Scott Marley

Associate Professor of Physics

Ph.D., 2012 - Western Michigan University

Louisiana State University
Department of Physics & Astronomy
211-C Nicholson Hall, Tower Dr.
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4001
225-578-8278-Office
[email protected]

Research Interests

I'm an experimental nuclear physicist who is interested the structure and decay properties of unstable atomic nuclei. To study some of the most exotic isotopes that exist in nature requires experiments using accelerated beams of radioactive ions and a variety of detection techniques. I primarily utilize nucleon transfer reactions in efforts to better understand how the strong interaction defines nuclear structure.

I am also interested in research to investigate the structure and beta-decay properties of very neutron-rich nuclei. In addition to nuclear energy and nonproliferation applications, many of these nuclei play a key role in the formation of the heavy elements in stellar environments during the astrophysical rapid neutron-capture process ("r-process").

My experimental research includes transfer reaction studies using the Helical Orbit Spectrometer (HELIOS) with radioactive beams from theArgonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) as well as stable beam experiments at the Institute for Structure and Nuclear Astrophysics at the University of Notre Dame. I am a part of a collaboration which performs decay spectroscopy of neutron-rich fission fragments at the Californium Rare Isotope Breeder Upgrade (CARIBU) facility at ANL.

Current and Select Publications

S. Bedoor, et al, “Structure of ¹⁴B and the Evolution of N=9 Single-Neutron Isotones” Phys. Rev. C 88, 011304 (2014).
N. Kinoshita, et al, “A Shorter ¹⁴⁶Sm Half-Life Measured and Implications for ¹⁴⁶Sm-¹⁴²Nd Chronology in the Solar System”, Science 335 (6076), 1614-1617 (2012).
B. B. Back et al, "First Experiment with HELIOS: The Structure of ¹³B", Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 132501 (2010).
A.H. Wuosmaa, et al, “Structure of ⁷He by Proton Removal from ⁸Li with the (d,³He) Reaction”, Phys. Rev. C 78, 041302 (2008).