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Dr. Fred Wietfeldt

Dept. of Physics

2001 Percival Stern Hall

Tulane University

New Orleans, LA 70118

 

 

 

Fred Wietfeldt, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

 

Office: 5042 Percival Stern Hall

Office Phone: (504) 862-3175

 

Lab(s): 4057, 4063, 5058 Percival Stern Hall

Lab Phone:

 

Fax: (504) 862-8702

 

Email: few@tulane.edu

Research Interests:

Experimental Nuclear Phyiscs - Cold and Ultracold Neutrons

 

Recent Courses:

PHYS 131/2 – General Physics I & II

PHYS 235/6 – Modern Physics I & II

PHYS 353 – Advanced Laboratory

 

Education:

B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1984)

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1994)

 

Recent Publications:


"Magnetic trapping of neutrons", P.R. Huffman et al., Nature 403, 62 (2000).


"New limit on the D coefficient in polarized neutron decay", L. J. Lising et al., Phys. Rev. C 62, 05501 (2000).


"Magnetic trapping of ultracold neutrons", C. R. Brome, et al., Phys. Rev. C 63, 05502 (2001).


"Experimental value of gA/gV from a measurement of both P-odd correlations in free neutron decay", Yu. Mostovoi, et al., Phys. At. Nucl. 64, 1955 (2001).


"A cryogenic radiometer for absolute neutron rate measurement", Z. Chowdhuri et al., Rev. Sci. Instr. 74, 4280 (2003).


"Measurement of the neutron lifetime using a proton trap", M. S. Dewey et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 152302 (2003).

 

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