Searching for the onset of Color Transparency (CT) is a vibrant experimental effort to observe hadrons in a small neutral transverse size configuration in the nucleus. The observation of the onset of CT lies at the intersections between the quark-gluon degrees of freedom and the nucleonic descriptions of nuclei. CT is fundamentally predicted by quantum chromodynamics and is expected to be...
High-energy reactions on nuclei are conveniently described using light-front quantization. I discuss how especially in tagged processes on the deuteron, the light-front densities of the polarized deuteron enter. I discuss their properties (of relevance to polarized measurements) and some similarities to partonic TMDs.
I will review the main particle candidates to constitute the dark matter in the Universe. I will discuss the state-of-the-art searches of some of the candidates both with accelerator experiments and with astrophysical techniques.
One of the indirect detection method of dark matter (DM) is based on the search of the products of DM annihilation or decay. They should appear as distortions in the gamma rays spectra and in the rare Cosmic Ray (CR) components, like antiprotons, positrons and antideuterons, on top of the standard astrophysical production. In particular, the antiprotons in the Galaxy are mainly of secondary...
The Beam Dump Experiment (BDX) at Jefferson Laboratory (JLAB) is electron-beam thick-target experiment to search for Light Dark Matter (LDM) particles in the MeV-GeV mass range. BDX will exploit the high-intensity 10.6 GeV e beam from CEBAF accelerator impinging on the beam dump of experimental Hall-A, collecting up to 10^22 electrons-on-target in a few years time. Any LDM particles produced...
