Biography:M. W. Ahmed

Muhammad Waseem Ahmed is an Adjunct Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, and a collaborator with the Triangle University Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL) and the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. He completed his B.S., M.S., and PhD (1999) in Physics from the University of Houston, Houston, TX, with Prof. Ed V. Hungerford III as his thesis advisor. He is one of active young physicists in the area of experimental particle and nuclear physics. He is a co-lead of the Data Acquisition at the TUNL/HIGS efforts.

Selected publications

• Ahmed, M. W.; Blackston, M. A.; Perdue, B. A.; Tornow, W.; Weller, H. R. et al. (2008-04-24). "Near-threshold deuteron photodisintegration: An indirect determination of the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule and forward spin polarizability ([math]\displaystyle{ \gamma_0 }[/math]) for the deuteron at low energies". Physical Review C (American Physical Society (APS)) 77 (4): 044005. doi:10.1103/physrevc.77.044005. ISSN 0556-2813. 
• Nelson, S. O.; Ahmed, M. W.; Perdue, B. A.; Sabourov, K.; Sabourov, A. L. et al. (2003-12-18). "Analyzing power measurement for the ¹⁴N([math]\displaystyle{ \vec{p} }[/math],γ)¹⁵O reaction at astrophysically relevant energies". Physical Review C (American Physical Society (APS)) 68 (6): 065804. doi:10.1103/physrevc.68.065804. ISSN 0556-2813. 
• Tornow, W.; Kelley, J. H.; Raut, R.; Rusev, G.; Tonchev, A. P.; Ahmed, M. W.; Crowell, A. S.; Stave, S. C. (2012-06-01). "Photodisintegration cross section of the reaction ⁴He(γ,n)³He at the giant dipole resonance peak". Physical Review C (American Physical Society (APS)) 85 (6): 061001(R). doi:10.1103/physrevc.85.061001. ISSN 0556-2813. 
• Myers, L. S.; Ahmed, M. W.; Feldman, G.; Henshaw, S. S.; Kovash, M. A.; Mueller, J. M.; Weller, H. R. (2012-10-15). "Compton scattering from ⁶Li at 60 MeV". Physical Review C (American Physical Society (APS)) 86 (4): 044614. doi:10.1103/physrevc.86.044614. ISSN 0556-2813. 
• Sabourov, A.; Ahmed, M. W.; Blackston, M. A.; Crowell, A. S.; Howell, C. R. et al. (2006-12-18). "The ⁷Li([math]\displaystyle{ \vec{d},n_0 }[/math])⁸Be and ⁷Li([math]\displaystyle{ \vec{d},n_1 }[/math])⁸Be reactions below 160 keV". Physical Review C (American Physical Society (APS)) 74 (6): 064611. doi:10.1103/physrevc.74.064611. ISSN 0556-2813. 
• Blackston, M. A.; Ahmed, M. W.; Perdue, B. A.; Weller, H. R.; Bewer, B. et al. (2008-09-17). "First observation of the splittings of the E1 p-wave amplitudes in low energy deuteron photodisintegration and its implications for the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn Sum Rule integrand". Physical Review C (American Physical Society (APS)) 78 (3): 034003. doi:10.1103/physrevc.78.034003. ISSN 0556-2813. 
• Spraker, M. C.; Ahmed, M. W.; Blackston, M. A.; Brown, N.; France, R. H. et al. (2011-10-21). "The ¹¹B(p,α)⁸Be → α + α and the ¹¹B(α,α)¹¹B Reactions at Energies Below 5.4 MeV". Journal of Fusion Energy (Springer Science and Business Media LLC) 31 (4): 357–367. doi:10.1007/s10894-011-9473-5. ISSN 0164-0313. 
• Raut, R.; Tornow, W.; Ahmed, M. W.; Crowell, A. S.; Kelley, J. H.; Rusev, G.; Stave, S. C.; Tonchev, A. P. (2012-01-25). "Photodisintegration Cross Section of the Reaction ⁴He(γ,p)³H between 22 and 30 MeV". Physical Review Letters (American Physical Society (APS)) 108 (4): 042502. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.108.042502. ISSN 0031-9007. 
• Mueller, J. M.; Ahmed, M. W.; Davis, B.; Hall, J. M.; Henshaw, S. S. et al. (2012-01-11). "Measurement of prompt neutron polarization asymmetries in photofission of ^235,238U,²³⁹Pu, and ²³²Th". Physical Review C (American Physical Society (APS)) 85 (1): 014605. doi:10.1103/physrevc.85.014605. ISSN 0556-2813. 

External links

• https://www.phy.duke.edu/content/mohammad-w-ahmed