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Prof. Steven Karataglidis

Professor
Name: Steven Karataglidis
Location: C1 Lab 128 Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
Physics Academic Staff听 Staff Members

Contact Details:
Tel: 011 559 2326

Email:听stevenka@uj.ac.za

About Prof. Steven Karataglidis

Research Interests: Theoretical Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Structure (large scale no-core shell model, collective models), Reaction Theory. Structures of exotic nuclei, nuclear astrophysics. Mathematical physics: applications to the fundamental aspects of nuclear theory.

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Profile: Prof Steven Karataglidis joined the Department of Physics on April 1, 2010. This is not quite indicative of any omen with regards to his tenure, only a curious coincidence. Prof Karataglidis鈥� expertise lies in both Nuclear Structure and Reaction theory and the overlap between them, working with colleagues from around the world both in experiment and theory. This is to gain an increasingly better understanding regarding that still most elusive of creatures: the atomic nucleus.

Prof Karataglidis obtained his PhD from the 欧美福利100000 of Melbourne, Australia, in 1995, after which he had several postings around the world (Michigan State 欧美福利100000, USA; TRIUMF, Canada; Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA; CEA, France; 欧美福利100000 of Melbourne), before coming to South Africa in 2006 to join the staff of the Department of Physics and Electronics at Rhodes 欧美福利100000. He became Head of that department in 2009 and stayed at that position for a little over a year before coming to Johannesburg. During this time, he also served as Chair of the Programme Advisory Committee of iThemba LABS (Faure) until April 2011.

Prof Karataglidis鈥� main collaborators are from around the world: Australia, Italy, Canada, and Japan. Prof Ken Amos, of the 欧美福利100000 of Melbourne, Australia is a Visiting Professor in the department. Of the papers so far published, Prof Karataglidis has published 70 papers and 1 book with Prof Amos on various aspects of nuclear physics.

The nucleus is elusive and the goal is to understand its structure. Comprised of nucleons (protons and neutrons) it may only be studies through decay, or reactions with either elementary particles or other nuclei. This is, however, a Catch-22: in order to understand the data coming from those reactions, one must first understand the nuclear structure. It is this problem that lies at the heart of nuclear physics, and an expert knowledge of both structure and reaction theory is required. Prof Karataglidis uses both towards that end. The microscopic theories of scattering he has developed with his collaborators has shed new light, in particular, on exotic nuclei 鈥� nuclei which are formed in the laboratory and exist only for very small fractions of a second. Knowledge of those nuclei is critical in the understanding of the creation of the elements in the centres of stars, and in stars鈥� evolution.

The nucleus was discovered in 1911 by Rutherford. Over a hundred years later we are much closer to understanding it, but there is still much work to be done to completely unlock its secrets. Papers published (links to databases): ISI Web of Science: Steven Karataglidis’ Web of Science page

Supervision:
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr Garreth Kemp (PhD, 欧美福利100000 of the Witwatersrand), 2015-2016.

PhD students
Khuliso Murulane, 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg, 2019—2023. Graduated, PhD to be conferred May, 2024.

Co-supervised PhD students

1. Pradip Dep, PhD, 欧美福利100000 of Melbourne, Australia, PhD conferred 2001.
2. Paul R. Fraser, PhD, 欧美福利100000 of Melbourne, Australia, PhD conferred 2009.

Mentoring PhD students

Marc Dupuis, CEA/Bruyeres-le-Chatel, 2003.

M.Sc. students

1. Khuliso Murulane, M.Sc., 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg, 2017—2018. Graduated 2019, with distinction. Awarded the Chancellor’s Medal (2019) for best MSc dissertation in the Faculty of Science, 2018.
2. James Barry, M.Sc., Rhodes 欧美福利100000, 2009, with distinction.

