Mohammad W. Ahmed, Assistant Research Professor  

Mohammad W. Ahmed

Office Location: 416 TUNL
Office Phone: (919) 660-2630
Email Address: ahmed@tunl.duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.tunl.duke.edu

Specialties:
Experimental nuclear physics

Research Description: Study of few nucleon systems with hadronic and gamma-ray probes. Primary experiments involve study of the Gerasimov-Drell-Hern sum rule for the deuteron, Photodisintegration of the deuteron below pion-threshold, Compton scattering on nuclear targets, and Pion-Nucleon scattering using photo-pion production at the High Intensity Gamma Ray Source (HIGS). The efforts at Triangle University Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL) includes determination of the analyzing power of the astrophysically important n-p capture reaction, and partial wave amplitudes for the GDH integrand. In addition, Dr. Ahmed is also the co-lead in the developement of the data acquisition systems at TUNL/HIGS.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. R. Raut, W. Tornow, M. W. Ahmed, A. S. Crowell, J. H. Kelley, G. Rusev, S. C. Stave, and A. P. Tonchev, Photodisintegration cross section of the reaction 4He(\gamma,p)3H between 22 and 30 MeV, Physical Review Letters (Accepted, December 7, 2011)  [author's comments].
  2. S. S. Henshaw, M. W. Ahmed, G. Feldman, A. M. Nathan, and H. R. Weller, New method for precise determination of the isovector giant quadrupole resonances in nuclei, Physical Review Letters, vol. 107 (2011), pp. 222501 .
  3. W. A. Wurtz, R. E. Pywell, B. E. Norum, S. Kucuker, B. D. Sawatzky, H. R. Weller, M. W. Ahmed, and S. Stave, Measurement of the absolute and differential cross sections for 7Li(gamma, n0)6Li, Physical Review, vol. C84 (2011), pp. 044601 .
  4. M. C. Spraker, M. W. Ahmed, M. A. Blackston, N. Brown, R. H. France III, S. S. Henshaw , B. A. Perdue, R. M. Prior, P.-N. Seo, S. Stave, H. R. Weller, The 11B(p,α)8Be → α + α and the 11B(α,α)11B Reactions at Energies Below 5.4 MeV, Journal of Fusion Energy (2011) [doi] .
  5. F. G. A. Quarati, A. Owens, P. Dorenbos, J. T. M. deHaas, G. Benzoni, N. Blasi, C. Boiano, S. Brambilla, F. Camera, R. Alba, G. Bellia, C. Maiolino, D. Santonocito, M. W. Ahmed, N. Brown, S. Stave, H. R. Weller, and Y. K. Wu, High Energy Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy with LaBr3 Scintillation Detectors, Nucl. Instrum. Methods, vol. A 629 (2011), pp. 157 .

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