Exploring Gluon GPDs Through $\phi$ Meson Production with the SoLID Detector at Jefferson Lab

Through deeply virtual meson production (DVMP) in the valence region, one can exploit the quark disparity between target nucleons or nuclei (comprised almost entirely of up-down quarks) and produced vector-meson quark-antiquark pairs (with flavor strange or heavier) to access the gluon generalized parton distributions (GPDs) of the target. The future SoLID-$J/\psi$ experiment could be the perfect stage to measure $\phi$ DVMP in the valence region. This talk will discuss possibilities to measure strangeonium production and which decay-channels, targets, and kinematic regions are accessible with the SoLID detector.