{"id":15,"date":"2018-05-30T01:16:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T01:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/reinhold\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2022-09-06T14:47:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T14:47:58","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/reinhold\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"My field of research is nuclear and particle physics. Currently, my main activities focus on two projects at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Virginia: hypernuclear spectroscopy<\/a> and the GlueX Experiment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hypernuclear Spectroscopy<\/h1>\n

Ordinary nuclei are composed of protons and neutrons which in turn contain up and down quarks. In a hyperon, one of the original quarks is substituted by a strange quark. A hypernucleus contains a hyperon implanted as an “impurity” within the nuclear medium. Precise information about the mass and excitation energies of hypernuclei allows one to infer the underlying hyperon-nucleon interaction, which is not yet well known. Further, it is believed that some supernova explosions leave a neutron star as a remnant and that at least some regions in neutron stars are made up of matter containing strange quarks. A comprehensive set of hypernuclear data ultimately will also constrain current models of possible strange matter in stellar objects.<\/p>\n

I am a co-spokesperson of two current (12 GeV era<\/a>) and three past (6 GeV era<\/a>) experiments at Jefferson Lab<\/a>:<\/p>\n