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Brant M. Johnson
Physicist
Telephone: (631) 344-4552
Fax: (631) 344-3253
E-Mail: brant@bnl.gov
Research Interests
Nuclear, Particle, Atomic, Plasma, and Beam Physics
Current: Nuclear Physics (Relativistic heavy
ion collisions), Particles & Fields Physics (Spin of the proton), and
Beam and Plasma Physics (Development of plasma-based ion sources).
Previous: Atomic Physics (atomic collisions,
charge exchange, beam-foil spectroscopy, and synchrotron-radiation studies),
Plasma Physics (atomic processes in high-temperature plasmas), and Beam
Physics (neutralization of negative ion beams and four-stage accel-decel
use of BNL dual MP tandem van de Graaff).
Education
Aug. 1975 Ph.D.
in Physics, University of Texas, Austin, TX, U.S.
“Oxygen Beam-Gas Auger Electron Emission.”
June 1974 M.A.
in Physics, University of Texas, Austin, TX, U.S.
“L Auger Electrons & L X-Rays from
Multiply-Ionized Argon.”
June 1971 B.S.
in Physics, University of Texas, Austin, TX, U.S.
Concurrent Positions
Scientific
Secretary for PHENIX Institutional Board & PHENIX Executive Council
PHENIX Coordinator of Publications, Communications,
and Meetings
Manager of the PHENIX Office and official host
of all PHENIX users.
Chair, Brookhaven Lecture Committee
Chair, Environment, Safety, Security & Health
Committee, BNL Physics Department
Co-Chair, U.S. National User Facility
Organization
Former Chair, RHIC & AGS Users’ Executive
Committee
Charter Member, American Physical Society Ridge
Editorial Council
Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters
(atomic, molecular, and optical physics)
Associate Editor, Physical Review E (plasma and
beam physics)
Associate Editor, Physical Review Special
Topics: Accelerators and Beams
(beam physics)
Topic
Editor (Nuclear Physics) for CAARI Conferences, Ft. Worth, TX
Co-Principal
Investigator, “Development of Advanced Highly-Stripped Ion Sources.”
Former Principal
Investigator, BNL Atomic Physics program, and
DOE Educational Grant: “Teaching and Learning Nuclear Science”
Selected Publications
Afanasiev, S., et al. [PHENIX Collaboration], Source Breakup Dynamics in Au+Au Collisions at √sNN = 200-GeV via Three-Dimensional Two-Pion Source Imaging Phys. Rev. Lett.,100, 232301
(2008).
Adler, S.S., et al. [PHENIX Collaboration], Inclusive cross section and double helicity asymmetry
for pi0 production in p+p collisions at sqrt(s)=200
GeV: Implications for the polarized gluon distribution in the proton, Phys.
Rev. D, 76, 051106(R), (2007).
Adcox, K., et al. [PHENIX Collaboration],
Formation of dense partonic matter in relativistic nucleus-nucleus
collisions at RHIC, experimental evaluation by the PHENIX collaboration,
Nucl. Phys. A 575, 184 (2005).
Johnson, B.M., et al. Two approaches to electron beam enhancement of the
metal vapor vacuum arc ion source.
Laser and Particle Beams 21, 103 (2003).
Adcox, K., et al. [PHENIX Collaboration], Centrality dependence of charged
particle multiplicity in Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 130 GeV,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3500-3505 (2001).
Johnson, B.M., Barrette, J.,
Wang Da-Hai, Jones, K. W., Tserruya, I., Schuch, R., Kruse, T. H.
Projectile charge state dependence of K x-ray production. Phys. Rev. A 31,
1154 (1985).
Johnson, B.M., Jones, K W.,
Brandt, W., Jundt, F. C., Guillaume, G., and Kruse, T. H. Impact-parameter
dependent inner-shell vacancy production in 0.7 to 2.7 MeV/u Ni collisions
with ,Mn, Sn, and Pb. Phys. Rev. A 19, 81 (1979).
Johnson, B.M., Schneider, D.,
Roberts, K. S., Bolger, J. E., and Moore, C. F. High resolution beam gas
Auger electron spectra for oxygen ions excited by collisions with He, Ne,
and Ar. Phys. Lett. 53A,
254 (1975).
Johnson, B.M., Matthews, D. L., Smith, L F., and Moore,
C. F. A high-resolution study of Ar LMM Auger electrons produced by ion
bombardment. J. Phys. B: Atom. Molec. Phys. 6, L369 (1973).
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