Albert Young
Bio
Professor Young received his PhD in 1990 from Harvard University in experimental atomic physics. He spent 1990 to 1992 at the California Institute of Technology as a research associate in Felix Boehm’s group, and then moved to Princeton where he stayed for the next eight years, first as a research associate, then as a lecturer, and finally as an assistant professor from 1996 to 2000. He joined NC State University in 2000 as assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor in 2001 and professor in 2005.
Area(s) of Expertise
He developed several different methods for optically orienting nuclei and participated in a variety of atomic, nuclear and particle physics experiments, typically to test some aspect of the standard electroweak theory of particle physics. He helped develop a prototype solid deuterium source of ultracold neutrons at Los Alamos that became the basis for a similar project at the PULSTAR reactor on the NC State University campus. He is a member of the American Physical Society.
Publications
- A Search for Neutron to Mirror Neutron Oscillation Using Neutron Electric Dipole Moment Measurements , SYMMETRY-BASEL (2022)
- Fill and dump measurement of the neutron lifetime using an asymmetric magneto-gravitational trap , PHYSICAL REVIEW C (2022)
- The development of the NNBAR experiment , JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION (2022)
- Improved Neutron Lifetime Measurement with UCN tau , PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS (2021)
- Incoherent approximation for neutron up-scattering cross sections and its corrections for slow neutrons and low crystal temperatures , PHYSICAL REVIEW C (2021)
- New high-sensitivity searches for neutrons converting into antineutrons and/or sterile neutrons at the HIBEAM/NNBAR experiment at the European Spallation Source , JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS (2021)
- Pendellosung interferometry probes the neutron charge radius, lattice dynamics, and fifth forces , SCIENCE (2021)
- Projection imaging with ultracold neutrons , NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT (2021)
- Ultracold neutron properties of the Eljen-299-02D deuterated scintillator , REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS (2021)
- A next-generation inverse-geometry spallation-driven ultracold neutron source , JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS (2019)
Groups
Honors and Awards
- Fellow of the American Physical Society