery details, please see the ATLAS experiment results: http://www.atlas.ch/news/2012/latest­results­from­higgs­search.html

Dr. Donald Whitney

• Dr. Donald Whitney served as Reader for the Virginia Junior Academy of Science, April 2012 and read, and rated, fifty­two physics papers to select the best for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Virginia Junior Academy of Science, May 22­25, 2012.

• Dr. Donald Whitney served as Special Judge for the Virginia Junior Academy of Science, May 23, 2012 to select seven overall winners from the thirty­eight section presentation winners for special recognition.

• Dr. Donald Whitney is currently involved with this year’s VJAS judging and reading. During the month of April, he was responsible for ensuring 42 student papers were read and 22 selected for the judgment. He will travel to Virginia Tech University from May 21­24, 2013 as a Special Judge for the Virginia Junior Academy of Science to select the overall winners from the 23 section presentation winners for special recognition

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

• L. T. Brady, Alberto Accardi, W. Melnitchouk and J. F. Owens, “Impact of PDF uncertainties at large x on heavy boson production”. Journal of High Energy Physics 06 (2012) 019.

• Alberto Accardi, V. Guzey, A. Prokudin, C. Weiss, “Nuclear physics with a medium­ energy Electron­Ion Collider”, The European Physical Journal A 48 (2012) 92

• V. Guzey, L. Zhu, C. Keppel, M.Eric Christy, D. Gaskell, P. Solvignon, Alberto Accardi, “Impact of nuclear dependence of R=\sigma_L/\sigma_T on antishadowing in nuclear structure functions”, e­Print: arXiv:1207.0131, submitted to Physical Review C

• José L. Goity and R. C. Trinchero, "Holographic models and the QCD trace anomaly", Phys. Rev. D 86, 034033 (2012).

• Jennifer Smilowitz, Stephen Avery, Paul Guèye, and George Sandison, “Report on the American Association of Medical Physics Undergraduate Fellowship Programs”, accepeted for publication in the Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics on 09/11/12.

• C. S. ­C. Yang, E. Brown, Uwe Hömmerich, F. Jin, S. B. Trivedi, A. C. Samuels, and A. P. Snyder, “Long Wave Infrared Laser­Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Emission from Energetic Materials”, Applied Spectroscopy, in press.

• Ei E. Brown, Uwe Hömmerich, Althea Bluiett, Courtney Kucera, John Ballato, Sudhir Trivedi, “Spectroscopic Characterization and Upconversion Processes under ~1.5 µm pumping in Er doped Yttria Ceramics”, Solid­State Lasers XXII, Technology and Devices, edited by W. Andrew Clarkson, Ramesh K. Shori, Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 8599, 859929.

• A.G. Bluiett, T. Searless, and T. Jackson, E. Brown, U. Hömmerich, S.B. Trivedi,“Upconversion and 1.5 µm ­1.6 µm infrared emission studies of Er 3+ doped in the low Phonon­energy hosts KPb2Cl5 and KPb2Br5 via ∼1.5 µm laser excitation”, Solid­State Lasers XXII, Technology and Devices, edited by W. Andrew Clarkson, Ramesh K. Shori, Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 8621; 86211A­1.

• Michael Kohl, J.L. Hewett et al., “Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier.” May 2012, 229 pp., proceedings of the 2011 workshop on Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier, Rockville, MD, November 30 – December 1, 2011, ANL­HEP­TR­12­ 25, SLAC­R­991, e­Print: arXiv:1205.2671 [hep­ex]

• Jaetae Seo, Rafal Fudala, Wan­Joong Kim, Ryan Rich, Bagher Tabibi, Hyoyeong Cho, Zygmunt Gryczynski, Ignacy Gryczynski, and William Yu, “Hybrid Optical Materials of Plasmon­coupled CdSe/ZnS Coreshells for Photonic Applications,” Optical Materials Express 2, 1026 (2012).

• Ashley Jackson (M.S. Physics candidate), Jasmine Austin, Mahmoud Abdel­Fattah, Bagher Tabibi, Wan­Joong Kim, Sungsoo Jung, and Jaetae Seo, "Time­Dependent Spectral Coupling of Nicotine­linked Au Nanoparticles for Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering,” The Great SCIentific EXchange (SCIX2012), FACSS Annual Meeting, Kansas City, MO, September 30 – October 5, 2012 (submitted).

• Ashley Jackson (M.S. degree candidate) Jasmine Austin, Mahmoud Abdel­Fattah, Bagher Tabibi, Wan­Joong Kim, Sungsoo Jung, and Jaetae Seo, "Spectral Coupling of Nicotine­linked Au Nanoparticles for Surface Enhance Raman Scattering" 79th Annual

Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society (SESAPS12), Tallahassee, FL November 14­17, 2012 (submitted).

• Roopchan Ramdon (M.S. degree candidate),Mahmoud Abdel­Fattah, Bagher Tabibi, Wan­Joong Kim, Hyoyeong Cho, Sungsoo Jung, Rafal Fudala, Ryan Rich, Zygmunt Gryczynski, Ignacy Gryczynski, William Yu, Andrew Wang, and Jaetae Seo, "Optical Properties of Plasmon­Coupled Semiconductor Quantum Dots" 79th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society (SESAPS12), Tallahassee, FL November 14­17, 2012 (Submitted).

• Roopchan Ramdon, Mahmoud Abdel­Fattah, Bagher Tabibi, Wan­Joong Kim, Hyoyeong Cho, Sungsoo Jung, Rafal Fudala, Ryan Rich, Zygmunt Gryczynski, Ignacy Gryczynski, William Yu, Andrew Wang, and Jaetae Seo, "Hybrid nanostructure of plasmonic nanoparticle and semiconductor quantum dot mono­layers on surface­ functionalized quartz plate and PMMA spacer" International Conference and Expo on Materials Science & Engineering (Materials Science­2012), Skokie, IL, October 22­24, 2012 (submitted).

