Kawtar Hafidi

• Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
• Research group: Medium Energy Physics
• Research home page: www.jlab.org/~hafidi
• phone: (630)252-4012
• fax: (630)252-3903
• e-mail: kawtar@anl.gov

Research interests

Experimental Study of Quantum Chromo-Dynamics (QCD) in the strong (non-perturbative) regime:

Nucleon structure in QCD: Nucleon form factors, flavor decomposition, spin structure, transverse momentum dependent distributions and charge symmetry.

Nuclear QCD: Parton energy loss, hadron formation, color transparency and the EMC effect.

The majority of my work is performed in Hall B at Jefferson lab, though I am (or have been) involved in Hall C and Hall A experiments, as well as experiments at HERMES at DESY and Fermilab.

Biographical sketch

• 2006-present    Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
• 2002-2006        Assistant Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
• 1999-2002        Postdoctoral appointee, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
• 1999                 Ph.D., Physics, Paris Sud University, Orsay, France
• 1996-1999        Graduate Research Assistant, Service de Physique Nucleaire (SPhN), CEA-Saclay, France
  
• 1995                 B.S., Theoretical Physics, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco

Awards

• 2011                 Association for Women in Science Chicago Chapter Innovator Award
• 2010                 U. S. DOE Office of Science Outstanding Mentor Award
• 1996                 The French Atomic Agency Graduate Research Fellowship

Professional Activities

Member of the American Physical Society
Member of the Association of Women in Science


• 2011-present    Chair of the APS Committee on the Status of Women in Physics
• 2010-present    Board of Directors, Jefferson Lab Users' Group
• 2010-present    Argonne National Laboratory Women in Science and Technology program initiator
• 2009-present    Member of the APS Committee on the Status of Women in Physics
• 2007-present    Argonne National Laboratory Women in Science and Technology, Steering Committee

Selected Publications (Full list from SPIRES)

• "Measurement of Single- and Double-Spin Asymmetries in Deep Inelastic Pion Electroproduction with a Longitudinally Polarized Target",
  H. Avakian et al., Phys.Rev.Lett.105:262002, 2010
   
• "Spin-orbit correlations in kaon SIDIS at JLab",
  H. Avakian and K. Hafidi, AIP Conf.Proc.1149:564-567, 2009
   
• "A Precise Measurement of the Neutron Magnetic Form Factor G**n(M)in the Few-GeV**2 Region.",
  J. Lachniet et al., Phys.Rev.Lett.102:192001, 2009
   
• "A double-target system for precision measurements of nuclear medium effects.",
  H. Hakobyan et al., Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A592:218-223, 2008
   
• "Deeply virtual Compton scattering beam-spin asymmetries",
  F.X. Girod et al., Phys.Rev.Lett.100:162002,2008
   
• "Search for medium modification of the rho meson",
  R. Nasseripour et al., Phys.Rev.Lett.99:262302,2007
   
• "Quark fragmentation to pi+-, pi0, K+-, p and anti-p in the nuclear environment",
  A. Airapetian et al., Phys.Lett.B577:37-46,2003
   
• "The Q**2 dependence of nuclear transparency for exclusive rho0 production",
  A. Airapetian et al., Phys.Rev.Lett.90:052501,2003
   
• "Dynamical study of the d(e, e-prime pi+) reaction",
  K. Hafidi, T.S.H. Lee, Phys.Rev.C64:064607,2001
   
• "Phenomenology of the deuteron electromagnetic form-factors",
  D. Abbott et al., Eur.Phys.J.A7:421-427,2000
   
• "Measurement of tensor polarization in elastic electron deuteron scattering at large momentum transfer"(My PhD Thesis)
  D. Abbott et al., Phys.Rev.Lett.84:5053-5057,2000
   
• "A Precise measurement of the deuteron elastic structure function A(Q**2)",
  D. Abbott et al., Phys.Rev.Lett.82:1379-1382,1999
   

JLab 6 GeV proposals

E02-110: "Q**2 Dependence of Nuclear Transparency for Incoherent rho-0 Electroproduction",
The postscript version can be found here.
Experiment ran December 2003 - March 2004. The analysis is underway.

E08-024: "Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering off 4He",
The pdf version can be found here.
Experiment ran October 2009 - December 2009. The analysis is underway.

E08-015: "Transverse spin effects in SIDIS at 6 GeV with transversely polarized target using the CLAS Detector",
The pdf version can be found here.

JLab 12 GeV proposals

E12-06-106: "Study of Color Transparency in Exclusive Vector Meson Electroproduction off Nuclei",
The pdf version can be found here.

E12-06-117: "Quark Propagation and Hadron Formation",
The pdf version can be found here.

E12-07-104: "Measurement of the Neutron Magnetic Form Factor at High Q2 Using the Ratio Method on Deuterium",
The pdf version can be found here.

E12-07-107: "Studies of Spin-Orbit Correlations with Longitudinally Polarized Target",
The pdf version can be found here.

E12-09-002: "Charge Symmetry Violating Quark Distributions",
The pdf version can be found here.

E12-09-007: "Studies of partonic distributions using semi-inclusive production of Kaons",
The pdf version can be found here.

E12-09-009: "Studies of Spin-Orbit Correlations in Kaon Electroproduction in DIS with polarized hydrogen and deuterium targets",
The pdf version can be found here.

My PhD Students

Raphael Dupre: Universite Claude Bernard Lyon1, Lyon, France
2008-present: Study of the EMC effect via DVCS in He-4

Lamiaa EL Fassi: Mohammed V university, Rabat, Morocco
2003-2008: Search for color transparency in rho electroproduction off nuclei

Ahmed El Alaoui: Mohammed V university, Rabat, Morocco
2001-2006: Contribution of the strange quark to the spin of the proton