Richard R. Chasman

1934-2018

Biographical sketch

• 1955 A.B., Harvard University
• 1958 Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
• 1958-63 Assistant Chemist, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1963-72 Associate Chemist, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1972-86 Chemist, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1986-2002 Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
• 2002-18, Post-retirement Research Participant, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1966-67 Sabbatical, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
• 1974-75 Sabbatical, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Member, American Physical Society

Recent papers

1. Very extended nuclear shapes near A = 100
   R. R. Chasman
   Phys. Rev. C 64, 024311-1:6 (2001)
2. Persistence of deformed shapes in the neutron-deficient Pb region
   R. R. Chasman, J.L. Egido and L.M. Robledo
   Phys. Lett. B 513, 325-329 (2001)
3. N-P pairing in nuclei
   R. R. Chasman
   Phys. Lett. B 524, 81-86 (2002)
4. Effects of n-p pairing on nuclear structure
   R. R. Chasman
   Phys. Lett. B 553, 204-210 (2003)
5. n-p Pairing - diagonal matrix elements: Wigner energy, symmetry energy and spectroscopy
   R. R. Chasman
   Phys. Lett. B 577, 47-53 (2003)
6. Energy levels of ²⁴⁷Cm populated in the alpha-decay of ²⁵¹Cf
   I. Ahmad, R. R. Chasman, J. P. Greene, F. G. Kondev, E. F. Moore, E. Browne, C. E. Porter, and L. K. Felker
   Phys. Rev. C 68, 044306-1:8 (2003)
7. Energy levels of ²⁴⁹Bk populated in the alpha decay of ₉₉²⁵³Es and beta-decay of ₉₆²⁴⁹Cm
   I. Ahmad, F.G. Kondev, E.F. Moore, M.P. Carpenter, R.R. Chasman, J.P. Greene, R.V.F. Janssens, T. Lauritsen, C.J. Lister, D. Seweryniak, R.W. Hoff, J.E. Evans, R.W. Lougheed, C.E. Porter, and L.K. Felker
   Phys. Rev. C 71, 054305-1:16 (2005)
8. Energy levels of ²⁵¹Cf populated in the alpha decay of ₁₀₀²⁵⁵Fm and EC decay of ₉₉²⁵¹Es
   I. Ahmad, J.P. Greene, E.F. Moore, F.G. Kondev, R.R. Chasman, C.E. Porter, and L.K. Felker
   Phys. Rev. C 72, 054308-1:11 (2005)
9. Variational Approach to Configuration Interaction
   R. R. Chasman
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 262501-1:4 (2005)
10. n-p Pairing, Wigner Energy, and Shell Gaps
    R. R. Chasman
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 082501-1:4 (2007)
11. Neutron single-particle states above the N=164 subshell in ₉₈²⁵¹Cf and ₉₆²⁴⁹Cm studied by neutron transfer reactions
    I. Ahmad and R. R. Chasman
    Phys. Rev. C 80, 064315-1:6 (2009)
12. Pair-vibrational states in the presence of neutron-proton pairing
    R. R. Chasman and P. Van Isacker
    Phys. Lett. B 685, 55-58 (2010)
13. Electron capture decay of 58-min ²²⁹U and levels in ²²⁹Pa
    I. Ahmad, R. R. Chasman, J. P. Greene, F. G. Kondev, and S. Zhu
    Phys. Rev. C 92, 024313 (2015)

Selected previous papers