• Min Namkung and Jaetae Seo, “Surface­enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Astrobiology Exploration on Mars,” International Workshop on Instrumentation for Planetary Missions (IPM­2012), Greenbelt, Maryland, Oct. 10­12, 2012 (submitted).

• Jaetae Seo, Bagher Tabibi, Uwe Hömmerich, and M. Patrick McCormick, “CREST Advanced Center for Laser Science and Spectroscopy,” The 2012 NSF HRD Annual Meeting, Broadening Participation, Washington, DC, June 12­15, 2012

• Dr. Liguang Tang “Observation of the the Λ7He Hypernucleus by the (e, e′K+) Reaction”, S. N. Nakamura,.., L. Tang, et al., (HKS (JLab E01­011) Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 012502 (2013).

• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich and Dr. Ei Ei Brown co­authored an article entitled: “Spectroscopic Study of Neodymium doped Potassium Lead Bromide for Mid­Infrared Solid­State Lasers” published in the Journal of Luminescence (J. Lumin 133, 2013, 244.)

• Dr. Paul Guèye, V. N. Ivanchenko et al., Combination of electromagnetic Physics processes for microdosimetry in liquid water with the Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation toolkit, Nucl. Instrum. And Meth., B273, 95­97 (2012).

• J. Smilowitz, S. Avery, P. Guèye and G. Sandison, Report on the American Association of Medical Physics undergraduate fellowship programs, J. Appl. Clinic. Med. Phys., 14, 4159 (2013).

• Dr. José Goity, “Byron Masses and Axial Couplings in the Combined 1/Nc and Chiral Expansions”, A. Calle Cordon & J.L. Goity. Published in Phys. Rev. D 87, 016019 (2013).

• Dr. Eric Christy, V.Guzey, L. Zhu, C.E. Keppel, M.E. Christy, D. Gaskell, P. Solvignon and A. Accardi, “Impact of nuclear dependence of R = ơL/ơT on antishadowing in nuclear structure functions,” Phys. Rev. C 86, (2012) 045201.

• Dr. Eric Christy, D.D. Stancil et al., “Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos” Mod.Phys.Lett. A27 (2012) 1250077.

• Dr. Eric Christy, W. Luo et al., “Polarization components in π° photoproduction at photon energies up to 5.6 GeV”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 (2012) 222004.

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

Dr. Alberto Accardi

• Dr. Alberto Accardi, Staff Scientist, Jefferson Laboratory, and Assistant Professor of Physics, traveled to Vaslparaiso, Chile, on March 2, 2013 and presented “The Hadron and Nuclear Structure at Large X”.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi presented “PDF Uncertainties at Large x and Gauge Boson Production” in the Confinement X seminar, TUM, in Munich, Germany on October 8, 2012.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi presented “Large­X Connections of Nuclear and Particle Physics” at the CTEQ Collaboration Meeting, Jefferson Laboratory, on November 15, 2012.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi presented “Quarks and Gluons in and through the Nucleus” at Jefferson Laboratory at 12 GeV: New opportunities in hadronic physics, LNF, Frascati, on December 18, 2012.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi presented the invited talk, “Large­x Interaction of Nuclear and High­energy Physics”, international workshop on Hadrons in the Nuclear Medium, May 14 ­ May 18, 2012, ECT*, Trento (Italy)

• Dr. Alberto Accardi presented the invited talk, “"Extracting Large x Structure Functions", Gordon Research Conference on Photonuclear Reactions, August 5­10, 2012, Holderness School, Holderness, NH.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi presented the invited talk, “Importance of e+D scattering at a collider”, 4th workshop on the LHeC, Chavannes­de­Bogis, Switzerland, 14­15 June 2012

• Dr. Alberto Accardi presented the invited talk, “CTEQ­JLab PDFs and Impact of Nuclear Corrections on d/u”, Workshop on Quantum Chromodynamics at the LHC, Michigan State U., 20­24 August 2012

• Dr. Alberto Accardi will present an invited talk on “PDF uncertainties at large x and gauge boson production” at the Xth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum conference in Munich (Germany), 8­12 October 2012

• Dr. Alberto Accardi presented the invited talk, “Large­x Interaction of Nuclear and High­energy Physics”, Pavia University, Pavia (Italy), 19 June 2012.

• Dr. Alberto Accardi presented the invited talk, “Large­x Interaction of Nuclear and High­energy Physics”, Milan University, Milan (Italy), 26 June 2012.

Dr. Ei Ei Brown

• Dr. Ei Ei Brown, Research Assistant Professor of Physics, attended the American Physical Society (APS) March meeting 2013 in Baltimore, Maryland on March 19, 2013, to present “Spectroscopic Characterization of Thulium doped Potassium Lead Chloride for Potential Applications in Optical Cooling”.

• Dr. Ei Ei Brown also attended the SPIE Photonics West Conference 2013 in San Francisco, California, on February 5, 2013, to present “Spectroscopic Characterization and Upconversion Processes in Er doped Yttria Ceramics”.

Dr. M. Eric Christy

• Dr. M. Eric Christy, Assistant Professor of Physics, travelled to Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, in October of 2012 during the NUINT 2012, Eighth International Workshop on Neutrino­ Nucleus Interactions in the Few­Gev Region. He gave two talks, one titled, “Inelastic scattering in eA and the measurement of R” and the other one was titled, “The BoNuS experiment, latest results and updates”.

Dr. Mahmoud Abdel­Fattah

• Dr. Mahmoud Abdel­Fattah, Postdoctoral Research Associate of Physics, Hampton University, presented “Laser, Electrical, and Chemical Safety” on January 17, 2013.

Dr. José Goity

• Dr. José Goity presented an invited talk seminar on June 1, 2012 titled “Holographic models and the QCD trace anomaly” at the University of La Plata, Argentina, Department of Physics.

• Dr. José Goity, Professor of Physics, gave two plenary talks this spring. One for the American Physical Society meeting in Denver, CO, in April and the other at the N­Star International Conference in Peniscola, Spain, in May.

