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Dr. Pitonyak鈥檚 student-faculty research focuses on computational nuclear physics. His work attempts to understand the 3-dimensional internal structure of visible matter. Dr. Pitonyak and his students write code in Python to compute high-energy particle collisions and analyze how models fit experimental data. This enables them to extract information on the elementary particles that make up objects like the proton.

• American Physical Society (APS) Prize for a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution听(Mar. 2026)鈥擳his prize honors a physicist whose research in an undergraduate setting has achieved wide recognition and contributed significantly to physics and who has contributed substantially to the professional development of undergraduate physics students. The citation for the award reads, 鈥淔or excellent contributions to our understanding of the spin and multi-dimensional structure of hadrons, and for outstanding mentoring of undergraduate students by engaging them in high-impact research projects.鈥�
• National Science Foundation grant ($193,628, August 1, 2023鈥揓uly 31, 2026), Nuclear Theory Program 鈥撎�RUI: Hadronic Structure from Spin Observables in pQCD听(Principal Investigator, Award No. PHY-2308567)
• Department of Energy grant ($1.95 million, January 1, 2023鈥揇ecember 31, 2027), Office of Nuclear Physics 鈥� Saturated Glue Topical Collaboration听(Senior Personnel)
• 麻豆破解 Thomas Rhys Vickroy Distinguished Teaching Award听(May 2024)鈥擳op honor for a full-time faculty member awarded in recognition of teaching excellence.
• National Science Foundation grant ($164,862, August 15, 2020鈥揓uly 31, 2023), Nuclear Theory Program 鈥撎�RUI: Hadronic Structure from Spin Observables in pQCD听(Principal Investigator, Award No. PHY-2011763)
• Lead Guest Editor for the Special Issue in Advances in High Energy Physics titled 鈥淭ransverse Momentum Dependent Observables from Low to High Energy: Factorization, Evolution, and Global Analyses.鈥� May 2019.
• Dissertation Award from the American Physical Society Group on Hadronic Physics. 2015
• Referee for Physical Review D, Physical Review Letters, Physics Letters B, Advances in High Energy Physics, International Journal of Modern Physics A, and Nuclear Physics A.

Selected Recent Publications

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D. Pitonyak, C. Cocuzza, A. Metz, A. Prokudin, and N. Sato, 听Phys. Rev. D听113, 038901 (2026).

Zhong-Bo Kang, Andreas Metz, Daniel Pitonyak, and Congyue Zhang, 听Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 081905 (2026).

D. Adamiak, N. Baldonado, Y. V. Kovchegov, M. Li, W. Melnitchouk, D. Pitonyak, N. Sato, M. D. Sievert, A. Tarasov and Y. Tawabutr, 鈥�,鈥澨齈hys. Rev. D听112, 094032 (2025).

*M. Harris, *J. Marsh, D. Pitonyak, A. Prokudin, *J. Putnam, D. Rein, and M. Schlegel, Phys. Lett. B 869, 139793 (2025).

*S. Fitzgibbons, *M. Malda, *J. Marsh, D. Pitonyak and *P. Smith,听听Phys. Lett. B听852, 138606 (2024).

Cocuzza, A. Metz, D. Pitonyak, A. Prokudin, N. Sato, and R. Seidl (Jefferson Lab Angular Momentum (JAM) Collaboration),听 Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 091901 (2024).

Cocuzza, A. Metz, D. Pitonyak, A. Prokudin, N. Sato, and R. Seidl (Jefferson Lab Angular Momentum (JAM) Collaboration),听 Phys. Rev. D 109, 034024 (2024).

D. Pitonyak, C. Cocuzza, A. Metz, A. Prokudin, and N. Sato, 听Phys. Rev. Lett, 132, 011902 (2024).

Daniel Adamiak, Nicholas Baldonado, Yuri V. Kovchegov, W. Melnitchouk, Daniel Pitonyak, Nobuo Sato, Matthew D. Sievert, Andrey Tarasov, and Yossathorn Tawabutr (Jefferson Lab Angular Momentum (JAM) Collaboration), . Phys. Rev. D 108, 114007 (2023).

P.鈥塁. Barry, L. Gamberg, W. Melnitchouk, E. Moffat, D. Pitonyak, A. Prokudin, and N. Sato (Jefferson Lab Angular Momentum (JAM) Collaboration), . Phys. Rev. D 108, L091504 (2023).

*B. Bauer, D. Pitonyak, and *C. Shay, . Phys. Rev. D 107, 014013 (2023).

L. Gamberg, *M. Malda, *J. A. Miller, D. Pitonyak, A. Prokudin and N. Sato, , Phys. Rev. D 106, 034014 (2022).

M. Boglione, M. Diefenthaler, S. Dolan, L. Gamberg, W. Melnitchouk, D. Pitonyak, A. Prokudin, N. Sato and Z. Scalyer, , JHEP 2204, 084 (2022).

S. Bhattacharya, Z. B. Kang, A. Metz, G. Penn and D. Pitonyak, , Phys. Rev. D 105, 034007 (2022).

R. Abdul Khalek, A. Accardi, J. Adam, D. Adamiak, W. Akers, M. Albaladejo, A. Al-bataineh, M. G. Alexeev, F. Ameli and P. Antonioli, et al., , Nucl. Phys. A 1026, 122447 (2022).

D. Adamiak, Y. V. Kovchegov, W. Melnitchouk, D. Pitonyak, N. Sato and M. D. Sievert, , Phys. Rev. D 104, L031501 (2021).

L. Gamberg, Z. B. Kang, D. Pitonyak, A. Prokudin, N. Sato and R. Seidl, , Phys. Lett. B 816, 136255 (2021).

*J. Cammarota, L. Gamberg, Z. B. Kang, *J. A. Miller, D. Pitonyak, A. Prokudin, T. C. Rogers and N. Sato,听.听Phys. Rev. D 102, 054002 (2020).

Presentations

Dr. Daniel Pitonyak, invited prize talk, 听Mar. 17, 2026, Denver, Colo.

Dr. Daniel Pitonyak, invited plenary talk, 听,听Oct. 30, 2025, Paphos, Cyprus.

Dr. Daniel Pitonyak, invited talk, 听, May 19, 2025, Newport News, VA.

Dr. Daniel Pitonyak, invited talk, 听 (Anaheim, Calif.), March 2025.

Dr. Daniel Pitonyak, invited talk,听听QCD Evolution Workshop (Pavia, Italy), May 2024.

Dr. Daniel Pitonyak, invited talk,听听7th International Workshop on Transverse Polarization Phenomena (remote), June 2024.

Dr. Daniel Pitonyak, invited talk,听听SoLID Users Workshop (Argonne National Lab), June 2024.

Dr. Daniel Pitonyak, invited talk,听听Institute for Nuclear Theory Workshop on Inverse Problems and Uncertainty Quantification (Seattle, Wash.), July 2024.

Dr. Daniel Pitonyak, contributed talk, 鈥淭he Universal Nature of Transversity PDFs and the Tensor Charges of the Nucleon,鈥� American Physical Society (APS) April Meeting, Sacramento, Calif., April 2024.

Dr. Daniel Pitonyak attended the at Duke University in September 2023 with Penn Smith 鈥�25, who presented in the poster session. Penn鈥檚 poster was based on summer 2023 research he conducted with Professor Pitonyak, Jacob Marsh 鈥�25, and Sophia Fitzgibbons 鈥�25, supported by Dr. Pitonyak鈥檚 NSF grant.

Dr. Daniel Pitonyak presented听鈥淣ew Framework听for the Analysis of Dihadron Fragmentation鈥� at Jefferson Lab鈥檚 Theory Group Seminar (remote) and 鈥淨CD Global Analysis of Single-Hadron Fragmentation TSSAs & New Theory Developments for Dihadron Fragmentation,鈥� at the TMDs and Synergy with Lattice QCD workshop at the Center for Frontiers in Nuclear Science (Stony Brook, N.Y) in June 2023. His research is funded by an NSF grant.

Dr. Daniel Pitonyak gave a talk on his research, 鈥淨CD听Global Analyses of Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries: Single-Hadron and Dihadron Observables,鈥� at the听听in Orsay, France, on May 22, 2023.听The work was funded by his recent National Science Foundation (NSF) grant.

Dr. Pitonyak presented an invited plenary talk, 鈥淓xtracting the Proton鈥檚 Tensor Charge from QCD Phenomenology,鈥� at the American Physical Society (APS)听听/APS April Meeting:听听in April 2023. Brandon Bauer 鈥�24 and Cody Shay 鈥�24, two of his student researchers, also presented at the conference.

Recognition

Dr. Daniel Pitonyak, Justin Cammarota 鈥�19, Josh Miller 鈥�21, Michel Malda 鈥�22, and collaborators from Penn State Berks, Jefferson Lab, and UCLA were the focus of a on April 28, 2023.

• PHY 103: General College Physics I
• PHY 104: General College Physics II
• COE 220NS: The Physics of Time and Space
• PHY 211: Atomic and Nuclear Physics
• PHY 212: Electronics
• PHY 311: Analytical Mechanics I
• PHY 312: Analytical Mechanics II
• Independent Studies on Computational Nuclear Physics Research