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Anselm G. Vossen

Assistant Professor of Physics
Physics
Physics Building Room 188, PO Box 90305, Durham, NC 27708
Physics Building Room 188, Box 90305, Durham, NC 27708-0305
Office hours by appointment  

Research Interests


My field of research is Experimental Nuclear Physics.
I am in particular interested in the imaging of quark and gluons inside the protons to understand how their dynamics influence the property of visible mass.
I work at experiments at Jefferson Lab in Virginia and at KEK in Japan.
At Jefferson Lab we use electron scattering experiments to probe the proton, whereas at KEK we use electron-positron annihilation to study how quarks form particles that we can detect and how we can learn about the quantum numbers of the initial quarks from the final state particles.
Together, these experiments can tell us about the quark and gluon content of the proton.

Selected Grants


Novel Experimental Probes of QCD in SIDIS and e+e- Annihilation

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Energy · 2023 - 2026

REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Nuclear Particle Physics at TUNL and Duke

ResearchSenior Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2022 - 2026

A Scalable and Distributed AI-assisted detector design for the EIC

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Energy · 2023 - 2025

KLM R&D for the EIC

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility · 2024 - 2025

Research in High Energy Physics at Duke University

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Department of Energy · 2013 - 2025

Jefferson National Laboratory - Support for Anselm Vossen

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility · 2018 - 2025

Novel Experimental Probes of QCD in SIDIS and e+e- Annihilation

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Energy · 2018 - 2024

Support for the 25th International Spin Symposium

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2024

dRICH R&D FY23

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC · 2023 - 2024

Support for the Belle II Summer Workshop

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Energy · 2023 - 2023

EIC KLM R&D

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC · 2023 - 2023

EIC RICH R&D

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC · 2022 - 2023

Fellowships, Gifts, and Supported Research


Research in High Energy Physics at Duke University · 2019 - 2020 Awarded by: US Department of Energy · $65,000.00

External Relationships


  • School of Physics, Nanjing University, China

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