Michael Paolone

Biography

Dr. Paolone is an assistant professor of physics at New Mexico State University and an experimental medium-energy particle physicist who works primarily with the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia.  Dr. Paolone's research focuses on the fundamental structure of nucleons and how that structure is modified when bound in a nuclear medium.  His recent studies include how the transition of a nucleon to  a Delta resonance can provide insight on the charge radius of the neutron, and how photo producing vector mesons near threshold can allow 3D imaging of the gluon momentum distributions of nuclei and the gravitational form-factors of the proton.  Dr. Paolone also builds large scale Cherenkov Light Detectors for particle identification in modern particle detector systems.