Dr. Paul Guèye

• Dr. Paul Guèye, Assistant Professor of Physics, Hampton University, presented “The Proton­ A Simple, But Yet Not Well Known Nucleus and its Impact in Cancer Research” on January 24, 2013.

• Dr. Paul Guèye, Assistant Professor of Physics, Hampton University, visited Huntington Middle School, in Newport New, VA, in November 2012 to give a talk and presentations on physics.

• Paul Guèye gave an invited oral presentation at the American Physical Society March meeting on March 19, 2013 titled “Drawing Minority Students in the Physics Community”.

• Paul Guèye gave an invited oral presentation at the American Physical Society April meeting on April 13, 2013 titled “A multi­layered target for the Study of neutron­ unbound nuclei”.

• Paul Guèye has been invited and will represent the Physics Department to the American Physical Society Physics Department Chairs meeting on May 29­30, 2013. He will present a talk titled “Report from the 2011 SPIN­UP workshop”.

Dr. Uwe Hömmerich

• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich, Professor of Physics, hosted visitors on January 11 th and 12 th , of 2013. Program meeting for STTR grant entitled: “Development of Laser­Induced Infrared Emission (LITE) for Chemical Sensing Applications”; Visitor names: Dr. S. B. Trivedi (Brimrose Corporation), Dr. J. Feng (Brimrose Corporation), Dr. Alan Samuels

(Edgewood Chemical Biological Center), Dr. S. Wijewarnasuriya (Army Research Laboratory).

Dr. Narbe Kalantarians

• Dr. Narbe Kalantarians, Postdoctoral Research Associate, participated and give a talk at the American Physics Society April Meeting on April 15, 2013, in Denver, CO. His presentation was titled, “Extraction of Neutron Structure Functions from (Semi) Inclusive Deuteron Data”.

Dr. Michael Kohl

• Dr. Michael Kohl was invited to present the talk, "A framework of low­energy precision experiments” as seminar speaker in the physics department at Ohio University on September 18, 2012.

• Dr. Michael Kohl gave a talk presented in the closed session at the 15 th PAC Meeting for J­PARC at KEK, Tsukuba, Japan, on July 13­15, 2012. The talk was titled, Status Report of P36.”

• Dr. Michael Kohl gave a talk at the Technical Review Meeting for the Muon Scattering Experiment MUSE, Paul­Scherrer Institute (PSI), in Villigen, Switzerland, on July 24, 2012. The talk was title, “GEMs for MUSE.”

• Dr. Michael Kohl presented a talk at the OLYMPUS Collaboration Meeting, in Hamburg, Germany, on October 18­19, 2012. The talk was titled, “Time of Flight.”

• Dr. Michael Kohl has co­organized the International Workshop “Experimental and theoretical aspects of the proton form factors” held at Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI) in St. Petersburg, Gatchina, Russia, July 9 – 11, 2012. He gave a presentation with the title “Muon scattering at PSI”. He also was selected as summary speaker of the conference with a presentation “Summary of Experiments”.

• Dr. Michael Kohl has attended the “International Conference on Precision Physics of Simple Atomic Systems” (PSAS2012), held in Eltville, Germany, June 10­15, 2012. He gave the invited presentation “A proposal for muon­proton elastic scattering at PSI”.

• Dr. Michael Kohl, Assistant Professor of Physics and spokesman of the OLYMPUS collaboration in Germany, travelled to Dresden, Germany to attend the 77 th Spring Conference of the German Physical Society (DPG) from March 4­8, 2013. Dr. Kohl is will give a plenary talk titled, “Investigating the Charge of the Proton”.

• Juergen Diefenbach, postdoctoral associate under supervision by Dr. Michael Kohl, was selected to present on the luminosity monitoring systems of the OLYMPUS experiment at the OLYMPUS Readiness Review on September 24, 2012.

Mrs. Natalia Schkolnikov

• Mrs. Natalia Schkolnikov presented a poster paper at the AAPT Summer Meeting titled “Mathematical Models in Introductory Physics and Physical Models in Calculus”, Philadelphia, PA, July 31, 2012.

Dr. Jaetae Seo

• Jaetae Seo, gave the invited talk, “Photonic Sensor and Device for Commercialization Application,” Hampton Road Business Meeting on June 21, 2012.

• Dr. Jaetae Seo, Associate Professor of Physics, travelled to Los Alamos National Laboratory, in New Mexico in December of 2012 for an invited talk. His presentation was titled, “Optical Nanomaterial for Photonic Applications”.

• Dr. Jaetae Seo, travelled to Greenbelt, Maryland in October 10­12, 2012, for the International Workshop on Instrumentation for Planetary Missions (IPM­2012). Along with colleague M. Namkung, they presented a talk titled, “Surface­enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Astrobiology Exploration on Mars”.

Dr. Liguang Tang

• Liguang Tang gave a lecture for the Past and Future Hypernuclear Physics at JLab with electron beam at the 4th International Workshop on Hadron Physics in China and Opportunities at JLab 12 GeV, in Beijing, China, July 16­20, 2012.

• Dr. Narbe Kalantarians is also gave a talk at MIT, in Cambridge, MA, on March 15, 2013. The title of his talk was, “DarkLight Beam Background Measurements”.

SPECIAL CONSULTANTS, SCHOLARS, AND VISITORS

• Dr. Ahahid Ahmed in Jefferson Lab, “A Brief Look on Some Interesting Aspects of Science and Technology,” June 21, 2012.

• Dr. Ibrahim El­Kholy, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Old Dominion University and ARC, JLab., “Low­temperature homoepitaxial growth of Si/Si(111)­7x7 by femtosecond pulsed laser deposition,” June 20, 2012.

• Dr. Michael Thoennessen, Michigan State University, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, visited campus on February 14, 2013, to present “Exploration of the Nuclear Universe”.

• Mr. Edmund Bertschinger, Professor of Physics, Head of the Department of Physics, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, visited campus for a meet and greet.

