Juan Manfredi

  • Program Years: 2013-2017
  • Academic Institution: Michigan State University
  • Field of Study: Nuclear Physics
  • Academic Advisor: Betty Tsang
  • Practicum(s):
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2014)
  • Degree(s):
    BA Mathematics and Physics, Washington University in St Louis, 2012
    PhD Physics, Michigan State University, 2018

Current Status

Publications

Selected publications:

R. J. Charity, J. M. Elson, J. Manfredi, R. Shane, L. G. Sobotka, Z. Chajecki, D. Coupland, H. Iwasaki, M. Kilburn, Jenny Lee, W. G. Lynch, A. Sanetullaev, M. B. Tsang, J. Winkelbauer, M. Youngs, S. T. Marley, D. V. Shetty, and A. H. Wuosmaa, "Spin alignment of excited projectiles due to target spin-flip interactions." Phys. Rev. C 91, 024610 (2015).

K.W. Brown, R.J. Charity, L.G. Sobotka, Z. Chajecki, L.V. Grigorenko, I.A. Egorova, Yu.L. Parfenova, M.V. Zhukov, S. Bedoor, W. W. Buhro, J.M. Elson, W.G. Lynch, J. Manfredi, D.G. McNeel, W. Reviol, R. Shane, R.H. Showalter, M.B. Tsang, J.R. Winkelbauer, and A.H. Wuosmaa, "Observation of Long-Range Three-Body Coulomb Effects in the Decay of 16Ne." Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 232501 (2014).

I.A. Egorova, R.J. Charity, L.V. Grigorenko, Z. Chajecki, D. Coupland, J.M. Elson, T.K. Ghosh, M.E. Howard8 H. Iwasaki, M. Kilburn, Jenny Lee, W.G. Lynch, J. Manfredi, S.T. Marley, A. Sanetullaev, R. Shane, D.V. Shetty, L.G. Sobotka, M.B. Tsang, J. Winkelbauer, A.H. Wuosmaa, M. Youngs, and M.V. Zhukov, "Democratic decay of 6Be exposed by correlations." Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 109, 202502 (2013).

J. Manfredi, R. J. Charity, K. Mercurio, R. Shane, L. G. Sobotka, A. H. Wuosmaa, A. Banu, L. Trache, and R. E. Tribble, "Alpha decay of the excited states in 12C at 7.65 and 9.64 MeV." Phys. Rev. C, vol. 85, 037603 (2012).

R. J. Charity, J. M. Elson, J. Manfredi, R. Shane, L. G. Sobotka, B. A. Brown, Z. Chajecki, D. Coupland, H. Iwasaki, M. Kilburn, Jenny Lee, W. G. Lynch, A. Sanetullaev, M. B. Tsang, J. Winkelbauer, M. Youngs, S. T. Marley, D. V. Shetty, A. H. Wuosmaa, T. K. Ghosh, and M. E. Howard, "Investigations of three-, four-, and five-particle decay channels of levels in light nuclei created using a 9C beam." Phys. Rev. C, vol. 84, 014320 (2011).

R. J. Charity, J. M. Elson, J. Manfredi, R. Shane, L. G. Sobotka, Z. Chajecki, D. Coupland, H. Iwasaki, M. Kilburn, J. Lee, W. G. Lynch, A. Sanetullaev, M. B. Tsang, J. Winkelbauer, M. Youngs, S. T. Marley, D. V. Shetty, A. H. Wuosmaa, T. K. Ghosh, and M. E. Howard, "Isobaric multiplet mass equation for A=7 and 8." Phys. Rev. C, vol. 84, 051308 (2011).

R. J. Charity, J. M. Elson, J. Manfredi, R. Shane, L. G. Sobotka, Z. Chajecki, D. Coupland, H. Iwasaki, M. Kilburn, Jenny Lee, W. G. Lynch, A. Sanetullaev, M. B. Tsang, J. Winkelbauer, M. Youngs, S. T. Marley, D. V. Shetty, A. H. Wuosmaa, T. K. Ghosh, and M. E. Howard, "2p-2p decay of 8C and isospin-allowed 2p decay of the isobaric-analog state in 8B." Phys. Rev. C, vol. 82, 041304(R) (2010).

Awards

National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory Fellow, 08/2012-Present

Michigan State University College of Natural Sciences Recruiting Fellow, 08/2012-Present

Summa cum laude (highest honors), Washington University, 08/2008-05/2012

MARC U-STAR Fellow (National Institute of Health), 01/2011-05/2012

Eliot Scholarship, Washington University, 08/2008-05/2012