Faculty
Fred Wietfeldt, Ph.D.
Professor
Email: few@tulane.edu
Phone: (504) 862-8279
Fax: (504) 862-8702
Department of Physics
5026 Percival Stern Hall
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
Labs: 4057, 4063, 5058 Percival Stern Hall
Research Interests
Experimental Nuclear Physics–Cold and Ultracold Neutrons »
Recent Courses
- PHYS 1310/1320 – General Physics I & II
- PHYS 2350/2360 – Modern Physics I & II
- PHYS 3150/6150 – Intro to Neutron Science
- PHYS/ENGP 3530 – Advanced Laboratory
- PHYS 3910/7310 – Intro Nuclear and Particle Physics
Education
- B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1984)
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1994)
Recent Publications
"Magnetic Trapping of Neutrons," P.R. Huffman et al., Nature 403, 62 (2000).
"New Limit on the D Coefficient in Polarized Neutron Decay," L. J. Lising et al., Phys. Rev. C 62, 05501 (2000).
"Magnetic Trapping of Ultracold Neutrons," C. R. Brome, et al., Phys. Rev. C 63, 05502 (2001).
"Experimental Value of gA/gV from a Measurement of Both P-Odd Correlations in Free Neutron Decay," Yu. Mostovoi, et al., Phys. At. Nucl. 64, 1955 (2001).
"A Cryogenic Radiometer for Absolute Neutron Rate Measurement," Z. Chowdhuri et al., Rev. Sci. Instr. 74, 4280 (2003).
"Measurement of the Neutron Lifetime Using a Proton Trap," M. S. Dewey et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 152302 (2003).
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