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James Napolitano
Professor of Physics
Contact:
(518) 276-8019
napolj@rpi.edu
Home Page: http://www.rpi.edu/~napolj/
Education:
1982 - Ph.D. in Physics, Stanford University.
1977 - M.S. in Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
1977 - B.S. in Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Career Highlights:
2006 - 2007: President, Rensselaer Faculty Senate
1999 - present: Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
1999 - 2001: Interim Vice Provost for Information Technology, Rensselaer.
1996 - 1999: Associate Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
1992 - 1996: Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
1988 - 1992: Staff Scientist, CEBAF and CEBAF Assistant Professor, William & Mary.
1988 - 1988: Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory.
1983 - 1988: Assistant Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory.
1982 - 1983: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Argonne National Laboratory.
1979 - 1982: Research Assistant, Stanford University.
Research Interests:
Experimental nuclear and particle physics, scientific computation, distributed computing.
Selected Publications:
1. S. Godfrey and J. Napolitano, “Light meson spectroscopy,” Rev. Mod. Phys. 71, 1411 (1999)
2. M. Nozar et al. [E852 Collaboration], “A study of the reaction π−p → ωπ−p at 18GeV/c: The D and S decay amplitudes for b1(1235) → ωπ,” Phys. Lett. B 541, 35 (2002)
3. M. Artuso et al. [CLEO Collaboration], “Higher-order multipole amplitudes in charmonium radiative transitions,” Phys. Rev. D 80, 112003 (2009)
4. M. Kornicer et al. [The CLEO Collaboration], “Measurements of branching fractions for electromagnetic transitions involving the χbJ (1P ) states,” Phys. Rev. D 83, 054003 (2011)
5. J. Goett, J. Napolitano, M. Yeh, R. Hahn, J.B. Cumming, S. Hans, R. Rosero and M. Diwan et al., “Optical attenuation measurements in metal-loaded liquid scintillators with a long-pathlength photometer,” Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 637, 47 (2011).
6. J. J. Sakurai and J. Napolitano, “Modern quantum physics,” Boston, USA: Addison-Wesley (2011) 550 p
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