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Yennello, Sherry

Professor and Director

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Professor and Director, Chemistry, College of Science

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yennello@tamu.edu

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Research is centered around utilizing the newly available ability to produce beams of nuclei removed from the valley of stability to investigate nuclear reaction mechanisms. The experiments study the collisional dynamics of heavy-ion reactions and the thermodynamics of the resultant hot nuclear system.

Emission of fragments prior to equilibrium allows us to learn about cluster formation by studying the dynamics involved in the collision of two composite groups of nucleons. Projectile fragmentation reactions allow determination of the final state of the excited nuclear system thus enabling a reconstruction of the thermodynamics of fragmentation.

Much of our work is conducted at the Cyclotron Institute using the K500 superconducting cyclotron. Beams of radioactive ions can currently be separated in the recoil spectrometer, MARS. Complementary experiments with stable beams are also performed utilizing a 4-pi neutron detector for event characterization and selection.

education and training

Ph.D. in , Indiana University Bloomington - (Bloomington, Indiana, United States) 1990
B.S. in , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - (Troy, New York, United States) 1985

selected publications

Academic Articles227

Huang, M., Bonasera, A., Zhang, S., Zheng, H., Wang, D. X., Wang, J. C., ... Yennello, S. J. (2021). Four α correlations in nuclear fragmentation: a game of resonances *. Chinese Physics C. 45(2), 024003-024003.
Jhang, G., Estee, J., Barney, J., Cerizza, G., Kaneko, M., Lee, J. W., ... Zhang, Z. (2021). Symmetry energy investigation with pion production from Sn+Sn systems. Physics Letters B. 813, 136016-136016.
Aslin, M. W., Hannaman, A., Youngs, M. D., McIntosh, A. B., Abbott, A., Adamson, P., ... Yennello, S. J. (2021). A new waveform analysis technique to extract good energy and position resolution from a dual-axis duo-lateral position-sensitive detector. NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT. 985,
McIntosh, L. A., McIntosh, A. B., Hagel, K., Youngs, M. D., Bakhtiari, L. A., Lawrence, C. B., ... Yennello, S. J. (2021). Performance of position-sensitive resistive silicon detectors in the Forward Array Using Silicon Technology (FAUST). NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT. 985,
Harvey, B., Youngs, M., McIntosh, A. B., Jedele, A., Abbott, A., Gauthier, J., ... Yennello, S. J. (2020). Correlation between time and angular alignment in molecular dynamics simulations of heavy ion collisions. Physical Review C. 102(6), 064625.

Chapters1

Kaunas, C. L., Tomaszewski, L., & Yennello, S. J. (2018). TRANSITIONING FROM "TWO-BODY PROBLEM" TO "DUAL CAREER OPPORTUNITY" A Long and Arduous Journey. Mora, M., Qubbaj, A., & McMahon, M. (Eds.), Advancing Women in Academic STEM fields through Dual-Career Policies and Practices.. 53-65. Information Age Publishing.

Conference Papers89

Manso, A. R., McIntosh, A. B., Peaslee, G. F., Gauthier, J., Hagel, K., Heilborn, L., ... Yennello, S. (2019). Implementing PIXE and PIGE at the Texas A&M University cyclotron institute. 25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE APPLICATION OF ACCELERATORS IN RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY, 25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE APPLICATION OF ACCELERATORS IN RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY. 2160(1), 050023.
Russotto, P., Acosta, L., Adamczyk, M., Al-Ajlan, A., Al-Garawi, M., Al-Homaidhi, S., ... Zoric, M. (2017). Probing the Symmetry Term of the Nuclear Equation of State at High Baryonic Densities. Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 863(1), 012059-012059.
Jedele, A., McIntosh, A., Hagel, K., Heilborn, L., Kohley, Z., McCleskey, E., ... Yennello, S. (2017). Equilibration chronometry: characterizing neutron-proton equilibration within a strongly deformed nuclear system with sub-zeptosecond resolution. Proceedings of The 26th International Nuclear Physics Conference PoS(INPC2016), The 26th International Nuclear Physics Conference. 2016-September, 229.
De Filippo, E., Russotto, P., Acosta, L., Adamczyk, M., Al-Ajlan, A., Al-Garawi, M., ... Zoric, M. (2017). The symmetry energy at suprasaturation density and the ASY-EOS experiment at GSI. EPJ Web of Conferences. 137, 09002-09002.
Yennello, S. J. (2017). Accelerated Learning: Undergraduate Research Experiences at the Texas A&M Cyclotron Institute. Physics Procedia. 90, 354-363.