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Dr. Paul A. DeYoung, along with Dr. Belen Monteagudo, oversees Hope College亚洲色吧檚 Nuclear Group, which is one of the longest running, continuously funded research programs at Hope. Student researchers in this group have a wide variety of options. The Nuclear Group plays a large role within two internationally recognized collaborations at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams: the Modular Neutron Array Collaboration, which conducts studies of neutron-rich, ultra-short lived nuclei such as ²⁵O, and the Summing NaI group, which investigates the structure of nuclei formed in neutron star mergers and supernovae. Additionally, the Nuclear Group is responsible for work done with the Hope Ion Beam Analysis Laboratory, the college亚洲色吧檚 very own particle accelerator. Work with this device includes interdisciplinary studies of PFAS, vacancies in crystal lattices, effects of radiation and space, and trace element measurements of a variety of commercial and research materials.

Since joining the Hope faculty in 1985, Dr. DeYoung has taught nearly every one of the standard physics courses. He also has developed distance learning college physics classes as well as distance learning laboratories to accompany the lecture courses.

Since 2005 he has held an endowed chair as Kenneth G. Herrick Professor of Physics.

Areas of Expertise

Dr. DeYoung亚洲色吧� current research includes:

• Structure of neutron-rich unstable nuclei
• Decay properties of rare r-process nuclei
• Ion beam analysis of materials using Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry (RBS), Particle Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE), Particle Induced 纬-ray Emission (PIGE), Nuclear Reaction Analysis (NRA), and Ion Beam Induced Luminescence (IBIL).

His technical expertise includes

• LABVIEW programming for computer control of instrumentation
• Mathematical Methods in Physics (FFT, non-linear fitting, GUPIX, SIMRA, and GEOPIXE)
• Development of realistic simulations of physics laboratory experiments
• Construction of scintillating detectors for neutron and 尾 particle detection.

EDUCATION

• Postdoctoral researcher, Nuclear Structure Labratory, SUNY, 1982亚洲色吧�1985
• Ph.D., nuclear physics, University of Notre Dame, 1982
• B.A., physics and mathematics, Hope College, 1977
• Associate degree, science, Muskegon Community College, 1975

Selected Grants & HONORS

• 亚洲色吧淣uclear Science with Undergraduate Researchers: Studies of Nuclei at the Extremes
  and New Applications of Nuclear Techniques亚洲色吧� (3 years),  Belen Monteagudo Co-PI, NSF ($374,577), 2016. 
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2012
• Exceptional undergraduate researcher within the Natural and Applied Sciences Division at Hope College, 2011
• 亚洲色吧淢RI-Consortium: Development of a Neutron Detector Array by Undergraduate Research Students for Studies of Exotic Nuclei亚洲色吧� (the lead proposal for a MoNA Collaboration request from nine undergraduate institutions totaling $1.2 million), NSF ($203,894), NSF ($203,894), 2009
• Prize to a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution, American Physical Society, 2001

Select Publications

• 亚洲色吧�尾-decay Feeding Intensity Distributions of ^71,73狈颈,亚洲色吧� Physical Review, 2021
• 亚洲色吧�尾-decay Feeding Intensity Distributions for ^103,104m狈产,亚洲色吧� Physical Review, 2021
• 亚洲色吧淣itrogen Beams with a National Electrostatics Corporation Alphatross Source and a 5SDH Accelerator,亚洲色吧� Harlow, Journal of Undergraduate Reports in Physics, 2020
• 亚洲色吧淣eutron Unbound Excited States of ²³狈,亚洲色吧� Physical Review, 2017
• 亚洲色吧淪earch for Excited States in ²⁵翱,亚洲色吧� Physical Review, 2017
• 亚洲色吧淧opulation of ¹³Be in Nucleon Exchange Reactions,亚洲色吧� Physical Review, 2015
• 亚洲色吧淪uNSCREEN: A Cosmic-Ray Veto Detector for Capture-Reaction Measurements,亚洲色吧� Nuclear Instruments and Methods, 2015

View Dr. DeYoung's other publications on his curriculum vitae.

Outside the College

Dr. DeYoung loves to go bass fishing, He plays the bass guitar with a praise band, and makes adaptive musical instruments and sensory devices for special needs children.