Our major research areas include space science, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, medical imaging, and string theory.
Faculty may submit research here.
Submissions from 2012
Cationic Complexes of Hydrogen with Helium, Peter Bartl, Christian Leidlmair, Stephan Denifl, Paul Scheier, and Olof Echt
An Unidentified Lunar Cosmic Ray Signal that Depends on Altitude and Solar Zenith Angle, A. W. Case, J. C. Kasper, Harlan E. Spence, M. J. Golightly, Nathan A. Schwadron, J. B. Blake, M. Looper, J. E. Mazur, L. W. Townsend, and C. J. Zeitlin
From CMEs to Earth/Lunar Radiation Dosages: A First in Heliospheric End-to-End Coupling, Matthew J. Gorby, Nathan A. Schwadron, J. A. Linker, Harlan E. Spence, L. W. Townsend, F. A. Cucinotta, and Jody K. Wilson
The extent of the Cooper pair insulator phase in amorphous Pb0.9Bi0.1 nanohoneycomb films, Shawna M. Hollen, J C. Joy, A H. Berg, G. E. Fernandes, J Shainline, J M. Xu, and J M. Valles Jr.
On the Interaction Between Highly Energetic Charged Particles and the Lunar Regolith, Andrew P. Jordan, T. J. Stubbs, C. Zeitlin, Harlan E. Spence, Nathan A. Schwadron, M. I. Zimmerman, and W. M. Farrell
Electron driven reactions in doped He nanodroplets, Christian Leidlmair, Peter Bartl, Harald Schobel, Lukas An der Lan, Samuel Zottl, Matthias Daxner, O. Mack, B. Puschnigg, V. Vizcaino, D. Gschliesser, Johannes Postler, Michaela Hager, Stephan Denifl, Andrew M. Ellis, Olof Echt, and Paul Scheier
Structures, energetics and dynamics of helium adsorbed on isolated fullerene ions, Christian Leidlmair, Yang Wang, Peter Bartl, Harald Schobel, Stephan Denifl, Michael Probst, Manuel Alcami, Fernando Martin, Henning Zettergren, Klavs Hansen, Olof Echt, and Paul Scheier
Joint Astrophysics Nascent Universe Satellite:. utilizing GRBs as high redshift probes, P. W. A. Roming, S. G. Bilen, D. N. Burrows, A Falcone, D. B. Fox, T. L. Herter, J. A. Kennea, Mark L. McConnell, and J. A. Nousek
Electron ionization of superfluid helium nanodroplets doped with C60 and small molecules, Harald Schobel, Christian Leidlmair, Peter Bartl, Stephan Denifl, Tilmann D. Mark, Olof Echt, and Paul Scheier
Lunar radiation environment and space weathering from the Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER), Nathan A. Schwadron, T. Baker, B. Blake, A. W. Case, J. F. Cooper, M. Golightly, Andrew P. Jordan, Colin J. Joyce, J. Kasper, K. Kozarev, J. Mislinski, J. Mazur, and Harlan E. Spence
On the Controversy of Extreme Solar Particle Event Signatures in Arctic Ice Cores: Sun to Ice?, Harlan E. Spence
Energy Spectral Properties and Implications of the Lunar Energetic Proton Albedo, Harlan E. Spence, J. B. Blake, A. W. Case, M. J. Golightly, J. C. Kasper, M. D. Looper, J. E. Mazur, Nathan A. Schwadron, L. W. Townsend, and C. J. Zeitlin
Focusing on size and energy dependence of electron microbursts from the Van Allen radiation belts, Harlan E. Spence, J. B. Blake, A. B. Crew, S. Driscoll, D. M. Klumpar, B. A. Larsen, Jason S. Legere, S. Longworth, E. Mosleh, T. P. O'Brien, Sonya S. Smith, L. Springer, and W. Widholm
The Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) Energetic Particle, Composition, and Thermal plasma (ECT) Suite: Upcoming Opportunties for Testing Radiation Belt Acceleration Mechanisms, Harlan E. Spence and Geoffrey Reeves
PREDICCs: A Radiation Prediction Tool for Lunar, Planetary, and Deep Space Exploration, Harlan E. Spence, Nathan A. Schwadron, Matthew J. Gorby, Colin J. Joyce, M. Quinn, M. LeVeille, Sonya S. Smith, Jody K. Wilson, L. Townsend, and F. Cucinotta
Interplanetary Conditions During the Apollo Missions: Implications for the State of the Lunar Environment, T. J. Stubbs, D. A. Glenar, Andrew P. Jordan, Y. Wang, R. R. Vondrak, M. R. Collier, W. M. Farrell, M. I. Zimmerman, Nathan A. Schwadron, and Harlan E. Spence
Cosmic Ray Albedo Proton Yield Correlated with Lunar Elemental Abundances, Jody K. Wilson, Harlan E. Spence, A. W. Case, J. B. Blake, M. J. Golightly, J. Kasper, M. D. Looper, J. E. Mazur, Nathan A. Schwadron, L. W. Townsend, and C. Zeitlin
The first cosmic ray albedo proton map of the Moon, Jody K. Wilson, Harlan E. Spence, Justin Kasper, Michael Golightly, J. B. Blake, J. E. Mazur, L. W. Townsend, A. W. Case, M. D. Looper, C. Zeitlin, and Nathan A. Schwadron
Methane adsorption on graphitic nanostructures: Every molecule counts, Samuel Zottl, Alexander Kaiser, Peter Bartl, Christian Leidlmair, Andreas Mauracher, Michael Probst, Stephan Denifl, Olof Echt, and Paul Scheier
Submissions from 2011
Evidence for a bound H dibaryon from lattice QCD, S. R. Beane, E. Chang, W. Detmold, B. Joo, H. W. Lin, T. C. Luu, K. Originos, A. Parreno, M. J. Savage, A. Torok, and A. Walker-Loud
High statistics analysis using anisotropic clover lattices: IV. Volume dependence of light hadron masses, S. R. Beane, E. Chang, W. Detmold, H. W. Lin, T. C. Luu, K. Originos, A. Parreno, M. J. Savage, A. Torok, and A. Walker-Loud
Interplanetary magnetic flux depletion during protracted solar minima, David E. Connick, Charles W. Smith, and Nathan A. Schwadron
Spectral properties of regions and structures in the interstellar boundary explorer (IBEX) sky maps, M. A. Dayeh, D. J. McComas, G. Livadiotis, R. W. Ebert, H. O. Funsten, P. Janzen, D. B. Reisenfeld, and Nathan A. Schwadron
Hyperpolarized Xenon-129 gas-exchange imaging of lung microstructure: first case studies in subjects with obstructive lung disease, Isabel Dregely, John P. Mugler III, Iulian C. Ruset, Talissa A. Altes, Jaime F. Mata, Wilson G. Miller, Jeffrey Ketel, Steve Ketel, Jan Distelbrink, F. William Hersman, and Kai Rupert
Professor Ekkehard Recknagel In Memoriam, Olof Echt
Molecules and clusters embedded in helium nanodroplets, Olof Echt, Tilmann D. Mark, and Paul Scheier
Cooper pair localization in a-Bi thin films near the superconductor-insulator transition, Shawna M. Hollen, H Q. Nguyen, E. Rudisaile, J Shainline, G. E. Fernandes, J M. Xu, and J M. Valles Jr.
