Nuclear Physics: Fundamental and Applied

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Nuclear Physics Fundamental and Applied
Paul A. De Young Physics and Engineering deyoung_at_h
ope.edu [phone]
Education and experiences Post-doc. Research,
Nuclear Structure Laboratory, SUNY
(1982-1985) Ph.D., Norte Dame University
(1982) A.B., Hope College (1977) Hope College,
Professor (1997-2005) Associate Professor
(1991-1997), Assistant Professor (1985-1991), The
Kenneth G. Herrick Professor of Physics (2005-)
Hope Accelerator Lab for applications of nuclear
techniques
Neutron detector construction at Hope
Areas of expertise Structure of rare neutron-rich
nuclear isotopes, neutron detection, computers
and computerized data acquisition, applications
of nuclear physics to measurements
of environmental, biological, chemical, and
thin-film samples.
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Grants and awards RUI Multifaceted Opportunities
in Nuclear Physics for Undergraduates at Hope
College NSF (213,252)(2004) RUI Radioactive
Nuclear Beam Physics with Undergraduates at
Hope College, 2001 NSF (166,879) Received the
2001 Prize to a Faculty Member for Research in
an Undergraduate Institution from the American
Physical Society. National Superconducting
Cyclotron User Executive Committee
(2004-2006) Executive Director of the MoNA
collaboration (2004-2005)
Key publications and presentations P.A. DeYoung,
et.al.,Two-neutron Transfer in the 6He209Bi
Reaction Near the Coulomb Barrier,Phys. Rev.
C71, 051601 (2005). P.A. DeYoung and G.F.
Peaslee,Simplified Electronic Signal Processing
in the Small Nuclear Physics Laboratory,Nucl.
Inst. and Meth. A551, 487 (2005). J.J. Kolata,
et.al.,A Large Segmented Neutron Detector for
Reaction Studies with Radioactive Beams Near the
Coulomb Barrier,Nucl.Instr. And Meth. A,
(2005). F.D. Becchetti, et.al.,The (8Li,?)
Reaction at Low Energy Direct 4H Cluster
Transfer?,Phys. Rev. C71, 054610 (2005).
Acknowledgements National Science Foundation and
Research Corporation
MONA at the NSCL