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. B.A. Fallin, B.P. Grabow, W. Tornow, Attempt to manipulate the decay rate of 64Cu, Phys. Rev. C 78, 057301 (2008) .
  2. W. Tornow, The 20th anniversary of the three-nucelon analyzing power puzzle, Few-Body Syst. 43, 213 (2008) .
  3. W. Tornow, The Three-Nucleon Analyzing Power Puzzle - The Past 20 Years, AIP Conference Proceedings 1011, 83 (2008) .
  4. D.E. Gonzalez Trotter, F.S. Salinas Meneses, W. Tornow, A.S. Crowell, C.R. Howell, D. Schmidt, R.L. Walter, Neutron detection efficiency determination for the TUNL neutron-neutron and neutron proton scattering length measurements, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A (Accepted, 2008) .
  5. M.F. Kidd, J.H. Esterline, W. Tornow, A.S. Barabash, V.I. Umatov, New Results for Double-Beta Decay of 100Mo to Excited Final States in 100Ru Using the TUNL-ITEP Apparatus, Nuclear Physics A (Accepted, 2008) .

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)