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Scott Nutter

Professor of Physics

Northern Kentucky University

Office: Science Center 147
Phone: (859) 572-5369

FAX: (859) 572-6092

Email : nutters@nku.edu

Mailing address:
Dept. of Physics and Geology
SC 147
Northern Kentucky University
Highland Heights, KY 41076

SCHEDULE

Recent Antarctica trip blog (2011):

http://astroantarctica.blogspot.com

January/February 2008 CREAM expedition to the Antarctic

(with pictures!)

Old Antarctica Blog

 
  • Classes (Spring 2012): PHY 410 (E&M), PHY 494 (Seminar), PHY315 (Astrophysics)
  • Office hours: T: 2:00 – 3:30 pm; W: 8:30-9:30 am, or by appointment, or (take a chance!) drop by.
  • Education: Ph.D. in High Energy Physics (minor in Astrophysics), Indiana University; M.S. Indiana University; B.S. University of Georgia.
  • Research Interests: Experimental cosmic ray particle astrophysics; instrument design, fabrication, and testing; computer Monte Carlo modeling of instruments, and computer analysis of cosmic ray instrument data.

Current experiments: 

    • CREST Home page
    • CREAM Home page
    • Old stuff:
      1. pictures from 2004 CERN beam test of CREAM TCD paddles 
      2. Once upon a time I thought I would work AUGER, and I visited the site in Argentina and got some really cool pictures here. 
      3. Local CREST efforts, such as veto paddle construction pictures
  • Selected Recent Publications:
    • “The Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass (CREAM) timing charge detector.” H.S. Ahn et al. (CREAM Collaboration), Nucl. Inst. & Meth. A 602, 525-536 (2009).
    • “Measurements of cosmic-ray secondary nuclei at high energies with the first flight of the CREAM balloon-borne experiment.” H.S. Ahn et al. (CREAM collaboration), Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 30, Issue 3, pp. 133-141, 2008.
    • “Preliminary results from the second flight of CREAM.” P.S. Marrocchesi et al., Advances in Space Research, Vol. 41, Issue 12, pp. 2002-2009, 2008.
    •  “CREAM: 70 days of flight from 2 launches in Antarctica.” E. S. Seo et al., Advances in Space Research, 42, 1656-1663, 2008.
    • “First measurements of cosmic-ray nuclei at high energy with CREAM.” S. Wakely et al., Advances in Space Research, Vol. 42, Issue 3, pp. 403-408, 2008.
    •  “Cosmic-ray energetics and mass (CREAM) balloon project.” E.S. Seo, H.S. Ahn, J.J. Beatty, S. Coutu, M.J. Choi, M.A. DuVernois, O. Ganel, T.G. Kang, K.C. Kim, M.H. Lee, L. Lutz, P.S. Marrocchesi, S. Minnick, K.W. Min, S. Nutter, H. Park, I.H. Park, E. Schindhelm, R. Sina, S. Swordy, J. Wu, J. Yang, Advances in Space Research, Volume 33, Issue 10, 1777-1785 (2004).
    • “New measurement of the cosmic-ray positron fraction from 5 to 15 GeV.” J.J.Beatty et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 241102 (2004).
    • “New measurement of the altitude dependence of the atmospheric muon intensity”  J.J. Beatty et al. Phys. Rev. D 70, 092005 (2004).
    • “The Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass (CREAM) Experiment Timing Charge Detector.”   J. J. Beatty et al. (CREAM collaboration), Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 4858: Particle Astrophysics Instrumentation, 4858, 248, 2003
    •  “Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass (CREAM) Balloon Experiment,” Advances in Space Research, 30(5), 1263-1272, 2002.
    •  “Measurement of the cosmic ray antiproton to proton abundance ratio between 4 and 50 GeV”  Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 271101 (2001).
    • “Cosmic ray electrons and positrons from 1-100 GeV: measurements with HEAT and their interpretation.” Astrophysical Journal. 559, 296-303 (2001).
    • “Energy Spectra, Altitude Profiles and Charge Ratios of Atmospheric Muons” Phys. Rev. D. 62, 032001  (2000).
    • “A Measurement of the Isotopic Composition of Cosmic Ray Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, and Boron up to 1700MeV/amu.”  Astrophysical Journal. 534, p.757 (2000).
    • “Cosmic-Ray Positrons: Are there primary sources?”  Astroparticle Physics 11, pp. 429-435 (1999).
    • “The Energy Spectra and Relative Abundances of Electrons and Positrons in the Galactic Cosmic Radiation.” Astrophysical Journal vol. 498 n. 2 pp. 779-789 (1998). 
    • “Cosmic ray reentrant electron albedo: High-Energy Antimatter Telescope balloon measurements from Fort Sumner, New Mexico.” Journal of Geophysical Research 103, 4817 (1998). 
    • “Performance of the High-Energy Antimatter Telescope (HEAT): A Magnet Spectrometer-Based Instrument for the Study of Cosmic Ray Positrons.” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A400, 34 (1997). 
    • “Measurements of the Cosmic-Ray Positron Fraction from 1 to 50 GeV.” Astrophysical Journal 482 (1997) L191. 

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Kentucky Academy of Sciences http://kyscience.org

 

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Last update January 19, 2012 SLN