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I submit for your consideration my application for tenure at the rank of Associate Research Professor in the Physics program of the College of Arts and Sciences at Idaho State University.

I joined the Physics program at ISU as an Research Associate Professor of Physics on August 14, 2006. The university's expectations for my position were clearly described in my offer letter which I have included in this application. As described in my offer letter, a research professor is expected to spend 60% of their time on research, 20% on teaching, and 20% on service. The research expectation was that I attract approximately $150,000 in external funds in the first 5 years and publish 2 peer reviewed works per year. I was also expected to teach one, three credit graduate level class per semester, advise graduate students and develop curricula to enhance ISU's offerings in nuclear science. My accomplishments in each of these endeavors is summarized below and the specific details are organized in separate sections.

My research activities at ISU have resulted a series of external grant totaling $1.4 Million, the creation of a Laboratory for Detector Science, and research program in nuclear physics based at Jefferson Lab and the Idaho Accelerator Center.

My teaching activities at ISU have focused on graduate student instruction and advising as well as developing three new classes for the graduate curricula.

My service acitivities at ISU have been in the form of a GFR, a member of the Engineering Graduate ???, and a Faculty Senator.

Teaching

Classroom Instruction

Classes Taught

Year	Semester	Course #	Course Description
2006	Fall	PHYS 499/599	SIM. OF PART. INTER. W/MATTE
2006	Spring	PHYS 499/599	NUCLEAR PHYSICS OF HOMELAND SEC
2007	Fall	PHYS 599	SIM. OF PART. INTER. W/MATTE
2008	Spring	PHYS 609	ADVANCED NUCLEAR PHYSICS
		PHYS 648	SPECIAL TOPICS
2008	Fall	PHYS 599	SIM. OF PART. INTER. W/MATTE
		PHYS 648	SPECIAL TOPICS
2009	Spring	PHYS 609	ADVANCED NUCLEAR PHYSICS
		PHYS 648	SPECIAL TOPICS
2009	Fall	PHYS 499/599	SIM. OF PART. INTER. W/MATTE

Graduate students

Name	Degree	Thesis Title
Tamar Didberidze	Ph.D Physics	A Test of Independent Fragmentation
Sadiq	Ph.D Physics	Positron source for JLab
Abdel Haitham	Ph.D Physics	A Thick GEM neutron detector
Warren Parsons	M.S. Physics	A Gaseous Detector Readout System for Qweak
Randy Spaulding	M.S. Physics	Design Fundamentals for Cost-Optimized Neutron Detectors Based on an Array of Helium-3 Tubes

Curriculum Development

Simulations , Adv. Nuclear, Nucl Physics for Homeland Security, and Analysis for the Physical Sciences.

Teaching Methods

Patterned after the peer instruction method, I have adopted a method of instruction which integrates a lbaoratory environment directly into the lecture. The simulation class is configured to be a once a week 3 hour block of time in which the first 1-1.5 hours is spent in a traditional lecture style mode which describes concepts. The next half of the class is spent by the student applying those concepts in a laboratory environment under the supervision of the instructor. The laboratory environment will task the student to implement the concepts from the lecture into a working simulation and evaluate the veracity of the simulation in reproducing the physical concept.

The second class on Error analysis was configured to be similar to the SImulation class. The error analysis class was held twice a week with at least 1 hour devoted to conceptual description and the remainder devoted to practicing the concepts on the computer. The lab portion of the class however was a shorter and more focused to be completed in a 15-20 minute time period.

