Personal Profiles
Prof. Paddy Regan
Professor
BSc (1988 Liverpool), DPhil (1991, York), CPhys, FInstP
Short Biography:
Paddy Regan joined the academic staff in the Physics Department at Surrey in 1994 after holding postdoctoral research positions at the University of Pennsylvania, USA and the Australian National University in Canberra. Paddy is the MSc in Radiation and Environmental Protection course coordinator. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2000. He has been a Visiting Research Associate at the Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory, Yale University since 2002 and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Notre Dame (London Programme) since 2003. He is the Collaboration Spokesperson for the RISING Collaboration which studies the internal structure of exotic forms of atomic nuclei following either metastable state or beta-decay. He is the Chair of the GSI Users Excecutive Committee and a member of the Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) Education, Training and Careers (ETC) Committee.
He has supervised 13 PhD students and over 50 MSc dissertation projects to completion to date. He has co-authored more than 170 refereed papers on nuclear structure and radiation detection research in the scientific literature and given more than 60 invited international conference and workshop presentations on his research. He is also intertested in measurements of naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) in the environment using applications of the gamma-ray spectroscopic techniques he uses in his more fundamental research projects. He is also regularly engaged by the TV, radio and written press media on issues related to radiation and nuclear physics. In this capacity he has made over 50 mainstream TV and radio appearances on issues related to radiation physics in the last three years. In his spare time Paddy plays a poor game of squash, even worse golf and tries to do the occasional sponsored run for the Mental Health Charity MIND. He is married to Susie , a nurse, and they have four young children, Hannah, John, Sarah and Rebekah.
Research Interests:
Paddy specialises in using gamma-ray and charged-particle spectroscopic techniques to study exotic forms of nuclear matter, with particular emphasis on unusual proton to neutron ratios and the behavour of nuclei at large angular momentum. This includes work using radioactive ion-beams, produced following projectile fragmentation reactions to study decays of excited nuclear states in very exotic nuclear species. He is also interested in the interface between how atomic nuclei generate and hold angular momentum by competing single-particle and collective (rotational and vibrational) modes. He is also intertested in measurements of naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) in environmental samples using applications of the gamma-ray spectroscopic techniques he uses in his more fundamental research projects.
Research Collaborations:
Paddy has led experimental nuclear physics experiments at laboratories in the UK, Denmark, Australia, Canada, South Africa, France, Germany, Italy and the USA. He has been the spokesperson for a number of international programmes to produce and study the internal structure of new, radioactive isotopes, including investigations into the variation of nuclear shapes with increasing angular momentum. He is a member of the GSI-NUSTAR Board of Representatives. He is the Chair of the GSI Users Excecutive Committee and has been the Spokesperson for the Stopped Beam RISING Collaboration since 2001.
Further details can be found on my personal web page.
A full list of publications, conference presentations, and patents can be found here.
Teaching:
Paddy currently teaches the following courses within the department:
1) 1st year Principles of Physics (1PP) ; (2) MSc Dosimetry and Radiation Measurement ; (3) MSc Radiation and Environmental Protection Radiation Laboratories; (4) MSc Nuclear Power.
Since 2000, he has also taught the following courses:
(1) Honours year Nuclear Structure and Astrophysics (3NSA) ; (2) PhD Nuclear Experimental Techniqes (4NET); (3) 2nd year Galaxies and Large Scale Structures (2GLSS); (4) 1st year Atoms, Molecules and Quanta (1AMQ); (4) 2nd year nuclear astrophysics laboratory (2NAX).
Departmental Duties:
Paddy is the current MSc in Radiation and Environmental Protection Course Director and the Senior MPhys Research Year Coordinator.
