Steven C. Pieper

(the guy on the left)

1943-2018

Biographical sketch

• 1965 B.S., University of Rochester
• 1970 Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 1970-1972 Research Associate, Case Western Reserve University
• 1972-1974 Research Associate, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1974-1978 Assistant Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1978-1995 Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1996-2011 Senior Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
• 2011-2015 Senior Physicist - Special Term Appointee, Argonne National Laboratory
• 2016-2018 Senior Physicist Emeritus, Argonne National Laboratory

Visiting appointments

• 1988 Sabbatical, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 1989 Sabbatical, University of Pisa, Italy

Honors, Organizations, Committees, etc.

• 1987-1990 Chief, Theory Group, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1994-1999 Executive Committee, Energy Research Supercomputer Users' Group
• 1996 Fellow, American Physical Society
• 2000 University of Chicago Medal for Distinguished Performance at Argonne National Laboratory
• 2010 American Physical Society Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics

Recent papers

1. Electromagnetic and neutral-weak response functions of ⁴He and ¹²C
   A. Lovato, S. Gandolfi, J. Carlson, Steven C. Pieper, R. Schiavilla
   Phys. Rev. C 91, 062501 (2015) [6 pages]
2. Quantum Monte Carlo methods for nuclear physics
   J. Carlson, S. Gandolfi, F. Pederiva, Steven C. Pieper, R. Schiavilla, K.E. Schmidt, R.B. Wiringa
   Rev. Mod. Phys. 87, 1067 (2015) [52 pages]
3. Electromagnetic Response of ¹²C: A First-Principles Calculation
   A. Lovato, S. Gandolfi, J. Carlson, Steven C. Pieper, R. Schiavilla
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 082502 (2016) [5 pages]
4. Local chiral potentials with Δ-intermediate states and the structure of light nuclei
   M. Piarulli, L. Girlanda, R. Schiavilla, A. Kievsky, A. Lovato, L. E. Marcucci, Steven C. Pieper, M. Viviani, R. B. Wiringa
   Phys. Rev. C 94, 054007 (2016) [12 pages]
5. Evolution of a minimal parallel programming model
   Ewing Lusk, Ralph Butler, Steven C Pieper
   The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 10.1177/1094342017703448 (2017)
6. Variational calculation of the ground state of closed-shell nuclei up to A=40
   D. Lonardoni, A. Lovato, Steven C. Pieper, R. B. Wiringa
   Phys. Rev. C 96, 024326 (2017) [22 pages]
7. Light-nuclei spectra from chiral dynamics
   M. Piarulli, A. Baroni, L. Girlanda, A. Kievsky, A. Lovato, Ewing Lusk, L.E. Marcucci, Steven C. Pieper, R. Schiavilla, M. Viviani, and R.B. Wiringa
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 052503 (2018) [6 pages]
8. Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of weak transitions in A=6--10 nuclei
   S. Pastore, A. Baroni, J. Carlson, S. Gandolfi, Steven C. Pieper, R. Schiavilla, R.B. Wiringa
   Phys. Rev. C 97, 022501(R) (2018) [5 pages]
9. Quantum Monte Carlo calculation of neutral-current ν−12C inclusive quasielastic scattering
   A. Lovato, S. Gandolfi, J. Carlson, Ewing Lusk, Steven C. Pieper, and R. Schiavilla
   Phys. Rev. C 97, 022502(R) (2018) [5 pages]
10. Local chiral interactions, the tritium Gamow-Teller matrix element, and the three-nucleon contact term
    A. Baroni, R. Schiavilla, L.E. Marcucci, L. Girlanda, A. Kievsky, A. Lovato, S. Pastore, M. Piarulli, Steven C. Pieper, M. Viviani, R. B. Wiringa
    Phys. Rev. C 98, 044003 (2018) [15 pages]
11. 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, R. B. Wiringa
    Phys. Rev. C 99, 034005 (2019) [20 pages]
12. Impact of ¹⁶O(γ,α)¹²C measurements on the ¹²C(α,γ)¹⁶O astrophysical reaction rate
    R. J. Holt, B. W. Filippone, Steven C. Pieper
    Phys. Rev. C 99, 055802 (2019) [7 pages]

Selected previous papers