Transcript Calvin Howell

Nuclear Physics Education
at TUNL
Researchers
 21 Faculty members
 42 graduate students
 20 postdocs (including 2 stationed at
TUNL)
 5 research scientists
Staff
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3 Administrative staff
6 R&D Engineers
5 technicians
2 accelerator operators/technicians
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TUNL Research Program
A. Strong Interactions and applications
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Nuclear Structure and Few-Nucleon Systems
Nuclear Astrophysics
Hadron Structure and QCD
Applications (DHS/DNDO, DOE/NNSA, energy, plants-environment, medicine)
B. Weak-Interaction and Neutrino Physics
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neutron EDM at SNS – test of CP violation beyond the Standard Model
MAJORANA Demonstrator – search for 0n bb decay  Lepton Number violation
nEXO
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KATRIN – neutrino mass measurement via triton beta decay
UCNA at LANL – precision measurements of weak couplings
KamLAND-Zen – search for neutrinoless bb decay
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TUNL: Graduate Education
About 8% (5.6 out of 70 annually) of the nation’s PhDs in
experimental nuclear physics are educated at TUNL
274 Ph.D. degrees awarded since inception of TUNL
Most recent 10 years: Total PhDs = 56
PhD degrees awarded from Jan. 2010 – April 2013 = 24
Industry/s
cience, 2
Faculty,
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industry/n
onscience, 4
Postdoc,
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National
Lab/Scien
tist, 2
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TUNL: Undergraduate Research
Undergraduate students conducting
research at TUNL: 2013
Institution
Number
Duke
2
NC State
9
UNC
5
REU
12
Other
2
Total
30
NSF Research Experiences for
Undergraduates (REU): 2001 - present
 Supports 12 (8+4)students for 10week research experience at TUNL
Associated universities (primarily undergraduate serving)
TUNL faculty have research collaborations with
faculty at these institutions
James Madison University
North Carolina A&T State University (HBCU in Greensboro,
NC)
North Carolina Central University (HBCU in Durham, NC)
North Georgia College and State University
University of Connecticut, Avery Pt.
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John Cesaratto
2005: BS in Physics, John Carroll Univ.,
Cleveland, OH
2011: PhD, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, thesis project at
TUNL’s Laboratory for
Experimental Nuclear
Astrophysics on measurement of
nuclear reaction rates important to
understanding elemental
variations in globular cluster stars.
2011 – present: Toohig Fellow in
Accelerator Science at SLAC with
the LHC Accelerator Research
Program.
John Cesaratto adjusting beam intensity from the
ECR source he designed and constructed at TUNL’s
Laboratory for Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics.
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Mary Kidd
2004: BS in Physics
Tennessee Technology University
2010: PhD, Duke University, thesis project on
two-neutrino double beta decay
measurements
2010 – 2012: Postdoc, Los Alamos National
Laboratory
2012 – present: Assistant Professor of
Physics, Tennessee Technology
University
Mary Kidd filling High-purity Germanium
detectors with liquid nitrogen at TUNL.
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Xin Qian
2003: BS in Physics, Beijing
University
2010: PhD, Duke University, thesis
project on study of neutron
transversity using a polarized
3He target at JLab. Winner of
the JLab Thesis Prize in 2011.
2010 – 2013: Robert A. Millikan
Fellow in Experimental Physics
and Astronomy, Caltech.
2013 – present: Staff Scientist, BNL,
2014 recipient of the DOE Early
Xin Qian working on wire chambers for the Bigbite
Career Award
spectrometer at JLab. This spectrometer was used
in the measurements for his thesis project.
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Franklin DuBose
2001: BS in Physics, Morehouse College
2001: MS in Physics, Clark Atlanta
University
2009: PhD, North Carolina State University,
thesis project on neutron EDM
measurement,
2009 – present:
Manager, Environmental
Bioassay Laboratory at Savannah
River National Laboratory, Aiken,
SC
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Matthew Kiser
2002: BS in Physics and Mathematics,
King College
2008: PhD, Duke University, thesis project on
plant physiology studies with
radioisotopes in the tandem lab at TUNL,
2008 – present: Senior Scientist, Remote
Sensing Laboratory at Joint Base
Andrews, MD (National Security
Technologies, LLC).
Dr. Matthew Kiser receiving the Secretary of
Energy Achievement Award from Secretary Chu
(for contributions during the NNSA response to
the Fukushima Dai'ichi Nuclear Power Plant
accident) .
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Outreach Nuclear Science Merit Badge of the Boy
Scouts of America
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