Cooper-pair insulator phase in superconducting amorphous Bi films induced by nanometer-scale thickness variations, Shawna M. Hollen, H Q. Nguyen, E. Rudisaile, M D. Stewart Jr, J Shainline, J. M. Xu, and J M. Valles
The Case of Lobster Shell Disease, Shawna M. Hollen, Jamie L. Toney, Daniel Bisaccio, Karen Marie Haberstroh, and Timothy D. Herbert
Galactic cosmic ray linear energy transfer spectra at the Moon during solar minimum, Andrew P. Jordan, Nathan A. Schwadron, A. W. Case, Harlan E. Spence, J. C. Kasper, M. J. Golightly, J. B. Blake, J. E. Mazur, and L. Townsend
Revisiting two-step Forbush decreases, Andrew P. Jordan, Harlan E. Spence, J. B. Blake, and D. N. A. Shaul
Remote observations of ion temperatures in the quiet time magnetosphere, A. M. Keesee, N. Buzulukova, J. Goldstein, D. J. McComas, E. E. Scime, Harlan E. Spence, M. C. Fok, and K. Tallaksen
Off-limb solar coronal wavefronts from SDO/AIA extreme-ultraviolet observations-implications for particle production, K. A. Kozarev, K. E. Korreck, V. V. Lobzin, M. A. Weber, and Nathan A. Schwadron
On the possible presence of weakly bound fullerene-H2 complexes in the interstellar medium, Christian Leidlmair, Peter Bartl, Harald Schobel, Stephan Denifl, Michael Probst, Paul Scheier, and Olof Echt
First sky map of the inner heliosheath temperature using IBEX spectra, G. Livadiotis, D. J. McComas, M. A. Dayeh, H. O. Funsten, and Nathan A. Schwadron
New measurements of total ionizing dose in the lunar environment, J. E. Mazur, W. R. Crain, M. D. Looper, D. J. Mabry, J. B. Blake, A. W. Case, M. J. Golightly, J. C. Kasper, and Harlan E. Spence
First IBEX observations of the terrestrial plasma sheet and a possible disconnection event, D. J. McComas, M. A. Dayeh, H. O. Funsten, S. A. Fuselier, J. Goldstein, J. M. Jahn, P. Janzen, D. G. Mitchell, S. M. Petrinec, D. B. Reisenfeld, and Nathan A. Schwadron
The radial evolution of solar wind speeds, S. L. McGregor, W. J. Hughes, C. N. Arge, D. Odstrcil, and Nathan A. Schwadron
PREDICCS: Predictions of Radiation from REleASE, EMMREM, and Data Incorporating CRaTER, COSTEP (EPHIN), and other SEP measurements, J. F. Mislinski, Nathan A. Schwadron, L. Townsend, Harlan E. Spence, O. M. Rother, A. Posner, R. Squier, Jody K. Wilson, Andrew P. Jordan, R. Anderson, T. Baker, and K. A. Kozarev
Neutral atom imaging of the magnetospheric cusps, S. M. Petrinec, M. A. Dayeh, H. O. Funsten, S. A. Fuselier, David F. Heirtzler, P. Janzen, Harald A. Kucharek, D. J. McComas, Eberhard Moebius, T. E. Moore, D. B. Reisenfeld, Nathan A. Schwadron, K. J. Trattner, and P. Wurz
High-resolution mass spectrometric study of pure helium droplets, and droplets doped with krypton, H. Schoebel, P. Bartl, C. Leidlmair, S. Denifl, Olof E. Echt, T. D. Maerk, and P. Scheier
Separation of the Interstellar Boundary Explorer ribbon from globally distributed energetic neutral atom flux, Nathan A. Schwadron, F. Allegrini, M. Bzowski, E. R. Christian, G. B. Crew, M. Dayeh, R. DeMajistre, P. Frisch, H. O. Funsten, S. A. Fuselier, K. Goodrich, M. Gruntman, P. Janzen, Harald A. Kucharek, and Eberhard Moebius
Coronal Electron Temperature from the Solar Wind Scaling Law throughout the Space Age, Nathan A. Schwadron, Charles W. Smith, Harlan E. Spence, J. C. Kasper, K. Korreck, M. L. Stevens, B. A. Maruca, K. K. Kiefer, S. T. Lepri, and D. McComas
Does the space environment affect the ecosphere?, Nathan A. Schwadron, Harlan E. Spence, and Rosemarie Came
Highly ordered assembly of single-domain dichloropentacene over large areas on vicinal gold surfaces, Jun Wang, Irvinder Kaur, Bogdan Diaconescu, Jian-Ming Tang, Glen P. Miller, and Karsten Pohl
