Mr Ben Coombes

Position	Postdoctoral Fellow
Department	Nuclear Physics & Accelerator Applications
Research group	Nuclear structure group Nuclear reaction dynamics group
Office phone	(02) 612 50609
Email
Office	Nuclear Physics 2 55

Publications

Journal article

Gray T, Stuchbery A, Dobaczewski J, Blazhev A, Alshammari H, Bignell L, Bonnard J, Coombes B, Dowie J, Gerathy M, Kibedi T, Lane G, McCormick B, Mitchell A, Nicholls C, Pope J, Reinhard P, Spinks N, Zhong Y
Shape polarization in the tin isotopes near N = 60 from precision g-factor measurements on short-lived 11/2- isomers
Physics Letters B 847, 138268(2023)

Palazzo T, Mitchell A, Lane G, Stuchbery A, Brown B, Reed M, Akber A, Coombes B, Dowie J, Eriksen T, Gerathy M, Kibedi T, Gabor Tornyi T, de Vries M
Direct Measurement of Hexacontatetrapole, E6 γ Decay from Fe 53m
Physical Review Letters 130, 12(2023) 1-6

Spinks N, Bignell L, Lane G, Akber A, Barberio E, Baroncelli T, Coombes B, Dowie J, Eriksen T, Gerathy M, Gray T, Mahmood I, McCormick B, Melbourne W, Mitchell A, Nuti F, Rahman M, Scutti F, Stuchbery A, Timmers H, Urquijo P, Zhong Y, Zurowski M
Pulse Shape Discrimination of low-energy nuclear and electron recoils for improved particle identification in NaI:Tl
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research: Section A 1047, 167773(2023)

Coombes B, Hicks S, Churchill T, Bandyopadhyay D, Champine B, Stuchbery A, Davoren C, Ellis J, Faulkner W, Lesher S, Mueller J, Mukhopadhyay S
Nuclear structure of Te-130 from inelastic neutron scattering and shell model analysis
Physical Review C 105, 2(2022)

Hicks S, Stuchbery A, Churchill T, Bandyopadhyay D, Champine B, Coombes B, Davoren C, Ellis J, Faulkner W, Lesher S, Mueller J, Mukhopadhyay S, Orce J, Skubis M, Vanhoy J, Yates S
Nuclear structure of Te 130 from inelastic neutron scattering and shell model analysis
Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics 105, 2(2022)

Ideguchi E, Kibedi T, Dowie J, Hoang T, Raju M, Aoi N, Mitchell A, Stuchbery A, Shimizu N, Utsuno Y, Akber A, Bignell L, Coombes B, Eriksen T, Gray T, Lane G, McCormick B
Electric Monopole Transition from the Superdeformed Band in Ca 40
Physical Review Letters 128, 25(2022)

Bignell L, Mahmood I, Nuti F, Lane G, Akber A, Barberio E, Baroncelli T, Coombes B, Dix W, Dowie J, Eriksen T, Gerathy M, Gray T, McCormick B, Mitchell A, Rahman M, Scutti F, Spinks N, Stuchbery A, Timmers H, Urquijo P, Wang L, Zhong Y, Zurowski M
Quenching factor measurements of sodium nuclear recoils in NaI:Tl determined by spectrum fitting
Journal of Instrumentation 16, 7(2021)

Gerathy M, Mitchell A, Lane G, Stuchbery A, Akber A, Alshammari H, Bignell L, Coombes B, Dowie J, Gray T, Kibedi T, McCormick B, McKie L, Rahman M, Reece M, Spinks N, Tee B, Zhong Y, Zhu K
Emerging collectivity in neutron-hole transitions near doubly magic ²⁰⁸Pb
Physics Letters B 823(2021) 1-6

Coombes B, Stuchbery A, Allmond J, Gargano A, Dowie J, Georgiev G, Gerathy M, Gray T, Kibedi T, Lane G, McCormick B, Mitchell A, Spinks N, Tee B
Emerging nuclear collectivity in 124-130Te
EPJ Web of Conferences 232(2020) 1-5

