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Faculty & Research

Nicholas Martin

Nicholas Martin
D. Phil., Keble College, Oxford University (1978)


Phone: (859) 257-5840
Office: CP-379


Laboratory: CP-56 Phone: (859) 257-2899

Research


Experimental Atomic Physics

Research Interests

  • Electron impact excitation and ionization of atoms.
  • (e,2e) spectroscopy of autoionizing levels.
  • Non-dipole photoelectron studies on autoionizing levels.
  • Laser assisted electron scattering.

Education

  • B.A., Physics, Keble College, Oxford University (1971)
  • M.Sc., Physics, Keble College, Oxford University  (1972)
  • M.A., Physics,  Keble College, Oxford University(1977)
  • D. Phil., Experimental Atomic Physics,  Keble College, Oxford University (1978)

Graduate Students

  • David Brian Thompson (PhD. 1994)
  • Robert Bauman (PhD. 1999)
  • Greg Childers (PhD. 2001)
  • Bruno deHarak (PhD 2007)
Selected Publications

  • B.A. deHarak, J.G. Childers, and N. L. S. Martin, ``The ejected electron spectrum of He below the N=2 threshold", Phys. Rev. A. 74, 032714 (2006).
  • B.A. deHarak, Z.Chen, D. H. Madison, and N. L. S. Martin, ``Experimental and theoretical momentum transfer dependence of the He (e,2e) cross section", J. Phys. B  38, L145 (2005).
  • B. Kraessig, E. P. Kanter, S. H. Southworth, R. Guillemin, O. Hemmers, D.W. Lindle, R. Wehlitz, and N. L. S. Martin, ``Photoexcitation of a Dipole-Forbidden Resonance in Helium", Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 203002 (2002).
  • N.L.S. Martin, D.B. Thompson, R.P. Bauman, C.D. Caldwell, M.O. Krause, S.P. Frigo, and M. Wilson, ``Electric Dipole-Quadrupole Interference of Overlapping Autoionizing Levels in Photoelectron Energy Spectra", Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1199 (1998).
  • N.L.S. Martin, D.B. Thompson, R.P. Bauman and M. Wilson, ``Determination of Complex Ionization Amplitudes by (e,2e) Spectroscopy", Phys .Rev. Lett 72, 2163 (1994).

 
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