Prof. Kirby Kemper

Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA

Unpublished articles

• Polarized beam scattering and reactions
• Kirby Kemper

Figure 1: Prof. Kirby Kemper

Prof. Kirby W. Kemper

Department of Physics
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4350

Fax: (850) 644-8630
Phone: (850) 644-2867
e-mail: kirby@phy.fsu.edu

Education

1962 B.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute
1964 M.S., Indiana University
1968 Ph.D., Indiana University

Experience

1963-1968 Teaching and Research Assistant, Indiana University
1968-1971 Research Associate, Florida State University
1971-1975 Assistant Professor, Florida State University
1975-1979 Associate Professor, Florida State University
1977 Vsiting Fellow, The Australian National University
1979-1994 Professor, Florida State University
1981 Visiting Fellow, The Australian National University
1985-1988 Associate Chair, Physics Department
1982-1988 Director, Physics Department Graduate Program
1990-1997 Director, Accelerator Laboratory
1994-2000 Distinguished Research Professor
2000-2002 The John D. Fox Professor of Physics
1997-2003 Chair, Physics Department, Florida State University
2002- Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor
2003- Vice-President for Research

Organizations

Sigma Pi Sigma; Fellow, American Physical Society; Sigma Xi

Field of Research Interest

Experiments with polarized beams and targets, nuclear structure with radioactive beams.
Teaching of non-physics majors. Explaining the importance of research to the general public.
Developing university K- 12 scientist-teacher interactions.

Awards

2010 Francis G. Slack Medal of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society for Physics Leadership in the Southeast
2009 American Physical Society Outstanding Referee
2002 Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor (FSU’s Highest Faculty Honor)
2000 Jesse W. Beams Medal of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society for Significant Research in Physics
1994 Named a Florida State University Distinguished Research Professor
1994 Teaching Incentive Award
1990 College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching
1983-2003 Co-founder and Lecturer of the Summer High School Science and Math Camp at F.S.U.

Supervised Ph.D. Students

R.L. White (1974), G.E. Moore (1975), G.J. Kekelis (1975), G.M. Hudson (1976), R.J. Puigh (1976), L.H. Harwood (1978), R.I. Cutler (1979), C.W. Glover (1981), M.F. Vineyard (1984), M.E. Clark (1984), D.P. Sanderson (1986), S.P. Van Verst (1988), D.E. Trcka (1989), A.J. Mendez (1993) E.L. Reber (1994), M.A. Tiede (1994), P.V. Green (1995), P.L. Kerr (1995), T.L. Drummer (1998), P.D. Cathers (2000), E.E. Bartosz (2000), W.D. Weintraub (2003), B. T. Roeder (2006)

Post-doctoral Advisees

A.W. Obst, M.E. Williams-Norton, A.F. Zeller, G.A. Norton, A.J. Lumpkin, J. Cook, L. A. Park, S.M. Aziz, X. Aslanoglou, F. Maréchal, N. Keeley, O. Momotyuk

Post-doctoral Advisor: N.R. Fletcher
Ph.D. Thesis Supervisor: R.G. Wilkinson (deceased)

Selected Recent Publications from 301 Total Publications

Strong nuclear couplings as a source of Coulomb rainbow suppression
N. Keeley, N. Alamanos, K. W. Kemper and K. Rusek, Phys. Rev. C 82 (2010) 034606

Low-lying states in ⁸B
J. P. Mitchell, G. V. Rogachev, E. D. Johnson, L. T. Baby, K. W. Kemper, A. M. Moro, P. N. Peplowski, A. Volya, and I. Wiedenhöver Phys. Rev. C82 (2010) 011601(R)

²⁵Si and ²⁹S studied via single neutron knockout reactions
R. R. Reynolds, P. D. Cottle, A. Gade, D. Bazin, C. M. Campbell, J. M. Cook, T. Glasmacher, P. G. Hansen, T. Hoagland, K.W. Kemper, W. F. Mueller, B. T. Roeder, J. R. Terry, and J. Tostevin, Phys. Rev. C81 (2010) 067303

¹⁴C(α,γ) reaction rate
E. D. Johnson, G. V. Rogachev, J. Mitchell, L. Miller, and K. W. Kemper, Phys. Rev. C80 (2009) 045805

Elastic Scattering and reactions of light exotic beams
N. Keeley, N. Alamanos, K. W. Kemper and K. Rusek Prog in Part and Nucl Physics 63 (2009) 396

Single-neutron energies near N=28 and the absence of the N=34 subshell closure in the Ti isotopes
P. D. Cottle and K. W. Kemper Phys. Rev. C78 (2008) 037304

⁶Li and ⁶He elastic scattering from ¹²C and the effect of direct reaction couplings
N. Keeley, K. W. Kemper, O. Momotyuk and K. Rusek Phys. Rev C77 (2008) 057601

Tensor analyzing powers and energy dependence of the ⁷Li+¹⁶O interaction
A. T. Rudchik, K. W. Kemper, A. A. Rudchik, A. M. Crisp, V. D. Chesnokova, V. M. Kyryanchuk, F. Maréchal, O. A. Momotyuk, O. A. Ponkratenko, B. T. Roeder, and K. Rusek Phys. Rev. C75 (2007) 024612

Target structure independent ⁷Li elastic scattering at low momentum transfers
O.A. Momotyuk, N. Keeley, K. W. Kemper, B. T. Roeder, A. M. Crisp, W. Cluff, B. G. Schmidt, M. Wiedeking, F. Maréchal, K. Rusek, S. Yu. Mezhevych and J. Liendo Phys.Lett. B640 (2006) 13.