Dr Daria Sokhan awarded the 2020 Blaise Pascal Chair of International Excellence

Published: 6 January 2021

Daria Sokhan, experimental physicist in hadronic physics at the University of Glasgow, obtained the 2020 Blaise Pascal Chair of International Excellence from the Île-de-France Region and will join Paris-Saclay for more than a year.

Dr Daria Sokhan has been awarded the 2020 Blaise Pascal Chair of International Excellence from the Île-de-France Region and will join Paris-Saclay in the New Year for an extended sabbatical.

Dr Sokhan is an experimental physicist in hadronic physics at the University of Glasgow and an expert in the field of 3D tomography of the nucleon, a specialty of the nucleon structure Laboratory (LSN) of the IRFU, who will welcome her in the New Year.

She will collaborate with Jefferson Lab (United States), in particular on the analysis of experimental data, as well as on the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) project, in relation with several laboratories of the University of Paris-Saclay. Her presence will strengthen the link with the University of Glasgow.

At Jefferson Lab, the structure of the nucleon is studied by scattering an electron beam on a target. By mapping the scattered particle distributions, physicists can reconstruct the tomography of the nucleon in 3D.

The future EIC collider will be built in the United States and will allow the experiments currently being carried out at Jefferson Lab to be carried out at higher energies. Physicists will directly study the "gluon sea" to build a complete picture of the internal dynamics of the nucleon, and better understand its properties, such as the emergence of its mass and its spin.

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First published: 6 January 2021

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