Dr. Kate Jones, Assistant Professor
Experimental Nuclear Physics
Office: 220A Ayres Hall
Phone: 974-4022
e-mail: kgrzywac@utk.edu
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Research
Nuclear Astrophysics/Nuclear Structure
I use nuclear reactions to study the structure of nuclei, mostly to understand nucleosynthetic processes that occur in the cosmos. My current primary focus is around the doubly-magic nucleus 132Sn. This region is important as the nuclear shell structure influences the path of the rapid neutron capture (r-) process, which is believed to occur in type II supernovae explosions. Other projects I'm working on include studying resonant reactions in light neutron-deficient nuclei, important in nova nucleosynthesis and X-ray bursts. My other nuclear structure interests are in the light neutron-rich region where exotic behavior has been observed. A new 10Be beam available at the Holifield Facility at ORNL is allowing studies in this region.
Brief Vita
- 1992-1996, BSc (Hons) Physics with Acoustics, University of Surrey, England
- 1996-1997, Assistant Consultant Engineer, Alan Saunders Associates, Winchester, England
- 1997-2000, PhD Experimental Nuclear Physics, University of Surrey, England
- 2000-2001, Post Doc, LAND group, GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
- 2002-2006, Post Doc, Rutgers University, working in the Nuclear Astrophysics group, ORNL
- 2006-present Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee
Recent Publications
- "Astrophysically important 26Si states studied with the 28Si(p, t)26Si reaction. II. Spin of the 5.914-MeV 26Si level and galactic 26Al production," D.W.Bardayan, J.A.Howard, J.C.Blackmon, C.R.Brune, K.Y.Chae, W.R.Hix, M.S.Johnson, K.L.Jones, R.L.Kozub, J.F.Liang, E.J.Lingerfelt, R.J.Livesay, S.D.Pain, J.P.Scott, M.S.Smith, J.S.Thomas and D.W.Visser, Phys. Rev. C 74, 045804 (2006).
- "Development of a high solid-angle silicon detector array for measurement of transfer reaction in inverse kinematics," S.D. Pain, J.A. Cizewski, R. Hatarik, K.L. Jones, J.S. Thomas, D.W. Bardayan, J.C. Blackmon, C.D. Nesaraja, M.S. Smith, R.L. Kozub and M.S. Johnson NIM B 261, 1122-1125 (2007) .
- "Fusion of radioactive 132Sn with 64Ni," J.F. Liang, D. Shapira, J.R. Beene, C.J. Gross, R.L. Varner, A. Galindo-Uribarri, J. Gomez del Campo, P.A. Hausladen, P.E. Mueller, D.W. Stracener, H. Amro, J.J. Kolata, J.D. Bierman, A.L. Caraley, K.L. Jones, Y. Larochelle, W. Loveland and D. Peterson. Physical Review C 75, 054607 (2007).
- "Single neutron transfer experiments close to the r-process path," K.L. Jones, A.S. Adekola, D.W. Bardayan, J.C. Blackmon, K.Y. Chae, K. Chipps, J.A. Cizewski, D.J. Dean, L. Erikson, R.P. Fitzgerald , A.L. Gaddis, U. Greife, C. Harlin, R. Hatarik, J.A. Howard, M.S. Johnson , R.L. Kozub, J.F. Liang, R.J. Livesay, Z. Ma, B.H. Moazen, P.D. O’Malley, C.D. Nesaraja, S.D. Pain, N.P. Patterson, S.V. Paulauskas, D. Shapira, J.F. Shriner Jr, D.J. Sissom, M.S. Smith, T.P. Swan, J.S. Thomas. Acta Physica Polonica Volume 38 (4), 1205 (2007).
- "Astrophysically important 31S states studied with the 32S(p, d)31S reaction," Z.Ma, D.W.Bardayan, J.C.Blackmon, R.P.Fitzgerald, M.W.Guidry, W.R.Hix, K.L.Jones, R.L.Kozub, R.J.Livesay, M.S.Smith, J.S.Thomas and D.W.Visser. Phys.Rev. C 76, 015803 (2007).