Robert B. Wiringa

(the guy on the right)

• phone: 630/252-6134
• FAX: 630/252-6008
• e-mail: [email protected]

Biographical sketch

• 1972 B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 1974 M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 1978 Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 1978-80 Research Associate, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
• 1981-83 Research Associate, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1983-87 Assistant Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1987-99 Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
• 2000-16 Senior Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
• 2016- Argonne Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory

Visiting appointments

• 1993 Visiting Associate & Lecturer, California Institute of Technology

Honors, Organizations, Committees, etc.

• 1994-2001 Chief, Theory Group, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1997-2000 Webmaster, Division of Nuclear Physics, American Physical Society
• 1999 NSF Nuclear Theory Review Panel
• 1999 Fellow, American Physical Society
• 2000 University of Chicago Medal for Distinguished Performance at Argonne National Laboratory
• 2002-2004 Editorial Board, Physical Review C
• 2003-2005 National Advisory Committee, Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle
• 2005-2008 Argonne PS/CLS Programmatic and Operations Committee - Hires and Promotions
• 2006 Argonne Laboratory Director's Oversight Council - Hires and Promotions
• 2010 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics, American Physical Society
• 2011 Outstanding Referee, American Physical Society
• 2014 NSF Nuclear Theory Review Panel
• 2017-2018 Theory Group Leader, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory

Publications

Recent papers

1. In Memoriam: Steven C. Pieper (1943–2018)
   Bob Wiringa
   Nuc. Phys. News 29, 48 (2019)
2. Zemach moments and radii of ^2,3H and ^3,4He
   N. Nevo Dinur, O.J. Hernandez, S. Bacca, N. Barnea, C. Ji, S. Pastore, M. Piarulli, and R. B. Wiringa
   Phys. Rev. C 99, 034004 (2019) [10 pages]
3. Local chiral interactions and magnetic structure of few-nucleon systems
   R. Schiavilla, A. Baroni, S. Pastore, M. Piarulli, L. Girlanda, A. Kievsky, A. Lovato, L. E. Marcucci, Steven C. Pieper, M. Viviani, and R. B. Wiringa
   Phys. Rev. C 99, 034005 (2019) [20 pages]
4. Nuclear Charge Radii of ^10,11B
   Bernhard Maaß, Thomas Hüther, Jan Krause, Jörg Krämer, Kristian König, Alessandro Lovato, Peter Müller, Mariusz Puchalski, Krzysztof Pachucki, Robert Roth, Rodolfo Sánchez, Felix Sommer, R. B. Wiringa, and Wilfried Nörtershäuser
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 182501 (2019) [5 pages]
5. Comparison between Variational Monte Carlo and Shell Model Calculations of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Matrix Elements in Light Nuclei
   X.B. Wang, A.C. Hayes, J. Carlson, G.X. Dong, E. Mereghetti, S. Pastore, R.B. Wiringa
   Phys. Lett. B 798, 134974 (2019) [6 pages]
6. Interplay of dynamical and structure effects in the observables for ¹²C(p,2p) near 400 MeV with polarized and unpolarized beams
   A. Mecca, E.Cravo, A.Deltuva, R.Crespo, A. A. Cowley, A. Arriaga, R. B. Wiringa, T.Noro
   Phys. Lett. B 798, 134989 (2019) [6 pages]
7. Renormalized approach to neutrinoless double-β decay
   V. Cirigliano, W. Dekens, J. de Vries, M. L. Graesser, E. Mereghetti, S. Pastore, M. Piarulli, U. van Kolck, and R. B. Wiringa
   Phys. Rev. C 100, 055504 (2019) [36 pages]
8. Experimental study of the low-lying negative-parity states in ¹¹Be using the ¹²B(d,³He)¹¹Be reaction
   J. Chen, K. Auranen, M. L. Avila, B. B. Back, M. A. Caprio, C. R. Hoffman, D. Gorelov, B. P. Kay, S. A. Kuvin, Q. Liu, J. L. Lon, A. O. Machiavelli, D. G. McNeel, T. L. Tang, D. Santiago-Gonzalez, R. Talwar, J. Wu, G. Wilson, R. B. Wiringa, Y. L. Ye, C. X. Yuan, and H. L. Zang
   Phys. Rev. C 100, 064314 (2019) [12 pages]
9. Many-body effects in (p,pN) reactions within a unified approach
   R. Crespo, A. Arriaga, R. B. Wiringa, E. Cravo, A. Mecca, A. Deltuva
   Phys. Lett. B 803, 135355 (2020) [6 pages]
10. Quasielastic lepton scattering and back-to-back nucleons in the short-time approximation
    S. Pastore, J. Carlson, S. Gandolfi, R. Schiavilla, and R. B. Wiringa
    Phys. Rev. C 101, 044612 (2020) [16 pages]
11. Benchmark calculations of pure neutron matter with realistic nucleon-nucleon interactions
    M. Piarulli, I. Bombaci, D. Logoteta, A. Lovato, and R. B. Wiringa
    Phys. Rev. C 101, 045801 (2020) [17 pages]
12. Chiral Effective Field Theory Calculations of Weak Transitions in Light Nuclei
    G. B. King, L. Andreoli, S. Pastore, M. Piarulli, R. Schiavilla, R. B. Wiringa, J. Carlson, and S. Gandolfi
    Phys. Rev. C 102, 025501 (2020) [13 pages]
13. Reexamining the relation between the binding energy of finite nuclei and the equation of state of infinite nuclear matter
    M. C. Atkinson, W. H. Dickhoff, M. Piarulli, A. Rios, and R. B. Wiringa
    Phys. Rev. C 102, 044333 (2020) [13 pages]
14. Many-body factorization and position-momentum equivalence of nuclear short-range correlations
    R. Cruz-Torres, D. Lonardoni, R. Weiss, M. Piarulli, N. Barnea, D. W. Higinbotham, E. Piasetzky, A. Schmidt, L. B. Weinstein, R. B. Wiringa, & O. Hen
    Nat. Phys. 17, 306-310 (2021)
15. Reply to “Comment on ‘Reexamining the relation between the binding energy of finite nuclei and the equation of state of infinite nuclear matter’ ”
    M. C. Atkinson, W. H. Dickhoff, M. Piarulli, A. Rios, and R. B. Wiringa
    Phys. Rev. C 104, 059802 (2021) [2 pages]
16. Electron scattering on A=3 nuclei from quantum Monte Carlo based approaches
    L. Andreoli, J. Carlson, A. Lovato, S. Pastore, N. Rocco, and R. B. Wiringa
    Phys. Rev. C 105, 014002 (2022) [14 pages]
17. Mirror nucleon removal reactions in p-shell nuclei
    A. N. Kuchera, D. Bazin, T. Phan, J. A. Tostevin, M. Babo, T. Baumann, P. C. Bender, M. Bowry, J. Bradt, J. Brown, P. A. DeYoung, B. Elman, J. E. Finck, A. Gade, G. F. Grinyer, M. D. Jones, B. Longfellow, E. Lunderberg, T. H. Redpath, W. F. Rogers, K. Stiefel, M. Thoennessen, D. Votaw, D. Weisshaar, K. Whitmore, and R. B. Wiringa
    Phys. Rev. C 105, 034314 (2022) [8 pages]
18. Reply to “Comment on ‘Quasielastic lepton scattering and back-to-back nucleons in the short-time approximation’ ”
    S. Pastore, J. Carlson, R. Schiavilla, J. L. Barrow, S. Gandolfi, and R. B. Wiringa
    Phys. Rev. C 105, 049802 (2022) [3 pages]
19. Benchmark calculations of infinite neutron matter with realistic two- and three-nucleon potentials
    A. Lovato, I. Bombaci, D. Logoteta, M. Piarulli, and R. B. Wiringa
    Phys. Rev. C 105, 055808 (2022) [14 pages]
20. Isospin-symmetry implications on nuclear two-body distributions and short-range correlations
    Ronen Weiss, Alessandro Lovato, and R. B. Wiringa
    Phys. Rev. C 106, 054319 (2022) [11 pages]
21. Probing Spin-Isospin Excitations in Proton-Rich Nuclei via the ¹¹C(p,n)¹¹N Reaction
    J. Schmitt, G. B. King, R.G.T. Zegers, Y. Ayyad, D. Bazin, B.A. Brown, A. Carls, J. Chen, A.Davis, M.DeNudt, J.Droste, B.Gao, C.Hultquist, H.Iwasaki, S.Noji, S. Pastore, J. Pereira, M. Piarulli, H. Sakai, A. Stolz, R. Titus, R. B. Wiringa, and J. C. Zamora
    Phys. Rev. C 106, 054323 (2022) [10 pages]
22. Neutrinoless double-beta decay: combining quantum Monte Carlo and the nuclear shell model with the generalized contact formalism
    Ronen Weiss, Pablo Soriano, Alessandro Lovato, Javier Menendez, and R. B. Wiringa
    Phys. Rev. C 106, 065501 (2022) [16 pages]
23. Densities and momentum distributions in A≤12 nuclei from chiral effective field theory interactions
    M. Piarulli, S. Pastore, R.B. Wiringa, S. Brusilow, and R. Lim
    Phys. Rev. C 107, 014314 (2023) [11 pages]
24. High-resolution momentum distributions from low-resolution wave functions
    A. J. Tropiano, S. K. Bogner, R. J. Furnstahl, M. A. Hisham, A. Lovato, R. B. Wiringa
    Phys. Lett. B 852, 138591 (2024) [8 pages]
25. Quenching of the quantum p-strength in light exotic nuclei
    E. Cravo, R.B. Wiringa, R. Crespo, A. Arriaga, A. Deltuva, M. Piarulli
    Phys. Lett. B 859, 139087 (2024) [7 pages]
26. Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of magnetic form factors in light nuclei
    G. Chambers-Wall, A. Gnech, G. B. King, S. Pastore, M. Piarulli, R. Schiavilla, and R. B. Wiringa
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 212501 (2024) [8 pages]
27. Magnetic structure of A≤10 nuclei using the Norfolk nuclear models with quantum Monte Carlo methods
    G. Chambers-Wall, A. Gnech, G. B. King, S. Pastore, M. Piarulli, R. Schiavilla, and R. B. Wiringa
    Phys. Rev. C 110, 054316 (2024) [27 pages]
28. Longitudinal form factors of A≤10 nuclei in a chiral effective field theory approach
    G. B. King, G. Chambers-Wall, A. Gnech, S. Pastore, M. Piarulli, and R. B. Wiringa
    Phys. Rev. C 110, 054325 (2024) [10 pages]
29. Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of electron scattering from ¹²C in the Short-Time Approximation
    L. Andreoli, G. B. King, S. Pastore, M. Piarulli, J. Carlson, S. Gandolfi, R. B. Wiringa
    arXiv:2407.06986 [nucl-th] to be published in Phys. Rev. C
30. Exclusive J/ψ photo-production on nuclei
    Sang-Ho Kim, T.-S. H. Lee, R.B. Wiringa
    arXiv:2411.12187 [nucl-th]

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