Steven C. Pieper
Steven Charles Pieper (born April 25, 1943 in Oceanside , New York ) is an American theoretical nuclear physicist .
Pieper studied at the University of Rochester (Bachelor 1965) and received his doctorate in 1970 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . As a post-doctoral student , he spent two years at Case Western Reserve University and then from 1972 at Argonne National Laboratory , where he has been Senior Physicist since 1996. From 1987 to 1990 he headed the Theoretical Physics department there. In 1988 he was at the University of Illinois and in 1989 at the University of Pisa.
Pieper has been dealing with many-particle problems in nuclear physics since his dissertation (on the three-body scattering problem of nucleons at the deuteron ). He is co-author of the heavy ion scattering program Ptolemy . In the calculation of the heavy ion nuclear reactions and scattering he used DWBA (Distorted Wave Born Approximation ) and methods of coupled channels. Since the early 1980s he has been working with Vijay Pandharipande and Robert B. Wiringa (also Argonne) on quantum Monte Carlo calculations in nuclear physics and on drops of liquid helium. In nuclear physics, variation MC methods were used (with which he investigated the basic state of the oxygen-16 nucleus in 1990 with Pandharipande and Wiringa) and green function MC methods. With this, he and colleagues successfully calculated properties of light nuclei (up to carbon-12), for example with the green function MC method further developed by Pandharipande and colleagues (with three nucleon forces from the Illinois group of Pandharipande and the two nucleon force in the form Argonne-v 18 ) which he transferred to powerful supercomputers.
In 2010 he and Wiringa received the Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics . In 2000 he received the University of Chicago Medal for Excellence in Argonne Laboratory. He has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1996 .
He has been married since 1965 and has three children.
He also worked a lot with Joseph Carlson (Monte Carlo computations light cores).
Fonts
- Monte Carlo Calculations of nuclei, in Navarro, Polls (Ed.) Microscopic quantum many body theories and their applications , Springer, Lecturenotes in Physics Vol. 510, 1998
- with Wiringa: Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of light nuclei , Annual Review Nuclear and Particle Science, Vol. 51, 2001, pp. 53-90
- Pieper Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of light nuclei , Enrico Fermi School 2007
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ life data according to Pamela Kalte u. a. American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2005
- ↑ Pieper Calculation of Neutron-Deuteron Scattering with s, p and d-wave forces , Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 27, 1971, p. 1738
- ↑ Pandharipande, Pieper, Wiringa The ground state of O-16 , Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol. 64, 1990, p. 364
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Pieper, Steven C. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pieper, Steven Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oceanside, New York |