Murray A. Moinester

Emeritus Professor of Physics

Tel Aviv University

Short Personal and Research Bio + CV

Murray Moinester received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1968, and then joined the faculty at Tel Aviv University. He served as guest professor for extended periods at many leading universities and accelerator laboratories, has extensive experience in experimental and computational methods, carried out many research programs in high energy particle and nuclear physics, published some 200 scientific papers in refereed journals, and made some 75 conference or university presentations. Since his official retirement in 2003, he continues researching in the fields of Hadron Physics (pion polarizability, etc.), Archaeology (Multispectral imaging & RHX dating), environmental radioactivity, & soil science (carbon sequestration).

Personal Info

Education + Appointments

CV

CV Murray Moinester – Long

CV Murray Moinester – Short

Murray Moinester Google Scholar Citations

Education

B.Sc. 1961 City College of CUNY, New York, USA

M.S. 1963 University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA

Ph.D. 1968 University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA

Ph.D. Thesis: The (³He,d) Reaction on ³⁵Cl and ³⁷Cl and the Structure of ³⁶Ar and ³⁸Ar

Advisor: Prof. W. Parker Alford.

Academic and Professional Appointments

2003-present – Emeritus Professor, Tel Aviv University, TAU

1988-2003 – Professor, TAU

1980-1988 – Associate Professor, TAU

1973-1980 – Senior Lecturer, TAU

1970-1973 – Lecturer, TAU

1968-1970 – Instructor, TAU

2009-2012, Institute of Archaelogy, TAU, Consultant, Infrared Imaging & Scientific Dating

2008 – Sysconet Information Technologies Ltd., Herzliya, Consultant, Border Control Technologies (Radioactivity)

2006-2007 Eitan-Mehulal Law Group, Herzliya, patent writer, 4 months

2004-2007 Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, Adjunct Senior Scientist, Visiting Professor, 2 years

2002-2003 Mercator Professor, Visiting Professor, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 1 year

2003 Visiting Professor, Institudo de Fisica, Universidat Autonoma San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 2 months

1994-1999 Visiting Professor, Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg, Germany, 6 months

1999-2011 Visiting Professor, CERN, Geneva, 6 months

1991-1998 Visiting Professor, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, 6 months

1992-1993 Visiting Professor, Laboratori Nazionali de Frascati dell’ I.N.F.N., Frascati, Italy, 2 months

1988-1990 Visiting Professor, Brookhaven National Laboratory, N.Y., 2 months

1981-1993 Visiting Professor, TRIUMF Meson Facility, University of British Columbia, 3 years

1980-1984 Visiting Professor, M.I.T. BATES Electron Accelerator, 2 months

1980-1981 Visiting Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass., 1 month

1976-1977 Research Consultant, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 8 months

1974-1986 Visiting Staff Member and Visiting Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Meson Physics Facility, 3 years

1970-1975 Research Associate and Visiting Scientist, Centre d’Etudes Nucléaires de Saclay, France, 2 years

1969-1970 & 1994 Visiting Scientist, Université Joseph Fourier, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Grenoble, France, 4 months

1961-1968 Teaching and Research Assistant ,University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y.

Societies + Awards + Students

Graduate Students Supervised

2005: Igor Giller, Ph.D. Pion Polarizability Measurement via Radiative Pion Photoproduction (Advisor: M. A. Moinester)

2000: Aharon Ocherashvili, Ph.D. Pion Virtual Compton Scattering (Advisor: M. A. Moinester)

1999: Igor Giller, M.Sc. Pion Charge Radius (Advisor: M. A. Moinester)

1994:Hartmut Hahn, Ph.D. Pion Absorption on the Diproton at Low Energies (Advisor: M. A. Moinester)

1984: Adoram Erell, Ph. D. Study of Isovector Giant Resonances by Pion Charge Exchange Reactions (Advisor: J. Alster; Assistant: M. A. Moinester)

1981: Alex Doron, Ph.D. Pion‑Nucleus Charge Exchange Reactions on Light Nuclei (Advisor: J. Alster; Assistant: M. A. Moinester)

1979: Shalev Gilad, Ph.D. Design, construction, and performance of a high-resolution π0 spectrometer (Advisor: J. Alster; Assistant: M. A. Moinester)

Membership in Professional Societies

American Physical Society (USA), Israel Physical Society,
European Physical Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Phi,
Geological Society (USA), Society for American Archaeology

Academic and Professional Awards

1961: Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Phi, City College of CUNY.

