Carl E. Carlson

Class of 1962 Professor of Physics
The College of William & Mary in Virginia

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A.B., Columbia University , 1965;
Ph.D., Columbia University , 1968.

Research Interests

Theoretical Particle and Nuclear Physics, including:

Teaching Awards

Recent Courses

(On leave 2017-2018, Institut für Kernphysik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz,
with October 2017 at the Helsinki Institute for Physics, Helsinki, Finland)

Quantum Field Theory II, Physics 722, Spring 2017

Classical Electricity and Magnetism II, Physics 611, Fall 2016, Fall 2015

General Physics, Physics 102, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013

Classical Mechanics, Physics 303, Fall 2013, Fall 2012

Quantum Field Theory, Physics 721-722, 2011-2012

(On leave 2010-2011, Helsinki Institute for Physics, Helmholz Institute Mainz, Nordita (Stockholm))

Recent papers

2017

Beam normal spin asymmetry for the e p to e Delta(1232) process
Carl E. Carlson, Barbara Pasquini, Vladyslav Pauk, and Marc Vanderhaeghen
Phys. Rev. D 96 (2017) 113010 (19 pp) ; DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.113010

Circular Dichroism of Twisted Photons in Non-Chiral Atomic Matter
Andrei Afanasev, Carl E. Carlson, and Maria Solyanik
Journal of Optics 19 (2017) 105401 (8pp) ; DOI: 10.1088/2040-8986/aa82c3

Lattice corrections to the quark quasidistribution at one-loop
Carl Carlson and Michael Freid
Phys. Rev. D 95, 094504 (2017) (8pp); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.094504

Two-photon exchange correction to 2S-2P splitting in muonic helium-3 ions
Carl Carlson, Mikhail Gorchtein, and Marc Vanderhaeghen
Phys. Rev. A 95, 012506 (2017) (9pp); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.95.012506

2016

Electron beam single-spin asymmetries in the resonance region with final hadrons observed
Brandon Buncher and Carl E. Carlson
Phys. Rev. D 93, 074032 (2016) (8 pages) ); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.074032

High-multipole excitations of hydrogen-like atoms by twisted photons near a phase singularity
Andrei Afanasev, Carl E. Carlson, and Asmita Mukherjee
J. Opt. 18 (2016) 074013 (7pp) ; DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/18/7/074013

Consistency of electron scattering data with a small proton radius
Keith Griffioen, Carl Carlson, and Sarah Maddox
Phys. Rev. C 93 (2016) 065207 (11pp) ; DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.93.065207

2015

Extending theories on muon-specific interactions
Carl E. Carlson and Michael Freid
Phys. Rev. D 92, 095024 (6 pages)

The Structure of the Nucleon: Elastic Electromagnetic Form Factors
V. Punjabi, C.F. Perdrisat, M.K. Jones, E.J. Brash, and C.E. Carlson
Eur. Phys. J. A 51 (2015), 79-122

The proton radius puzzle
Carl E. Carlson
Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics 82 (2015), 59-77

2014-1996, papers in refereed journals


Contact points:

Office:  +1-757-221-3509
FAX:     +1-757-221-3540
E-Mail:  <carlson@physics.wm.edu> 
Post:    College of William and Mary
         Physics Department, PO Box 8795
         Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8795
         USA



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