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Description
There is growing interest in an upgrade to the Jefferson Lab CEBAF accelerator to expand its capabilities into positron acceleration. Recent R&D efforts have shown proof-of-concept injector works and further have proven that high polarization of the positron beam is achievable. There has been much study into uses of a GeV scale positron beam, including two-photon exchange, coulomb corrections, and Beyond the Standard Model searches. Building on this, a workshop in March 2026 focused on using a few eV to 100s of MeV positrons from the injector to expand Jefferson Lab research efforts into the low energy nuclear physics space. In this talk, I will give an overview of the positron upgrade goals as well as highlighting the broad research efforts that future Ce+BAF users hope to undertake.