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HONORARY STAFF

Emeritus Professor	2
Emeritus Associate Professor	3
Senior Research Associate	2
TOTAL	7

STUDENTS

Doctoral	18
Masters	20
NASSP Masters	19
Honours	9
NASSP Honours	12
Undergraduate	1357
TOTAL	1435

Research Fields and Staff

PERMANENT STAFF

Professor David G. Aschman

Experimental nuclear physics

Professor Jean W.A. Cleymans

Theoretical physics

Professor Cesáreo A. Dominguez

Theoretical particle physics

Professor Raoul D. Viollier

Theoretical particle physics and astrophysics

Associate Professor M. Saalih Allie

Experimental nuclear physics; physics education

Associate Professor David T. Britton

Solid state physics

Associate Professor Andrew Buffler

Experimental nuclear physics; physics education

Associate Professor Craig M. Comrie

Head of department; solid state physics

Associate Professor Margit Härting

Solid state physics

Dr. Roger W. Fearick

Senior lecturer; experimental nuclear physics

Dr. Azwinndini Muronga

Senior lecturer; theoretical particle physics

Dr. Zeblon Z. Vilakazi

Senior lecturer; experimental particle physics

Dr. M. Rudolph Nchodu

Lecturer; nuclear physics; physics education

Dr. Shaun M. Wyngaardt

Lecturer; theoretical/experimental nuclear physics

RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

Emeritus Professor Frank Brooks

Experimental nuclear physics

Emeritus Professor Sandro M. Perez

Theoretical nuclear physics

Emeritus Associate Professor Peter Spargo

History of science

Dr. Gary Tupper

Theoretical particle physics and astrophysics

DISTINGUISHED VISITORS

Dr. Antonis N. Andriotis, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Heraklion, Greece.

Assos. Professor Juan Cristobal Rojas, Catholic University of the North, Antofagasta, Chile.
Professor Chris Damerell, Rutherford Laboratory and Liverpool University, United Kingdom.
Dr. David G. Foster, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
Professor Harald Fritzsch, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.
Dr. Alberto Gandini, University of Houston, Texas, USA.
Professor Alain Gibaud, Soleil Synchrotron and University of Le Mans, France.
Professor Volker Lindenstruth, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Professor Marcelo Loewe, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
Dr. Niels Oeschler, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.
Professor Alexander Osipowicz, Fulda University, Germany.
Professor George Rozgonyi, North Carolina State University, USA.
Professor Karl Schilcher, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany.
Dr. Florent Staley, Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique, Saclay, France, and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
Professor Jerzy Szwed, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.
Professor André Vantomme, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.

Contact details

Postal address: Department of Physics, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3,

Rondebosch, 7701

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Email: [e-mail]

