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Dr. Fatiha Benmokhtar is an experimental particle Physicist who studies the internal structure and dynamics of strongly interacting matter with fixed target electron scattering experiments. She carries her research work at the Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (www.jlab.org) a leading user facility in electron laser beams. Specifically, Dr. Benmokhtar investigates elementary quark, anti-quarks and gluons that constitute matter, short range correlations in light nuclei and the Physics beyond the Standard Model with high precision parity violation measurements.

Students are deeply involved in this research through software development and data analysis at Duquesne University and hardware work, and high tech electronics tests at Jefferson Lab and other laboratories worldwide.

Education

  • Ph.D. Experimental Particle Physics, Rutgers University
  • MS. Experimental Particle Physics, USTHB Algiers/ISN Grenoble 
  • BS. Physics of Radiations, USTHB Algiers

Research Interests

  • Proton Structure: Studies of the quark and gluons dynamics inside the nucleon.
  • Few Body Short Range Correlations: Studies of protons and neutrons momenta distributions. 
  • Parity Violation: High precise Measurements experiments to test the predictions of the standard model of Particle Physics.

 

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  1. F. Benmokhtar (contact person) with H. Valenty, et al Physical implications of the extrapolation and statistical bootstrap of nucleon structure function ratios F2n F2p for mirror nuclei He 3 and H 3. Physical Review C, 107 (065203). 2023
  2. F. Benmokhtar with Aiden Boyer, Zachary Nickischer and the RICH working group The large-area hybrid-optics CLAS12 RICH: First years of data-taking. Nuclear Instruments and Methods, 1057 (168758). 2023
  3. F. Benmokhtar (Contact person) A. Gadsby, J. Goodwill, C. Boyd, D. Finton, A. Boyer and the Hall A Collaboration. Probing for high momentum protons in 4He via the 4He(e,e′p)X reaction. Physical Review C, 105 (064003). (2022)
  4. F. Benmokhtar. With the CLAS collaboration: Electron Beam Energy Reconstruction for Neutrino Oscillation Measurements. NATURE, 599, 565–570. (2021)
  5. F. Benmokhtar with the CLAS collaboration Measurement of the proton spin structure at long distances. NATURE PHYSICS17, 736–741 (2021)
  6. F. Benmokhtar with the CLAS collaboration Probing the core of the strong nuclear interaction. NATURE, 578, 540–544. (2020)
  7. F. Benmokhtar, F. With the Qweak collaboration Precision measurement of the weak charge of the proton.   NATURE, 557 (7704), 207-211. (2018)
  8. F. Benmokhtar with the PVDIS Collaboration, J. (2014). Measurement of parity violation in electron-quark scattering.   NATURE, 506, 67-70.
  9. F. Benmokhtar with the Hall A Collaboration: Probing cold dense nuclear matter, SCIENCE 2008 320(5882):1476 (2008) doi:1126/science.1156675.
  10. F. Benmokhtar (first author) with the Hall A collaboration: Measurement of the He3(e,e′p)pn Reaction at High Missing Energies and Moment: Physical Review Letters 94(8) (2005)
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  • School Excellence Award in Scholarship
  • School Excellence Award in Service
  • School Excellence Award in Teaching
  • National Science Foundation 2023: "Studies of the Proton Structure with Electron Beams"