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

Using a nucleus a femtovertex detector is a powerful way to study the time evolution of special configurations in the hadron wave function. Such configurations could be a point like configuration produced in hard exclusive reactions as predicted by QCD to be color transparency phenomenon. They could also be a quark loosing energy and neutralizing its color to form many hadrons in the final state, as it is the case of nuclear semi inclusive deep inelastic scattering. I am involved in an exciting program to study Hadronization, quark energy loss, color transparency and EMC effect using CLAS detector at JLab. The future looks even brighter with the JLab 12 GeV upgrade.

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

Professional Activities

Member of the American Physical Society
• 2007-present    Argonne National Laboratory Women in Science and Technology, Steering Committee
• 2005-present    Organizing committee, Science Careers in Search of Women conference

Selected Publications (Full list from SPIRES)

• "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 is scheduled to run october 2009.

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.

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