Thomas Redpath

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Education

• Ph.D. in Physics, Michigan State University
• M.Sc. in Physics, Central Michigan University
• B.Sc. in Physics, James Madison University

Research/Teaching Interests

• Studying neutron-unbound systems via invariant mass spectroscopy measurements that utilize rare isotope beams produced at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
• Detector development for modern nuclear physics: plastic scintillator + silicon photomultipliers for fast neutron detection
• Applications of machine learning to data analysis for nuclear physics experiments
• Measuring nuclear charge radii via electron scattering
• Special topics in nuclear science: nuclear shell model, radiation interactions with materials, radiation detectors, nuclear astrophysics
• Modern physics: quantum mechanics, quantum computing, relativity, wave-particle duality

Select Publications

• T. Redpath et al., "Reduction of spectroscopic overlap across the Z = 8 shell in neutron-rich nuclei," Phys. Rev. C, 109 054325, 2024
• P. Nzabahimana, T. Redpath, T. Baumann, P. Danielewicz, P. Giuliani, P. Gueye, "Deconvoluting experimental decay energy spectra: the 26O case," Phys. Rev. C, 107 064315, 2023
• T. Redpath et al., "New segmented target for studies of neutron unbound systems," Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. Sect. A, Volume 977 164284, 2020
• VSU STEAM-H seminar, March 2024, "Virginia State University and a new era of nuclear science discoveries"
• 6th Joint Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics and the Physical Society of Japan, November 2023, "Testing neural networks for classifying multi-neutron decay measurements of neutron-unbound systems"