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Jones, Richard
Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physics
Nuclear and Hadronic Physics,
Computational Physics University of Connecticut
2152 Hillside Road, U-3046
Storrs, CT 06269-3046
| Room No: | P411 |
| Phone: | (860) 486 3512 |
| Fax: | (860) 486 3346 |
The challenge of strong-QCD is to discover the connections between the basic theory of strong nuclear forces known as Quantum ChromoDynamics, which accurately describes the interactions between quarks and gluons at small distances, and the phenomena of strong interactions at larger distance scales, like the radius of the proton or the pion. The exact way that QCD works itself out in the spectrum and decays of physical states at the hadronic scale is an active area of current theoretical research. In experiments at Jefferson Lab and elsewhere we are working to test these theoretical ideas and hope to point the way toward a solution to the general problem of strongly interacting fields.
Education
- Ph.D., Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1988
- B.Sc., Physics, Bob Jones University, Greenville, SC, 1981
Experience
- 1996-present: Professor, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut
- 1990-1996: Research Associate, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- 1988-1990: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana IL
Professional Societies
- American Physical Society