Experimental Physics Research John G. Cramer

Physics Experimental Facilities &  Information

• Experiment NA35 - 200 GeV/nucleon (lab) Sulfur+Target +Target Collisions at CERN SPS
  
• Experiment NA49 - 160 GeV/nucleon (lab) Lead Collisions at CERN SPS
  
• The STAR Experiment - 200 GeV/nucleon (center of mass) Au+Au Collisions at Brookhaven RHIC
  
• The University of Washington Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics & Astrophysics (CENPA)

Selected Experimental Physics Publications
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Accelerator Physics & Nuclear Instrumentation

"A Scintillation Spectrometer for High Energy Beta Decays", Nuclear Instruments & Methods 16, 289 (1962).

"Charge Distribution of ¹⁶0 Ions Produced from a Tandem Accelerator,"  Review of Scientific Instruments, 37, 1722 (1966).

"The Biased Quadrupole: A Method of Steering Accelerator Beams", Nuclear Instruments & Methods 46, 341 (1966).

"Graphical Plotting Output on a Line Printer using High-Density Plotting Symbols", Computer Physics Comm. 3, 314 (1972).

"An Array Detector for the Spectroscopic Study of Reactions Producing ⁸Be and ⁸Be*", Nuclear Instruments & Methods 111, 425 (1973).

"Suggestion for a Charge-State 'Enforcer' for Heavy Ion Accelerators", Nuclear Instruments & Methods 130, 121 (1975).

"Production of Optically Thin Free-Standing Oil Films from the Edge of a Rotating Disc", Nuclear Instruments & Methods 185, 29 (1981).

"A Simple Method of Making 3 mg/cm2 Cracked Slacked Carbon Accelerator Stripper Foils", Nuclear Instruments & Methods A236, 572 (1985).

"The University of Washington Superconducting Booster Project", Nuclear Instruments & Methods 220, 204 (1984).

"Status of the University of Washington Superconducting Booster", Review of Scientific Instruments, 57, 761 (1986).

Angular Correlation Physics

"Correlation Studies of the Alpha Particle Breakup of the 9.6 MeV 3^- State in ¹²C Induced by (alpha,alpha') Scattering", Physics Letters 5, 170 (1963).

"Angular Correlations and Nuclear Polarization from the Inelastic Scattering of Alpha Particles", Nuclear Physics 55, 593 (1964).

"Angular Correlation Studies of Nuclear Polarization following Inelastic Alpha Particle Scattering from ¹²C and ²⁴Mg", Nuclear Physics 55, 613 (1964).

"Alpha-Gamma Correlation Studies of the ⁵⁶Fe(alpha,alpha'+gamma_0.84)⁵⁶Fe Reaction", Physics Letters 18, 34 (1965).

"An Estimate of the ³He Spin-Orbit Potential from Spin-Flip Measurements", Physics Letters 27B, 373 (1968).

Isobaric Analog Resonances

"1^- Neutron Particle-Hole States in ²⁰⁸Pb Populated by the Decay of Analog Resonances", Phys. Rev. Letters 21, 297 (1968).

"Proton-Channel Analog Resonances and Weak Coupling in the ²⁰⁵Tl(d,p)²⁰⁶Tl Reaction", Physics Letters 30B, 1 (1969).

"Study of Charge Exchange Coupling in Proton-Induced Reactions on ^95,98,100Mo and ^92,94Zr", Phys. Rev. C4, 1366 (1971).

"Polarization Effects in the Isospin-Coupled Reaction Channels p + ⁹¹Zr and n + ⁹¹Nb*_IAS", Phys. Rev. C6, 3667 (1972).

"Analyzing Power of ²⁰⁶Pb(p,p_o) and ²⁰⁷Pb(p,p_o) near the 3p_1/2 Isobaric Analog Resonance", Phys. Rev. C17, 2053 (1978).

