Walter E. Kauppila
Professor of Physics 

Office:          266 Physics
Phone:          (313) 577-2780
Lab:              12 & 22 Physics
Lab Phone:  (313) 577-2723
Fax:              (313) 577-3932

E-mail: kauppila@physics.wayne.edu
Home Page: http://physics.wayne.edu/~kauppila/walter/index.htm Home Page: Positron Group

B.S. Physics, Michigan Technological University  196
Ph.D. Physics, Pittsburgh University


Research Interests experimental atomic physics for positrons scattering with inert gases

differential elastic scattering cross sections for positrons colliding with inert gas atoms

total scattering cross sections for hydrogen, alkali and magnesium atoms

positronium (Ps) formation cross sections for hydrogen, alkali, magnesium, and inert gas atoms

Undergraduate Students Erik G. Miller
Bart Szawarski

Theses Directed Kostoula Pipinos, (M.S., 2000)
Jing Jiang, (M.S., 1996)
Anatoly Surdutovich, (M.S., 1995)
Shangjing Zhou, (Ph.D., 1993)
Lie Dou, (Ph.D., 1993)
Sonal Parikh, (Ph.D., 1992)
Steven J. Smith, (Ph.D., 1989; M.S., 1983)
Rosa A. Lukaszew, (M.A., 1988)
Mohsen Mahdavi-Hezaveh, (M.S., 1987)
G.M. Ali Hyder, (Ph.D., 1987)
Romel D.R. Gomez, (M.S., 1984)
T.G. Tsuei, (M.A., 1983)
Sarath Meepagala, (M.A., 1983)
M. Nasim Uddin, (M.S., 1983)
Kevin R. Hoffman, (M.S., 1981)
David C. Bonner, (M.A., 1980)
Munir S. Dabaneh, (Ph.D., 1980; M.S., 1976)
Francis W. Laperriere, (M.S., 1979)
Jeffrey H. Smart, (M.S., 1977)
Gerald Jesion, (M.S., 1976)

Professional Experience Professor, Wayne State University, 1983-
Associate Professor, Wayne State University, 1977-83
Assistant Professor , Wayne State University, 1972-77
Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Rolla, 1971-72
Research Associate, JILA, University of Colorado, 1969-71

Honors and Awards WSU College of Science Teaching Award, 2000
WSU President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1995
WSU Academy of Scholars, 1994
WSU Board of Governors Distinguished Faculty Fellowship, 1989
American Physical Society Fellow, 1988
WSU Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award, 1976

Selected Publications “Measurements of differential cross sections for positrons scattered from N2, CO, O2, N2O, and CO2, D.A. Przybyla, W. Addo-Asah, W.E. Kauppila, C.K. Kwan, and T.S. Stein, Phys. Rev. A 60, 359 (1999).

“Positron-atom/molecule collision measurements”, W.E. Kauppila, C.K. Kwan, D. Przybyla, and T.S. Stein, in Photonic, Electronic, and Atomic Collisions, ed. F. Aumayr and H. Winter, (World Scientific, Singapore, 1998), pp 373-382.

“Measurements of positron-molecule differential scattering cross sections“, D.A. Przybyla, W. Addo-Asah, W.E. Kauppila, C.K. Kwan, and T.S. Stein, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 143, 57 (1998).

“Measurements of positron-scattering by hydrogen, alkali metal, and other atoms“, T.S. Stein, M. Harte, J. Jiang, W.E. Kauppila, C.K. Kwan, H. Li, and S. Zhou, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 143, 68 (1998).

"Positron-molecule scattering experiments", C.K. Kwan, W.E. Kauppila, S. Nazaran, D. Przbyla, N. Sahill, and T.S. Stein, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 143, 61 (1998).


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