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We present an amplitude analysis of high-energy polarized photoproduction of $\pi^-\Delta^{++}$ within a Regge exchange framework. A Regge amplitude model incorporating $\pi$, $\rho$, $b_1$, and $a_2$ trajectory exchanges is fit…
We have developed a silicon pixel detector to enhance the physics capabilities of the PHENIX experiment. This detector, consisting of two layers of sensors, will be installed around the beam pipe at the collision point and covers a…
Longitudinal polarisation of the lepton beam is a key ingredient to the success of the world's unique e\pmp ring collider HERA. This article aims at providing a brief introduction to the physics motivation for deep-inelastic scattering of…
We confront saturation-based results for diffractive $\psi(2s)$ and $\rho$ production at HERA and $J/\psi$ photoproduction with all available data including recent ones from HERA, ALICE and LHCb, finding a good agreement. We show that the…
Photonic hooks (PHs) are non-evanescent light beams with a highly concentrated curved optical fields. Since their discovery, PHs always have one single inflection point and thus have a hook-like structure. In this work, a new type of PHs…
Decay widths, branching ratios and production dynamics of some recently discovered $J^{PC} = 1^{-+}, 0^{-+}$,$1^{--}$ and $2^{-+}$ mesons are found to be in remarkable agreement with the predicted properties of hybrid mesons. We propose…
The valley degree of freedom in layered transition-metal dichalcogenides (MX2) provides the opportunity to extend functionalities of novel spintronics and valleytronics devices. Due to spin splitting induced by spin-orbital coupling (SOC),…
We studied the photoproduction of $\psi^{\prime}$ in the forward regions in polarized $\gamma p$ collisions at relevant HERA energies. We found that this reaction is very effective to test the color-octet mechanism which is based on the…
Perovskite solar cell (PSC) is one of the most promising next generation photovoltaic technologies, and there are considerable interests in the role of possible polarization of organic-inorganic halide perovskites (OIHPs) in photovoltaic…
Recent measurements using the CLAS detector at Jefferson Lab of the reactions $\vec\gamma + p \to K^+ + \vec\Lambda$ and $\vec\gamma + p \to K^+ + \vec\Sigma^0$ have been used to extract the spin transfer coefficients $C_x$ and $C_z$ for…
Jpsi and dielectron photoproduction measurements in ultra-peripheral Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV with the PHENIX experiment are presented. The triggered events correspond to those accompanied with forward neutron emission from the Au…
The GlueX experiment at Jefferson Lab aims to study the light meson spectrum with an emphasis on the search for hybrid mesons. To this end, a linearly-polarized $9\,$GeV photon beam impinges on a hydrogen target contained within a detector…
By using a Regge-pole model for vector meson production (VMP), that successfully describes the HERA data, we analyze the connection of VMP cross sections in photon-induced reactions at HERA with those in ultra-peripheral collisions at the…
Heavy flavour production and spectroscopy are key components of the HERA physics programme. I will summarise a selection of the recent results obtained by the H1 and ZEUS collaborations. The production of excited charm mesons and J/psi will…
One of the remaining challenges within the standard model is to gain a good understanding of QCD in the non-perturbative regime. A key step towards this aim is baryon spectroscopy, investigating the spectrum and the properties of baryon…
By using a Regge-pole model for vector meson production (VMP), successfully describing the HERA data, we analyse the correlation between VMP cross sections in photon-induced reactions at HERA and those in ultra-peripheral collisions at the…
Vector meson photoproduction at high energies has attracted increased interest in recent years due to the unique kinematical ranges offered by the LHC experiments. The ALICE and LHCb collaborations have provided measurements of vector meson…
The cross section for exclusive $\Upsilon$ ultraperipheral photoproduction at present and future colliders is determined using the low $x$ gluon PDF extracted from an analysis of exclusive $J/\psi$ measurements performed at HERA and the…
We report on polarization combining 2D grating couplers (2D GCs) on amorphous Si:H, fabricated in the backend of line of a photonic BiCMOS platform. The 2D GCs can be used as an interface of a hybrid silicon photonic coherent transmitter,…
Precise determination of top-quark pairs is an essential tool for understanding the overall consistency of the standard model (SM) expectations, understanding limited New Physics (NP) models, through spin-spin correlation and polarization…