AJ Mitchell

Experience

• 2016–present
  Research fellow, The Australian National University
• 2015–2016
  Postdoctoral fellow, The Australian National University
• 2012–2014
  Postdoctoral research associate, The University of Massachusetts Lowell
• 2012–2014
  Adjunct professor, The University of Massachusetts Lowell

Education

• 2012 
  The University of Manchester, UK, Ph.D. Nuclear Physics
• 2009 
  Queen's University Belfast, UK, MSci Applied Mathematics and Physics

Publications

• 2021
  Ground-state and decay properties of neutron-rich Nb-106, Physical Review C
• 2021
  Quenching factor measurements of sodium nuclear recoils in NaI: Tl determined by spectrum fitting, Journal of Instrumentation
• 2020
  γ-ray and conversion-electron spectroscopy of the high-spin isomer in 145Sm, Physical Review C
• 2020
  Improved precision on the experimental E0 decay branching ratio of the Hoyle state, Physical Review C
• 2020
  γ-ray spectroscopy of a four-quasiparticle isomer band in 174Re, Physical Review C
• 2020
  Hyperfine fields at 66Ga, 67,69Ge implanted into iron and gadolinium hosts at 6 K, and applications to g-factor measurements, Physical Review C
• 2020
  Spectroscopy and excited-state g factors in weakly collective 111Cd: confronting collective and microscopic models, Physical Review C
• 2020
  Solenogam: A new detector array for γ-ray and conversion-electron spectroscopy of long-lived states in fusion-evaporation products, Nuclear Instrumentation and Methods A
• 2020
  Applications of C7LYC scintillators in fast neutron spectroscopy, Nuclear Instrumentation and Methods A
• 2020
  Evidence for shape coexistence and superdeformation in 24Mg, Physics Letters B
• 2019
  First-excited state factors in the stable even Ge and Se isotopes, Physical Review C
• 2019
  E0 transition strength in stable Ni isotopes., Physical Review C
• 2018
  Identification of significant E0 strength in the 2+2 -> 2+1 transitions of 58,60,62Ni, Physics Letters B
• 2018
  High-spin spectroscopy and shell-model interpretation of the N < 126 radium isotopes 212Ra and 213Ra, Physical Review C
• 2018
  Beta-decay half-lives of Sb-134, Sb-134m and their isomeric ratio produced by the spontaneous fission of Cf-252, Physical Review C
• 2017
  High-j neutron excitations outside 136Xe, Physical Review C
• 2017
  Perturbed angular distributions with LaBr3 detectors: The g factor of the first 10+ state in 110Cd re-examined, Physical Review C
• 2017
  Experimental study of the rearrangements of valence protons and neutrons amongst single-particle orbits during double-β decay in 100Mo, Physical Review C
• 2016
  One-dimensionality in atomic nuclei: a candidate for linear-chain clustering in 14C, Physical Review C
• 2016
  Backscattering measurement of 6He on 209Bi: Critical interaction distance. , Physical Review C
• 2016
  Gamma-soft 146Ba and the role of nonaxial shapes at N~90, Physical Review C
• 2014
  The X-Array and SATURN: A new decay-spectroscopy station for CARIBU, Nuclear Instrumentation and Methods A
• 2013
  Valence nucleon populations in the Ni isotopes, Physical Review C
• 2013
  Proton pair correlations and the neutrinoless double-beta decay of 76Ge, Physical Review C
• 2013
  Valence neutron properties relevant to the neutrinoless double-beta decay of 130Te, Physical Review C
• 2012
  Neutron single-particle strength outside the N = 50 core, Physical Review C
• 2012
  Test of Sum Rules in Nucleon Transfer Reactions, Physical Review Letters
• 2012
  Neutron pair correlations in A = 100 nuclei involved in neutrinoless double-beta decay, Physical Review C

Grants and Contracts

• 2021
  Nuclear vibrations under scrutiny in near-spherical and deformed nuclei

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

Research Areas

• Nuclear Physics (020202)