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Ronald Ransome - directory page

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Position: Professor
Research group: Experimental nuclear physics
Email address: ransome@physics.rutgers.edu
Email for undergrad director related issues: upd@physics.rutgers.edu
Telephone: (848) 445-8779
Office: Serin W216
Mailing address: Ronald Ransome
  Department of Physics and Astronomy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
136 Frelinghuysen Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019 USA
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Teaching & Service Activities

I currently Undergraduate Program Director.


Research Activities
(with Ronald Gilman)

My major research focus is the MINERvA experiment at Fermilab, a high statistic neutrino experiment. My other research is centered on studies of spin physics and subnucleonic effects in light nuclei using electron beams at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLAB) 6 GeV accelerator, CEBAF, in Virginia. The primary goal of our experiments is to determine the basic structure of the nucleon and how that is modified in the nuclear environment. We are particularly interested in using spin degrees of freedom as a sensitive tool for probing nucleon structure. In order to study spin structure we built a large polarimeter that is mounted in the focal plane of the hadron spectrometer at CEBAF Hall A.

More information, with links and some future plans, can be found in the nuclear group experimental online projects page .

Some Recent Publications


Please send any comments on this page to ransome@physics.rutgers.edu.

Revised Nov 2, 2020