Colorado School of Mines


Fred SARAZIN
Associate Professor (Physics)
PhD 1999, GANIL - University of Caen (France)
Engineer 1996, ISMRA - ENSI de Caen (France)

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Contact Information

Department of Physics
1523, Illinois Street
Golden, CO 80401

Office: Meyer Hall 440

Phone: (303) 273 3283
Fax: (303) 273 3919
Email: fsarazin@mines.edu

Short CV available (PDF format).


Always looking for good students [Senior design / MSc / PhD]
Interested by my research program? Please drop by my office or email me.

Teaching:
Future:
F'10: Introductory to Nuclear Physics (PHGN422)
S'10: Honors Modern Physics (PHGN310) - Course homepage (Class notes,...)

Current:
F'09: No teaching duties
Senior Design Practice (PHGN 481/482) - List of available senior design projects

Past few semesters:
S'09: Honors Modern Physics (PHGN310)
F'08: Introductory to Nuclear Physics (PHGN422)
S'08: No teaching duties
F'07: Modern  Physics (PHGN300)
+ Senior Design Practice (PHGN 481/482) every semester

Research:
Experimental low-energy nuclear structure and astrophysics with radioactive beams
Current research topics & experiment proposals (spokesperson or co-spokesperson):
Halo nuclei
Beta-decay of 11Li: TRIUMF - S1008 [completed]
Ground-state mass determination of 11Li: TRIUMF - S1074 [completed]
Beta-decay of 14Be: TRIUMF - S1054 [pending]
Two-neutron transfer using (6He,4He) on 9Be and 12C: TRIUMF - S1201 [pending]
Shell closures far from stability
Probing shell structure with beta- and beta-neutron delayed gamma-spectroscopy: TRIUMF - S955 [partially completed]
Two-proton correlation
Two-proton decay from excited states in 17Ne: HRIBF - RIB-155 [pending]
Breakout of the CNO cycle
Study of 19Na and 22Mg using (3He,p): TRIUMF - S927 [pending]
Detector development (collaboration)
SHARC: Silicon Highly-segmented Array for Reaction and Coulex (TRIUMF)
VANDLE: Versatile Array of Neutron Detectors for Low Energies (ORNL)
DESCANT: DEuterated SCintillator Array for Neutron Tagging (TRIUMF)

Ultra-high energy cosmic-rays with the Pierre Auger observatory
Current research topics:
Search for exotic signatures in Ultra-High Energy Cosmic-Rays
Assembly and deployment of a R&D array in southeastern Colorado
Communication system for the northern Pierre Auger observatory


Links
Nuclear:
CSM Nuclear Physics homepage
Silicon Array for TIGRESS workshop - CSM, February 24-25, 2006
TRIUMF - Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics
Physics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
The Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility at ORNL (HRIBF)
Astroparticles:
The Pierre Auger observatory homepage
The northern Pierre Auger observatory homepage
The International Astroparticle Physics Symposium (IAPS) - CSM, May 6-8, 2008

Selected Publications (among about 60 since 1999)
Nuclear:
Lineshape analysis of Doppler-broadened g-lines following the beta-decay of 11Li
C.M.Mattoon, F.Sarazin, et al,
Phys. Rev. C80 (2009) 034318
Beta-decay of 32Na
C.M.Mattoon, F.Sarazin, et al.
Phys. Rev. C75 (2007) 017302
Halo Neutrons and the beta-decay of 11Li
F.Sarazin, et al.
Phys. Rev. C70 (2004) 031302
Strong Resonances in Elastic Scattering of Radioactive 21Na on Protons
C.Ruiz, F.Sarazin, et al.
Phys. Rev. C65 (2002) 042801
Shape coexistence and the N=28 shell closure far from stability
F.Sarazin, et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 (2000) 5062
Astroparticles:
Observation of the suppression of the flux of cosmic rays above 4x1019eV
The Pierre Auger Collaboration
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 (2008) 061101
Upper limit on the diffuse flux of ultrahigh energy tau neutrinos from the Pierre Auger Observatory
The Pierre Auger Collaboration
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 (2008) 211101
Upper limit on the cosmic ray photon flux above 1019eV using the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory
The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Astropart. Phys. 29 (2008) 243
Correlation of the highest energy cosmic rays with nearby extragalactic objects
The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Science 318 (2007) 938


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