Web: www.phy.uct.ac.za

Research Output
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Alt, T., Appelshäuser, H., Bablok, S., Becker, B., Chattopadhyay, S., Cheshkov, C., Cicaló, C., Cleymans, J., Fearick, R.W., Helstrup, H., Lindenstruth, V., Loizides, C., Richter, M., Röhrich, D., Skaali, B., Staley, F., Steinbeck, T., Szostak, A., Tilsner, H., Ullaland, K., de Vaux, G., Vestbø, A., Vik, T., Vilakazi, Z.Z., Wiebalck, A. and Øvrebekk, G. 2006. Benchmarks and implementation of the ALICE high level trigger. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 53(3): 854-858.
Alver, B., Back, B.B., Baker, M.D., Ballintijn, M., Barton, D.S., Betts, R.R., Bickley, A.A., Bindel R., Budzanowski, A., Busza, A., Carroll, A., Chai, Z., Chetluru, V., Decowski, M.P., Garcia, E., Gburek, T., George, N., Gulbrandsen, K., Gushue, S., Halliwell, C., Hamblen, J., Heintzelman, G.A., Henderson, C., Harnarine, I., Hofman, D.J., Hollis, R.S., Holynski, R., Holzman, B., Iordanova, A., Johnson, E., Kane, J.L., Khan, N., Kucewicz, W., Kulinich, P., Kuo, C.M., Li, W., Lin, W.T, Loizides, C., Manly, S., Mignerey, A.C., Nouicer, R., Olszewski, A., Pak, R., Park, I.C., Reed, C., Remsberg, L.P., Reuter, M., Richardson, E., Roland, C., Roland, G., Rosenberg, L., Sagerer, J., Sarin, P., Sawicki, P., Sedykh, I., Skulski, W., Smith, C.E., Stankiewicz, M.A., Steinberg, P., Stephans, G.S.F., Sukhanov, A., Szostak, A., Tang, J.L., Tonjes, M.B., Trzupek, A., Vale, C., van Nieuwenhuizen, G.J., Vaurynovich, S.S., Verdier, R., Veres, G.I., Wenger, E., Willhelm, D., Wolfs, F.L.H., Wosiek, B., Wozniak, K., Wuosmaa, A.H., Wyngaardt, S. and Wyslouch, B. 2006. Charged particle multiplicity distributions from p+p to Au+Au collisions at RHIC. Romanian Reports in Physics, 58(1): 37-41.
Alver, B., Back, B.B., Baker, M.D., Ballintijn, M., Barton, D.S., Betts, R.R., Bindel R., Busza, A., Chai, Z., Chetluru, V., Garcia, E., Gburek, T., Gulbrandsen, K., Hamblen, J., Harnarine, I., Henderson, C., Hofman, D.J., Hollis, R.S., Holynski, R., Holzman, B., Iordanova, Kane, J.L., Kulinich, P., Kuo, C.M., Li, W., Lin, W.T, Loizides, C., Manly, S., Mignerey, A.C., Nouicer, R., Olszewski, A., Pak, R., Reed, C., Richardson, E., Roland, C., Roland, G., Sagerer, J., Sedykh, I., Smith, C.E., Stankiewicz, M.A., Steinberg, P., Stephans, G.S.F., Sukhanov, A., Szostak, A., Tonjes, M.B., Trzupek, A., van Nieuwenhuizen, G.J., Vaurynovich, S.S., Verdier, R., Veres, G.I., Walters, P., Wenger, E., Willhelm, D., Wolfs, F.L.H., Wosiek, B., Wozniak, K., Wyngaardt, S. and Wyslouch, B. 2006. System size and centrality dependence of charged hadron transverse momentum spectra in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at and 200 GeV. Physical Review Letters, 96: 212301.
Arendse, C.J., Knoesen, D. and Britton, D.T. 2006. Thermal stability of hot-wire deposited amorphous silicon. Thin Solid Films, 501: 92-94.
Back, B.B., Baker, M.D., Ballintijn, M., Barton, D.S., Betts, R.R., Bickley, A.A., Bindel, R., Budzanowski, A., Busza, W., Carroll, A., Chai, Z., Decowski, M.P., Garcia, E., Gburek, T., George, N., Gulbrandsen, K., Gushue, S., Halliwell, C., Hamblen, J., Hauer, M., Heintzelman, G.A., Henderson, C., Hofman, D.J., Hollis, R.S., Holynski, R., Holzman, B., Iordanova, A., Johnson, E., Kane, J.L., Katzy, J, Khan, N., Kucewicz, W., Kulinich, P., Kuo, C.M., Lin, W.T., Manly, S., McLeod, D., Mignerey, A.C., Nouicer, R., Olszewski, A., Pak, R., Park, I.C., Pernegger, H., Reed, C., Remsberg, L.P., Reuter, M., Roland, C., Roland, G., Rosenberg, L., Sagerer, J., Sarin, P., Sawicki, P., Seals, H., Sedykh, I., Skulski, W., Smith, C.E., Stankiewicz, M.A., Steinberg, P., Stephans, G.S.F., Sukhanov, A., Tang, J-L., Tonjes, M.B., Trzupek, A., Vale, C., van Nieuwenhuizen, G.J., Vaurynovich, S.S., Verdier, R., Veres, G.I., Wenger, E., Wolfs, F.L.H., Wosiek, B., Wozniak, K., Wuosmaa, A.H. and Wyslouch, B. 2006. Energy dependence of directed flow over a wide range of pseudorapidity in Au+Au collisions at RHIC. Physical Review Letters, 97: 012301.
Back, B.B., Baker, M.D., Ballintijn, M., Barton, D.S., Betts, R.R., Bickley, A.A., Bindel, R., Budzanowski, A., Busza, W., Carroll, A., Chai, Z., Decowski, M.P., Garcia, E., Gburek, T., George, N., Gulbrandsen, K., Gushue, S., Halliwell, C., Hamblen, J., Hauer, M., Heintzelman, G.A., Henderson, C., Hofman, D.J., Hollis, R.S., Holynski, R., Holzman, B., Iordanova, A., Johnson, E., Kane, J.L., Katzy, J, Khan, N., Kucewicz, W., Kulinich, P., Kuo, C.M., Lin, W.T., Manly, S., McLeod, D., Mignerey, A.C., Nouicer, R., Olszewski, A., Pak, R., Park, I.C., Pernegger, H., Reed, C., Remsberg, L.P., Reuter, M., Roland, C., Roland, G., Rosenberg, L., Sagerer, J., Sarin, P., Sawicki, P., Seals, H., Sedykh, I., Skulski, W., Smith, C.E., Stankiewicz, M.A., Steinberg, P., Stephans, G.S.F., Sukhanov, A., Tang, J-L., Tonjes, M.B., Trzupek, A., Vale, C., van Nieuwenhuizen, G.J., Vaurynovich, S.S., Verdier, R., Veres, G.I., Wenger, E., Wolfs, F.L.H., Wosiek, B., Wozniak, K., Wuosmaa, A.H. and Wyslouch, B. 2006. Forward-backward multiplicity correlations in = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions. Physical Review C 74: 011901(R).