Selected publications / conference presentations:
Neutron-proton pairing competition in N=Z nuclei: Metastable state decays in the proton dripline nuclei 82Nb and 86Tc, A.B. Garnsworthy, P.H.Regan, L.Caceres, S.Pietri et al., Phys. Lett. B606, 246 (2008)
Intrinsic state lifetimes in 103Pd and 106, 107Cd , S.F.Ashley, P.H.Regan, et al., Phys.Rev. C76, 064302 (2007)
Identification of a high-spin isomer in 99Mo, G.A.Jones, P.H.Regan, P.M.Walker et al., Phys.Rev. C76, 047303 (2007)
Yrast studies of 80, 82Se using deep-inelastic reactions, G.A.Jones, P.H.Regan, Zs.Podolyak, N.Yoshinaga et al., Phys.Rev. C76, 054317 (2007)
Observation of Isomeric Decays in the r-Process Waiting-Point Nucleus 130Cd82 , A.Jungclaus, L.Caceres, M.Gorska, M.Pfutzner, S.Pietri, .., Z.Podolyak, P.H.Regan, et al., , Phys.Rev.Lett. 99, 132501 (2007)
Recent results in fragmentation isomer spectroscopy with RISING, S.Pietri, P.H.Regan, Zs.Podolyak, D.Rudolph, S.Steer, A.B.Garnsworthy, et al., Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys.Res. B261, 1079 (2007)
Isomer Spectroscopy Using Relativistic Projectile Fragmentation at the N=Z Line for A ∼ 80 → 90, P.H.Regan, A.B.Garnsworthy, S.Pietri et al., Nucl. Phys. A787, 491c (2007)
Isomers in neutron-rich A ≈ 190 nuclides from 208Pb fragmentation, M.Caamano, P.M.Walker, P.H.Regan, M.Pfutzner et al., Eur. Phys. J. A23, 201 (2005)
Observation of an isomeric state in 197Au, C.Wheldon, J.J.Valiente-Dobon, P.H.Regan, C.J.Pearson et al., Phys. Rev. C74, 027303 (2006)
Angular momentum population in the projectile fragmentation of 238U at 750 MeV/nucleon, K.A.Gladnishki, Zs.Podolyak, P.H.Regan, J.Gerl et al., Phys.Rev. C69, 024617 (2004)
Production of exotic nuclear isomers in multi-nucleon transfer reactions , P.H.Regan, J.J.Valiente-Dobon, C.Wheldon et al., Laser Phys.Lett. 1, 317 (2004)
136Ba studied via deep-inelastic collisions: Identification of the (νh11/2)-210+ isomer, J.J.Valiente-Dobon, P.H.Regan, C.Wheldon, Phys.Rev. C69, 024316 (2004)
Multi-quasiparticle states in 184W via multi-nucleon transfer , C.Wheldon, J.J.Valiente-Dobon, P.H.Regan, C.J.Pearson et al., Eur. Phys. J. A20, 365 (2004)
Signature for Vibrational to Rotational Evolution Along the Yrast Line, P.H.Regan, C.W.Beausang, N.V.Zamfir, R.F.Casten et al., Phys.Rev.Lett. 90, 152502 (2003)
Binary-reaction spectroscopy of 99, 100Mo: Intruder alignment systematics in N = 57 and N = 58 isotones, P.H.Regan, A.D.Yamamoto, F.R.Xu et al., Phys. Rev. C68, 044313 (2003)
Angular Momentum Population in the Fragmentation of 208Pb at 1 GeV/nucleon M.Pfutzner, P.H.Regan, P.M.Walker et al., Phys.Rev. C65, 064604 (2002)
Structure of the Doubly Midshell Nucleus 66170Dy104' P.H.Regan, F.R.Xu, P.M.Walker et al., Phys. Rev. C65, 037302 (2002)
High-j proton and neutron alignments in γ-soft 101Ru, A.D.Yamamoto, P.H.Regan, C.W.Beausang, et al., Phys.Rev. C66, 024302 (2002)
Fermi Superallowed β+ Decays and T = 1 Ground States of Heavy Odd-Odd N = Z Nuclei, J.Garces Narro, C.Longour, P.H.Regan, B.Blank et al., Phys.Rev. C63, 044307 (2001)
Observation of Isomeric States in Neutron Deficient A ∼ 80 Nuclei following the Projectile Fragmentation of 92Mo, C.Chandler, P.H.Regan, B.Blank et al., Phys.Rev. C61, 044309 (2000)
Isomer Spectroscopy of Neutron Rich 190W116 , Zs.Podolyak, P.H.Regan, M.Pfutzner et al., Phys.Lett. 491B, 225 (2000)
Observation of the Z = N + 1 Nuclei 3977Y, 4079Zr, and 4283Mo, Z.Janas, C.Chandler, B.Blank, P.H.Regan et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 295 (1999)
Near Yrast Study of the fpg Shell Nuclei 58Ni, 61Cu, and 61Zn, S.M.Vincent, P.H.Regan, S.Mohammadi, et al., Phys.Rev. C60, 064308 (1999)
Competing T = 0 and T = 1 Structures in the N = Z Nucleus 3162Ga, S.M.Vincent, P.H.Regan, D.D.Warner et al., Phys.Lett. 437B, 264 (1998)
Evidence for a Highly Deformed Oblate 0+ State in 3674Kr, C.Chandler, P.H.Regan, C.J.Pearson et al., Phys.Rev. C56, R2924 (1997)
Contact Details
| p.regan@surrey.ac.uk | |
| Telephone | +44 1483 686783 |
| Room | 29BC04 |
| Postal Address | Department of Physics Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences University of Surrey GU2 7XH United Kingdom |
