Ian Cloët

Deputy Division Director and Theory Group Leader, Physics Division

• phone: +1 630 252 4093
• fax: +1 630 252 3903
• email: [email protected]
• mail: Physics Division
  Argonne National Laboratory
  9700 S. Cass Ave, Argonne IL 60439
• other: Laboratory personal web page
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Current Research Interests

• Quantum Chromodynamics and associated emergent phenomena
• Quark and gluon contributions to hadron masses, spin, and orbital angular momentum
• Quark and gluon tomography of hadrons and nuclei
• Quark and gluon fragmentation functions/hadronization
• Flavor breaking effects in hadrons
• Hadron mass spectrum and transition form factors

Professional Experience

• Jan 2020 – present: Deputy Division Director, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory
• Jan 2019 – present: Theory Group Leader, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory
• Apr 2018 – present: Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
• Feb 2017 – Dec 2018: Deputy Theory Group Leader, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory
• Apr 2013 – Apr 2018: Assistant Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
• Sep 2011 – Apr 2013: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Adelaide
• Aug 2008 – Aug 2011: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Washington
• Feb 2007 – Jul 2008: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory

Professional Activities

• Jan 2019 – present: Chair line of APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics (GHP)
• Jan 2019 – present: Member of Advisory Board for Electron-Ion Collider Center at Jefferson Lab
• Jan 2017 – Dec 2018: Jefferson Lab Users Group Board of Directors (Experiment/Theory Representative)
• Jan 2016 – Dec 2017: Member-at-Large for APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics (GHP)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (2007)
  The University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
• Bachelor of Science Honours (2002)
  The University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Recent and Selected Publications   (INSPIRE list)

1. The Challenge of the EMC Effect: existing data and future directions
   S. Malace, D. Gaskell, D. W. Higinbotham and I. C. Cloët
   Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 23, 1430013 (2014)   [arXiv:1405.1270 [nucl-ex]]
2. Explanation and Prediction of Observables using Continuum Strong QCD
   I. C. Cloët and C. D. Roberts
   Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 77, 1 (2014)   [arXiv:1310.2651 [nucl-th]]
3. Pion electromagnetic form factor at spacelike momenta
   L. Chang, I. C. Cloët, C. D. Roberts, S. M. Schmidt and P. C. Tandy
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 141802 (2013)   [arXiv:1307.0026 [nucl-th]]
4. Pion distribution amplitude from lattice-QCD
   I. C. Cloët, L. Chang, C. D. Roberts, S. M. Schmidt and P. C. Tandy
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 092001 (2013)   [arXiv:1306.2645 [nucl-th]]
5. Revealing dressed-quarks via the proton's charge distribution
   I. C. Cloët, C. D. Roberts and A. W. Thomas
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 101803 (2013)   [arXiv:1304.0855 [nucl-th]]
6. Imaging dynamical chiral symmetry breaking: pion wave function on the light front
   L. Chang, I. C. Cloët, J. J. Cobos-Martinez, C. D. Roberts, S. M. Schmidt and P. C. Tandy
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 132001 (2013)   [arXiv:1301.0324 [nucl-th]]
7. Variations of nuclear binding with quark masses
   M. E. Carrillo-Serrano, I. C. Cloët, K. Tsushima, A. W. Thomas, I. R. Afnan
   Phys. Rev. C 87, 015801 (2013)   [arXiv:1208.3009 [nucl-th]]
8. Nucleon form factors and spin content in a quark-diquark model with a pion cloud
   I. C. Cloët, G. A. Miller
   Phys. Rev. C 86, 015208 (2012)   [arXiv:1204.4422 [nucl-th]]
9. Charge Symmetry Breaking in Spin Dependent Parton Distributions and the Bjorken Sum Rule
   I. C. Cloët, R. Horsley, J. T. Londergan, Y. Nakamura, D. Pleiter, P. E. L. Rakow, G. Schierholz et al.
   Phys. Lett. B 714, 97 (2012)   [arXiv:1204.3492 [nucl-th]]
10. Parity-violating DIS and the flavour dependence of the EMC effect
    I. C. Cloët, W. Bentz, A. W. Thomas
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 182301 (2012)   [arXiv:1202.6401 [nucl-th]]
11. Third Zemach Moment of the Proton
    I. C. Cloët, G. A. Miller
    Phys. Rev. C 83, 012201 (2011)   [arXiv:1008.4345 [nucl-th]]
12. Pion-induced Drell-Yan processes and the flavor-dependent EMC effect
    D. Dutta, J. C. Peng, I. C. Cloët, D. Gaskell
    Phys. Rev. C 83, 042201 (2011)   [arXiv:1007.3916 [nucl-th]]
13. Transverse Momentum Dependent Fragmentation and Quark Distribution Functions from the NJL-jet Model
    H. H. Matevosyan, W. Bentz, I. C. Cloët, A. W. Thomas
    Phys. Rev. D 85, 014021 (2012)   [arXiv:1111.1740 [nucl-th]]
14. Reassessment of the NuTeV determination of the Weinberg angle
    W. Bentz, I. C. Cloët, J. T. Londergan, A. W. Thomas
    Phys. Lett. B 693, 462 (2010)   [arXiv:0908.3198 [nucl-th]]
15. Isovector EMC effect explains the NuTeV anomaly
    I. C. Cloët, W. Bentz, A. W. Thomas
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 252301 (2009)   [arXiv:0901.3559 [nucl-th]]
16. Survey of nucleon electromagnetic form factors
    I. C. Cloët, G. Eichmann, B. El-Bennich, T. Klahn, C. D. Roberts
    Few Body Syst. 46, 1 (2009)   [arXiv:0812.0416 [nucl-th]]
17. Transversity quark distributions in a covariant quark-diquark model
    I. C. Cloët, W. Bentz, A. W. Thomas
    Phys. Lett. B 659, 214 (2008)   [arXiv:0708.3246 [hep-ph]]
18. EMC and polarized EMC effects in nuclei
    I. C. Cloët, W. Bentz, A. W. Thomas
    Phys. Lett. B 642, 210 (2006)   [arXiv:0605061 [nucl-th]]
19. Nucleon quark distributions in a covariant quark-diquark model
    I. C. Cloët, W. Bentz, A. W. Thomas
    Phys. Lett. B 621, 246 (2005)   [arXiv:0504229 [hep-ph]]
20. Spin-dependent structure functions in nuclear matter and the polarized EMC effect
    I. C. Cloët, W. Bentz, A. W. Thomas
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 052302 (2005)   [arXiv:0504019 [nucl-th]]