Rate My Professor Andrew Jackura

Jackura's research centers on nuclear and particle theory, Quantum Chromodynamics, reaction theory and phenomenology, hadron spectroscopy, and lattice field theory. He investigates few-body nuclear and particle reactions using theoretical and numerical tools to connect low-energy processes to QCD, with emphasis on three-body dynamics and electroweak interactions of hadrons. His efforts align closely with the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, where he collaborates with experimentalists and theorists. He is a member of the U.S. Department of Energy-funded Exotic Hadrons Topical Collaboration (ExoHad), exploring exotic hadron physics from lattice QCD predictions to phenomenological models; the Hadron Spectrum (HadSpec) collaboration, employing supercomputers for first-principles hadron spectroscopy; and an affiliate of the Joint Physics Analysis Center (JPAC). Key publications include "Determination of the pole position of the lightest hybrid meson candidate" (Physical Review Letters 122, 042002, 2019), "Studying the η′(2S) resonance in photoproduction off protons" (Physical Review D 94, 034002, 2016), "Issues and opportunities in exotic hadrons" (Chinese Physics C 40, 042001, 2016), "Equivalence of three-particle scattering formalisms" (Physical Review D 100, 034508, 2019), "Phenomenology of relativistic reaction amplitudes within the isobar approximation" (European Physical Journal C 79, 2019), and "Solving relativistic three-body integral equations in the presence of bound states" (Physical Review D 104, 014507, 2021). At William & Mary, he serves on the Residency Status Appeals Board and Undergraduate Research Committee.