James Sowinski

Senior Research Scientist

Indiana University Cyclotron Facility and Indiana University Department of Physics

Address:
Indiana University Cyclotron Facility
2401 Milo B. Sampson Ln.
Bloomington IN 47408
USA

Office: 114A Cyclotron Building

Phone: 812-855-9365
Fax: 812-855-6645

email: available here

. Research Interests:
My primary field of research is experimental nuclear physics. Within this field I specialize in investigations of polarization effects in nuclear scattering, particularly in few nucleon systems and light nuclei. Topics of my past publications have included: nucleon-nucleon elastic scattering, charge symmetry violation, radiative capture in few nucleon systems and the spin structure of 3He. I also maintain an interest in the technology for making precision polarization measurements, such as polarized targets and ion sources, polarization standards and new techniques in storage rings and have published in these areas.

My vita including a complete list of publications in postscript. Here is also a shorter selected list in html. I also have a list of my active proposals and experiments at IUCF.

I along with some of my colleagues here at IU have recently joined the STAR collaboration at RHIC. The main goal of the experiment is to find the quark gluon plasma. We are interested in the high energy spin physics that will be done with the detector, particularly measuring the fraction of the spin of a proton carried by gluons.

A few useful physics related links:

  • NSF Nuclear Physics Page
  • Division of Nuclear Physics Page
  • American Physical Society Page
  • Table of Isotopes
  • Accelerator Physics Library, many good links.

    My hobby is playing trumpet. I also have a physics interest in the accoustics of trumpets. You can find information on this on my trumpet page.

    Under construction so not all links may be there as yet!