Jolie Cizewski - directory page

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Position:	Professor Acting Dean of the Graduate School - New Brunswick
Research group:	Experimental nuclear physics
Email address:	cizewski@physics.rutgers.edu
Telephone:	(732) 445-3884
	(732) 445-2402 secretary
	(732) 445-4343 fax
Office:	Serin W222
Mailing address:	Jolie Cizewski
	Department of Physics and Astronomy Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 136 Frelinghuysen Road Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019 USA
Personal home page:	J. Cizewski public html

Research Activities

I am interested in studying and understanding the structure of heavy atomic nuclei (mass 80), and in particular, nuclei with many more neutrons than stable isotopes. Theoretical models predict that the shell structure that characterizes stable nuclei may be quenched in very neutron-rich nuclei. Some of these neutron-rich nuclei also lie along the path that limits the rapid neutron capture process of nucleosynthesis. The studies of the properties of unstable nuclei are performed at the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee using beams of rare isotopes. The current focus is on determining the single-neutron excitations of neutron-rich N=50 and N=82 nuclei, and probing the shell structure far from stability. I also serve as the Director of the Center of Excellence for Radioactive Ion Beam Studies for Stewardship Science.

Earlier work involved studying highly elongated, superdeformed, excitations in heavy nuclei, the properties of nuclei near the proton drip line, and the role of dynamical symmetries and supersymmetries in understanding collective excitations in nuclei.

Teaching activities

I currently supervise graduate students and post-doctoral scholars, but do not teach in the classroom.

Administrative activities

As Acting Dean of the Graduate School - New Brunswick I have broad responsibility for and oversight of graduate education across the disciplines. I also serve on committees of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society and the AAAS.

In the news...

I have recently been profiled on the Physics Central web site.

Some Recent Publications

Physical Review server is generally accessible though access may be restricted.

Study of the ¹²⁴Sn(d,p) Reaction in Inverse Kinematics Close to the Coulomb Barrier, K.L. Jones, R.L. Kozub, C. Baktash, D.W. Bardayan, J.C. Blackmon, W.C. Catford, J.A. Cizewski, R.P. Fitzgerald, M.S. Johnson, R.J. Livesay, Z. Ma, C.D. Nesaraja, D. Shapira, M.S. Smith, J.S. Thomas, D.W. Visser, Phys. Rev. C70 (2004) 067602.

First Study of the Level Structure of the r-Process Nucleus ⁸³Ge, J. S. Thomas, D. W. Bardayan, J. C. Blackmon, J. A. Cizewski, U. Greife, C. J. Gross, M. S. Johnson, K. L. Jones, R. L. Kozub, J. F. Liang, R. J. Livesay, Z. Ma, B. H. Moazen, C. D. Nesaraja, D. Shapira, and M. S. Smith, Phys. Rev. C71 (2005) 021302(R).

Neutron Transfer Reactions with Neutron-Rich Radioactive Ion Beams, J.A. Cizewski, K.L. Jones, S.D. Pain, J.S. Thomas, C. Baktash, D.W. Bardayan, J.C. Blackmon, C. Gross, J.F. Liang, D. Shapira, M.S. Smith, R.L. Kozub, B.H. Moazen, C.D. Nesaraja, H.K. Carter, M.S. Johnson, R.P. Fitzgerald, D.W. Visser, U. Greife, R.J. Livesay, W. Catford, Z. Ma, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B241 (2005) 200-03.

Single neutron transfer experiments close to the r-process line, K.L. Jones, C. Baktash, D.W. Bardayan, J.C. Blackmon, W.N. Catford, J.A. Cizewski, R. P. Fitzgerald, U. Greife, C.J. Gross, M.S. Johnson, R.L. Kozub, J.F. Liang, R.J. Livesay, Z. Ma, B.H. Moazen, C.D. Nesaraja, D. Shapira, M.S. Smith, J.S. Thomas, D. Visser, Acta Physica Polonica B38, 1205 (2007).

(d,pγ) Reactions and the Surrogate Reaction Technique, J.A. Cizewski, R. Hatarik, K.L. Jones, S.D. Pain, J.S. Thomas, M.S. Johnson, D.W. Bardayan, J.C. Blackmon, M.S. Smith, R.L. Kozub, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B261, 938 (2007).

Development of a High Solid-Angle Silicon Detector Array for Measurement of Transfer Reactions in Inverse Kinematics, S.D. Pain, J.A. Cizewski, R. Hatarik, K.L. Jones, J.S. Thomas, D.W. Bardayan, J.C. Blackmon, C.D. Nesaraja, M.S. Smith, R.L. Kozub, M.S. Johnson, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B261, 1122 (2007).

Single-neutron excitations in neutron-rich ⁸³Ge and ⁸⁵Se, J. S. Thomas, G. Arbanas, D. W. Bardayan, J. C. Blackmon, J. A. Cizewski, D. J. Dean, R. P. Fitzgerald, U. Greife, C. J. Gross, M. S. Johnson, K. L. Jones, R. L. Kozub, J. F. Liang, R. J. Livesay, Z. Ma, B. H. Moazen, C. D. Nesaraja, D. Shapira, M. S. Smith, and D. W. Visser, submitted to Phys. Rev. C (2007).

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Revised August 24, 2007