Tanja Horn        Experimental Nuclear Physics Group        PhD: University of Maryland        Postdoctoral fellowship: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Basic Info:

I am a an Assistant Professor in the Physics Department at The Catholic University of America and work in close collaboration with scientists at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab).

My current research is aimed at unveiling the mysteries of hadron structure in the transition region of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) confinement to QCD asymptotic freedom. Building on the results of my recent work, I am developing an extensive experimental program for JLab after the 12 GeV Upgrade to study the transition to quark and gluon degrees of freedom in exclusive meson production, e.g., the aspects of scaling related to QCD factorization. My approved JLab experiments for the studies of the pion (E12-07-105) and the kaon (E12-09-011) systems will allow for quasi-model independent comparison in the scaling regime. I have also initiated an experimental program aimed at studying nucleon structure through Timelike Compton Scattering (TCS), and I am involved in the development of the medium energy electron-ion collider (EIC) at Jefferson Laboratory. The latter would make it possible to study the spin, flavor, and spatial distributions of quarks and gluons through GPDs in exclusive meson production. I am also performing various studies related to detector development for 12 GeV magnetic spectrometers and both medium- and high-energy e-p colliders. (...more)

Links to my research program at Jefferson Laboratory and my proposals can be found at: Tanja Horn & JLab