JOHN DAWSON 
Professor, Nuclear Physics Group
(603) 862-1960
(f) (603) 862-2998
9 Library Way Durham New Hampshire 03824
E-mail: john.dawson@unh.edu
http://www.theory.unh.edu
Expertise:
Theoretical Nuclear Models, Electron Scattering, Heavy Ion Collisions
Professional Interests:
The main focus of my research has been on theoretical nuclear models, electron scattering, and heavy ion collisions. In the past several years, I have worked mostly on dynamic problems in quantum field theories, with application to phase transitions of quark- gluon plasmas and to particle production in relativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC. These theoretical methods use the Schwinger closed-time-path formalism and the large-N expansion. I have also applied these methods to study chaotic behavior in semi-classical quantum mechanics.
Education:
1962 |
Ph.D. in Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California |
1958 |
B.S. in Physics, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio |
Publications:
2002 |
Quantum dynamics of phase transitions in broken symmetrey lambda phi4 field theory |
2002 |
Dynamics of broken symmetry lambda-phi 4 field theory |
2002 |
Continuum versus periodic lattice monte carlo approach to classical field theory |
2001 |
Schwinger-Dyson approach to non-equilibrium classical field theory |
2001 |
Resumming the large-N approximation for time evolving quantum systems |
2000 |
Exact and Approximate Dynamics of the Quantum Mechanical O(N) Model |
1997 |
The quantum roll in d-dimensions and the large-d expansion |
1997 |
Order 1/N corrections to the time-dependent Hartree approximation for a system of N+1 oscillators |
1996 |
Chaos in time dependent variational approximations to quantum dynamics |
1996 |
Time evolution of the chiral phase transition during a spherical expansion |
1995 |
Semiquantum chaos and the large-N expansion |