Liping Gan

 

Education

 

University of Manitoba, Canada         Experimental nuclear & particle physics,  Ph.D.,  May 1998

Beijing University, China                      Theoretical nuclear & particle physics,  M.Sc.,   July 1988

Beijing University, China                      Physics,  B.Sc., July 1985           

                                      

Professional Experience

 

08/2010-present          Professor of Physics, University of North Carolina Wilmington

08/2007-07/2010          Associate Professor of Physics, University of North Carolina Wilmington

08/2001-07/2007          Assistant Professor of Physics, University of North Carolina Wilmington

01/2001-07/2001       Postdoctoral Research Scholar, University of Kentucky

1998-2000                     Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Hampton University

 

Research Experience

 

1998-present         Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA

·         Spokesperson for an approved experiment in Hall D to measure the η radiative decay width via the Primakoff effect. Responsible for a project to design, develop, and construct a pair spectrometer detector system in Hall D.

·         Spokesperson for the PrimEx collaboration in Hall B to perform an experiment to measure the p0 lifetime via the Primakoff effect. The experiment was carried out recently in fall 2010. Extensively involved in the design and development of a high-resolution multi-channel hybrid calorimeter. Played a major role in the development and construction of the pair spectrometer in Hall B.

·         Played a leading role in the development of a 12 GeV Primakoff experimental program, precision Measurements of Electromagnetic Properties of Pseudoscalar Mesons via the Primakoff Effect.  Presented this experimental program initially at PAC18 in July 2000.  It was recommended by three PAC reviews to be included in the executive summary of the CEBAF 12 GeV upgrade white paper as one of the major physics programs for Jlab future plans.

·         Undertook substantial responsibility for the hypernuclear spectroscopy experiment (E89-009) in Hall C.  Responsible for beam energy control. Conducted Monte Carlo simulations on the missing mass, coincidence timing, target temperature and spectrometer optics to optimize experimental setup.

·         Participated in other Hall C experiments on the pion form factor, inclusive and exclusive measurements in the nucleon resonance region and GEn form factor measurements at Jlab.

1991-1997               TRIUMF Particle Research Laboratory and Brookhaven National Lab

·         Involved in design, development and testing of new Microstrip Gas Chambers.  Developed and implemented software to reconstruct the trajectory of particles in scintillating fiber arrays viewed by Image Intensifier Tubes to study the formation of double L hypernuclei.

·         Participated in H particle research experiments and double L hypernuclei experiment at BNL. Responsible for maintenance and calibration of time-of-flight detector system.  Analyzed H particle research data (E813) as Ph.D. thesis project.

·         Participated in the n-p elastic charge symmetry breaking experiment at TRIUMF. Calculated the neutron beam energy and polarization profile at the target position.

·         Developed a Monte Carlo program to simulate and study the properties of the TRIUMF neutron beam.

1985-1988   Beijing University, Beijing, China

·         Studied the EMC effect in the deep inelastic neutrino-nuclei scattering using both the on-shell and off-shell models.

·         Studied the quark effect in the nuclear weak interaction by using Joint Possessing Quark model and MIT bag model; calculated the width of L non-mesonic decay in different hypernuclei; published a paper on this topic that won an award from Beijing University. 

 

Professional Services

 

·         Served as a panel member for the nuclear physics division, National Science Foundation, in 2010.

·         Served a proposal reviewer for the nuclear physics division, National Science Foundation, since 2006