Our major research areas include space science, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, medical imaging, and string theory.
Faculty may submit research here.
Submissions from 2009
Multipoint, high time resolution galactic cosmic ray observations associated with two interplanetary coronal mass ejections, Andrew P. Jordan, Harlan E. Spence, J. B. Blake, T. Mulligan, D. N. A. Shaul, and M. Galametz
Near–infrared photoabsorption by C602- dianions in a storage ring, U. Kadhane, J. U. Andersen, E. Bonderup, B. Concina, P. Hvelplund, M. B. Suhr Kirketerp, B. Liu, S. Brondsted Nielsen, S. Panja, J. Rangama, K. Stochkel, S. Tomita, Henning Zettergren, Klavs Hansen, A. E. K. Sunden, S. E. Canton, Olof Echt, and J. S. Forster
Near-infrared photoabsorption by C(60) dianions in a storage ring, U. Kadhane, J. U. Andersen, E. Bonderup, B. Concina, P. Hvelplund, M. Kirketerp, B. Suhr, B. Liu, S. Bronsted Nielsen, S. Panja, J. Rangama, K. Stochkel, and S. Tomita
Interhemispheric observations of impulsive nitrate enhancements associated with the four large ground-level solar cosmic ray events (1940–1950), L. Kepko, Harlan E. Spence, D. F. Smart, and M. A. Shea
Self-assembly of methanethiol on the reconstructed Au(111) surface, Georgi Nenchev, Bogdan Diaconescu, Frank Hagelberg, and Karsten Pohl
Observation of giant positive magnetoresistance in a Cooper pair insulator., H Q. Nguyen, Shawna M. Hollen, M D. Stewart Jr, J Shainline, Aijun Yin, J M. Xu, and J M. Valles
Superconductor-insulator transitions in films patterned with a disordered nanohoneycomb hole array, H Q. Nguyen, Shawna M. Hollen, M D. Stewart Jr, Aijun Yin, J Shainline, J M. Xu, and J M. Valles Jr.
Scale-dependent angle of alignment between velocity and magnetic field fluctuations in solar wind turbulence, J. J. Podesta, Benjamin D.G. Chandran, A. Bhattacharjee, D. A. Roberts, and M. L. Goldstein
A novel metric for coronal MHD models, D. J. Schmit, S. Gibson, G. De Toma, M. Wiltberger, W. J. Hughes, Harlan E. Spence, P. Riley, J. A. Linker, and Z. Mikic
Buoyancy instabilities in galaxy clusters: convection due to adiabatic cosmic rays and anisotropic thermal conduction, Prateek Sharma, Benjamin D.G. Chandran, Eliot Quataert, and Ian J. Parrish
Enhanced suppression of superconductivity in amorphous films with nano-scale patterning, M D. Stewart Jr, H Q. Nguyen, Shawna M. Hollen, Aijun Yin, J. M. Xu, and J M. Valles Jr.
Relative occurrence rates and connection of discrete frequency oscillations in the solar wind density and dayside magnetosphere, N. M. Viall, L. Kepko, and Harlan E. Spence
Are periodic solar wind number density structures formed in the solar corona?, N. M. Viall, Harlan E. Spence, and J. Kasper
Energy dissipation and ion heating at the heliospheric termination shock, P. Wu, D. Winske, S. P. Gary, Nathan A. Schwadron, and Martin A. Lee
Submissions from 2008
Topology from cosmology?, Vijay Balasubramanian, Per Berglund, Raul Jimenez, Joan Simon, and Licia Verde
Multipion systems in lattice QCD and the three-pion interaction, Silas R. Beane, William Detmold, Thomas C. Luu, Kostas Originos, Martin J. Savage, and Aaron Torok
K(+)K(+) scattering length from lattice QCD, Silas R. Beane, Thomas C. Luu, Kostas Originos, Assumpta Parreno, Martin J. Savage, Aaron Torok, and Andre Walker-Loud
Precise determination of the I=2 pi pi scattering length from mixed-action lattice QCD, Silas R. Beane, Thomas C. Luu, Kostas Originos, Assumpta Parreno, Martin J. Savage, Aaron Torok, and Andre Walker-Loud
Hadronic interactions from lattice QCD, Silas R. Beane, Kostas Originos, and Martin J. Savage
An event study to provide validation of TING and CMIT geomagnetic middle-latitude electron densities at the F2 peak, A. G. Burns, W. Wang, M. Wiltberger, S. C. Soloman, Harlan E. Spence, T. L. Killeen, R. E. Lopez, and J. E. Landivar
