Andrew J. R. Puckett, Associate Professor, Department of Physics
The photo above shows members of the group on the BigBite Spectrometer service platform in Hall A of Jefferson Lab during the SBS installation in July 2021. From left to right: Prof. Puckett, Dr. Eric Fuchey, Graduate Research Assistants Sebastian Seeds and Provakar Datta. Professor Puckett is an experimental nuclear/particle physicist studying the internal structure of strongly interacting matter in high-energy fixed-target electron-nucleon and electron-nucleus scattering experiments at Jefferson Lab (JLab). The recently completed 12 GeV upgrade of JLab's Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility to a maximum beam energy of 11 GeV (12 GeV) for electron-beam (photon-beam) experiments, augmented by state-of-the-art target and detector systems, together with high-speed data acquisition and high-performance computing, has enabled a world-leading physics program leading to three-dimensional imaging of the internal quark structure of protons, neutrons and nuclei with unprecedented precision in both coordinate and momentum space. The ultimate goal of the experiments is to understand how strongly interacting matter is built from its elementary quark and gluon constituents in terms of Quantum Chromodynamics, the generally accepted theory of the strong interaction within the Standard Model. Click the image to see the list of publications and citations (according to Google Scholar).
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Sebastian Seeds Thesis Defense (July 19)
Sebastian successfully defended his thesis titled “The Two-Photon-Exchange Contribution to Electron-Neutron Elastic Scattering and Extraction of GMn at Q2 = 4.5 GeV2 in Hall A at Jefferson Lab” on Friday, July 19, 2024. After completing his Ph.D., Sebastian will start a new position as Staff Scientist 2 at Los Alamos National Laboratory, in the Intelligence […]
[Read More]JLab PAC52 approves new two-day experiment using SBS
Professor Puckett traveled to Jefferson Lab in July 2024 to defend an experiment proposal developed with Professors Jan Bernauer of Stony Brook University and Axel Schmidt of George Washington University at the 52nd meeting of Jefferson Lab’s Program Advisory Committee (PAC52). PAC52 approved the proposal with an “A-” scientific rating. The proposal was to add […]
[Read More]Invited talk at Hall A/C Summer Workshop
Professor Puckett gave an invited talk on the status of the ongoing data analyses from the completed SBS neutron form factor experiments at the joint Hall A/C summer workshop on July 15. The meeting agenda can be found here. Professor Puckett’s slides can be found here.
[Read More]Physics Department Upcoming Events
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Oct
11
Graduate Student Seminar 12:15pm
Graduate Student Seminar
Friday, October 11th, 2024
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Gant South Building
Prof. Lea Ferreira dos Santos, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut
Nonequilibrium Quantum Dynamics
Santos’s group uses numerical and analytical methods to understand, predict, and control the dynamics of quantum systems taken far from equilibrium. This talk will present two lines of research of the group. (i) The characterization of quantum systems with many interacting particles, the timescales for their relaxation process, and the conditions for reaching thermal equilibrium. (ii) The use of the quantum-classical correspondence to better understand and make use of static and dynamical properties of transmon qubits, which are the predominant element in circuit-based quantum information processing.
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Oct
14
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Seminar 2:00pm
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Seminar
Monday, October 14th, 2024
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Gant West Building
Prof. Bryce Gadway, Penn State
Title and Abstract: TBA
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Oct
14
Edward Pollack Distinguished Lecture presented by Prof. Philip H. Bucksbaum, Stanford University and SLAC National Laboratory 4:00pm
Edward Pollack Distinguished Lecture presented by Prof. Philip H. Bucksbaum, Stanford University and SLAC National Laboratory
Monday, October 14th, 2024
04:00 PM
Gant West Building
Last year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Anne l’Huillier, and Ferenc Krausz, for discoveries that launched attosecond science and technology at the turn of the century, before there were any x-ray free electron lasers. Subsequent advances at SLAC as well as other labs around the world helped to establish the breadth and importance of research at the attosecond frontier, making the case for Nobel recognition of the foundational work. This illustrates how technological advances and fundamental discoveries feed on each other: advances in ultrafast lasers are quickly followed by fundamental discoveries in physics, which then motivate further advances in laser technology. This colloquium is an eyewitness account of that story from its beginnings four decades ago to the present. I’ll describe the science behind the Prize, and I’ll explain how x-ray lasers have become a central focus for the next chapter of the saga.
Reception preceding at 3pm in the Gant Light Court
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Oct
18
UConn Physics Colloquium 3:30pm
UConn Physics Colloquium
Friday, October 18th, 2024
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Gant West Building
Prof. Jun Ye, University of Colorado and JILA
Title and abstract TBA
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Oct
25
Astronomy Seminar 2:00pm
Astronomy Seminar
Friday, October 25th, 2024
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Gant South Building
Dr. Zach Luppen, SpaceX
Title and abstract TBA
Contact Information
| Phone: | (860) 486-7137 (Office) |
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| E-mail: | andrew.puckett@uconn.edu |
| Address: | 196 Auditorium Road, Unit 3046 Storrs, CT 06269-3046 |
| More: | https://physics.uconn.edu/person/andrew-puckett/ |