Roxanne Springer, Professor of Physics

Contact Info:

Office Location:	252 Physics
Office Phone:	(919) 660-2676
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rps/

Teaching (Spring 2012):

• PHYSICS 312.01, Quantum Mechanics Synopsis

  Physics 299, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

Education:

PhD

California Institute of Technology

1990

Research Interests: Theoretical Nuclear and Particle Physics

Prof. Roxanne Springer works on weak interactions (the force responsible for nuclear beta decay) and quantum chromodynamics (QCD, the force that binds quarks into hadrons). The weak interactions are an excellent place to look for fundamental symmetry violations which may occur in nature, while the study of QCD is necessary for understanding protons, neutrons, and their partner particles. Dr. Springer uses effective theories involving these forces to study processes in both nuclear and particle physics.

Postdocs Mentored

• Andriy Badin (25 Aug 2010 -- present)  
• Brian Tiburzi (2004 - 2007)  
• Fabrizio Gabbiani (1997/08-2000/08)  
• Silas Beane (1995/09-1997/09)  

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. R. Springer, The Theory of X,Y, Z states, proceedings of Hadron 2011 (December, 2011)
2. H. Griesshammer, M. Schindler, and R. Springer, Parity-violating neutron spin rotation in hydrogen and deuterium, European Physics Journal A (Submitted, December, 2011) (arXiv::1109.5667.)
3. M. Schindler, R. Springer, Two parity violating asymmetries from np->d gamma in pionless effective field theories, Nucl Phys A, vol. 846 (July, 2010), pp. 51
4. R. Springer, Parity violation in the NN interaction, in EPJ Web of Conferences, 19th International IUPAP Conference on Few- Body Problems in Physics, University of Bonn, Germany, 31 Aug – 5 Sep 2009, edited by E. Epelbaum, H.-W. Hammer, U.-G. Meissner, vol. 3 (2010) [doi]
5. D. Canham, H.W. Hammer, R. Springer, On the scattering of D and D* mesons off the X(3872), Phys Rev D, vol. D80 (2009), pp. 014009