Ambient solar wind's effect on ICME transit times, A. W. Case, Harlan E. Spence, M. J. Owens, P. Riley, and D. Odstrcil
Anisotropic spatial structure of deep acceptor states in GaAs and GaP, C. Celebi, P. M. Koenraad, A. Yu Silov, W. Van Roy, A. M. Monakhov, J. M. Tang, and M. E. Flatte
Strong anisotropic MHD turbulence with cross helicity, Benjamin D.G. Chandran
Weakly turbulent magnetohydrodynamic waves in compressible low-beta plasmas, Benjamin D.G. Chandran
Isotope effects in dissociative electron attachment to the DNA base thymine , S. Denifl, P. Sulzer, F. Zappa, S. Moser, B. Kraeutler, Olof E. Echt, D. K. Bohme, T. D. Maerk, and P. Scheier
Electron impact ionization/dissociation of hydrocarbon molecules relevant to the edge plasma, Atomic and Plasma-Material Interaction Data for Fusion, Stephan Denifl, S. Feil, M. Winkler, Michael Probst, Olof Echt, S. Matt-Leubner, V. Grill, Paul Scheier, and Tilmann D. Mark
Electron Scattering on Neon Droplets: Singly and Multiply Charged Neon Clusters, Stephan Denifl, Fabio Zappa, I. Mahr, Paul Scheier, Olof Echt, and Tilmann D. Mark
Dissociative electron attachment to DNA bases near absolute zero temperature: Freezing dissociation intermediates, Stephan Denifl, Fabio Zappa, Andreas Mauracher, Filipe Ferreira da Silva, Arntraud Bacher, Olof E. Echt, Tilmann D. Maerk, Diethard K. Bohme, and Paul Scheier
Multipion states in lattice QCD and the charged-pion condensate, William Detmold, Martin J. Savage, Aaron Torok, Silas R. Beane, Thomas C. Luu, Kostas Originos, and Assumpta Parreno
Atomically precise impurity identification and modification on the manganese doped GaAs(110) surface with scanning tunneling microscopy, J. K. Garleff, C. Celebi, W. Van Roy, J. M. Tang, M. E. Flatte, and P. M. Koenraad
Geotail and LFM comparisons of plasma sheet climatology: 1. Average values, T. B. Guild, Harlan E. Spence, E. L. Kepko, V. Merkin, J. G. Lyon, M. Wiltberger, and C. C. Goodrich
Geotail and LFM comparisons of plasma sheet climatology: 2. Flow variability, T. B. Guild, Harlan E. Spence, E. L. Kepko, V. Merkin, J. G. Lyon, M. Wiltberger, and C. C. Goodrich
Large production system for hyperpolarized Xe-129 for human lung imaging studies, F. William Hersman, Iulian C. Ruset, Stephen Ketel, Iga Muradian, Silviu D. Covrig, Jan Distelbrink, Walter Porter, David Watt, Jeffrey Ketel, John Brackett, Aaron Hope, and Samuel Patz
A quantitative assessment of empirical magnetic field models at geosynchronous orbit during magnetic storms, Chia-Lin L. Huang, Harlan E. Spence, H. J. Singer, and N. A. Tsyganenko
Formation of even-numbered hydrogen cluster cations in ultracold helium droplets, S. Jaksch, A. Mauracher, A. Bacher, S. Denifl, F. Ferreira de Silva, H. Schoebel, Olof E. Echt, T. D. Maerk, M. Probst, D. K. Bohme, and P. Scheier
Hydrocarbon characteristics in fusion edge plasmas from electron-molecule and ion-surface collision experiments, Alexander Kendl, K. Becker, Stephan Denifl, Olof Echt, N. Endstrasser, B. Farizon, S. Feil, L. Feketeova, V. Grill, Z. Herman, Tilmann D. Mark, S. Matejcik, S. Matt-Leubner, Michael Probst, Bilal Rasul, Paul Scheier, W. Schustereder, J. D. Skalny, Philipp Sulzer, M. Winkler, and Fabio Zappa
Transition from disorder to order in thin metallic films studied with angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy , Dah-An Luh, Cheng-maw Cheng, Chi-Ting Tsai, Ku-Ding Tsuei, and Jian-Ming Tang
Atomic-layer-resolved bound states in quantum wells analyzed using a pseudopotential approach , Dah-An Luh, Cheng-Maw Cheng, Ku-Ding Tsuei, and Jian-Ming Tang
