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Overview

J. K. Nelson is affiliated with William & Mary in the United States and has a research profile focused primarily in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their work spans multiple subfields of study, including Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Aerospace Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Materials Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their research covers a variety of core topics such as Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies, Neutrino Physics Research, Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena, Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena, Particle Detector Development and Performance, Particle accelerators and beam dynamics, and Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research.

Nelson has published extensively in several reputable venues. Most frequently, their work appears in Physical review. D/Physical review. D., followed by Physical Review Letters, arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Instrumentation, and Nature.

Among their recent published papers are:

  • Constraints on low-mass, relic dark matter candidates from a surface-operated SuperCDMS single-charge sensitive detector (2020, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.)
  • Light Dark Matter Search with a High-Resolution Athermal Phonon Detector Operated above Ground (2021, Physical Review Letters)
  • Constraints on dark photons and axionlike particles from the SuperCDMS Soudan experiment (2020, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.)
  • Nucleon binding energy and transverse momentum imbalance in neutrino-nucleus reactions (2020, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.)
  • Precision Constraints for Three-Flavor Neutrino Oscillations from the Full MINOS+ and MINOS Dataset (2020, Physical Review Letters)

Frequent co-authors in their collaborations include K. S. McFarland, J. Félix, M. V. Ascencio, M. A. Ramírez, and R. Gran. These collaborative relationships indicate active engagement with colleagues in closely related research topics.

Best Publications

  • Improved search for muon-neutrino to electron-neutrino oscillations in MINOS

    P. Adamson;D. J. Auty;D. S. Ayres;C. Backhouse

  • Evidence for penguin-diagram decays: First observation of B→K*(892)γ

    R. Ammar;S. Ball;P. Baringer;D. Coppage

  • Measurement of neutrino oscillations with the MINOS detectors in the NuMI beam.

    P. Adamson;C. Andreopoulos;K. E. Arms;R. Armstrong

  • Measurement of the Neutrino Mass Splitting and Flavor Mixing by MINOS

    P. Adamson;C. Andreopoulos;R. Armstrong;D. J. Auty

  • Measurement of Neutrino and Antineutrino Oscillations Using Beam and Atmospheric Data in MINOS

    P Adamson;I Anghel;I Anghel;C Backhouse;G Barr

  • Observation of B-meson semileptonic decays to noncharmed final states.

    R. Fulton;M. Hempstead;T. Jensen;D. R. Johnson

  • First measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters using neutrinos and antineutrinos by NOvA.

    M A Acero;P Adamson;L Aliaga;T Alion

  • Electron neutrino and antineutrino appearance in the full MINOS data sample

    P. Adamson;I. Anghel;C. Backhouse;G. Barr

  • Study of muon neutrino disappearance using the Fermilab Main Injector neutrino beam

    P. Adamson;P. Adamson;C. Andreopoulos;K. E. Arms;R. Armstrong

  • The NuMI neutrino beam

    P. Adamson;K. Anderson;M. Andrews;R. Andrews

  • First measurement of electron neutrino appearance in NOvA

    P. Adamson;C. Ader;M. Andrews;N. Anfimov

  • First Dark Matter Constraints from a SuperCDMS Single-Charge Sensitive Detector.

    R. Agnese;T. Aralis;T. Aramaki;I. J. Arnquist

  • Measurement of muon antineutrino quasielastic scattering on a hydrocarbon target at Eν ~ 3.5 GeV.

    G. A. Fiorentini;D. W. Schmitz;D. W. Schmitz;P. A. Rodrigues;L. Aliaga;L. Aliaga

  • Design, calibration, and performance of the MINERvA detector

    L. Aliaga;L. Aliaga;L. Bagby;B. Baldin;A. Baumbaugh

  • Combined analysis of νμ disappearance and νμ → νe appearance in MINOS using accelerator and atmospheric neutrinos

    P. Adamson;I. Anghel;A. Aurisano;G. Barr

  • Low-mass dark matter search with CDMSlite

    R. Agnese;A. J. Anderson;T. Aralis;T. Aramaki

  • Measurement of neutrino velocity with the MINOS detectors and NuMI neutrino beam

    P. Adamson;P. Adamson;C. Andreopoulos;K. E. Arms;R. Armstrong

  • Physics at a future Neutrino Factory and super-beam facility

    A. Bandyopadhyay;S. Choubey;R. Gandhi;S. Goswami

  • New constraints on oscillation parameters from νe appearance and νμ disappearance in the NOvA experiment

    M. A. Acero;P. Adamson;L. Aliaga;T. Alion

  • First measurement of muon-neutrino disappearance in NOvA

    P. Adamson;C. Ader;M. Andrews;N. Anfimov

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard W Gran
Richard W Gran University of Minnesota
A. C. Weber
A. C. Weber University of Oxford
Andrew Blake
Andrew Blake University of Cambridge
H. Schellman
H. Schellman Oregon State University
Harvey B Newman
Harvey B Newman California Institute of Technology
M. Bishai
M. Bishai Brookhaven National Laboratory
V. Paolone
V. Paolone University of Pittsburgh
Maury Goodman
Maury Goodman Argonne National Laboratory
P. Gouffon
P. Gouffon Universidade de São Paulo

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