Back, B.B., Baker, M.D., Ballintijn, M., Barton, D.S., Betts, R.R., Bickley, A.A., Bindel, R., Budzanowski, A., Busza, W., Carroll, A., Chai, Z., Decowski, M.P., Garcia, E., Gburek, T., George, N., Gulbrandsen, K., Gushue, S., Halliwell, C., Hamblen, J., Hauer, M., Heintzelman, G.A., Henderson, C., Hofman, D.J., Hollis, R.S., Holynski, R., Holzman, B., Iordanova, A., Johnson, E., Kane, J.L., Katzy, J, Khan, N., Kucewicz, W., Kulinich, P., Kuo, C.M., Lin, W.T., Manly, S., McLeod, D., Mignerey, A.C., Nouicer, R., Olszewski, A., Pak, R., Park, I.C., Pernegger, H., Reed, C., Remsberg, L.P., Reuter, M., Roland, C., Roland, G., Rosenberg, L., Sagerer, J., Sarin, P., Sawicki, P., Seals, H., Sedykh, I., Skulski, W., Smith, C.E., Stankiewicz, M.A., Steinberg, P., Stephans, G.S.F., Sukhanov, A., Tang, J-L., Tonjes, M.B., Trzupek, A., Vale, C., van Nieuwenhuizen, G.J., Vaurynovich, S.S., Verdier, R., Veres, G.I., Wenger, E., Wolfs, F.L.H., Wosiek, B., Wozniak, K., Wuosmaa, A.H. and Wyslouch, B. 2006. Transverse momentum and rapidity dependence of HBT correlations in Au+Au collisions at = 62.4 and 200 GeV. Physical Review C 73: 031901(R).
Begun, V.V., Gorenstein, M.I., Hauer, M., Konchakovski, V.P. and Zozulya, O.S. 2006. Multiplicity fluctuations in hadron-resonance gas. Physical Review C74: 044903.
Bilić, N., Tupper, G.B. and Viollier, R.D. 2006. Born-Infeld phantom gravastars. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 0602: 013-1-12.
Bordes, J., Dominguez, C.A., Peñarrocha, J. and Schilcher, K. 2006. Chiral condensates from tau decay: a critical reappraisal. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2: 037-053.
Britton, D.T. and Härting, M. 2006. Printed nanoparticulate composites for silicon thick-film electronics. Pure and Applied Chemistry, 78(9): 1723-1739.
Britton, D.T., Härting, M., Knoesen, D., Sigcau, Z., Nemalili, F.P., Ntsoane T.P., Sperr, P., Egger, W. and Nippus, M. 2006. Microstructural defect characterisation of a-Si:H deposited by low temperature HW-CVD on paper substrates. Thin Solid Films, 501: 79-83.
Britton, D.T., Minani, E., Knoesen, D., Schut, H., Eijt, S.W.H., Furlan, F., Giles, C. and Härting, M. 2006. Local structure reconstruction in hydrogenated amorphous silicon from angular correlation and synchrotron diffraction studies. Applied Surface Science, 252: 3194-3200.
Cleymans, J., Oeschler, H., Redlich, K. and Wheaton, S. 2006. Comparison of chemical freeze-out criteria in heavy-ion collisions. Physical Review C 73: 034905-1-10.
Cleymans, J., Kraus, I., Oeschler, H., Redlich, K. and Wheaton, S. 2006. Statistical model predictions for particle ratios at Physical Review C 74: 034903.
Cleymans, J., Oeschler, H., Redlich, K. and Wheaton, S. 2006. Status of chemical freeze-out. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 32: S165-S169.
Cleymans, J., Oeschler, H., Redlich, K and Wheaton, S. 2006. The thermal model and the transition from baryonic to mesonic freeze-out. The European Physical Journal A 29: 119-121.
Falepin, A., Cottenier, S., Comrie, C.M. and Vantomme, A. 2006. Interpreting Mössbauer spectra reflecting an infinite number of sites: An application to Fe_{1 x}Si synthesized by pulsed laser annealing. Physical Review B 74: 184108-1-11.
Fearick, R.W., von Neumann-Cosel, P., Richter, A., Robinson, S.J.Q. and Zamick, L. 2006. Magnetic dipole strength and the T=0 proton-neutron residual interaction. Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 75(9): 094201-1-5.
Härting, M., Britton, D.T., Knoesen, D. and Egger, W. 2006. Positron lifetime and microstructural characterisation of a-Si:H deposited by low temperature HW-CVD on paper substrates. Applied Surface Science, 252: 3188-3193.
Härting, M., Britton, D.T., Minani, E., Ntsoane, T.P., Topic, M., Thovhogi, T., Osiele, O.M., Knoesen, D., Harindintwari, S., Furlan, F. and Giles, C. 2006. Investigations of intrinsic strain and structural ordering in a-Si:H using synchrotron radiation diffraction. Thin Solid Films, 501: 75-78.
Kraus, I., Cleymans, J., Oeschler, H., Redlich, K. and Wheaton, S. 2006. Statistical model predictions for Pb-Pb collisions at LHC. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 32: S495-S498.
Machner, H., Aschman, D.G., Baruth-Ram, K., Carter, J., Cowley, A.A., Goldenbaum, F., Nangu, B.M., Pilcher, J.V., Sideras-Haddad, E., Sellschop, J.P.F., Smit, F.D., Spoelstra, B. and Steyn, D. 2006. Isotopic production cross sections in proton-nucleus collisions at 200 MeV. Physical Review C 73: 044606-1-12.
Minani, E., Sigcau, Z., Adegbite, O., Ramukosi, F.L., Ntsoane, T.P., Harindintwari, S., Knoesen D., Comrie, C.M., Britton, D.T. and Härting, M. 2006. Microstructure, optical characterization and light induced degradation in a-Si:H deposited at different temperatures. Thin Solid Films, 501: 84-87,
Nolte, R., Dangendorf, V., Buffler, A., Brooks, F.D., Slabbert, J.P., Smit, F.D., Haney, M., Schmid, E. and Stephan, G. 2006. RBE of 200 Mev neutron radiation for the induction of chromosodal aberration in human lymphocytes. Proceedings of Science (FNDA2006), 082: 1-10.
Randrup, J. and Cleymans, J. 2006. Maximum freeze-out baryon density in nuclear collisions. Physical Review C 74: 047901-1-3.
Richter, M.C., Tupper, G.B. and Viollier, R.D. 2006. A symbiotic scenario for the rapid formation of supermassive black holes. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 0612: 015-1-12.
Yalçinkaya, M., Ganioglu, E., Erduran, M.N., Akkus, B., Bostan, M., Gürdal, G., Ertürk, S., Balabanski, D., Rainovsky, G., Danchev, M., Dragomirova, R., Minkova, A., Vyvey, K., Beetge, R., Fearick, R.W., Mabala, G.K., Roux, D.G., Whittaker, W., Babu, B.R.S., Lawrie, J.J., Naguleswaran, S., Newman, R.T., Rigolet, C., Pilcher, J.V., Smith, F.D. and Sharpey-Shafer, J.F. 2006. Study of fission fragments produced by ¹⁴N + ²³⁵U reaction. The European Physical Journal, A 27: 201-204.