The First Cosmic Ray Albedo Proton Map of the Moon, Jody K. Wilson, Harlan E. Spence, J. C. Kasper, M. J. Golightly, J. B. Blake, J. E. Mazur, L. Townsend, A. W. Case, M. D. Looper, C. J. Zeitlin, and Nathan A. Schwadron
Submissions from 2010
Toric Lego: a method for modular model building, Vijay Balasubramanian, Per Berglund, and Garcia Etxebarria Inaki
Investigation of Ar-clusters formed upon pick-up in Helium Droplets, Peter Bartl, F. Ferreria da Silva, Stephan Denifl, Paul Scheier, Olof Echt, and Tilmann D. Mark
Ground-state energy of the interacting Bose gas in two dimensions: An explicit construction, R. Silas Beane
High statistics analysis using anisotropic clover lattices: III. Baryon-baryon interactions, Silas R. Beane, William Detmold, Huey-Wen Lin, Thomas C. Luu, Kostas Originos, Martin J. Savage, Aaron Torok, and Andre Walker-Loud
GCR access to the Moon as measured by the CRaTER instrument on LRO, A. W. Case, Harlan E. Spence, M. J. Golightly, J. C. Kasper, J. B. Blake, J. E. Mazur, L. W. Townsend, and C. J. Zeitlin
Surface induced asymmetry of acceptor wave functions, C. C. Celebi, J. K. Garleff, A. Yu Silov, A. M. Yakunin, P. M. Koenraad, W. Van Roy, J. M. Tang, and M. E. Flatte
Alfven-wave turbulence and perpendicular ion temperatures in coronal holes, Benjamin D.G. Chandran
Perpendicular ion heating by low-frequency Alfven-wave turbulence in the solar wind, Benjamin D.G. Chandran, Bo Li, Barrett N. Rogers, Eliot Quataert, and Kai K. Germaschewski
Resonant interactions between protons and oblique Alfven/ion-cyclotron waves in the solar corona and solar flares, Benjamin D.G. Chandran, Peera Pongkitiwanichakul, Philip A. Isenberg, Martin A. Lee, Sergei A. Markovskii, Joseph V. Hollweg, and Bernard J. Vasquez
C60 embedded in helium nanodroplets: novel ion molecule-reactions with water and cooling of nascent anions, Stephan Denifl, I. Mahr, Andreas Mauracher, S. Jaksch, Michael Probst, J. Urban, P. Mach, A. Bacher, Olof Echt, Tilmann D. Mark, and Paul Scheier
Ionization of doped helium nanodroplets: Complexes of C(60) with water clusters, S. Denifl, F. Zappa, I. Maehr, A. Mauracher, M. Probst, J. Urban, P. Mach, A. Bacher, D. K. Bohme, Olof E. Echt, T. D. Maerk, and P. Scheier
Clusters in clusters - synthesis and characterization of clusters embedded in helium nanodroplets, Olof Echt
Comparisons of the interstellar magnetic field directions obtained from the IBEX ribbon and interstellar polarizations, Priscilla C. Frisch, B.-G. Andersson, Andrei Berdyugin, Herbert O. Funsten, Antonio M. Magalhaes, David J. McComas, Vilppu Piirola, Nathan A. Schwadron, Jonathan D. Slavin, and Sloane J. Wiktorowicz
Can IBEX identify variations in the galactic environment of the sun using energetic neutral atoms?, Priscilla C. Frisch, Jacob Heerikhuisen, Nikolai V. Pogorelov, Bob DeMajistre, Geoffrey B. Crew, Herbert O. Funsten, Paul Janzen, David J. McComas, Eberhard Moebius, Hans-Reinhard Mueller, Danielle Brett Reisenfeld, Nathan A. Schwadron, Jonathan D. Slavin, and Gary Paul Zank
Energetic neutral atoms from the Earth's subsolar magnetopause, S. A. Fuselier, H. O. Funsten, D. Hiertzler, P. Janzen, Harald A. Kucharek, D. J. McComas, Eberhard Moebius, T. E. Moore, S. M. Petrinec, D. B. Reisenfeld, Nathan A. Schwadron, K. J. Trattner, and P. Wurz
Enhanced binding energy of manganese acceptors close to the GaAs(110) surface, J. K. Garleff, A. P. Wijnheijmer, A. Yu Silov, J. van Bree, W. Van Roy, J. M. Tang, M. E. Flatte, and P. M. Koenraad
Studies of Insulating Superconductors, Shawna M. Hollen, J C. Joy, Maura Lynch, H Q. Nguyen, M D. Stewart Jr, J Shainline, Aijun Yin, J M. Xu, and J M. Valles Jr.
Further Analysis of a Cooper Pair Insulator, Shawna M. Hollen, H Q. Nguyen, M D. Stewart Jr, J Shainline, Aijun Jin, and J M. Valles Jr.
