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Dr. Mark RileyChair and Professor, Ph.D., University of Liverpool, 1985 |
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Position: Chair, Distinguished Research Professor and Raymond K. Sheline Professor of Physics Education:
Research Interest: The unique strongly interacting aggregation of fermions that we call the atomic nucleus displays a remarkable diversity of phenomena and symmetries. Its behavior and structure continues to surprise and fascinate as unexpected properties are revealed by fresh experimental opportunities arising from increasingly sensitive instrumentation along with new accelerator developments. My research involves the detection of gamma-ray emissions from excited nuclei under extreme conditions (for example, excitation energy, angular momentum, proton or neutron number). Gamma-ray detection plays a vital and ubiquitous role in nuclear science and I am involved in performing experiments at FSU using the Superconducting Linear Accelerator Facility and the FSU Gamma-ray Array system. In addition, experiments are also performed at national laboratories in the US using Gammasphere, the world's most powerful gamma-ray detector array. To learn more about this exciting area of physics research see the Gammasphere highlights booklet that I put together (with help from many friends!) when I was first Chair of the Gammasphere Users Executive Committee (GSUEC). I was also Chair of the GSUEC in 2006 when I helped organize the "Ten Years of Gammasphere and Beyond" celebration meeting which also highlights many of the scientific discoveries so far using this remarkable device. High resolution gamma-ray spectroscopy is a rapidly developing field and I am a member of the national committee which is helping to develop the next generation gamma-ray facility for nuclear science in the US which is called the GRETINA-GRETA project. Member of the Nuclear Physics Group (Experiment)
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