• Dr. I. Elkholy, Professor of Electrical Engineering, ODU, visited campus on June 20, 2012 for an invited talk titled, “Step­flow Growth of Si on Si (111) – (7x7) at Room Temperature by Femtosecond Laser Excitation”.

• Dr. Shahid Ahmed, Accelerator Physicist, Jefferson Lab, visited campus on June 21, 2012 for an invited talk titled, “A Brief Look on Some Interesting Aspects of Science and Technology”.

• Dr. Pedro Jimenez­Delgado, Post Doctorate at Jefferson Lab, expert in QCD and high energy particle physics, and coauthor of the “JR” sets of un­polarized quark and gluon distribution in the proton, visited campus on February 21, 2013, to unveil the structure of nucleons in high­energy experiments.

• Dr. Lars Ewell, a radiation oncology specialist/medical physicist, visited campus to give a talk titled, “Radiation Therapy and Four Dimensional CT Scans” on December 6, 2012.

• Dr. Gabriela Gonzalez, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Louisiana State University gave an invited talk on campus on March 28, 2013, titled, “Opening a New Window to the Universe with Gravitational Waves.”

• Matthew Simon, from NASA Langley Research Center visited the campus on April 11, 2013 to give an invited talk titled, “ Space Exploration Challenges: How You Can Shape the Future.”

• Dr. Theodore Hodapp, the Director of Education and Diversity for the American Physical Society (APS), College Park, Maryland, visited campus and gave the invited talk titled, “Critical Issues Facing the Physics Community: Participation, Engagement, and Relevance.”

• Dr. Clayton Yang from Battelle Eastern Science and Technology Center visited Hampton University several times during the academic year 2012/2013. He continues to collaborate with Dr. Uwe Hömmerich’s research group on the development of Infrared laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (IR­LIBS) for the detection of bio­chemical agents.

• Dr. S. Trivedi (Brimrose Corporation), Dr. Feng Jing (Brimrose Corporation), Dr. P. Wijewarnasuriya (Army Research Laboratory), Dr. Pete Snyder (Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, ECBC), and Dr. C.S. Yang (Battelle) visited Hampton University on September 9­10, 2012 to discuss details for a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program with Brimrose Technology Corporation.

STUDENT RECOGNITION AND SPECIAL HONORS

2013 Graduates

Congratulations to the following graduates:

• Roopchan Ramdon, (MS candidate) • Minnae Chabwera, (BS candidate) • Thoth Gunter, (BS candidate) • Anderson Hayes, (BS candidate) • Quinton Rice, (BS candidate) • Ian Steele, (BS candidate)

• Brent Gills, (BS candidate) • Rachel Black, (MS candidate) • Sharae Williams, (BS candidate) • Tetteh Addy (PhD candidate) • Nanda Singanallur (PhD candidate)

• On April 25, 2013, Senior Physics students Thoth Gunter, Anderson Hayes, Quinton Rice, Kevin Berry, Guy Jackson, Minnae Chabwera, and Eric Forman presented their Capstone Thesis before physics faculty and fellow physics students.

Successful Defense of Thesis or Dissertation

Four physics graduate students have completed their dissertations or thesis.

• Tetteh Addy,( PhD candidate), accepted his dissertation “Search for High­Mass Dielectron Resonances in Proton­Proton Collisions at 7 TeV Center­Of­Mass Energy with the Atlas Detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)” in December 2012 and earned his PhD.

• Rachel Black, (MS candidate), accepted her thesis “Interaction of Radiation Beams with Cells: Optimization Study on the Use of Polarized Electromagnetic Beams” and she will be rewarded a Master in May of 2013.

• Nanda Karthik Singanallur Govindarajan, (PhD candidate), accepted his dissertation “Geant4 Low Energy Physics Validation: Application in 3D Gel Dosimetry for Brachytherapy” and he will receive his PhD in May of 2013.

• Roopchan Ramdon, (MS candidate), accepted his thesis “Plasmon­coupled CdSe/ZnS Quantum Dots for Photonic Applications” and was rewarded his Master in December of 2012.

• Anusha Pushpakamara, (PhD candidate), defended her dissertation “Proton Form Factor Ratio, GEp/GMp From Double Spin Asymmetry,” on April 24, 2013.

Other Activities of the Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Graduate Students

Other graduate accomplishments and acknowledgements include:

• Adeleka Adeyemi, (PhD candidate) has been selected to join the LPSC (Laboratoir de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie) research team in France from April 3, 2013 through June 30, 2013 for the analysis and interpretation of the PEPPo experimental program that started at Jefferson Lab in 2011, in addition to contribute to the development of a medical and accelerator partnership with Hampton University. Mr. Adeyemi will participate in several working meetings in Orsay (nuclear, accelerator and medical physics) and Orleans (accelerator and medical physics).

• Tammy Walton (PhD candidate) and Wenting Tan (PhD candidate) both actively worked at Fermilab on the MINERvA experiment in Batavia, IL, last semester.

• Tammy Walton (PhD candidate) was invited to present a lecture titled “Dancing with Neutrinos” on February 25, 2013, at the University of Rochester during their Charles Augustus Thompson Lecture Series. Tammy has been one of the leading graduate students working on the MINERvA neutrino scattering experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. http://www.rochester.edu/college/kearnscenter/ThompsonSeries.html

• Tammy Walton also attended the DNP 2012 Meeting in Newport Beach, CA, on October 23, 2012. She gave a presentation titled, “Neutrino Exclusive Charged Current Quasi­Elastic Scattering in MINERvA.”

• Tetteh Addy (PhD candidate) travelled to Africa in August of last year. Addy was a student at the African School of Fundamental Physics and its Applications 2012. Addy served as a representative for Hampton University. He has been actively working on the ATLAS experiment and doing research for more exotic bosons in the ATLAS detector. Addy can be seen in a video during this event at the 4:13 time stamp with the link below.

http://cds.cern.ch/record/1472184

• Anusha Pushpakumari Liyanage, PhD Candidate under supervision of Michael Kohl, continued to work on complex analysis tasks of the SANE experiment carried out at Jefferson Lab with the goal of accurately calibrating the spectrometer optics in a systematic manner.

