简介

Professor Aidala works in experimental high-energy nuclear physics, on the border between nuclear and particle physics. Her research is focused on nucleon structure and quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of the strong force. She’s particularly interested in spin-momentum correlations inside the proton, loosely analogous to the quantum electrodynamical spin-orbit and spin-spin couplings in the hydrogen atom. She currently carries out her research as part of two relatively large, international collaborations, working on the fixed-target E906/SeaQuest experiment at Fermilab as well as the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Lab. Professor Aidala holds both a 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship and a 2015 NSF CAREER Award.