Calvin R Howell, Professor and Director, TUNL and Duke FEL Lab  

Calvin R Howell

Office Location: 414 TUNL
Office Phone: (919) 660-2632
Email Address: howell@tunl.duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.tunl.duke.edu/Directory/Faculty/howell/

Specialties:
Experimental nuclear physics

Education:
Doctor of Philosophy, Duke University, 1984
Master of Art, Duke University, 1980
Bachelor of Science, Davidson College, 1978

Research Categories: Experimental Nuclear Physics

Current projects: Study of the Star Anomaly in neutron-deuteron breakup, Measurement of the neutron-neutron scattering length, Carbon and nitrogen accumulation and translocation in plants, Element imaging in materials, Explosive nucleosynthesis

Research Description:

Professor Howell is the Director of the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL). His research interests are the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) description of structure and reactions of few-nucleon systems, Big Bang and explosive nucleosynthesis, and applications of nuclear physics in biology, medicine and national security. His research includes: studies of few-nucleon reaction dynamics, measurements of the neutron-neutron scattering length, photodisintegration of the deuteron and beryllium at energies relevant to astrophysics processes, and studies of the carbon and nitrogen accumulation and translocation in plants using short-lived radioactive isotopes and positron emission tomography.

Areas of Interest:
experimental nuclear physics
few-nucleon reactions
nuclear astrophysics
ecology and plant physiology
material analysis and imaging with gamma-rays and neutrons

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. C.W. Arnold, T.B. Clegg, C. Iliadis, H.J. Karwowski, G.C. Rich, J.R. Tompkins and C.R. Howell, Cross Section Measurement of 9Be(gamma,n)8Be and Implications for alpha + alpha +n --> 9Be in the r-Process, Physical Review C, vol. 85 (2012), pp. 044605 .
  2. A.H. Couture, T.B. Clegg, S. Tajima, C.R. Howell, B. Fallin, J.H. Esterline, A.S. Crowell, B.J. Crowe, D.M. Markoff, L.C. Cumberbatch, R.S. Pedroni, and H. Witala, Cross-section Measurements of 2H(n, np)n in Symmetric Star Configurations, Physical Review C, vol. 85 (2012), pp. 054004 .
  3. S.L. Hammond, A.S. Adekola, C.T. Angell, H.J. Karwowski, E. Kwan, G. Rusev, A.P. Tonchev, W. Tornow, C.R. Howell, J.H. Kelley, Dipole Response of 238U to Polarized Photons Below the Neutron Separation Energy, Physical Review C, vol. 85 (2012), pp. 044302 .
  4. Andrew G. Weisenberger, Brian Kross, Seungjoon Lee, John McKisson, J.E. McKisson, Wenze Xi, Carl Zorn, Chantal D. Reid, Calvin R. Howell, Alexander S. Crowell, Laurie Cumberbatch, Brent Fallin, Alexander Stolin and Mark F. Smith, PhytoBeta Imager: A Positron Imager for Plant Biology, Physics of Medicine and Biology, vol. 57 (2012), pp. 4195 .
  5. J. M. Mueller, R. J. Charity, R. Shane, L. G. Sobotka, S. J. Waldecker, W. H. Dickhoff, A. S. Crowell, J. H. Esterline, B. Fallin and C. R. Howell, Asymmetry Dependence of Nucleon Correlations in Spherical Nuclei Extracted from a Dispersive- Optical-Model Analysis, Phys. Rev. C, vol. 83 (2011), pp. 064605 .

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

Postdocs Mentored

  • Robert A. Macri (March 01, 2004 - September 30, 2004)  
  • Shigeyuki Tajima (January 1, 2004 - August 31, 2004)  
  • Alexander S. Crowell (January 1, 2002 - December 31, 2007)  
  • Steve Churchwell (1998/01-2001/08)