Rupesh Dotel

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Physics

Rupesh joined the SBS collaboration on August 2022. He completed his masters degree in
Physics from Tribhuvan International University, Nepal. He received his PhD degree (Aug 2016 – July 2022)
from Florida International University where he was part of the major Hall D experiment at Jefferson Lab,
called the GlueX (Gluonic Excitation). His PhD work was the analysis of the GlueX data to search for the
π¹(1600), the lightest exotic hybrid meson predicted by lattice QCD and also seen in previous pion scattering
experiments like COMPASS. During his PhD he was also responsible for timing calibration and monitoring of
the GlueX Start Counter detector for several experiments conducted in Hall D like GlueX, PrimEx and Short-
Range Correlation experiments. His current focus is to contribute to the development of the SBS software
for event reconstruction, data analysis and Monte-Carlo simulation in the SBS experiments. He is also
expected to contribute to the preparation and installation of the SBS RICH detector for the upcoming SIDIS
experiment in Hall A at Jefferson Lab.