Dowie J, Kibedi T, Jenkins D, Stuchbery A, Akber A, Alshammari H, Aoi N, Avaa A, Bignell L, Chisapi M, Coombes B, Eriksen T, Gerathy M, Gray T, Hoang T, Ideguchi E, Jones P, Raju M, Lane G, McCormick B, McKie L, Mitchell A, Spinks N, Tee B
Evidence for shape coexistence and superdeformation in 24Mg
Physics Letters B 811, -(2020) 1-6

Dowie J, Kibedi T, Stuchbery A, Akber A, Avaa A, Bignell L, Chisapi M, Coombes B, Eriksen T, Gerathy M, Gray T, Hoang T, Ideguchi E, Jones P, Raju M, Lane G, McCormick B, Mitchell A, Tee B
Evidence for shape coexistence in 52Cr through conversion-electron and pairconversion spectroscopy
EPJ Web of Conferences 232(2020) 1-4

Eriksen T, Kibedi T, Reed M, Stuchbery A, Cook K, Akber A, Alshahrani B, Avaa A, Banerjee K, Berriman A, Bezzina L, Bignell L, Buete J, Carter I, Coombes B, Dowie J, Dasgupta M, Evitts L, Garnsworthy B, Gerathy M, Gray T, Hinde D, Hoang T, Hota S, Ideguchi E, Jones P, Lane G, McCormick B, Mitchell A, Palalani N, Palazzo T, Ripper M, Simpson E, Smallcombe J, Swinton-Bland B, Tanaka T, Gabor Tornyi T, de Vries M
Improved precision on the experimental E0 decay branching ratio of the Hoyle state
Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics 102, 2(2020) 1-11

Gerathy M, Lane G, Dracoulis G, Nieminen P, Kibedi T, Reed M, Akber A, Coombes B, Dasgupta M, Dowie J, Gray T, Hinde D, Lee B, Mitchell A, Palazzo T, Stuchbery A, Whichello L, Wright A
Solenogam: A new detector array for ?-ray and conversion-electron spectroscopy of long-lived states in fusion-evaporation products
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research: Section A 953(2020)

Gerathy M, Lane G, Stuchbery A, Dracoulis G, Kibedi T, Akber A, Bignell L, Coombes B, Dowie J, Gray T, Lee B, McCormick B, Mitchell A, Palalani N
?-ray and conversion-electron spectroscopy of the high-spin isomer in Sm 145
Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics 102, 4(2020) 1-19

Gray T, Stuchbery A, Coombes B, Dowie J, Gerathy M, Kibedi T, Lane G, McCormick B, Mitchell A, Reed M
Hyperfine fields at Ga-66, (67)'Ge-69 implanted into iron and gadolinium hosts at 6 K, and applications to g-factor measurements
Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics 101, 5(2020)

Coombes B, Stuchbery A, Blazhev A, Grawe H, Reed M, Akber A, Dowie J, Gerathy M, Gray T, Kibedi T, Mitchell A, Palazzo T
Spectroscopy and excited-state g factors in weakly collective Cd 111: Confronting collective and microscopic models
Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics 100, 2(2019) 1-12

McCormick B, Stuchbery A, Brown B, Georgiev G, Coombes B, Gray T, Gerathy M, Lane G, Kibedi T, Mitchell A, Reed M, Akber A, Bignell L, Dowie J, Eriksen T, Hota S, Palalani N, Gabor Tornyi T
First-excited state g factors in the stable, even Ge and Se isotopes FIRST-EXCITED STATE g FACTORS in the ... B. P. McCORMICK et al.
Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics 100, 4(2019)

Gray T, Stuchbery A, Reed M, Akber A, Coombes B, Dowie J, Eriksen T, Gerathy M, Kibedi T, Lane G, Mitchell A, Palazzo T, Gabor Tornyi T
Perturbed angular distributions with LaBr3 detectors: The g factor of the first 10+ state in Cd 110 reexamined
Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics 96, 5(2017) 1-9

(18 publications)

Conference paper

Stuchbery A, McCormick B, Gray T, Coombes B
Pushing the limits of excited-state g-factor measurements
16th International Symposium on Capture Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Related Topics, CGS 2017 ?, ?(2018) 1-5

(1 publications)