USJHPE is a US-Japan exchange program supporting collaborative scientific research in hadronic physics. It focuses on subject areas related to the programs at current and future experimental facilities in the US and Japan and supports both experimental and theoretical studies.
USJHPE particularly aims to realize synergies between the hadronic physics programs at Jefferson Lab 12 GeV and J-PARC resulting from the complementarity of electromagnetic and hadronic probes in the multi-GeV energy range. Subject areas of common interest include the quark-gluon structure of hadrons and nuclei, meson and baryon spectroscopy, strangeness and hypernuclear physics, and other related topics.
USJHPE also supports research in hadronic physics and nuclear-physics-enabled tests of fundamental symmetries related to the programs at Brookhaven National Lab, Fermilab, KEK, Spring-8, and university-based facilities in the US and Japan. USJHPE especially promotes collaboration between the US and Japanese nuclear physics communities in the development of the physics program for the future Electron-Ion Collider.
USJHPE is intended to provide travel grants to US-based scientists (primary institutional affiliation with a US university, national laboratory, or other research center) to visit Japanese institutions and conduct collaborative research there. The program can support senior researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and students.
Researchers interested in participating in the program should submit an application following the guidelines given in Application. Applications will be reviewed by a Coordinating Committee, and awards will be made competitively, subject to the availability of funds.
For questions about the program, please contact usjhpe@jlab.org
USJHPE is supported by the US Department of Energy under grant DE-SC0021359 "U.S.-Japan Hadronic Physics Exchange Program for Studies of Hadron Structure and QCD." The program governance is described in Governance.