Jennifer Rittenhouse West, Ph.D.

Theoretical Particle Physicist

About

Currently a postdoctoral fellow in Italy. I do my best to understand elementary particles and what they get up to in a variety of environments. I love physics so much. Also the Universe even though it is so big I can barely comprehend it. Current obsession: Diquarks. Still. But also, hadron-hadron collisions. I know more about fragmentation functions than I ever thought I would, but yet not enough.

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Highlight papers, I like these two. More highlights to come.

  • “Diquark induced short-range nucleon-nucleon correlations & the EMC effect,” Nuclear Physics A 2023.  inspirehep.net
  • “QCD hidden-color Hexadiquark in the Core of Nuclei,” Nuclear Physics A 2021.  inspirehep.net

Nota Bene:

I would love to come give talks, if you would like to hear about diquarks, baryon/antibaryon asymmetries in colliders & fixed target experiments, antiproton and antineutron cross sections in cosmic rays, and a new model of diquark transport of baryon number. I also love talking about the hidden-color states of QCD and up-down spin-0 diquarks as the proposed basis for ~20% of nuclear structure. And plenty of other super darling physics.

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Nota Benissimo:

I am an anti-fascist. I am a union woman. I am on the job market. It could be that these facts about me are a problem for some of my favorite USA institutions. If so, it is a mutual problem. I would certainly not be a good fit, por ahora!

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