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

ORCID

orcid.org/0000-0001-8537-3655

Publications

Recent papers

1. 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]
2. 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]
3. 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]
4. 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]
5. 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]
6. 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]
7. Neutrinoless double-β 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]
8. 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]
9. 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]
10. 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]
11. 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]
12. 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]
13. 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]
14. 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, and R. B. Wiringa
    Phys. Rev. C 110, 064004 (2024) [13 pages]
15. Exclusive J/ψ photo-production on nuclei
    Sang-Ho Kim, T.-S. H. Lee, R.B. Wiringa
    Phys. Rev. C 112, 015206 (2025) [16 pages]
16. Electromagnetic radii of light nuclei from variational Monte Carlo calculations
    G. B. King, G. Chambers-Wall, A. Gnech, S. Pastore, M. Piarulli, and R. B. Wiringa
    Phys. Rev. C 112, L041302 (2025) [6 pages]
17. Three-nucleon lepton-number-violating potentials in chiral EFT and their matrix elements in light nuclei
    G. Chambers-Wall, J. Lieffers, G. B. King, E. Mereghetti, S. Pastore, M. Piarulli, R. B. Wiringa
    Phys. Rev. C 113, 0255022 (2026) [31 pages]
18. Ab initio Glauber-theory calculations of high-energy nuclear scattering observables using variational Monte Carlo wave functions
    W. Horiuchi, Y. Suzuki, R. B. Wiringa
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 202501 (2026) [6 pages]
19. Glauber-theory analysis of nuclear reactions on ¹²C target with variational Monte Carlo wave functions
    W. Horiuchi, Y. Suzuki, R. B. Wiringa
    Phys. Rev. C 113, 064601 (2026) [21 pages]
20. Quantum Monte Carlo calculation of δ_NS in ¹⁰C using an effective field theory approach
    G. B. King, J. Carlson, A. R. Flores, S. Gandolfi, E. Mereghetti, S. Pastore, M. Piarulli, R. B. Wiringa
    arXiv:2509.07310 [nucl-th] accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C
21. Quantum Monte Carlo calculation of δ_C in the superallowed beta decay of ¹⁰C
    M. Piarulli, R. B. Wiringa, A. Lovato, G. B. King, S. Pastore
    arXiv:2605.14006 [nucl-th]

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