How students use mathematical resources in an electrostatics context, Dawn C. Meredith and Karen A. Marrongelle
Metrics for solar wind prediction models: Comparison of empirical, hybrid, and physics‐based schemes with 8 years of L1 observations, M. J. Owens, Harlan E. Spence, S. McGregor, W. J. Hughes, J. M. Quinn, C. N. Arge, P. Riley, J. Linker, and D. Odstrcil
Human pulmonary imaging and spectroscopy with hyperpolarized Xe-129 at 0.2T, Samuel Patz, Iga Muradian, Mirko I. Hrovat, Iulian C. Ruset, George Topulos, Silviu D. Covrig, Eric Frederick, Hiroto Hatabu, F. William Hersman, and James P. Butler
Numerical simulations of buoyancy instabilities in galaxy cluster plasmas with cosmic rays and anisotropic thermal conduction, Y. Rasera and Benjamin D.G. Chandran
Abundance profiles in cooling-core clusters: a fossil record of past AGN-driven convection?, Y. Rasera, B. Lynch, K. Srivastava, and Benjamin D.G. Chandran
Posteruptive phenomena in coronal mass ejections and substorms: Indicators of a universal process?, K. K. Reeves, T. B. Guild, W. J. Hughes, K. E. Korreck, J. Lin, J. Raymond, S. Savage, Nathan A. Schwadron, Harlan E. Spence, D. F. Webb, and M. Wiltberger
High-efficiency resonant rf spin rotator with broad phase space acceptance for pulsed polarized cold neutron beams, P. N. Seo, L. Barron-Palos, J. D. Bowman, T. E. Chupp, C Crawford, M. Dabaghyan, M. Dawkins, S. J. Freedman, T. Gentile, M. T. Gericke, R. C. Gillis, G. L. Greene, F. William Hersman, G. L. Jones, M. Kandes, S. Lamoreaux, B. Lauss, M. B. Lueschner, R. Mahurin, M. Mason, J. Mei, G. S. Mitchell, H. Nann, S. A. Page, S. I. Penttila, W. D. Ramsay, A. Salas Bacci, S. Santra, M. Sharma, T. B. Smith, W. M. Snow, W. S. Wilburn, and H. Zhu
Band structure effects on the Be(0001) acoustic surface plasmon energy dispersion , V. M. Silkin, J. M. Pitarke, E. V. Chulkov, B. Diaconescu, Karsten Pohl, L. Vattuone, L. Savio, P. H. Hofmann, D. Farias, M. Rocca, and P. M. Echenique
Space Technology 5 multi-point measurements of near-Earth magnetic fields: Initial results, J. A. Slavin, G. Le, R. J. Strangeway, Y. Wang, S. A. Boardsen, M. B. Moldwin, and Harlan E. Spence
Magnetic circular dichroism from the impurity band in III-V diluted magnetic semiconductors, Jian-Ming Tang and Michael E. Flatte
Inherent length-scales of periodic solar wind number density structures, N. M. Viall, L. Kepko, and Harlan E. Spence
Metastable Dissociation of Anions Formed by Electron Attachment, Fabio Zappa, Manuel Beikircher, Andreas Mauracher, Stephan Denifl, Michael Probst, Natcha Injan, Jumras Limtrakul, Arntraud Bacher, Olof Echt, Tilmann D. Mark, Paul Scheier, Thomas A. Field, and Karola Graupner
Ultracold water cluster anions , Fabio Zappa, Stephan Denifl, Ingo Maehr, Arntraud Bacher, Olof E. Echt, Tilmann D. Maerk, and Paul Scheier
Submissions from 2007
The Gell-Mann-Okubo mass relation among baryons from fully-dynamical mixed-action lattice QCD, Silas R. Beane
Hyperon-nucleon scattering from fully-dynamical lattice QCD, Silas R. Beane, Paulo F. Bedaque, Thomas C. Luu, Kostas Originos, Elisabetta Pallante, Assumpta Parreno, and Martin J. Savage
N-boson energies at finite volume and three-boson interactions, Silas R. Beane, William Detmold, and Martin J. Savage
Strong-isospin violation in the neutron-proton mass difference from fully-dynamical lattice QCD and PQQCD, Silas R. Beane, Kostas Originos, and Martin J. Savage
Separation of spatial and temporal structure of auroral particle precipitation, A. Boudouridis and Harlan E. Spence
Convection and AGN feedback in clusters of galaxies, Benjamin D.G. Chandran and Yann Rasera
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Overview: The Instrument Suite and Mission, G. Chin, S. Brylow, M. Foote, J. Garvin, J. Kasper, J. Keller, M. Litvak, I. Mitrofanov, D. Paige, K. Raney, M. Robinson, A. Sanin, D. Smith, Harlan E. Spence, P Spudis, S. A. Stern, and M. Zuber
