Benjamin D. Day

1936-2013

Biographical sketch

• 1958 B.A., Wesleyan University
• 1963 Ph.D., Cornell University
• 1963-65 Assistant Research Physicist, University of California, Los Angeles
• 1965-67 Research Associate, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1967-68 Assistant Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1968-79 Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1979-84 Senior Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory

Honors, Visiting appointments, etc.

• 1971-72 Guggenheim Fellow, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
• 1981 Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Selected publications

1. Application of the Reference-Spectrum Method to the Nuclear Surface
   B. D. Day
   Phys. Rev. 136, B1594-B1608 (1964)

2. Improved Solution to the Bethe-Faddeev Equations
   Ben Day
   Phys. Rev. 151, 826-829 (1966)

3. Accurate calculation of the reaction matrix in light nuclei
   A. Kallio, B. D. Day
   Phys. Lett. 25B, 72-74 (1967)

4. Elements of the Brueckner-Goldstone Theory of Nuclear Matter
   B. D. Day
   Rev. Mod. Phys. 39, 719-744 (1967)

5. Accurate calculation of the reaction matrix in light nuclei and in nuclear matter
   A. Kallio, B. D. Day
   Nucl. Phys. A 124, 177-198 (1969)

6. Four-Hole-Line Diagrams in Nuclear Matter
   B. D. Day
   Phys. Rev. 187, 1269-1302 (1969)

7. Variation in Nuclear-Matter Binding Energies with Phase-Shift-Equivalent Two-Body Potentials
   F. Coester, S. Cohen, B. Day, and C. M. Vincent
   Phys. Rev. C 1, 769-776 (1970)

8. Short-Range Correlations in Quantum Liquids
   B. D. Day
   Phys. Rev. A 4, 681-684 (1971)

9. Variation in Nuclear-Matter Binding Energies with Phase-Shift-Equivalent Two-Body Potentials
   F. Coester, B. Day, and A. Goodman
   Phys. Rev. C 5, 1135-1136 (1972)

10. Three-Body Correlations in Nuclear Matter
    B. D. Day, F. Coester, and A. Goodman
    Phys. Rev. C 6, 1992-2010 (1972)

11. Microscopic description of the real alpha-nucleus potenial at large distances
    Y. Eisen, B. Day, E. Friedman
    Phys. Lett. 56B, 313-317 (1975)

12. Do lowest-order approximations adequately describe nuclear matter?
    V. R. Pandharipande, R. B. Wiringa, and B. D. Day
    Phys. Lett. 57B, 205-209 (1975)

13. Influence of virtual Δ states on the saturation properties of nuclear matter
    B. D. Day and F. Coester
    Phys. Rev. C 13, 1720-1740 (1976)

14. Importance of the non-open N-N force and of the exchange potential for elastic scattering of alpha particles
    Y. Eisen, B. Day
    Phys. Lett. 63B, 253-256 (1976)

15. Current state of nuclear matter calculations
    B. D. Day
    Rev. Mod. Phys. 50, 495-521 (1978)

16. Brueckner-bethe calculations of nuclear matter
    B. D. Day
    Nucl. Phys. A 328, 1-2 (1979)

17. Brueckner-Bethe Calculations of Nuclear Matter
    B. D. Day
    The Meson Theory of Nuclear Forces and Nuclear Matter
    edited by D. Schütte, K. Holinde, and K. Bleuler
    (Bibliographisches Institut, Zurich, 1980)

18. Brueckner-Bethe Calculations of Nuclear Matter
    B. D. Day
    Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi," (Varenna, 1980)

19. Nuclear Saturation from Two-Nucleon Potentials
    B. D. Day
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 47, 226-229 (1981)

20. Coupled-cluster calculation for nuclear matter and comparison with the hole-line expansion
    B. D. Day, John G. Zabolitzky
    Nucl. Phys. A 366, 221-244 (1981)

21. Three-body correlations in nuclear matter
    B. D. Day
    Phys. Rev. C 24, 1203-1271 (1981)

22. Nuclear Saturation and Nuclear Forces
    B. D. Day
    Comments Nucl. Part. Phys. 11, 115-126 (1983)

23. Brueckner-Bethe and variational calculations of nuclear matter
    B. D. Day and R. B. Wiringa
    Phys. Rev. C 32, 1057-1062 (1985)