John H. Kelley

Research Assistant Professor Specializes in Experimental Nuclear Physics Click here to view John H. Kelley's personal website.

Contact Information Physics Department NC State University Box 8202 Raleigh, NC 27695 Work Address: 418 Triangle Univ. Nucl. Lab Phone: (919) 660-2631 Fax: (919) 660-2634 Biography John Kelley is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at NCSU since the beginning of 2000. He received his Ph.D. in 1995 from Michigan State University for his research, The Halo Nuclei 11Be and 8B Studied by Fragmentation Reactions, at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. He then served a post-doc, Sejour Scientific de Long Duree, at the Institut de Physique Nucléaire, Orsay France (sponsored by the French Minister of Foreign Affaires). This was followed by a post-doc at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory in association with Duke University.

Areas of Interest My career has introduced me to research in nuclear physics in a wide variety of formats, however an underlying description is largely summarized as Nuclear Physics Beyond the Range of the Nuclear Force. My early investigations used breakup reactions to study the wavefunctions of valence nucleons in halo nuclei, later it became possible to study the nuclear surface using proton elastic and inelastic scattering experiments. More recently, I have been involved in studies of low-energy capture reactions, which are of significant interest for nuclear astrophysics and an understanding of Big Bang nucleosynthesis. Presently, I am involved with the TUNL Nuclear Data Evaluation program. Following the retirement of Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, TUNL assumed responsibility for evaluating nuclei in the A=3-20 mass range. Our primary responsibilities involve the continued production of reviews for the Energy Levels of Light Nuclei series, which is published in Nuclear Physics A, responsibility for updating the ENSDF data base at the National Nuclear Data Center at Brookhaven, and the maintenance of a website for dissemination of relevant information for A=3-20 nuclei. Recent Publications Click here to view a larger list of publications.