Werner Tornow, Professor  

Office Location: 414 Tunl
Office Phone: 919-660-2637
Email Address: tornow@tunl.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. A.Yu. Muzichka, W.I.Furman, E.V. Lychagin, A.R. Krylov, G.V. Nekhaev, E.I. Sharapov, V.N. Shvetsov, A.V. Strelkov, B.G. Levakov, A.E. Lyzhin, Yu.I. Chernukhin, Ya.Z. Kandiev, C.R.Howell, G.E. Mitchell, B.E. Crawford, S.L. Stephenson, W. Tornow, Background Determination for the Neutron-Neutron Scattering Experiment at the Reactor YAGUAR, Nucl. Phys., vol. A789 (2007), pp. 30 .
  2. R.T. Braun, W. Tornow, C.R. Howell, D.E. Gonzalez Trotter, C.D. Roper, F. Salinas, H.R. Setze, R.L. Walter, G.J. Weisel, Neutron-Proton Analyzing Power at 12 MeV and Inconsistencies in Parameterization of Nucleon-Nucleon Data, Phys. Lett. B (Submitted, 2007) .
  3. M.W. Ahmed, M. Blackston, B. Perdue, W. Tornow, H. Weller, An Indirect Determination of the Gerasimov-Drell Hearn (GDH) Sum Rule for the Deuteron at Low Energies, Phys. Rev. C. (Submitted, 2007) .
  4. Q. Chen, C.R. Howell, T.S. Carman, W.R. Gibbs, B.F. Gibson, A. Hussein, M.R. Kiser, G. Mertens, C.F. Moore, C. Morris, A. Obst, E. Pasyuk, C.D. Roper, F. Salinas, H.R. Setze, I. Slaus, S. Sterbenz, W. Tornow, R.L. Walter, C.R. Whitely, M. Whitton, A Measurement of the Neutron-Neutron Scattering Length Using the pi(minus)-d Capture Reaction, Phys. Rev. C. (Submitted, 2007) .
  5. W. Tornow, The 20th Anniversary of the Few-Nucleon Analyzing Power Puzzle - A Personal Recollection, Few-Body Systems (Submitted, 2007) .

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

  • Mary Kidd  
  • Anthony L. Hutcheson  
  • James H. Esterline  
Postdocs Mentored

  • 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)