Peer-Reviewed Published Conference Proceedings
Bilić, N., Lindebaum, R.J., Tupper, G.B. and Viollier, R.D. 2005. Inhomogeneous Chaplygin gas cosmology. In J. Dumarchez, Y. Giraud-Héraud and J. Trân Thanh Vân (eds), Proceedings of the XVth Rencontres de Blois, “Physical Cosmology”, 15-20 June 2003, Blois, Loire Valley, France, 169-172, GPXB201-2005/CXB/3-301/ThG(26-12-2005).
Bilić, N., Tupper, G.B. and Viollier, R.D. 2005. Supermassive fermion balls and constraints from stellar dynamics near Sgr A*. In J. Dumarchez, Y. Giraud-Héraud and J. Trân Thanh Vân (eds), Proceedings of the XVth Rencontres de Blois, “Physical Cosmology”, 15-20 June 2003, Blois, Loire Valley, France, 177-180, GPXB201-2005/CXB/3-301/ThG(26-12-2005).
Cleymans, J., Oeschler, H., Redlich, K. and Wheaton, S. 2006. The Horn and the Thermal Model. In B. Sinha (ed.), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Physics and Astrophysics of Quark Gluon Plasma, 8-12 February 2005, Kolkata, India. Institute of Physics Publishing. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 50(2006): 406-409.
Lubben, F., Campbell, B., Buffler, A. and Allie, S. Judging the quality of experimental measurements: The influence of context. In R. Janiuk and E. Samonek-Miciuk (eds), Proceedings of Science and Technology Education for a Diverse World: Dilemmas, Needs and Partnerships, 25-30 July 2006, Lublin, Poland, 357-368. Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press. ISBN 83-227-2497-7

