Brandon Manley

Hi, I’m Brandon Manley, and I’m a PhD student in theoretical physics at Ohio State University. I currently work with Yuri Kovchegov. On this site, you can see my research works and cv.

My research is currently centered around the proton spin puzzle. I am mainly interested in the small Bjorken x behavior of the helicity parton distribution functions and the orbital angular momentum distributions. My research will help us understand what we should see from the Electron Ion Collider . In terms of questions my thesis research is centered around the following two questions: 1) what is the behavior of the orbital angular momentum distributions of quarks and gluons inside the proton at small x? and 2) how can we measure the orbital angular momenta at the EIC?

My past research interests include dark matter production at the Large Hadron Collider (with the MilliQan collaboration), and CMS detector design.

Here’s a gif of an eikonal quark for fun: