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Hervé MOUTARDE

PhD (Université Paris-XI, 2003), Habilitation (Université Paris-Sud, 2015)

Nuclear Physics Division (DPhN)

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Position

Physicist. Head of Nuclear Physics Division (DPhN). Member of the PARTONS development team. Member of the LISA Consortium. PI of the workpackage 3DPartons of the STRONG-2020 European research infrastructure.

 

Research Interests

Study of the nucleon structure, with an emphasis on the phenomenology of Generalized Parton Distributions (GPD). Interface between perturbative and nonperturbative QCD. Nonperturbative methods of QCD (lattice QCD, Dyson-Schwinger, Bethe-Salpeter and Faddeev equations, etc.).

Gravitational waves. Galactic binaries. Data analysis in the LISA mission. Member of the LISA Consortium since 2018.

Numerical analysis. Ill-posed problems. Software architecture. Scientific computing. Statistical data analysis. Machine learning.

Member of the CLAS Collaboration operating at Jefferson Lab between 2008 and 2017.

 

Career

2008-now : French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, Fundamental Research DivisionInstitute of Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe, Nuclear Physics Division.

2003-08 : French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, Military Applications Division.

2000-03 : Center for Theoretical Physics (Ecole Polytechnique) and Laboratory of Theoretical Physics (Université Paris-Sud). PhD in lattice QCD (Lattice computation of the strong coupling constant).

1999-00 : University of Cambridge, Master of Mathematics (Part III of the Mathematical Tripos).

1997-00 : Ecole Centrale Paris, engineering degree.

 

Scientific Publications

All publications (inSPIRE search)

Recent publications (base publiCEA)

 

Talks

2022

14th international LISA Symposium, July 25th-29th (Searching for galactic binary systems with learned representations).

CFNS Workshop: High Luminosity-EIC (EIC-Phase II), June 21st-23rd (Tools for 3D hadron structure with a high luminosity EIC).

Annual meeting of the GDR QCD, May 23rd-25th (Career opportunities at CEA).

LIDA in France: LISA Data Analysis in France, May 18th-20th (Data analysis: status, projects and plans).

 

2021

EIC PL Seminar, November 15th (Precision 3D hadron structure in the EIC perspective).

STRONG-2020 Annual meeting, November 8th - 10th (Virtual Access to 3DPartons). 

SPIN2021, The 24th International Spin Symposium, October 18th - 22nd (Phenomenological assessment of proton mechanical properties from deeply virtual Compton scattering)

2nd PSQ@EIC Meeting: Precision Studies on QCD at EIC, July 23rd (Panel discussion: analysis developments towards extraction of GPDs, TMDs and quark-gluon imaging).

APCTP Focus Program in Nuclear Physics 2021 Part II: Science Opportunities with EIC, July 19th (Generalized parton distributions from experiments).

Teleworkshop on Strong QCD from Hadron Structure Experiments, June 8th (Generalized parton distributions from experiments).

Joint workshop "GDR-QCD / QCD@short distances and STRONG2020 / 3DPartons - FTE@LHC - NLOAccess, May 31st - June 1st (Introduction to the session).

Mass in the Standard Model and consequences of its emergence, April 21st (Proton mechanical properties from generalized parton distributions).

FunQCD: From first principles to effective theories, April 1st (Determination of proton internal pressure: theoretical challenges).

CNF mini-workshop: Experiment and Theory Interactions : Current status, February 10 (Global analysis with PARTONS).

 

2020

 

CNF mini-workshop: GPD Models and their Implementation in Data Analysis, December 9 (PARTONS global fits of Compton form factors).

Third general assembly of the GDR Gravitational Waves, October 14-15 (Sparse data inpainting for the recovery of gapped gravitational wave signals).

STRONG-2020 Annual meeting, October 13-16 (Virtual Access to 3DPartons).

Data Science Roadmap To Compton Form Factors Of Quarks And Gluons, September 24-25 (Nucleon structure with the open source PARTONS framework).

EIC Expression of Interest on Software, September 3rd (3D hadron structure with the PARTONS framework). 

Snowmass EF06 meeting: GPDs, August 19th (Global Fits of GPDs in the PARTONS Framework).

Rencontres de Physique des Particules, January 29th - 31rd (Unbiased determination of DVCS Compton Form Factors and consequences for 3D nucleon structure).

 

2019

 

Colloquium of the Department of Fundamental Research, National Centre for Nuclear Research, November 18th (Prospects on nucleon tomography).

STRONG-2020 Kick-off meeting, October 23rd - 25th (VA2-Virtual Access to 3DPartons).

International Nuclear Physics Conference 2019, July 29th - August 2nd (Prospects on nucleon tomography).

Physics Colloquium, Brookhaven National Laboratory, April 3rd (Prospects on nucleon tomography).

MCEGs for future ep and eA facilities, February 20th - 22nd (Towards event generation for GPD physics with PARTONS).

Prospects for extraction of GPDs from global fits of current and future data, January 22nd - 25th (The need for a computing framework for GPDs and Introduction to discussion: phenomenology of GPDs).

 

2018

 

NPQCD 2018, Nonperturbative aspects of QCD and Hadro-particle physics, November 6th - 9th (Precision phenomenology of generalized parton distributions).

Getting to grips with QCD - Summer edition, September 18th - 22nd (Covariant extension of the GPD overlap representation at low Fock states).

Mapping Parton Distribution Amplitudes and Functions, ECT* Trento, September 10th - 14th (Covariant extension of the GPD overlap repesentation).

What is (the) observable?, LARSIM-ESNT workshop, June 18th - 22nd (From observables to generalized parton distributions in hadron physics).

Many manifestation of nonperturbative QCD, April 30th - May 5th (Covariant extension of the GPD overlap representation at low Fock states).

Getting to grips with QCD, April 4th-6th (Nucleon structure with the open source PARTONS framework).

 

2017

 

Nucleon and Resonance Structure with Hard Exclusive Processes, May 29th-31st (The PARTONS framework and Nucleon tomography: round table discussion).

DPTA seminar, CEA/DAM, April 28th (Nucleon reverse engineering: towards the mechanisms of mass generation).

Sixth International Workshops on Non Perturbative Aspects of Quantum Field Theories, April 24th-28th (Nucleon tomography: experimental data fits).

3D Nucleon Tomography Workshop, March 15th-17th (PARTONS: a versatile framework for the phenomenology of GPDs).

DROITE workshop on tomography: mathematics and applicationsUniversité Grenoble Alpes, January 27th (Tomography of the proton: towards new information on the strong interaction).

 

2016

 

FAMN seminar, University of Sevilla, October 26th (Nucleon tomography: imaging the origin of mass).

NPQCD 2016, Nonperturbative aspects of QCD and Hadro-particle physics, October 17th - 21st (The PARTONS 
framework: features and performances
).

XIIth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, August 28th - September 4th (Concurrent approaches to Generalized Parton Distribution modeling: the pion's case).

Fundamental Interactions Seminar, University of Warsaw, May 30th (Nucleon Reverse Engineering: Structuring hadrons with colored degrees of freedom).

International Workshop on Nonperturbative Phenomena in Hadron and Particle Physics, May 1st - 7th (The PARTONS framework: 3D hadron structure, from theory to numbers).

CLAS Collaboration Meeting, February 24th - 26th (The PARTONS Platform: Status and Prospects).

Theory seminar of the Theory Center, Jefferson Lab, Feb 22nd (Lorentz Covariance and Positivity Constraints in the Modeling of Generalized Parton Distributions).

 

2015

 

Habilitation thesis (HDR) defense, December 11th (Nucleon Reverse Engineering: Structuring hadrons with colored degrees of freedom).

The Second Sino-American Workshop and School on the Bound-State Problem in Continuum QCD, November 16th - 20th (Lorentz Covariance and Positivity Constraints in the Modeling of Generalized Parton Distributions).

CLAS Collaboration Meeting, October 20th - 23rd (Methods for Multidimensional Proton Imaging).

Light Cone 2015, September 17th - 21th (Sketching the pion's valence-quark Generalized Parton Distribution).

POETIC 6, 6th International conference on Physics Opportunities at Electron-Ion Collider, September 7th - 11th (Sketching the pion's valence-quark Generalized Parton Distribution).

FB21, 21th International Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, May 18th - 22th (Representations of Generalized Parton Distributions in the Dyson-Schwinger Formalism).

Seminar of the Theory Group of the Physics Division, Argonne, May 12th (Hadron Reverse Engineering: From 3D Hadron Structure to QCD Dynamics).

CLAS12 Fourth European Workshop, February 17th - 21th (Recent Developments in the Phenomenology of Generalized Parton Distributions).

 

2014

 
NPQCD 2014, Connecting Nuclear Physics and Elementary Particle Interactions, September 30th - October 4th (Vector Meson Production: Impact Parameter Description of the Modified Perturbative Approach at small xB -Preliminary results-).
 
Diffraction 2014, International Workshop on Diffraction in High-Energy Physics, September 10th - 16th (Towards a Model of Pion Generalized Parton Distributions From Dyson-Schwinger Equations).
 

SPhN Scientific Council, May 23rd 2014 (Global Analysis of Generalized Parton Distribution Data: Tools and Strategy).

Many Manifestations of Nonperturbative QCD, International workshop on nonperturbative phenomena in hadron and particle physics, May 5th - 10th 2014 (Generalized Parton Distributions: From First Principles to Experimental Data).
 

Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering: From Observables to GPDs, February 10th - 12th 2014 (Directions in DVCS analysis: Introduction to discussion).

AERES 2014 Evaluation Campaign, January 7th - 10th 2014 (Towards nucleon 3D imaging from world experimental data).

 

2013

IWHSS 2013, International Workshop on Hadron Structure and Spectroscopy, July 22nd - 24th (Review of some recent developments on Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering).

XXII Congrès Général de la Société Française de Physique, July 1st - 5th 2013 (Physique hadronique : nouveaux développements).

Baryons 2013, International Conference on the Structure of Baryons, June 24th-28th 2013 (On timelike and spacelike Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering at next to leading order).

CLAS12 Third European Workshop, June 20th - 22nd 2013 (What do we get from DVCS data?).

Light Cone 2013, Venturing off the lightcone - local vs. global features, May 20th - 24th (On timelike and spacelike Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering at next to leading order).

Seminars of the Nuclear Physics Institute of Orsay, March 25th 2013 (Visualizing the nucleon structure with Generalized Parton Distributions).
 

2012

NPQCD 2012, Nonperturbative QCD: the promise of a bridge from elementary particle interactions to nuclear forces, October 1st - 5th 2012 (Visualizing the nucleon structure with Generalized Parton Distributions).

DIS 2012, Twentieth International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects, March 26th - 30th 2012 (Spacelike and timelike Compton scattering: Progress report).

2011

Fall Meeting of the GDR PH-QCD: Nucleon and Nucleus Structure Studies with a LHC Fixed-Target Experiment and Electron-Ion Colliders, October 18th - 21st (A pivotal year for Generalized Parton Distributions).

Hadron 2011, XIV International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy, June 13th - 17th (A pivotal year for Generalized Parton Distributions).

CLAS12 Second European Workshop, March 7th - 11th 2011 (Global GPD analysis of data).
 

2010

Hard Meson and Photon Production, ECT* Trento, October 11th - 15th 2010 (Extraction of the Compton Form Factor H from DVCS measurements in the quark sector).

MENU 2010, Twelth International Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon, May 31st - June 4th (Extraction of the Compton Form Factor H from DVCS measurements in the quark sector).

Exclusive 2010Fourth Workshop on Exclusive Reactions at High Momentum Transfer, May 18th - 21st 2010 (Extraction of the Compton Form Factor H from Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering at Jefferson Lab).

2009

The Jefferson Laboratory Upgrade to 12 GeV, Int Program, September 14th - 18th 2009 (The Compton Form Factor H from recent DVCS measurements at JLab).

JLab Users Group 2009, Users Group Workshop and Annual Meeting, June 8th - 10th 2009 (Extraction of the Compton Form Factor H from recent DVCS measurements at JLab).

2008

Journées Noyaux du GDR Nucléon, November 18th - 19th 2008 (Fit to Hall A and Hall B DVCS data).

DVCS Workshop, June 30th - July 1st 2008 (C++ cross sections library, Fit of Beam Spin Asymmetry data).

 

Organization of Workshops, Conferences and Schools

2022

3DPartons week, October 26th-28th.

 

2021

Joint workshop "GDR-QCD / QCD@short distances and STRONG2020 / 3DPartons - FTE@LHC - NLOAccess, May 31st - June 4th.

 

2019

Annual Meeting of the GDR QCD, November 25th - 27th.

Light Cone 2019, QCD on the light cone: from hadrons to heavy ions, September 16th-20th.

Prospects for extraction of GPDs from global fits of current and future data, January 22nd - 25th.

 

2018

Annual Meeting of the GDR QCD, November 26th - 28th.

Getting to grips with QCD - Summer edition, September 18th - 22nd.

Hard-soft correlations in hadronic collisions, Topical meeting of the GDR QCD, July 23rd - 25th.

XXII International conference on few-body problems in physics, July 9th - 13th.

The nature of hadron mass and quark-gluon confinement from JLab experiments in the 12GeV era, July 1st - 4th.
 

2017

Annual Meeting of the GDR QCD, December 4th - 6th.

Partons and nuclei, Topical meeting of the GDR QCD, June 1st - 2nd.

Progresses in algorithms and numerical tools for QCD, May 15th - 16th.
 

2016

Annual Meeting of the GDR QCD, November 8th - 10th.

Simple and Multiple Interactions between Partons In Nucleons, Kick-off meeting of the GDR QCD, September 29th - 30th.
 

2014

Annual Meeting of the GDR PH-QCD, December 15th - 17th 2014.

QCDNP2014, "Connecting nuclear physics and elementary particle interaction", September 30th - October 4th 2014.

Second International Spring School of the GDR PH-QCD, "Correlations between partons in nucleons", June 30th - July 4th 2014.

2013

Annual Meeting of the GDR PH-QCD, November 25th - 27th 2013.

Radiative Corrections in Annihilation and Scattering Experiments, October 7th - 8th 2013.

2012

Annual Meeting of the GDR PH-QCD, December 6th - 7th 2012.

First International Spring School of the GDR PH-QCD, "QCD prospects for ep and eA colliders", June 4th - 8th 2012.

2010

Workshop on 3D Nucleon Partonic Structure, February 8th - 10th 2010.

 

Networks

VA-3DPartons, STRONG-2020, Horizon 2020, 2019-2023.

Groupement de Recherche Chromodynamique Quantique (GDR QCD), 2016-20.

PARTONS project (PARtonic Tomography ONucleon Software), French National Research Agency (ANR), 2012-16.

Study of Strongly Interacting Matter (HadronPhysics3), 2012-15.

Groupement de Recherche Chromodynamique Quantique et Physique des Hadrons (GDR PH-QCD), 2010-14.

Groupement de Recherche Physique du Nucléon (GDR Nucléon), 2008-10.

 

Teaching

CentraleSupelec, Convergence, Integration, Probability and Partial Differential Equations, 2018-now.

Ecole Centrale Paris, Quantum Field Theory, 2016-now.

Ecole Centrale Paris, MA1200 (Probability), 2016-2018.

Université Paris-Saclay, Doctoral school PHENIICS, MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) "Des particules aux étoiles", "Discovering the strong interaction", "Introduction to Quantum Chromodynamics" and "Proton Structure'', 2015-now.

Ecole Centrale Paris, MA1100 (Real Analysis), 2000-14, 2016-2018.

Université Paris-Sud, Master 2 NPAC, Hadronic Physics (Second semester), 2010-14.

Ecole Joliot Curie 2013, "Nucleon Reverse Engineering: Structuring the nucleon with quarks and gluons".

Ecole Centrale Paris, Introduction to Particle Physics, 2000-05.

 

Advising

Post-docs and other non-permanent collaborators

PhD students

Master students

License students

 

Refereeing

Referee for Physics Letters BPhysical Review Letters, Physical Review DPhysical Review C, European Physical Journal AEuropean Physical Journal CFew-Body Systems and International Journal of Modern Physics A.

 

Popularization

"Comprendre l'origine de la masse des quarks et leur répartition dans le proton", La méthode scientifique, "Quark : la particule ultime ?", 12/11/2019.

La vallée de la stabilité (movie, in French), CEA - Animea 2011.

Les cocktails de l'interaction forte (in French), Scintillations, October 2010.

 

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