wiki, computer lab integration

Course Design

Simulations course

Error analysis course

Scholarship

Summary

A majority of my research has involved asymmetry measurements using polarized electrons. My Ph. D. thesis reported a measurement of the neutral weak magnetic form factor of the proton using parity violation at MIT bates <ref name="SAMPLE"> Template:Cite Measurement of the Proton's Neutral Weak Magnetic Form Factor, B. Mueller et. al. , Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, (1997), 3824</ref>. I performed double spin asymmetry measurements to extract polarized structure functions at Jefferson Lab during my postdoctoral work. Even though these measurements have been taking place for more than three decades and there have been improvements in target polarization and kinematic coverage, fundamental questions remain unanswered yet within reach. Earlier experiments demonstrated that the quarks are not the main contributers to the spin of a nucleon. Contributions from gluons and the angular momentum of a nucleons constituents have become the focus of investigation for more than a decade. The polarized structure function measurements I performed during my postoctoral work has helped to further constrain the uncertainty in measurements of the gluon contribution. I plan to continue these measurements (E12-06-109) with the upgraded facility at Jefferson Lab as it has become clear that the statistical and systematic uncertainties in the analysis used to extract the gluon contributions will benefit from a data set taken with an apparatus that has a large kinematic coverage.

I focused on testing the concept of quark-hadron duality for polarized structure functions, in addition my collaborative efforts extracting the polarized structure function. Quark-hardron duality considers the possibility that the resonance region in inelastic electron scattering can exhibit, on average, observables that are quantitatively similar to those produced in the non resonant scattering region. The polarized structure function , g_1, was averaged from pion threshold to the conventional missing mass (W) value of 2 GeV. This region of "global" duality was found to be consistend with the same average using deep inelastic structure function data when the four momentum transfer quared (Q^2) was larger than 1.7 GeV^2/c^2. The onset of Quark-Hardron duality for polarized structure functions occurs at a higher Q^2 than if an analagous comparison were made using unpolarized sstructure function.

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One of the main reasons I came to ISU was the availability of a local electron accellerator facility at the Idaho Accelerator Center. At first, the IAC was used to test detectors and measure radiation damage of detector materials. Later, I found an opportunity to develop a positron source at the IAC that had the potential to advance a program of charge symmetry based experiments at Jefferson Lab. Experiments using both positrons and electrons have the potential to remove many model dependencies if not be a fundamental test. For example, a measurement of polarized electron and proton scattering from a polarized nucleon target has the potential to be a model independent measurement of a nucleon's electromagnetic form factors. Such a measurement has the potential to reconcile the current discrepancy between cross-section based and polarization transfer based measurements of these form factors. Fortuitously, the positron production efficienty of using the 10 MeV energy of electrons at JLab's injector was available for use during the shutdown period being used to upgrade JLab's accelerator energy.

During the JLab accelerator upgrade, I Positrons

PAA

Publications

At ISU

Refereed Journals

1. A Precise Measurement of the Neutron Magnetic Form Factor G**n(M)in the Few-GeV**2 Region, J. Lachniet et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 102 ,(2009), 192001.
2. First measurement of direct f0(980) photoproduction on the proton M. Battaglieri et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 102 , (2009), 102001.
3. Electroproduction of p pi+ pi- off protons at 0.2 < Q**2 < 0.6-GeV**2 and 1.3 < W < 1.57-GeV with CLAS. G.V. Fedotov, et al., Phys. Rev. C79, (2009), 015204.
4. Exclusive rho0 electroproduction on the proton at CLAS S.A. Morrow et al., Eur. Phys. J., A39 ,(2009), 5.
5. Search for the photo-excitation of exotic mesons in the pi+ pi+ pi- system M. Nozar et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 102, (2009), 102002.
6. Moments of the Spin Structure Functions g**p(1) and g**d(1) for 0.05 < Q**2 < 3.0-GeV**2., Y. Prok et al., Phys.Lett, B672 ,(2009) ,12.
7. First measurement of target and double spin asymmetries for polarized-e polarized-p ---> e p pi0 in the nucleon resonance region above the Delta(1232) A.S. Biselli et al., Phys. Rev. , C78, (2008), 045204.
8. Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering Beam-Spin Asymmetries., F.X. Girod et al. (The CLAS Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett., 100 , (2009), 162002.
9. Beam spin asymmetry in deep and exclusive p0 electroproduction., R. De Masi et al. (The CLAS Collaboration), Phys. Rev. C 77, (2008), 042201.
10. A Bayesian analysis of pentaquark signals from CLAS data., D. G. Ireland et al. (The CLAS Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 052001 (2008).
11. Cross Sections for gamma p to K0*+ Sigma at Egamma=1.7-3.0 GeV , I. Hleiqawi, et. al., Phys. Rev. C 75,(2007), 042201.
12. Separated Structure Functions for the Exclusive electroproduction of K+ Lambda and K+ Sigma Final States , P. Ambrozewicz, et. al., Phys. Rev. C 75,(2007), 045203.
13. First measurement of Beam Recoil Observables C(x) and C(z) in hyperon Photoproduction , R. Bradford, et. al., Phys. Rev. C 75, (2007), 035205.
14. Quark-Hadron Duality in Spin Structure Functions g1p and g1d , P. Bosted, et. al., Phys. Rev. C 75, (2007), 035203.
15. Measurement of the x and Q^2 Dependence of the Spin Asymmetry A1 on the Nucleon , K.V. Dharmawardane, et. al., Phys. Lett. B 641, (2006),11.

