
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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High Energy Nuclear Physics Team
The P-25 HENP team studies nucleon structure and the matter formed in high energy heavy ion collisions, using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider facility at BNL, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and the Fermilab Accelerator facilities.
- Team Leader
- Cesar Da Silva

One plane of the PHENIX Forward Silicon Vertex Detector, project led by LANL HENP team.
Experimental Research
We are participating in PHENIX data analyses, development of the new sPHENIX detector for RHIC, and are participating in development of the future Electron Ion Collider (EIC) program. We are also participating in searches for the origin of the proton spin at RHIC and FNAL, looking for evidence of dark matter using FNAL experiment E1039, and searching for evidence of gluon saturation using the LHCb detector.
Major Projects
- PHENIX Data Analysis and development of a MAPS detector for sPHENIX
- LDRD Project to perform R&D for the Electron Ion Collider (EIC)
- Nucleon structure studies using a Polarized Target in E1039 at FNAL
- Dark Photon Search
- Large Hadron Collider Beauty experiment: P-25 Hardware Information
High Energy Nuclear Physics Team
- Cesar Da Silva (Team Leader)
- Hugo Pereira da Costa (Saclay sabbatical)
- Jana Crkovska (Post Doc)
- Cameron Dean (Post Doc)
- Matthew Durham
- Eliane Epple (Post Doc)
- Ajeeta Khatiwada (Post Doc)
- Andi Klein (Affiliate)
- David Lee (COMPA)
- Xuan Li
- Kun Liu
- Ming Liu
- Pat McGaughey (affiliate)
- Yasser Morales (Post Doc)
- Astrid Morreale
- Kei Nagai (Post Doc)
- Eric Renner (Post Bac)
- Walter Sondheim
- Hubert Van Hecke (affiliate)
- Cheuk-Ping (Ping) Wong (Post Doc)
- Mikhail Yurov (Post Doc)
Publications