Self-organized nanotemplating on misfit dislocation networks investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy, Bogdan Diaconescu, Georgi Nenchev, Joshua Jones, and Karsten Pohl
Low-energy acoustic plasmons at metal surfaces RID B-5938-2008 RID C-8602-2009, Bogdan Diaconescu, Karsten Pohl, Luca Vattuone, Letizia Savio, Philip Hofmann, Vyacheslov M. Silkin, Jose M. Pitarke, Eugene V. Chulkov, Pedro M. Echenique, Daniel Farias, and Mario Rocca
On the role of the II(1/2g) state in spontaneous dissociation of krypton and xenon dimer ions , J. Fedor, Olof E. Echt, K. Gluch, S. Matt-Leubner, P. Scheier, and T. D. Mark
On the role of the II(1/2g) state in spontaneous dissociation of krypton and xenon dimer ions, J. Fedor, Olof Echt, K. Gluch, S. Matt-Leubner, Paul Scheier, and Tilmann D. Mark
Isotope effects in the metastable decay of Ne-2(+), K. Gluch, J. Fedor, R. Parajuli, Olof E. Echt, S. Matt-Leubner, P. Scheier, and T. D. Maerk
Metastable C3H52+ Produced by Electron Impact of Propane, K. Gluch, S. Matt-Leubner, Olof Echt, and Paul Scheier
Predicting magnetopause crossings at geosynchronous orbit during the Halloween storms, R. E. Lopez, S. Hernandez, M. Wiltberger, Chia-Lin L. Huang, E. L. Kepko, Harlan E. Spence, C. C. Goodrich, and J. G. Lyon
Multiply charged neon clusters: failure of the liquid drop model?, I. Mahr, Fabio Zappa, Stephan Denifl, D. Kubala, Olof Echt, Tilmann D. Mark, and Paul Scheier
Predicting magnetospheric dynamics with a coupled Sun‐to‐Earth model: Challenges and first results, V. G. Merkin, M. J. Owens, Harlan E. Spence, W. J. Hughes, and J. M. Quinn
Role of coronal mass ejections in the heliospheric Hale cycle, M. J. Owens, Nathan A. Schwadron, N. U. Crooker, W. J. Hughes, and Harlan E. Spence
Hyperpolarized Xe-129 MRI: A viable functional lung imaging modality?, Samuel Patz, F. William Hersman, Iga Muradian, Mirko I. Hrovat, Iulian C. Ruset, Stephen Ketel, Francine Jacobson, George P. Topulos, Hiroto Hatabu, and James P. Butler
Local structural and compositional determination via electron scattering: Heterogeneous Cu(001)-Pd surface alloy, J. Sun, J. B. Hannon, G. L. Kellogg, and Karsten Pohl
Electron impact ionization of thymine clusters embedded in superfluid helium droplets , F. Zappa; S, Denifl; I. Maehr; J. Lecointre; F. Rondino; Olof E. Echt; T. D. Maerk; and P. Scheier
Submissions from 2006
pi K scattering in full QCD with domain-wall valence quarks, Silas R. Beane, Paulo F. Bedaque, Thomas C. Luu, Kostas Originos, Elisabetta Pallante, Assumpta Parreno, and Martin J. Savage
Nucleon-nucleon scattering from fully dynamical lattice QCD, S. R. Beane, P. F. Bedaque, K. Originos, and M. J. Savage
Stability of Uracil and Thymine Cations, Manuel Beikircher, S. Ptasiska, S. Feil, M. Winkler, A. Bacher, W. Schustereder, Olof Echt, Tilmann D. Mark, and Paul Scheier
Supergravity microstates for BPS black holes and black rings, Per Berglund, Eric G. Gimon, and Thomas S. Levi
Cryogenics for lunar exploration, Talso Chui, Burt Zhang, M. Barmatz, Inseob Hahn, Konstantin Penanen, Charles Hays, Donald Strayer, Yuanming Liu, Fang Zhong, Joseph Young, Tom Radey, Jack Jones, Nicholas Galitzki, Nixon Li, Leyan Lo, Steven Horikoshi, Shawna M. Hollen, and Ho Jung Paik
Supersymmetric approximations to the 3D supersymmetric O(N) model, John F. Dawson, B. Mihaila, Per Berglund, and F. Cooper
Fullerenes: Electron Attachment and Detachment, Olof Echt, Sylwia Ptasinska, Stephan Denifl, Michal Stano, Philipp Sulzer, Fabio Zappa, Paul Scheier, Tilmann D. Mark, J. U. Andersen, E. Bonderup, B. Concina, P. Hvelplund, B. Liu, S. Brondsted Nielsen, J. Rangama, J. S. Forster, and Klavs Hansen
