Robert A. Haring-Kaye

Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Current teaching/office schedule

 Education

• B. S. in Physics, Florida State University, 1992
• Ph. D. in Nuclear Physics, Florida State University, 1998
  

Teaching Interests

• Advanced physics laboratory, electronics, introductory physics lecture and laboratory, introductory astronomy
  

• Structure of atomic nuclei far from stability

Recent Undergraduate Students Mentored in Nuclear Physics Research

• Richard Scotten, Fullerton College and Ohio Wesleyan University, Composition of the ²⁴O Ground State Wave Function, 2012 NSF-REU Summer Research Program and 2012-2013 Directed Individual Study
• Taimur Islam, Ohio Wesleyan University, Selective Population and Decay of Neutron-Unbound States in ²³O and ²⁴O, 2011 OWU Summer Science Research Program, 2011-2012 Directed Individual Study, and 2012-2013 Senior Honors Thesis
  
• Ben Pigg, Ohio Wesleyan University, Selective Population and Decay of Neutron-Unbound States in ¹³Be, 2011-2012 Senior Thesis Project
• James McGugan, Colorado College, Selective Population and Decay of Neutron-Unbound States in ¹³Be, 2011 NSF-REU Summer Research Program
• Alex Howe, Ohio Wesleyan University, Competing Single-Particle and Collective Behavior in ⁷¹Se, 2009-2010 Senior Honors Thesis Project
• Hengzhi Chen, Ohio Wesleyan University, Spin Assignments in ⁷⁰As, 2010 OWU Summer Science Research Program
• Steve Kuhn, Earlham College, Spin Assignments in ⁷¹Se, 2010 NSF-REU Summer Research Program
• Rob Anthony, Ohio Wesleyan University, Construction and Testing of the Large-area multi-Institutional Scintillator Array (LISA), NSF-MRI Project, Summer 2010
• Alex Howe, Ohio Wesleyan University, Construction and Testing of the Large-area multi-Institutional Scintillator Array (LISA), NSF-MRI Project, Summer 2010

Selected Recent Publications

• Unresolved question of the ¹⁰He ground state resonance, Z. Kohley, J. Snyder, T. Baumann, G. Christian, P.A. DeYoung, J.E. Finck, R.A. Haring-Kaye, M. Jones, E. Lunderberg, B. Luther, S. Mosby, A. Simon, J.K. Smith, A. Spyrou, S.L. Stephenson, and M. Thoennessen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 232501 (2012).

• Competing single-particle and collective behavior in ⁷¹Se, A.R. Howe*, R.A. Haring-Kaye, J. Doring, N.R. Baker*, S.J. Kuhn*, S.L. Tabor, S.R. Arora*, J.K. Bruckman*, and C.R. Hoffman, Phys. Rev. C 86, 014328 (2012).
  

• Transition strengths and the role of the f_7/2 orbital in ⁷¹As, R.A. Kaye, C.J. Drover*, S.L. Tabor, J. Doring, Y.-C. Yang, Y. Sun, S.R. Arora*, N.R. Baker*, J.K. Bruckman*, T.A. Hinners, C.R. Hoffman, and S. Lee, Phys. Rev. C 83, 044316 (2011).

• Lowest l = 0 proton resonance in ²⁶Si and implications for nucleosynthesis of ²⁶Al, P.N. Peplowski, L.T. Baby, I. Wiedenhover, S.E. Dekat, E. Diffenderfer, D.L. Gay, O. Grubor-Urosevic*, P. Hoflich, R.A. Kaye, N. Keeley, A. Rojas, and A. Volya, Phys. Rev. C 79, 032801 (2009).  

• Linear polarization measurements and negative-parity states in ⁸⁰Sr, R.A. Kaye, C.S. Myers*, J. Doring, S.L. Tabor, S.M. Gerbick*, T.D. Baldwin, D.B. Campbell, C. Chandler, M.W. Cooper, M.A. Hallstrom*, C.R. Hoffman, J. Pavan, L.A. Riley, and M. Wiedeking, Phys. Rev. C 78, 037303 (2008).

• Transition strengths and degree of deformation in ⁷⁹Sr, R.A. Kaye, Y.K. Ryu*, S.R. Arora*, S.L. Tabor, J. Doring, Y. Sun, T.D. Baldwin, D.B. Campbell, C. Chandler, M.W. Cooper, S.M. Gerbick*, O. Grubor-Urosevic*, C.R. Hoffman, J. Pavan, L.A. Riley, and M. Wiedeking, Phys. Rev. C 75, 034311 (2007).

* indicates mentored undergraduate students