Bob Wadsworth
Professor
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Profile
Career
BSc, PhD (Liverpool), CPhys, FInstP
Summary of expertise
- Structure of exotic nuclei
- Defomation and collectivity in self-conjugate nuclei
- Neutron-proton pairing
- Isomeric states in nuclei
Research
Overview
My current research is focused on studies of nuclei with approximately equal numbers of protons and neutrons. Recent work has involved the investigation of nuclear shapes and deformations of N=Z nuclei, isospin symmetry, neutron-proton pairing and nuclear isomeric states and their decays just below 100Sn. Some of the latest publications in these areas include studies of isospin symmetry in T=1 states in the mass 70 nuclei, a study of the role of nucleon core-excitations on the structure and decay modes of the 16+ spin-gap isomer in 96Cd, investigation of shape co-existence and shape transition through the impact of the tensor force in the self-conjugate nucleus 72Kr and the discovery and structural interpretation of a proton decaying isomeric state in 72Rb - a nucleus that resides beyond the proton drip-line.
Projects
Spectroscopy of proton rich nuclei using fragmentation, nucleon knock-out, low energy Coulomb excitation and fusion evaporation reaction techniques.
Experiments are performed at RIKEN, NSCL, ISOLDE, GANIL and Jyvaskyla.
Research group(s)
- Ryan Llewellyn, PhD Student
Grants
Nuclear Physics Consolidated Grant - STFC 2014-2018
Nuclear Physics Consolidated Grant - STFC 2017-2021
Collaborators
Prof H Iwasaki - Michigan State University
Prof B Cederwall - KTH Stockholm
Prof A Blazhev - University of Cologne
Dr P Boutachkov - GSI
Dr J Henderson - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Department of Physics
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD
U.K.
bob.wadsworth@york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 322242
Fax: +44 (0)1904 322214
Room P/S021