
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
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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 n bb 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 neutrinoless bb decay
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About 8% (5.6 out of 70 annually) of the nation ’s PhDs in experimental nuclear physics are educated at TUNL
PhD degrees awarded from Jan. 2010 – April 2013 = 24
Industry/s cience; 2
Faculty;
1 industry/n onscience; 4
Postdoc;
15
National
Lab/Scien tist; 2
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:
Undergraduate students conducting research at TUNL: 2013
Institution Number
NSF Research Experiences for
Undergraduates (REU): 2001 - present
Duke
NC State
2
9
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Supports 12 (8+4)students for 10week research experience at TUNL
UNC
REU
Other
Total
5
12
2
30
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 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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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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2003: BS in Physics, Beijing
University
2010: PhD, Duke University, thesis project on study of neutron transversity using a polarized
3 He target at JLab. Winner of the JLab Thesis Prize in 2011.
2010 – 2013: Robert A. Millikan
Fellow in Experimental Physics and Astronomy, Caltech.
Xin Qian working on wire chambers for the Bigbite
2013
– present:
Staff Scientist, BNL,
2014 recipient of the DOE Early spectrometer at JLab. This spectrometer was used
Career Award in the measurements for his thesis project.
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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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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) .
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).
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