During my career, my research efforts have spanned a number of topics. These overlap approximately with the physics subfields of nuclear and particle physics, accelerator and beam physics, and more recently plasma and fluid physics.
My first research, in nuclear scattering and reactions, exploited low energy accelerators at Princeton and AERE Harwell. Later, in Indiana, intermediate energy beams made possible studies near the pi meson threshold. Most recently I have worked with the PINTEX collaboration in studies with polarized beams on polarized targets employing the IUCF Cooler.
Participation in accelerator design and construction evolved from cyclotrons to cooled storage rings to the physics of particle beams.
About a decade ago, I began a new research program in the physics of trapped charged particles which form a "non-neutral plasma". This is a kind of beam physics in which the beam is brought to rest for study. These cold, dense stable plasmas have fascinating properties and may have important future applications, for example as storage ring targets.
Most of this work has been university-based with fruitful interaction with students. Research and teaching cross-fertilize each other.
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created 4 July, 1996 by rep, updated 22 Aug. 2005