Nuclear Physics: Fundamental and Applied

Paul A. De YoungPhysics and Engineering

deyoung@hope.edu

(616) 395-7517

Education and experiencesPost-doc. Research, Nuclear Structure Laboratory, SUNY (1982-1985)Ph.D., Norte Dame University (1982)A.B., Hope College (1977)Hope College, Professor (1997-2005) Associate Professor (1991-1997), Assistant Professor (1985-1991), The Kenneth G. Herrick Professor of Physics (2005-)

Grants and awardsRUI: Multifaceted Opportunities in Nuclear Physics for Undergraduates at Hope College NSF ($213,252)(2004)RUI: Radioactive Nuclear Beam Physics with Undergraduates at HopeCollege, 2001 NSF ($166,879)Received the 2001 Prize to a Faculty Member for Research in anUndergraduate Institution from the American Physical Society.National Superconducting Cyclotron User Executive Committee (2004-2006)Executive Director of the MoNA collaboration (2004-2005)

Key publications and presentationsP.A. DeYoung, et.al.,”Two-neutron Transfer in the 6He+209Bi Reaction Nearthe Coulomb Barrier”,Phys. Rev. C71, 051601 (2005).P.A. DeYoung and G.F. Peaslee,”Simplified Electronic Signal Processing in the Small Nuclear Physics Laboratory”,Nucl. Inst. and Meth. A551, 487 (2005).J.J. Kolata, et.al.,“A Large Segmented Neutron Detector for Reaction Studies with Radioactive Beams Near the Coulomb Barrier”,Nucl.Instr. And Meth. A, (2005).F.D. Becchetti, et.al.,”The (8Li,) Reaction at Low Energy: Direct 4H Cluster Transfer?”,Phys. Rev. C71, 054610 (2005).

Areas of expertiseStructure of rare neutron-rich nuclear isotopes, neutron detection, computers and computerized data acquisition, applications of nuclear physics to measurements ofenvironmental, biological, chemical, and thin-film samples.

AcknowledgementsNational Science Foundation and Research Corporation

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MONA at the NSCL

Neutron detector construction at Hope

Hope Accelerator Lab for applications of nuclear techniques