• Anusha Pushpakumari­Liyanage (PhD candidate) has been awarded a prize for Excellence in Scholarship for her paper titled “Measurement of the Proton Form Factor Ration GEp/GMp from Double Spin Asymmetries”. This paper was submitted to the William & Mary Graduate Research Symposium 2013 and selected by a blinded independent panel of William & Mary faculty and Graduate Studies Advisory Board members. Mrs. Pushpakumari­Liyanage will be recognized at an Awards Luncheon on March 23, 2013 for her work. www.jlab.org/Hall­C/talks/01_24_13/liyanage.pptx

• Ozgur Ates, (PhD candidate) has collected the second and final set of data of the OLYMPUS experiment from October 24, 2012 through January 2, 2013 at DESY in Hamburg, Germany. The data has been analyzed and it will constitute the basis for his PhD thesis.

• Ozgur Ates, (PhD candidate) has also been admitted to give a presentation at the 77 th Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG2013) in Dresden, Germany on March 4­8, 2013. The title of his presentation is “OLYMPUS Luminosity Monitoring”.

• Ozgur Ates, PhD candidate under supervision of Michael Kohl, continued conducting research at DESY in Hamburg, Germany, where he has been working on the installation, commissioning and running of the OLYMPUS experiment since March 2011. This summer he helped with the maintenance and upgrading of the detector for the upcoming extended data taking planned for fall 2012.

• Ozgur Ates, PhD candidate, gave a presentation at the Experimental Nuclear Physics Group Seminar at Hampton University with the title “GEM detectors for OLYMPUS at DESY and status of the experiment”.

• Chunhua Chen, PhD physics candidate, presented a research paper at the 4 th International Workshop on Hadron Physics in China and Opportunities at JLab 12 GeV, in Beijing from July 16 to July 20, 2012.

• Chunhua Chen, PhD physics candidate, has been invited to attend the 11 th International Conference on Hypernuclear and Strange Particle Physics in Barcelona, Spain to present her research work and results. The conference will be held from October 1 to 5, 2012.

She will also participate in the JSPS Core­to­Core Symposium on October 6, 2012 at the same conference.

• Bishoy Dongwi, PhD Candidate under supervision of Michael Kohl, participated in the Geant4 tutorial workshop at Jefferson Lab from July 9­13, 2012. He is now working on Geant4 simulations for the TREK program at J­PARC.

• Ivy Krystal Jones, PhD Candidate, presented her research entitled “Material Preparation and IR Spectroscopy of Pr doped PbCl2 for 1.6µm Eye­Safe Applications” during the 2012 External Advisory Board meeting for the NSF CREST Center. She also submitted an abstract on her research for the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America.

• Eric Kumi­Barimah, PhD Candidate, presented his research entitled “Infrared Laser­ Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy for Chemical Sensing” during the 2012 External Advisory Board meeting for the NSF CREST Center. He also submitted an abstract on his research for the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America.

• Nuruzzaman, PhD Physics candidate, was awarded a travel grant of $400 from Jefferson Science Association to present a research paper at the Eleventh Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics, at the Renaissance Vinoy Resort and Golf Club in St. Petersburg, FL (the venue of CIPANP 1994) from May 29 to June 3, 2012.

Research will be presented at the 12 th Annual Graduate Research Symposium at the College of William & Mary on March 22 nd , 2013. The students presenting at this conference are an integral component of the following ongoing programs:

a. NSF funded CREST Center for Advanced Laser Science & Spectroscopy (P.I. Jae Tae Seo and Co­P.I.s Uwe Hömmerich, Bagher Tabibi, and P. McCormick)

b. Army Research Office funded grant entitled “Laser­Induced Fluorescence Spectroscopy for Applications in Fluorescence Cooling and Chemical Sensing (P.I. Uwe Hömmerich)

The three students presenting at this conference are:

• Eric Kumi­Barimah (PhD candidate) will be presenting a poster entitled “Time­resolved Infrared Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy for Chemical Detection”.

• Ivy Krystal Jones (PhD candidate) will be presenting a poster entitled “Crystal Growth, Optical Spectroscopy, and Emission Cross­Section Modeling of PbCl for 1.6um Gain Media Application”.

• Anusha Pushpakumari­Liyanage (PhD candidate) will be presenting a poster with the title “Measurement of the Proton Electric to Magnetic Form Factor Ratio with Polorized Beam and Target”.

Undergraduate Students

• Minnae Chabwera, senior physics student and Simone Hyater­Adams, junior physics student, attended the Virginia Space Grant Consortium Student Research Conference 2013 at Old Dominion University on April 17 & 18, 2013. Both students presented posters of their research.

• Minnae Chabwera, senior physics major, participated in the Student Research Conference on April 18, 2013 and presented a poster on her capstone research that focused on the estimation of radiation budget of the Low Energy Linear Accelerator of Hampton University.

• Minnae Chabwera, will be attending the University of Florida for her graduate studies. • Thoth Gunter (senior), Sharae Williams (senior), and Keith Tukes (senior) began

tutoring in February to students struggling with lower level physics courses. Along with a group of Dr. Hömmerich’s students; Cesar Brodowski (sophomore),Michael Johnson (senior), Dominique Richardson (sophomore), and Simone Hyater­Adams (junior) they have been tutoring Monday through Thursday and by request on Fridays and weekends.

• Thoth Gunter, senior physics major, has been accepted in the graduate program at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, where he will continue to do research in physics.

• Thoth Gunter, senior physics major was presented with the Hampton Chapter Academic Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement by the National Hampton Alumni Association, Inc.

• Thoth Gunter, senior physics major, attended the Geant4 tutorial workshop at Jefferson Lab from July 9­13, 2012. He is working on Geant4 simulations for the DarkLight project at Jefferson Lab under supervision by Michael Kohl.