Books and Proceeding

1. "International Workshop on Positrons at Jefferson Lab", T.A. Forest Editor, Newport News, VA, March 2009.
2. "An Accelerator Based Cargo Container Inspection System for Nuclear Materials", T.A. Forest et. al., pg 470, Eight International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications and Utilization of Accelerators (ACCAPP'07), Pocatello, ID, July 29-August 2, 2007, Published by the American Nuclear Society

Prior to arriving at ISU

Refereed Journals

1. Onset of asymptotic scaling in deuteron photodisintegration , P. Rossi, et. al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, (2005), 012301.
2. Exclusive rho0 meson electroproduction from hydrogen at CLAS , C. Hadjidakis, et. al., Phys. Lett. B605, (2005), 256.
3. A_LT' asymmetries in semi-exclusive electron scattering on He4 and C12 D. Protopopescu, et al. , Nucl.Phys. A748 (2005) 357-373.
4. Experimental Determination of the Evolution of the Bjorken Integral at Low Q2 Deur, et. al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, (2004), 212001.
5. Complete measurement of three-body photodisintegration of 3He for photon energies between 0.35 and 1.55 GeV, S. Niccolai, et.al., Phys. Rev. C 70, (2004), 064003.
6. Measurement of the Polarized Structure Function sigma(LT') for p(e(vec),e'pi+)n in the Delta resonance region, K. Joo, et.al., Phys. Rev. C 70, (2004), 042201R.
7. Proton source size measurements in the eA --> e'ppX reaction, A.V. Stavinsky, et. al. , Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (2004),192301.
8. Complete Angular Distribution Measurements of Two-Body Deuteron Photodisintegration between 0.5 and 3 GeV, M. Mirazita, et. al., Phys. Rev. C 70, (2004), 014005.
9. Tensor Polarization of the phi meson Photoproduced at High t, K. McCormick, et. al., Phys. Rev. C 69, (2004), 032203.
10. Observation of an exotic baryon with S=+1 in photoproduction from the proton,V. Kubarovsky, et. al., Phys. Rev. Lett.92 , (2004),032001.
11. Two-nucleon momentum distributions measured in 3 He(e, e' p p )n,Niyazov and Weinstein, Phys. Rev. Lett,92 , (2004), 052303.
12. Observation of an Exotic S=+1 Baryon in Exclusive Photoproduction from the Deuteron,S. Stepanyan, et. al., Phys. Rev. Lett.91 , (2003), 252001.
13. Measurement of the Proton Spin Structure Function g1(x,Q2) for Q2 from 0.15 to 1.6 GeV2 with CLAS, R.Fatemi, et. al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 91, (2003), 222002.
14. Polarization transfer in the 4He(e,e'p) 3H reaction up to Q2= 2.6(GeV/c)2, S. Strauch, et. al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 91, (2003), 052301.
15. First Measurement of Transferred Polarization in the Exclusive e(pol)p = -> e'K+Lambda(pol) Reaction, D. Carman, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 90, (2003), 131804.
16. Measurement of Beam-Spin Aasymmetries for Deep Inelastic pi+ Electroproduction , H. Avakian, et al., Phys. Rev. , D69, (2004), 112004.
17. Measurement of Inclusive Spin Structure Fuctions of the Deuteron with CLAS, J. Yun, S. Kuhn, G. Dodge, T.A. Forest, et al., Phys. Rev. C67, (2003), 055204.
18. Q2 Dependence of Quadrupole Strength in gamma*->Delta(1232)}, K. Joo et. al., Phys.Rev.Lett. 88, (2002), 122001.
19. First Measurement of the Double Spin Asymmetry in e(pol)p(pol)->e'pi+n in the Resonance Region, R. DeVita et. al., Phys.Rev.Lett. 88, (2002), 082001.
20. First observation of exclusive DVCS in polarized electron beam asymmetry measurements, S. Stepanyan et. al., Phys.Rev.Lett. 87, (2001), 182002.
21. Photoproduction of the rho0 meson on the proton at large momentum transfer, M. Battaglieri et.. al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, (2001), 172002.
22. Electroproduction of the Lambda(1520) Hyperon, S. Barrow et. al., Phys. Rev. C 64, (2001), 044601.
23. Exclusive electroproduction of phi mesons at 4.2 GeV, K. Lukashin et. al., Phys. Rev. C 63, (2001), 065205.
24. Photoproduction of phi(1020) Mesons on the Proton at Large Momentum Transfer, E. Anciant et. al. , Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 , (2000), 4682.
25. Coherent pi0 Photoproduction on the Deuteron up to 4.0 GeV, D.G. Meekins et. al. , Phys. Rev. C 60 , (1999), 52201.
26. Measurements of Deuteron Photodisintegration up to 4.0 GeV, C. Bochna et. al. , Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, (1998), 4576.
27. Measurement of the Proton's Neutral Weak Magnetic Form Factor, B. Mueller et. al. , Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, (1997), 3824.
28. A High Power Hydrogen Target for Parity Violation Experiments, E. J. Beise, D. H. Beck, E. Candell, R. Carr, F. Duncan, T. Forest, W. Korsch, J. W. Mark, R. D. McKeown, B. A. Mueller, S. Wells , Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A378, (1996), 383.
29. Threshold Eta Photoproduction, A.S. Rosenthal, T.A. Forest, and M. Gonzales, Phys. Rev. C 44, (1991), 2765.
30. The Distribtuion of Supernova Remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud, T.A. Forest, et. al., Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac. 100, 683 (1988).

