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 (soon 463)

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

Office hours

Short CV available (2 pages NSF-style)

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'12: Introductory to Nuclear Physics (PHGN422)

Current:
S'12: Honors Modern Physics (PHGN310) - Course homepage (Class notes,...)
Senior Design Practice (PHGN 481/482) - List of available senior design projects

Past few semesters:
F'11: Introductory to Nuclear Physics (PHGN422)
S'11: One course buy-out
F'10: Introductory to Nuclear Physics (PHGN422)
S'10: Honors Modern Physics (PHGN310)
F'09: One course buy-out
S'09: Honors Modern Physics (PHGN310)
F'08: Introductory to Nuclear Physics (PHGN422)
S'08: One course buy-out
F'07: Modern  Physics (PHGN300)
+ Senior Design Practice (PHGN 481/482) every semester

Research:
Experimental low-energy nuclear structure and astrophysics with radioactive beams
group members and alumni:
Postdocs: Sergey Ilyuskin (2011-), Ulrike Hager (2010-2011, faculty at Mines), Francesco Raiola (2008-2011, job hunting)
PhD students: Keri Kuhn (2011-), Ryan Braid (2010-), Duane Smalley (2008-), Caleb Mattoon (2004-2007, LLNL)
MSc students: David Walter (2010-), Matt Porter-Peden (2006-2008, GSE systems)

+ Undergrad students (senior design)

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 [some beam]
Investigating halo states with the 11Be(p,d) reaction at 10 A.MeV: TRIUMF - S1297 [pending]
Is the first excited state of 14B an excited halo state? NSCL - [to be re-submitted]
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
group members and alumni:
PhD students: Eric Mayotte (2011-)
MSc students: Eric Mayotte (2010-2011, PhD@Mines), Keri Kuhn (2010-2011, PhD@Mines), Kathleen Gesterling (2008-2009, Research Electro-Optics)
+ Undergrad students (senior design)

Current research topics:
Search for exotic signatures in Ultra-High Energy Cosmic-Rays
Assembly and deployment of a R&D array in southeastern Colorado


Links
Nuclear:
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)
The National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL)
The new Facility for Radioactive Ion Beams at MSU (FRIB)
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 90 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:
Measurement of the Depth of Maximum of Extensive Air Showers above 1018 eV
The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104 (2010) 091101
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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