Andrew J. R. Puckett, 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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Provakar Datta Accepts JSA/Jefferson Lab Thesis Prize at JLUO 2025 Annual Meeting
Former UConn graduate student Provakar Datta’s Ph.D. thesis was selected for the annual JSA/Jefferson Lab Thesis Prize, which included a cash prize, a plaque, and an invitation to present his research at the annual Jefferson Lab Users’ Organization Meeting (JLUO), that took place from June 24-26, 2025. This prestigious award recognizes the best Ph.D. thesis […]
[Read More]Provakar Datta Thesis Defense, September 18, 2024
Provakar Datta successfully defended his thesis titled “Precision Measurements of the Neutron Magnetic Form Factor to High Momentum Transfer using Durand’s Method” on September 18, 2024. From October to December, Provakar stayed on as a postdoc in the group, before starting a new postdoctoral position at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
[Read More]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 […]
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E-mail: | andrew.puckett@uconn.edu |
Address: | 196 Auditorium Road, Unit 3046 Storrs, CT 06269-3046 |
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