• Thoth Gunter, senior physics major, was awarded the 2011­2012 and 2012­2013 Jefferson Science Associates Minority Undergraduate Research Assistantships. Mr. Gunter was featured in the August 2012 issue of Jefferson Lab's On Target newsletter in the article “Student Focuses on Accelerator Science with Help of Research Assistantship,

pages 6 and 7 (available at http://www.jlab.org/news/OnTarget/AUGUST2012.pdf). The newsletter contains two photographs of Mr. Gunter at work and one is provided below.

• Bilal Jones, freshman physics major, was awarded $2000 from the 2012­2013 APS Scholarship for Minority Undergraduate Physics Majors by the American Physical Society (APS).

• Simone Hyater­Adams, junior physics major, was awarded $1,000 from the Virginia Space Grant Consortium 2012–2013 Undergraduate STEM Bridge Scholarship Program to continue her research.

• Simone Hyater­Adams, junior physics major received a VIP invite to participate in the political rally held at Norfolk State University for President Barrack Obama, September 5, 2012. See picture below.

• Some SPS students also participated in a Physics Day Camp that was coordinated by Dr. Paul Guèye in November of 2012 at the Hampton Convention Center. Students from the Girls Inc of the Greater Peninsula participated and learned about many aspects of physics and enjoyed many demonstrations.

• Anderson Hayes (senior) has been actively involved in mentoring high school student researcher Rahda Venkatesan from Grafton High School. The two have been working closely in the Hampton University’s Physics Research Laboratory conducting Surface­ Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy on quinine linked Au­nanoparticles.

• Through the mentorship of Anderson Hayes, Radha Venkatesan, attended the 62 nd

Tidewater Science Fair Competition that was held at Old Dominion University, in Norfolk, Virginia on March 16, 2013. Venkatesan received the 1 st place award in Materials and Bio­engineering category.

Two undergraduate students travelled to a local middle school to do some outreach to a group of 7 th graders.

• Quinton Rice (senior) and Anderson Hayes (senior) travelled to Lake Taylor Middle School on February 27, 2013 with the Outreach group of the Advanced Center of Laser Science and Spectroscopy for the school’s career fair. Both students presented science­

oriented talks concerning the types of energy and some spectroscopy and laser science research. They also demonstrated physics concepts through the use of macroscopic gyroscopes, hover­boards, wave simulators, fiber optics, and spectrometers.

• In recognition of their participation in the Lake Taylor Middle School Career Fair, LeAnna Austin (ACLASS administrative assistant), Dr. Mahmoud Abdel­Fattah (Postdoctoral Research Associate), Quinton Rice (senior), and Anderson Hayes (senior) were all awarded a Certificate of Appreciation.

• Michael Johnson, senior physics major, and Dominique Richardson, sophomore physics major, presented their research entitled “Comparative studies on visible and near­infrared laser­induced breakdown spectroscopy” during the 2012 External Advisory Board meeting for the NSF CREST Center, August 31, 2012.

• Quinton Rice, senior physics major, trained in synthesizing quantum dots at NanoTech from August 16­18, 2012, and prepared research samples for his undergraduate capstone thesis.

• Dominique Richardson, sophomore physics major, participated in a summer research internship at Columbia University and studied LIGO. His research supervisor, Szabolcs Marcka stated that “Dominique is well liked by everybody in the group. He is persistent, motivated, and get things done. We were very happy to work with him. I encouraged him to go for top graduate schools and gave him pointed advice. I will remain in contact with Dominique, he is a valuable mind.”

MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND/OR INNOVATION OF DIVISION/DEPARTMENT

• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich, hosted a laboratory tour for students from Norfolk State University on October 18, 2012.

Figure Caption: Dr. Thitsa Makin and her students from NSU (Lameka Booker, Ike Ume, Kingsley Nwachukwu) visiting Hampton University during on October 18 th , 2012. The visitors toured the laser spectroscopy laboratories of Dr. Hömmerich in OLIN Engineering Bldg and participated in several hands­on demonstrations.

• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich’s research group continued efforts in the development and spectroscopy of new infrared fluorescent materials for applications in eye­safe alsers and optical refrigeration. During the 2012­2013 academic year new thulium and holmium doped halides crystals were grown at Hampton University using a horizontal Bridgman technique.

• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich’s research group performed experiments and modeling on infrared laser­breakdown spectroscopy (IR­LIBS) for chemical sensing. The work was focused on the development of a new laser based detection technique for applications fin homeland security and the DOD. The work was done in collaboration with Brimrose Technology Corporation, Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC), and the Army Research Laboratory.

Figure Caption: Dr. Hömmerich explaining a new experimental setup developed at HU for infrared laser­induced­breakdown spectroscopy (IR­LIBS). The IR LIBS setup is used for chemical detection of energetic materials based on chlorate and nitrate compounds.

• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich provided a hands­on workshop for ~75 elementary students on March 12 th and 15 th of 2013. He was joined by Eric Kumi­Barimah, PhD candidate and Ivy Krystal Jones, PhD candidate. They built rockets and launched them with 4 th

graders at Spratley Gifted Center in Hampton, VA.

Figure Caption: 4 th graders from Spratley Gifted Center in Hampton building model rockets during spring 2013. Dr. Hömmerich and two physics graduate students HU launched more than 35 model rockets during their visit at Spratley.

• Dr. Jaetae Seo organized the Optics and Laser Science Workshop for Middle and High School Teachers that was held on June 18­22, 2012 in order to engage the highest level of expertise to implement optics and nanoscience in grades 6 – 12. The participating science teachers were selected from forty­nine public and private high­schools in Hampton Roads which covers Chesapeake, Hampton, Jamestown, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Virginia Beach, Williamsburg and Yorktown. The optics and laser science modules are being developed at Hampton University with the teacher participants to implement the advanced education modules in the academic classroom. Dr. Seo is now organizing the event to also take place for the summer of 2013.

