Nuclear Physics Education at TUNL

1. Nuclear Physics Education at TUNL • Researchers • 21 Faculty members • 42 graduate students • 20 postdocs (including 2 stationed at TUNL) • 5 research scientists Staff • 3 Administrative staff • 6 R&D Engineers • 5 technicians • 2 accelerator operators/technicians

2. TUNL Research Program A. Strong Interactions and applications • Nuclear Structure and Few-Nucleon Systems • Nuclear Astrophysics • Hadron Structure and QCD • Applications (DHS/DNDO, DOE/NNSA, energy, plants-environment, medicine) B. Weak-Interaction and Neutrino Physics • neutron EDM at SNS – test of CP violation beyond the Standard Model • MAJORANA Demonstrator – search for 0nbb decay  Lepton Number violation • nEXO • KATRIN – neutrino mass measurement via triton beta decay • UCNA at LANL – precision measurements of weak couplings • KamLAND-Zen – search for neutrinoless bb decay

3. TUNL: Graduate Education About 8% (5.6 out of 70 annually) of the nation’s PhDs in experimental nuclear physics are educated at TUNL 274 Ph.D. degrees awarded since inception of TUNL Most recent 10 years: Total PhDs = 56 PhD degrees awarded from Jan. 2010 – April 2013 = 24

4. TUNL: Undergraduate Research Undergraduate students conducting research at TUNL: 2013 NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU): 2001 - present • Supports 12 (8+4)students for 10-week research experience at TUNL Associated universities (primarily undergraduate serving) TUNL faculty have research collaborations with faculty at these institutions James Madison University North Carolina A&T State University (HBCU in Greensboro, NC) North Carolina Central University (HBCU in Durham, NC) North Georgia College and State University University of Connecticut, Avery Pt.

5. John Cesaratto 2005: BS in Physics, John Carroll Univ., Cleveland, OH 2011: PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, thesis project at TUNL’s Laboratory for Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics on measurement of nuclear reaction rates important to understanding elemental variations in globular cluster stars. 2011 – present: Toohig Fellow in Accelerator Science at SLAC with the LHC Accelerator Research Program. John Cesaratto adjusting beam intensity from the ECR source he designed and constructed at TUNL’s Laboratory for Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics.

6. Mary Kidd 2004: BS in Physics Tennessee Technology University 2010: PhD, Duke University, thesis project on two-neutrino double beta decay measurements 2010 – 2012: Postdoc, Los Alamos National Laboratory 2012 – present: Assistant Professor of Physics, Tennessee Technology University Mary Kidd filling High-purity Germanium detectors with liquid nitrogen at TUNL.

7. XinQian 2003: BS in Physics, Beijing University 2010: PhD, Duke University, thesis project on study of neutron transversity using a polarized 3He target at JLab. Winner of the JLab Thesis Prize in 2011. 2010 – 2013: Robert A.Millikan Fellow in Experimental Physics and Astronomy, Caltech. 2013 – present: Staff Scientist, BNL, 2014 recipient of the DOE Early Career Award Xin Qian working on wire chambers for the Bigbite spectrometer at JLab. This spectrometer was used in the measurements for his thesis project.

8. Franklin DuBose 2001: BS in Physics, Morehouse College 2001: MS in Physics, Clark Atlanta University 2009: PhD, North Carolina State University, thesis project on neutron EDM measurement, 2009 – present: Manager, Environmental Bioassay Laboratory at Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC

9. Matthew Kiser 2002: BS in Physics and Mathematics, King College 2008: PhD, Duke University, thesis project on plant physiology studies with radioisotopes in the tandem lab at TUNL, 2008 – present: Senior Scientist, Remote Sensing Laboratory at Joint Base Andrews, MD (National Security Technologies, LLC). Dr. Matthew Kiser receiving the Secretary of Energy Achievement Award from Secretary Chu (for contributions during the NNSA response to the Fukushima Dai'ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident) .

10. Outreach Nuclear Science Merit Badge of the Boy Scouts of America