CV David Brink
1947-1951: B. Sc., University of Tasmania
1951-1954: Rhodes Scholar, Magdalen College, Oxford
1955: Dphil., Oxford University
1954-1958: Rutherford Scholar, Royal Society
1956-1957: Instructor, MIT
1958-1993: Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford
1958-1988: University Lecture, Oxford
1988-1993: Moseley Reader, Oxford
1993-1998: Vice-Director, ECT*, Trento, Italy
1993-1998: Professor of the History of Physics, Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy
1964: Visitor at Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
1969: Visiting Professor, Institut de Physique Nucleaire, Orsay, France
1975: Visiting Professor, UBC, Vancouver, Canada
1981-1982: Visiting Professor, Institut de Physique Nucleaire, Orsay, France
1982: Visiting Professor, Technische Universitaet, Muenchen
1988: Visiting Professor, University of Trento, Italy and
Visiting Professor, University of Catania, Italy
1988-1989: Visiting Professor, MSU, East Lansing, USA
Awards
1981: Fellow of the Royal Society
1982: Rutherford Medal of the Institute of Physics
1992: Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Sciences of Uppsala
Books
Angular Momentum,
D. M. Brink and G. R. Satchler, Oxford University Press, 1962 (first eddition)
Nuclear Forces,
D. M. Brink, Pergamon, 1965
Semi-classical methods in nucleus-nucleus scattering,
D. M. Brink, Cambridge University Press, 1985
Nuclear superfluidity: pairing in finite systems,
D. M. Brink and R. A. Broglia, Cambridge University Press, 2005
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Most cited Publications, with about 500, 800 and 1200 citations respectively:
Effective interactions for Hartree-Fock calculations,
D. M. Brink and E. Boeker, Nucl. Phys. A91, 1 (1967)
Angular distribution of gamma-rays in terms of phase-defined reduced matrix elements
H. J. Rose and D. M. Brink, Rev. Mod. Phys. 39, 306 (1967)
Hartree-Fock calculations with Skyrme's interaction,
D. Vautherin and D. M. Brink, Phys. Lett. B32, 149 (1970); Phys. Rev. C5, 626 (1972).
Selected list of publications:
Individual particle and collective aspects of the nuclear photoeffect,
D. M. Brink, Nucl. Phys. 4, 215 (1957).
The potential energy of light nuclei in the oscillator shell model,
D. M. Brink, Nucl. Phys. 40, 539 (1963).
The angular cross-correlation function of cross-section fluctuations,
D. M. Brink, R. O. Stephen and N. W. Tanner, Nucl. Phys. 54, 577 (1964).
The alpha-particle model of light nuclei,
D. M. Brink, Varenna Summer School, Course 36, 1965, Academic Press 1966.
The generator coordinate theory of collective motion,
D. M. Brink and A. Weiguny, Nucl. Phys. A120, 59 (1968).
Hartree-Fock calculations in superheavy nuclei,
D. Vautherin, M. Veneroni and D. M. Brink, Phys. Lett. B33, 381 (1970).
Kinematical effects in heavy ion reactions,
D. M. Brink, Phys. Lett. B40, 37 (1972).
Interaction potential between two 16-Oxigen nuclei derived from the Skyrme interaction,
D.M. Brink and Fl. Stancu, Nucl. Phys. A243, 175 (1975).
Variational principles for scattering in the generator coordinate method,
R. Beck, J. Borysowicz, D. M. Brink and M. Mihailovic, Nucl . Phys. A244, 45 (1975).
Time dependent Hartree-Fock theory with Skyrme's interaction,
Y. M. Engel, D. M. Brink, K. Goeke, S. J. Krieger, D. Vautherin,
Nucl. Phys. A249, 215 (1975).
The real part of the nucleus-nucleus interaction,
Fl. Stancu and D. M. Brink, Nucl. Phys. A270, 236 (1976).
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Barrier penetration effects in the semi-classical theory of elastic scattering,
D. M. Brink and N. Takigawa, Nucl. Phys. A279, 159 (1977).
The tensor part of Skyrme's interaction,
Fl. Stancu, D. M. Brink and H. Flocard, Phys. Lett. B68, 108 (1977).
Transport coefficients for deeply inelastic scattering from the Feynman path integral
method,
D. M. Brink, J. Neto and H. A. Weidenmueller, Phys. Lett. B80, 170 (1978).
Microscopic and proximity nucleus-nucleus potentials,
D. M. Brink and Fl. Stancu, Nucl. Phys. A299, 321 (1978).
Nucleon transfer contribution to the absorbtive potential in heavy ion scattering,
Fl. Stancu and D. M. Brink, Phys. Rev. C25, 2450 (1982).
The imaginary part of the 40-Ca optical potential,
A. Bonaccorso and D. M. Brink, Nucl. Phys. A384, 161 (1983).
Path integral methods for inelastic scattering,
C. V. Sukumar and D. M. Brink, Nucl. Phys. A405, 301 (1983).
Proximity limit of the imaginary part of the heavy ion optical potential due to nucleon
transfer,
D. M. Brink and Fl. Stancu, Phys. Rev. C30, 1904 (1984).
Solution of the Vlasov equation for finite systems,
D. M. Brink, A. Dellafiore and M. Di Toro, Nucl. Phys. A456, 205 (1986).
Nucleon transfer to continuum states in heavy ion reactions,
A. Bonaccorso and D. M. Brink, Phys. Rev. C38, 1776 (1988).
Density of states and evaporation of helium clusters,
D. M. Brink and S. Stringari, Z. Phys. D15, 257 (1990).
qqbar pair creation in a flux tube with confinement,
H. P. Pavel and D. M. Brink, Z. Phys. C51, 119 (1991).
Collective motion in excited nuclei,
D. M. Brink, Nucl. Phys. A574, 207 (1994).
Dynamical effects on the parallel momentum distributions of neutrons from halo breakup,
A. Bonaccorso and D. M. Brink, Phys. Rev. C58, 2864 (1998).
Tetraquarks with heavy flavors,
D. M. Brink and Fl. Stancu, Phys. Rev. D57, 6778 (1998).
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