Kinetic Energy Distributions in Metastable Decay of Rare Gas Dimer Ions, J. Fedor, S. Matt-Leubner, K. Gluch, Olof Echt, Frederic Merkt, Paul Scheier, and Tilmann D. Mark
Metastable dissociation and kinetic energy release of helium clusters upon electron impact ionization , S. Feil, K. Gluch, S. Denifl, F. Zappa, Olof E. Echt, P. Scheier, and T. D. Mark
The Stability of Singly and Multiply Charged La@C80 and La@C82 ions Determined from Kinetic Energy Release Measurements, Stefan Feil, Krzysztof Gluch, Sara Matt-Leubner, Olof Echt, J. Pedersen, Chava Lifshitz, Baopeng Cao, Takatsugu Wakahara, Takeshi Akasaka, Paul Scheier, and Tilmann D. Märk
General classification and analysis of neutron beta-decay experiments, V. Gudkov, G. L. Green, and John R. Calarco
Origins of nanoscale heterogeneity in ultrathin films, J. B. Hannon, J. Sun, Karsten Pohl, and G. L. Kellogg
The frequency factor in statistical fullerene decay , K. Hansen, E. E.B. Campbell, and Olof E. Echt
Storm‐time configuration of the inner magnetosphere: Lyon‐Fedder‐Mobarry MHD code, Tsyganenko model, and GOES observations, Chia-Lin L. Huang, Harlan E. Spence, J. G. Lyon, F. R. Toffoletto, H. J. Singer, and S. Sazykin
Electron Attachment to Higher Fullerenes and to Sc3N@C80, Sylwia Ptasinska, Olof Echt, Stephan Denifl, Michal Stano, Philipp Sulzer, Fabio Zappa, Aleksandar Stamatovic, Paul Scheier, and Tilmann D. Mark
Optical pumping system design for large production of hyperpolarized Xe-129, I. C. Ruset, S. Ketel, and F. William Hersman
A system for open-access He-3 human lung imaging at very low field, I. C. Ruset, L. L. Tsai, R. W. Mair, S. Patz, M. I. Hrovat, M. S. Rosen, I. Muradian, J Ng, G. P. Tolupos, J. P. Butler, R. L. Walsworth, and F. William Hersman
Thermal Expansion and Magnetostriction of the Ising Antiferromagnet TbNi2Ge2, G M. Schmiedeshoff, Shawna M. Hollen, S L. Budko, and P C. Canfield
Solar proton events for 450 years: The Carrington event in perspective, M. A. Shea, D. F. Smart, K. G. McCracken, G. A. M. Dreschhoff, and Harlan E. Spence
Two groups of extremely large> 30MeV solar proton fluence events, D. F. Smart, M. A. Shea, Harlan E. Spence, and L. Kepko
Structural determination of the Bi(110) semimetal surface by LEED analysis and ab initio calculations , J. Sun, A. Mikkelson, M. Fuglsang Jensen, Y. M. Koroteev, G. Bihlmayer, E. V. Chulkov, D. L. Adams, P. H. Hofmann, and Karsten Pohl
Lifetimes of C-60(2-) and C-70(2-) dianions in a storage ring, S. Tomita, J. U. Andersen, H. Cederquist, B. Concina, Olof E. Echt, J. S. Forster, K. Hansen, B. A. Huber, P. Hvelplund, J. Jensen, B. Liu, B. Manil, and L. Maunoury
Magnetospheric influence on the Moon's exosphere, Jody K. Wilson, M. Mendillo, and Harlan E. Spence
Submissions from 2005
Stringy corrections to Kahler potentials, SUSY breaking, and the cosmological constant problem, V. Balasubramanian and Per Berglund
Systematics of moduli stabilisation in Calabi-Yau flux compactifications, V. Balasubramanian, Per Berglund, J. P. Conlon, and F. Quevedo
Weak compressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the solar corona, Benjamin D.G. Chandran
Metastable fractions and dissociations energies for fullerene ions C-n(+), 42 <= n <= 70 , B. Concina, K. Gluch, S. Matt-Leubner, Olof E. Echt, P. Scheier, and T. D. Mark
Simulation of charged particle trajectories in the neutron decay correlation experiment abBA, D. Desai, G. Greene, R. Mahurin, D. Bowman, and John R. Calarco
Ionization energies of argon clusters: A combined experimental and theoretical study , Olof E. Echt, T. Fiegele, M. Rummele, M. Probst, S. Matt-Leubner, J. Urban, P. Mach, J. Leszczynski, P. Scheier, and T. D. Mark