Werner Tornow, Professor Emeritus  

Werner Tornow

Office Location: 414 TUNL, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone: +1 919 660 2637
Email Address: werner.tornow@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.tunl.duke.edu/~tornow/

Research Categories: Experimental Nuclear Physics

Research Description: Professor Werner Tornow became the Director of TUNL in July, 1996. He is primarily interested in studying few-nucleon systems with special emphasis on two-nucleon systems and three-nucleon force effects in three-nucleon systems. Polarized beams and polarized targets are essential in this work. He collaborates with the leading theoreticians in his field to interpret the experimental data obtained at TUNL. He recently became involved in weak-interaction physics, especially in double-beta decay studies and in neutrino oscillation physics using large scale detectors at the Kamland project in Japan.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Silano, JA; Malone, RC; Finch, SW; Gooden, ME; Howell, CR; Ramirez, APD; Thomas, K; Tonchev, AP; Tornow, W; Wilhelmy, JB, Characterization of 235U, 238U and 239Pu fission ionization chamber foils by α and γ-ray spectrometry, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 1063 (June, 2024) [doi]  [abs].
  2. Gooden, ME; Malone, RC; Bredeweg, TA; Bond, EM; Finch, SW; Howell, CR; Krishichayan, ; Ramirez, APD; Silano, JA; Stoyer, MA; Tonchev, AP; Tornow, W; Vieira, D; Wilhelmy, JB, Energy dependence of fission product yields in the second-chance fission region, Physical Review C, vol. 109 no. 4 (April, 2024), American Physical Society (APS) [doi]  [abs].
  3. collaboration, K-Z; Abe, S; Eizuka, M; Futagi, S; Gando, A; Gando, Y; Goto, S; Hachiya, T; Hata, K; Hosokawa, K; Ichimura, K; Ieki, S; Ikeda, H; Inoue, K; Ishidoshiro, K; Kamei, Y; Kawada, N; Kishimoto, Y; Koga, M; Kurasawa, M; Mitsui, T; Miyake, H; Morita, D; Nakahata, T; Nakajima, R; Nakamura, K; Nakamura, R; Nakane, J; Ozaki, H; Sakai, T; Shimizu, I; Shirai, J; Shiraishi, K; Shoji, R; Suzuki, A; Takeuchi, A; Tamae, K; Watanabe, H; Watanabe, K; Obara, S; Yoshida, S; Umehara, S; Fushimi, K; Kotera, K; Urano, Y; Ichikawa, AK; Berger, BE; Fujikawa, BK; Learned, JG; Maricic, J; Axani, SN; Fu, Z; Smolsky, J; Winslow, LA; Efremenko, Y; Karwowski, HJ; Markoff, DM; Tornow, W; Dell'Oro, S; O'Donnell, T; Detwiler, JA; Enomoto, S; Decowski, MP; Weerman, KM; Grant, C; Li, A; Song, H, Search for Charged Excited States of Dark Matter with KamLAND-Zen (November, Preprint, 2023) .
  4. Deary, J; Scheck, M; Schwengner, R; O’Donnell, D; Bemmerer, D; Beyer, R; Hensel, T; Junghans, AR; Kögler, T; Müller, SE; Römer, K; Schmidt, K; Turkat, S; Urlaß, S; Wagner, A; Bowry, M; Adsley, P; Agar, O; Chapman, R; Crespi, FCL; Doherty, DT; Gayer, UF; Herzberg, RD; Isaak, J; Janssens, RVF; Kröll, T; Löher, B; Nara Singh, BS; von Neumann-Cosel, P; Pellegri, L; Peters, EE; Rainovski, G; Savran, D; Smith, JF; Spieker, M; Thirolf, PG; Triambak, S; Tornow, W; Venhart, M; Wiedeking, M; Wieland, O; Yates, SW; Zilges, A, Photo-response of the N= Z nucleus 24 Mg, European Physical Journal A, vol. 59 no. 9 (September, 2023) [doi]  [abs].
  5. Haselschwardt, SJ; Lenardo, BG; Daniels, T; Finch, SW; Friesen, FQL; Howell, CR; Malone, CR; Mancil, E; Tornow, W, Observation of Low-Lying Isomeric States in ^{136}Cs: A New Avenue for Dark Matter and Solar Neutrino Detection in Xenon Detectors., Physical review letters, vol. 131 no. 5 (August, 2023), pp. 052502 [doi]  [abs].

Highlight:
Professor Werner Tornow became the Director of TUNL in July, 1996. He is primarily interested in studying few-nucleon systems with special emphasis on two-nucleon systems and three-nucleon force effects in three-nucleon systems. Polarized beams and polarized targets are essential in this work. He collaborates with the leading theoreticians in his field to interpret the experimental data obtained at TUNL. He recently became involved in weak-interaction physics, especially in double-beta decay studies and in neutrino oscillation physics using large scale detectors at the Kamland project in Japan.

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

  • Matthew Gooden  
  • Sean Finch  
  • Anthony L. Hutcheson  
  • James H. Esterline  
Postdocs Mentored

  • Chitra Bhatia (2011/12-present)  
  • Rajarshi Raut (2009 - July 31, 2011)  
  • Gencho Rusev (2008 - November 14, 2011)  
  • Elaine Kwan (2008 - July 31, 2010)  
  • Kengo Nakamura (2000-2005)  
  • Christopher D. Roper (1999 - 2000)  
  • Richard T. Braun (1998 - 1999)  
  • Dinko Gonzalez Trotter (1998 - 1999)  
  • Richard T. Braun (1998 - 1999)  
  • Dinko E. Gonzalez Trotter (1997 - 1999)