Honours students

1. Khuliso Murulane, B.Sc. (Hons), 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg, 2016.Trevor Chaulk, B.Sc. (Hons), 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg, 2012.
2. Katherine Henniger, B.Sc. (Hons), Rhodes 欧美福利100000, 2009.
3. Imogen Wright, B.Sc. (Hons), Rhodes 欧美福利100000, 2008.
4. Oliver Collett, B.Sc. (Hons), Rhodes 欧美福利100000, 2008.

Selected Research Outputs

Book:

Steven听Karataglidis, Ken Amos, Paul R. Fraser, and Luciano Canton,听A new development at the intersection of nuclear structure and reaction theory, published by Springer-Nature, ISBN 978-3-030-21069-4 (August, 2019).

Review articles:

1. S.听Karataglidis,听Electron scattering and reactions from exotic nuclei, European Physical Journal A听53, 70 (2017).
2. K. Amos, P. J.听Dortmans, H. V. von听Geramb,听S.听Karataglidis, and J. Raynal,听Nucleon-nucleus scattering: a microscopic nonrelativistic approach, Advances in Nuclear Physics, Vol. 25, 275 (2000).

Most recent papers:

1. S. Karataglidis,听Importance of elastic scattering in nucleon-exotic nucleus experiments, EPJ, Web of Conferences听304, 03001 (2024)
2. Paul Fraser, Ken Amos, Carlos Bertulani, Luciano Canton,听Steven Karataglidis, Robert Moss, and Khuliso Murulane,听A multichannel algebraic scattering approach to astrophysical reactions, EPJ Web of Conferences听292, 04005 (2024).
3. K.听Murulane,听S.听Karataglidis, and B. G. Giraud,听On the strong local potential limit, International Journal of Modern Physics E听32, 2350044 (2023).
4. K. Amos,听S.听Karataglidis, L. Canton, P. R. Fraser, and K.听Murulane,听Coupled-channel description for mirror mass-11 nuclei compared to shell-model structures, European Physical Journal A听58, 181 (2022).
5. K. Amos, P. R. Fraser,听S.听Karataglidis, and L. Canton,听Low-energy spectra of mirror mass-19 nuclei with a collective coupled-channel scattering model, European Physical Journal A听57, 165 (2021).
6. K. Amos,听S.听Karataglidis, and W. A. Richter,听Charge exchange (p,n) reaction to isobaric analogue states of select nuclei, invited paper for special edition dedicated to the memory of Jacques Raynal, European Physical Journal A听56m 284 (2020).
7. S.听Karataglidis听and K.听Murulane,听Structure of听16C and the B(E2) problem,听Physical Review C听101, 064316 (2020).
8. P. R. Fraser, K. Amos, L. Canton,听S.听Karataglidis, D. van der听Knijff, and J. P.听Svenne,听Mass-15 nuclei and predicting narrow states beyond the proton drip line, Physical Review C听100, 024609 (2019).
9. K. Amos, L. Canton, P. R. Fraser,听S.听Karataglidis, J. P.听Svenne, and D. van der听Knijff,听A听mutli-channel model for an听伪听plus听6He nucleus cluster, European Physical Journal A听53, 72 (2017).
10. J. P.听Svenne, L. Canton, K. Amos, P. R. Fraser,听S.听Karataglidis, G.听Pisent, and D. van der听Knijff,听Very low-energy nucleon +听16O coupled-channel scattering: results with a phenomenological vibrational model, Physical Review C听95, 034305 (2017).
11. B. G. Giraud,听S.听Karataglidis, and T. Sami,听Fluctuations of collective coordinates and convexity theorems for energy surfaces, Annals of Physics听376, 296 (2017).
12. P. R. Fraser, K.听Massen-Hane, K. Amos, I. Bray, L. Canton, R.听Fossi贸n, A. S. Kadyrov,听S.听Karataglidis, J. P.听Svenne, and D. van der听Knijff,听Importance of resonance widths in low-energy scattering of weakly bound light-mass nuclei, Physical Review C听94, 034603 (2016).

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