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Professor Raymond Mackintosh

Profile summary

  • Visiting Informal Academic
  • Emeritus Professor
  • Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
  • School of Physical Sciences
  • raymond.mackintosh

Professional biography

BSc, MSc Physics, University of Auckland, NZ.

Fulbright Fellowship 1964

PhD, University of California, Berkeley, N.K. Glendenning, supervisor

Retired as Professor of Physics on Sept 30, 2006;     Became Emeritus Professor of Physics in Feb 2008.

Those among us who are unwilling to expose their ideas to the hazard of refutation do not take part in the
scientific game;  Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Research interests

Retirement has enabled a fuller commitment to research than was possible before. I have had research collaboration trips to Warsaw (2008) and Paris (2009). My research continues to focus on phenomenological aspects of the theory of the interaction between atomic nuclei. In particular, I have been exploiting a tool, developed at the OU since about 1980, for solving the S(L) to V(r) inverse scattering problem.

I have published 128 papers in refereed journals (including refereed scholarpedia article), and many other items in conference proceedings, etc. 

There are three major refereed review articles:

1. R. S. Mackintosh, The shape of nuclei, Reports on Progress in Physics, Vol 40 (1977) pp 731 - 789

2. V I.Kukulin and R. S. Mackintosh , The application of inversion to nuclear scattering, J Phys G Vol 30 (2004) pp R1 - R55

3. R.S. Mackintosh, The angular momentum dependence of nuclear optical potentials, European Physical Joyrnal A, Vol 55 (2019) 147 (28 pages).

Specific projects related to those listed above are reflected in the papers published since my retirement:

1. R. S. Mackintosh and N. Keeley, Strong pickup coupling effects in proton scattering; the case of Be-10,  Physical Review, C 76 (2007) 024601

2. N Keeley and R.S. Mackintosh, Pickup coupling effects in deuteron scattering; the case of d + Ca-40, Physical Review, C 77 (2008) 054603

3. R.S. Mackintosh and N. Keeley,  He-6 breakup dynamical polarization potential re-examined, Physical Review, C 79 (2009) 015611

Several others, and most recently

N. Keeley and R.S. Mackintosh, Reaction channel coupling effects ... Physical Review C 97, 014605 (2018)

N. Keeley and R.S. Mackintosh, Pickup coupling contribution ... Physical Review C 99, 034614 (2019).

Teaching interests

I have been deeply involved in working on courses in E&M, Relativity and Cosmology, and especially Quantum Mechanics.

I have been responsible for developing residential schools in Electromagnetism and in Quantum Mechanics.

Since retiring, I have spent an intensive 6 months on the QM course, but since then my major teaching work has been to give lectures to postgrad students on nuclear astrophysics etc.

 

External collaborations

My main collaboration at present is with Professor N. Keeley in Warsaw.

Publications

Stripping and pickup contributions to the optical potentials for 3H and 3He on 40Ca (2024-03)
Mackintosh, R. S. and Keeley, N.
Physical Review C, 109, Article 34605(3)

Reaction channel contributions to the triton + 208Pb optical potential (2023-03)
Keeley, N. and Mackintosh, R. S.
Physical Review C, 107, Article 34602(3)

Reaction Channel contributions to the proton + 208Pb optical potential at 40 MeV (2022-11)
Mackintosh, R. S. and Keely, N.
Physical Rerview C, 106, Article 54611(5)

Reaction channel contributions to proton scattering at 65 MeV (2021-10)
Mackintosh, R.S. and Keeley, N.
Physical Review C, 104, Article 44616

Reaction channel contributions to the triton optical potential (2020-12-11)
Keeley, N and Mackintosh, Raymond
Physical Review C, 102, Article 64611(6)

Elastic transfer and parity dependence of the nucleus-nucleus optical potential (2019-11)
Phuc, Nguyen Tri Toan; Mackintosh, R.S.; Phuc, Nguyen Hoang and Khoa, Dao T.
Physical Review C, 100, Article 54615(5)

The angular momentum dependence of nuclear optical potentials (2019-09)
Mackintosh, R. S.
The European Physical Journal A, 55, Article 147(9)

Pickup coupling contribution to the optical model potential for 30.3 MeV protons and neutrons on40Ca (2019-03-21)
Keeley, N. and Mackintosh, R. S.
Physical Review C, 99, Article 34614(3)

Reaction channel contributions to the helion optical potential (2019)
Mackintosh, R. S. and Keeley, N.
Physical Review C, 100, Article 64613(6)

Remarkable independence of dynamical polarization potentials of the underlying potential (2018-08-28)
Mackintosh, R. S. and Keeley, N.
Physical Review C, 98, Article 24624 (pp. 1-4)

Erratum: Coupling effects in proton scattering from 40Ca (2018-06-01)
Mackintosh, R. S. and Keeley, N.
Physical Review C, 97, Article 69901 (pp. 1-3)

Reaction channel coupling effects for nucleons on 16O: Induced undularity and proton-neutron potential differences (2018-01-16)
Keeley, N. and Mackintosh, R.S.
Physical Review C, 97, Article 14505(1) (pp. 1-12)

Elastic Scattering Phenomenology (2017-04-11)
Mackintosh, Raymond
The European Physical Journal A, 53, Article 66

Influence of single-neutron stripping on near-barrier 6He+208Pb and 8He+208Pb elastic scattering (2017-02)
Marquínez-Durán, G.; Keeley, N.; Kemper, K. W.; Mackintosh, R. S.; Martel, I.; Rusek, K. and Sánchez-Benítez, A. M.
Physical Review C, 95, Article 24602(2)

Evidence for L-dependence generated by channel coupling: 16O scattering from 12C at 115.9 MeV (2016-09-06)
Mackintosh, R. S.
Physical Review C, 94, Article 34602 (pp. 1-9)

Emergence of a secondary rainbow and the dynamical polarization potential for 16O on 12C at 330 MeV (2015-02-23)
Mackintosh, R. S.; Hirabayashi, Y. and Ohkubo, S.
Physical Review C, 91, Article 24616(2)

Phonon coupling effects in proton scattering from 40Ca (2014-10-02)
Mackintosh, Raymond and Keeley, Nicholas
Physical Review C, 90, Article 44601

Dynamic polarization potential and dynamical nonlocality in nuclear potentials: nucleon-nucleus potential (2014-10-02)
Keeley, N. and Mackintosh, R. S.
Physical Review C, 90, Article 44602(4)

Interpreting increases in |SL| due to channel coupling (2013-11-04)
Mackintosh, R. S.
Physical Review C, 88, Article 54603(5)

Significant features of 8B scattering from 208Pb at 170.3 MeV (2013-07)
Mackintosh, R. S. and Pang, D. Y.
Physical Review C, 88, Article 14608

Increase in |SL| induced by channel coupling: the case of deuteron scattering (2012-10-09)
Mackintosh, R.S. and Pang, D.Y.
Physical Review C, 86(4) (p 47602)

Coupling effects in proton scattering from 40Ca (2012-06)
Mackintosh, R. S. and Keeley, N.
Physical Review C, 85(6) (p 64603)

Addendum to “Strong coupling effects in proton scattering from 8He” (2011-05)
Mackintosh, R. S. and Keeley, N.
Physical Review C, 83(5) (p 57601)

Dynamic polarization potential due to pickup coupling for proton scattering from 6He (2011-04)
Keeley, N. and Mackintosh, R. S.
Physical Review C, 83(4) (p 44608)

Dynamic polarization potential due to 6Li breakup on 12C (2011)
Pang, D. Y. and Mackintosh, R. S.
Physical Review C, 84(6)

Strong coupling effects in proton scattering from 8He (2010-03-15)
Mackintosh, R. S. and Keeley, N.
Physical Review C, 81(3) (pp. 1-15)

Breakup coupling effects on near-barrier 6Li, 7Be and 8B + 58Ni elastic scattering compared (2010-03-01)
Keeley, N.; Mackintosh, R. S. and Beck, C.
Nuclear Physics A, 834(1-4) (792c-795c)

He6 breakup dynamic polarization potential reexamined (2009)
Mackintosh, R. and Keeley, N.
Physical Review C, 79(1) (p 1461)

Pickup coupling effects in deuteron scattering: The case of d + 40Ca (2008)
Keeley, N. and Mackintosh, R. S.
Physical Review C, 77(54603) (pp. 1-13)

Strong pickup-channel coupling effects in proton scattering: The case of p+10Be (2007)
Mackintosh, R. S. and Keeley, N.
Physical Review C, 76(24601) (pp. 1-6)

