Experimental Nuclear Physics

Research Summary
Nikos Sparveris is the Bruce Taggart Professor of Physics at Temple University. He holds a doctoral degree from the University of Athens, Greece, and during the early stages of his career he was a postdoctoral associate at the Institute of Accelerating Systems & Applications (IASA) and a senior postdoctoral associate at MIT, before joining Temple University as an Assistant Professor in 2010. His primary research interest focuses on the study of hadrons structure. Towards that end, he has led several experimental efforts in the US at Bates/MIT and at Jefferson Lab, and in Europe at the Mainz Microtron (MAMI) and Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), with an emphasis on understanding the low energy structure of the nucleon. He has published over 130 papers in peer-reviewed journals, invited review articles, he has mentored 7 PhD students, and he has organized conferences and workshops in the field, most recently the Low-Q-2023 (Nucleon Structure at low Q). He currently serves as a spokesperson of three active experiments at Jefferson Lab, that aim to measure various facets of the proton structure e.g. the polarizabilities and transition form factors, while in parallel his group has a central involvement in the MUSE (proton radius) experiment at PSI. 

Education
PhD, University of Athens, 2002.
MS in Nuclear & Particle Physics, University of Athens, 1998.
BS in Physics, University of Athens, 1996.

Selected Publications

  • N. Sparveris, Proton Electromagnetic Generalized Polarizabilities, Front. Phys. 12, 1426128 (2024).
  • R. Li et al., Measured electromagnetic structure deviates from theoretical predictions, Nature 611, 265 (2022).
  • H. Atac, M. Constantinou, Z.-E. Meziani, M. Paolone, and N. Sparveris, Measurement of the neutron charge radius and the role of its constituents, Nature Com. 12 (2021) 1, 1759.
  • H. Atac, M. Constantinou, Z.-E. Meziani, M. Paolone, and N. Sparveris, Charge radii of the nucleon from its flavor dependent Dirac form factors, Eur. Phys. J. A 57 (2021) 65.
  • H. Fonvieille, B. Pasquini and N. Sparveris, Virtual Compton Scattering and Nucleon Generalized Polarizabilities, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 113 (2020) 103754.

Awards

  • Bruce Taggart Professorship, Temple University, 2023.
  • Dean's Distinguished Excellence in Research Award, Temple, 2022.
  • Pythagoras Fellowship, Hellenic Ministry of Education, 2004.
  • Peter Demos award, MIT Bates LAC, 2002.

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