• Dr. Paul Guèye, successfully organized the 1 st Annual Physics Day Camp that was held on April 13, 2013, at the Hampton Roads Convention Center. Through collaborations from various science organization and other HBCUs were on site to provide demonstrations, giveaways, and discuss various aspects of science. Students from Hampton City School District came out to learn. Several graduate and undergraduate students participated by giving demonstrations and setting up. Chemistry majors from HU’s School of Science also participated under direction of Dr. Michelle Claville, assistant to the dean for the school of science.

Pictured Above: Chemistry Majors from the School of Science

Pictured Above: Marcus Alfred from Howard University giving a demonstration to students.

Pictured Above: Dr. Uwe Hömmerich demonstrating optics to students.

GRANTSMANSHIP/RESEACH ACTIVITY

• Dr. Alberto Accardi's research grant “Large­x partons from Jefferson Lab to the LHC” was approved, and the contract execution is underway. The grant period is November 01, 2011 – October 31, 2014. The total budget is $620,000. Grant Agency: Department of Energy Title: Large­x partons from Jefferson Lab to the LHC P.I.: Alberto Accardi; Amount: $150,000 Expected Time Period: November 01, 2012 – October 31, 2015

• Dr. Alberto Accardi received funding for a research grant from DoE with total budget $150,000. Grant Agency: U.S. Department of Energy Title: Large­x partons from Jefferson Lab to the LHC P.I.: Alberto Accardi Amount: $150,000 Time Period: September 01, 2012 – August 31, 2015

• Dr. Alberto Accardi submitted a renewal application for the “Hampton University Graduate School” (HUGS) grant to the Department of Energy with total budget $140,000. The technical aspects of the grant have been approved, and the grant is being executed. Title: The Hampton University Graduate School at Jefferson Lab summer program P.I.: Alberto Accardi Amount: $140,000 Time Period: April 01, 2013 – March 31, 2016

• Dr. Paul Guèye secured funding for two research project scholarships and one workshop. Grant Agency: Virginia Space Grant Consortium Title: Low Energy Linear Accelerator for Hampton University PI: Paul Guèye (for Minnae Chabwera, senior physics major) Amount: $8,500 Time Period: July 01, 2012 – May 31, 2013

Grant Agency: Jefferson Science Associates Title: Undergraduate Research Scholarship “Interactive data analysis package” PI: Paul Guèye (for Thoth, senior physics major) Amount: $17,729 Time Period: July 01, 2012 – May 31, 2013

Grant Agency: Jefferson Science Associates Title: Minority Undergraduate Research Assistantship: Geant4 Tutorial Workshop

Amount: $6,764 Time Period: July 9, 2012 ­ July 13, 2012

• Dr. Paul Guèye, Assistant Professor of Physics has been chosen to receive funding that will include support for up to two undergraduate students and graduate students. Grant Agency: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Title: An Amendment to expand the existing Memorandum of Understanding with Hampton University to accelerator physics PI: Paul Guèye Amount: Unspecified Time Period: Spring 2013

• Dr. Paul Guèye, Assistant Professor of Physics, received funding for a research grant from VDH with total budget $350,000. Grant Agency: Virginia Department of Health Title: Development of novel, scintillating fiber based system for 3D in­vivo radiation monitoring during proton radiotherapy treatments Project Lead: Paul Guèye Amount: $350,000 Time Period: January 01, 2013 – June 30, 2013

• Dr. Paul Guèye, Assistant Professor of Physics, received funding for a research grant from NSA with total budget $245,958. Grant Agency: National Nuclear Science Agency Title: Active target development to study neutron­unbound nuclei PI: Paul Guèye Amount: $245,958 Time Period: January 01, 2013 – December 31, 2015

• Dr. Uwe Hömmerich served as PI and Co­PI on the following grants during summer 2012. PI: U. Hömmerich Title: Infrared Spectroscopy of Novel Long­Wavelength Gain Media and for

Chemical Sensing Agency: Army Research Office Duration: 9/15/08 – 9/14/12 (no­cost extension) Current Year: $156,300 Total Amount: $650,000

PI: U. Hömmerich Title: Laser­Induced Infrared Fluorescence Spectroscopy for Applications in

Optical Refrigeration and Chemical Sensing Agency: Army Research Office Duration: 1/9/12 –1/8/15 Current Year: $140,000 Amount: $615,000

PI: U. Hömmerich Title: Development of Laser­Induced Emission Spectroscopy for Detection of

Chemical and Biological Materials Agency: Brimrose Corporation Duration: 9/19/11 – 9/20/13 Current Year: $100,000 Total Amount: $165,000

Co­PI: with J.T. Seo, PI, and B. Tabibi, M.P. McCormick Title: CREST: Advanced Center for Laser Science & Spectroscopy Agency: NSF Duration: 9/1/11 – 8/31/16 Current Year: $1,000,000 Amount: $5,000,000

• Dr. Michael Kohl received a continuation award by NSF in the Nuclear Physics program for $435,000 for three years, with $145,000 per year. Grant Agency: National Science Foundation Title: Exploring Fundamental Properties of Matter with Electromagnetic Probes P.I. and Program Director: Michael Kohl Current Year: $145,000 Amount: $435,000 Time Period: August 15, 2012 – July 31, 2015

• Dr. Michael Kohl, Assistant Professor of Physics, has received and extension by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Nuclear Physics funding proposal, which was awarded $405,000 under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) for calendar years 2009 – 2012 for two experiments through OLYMPUS and TREK. Grant Agency: National Science Foundation Title: “Determining the Two­Photon Exchange Effect in Lepton­Proton Scattering” and to Search for New Physics beyond the Standard Model” PI: Michael Kohl Duration: Extended through July 31, 2013 Total Amount: $405,000

• Dr. Michael Kohl actively serves as co­PI on the following grant: ­ Towards a Quark­Gluon Description of the Nucleon, National Science Foundation

(NSF) Nuclear physics funding proposal (co­PI), continuing grant awarded $789,000 for three years ($229,000 for the first year). The grant has been active since July 15, 2010.

