BIO

Pierre Chatagnon is a postdoctoral fellow at Jefferson Lab since 2022, mostly focusing on the analysis of data produced by the CLAS12 experiment, one of the experiments at Jefferson Lab. After a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in Ecole Nationale Superieur d'Electricite in Paris, Pierre attended Cambridge University where he received a Master in Physics. He then obtained his PhD from Universite Paris-Saclay under the supervision of Silvia Niccolai. His thesis research focused on understanding the properties of quarks inside the proton via the experimental measurement of the exclusive photo-production of a pair of electron with the CLAS12 experiment. For this work, he obtained the 2020 price of the best thesis from the Universite Paris-Saclay high energy physics doctoral school. He then spent his first postdoc in INFN Genova in Italy, working on the CMS experiment at CERN, focusing on the development of a new silicon detector for the planned upgrade of the high-luminosity LHC.

ABSTRACT

The protons and neutrons, the building blocks of the matter, are made of elementary particles, called quarks. These quarks are bound together by one of the four fundamental forces of the Universe, the strong force. But how strong is the strong force? The experiments conducted every day at at Jefferson Lab help us answer this essential fundamental question.