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Janine Shertzer

Distinguished Professor of Science

Areas of Expertise

Theoretical atomic and molecular physics — electron-atom and positron-atom collisions; exotic atoms; atoms in strong magnetic fields; finite element analysis

Education

Ph.D., Brown University

Biography

My research is in the general area of atomic and molecular theory. I study few-body systems using novel computational techniques. I am particularly interested in bound states of atoms and molecules in external fields and exotic systems which contain anti-particles. My other area of interest is scattering theory.

Courses

  • Introductory Physics 1: Mechanics, Fluids and Waves
  • Introductory Physics 2: Electromagnetism, Optics and Modern Physics
  • Classical Mechanics
  • Electromagnetic Theory
  • Quantum Mechanics

Recent publications  

 Quantum scattering from cylindrical barriers, Sean McAlinden and Janine Shertzer, to appear in American  Journal  of Physics (2016).

 Electron scattering from excited states of hydrogen: implications for the ionization threshold law, A. Temkin and J. Shertzer, Physical  Review A 87, 052718 (2013).

 Long-lived positronium and AGN jets, John T. Giblin, Jr. and J. Shertzer, ISRN Astronomy and Astrophysics  2012,  848476 (2012).

 Hyperspherical hidden crossing method applied to Ps(1s)-formation in low energy e+-H, e+-Li and e+-Na collisions, S..J. Ward and J. Shertzer, New Journal of Physics 14, 14025003 (2011).

Binding energy and structure of e+Na, J. Shertzer and S.J. Ward, Physical Review A. 81, 064505 (2010).

Current Projects

Variational approach to electron-hydrogen scattering (Aaron Temkin, NASA )  

Exotic ions in liquid helium