Nuclei & Particles
Using the Edwards Accelerator and National Labs
At the scale of nuclei, about 10,000 times smaller than atoms, we encounter the strong force that holds together protons and neutrons in the nucleus and also holds together quarks inside the proton and neutron. The strong force is about 100 times bigger than the electric forces that bind electrons to atoms, and so it requires powerful accelerators to study it.
The Edwards Accelerator Lab, located on campus at Ohio University, and national accelerator laboratories are used by faculty and students to study the properties of both the strong and the weak nuclear forces. Whether trying to discover new types of particles or learning what goes on inside supernova explosions, the goal of this research is to learn about the fundamental forces that bind nuclei and particles.
Faculty
Dr. Carl Brune: Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics and Weakly-bound States of Nuclei
Dr. Charlotte Elster: Few-Nucleon Systems, Effective Field Theories and Computational Physics
Dr. Justin Frantz: Experimental Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics and Photon-Jet Correlations
Dr. Steven Grimes: Experimental Nuclear Physics and Level Densities of Nuclei
Dr. Paul King: Experimental Particle Physics and Parity Violation in Electron Scattering
Dr. Thomas Massey: Experimental Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Structure
Dr. Daniel Phillips: Theoretical Nuclear Physics and Chiral Effective Field Theory
Dr. Madappa Prakash: Theoretical Nuclear Physics and Structure of Neutron Stars
Dr. Julie Roche: Experimental Particle Physics and Parity Violation in Electron Scattering
Dr. Alexander Voinov: Experimental Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Structure
Associated Faculty and Staff
Dr. Heather Crawford: Low-energy Nuclear Structure of Exotic Nuclei, Gamma-ray Spectroscopy and Gamma-ray Detection Arrays
Dr. Gabriela Popa (Zanesville campus): Theoretical Nuclear Physics