Coronal faraday rotation fluctuations and a wave/turbulence-driven model of the solar wind, Joseph V. Hollweg, Steven R. Cranmer, and Benjamin D.G. Chandran
Modeling radiation belt radial diffusion in ULF wave fields: 2. Estimating rates of radial diffusion using combined MHD and particle codes, Chia-Lin L. Huang, Harlan E. Spence, Mary K. Hudson, and Scot R. Elkington
Modeling radiation belt radial diffusion in ULF wave fields: 1. Quantifying ULF wave power at geosynchronous orbit in observations and in global MHD model, Chia-Lin L. Huang, Harlan E. Spence, Howard J. Singer, and W. Jeffrey Hughes
Excitation of low-frequency waves in the solar wind by newborn interstellar pickup ions H(+) and He(+) as seen by Voyager at 4.5 AU, Colin J. Joyce, Charles W. Smith, Philip A. Isenberg, Neil Murphy, and Nathan A. Schwadron
Perpendicular proton heating due to energy cascade of fast magnetosonic waves in the solar corona, Sergei A. Markovskii, Bernard J. Vasquez, and Benjamin D.G. Chandran
Metastable anions of dinitrobenzene: resonances for electron attachment and kinetic energy release, A. Mauracher, S. Denifl, A. Edtbauer, M. Hager, M. Probst, Olof E. Echt, T. D. Maerk, P. Scheier, T. A. Field, and K. Graupner
Evolving outer heliosphere: Large-scale stability and time variations observed by the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, D. J. McComas, M. Bzowski, P. Frisch, G. B. Crew, M. A. Dayeh, R. DeMajistre, H. O. Funsten, S. A. Fuselier, M. Gruntman, P. Janzen, M. A. Kubiak, G Livadiotis, Eberhard Moebius, D. B. Reisenfeld, and Nathan A. Schwadron
Acoustic surface plasmon on Cu(111), Karsten Pohl, B. Diaconescu, G. Vercelli, L. Vattuone, V. M. Silkin, E. V. Chulkov, P. M. Echenique, and M. Rocca
Ion-molecule reactions of ammonia clusters with C60 aggregates embedded in helium droplets, Harald Schobel, Christian Leidlmair, Peter Bartl, Abid Aleem, Michaela Hager, Olof Echt, Tilmann D. Mark, and Paul Scheier
Galactic cosmic ray radiation hazard in the unusual extended solar minimum between solar cycles 23 and 24, Nathan A. Schwadron, A. J. Boyd, K. Kozarev, M. Golightly, Harlan E. Spence, L. W. Townsend, and M. Owens
Magnetic flux balance in the heliosphere, Nathan A. Schwadron, D. E. Connick, and Charles W. Smith
Superposition of stochastic processes and the resulting particle distributions, Nathan A. Schwadron, M. Dayeh, M. Desai, H. Fahr, J. R. Jokipii, and Martin A. Lee
Earth‐Moon‐Mars Radiation Environment Module framework, Nathan A. Schwadron, L. Townsend, K. Kozarev, M. A. Dayeh, F. Cucinotta, M. Desai, M. Golightly, D. Hassler, R. Hatcher, M. Y. Kim, A. Posner, M. PourArsalan, Harlan E. Spence, and R. K. Squier
CRaTER: The cosmic ray telescope for the effects of radiation experiment on the lunar reconnaissance orbiter mission, Harlan E. Spence, A. W. Case, M. J. Golightly, T. Heine, B. A. Larsen, J. B. Blake, P. Caranza, W. R. Crain, J. George, M. Lalic, A. Lin, and M. D. Looper
Spatially-resolved structure and electronic properties of graphene on polycrystalline Ni, Jiebing Sun, James B. Hannon, Rudolph M. Tromp, Priya Johari, Ageeth A. Bol, Vivek B. Shenoy, and Karsten Pohl
Structure and oscillatory multilayer relaxation of the bismuth (100) surface, J. Sun, J. Wang, J. Wells, Y. M. Koroteev, G. Bihlmayer, E. V. Chulkov, Ph Hofmann, and Karsten Pohl
Meson-baryon scattering lengths from mixed-action lattice QCD, A. Torok, S. R. Beane, W. Detmold, T. C. Luu, K. Originos, A. Parreno, M. J. Savage, and A. Walker-Loud