Study of the ground-state wave function of 6He via the 6He(p,t)alpha transfer reaction (2005-09)
Giot, L.; Roussel-Chomaz, P.; Alamanos, N.; Auger, F.; Cortina-Gil, M.-D.; Demonchy, Ch. E.; Fernandez, J.; Gillibert, A.; Jouanne, C.; Lapoux, V.; Mackintosh, R. S.; Mittig, W.; Nalpas, L.; Pakou, A.; Pita, S.; Pollacco, E. C.; Rodin, A.; Rusek, K.; Savajols, H.; Sida, J. L.; Skaza, F.; Stepantsov, S.; Ter-Akopian, G.; Thompson, I. and Wolski, R.
European Physical Journal A - Hadrons and Nuclei, 25(Suppl. 1) (pp. 267-269)

Important pickup coupling effect on 8He(p,p) elastic scattering (2005-07-14)
Skaza, F.; Keeley, N.; Lapoux, V.; Alamanos, N.; Auger, F.; Beaumel, D.; Becheva, E.; Blumenfeld, Y.; Delaunay, F.; Drouart, A.; Gillibert, A.; Giot, L.; Kemper, K.W.; Mackintosh, R.S.; Nalpas, L.; Pakou, A.; Pollacco, E.C.; Raabe, R.; Roussel-Chomaz, P.; Scarpaci, J-A.; Sida, J-L.; Stepantsov, S. and Wolski, R.
Physics Letters B, 619(1-2) (pp. 82-87)

Breakup dynamic polarization potential for 6He+208Pb: energy dependence and generic properties (2005)
Keeley, N. and Mackintosh, R.S.
Physical Review C, 71 (p 57601)

Investigation of 6He cluster structures (2005)
Giot, L.; Roussel-Chomaz, P.; Demonchy, C.E.; Mittig, W.; Savajols, H.; Alamanos, N.; Auger, F.; Gillibert, A.; Jouanne, C.; Lapoux, V.; Nalpas, L.; Pollacco, E.C.; Sida, J.L.; Skazza, F.; Cortina-Gil, M.D.; Femandez-Vasquez, J.; Mackintosh, R.S.; Pakou, A.; Pita, S.; Rodin, A.; Stepantsov, S.; Ter Akopian, G.M.; Rusek, K.; Thompson, I.J. and Wolski, R.
Physical Review C, 71 (p 64311)

Public awareness activities: creating NUCLEUS (2005)
Mackintosh, Ray
Nuclear Physics News, 15(2) (pp. 42-44)

The p+6He interaction from Ec.m.=0.5 to 25 MeV (2004-09-20)
Mackintosh, R. S.
Nuclear Physics A, 742(1-2) (pp. 3-13)

Breakup dynamic polarization potential for 6He+208Pb at 27 MeV (2004-06)
Mackintosh, R.S. and Keeley, N.
Physical Review C, 70(2, Article)

The Application of inversion to nuclear scattering (2004-02)
Kukulin, V.I. and Mackintosh, R.S.
Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 30(2) (R1-R55)

Theoretical and empirical d+4He potentials: an anomalous Majorana component? (2003-12-15)
Mackintosh, R.S.
Nuclear Physics A, 728(3-4) (pp. 415-422)

Data-to-potential inversion for tensor polarized deuterons scattered from 4He (2003-07-28)
Cooper, S.G. and Mackintosh, R.S.
Nuclear Physics A, 723(1-2) (pp. 45-68)

Dynamic polarization potential for 6He + p due to breakup (2003-03)
Mackintosh, R.S. and Rusek, K.
Physical Review C, 67(3) (p 34607)

A New phenomenological tau-alpha interaction (2003-01-13)
Heiberg-Andersen, H.; Mackintosh, R.S. and Vaagen, J.S.
Nuclear Physics A, 713(1-2) (pp. 63-80)

Investigation of the coupling potential by means of S-matrix inversion (2002-12)
Boztosun, I and Mackintosh, R.S.
Physical Review C, 66(64602)

Telling the world about nuclear physics (2001-01)
Mackintosh, Raymond S.
Physics Education, 36(1) (pp. 35-39)

Nucleus: a trip into the heart of the matter (2001-11-29)
Mackintosh, Ray; Al-Khalili, Jim; Jonson, Bjorn and Pena, Teresa
ISBN : 953786838 | Publisher : Canopus Publishing Limited | Published : United Kingdom

Nuclear applications of inverse scattering, present ... and future? (2005-10)
Mackintosh, R.S.
In : Perspectives on Nuclear Data for the Next Decade (26-28 Sep 2005, Bruyeres-le-Chatel, France)