Books and Proceeding

1. "Quark hadron duality tests on polarized structure functions using CLAS.", T.A. Forest (for the CLAS collaboration), 3rd International Symposium on the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn Sum Rule and its Extensions (GDH 2004), Norfolk, Virginia, 2-5 Jun 2004. Published in *Norfolk 2004, Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule and its extensions* 84-92.
2. "The Q**2 dependence of polarized structure functions.", T.A. Forest (for the CLAS collaboration), 9th International Conference on the Structure of Baryons (Baryons 2002), Newport News, Virginia, 3-8 Mar 2002. Published in *Newport News 2002, Baryons 2002* 303-306.

Grants

1. NSF Award Id : PHY-0855661, $910k, 9/15/2009 - 8/31/2012
2. NSF Award Id :PHY- 0653570, $152k, 8/15/2007 - 7/31/2009
3. CLAS12 R3 ME Design, JLAB sub contract, $64k, 5/28/07 - 9/19/08
4. Endplate Deflections, JLAB sub contract, $6k, 1/1/07-2/2/07
5. LaTech GEM, Louisiana Tech subcontract, $47k, 11/1/07-2/1/08
6. A&T GEM, North Carolina A&T State University sub contract, $5k, 9/1/06-3/1/07

Service

Department, College, and University activities

Faculty Senate (2008-present)

PhysicsBasementCleanup_2009

Qualifying exam committee (2007-2010)

JLab hiring Committee (both times)

Gulio

New Physics hire

Engineering Ph. D. Committee ( ended in 2007-2009)

ISU colloquium 1/12/2010

Professional Service Activities

NSF proposal reviewer 2010. Two proposals.

Positron workshop proceedings editor

Professionally related community service activities

APS article about homeland security on pg 6 of the December 2009 issue.

File:APS Article 12-2006.pdf

REU program ( 2009,2010)

QuarkNet (2008,2009,2010)

Outreach at Syringa school