Parameterizations of the linear energy transfer spectrum for the CRaTER instrument during the LRO mission, L. W. Townsend, Y. M. Charara, N. Delauder, M. PourArsalan, J. A. Anderson, C. M. Fisher, Harlan E. Spence, Nathan A. Schwadron, M. J. Golightly, and F. A. Cucinotta
Examining periodic solar-wind density structures observed in the SECCHI heliospheric imagers, N. Viall, A. Vourlidas, Harlan E. Spence, and R. Howard
Submissions from 2009
High statistics analysis using anisotropic clover lattices. II. Three-baryon systems, Silas R. Beane, William Detmold, Thomas C. Luu, Kostas Originos, Assumpta Parreno, Martin J. Savage, Aaron Torok, and Andre Walker-Loud
High statistics analysis using anisotropic clover lattices: Single hadron correlation functions, Silas R. Beane, William Detmold, Thomas C. Luu, Kostas Originos, Assumpta Parreno, Martin J. Savage, Aaron Torok, and Andre Walker-Loud
Ion observations from geosynchronous orbit as a proxy for ion cyclotron wave growth during storm times, L. W. Blum, E. A. MacDonald, S. P. Gary, M. F. Thomsen, and Harlan E. Spence
Palladium diffusion into bulk copper via the (100) surface, E. Bussman, J. Sun, Karsten Pohl, and G. L. Kellogg
Alfven wave reflection and turbulent heating in the solar wind from 1 solar radius to 1 AU: an analytical treatment, Benjamin D.G. Chandran and Joseph V. Hollweg
The turbulent heating rate in strong magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with nonzero cross helicity , Benjamin D.G. Chandran, Eliot Quataert, Gregory G. Howes, Joseph V. Hollweg, and William Dorland
Constraining low-frequency Alfvenic turbulence in the solar wind using density-fluctuation measurements, Benjamin D.G. Chandran, Eliot Quataert, Gregory G. Howes, Qian Xia, and Peera Pongkitiwanichakul
Argon clusters embedded in helium nanodroplets, Filipe Ferreira da Silva, Peter Bartl, Stephan Denifl, Olof E. Echt, Tilmann D. Maerk, and Paul Scheier
On the size of ions solvated in helium clusters , Filipe Ferreira da Silva, Philipp Waldburger, Stefan Jaksch, Andreas Mauracher, Stephan Denifl, Olof E. Echt, Tilmann D. Maerk, and Paul Scheier
Ion-molecule reactions in helium nanodroplets doped with C(60) and water clusters, Stephan Denifl, Fabio Zappa, Ingo Maehr, Filipe Ferreira da Silva, Abid Aleem, Andreas Mauracher, Michael Probst, Jan Urban, Pavel Mach, Arntraud Bacher, Olof E. Echt, Tilmann D. Maerk, and Paul Scheier
Parker/buoyancy instabilities with anisotropic thermal conduction, cosmic rays, and arbitrary magnetic field strength, Timothy J. Dennis and Benjamin D.G. Chandran
Molecular self-assembly of functionalized fullerenes on a metal surface , Bogdan Diaconescu, Teng Yang, Savas Berber, Mikael Jazdzyk, Glen P. Miller, David Tomanek, and Karsten Pohl
High field magnetoresistance peak near the superconductor insulator transition in amorphous Bi films patterned with a nanohoneycomb array of holes, Shawna M. Hollen, H Q. Nguyen, M D. Stewart Jr, J Shainline, Aijun Yin, J M. Xu, and J M. Valles Jr.
Assessing access of galactic cosmic rays at Moon's orbit, Chia-Lin L. Huang, Harlan E. Spence, and B. T. Kress
Power-law singularity in the local density of states due to the point defect in graphene, Wen-Min Huang, Jian-Ming Tang, and Hsiu-Hau Lin
Electron attachment to doped helium droplets: C(60)(-), (C(60))(2)(-), and C(60)D(2)O(-) anions , S. Jaksch, I. Maehr, S. Denifl, A. Bacher, Olof E. Echt, T. D. Maerk, and P. Scheier
Experimental evidence for the existence of an electronically excited state of the proposed dihydrogen radical cation He-H-H-He , Stefan Jaksch, Filipe Ferreria da Silva, Stephan Denifl, Olof E. Echt, Tilmann D. Maerk, and Paul Scheier