Philip Cole Email and Phone Number

I am heavily involved in the physics afforded by linearly polarized photon beams with the CLAS6 detector in Hall B of Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Virginia and BGOOD at ELSA in Bonn, Germany. CLAS6 was decommissioned in May, 2016, but there are plenty of data to still analyze! I played a key role in developing the Coherent Bremsstrahlung Facility (CBF) for producing a beam of linearly-polarized photons in Hall B. I was a cospokesperson on the first three experimental proposals submitted employing the CBF. And, since its inception in the summer of 2001, over a dozen students have received their PhDs using the CBF. I was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship (2014/2015), which will took place at the Physics Institute of the University of Bonn at ELSA (Electron Stretcher Accelerator) ELSA has a high-energy linearly-polarized photon beam facility and the experiment will be complementary to the work I have done at Jefferson Lab.I am active in the 12 GeV upgrade to JLab. I am a cospokesperson on the experiment Nucleon Resonance Studies with CLAS12 (approved Feb. 2009). We have collected data in 2018 and 2019. I am For further details on the underlying physics, see I.G. Aznauryan et al., International Journal of Modern Physics E 22, 6 (2013) arXiv.org: .For the ten years, in collaboration with Dr. Christian Segebade, who has spent 40 years on this matter, I have been pursuing a new area of research for me; namely: photon activation analysis techniques for environmental applications. The basic equipment is an electron linear accelerator (LINAC) with an energy range up to 35 MeV together with a radiation spectroscopy laboratory capable of resolving the gamma lines from the activated nuclides. The current state of knowledge regarding these two interlinking aspects of activating nuclei and analyzing the resulting gamma spectra is sufficiently advanced to allow for both immediate applications in environmental studies and for further research and development in photo-induced cross-section data, which are altogether too sparse in this photon energy regime.I became a member of the GlueX Collaboration in December, 2020. I have recently become deeply interested in searches for light dark matter at BDX@JLab and BDX@Mainz.