Zulkaida Akbar is a senior researcher and member of the Experimental High-Energy Physics research group at BRIN Research Center for Quantum Physics. He is a nuclear and particle physicist with 10 years of experience working on two particle accelerators under the US Department of Energy: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) & Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab). He was trained in implementing advanced data analysis, statistics, and machine learning techniques for hundreds of terabytes of particle data. He is also experienced with cryogenic engineering, dynamic-nuclear polarization, and nuclear magnetic resonance techniques.

• Research Keywords: Nuclear and particle physics, Machine learning, Muon tomography.
• Contact: akbar.zulkaida(at)gmail.com
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• Ph.D. | Department of  Physics, Florida State University, USA.
• M.S | Department of Physics, Florida State University, USA.
• S.Si. / B.Sc. | Department of Physics, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia.

• 2023-present, Senior Researcher, BRIN Research Center for Quantum Physics, Indonesia.
• 2018-2023, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Virginia, USA.

Dr. Zulkaida has co-authored ~50 publications as a member of CLAS, CLAS12, Hall-C collaborations at Jefferson Lab, and the SpinQuest experiment at Fermilab. Here are some of the selected publications:

• R. Li et al., “The proton’s response to an external electromagnetic field challenges nuclear theory“, Nature 611, 265-270 (2022).
• S. Diehl et al., “A multidimensional study of the structure function ratio σ_LT’/σ₀ from hard exclusive π⁺ electro-production off protons in the GPD regime“, Phys. Lett. B 839, 137761 (2023).
• T. Hu et al., “Photoproduction of η mesons off the proton for 1.2 < E_γ < 4.7 GeV using CLAS at Jefferson Laboratory“, Phys. Rev. C 102, 065203 (2020).
• Z. Akbar, D. Keller, “Thermal Analysis and Simulation of the Superconducting Magnet in the SpinQuest Experiment at Fermilab“, in proceedings of “The 18th International Workshop on Polarizes Sources, Targets and Polarimetry” PoS (2019).
• B. Zhao et al., “Measurement of the beam spin asymmetry of ep → e′p′η in the deep-inelastic regime with CLAS“, Phys. Lett. B 789, 426-431 (2019).
• A. Chen et al., “Probing nucleon’s spin structures with polarized Drell-Yan in the Fermilab SpinQuest experiment“, in proceedings of “The 23rd International Spin Physics Symposium” PoS (2019).
• E. Golovatch et al., “First results on nucleon resonance photocouplings from the γp → π⁺π⁻ p reaction“, Phys. Lett. B 788, 371-379 (2019).
• D. H. Ho et al., “Beam-target helicity asymmetry E in K⁰𝜦 and K⁰Σ⁰ photoproduction on the neutron“, Phys. Rev. C 98, 045205 (2018).
• N. H. Saylor et al., “Measurement of unpolarized and polarized cross sections for deeply virtual Compton scattering on the proton at Jefferson Laboratory with CLAS“, Phys. Rev. C 98, 045203 (2018).
• Z. Akbar et al., “Measurement of the helicity asymmetry E in ω → π⁺π^–π⁰ photoproduction“, Phys. Rev. C 96, 065209 (2017).