Anna Hayes

Anna Catherine Hayes-Sterbenz is an Irish-American physicist. Her research concerns nuclear physics, weak interactions, and the physics of neutrinos and plasmas, including studies of the neutron and neutrino output from inertial confinement fusion reactors and the use of that output in detecting nuclear proliferation.[1][2] She works at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she heads the Nuclear, Particle, Astrophysics and Cosmology Group (T-2) of the Theoretical Division.[3]

Education and career

Hayes was an undergraduate in Ireland, at Trinity College Dublin.[4] She completed a Ph.D. in 1986 in the Yale Wright Laboratory, with the dissertation Microscopic Study of Enhanced E1 transitions in 18O, supervised by D. Allan Bromley and coadvised by David Millener of the Brookhaven National Laboratory.[5][6]

After postdoctoral research at the University of Minnesota and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Hayes joined the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada in 1991.[4] She returned to Los Alamos as a permanent research staff member in 1997.[7]

Recognition

Hayes was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2002, after a nomination from the APS Division of Nuclear Physics, "for her contributions to studies of the weak interaction in nuclei, in particular providing the nuclear-structure calculations of the underlying weak matrix elements".[1] In 2019, she was named as a Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2025-02-01
  2. ^ a b 7 Los Alamos scientists and engineers honored as 2019 Laboratory Fellows, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 16 October 2019, retrieved 2025-02-01
  3. ^ T-2 Roster, Los Alamos National Laboratory, retrieved 2025-02-01
  4. ^ a b Progress report: Physical Sciences, Physics Division, July–December 1991 (PDF), Chalk River Laboratories, May 1992, retrieved 2025-02-01
  5. ^ Alumni and graduate theses, Yale Wright Laboratory, retrieved 2025-02-01
  6. ^ Hayes, Anna Catherine (1986), Microscopic Study of Enhanced E1 transitions in 18O (Ph.D. thesis), Yale University
  7. ^ "Appendix C: Biographies of Committee Members", Nuclear Physics: Exploring the Heart of Matter, National Research Council, 2013, doi:10.17226/13438, ISBN 978-0-309-26043-5
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