Low- & Medium- Energy Heavy Ion Physics

"Four-Nucleon Transfer from ¹⁶O to ⁹⁰Zr near the Coulomb Barrier", Phys. Rev. Letters 29, 1337 (1972).

"Measurement and Microscopic Analysis of the Reactions ⁶Li(⁶Li,⁶Li*_3.56)⁶Li*_3.56 and ⁶Li(⁶Li,⁶He)⁶Be", Phys. Rev. Letters 31, 54 (1973).

"Observations of an Anomalous Angular Distribution in the Single-Nucleon Transfer Reaction ¹²C(¹⁴N,¹³N)¹³C at 100 MeV", Phys. Rev. Letters 32, 680 (1974).

"^16,18O Elastic Scattering from ⁵⁸Ni", Phys. Rev. C11, 809 (1975).

"The (¹²C,⁸Be) Reaction on ¹²C, ¹⁶O, ^24,26Mg, ^40,48Ca, ⁵⁶Fe and ⁵⁸Ni between 50 and 65 MeV Bombarding Energy", Nuclear Physics A259, 129 (1976).

"A 'Unique' Energy-Independent Woods-Saxon Optical Potential for ¹⁶O + ²⁸Si Elastic Scattering", Phys. Rev. C14, 2158 (1976).

"The Transition between Light and Heavy Ion Elastic Scattering", Phys. Rev. Letters 39, 450, (1977).

"Heavy Ion Elastic Scattering (II). 142 MeV ¹⁶O on ²⁸Si, ⁵⁹Co and ⁶⁰Ni", Nuclear Physics A298, 313 (1978).

Ultra-Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics

“Identied particle production, azimuthal anisotropy, and interferometry measurements in Au+Au collisions at √s_NN = 9.2 GeV", STAR Collaboration: B.I. Abelev, et al, Phys. Rev. C 81, 24911 (2010), arXiv:0909.4131 [nucl-ex].

“Pion Interferometry in Au+Au and Cu+Cu Collisions at RHIC", STAR Collaboration: B.I. Abelev, et al, Phys. Rev. C 80, 24905 (2009), arXiv:0903.1296 [nucl-ex].

"Neutral Kaon Interferometry in Au+Au collisions at √S_NN = 200 GeV", B.I. Abelev, et al. (The STAR Collaboration), published November 15, 2006 Phys. Rev. C 74 (2006) 054902 (nucl-ex/0608012).

“Pion Interferometry in Au+Au collisions at √S_NN = 200 GeV”, The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. C 71 (2005) 044906; e-Print Archive: nucl-ex/0411036.

"Pion Interferometry of √S_NN = 130 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC", C. Adler et al., The STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 082301 (2001).

"Antibaryon production in sulfur-nucleus collisions at 200 GeV per nucleon", T. Alber et al. (The NA35 Collaboration), Physics Letters B 336 56-62 (1996)

" `No-Background' Maximum Likelihood Analysis in HBT Interferometry", John G. Cramer, Nucl. Inst. & Meth. A 370 516-520 (1996).

"Transverse momentum dependence of Bose-Einstein correlations in 200A GeV/c S + A collisions", T. Alber et al. (The NA35 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Letters 74, 1303 (1995).

"Two-pion Bose-Einstein correlations in nuclear collisions at 200 GeV/nucleon", T. Alber et al. (The NA35 Collaboration), Z. Phys. 66, 77 (1995).

"Transverse energy production in ²⁰⁸Pb+Pb collisions at 158 GeV per nucleon", T. Alber et al. (The NA49 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Letters 75, 3814-17 (1995).

"Strange particle production in nuclear collisions at 200 GeV per nucleon", T. Alber et al. (The NA35 Collaboration), Z. Phys. C64 195-207 (1994).

"Using Maximum Likelihood analysis in HBT interferometry: bin-free treatment of correlated errors", John G. Cramer, Daniel Ferenc, and Marek Gazdzicki, Nucl. Inst. & Meth. A 351 489-492 (1994).

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