• Dr. Jaetae Seo received the second year funding in the NSF CREST program funded by NSF for $5,000,000 for a five­year period. PI: J.T. Seo, Co­PI U. Hömmerich, B. Tabibi, M.P. McCormick Title: CREST: Advanced Center for Laser Science & Spectroscopy Agency: NSF Duration: 9/1/11 – 8/31/16

Current Year: $1,000,000 Amount: $5,000,000

• Dr. Jaetae Seo submitted two annual reports for his grant activities of “Advanced Center for Laser Science and Spectroscopy” to NSF, and “Optical Spectroscopy of Hybrid Metal Nanoparticles and Semiconductor Quantum Dots” to DoD.

• Dr. Jaetae Seo and his students reported and presented their research activities for the first fiscal year, and demonstrated laboratory activities for the Army Research Office (ARO) site visit on May 24, 2012.

• Dr. Jaetae Seo, Dr. Bagher Tabibi, Dr. Uwe Hömmerich, Dr. Pat McCormick, and their students (graduate and undergraduate) reported and presented their research activities for the first fiscal year at the External Advisory Board (EAB) meeting with the NSF Program Director on August 31, 2012. Dr. Elnora Daniel, Dr. Calvin Lowe, and Dr. Donald Whitney supported the researchers in this successful EAB meeting.

• Dr. Liguang Tang received three year grant renewal from DOE with a total budget $461,000 for his leadership and continued work in data analyses on three different JLab hypernuclear physics experiments. His group involves two graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow. Grant Agency: The U.S. Department of Energy Title: Selected Problems in Hypernuclear Physics Current year (2012 to 2013): $152,000 Time Period: June 01, 2012 – May 31, 2015

Pending Grants

• Dr. Michael Kohl, Assistant Professor of Physics, has submitted a new funding proposal “MRI: Development of Near­Target Gas Electron Multiplier Tracking Detectors for a Test of Lepton Universality with the TREK Apparatus at J­PARC”, in the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program to the National Science Foundation (NSF). The proposal was submitted on February 21, 2013 and the requested amount was $490, 387 to construct Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors for the TREK/E36 experiment at J­ PARC.

• Dr. Paul Guèye has several grants that he has submitted for and they are now pending. They include:

o Air Force Office of Scientific Research § Construction of a Low Energy Linear Accelerator – PI: 0 person­month

per year, $1,248,657 (06/01/13 – 05/31/14) o Nuclear Regulatory Commission

§ Institute for Research in Interdisciplinary Sciences – PI: 0.9 person­month per year, $439,932 (01/14/13 – 12/31/15)

o National Science Foundation

§ Development of a Low Energy Linear Accelerator – PI: 2.25 person­ month per year, $3,483,327 (08/01/13 – 07/31/16)

o American Physical Society § K­12 Instructional Development in Science outreach program – PI: 0

person­month per year, $10,000 (05/01/13 – 04/31/14)

• Dr. José Goity submitted a grant proposal in October of 2012 to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for $230,000. Funding is currently pending.

• Dr. Eric Christy submitted a grant proposal in October of 2012 to the National Science Foundation for the amount of $805,810 for “Studies of Nucleon Structure and Medium Modifications with Electroweak Probes”. The grant is currently pending.

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY/COLLABORATIONS

• Dr. Paul Guèye collaborates with researchers at the University of José ph Fournier in Grenoble, France, for data analysis of an experiment performed at Jefferson Lab to produce polarized positrons.

• Dr. Paul Guèye collaborates with researchers at the University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal, Africa as a co­advisor for three PhD candidates: one in medical physics and two in nuclear and accelerator physics.

• Dr. Paul Guèye collaborates with the University of Bordeaux 1 in Bordeaux, France as a member of the Geant4­DNA collaborator to develop a simulation tool for the understanding of the interaction of radiation with the DNA.

• Dr. Paul Guèye collaborates with the international Geant4 Collaboration (headquarters in CERN) to develop a toolkit for the understanding of the interaction of particles with matter. He is a member of the Electromagnetic, low energy electromagnetic and Hadronic physics working groups.

• Dr. Paul Guèye has invited the head of the Scientific Mission of the French Embassy in Washington DC to visit Hampton University in June 2013 to meet with HU Administrators that include Dr. Harvey and Dr. Hammond to initiate a new international collaboration between HU and France. This effort is also linked with the accelerator program being implemented under the physics department.

• Dr. José Goity visited the following places to perform research: § TANDAR laboratory from May 29, 2012 – May 31, 2012 in Buenos Aires,

Argentina. § Instituto Balseiro from June 2, 2012 – June 23, 2012 in Bariloche, Argentina. § Physics Department of the University of La Plata on June 1, 2012 in La Plata,

Argentina. • Dr. Michael Kohl collaborates with researchers at DESY, the Deutsches Elektronen

Synchroton & Research Centre of the Helmholtz Association, Hamburg, Germany. Dr. Kohl is the spokesman of the OLYMPUS experiment that is being conducted at DESY by an international team of approx. 50 senior physicists.

• Dr. Michael Kohl is co­spokesman of the TREK/E36 experimental program at the J­ PARC facility (Japanese Proton Accelerator Research Complex) in Tokai, Japan conducted by an international team of approx. 40 senior physicists.

• Dr. Michael Kohl is co­initiator of the MUSE project (muon scattering experiment) at the Paul­Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland.

• Dr. Michael Kohl is co­spokesperson of the proposed experiment to measure the neutron electric form factor in Hall C at Jefferson Lab (E12­11­009).

• Dr. Michael Kohl is a collaborator of the DarkLight project proposed at Jefferson Lab to search for the existence of a dark massive photon.

• Dr. Liguang Tang collaborates with researchers at MAMI­C in Mainz, Germany in analyzing the data collected in 2011 and in preparing the next phase experiment in the fall of 2012 for decay pion spectroscopy. He also collaborates with scientist from Japan, Italy and U.S.A. in designing the new hyper nuclear physics program for the JLAB 12GeV.