Nuclear Physics Education at TUNL

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Nuclear Physics Education at TUNL

Researchers 21 Faculty members 42 graduate students 20 postdocs (including 2 stationed at TUNL) 5 research scientists

3 Administrative staff 6 R&D Engineers 5 technicians 2 accelerator operators/technicians

Staff

TUNL Research Program

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A. Strong Interactions and applications 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

neutron EDM at SNS – test of CP violation beyond the Standard Model MAJORANA Demonstrator – search for 0 decay Lepton Number violation nEXO

KATRIN – neutrino mass measurement via triton beta decay UCNA at LANL – precision measurements of weak couplings KamLAND-Zen – search for neutrinolessdecay

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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 = 56PhD degrees awarded from Jan. 2010 – April 2013 = 24

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TUNL: Undergraduate Research

Associated universities (primarily undergraduate serving) TUNL faculty have research collaborations with faculty at these institutions James Madison UniversityNorth Carolina A&T State University (HBCU in Greensboro, NC)North Carolina Central University (HBCU in Durham, NC)North Georgia College and State UniversityUniversity of Connecticut, Avery Pt.

Undergraduate students conducting research at TUNL:

2013Institution 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 10-week research experience at TUNL

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John Cesaratto

John Cesaratto adjusting beam intensity from the ECR source he designed and constructed at TUNL’s Laboratory for Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics.

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.

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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

Career Award

Xin Qian working on wire chambers for the Bigbite 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