Experimental Nuclear Physics — Quantum Mechanics — Physics Pedagogy

Research Summary
Professor Napolitano works mainly on problems that test the nature of the Standard Model of Particle Physics using techniques of Nuclear Physics, as well as applications of these techniques to fundamental questions of nature. Examples include the study of neutrino oscillations using nuclear reactors as sources, and parity violating electron scattering to precisely measure the neutral weak current mixing angle and to constrain properties of neutron matter.

Education
Ph.D Physics, Stanford University (1982)
MS Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1978)
BS Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1977)

Selected Publications

• Accurate Determination of the Neutron Skin Thickness of ²⁰⁸Pb through Parity-Violation in Electron Scattering, Phys.Rev.Lett. 126 (2021) 172502
• Observation of electron-antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay, Phys.Rev.Lett. 108 (2012) 171803
• A study of the reaction π − p → ωπ − p at 18 GeV/ c : The D and S decay amplitudes for b₁(1235) → ωπ, Phys.Lett.B 541 (2002) 35
• Light meson spectroscopy, Rev.Mod.Phys. 71 (1999) 1411-1462
• Measurement of the Differential Cross-section for the Reaction ²H (𝛾, P) 𝑁 at High Photon Energies and 𝜃 (c.m.) = 90-degrees, Phys.Rev.Lett. 61 (1988) 2530

Awards

• 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (with Daya Bay Collaboration)

• 2011 APS Fellow (Division of Nuclear Physics)

• 2010 David M. Darrin Counseling Award (Rensselaer)

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