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Professor Stephen Buckman

Position Research Director CAMS
Department(s) Atomic and Molecular Physics Laboratories
Qualifications BSc PhD Flinders, FAPS, FAIP, FlnstP
Phone 52402*
Email
Office Cockcroft (East) 4 C4.09
Webpage http://www.positron.edu.au
Biography

Phd in 1979 from Flinders University, Adelaide.  Thesis topic: Electron Collisions with Alkali Atoms

Nuffield Foundation Fellow and Postodctoral Fellow, University of Manchester, UK (1979-1981)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Joint Institute for Laboratoru Astrophysics (JILA), University of Colorado (1981-83)

Research Fellow, AMPL, ANU (1983-87)

Senior Research Fellow (1987)

Fellow, AMPL (1989)

Senior Fellow, AMPL, 1993

Professor, 1999

Fulbright Senior Scholar, University of California San Diego, 2000-2001

Associate Director, RSPhysSE, 2002

Research Director, CAMS 2005

Awards

Fellow of the American Physical Society

Fellow of the Institute of Physics UK

Research Interests

Atomic and Electron Spectroscopy

Positron Physics

Applications of Electron and Positron Physics

Available Student Projects
Suitable for: PhD/Masters
Experiments will be carried out to verify the existence of positron binding to atoms.
Suitable for: Honours, PhD/Masters
This experimental project will investigate the interactions of positrons with a variety of molecules of biological relevance.
Suitable for: PhD/Masters
The student will use a pulsed positron beam for materials characterisation through PALS (Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy) experiments.
Suitable for: Honours, PhD/Masters
This experimental project will take advantage of a high energy resolution positron beam to measure positron interactions with targets of fundamental interest.
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB
The student will produce unique zeolite structures and perform characterization experiments on them using the materials beamline at the Australian Positron Beamline facility.
Suitable for: Honours, PhD/Masters
Electron beams will be used to study excitation of atoms and molecules at low energies
Recent Publications
Sullivan James, Buckman Stephen, Jones Adric, Caradonna Peter, Makochekanwa Casten, Slaughter Daniel, Petrovic Z Lj, Bankovic A, Dujko S., Marler J.P., White Ronald Douglas
Low energy positron interactions – trapping transport and scattering
Journal of Physics: Conference Series 162 (2009)
Hoshino Masamitsu, Kato H, Tanaka Hiroshi, Bray Igor, Fursa D.V., Buckman Stephen, Ingolfsson O., Brunger Michael J
Benchmark differential cross sections for electron impact excitation of the n = 2 states in helium at near-ionization-threshold energies
Journal of Physics B: Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics 42 (2009)
Francis-Staite J.R., Maddern T, Brunger Michael J, Buckman Stephen, Winstead Carl, McKoy Vincent, Bolorizadeh M.A., Cho H.
Differential and integral cross sections for elastic electron scattering from CF2
Physical Review A 79 (2009)
Marler J.P., Petrovic Z Lj, Bankovic A, Dujko S., Suvakov M., Malovic G., Buckman Stephen
Positron transport: The plasma-gas interface
Physics of Plasmas 16 (2009)

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