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Email: hicks@udallas.edu
Sally Hicks, Ph.D., serves as a Professor Emerita of Physics at the University of Dallas and as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Kentucky, Her research is currently funded by the Department of Energy Nuclear Physics program (Grant DE-SC0021243) and allows her, along with University of Dallas students and research colleagues from the US Naval Academy, Mississippi State University and the University of Kentucky, to complete neutron scattering measurements on nuclei of interest for energy production and national security, as well as to help us better understand how neutrons interact with matter. This research has included many undergraduate students who have gone on to become scientists, engineers, high school teachers, medical professionals, and leaders in other occupations.
EDUCATIONB.S., Physics and Mathematics, Eastern Kentucky UniversityM.S., Physics, University of KentuckyPh.D., Nuclear Physics, University of Kentucky
SERVICEUSNDP Nuclear Data Advisory Committee 2023-2024Previews of the Future of Low-Energy Nuclear Physics Advisory Committee 2021-2022Facilitator for APS Negotiation Workshops Past Chair, Texas Section of the American Physical Society March 2020-2021Chair, Texas Section of the American Physical Society, March 2019-2020Chair-Elect, Texas Section of the American Physical Society, March 2018-2019Vice-Chair, Texas Section of the American Physical Society, March 2017-2018Reviewer for the National Science Foundation - GRFP, MI, NPReviewer for the Department of Energy - NEUP, NE, NNSA, NPClimate Reviewer for the American Physical SocietyProgram Review Physics independent
PUBLICATIONS "Templates of expected measurement uncertainties for (n, xn) cross sections", J. R. Vanhoy et al., EPJ Nuclear Sci. Technol. 9, 31 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1051/epjn/2023019
"Neutron elastic and inelastic scattering differential cross sections on carbon", A. P. D. Ramirez et al., Nucl. Phys A 1023, 122446 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2022.122446
"Neutron elastic and inelastic cross section measurements on silicon from 0.8–8 MeV", A. P. D. Ramirez et al., Nucl. Phys. A 1024, 122474 (2022) hhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2022.122474
"Nuclear structure of 130Te from inelastic neutron scattering and shell model analysis", S. F. Hicks et al., Phys. Rev C 105, 024329 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.105.024329
Steven Block, “Searching for scintillation detector drift through analysis of recoil spectra from neutrons scattered from 12C and γ-rays emitted from radioactive sources 137Cs, 60Co, and 241Am" (2016).
ThienAn Nguyen, "Studies of Neutron Scattering Monte Carlo Simulations to Determine Background Radiation Sources and Neutron Trajectories" (2015).