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS PASSED FOR HIGHER DEGREES
Adegbite, O. 2006. Light element analysis of amorphous and nanocrystalline silicon using ERDA and related techniques: 1-87. MSc.

Corker, L.A. 2006. Drift-diffusion of a vacancy in inhomogeneous media and its material constants: A Fokker-Plank equation approach with an application to foreign exchange data: 1-74. MSc.

Hauer, M. 2006. Statistical distributions in the thermal model: 1-161. MSc.
Ibrahim, B.B. 2006. The relationship between views of the nature of science and views of the nature of scientific measurement: 1-178. MSc.
Pillay, S. 2006. The evaluation of a research-based curriculum for teaching measurement in the first year physics laboratory: 1-187. MSc.
Raji, A.T. 2006. Changes in near surface stress in titanium caused by krypton ion implantation: 1-100. MSc.
Ramukosi, F.L. 2006. Microstructure and residual stress in hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) layers: 1-104. MSc.
Seals, H. 2006. Cluster model studies of nuclei in the actinide region: 1-55. MSc.
Scriba, M.R. 2006. Silicon nanoparticle synthesis through thermal catalytic pyrolysis: 1-80. MSc.
Stankiewicz, M.A. 2006. Development of a freeze-out surface for 3+1 dimensional hydrodynamics: 1-68. MSc.
Tekola, A.G. 2006. Spherically symmetric dark energy structures: 1-40. MSc.
Department of Statistical Sciences

Research Report 2006
(Including the Avian Demography Unit)
(There is also an abbreviated entry for the Department of Statistical Sciences in the Faculty of Commerce section of the Research Report)
Head of Department: Professor Tim Dunne