1975-1977: Israel Commission for Basic Research (Grant Number 6439) – Research grant, Study of Pion-Nucleus Reactions

1976-1983: United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation – Research grants, Study of Pion-Nucleus Charge Exchange Reactions

1981-1984: United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation – Research grant, Transverse Electron Scattering from Light Nuclei, Grant No. 2636/81

1987: National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, International Scientific Exchange Award.

1989-1992: Research Grant, Photonuclear Reactions at LEGS (Laser-Electron Gamma Source), U. S. – Israel Binational Science Foundation Grant 88-00492

1993-1999: Pion and Sigma Polarizabilities and Radiative Transitions at FERMILAB, U. S. – Israel Binational Science Foundation Grants 92-00289 95-00431

1996-1999: Chiral Anomaly Tests, Israel Academy of Science Grant.

1999-2002: Hadron-Lepton Interactions at SELEX and COMPASS, Israel Academy of Science Grant

2003: Gerardus Mercator Professor, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz

2012: Israel Ministry of Environmental Protection Grant, Radioactive nuclides contamination in agricultural soil and sludge in Israel

Publications

All publications, including my Google Scholar Citation Profile, are given in this Google Scholar link:

Scholar Google

Citation Profile

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Pion Polarizabilities

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Moinester, M. (2019). Pion Polarizability Review, Proc. 8th Int. Conf. Quarks and Nuclear Physics (QNP2018), JPS Conf. Proc. 26, 021023, https://journals.jps.jp/doi/pdf/10.7566/JPSCP.26.021023
Moinester, M., & Scherer, S. (2019). Compton scattering off pions and electromagnetic polarizabilities. International Journal of Modern Physics A34, 1930008 (64 pages), https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.05640.pdf
Moinester, M. (2017). Pion Polarizability Status Report. arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.05159.https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1709/1709.05159.pdf
Adolph, C., et al., (2015). Measurement of the charged-pion polarizability. Physical review letters 114, 062002. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.062002
Moinester, M. (2014). Pion Polarizability at CERN COMPASS. European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (Vol. 180, p. 085). https://pos.sissa.it/180/085
Abbon, P. et al. (2007). The COMPASS experiment at CERN. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 577, 455-518. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900207005001
Ahrens, J., et al., (2005). Measurement of the π meson polarizabilities via the γp→ γπ⁺n reaction. European Physical Journal A-Hadrons and Nuclei 23, 113-127.https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epja/i2004-10056-2
Moinester, M. (2003). Pion and Kaon Polarizabilities at CERN COMPASS, Advanced Study Institute on Symmetries and Spin (Praha SPIN 2002), Prague, Czech Republic, Czech. J. Phys. 53, B169; https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ex/0301024.pdf
Ocherashvili, A., et al., (2002). First measurement of π⁻e→ π⁻eγ pion virtual compton scattering. Physical Review C66, 034613.https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.66.034613
Unkmeir, C., et al., (2001). Pion generalized dipole polarizabilities by virtual Compton scattering πe→ πeγ. Physical Review C65, 015206.https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.65.015206
Ocherashvili, A. (2000). Pion Virtual Compton Scattering (FERMILAB-THESIS-2000-41). Fermi National Accelerator Lab.(FNAL), Batavia, IL.http://inspirehep.net/record/549642/files/fermilab-thesis-2000-41.PDF
Moinester, M. A. (2000). Pion Polarizabilities and Hybrid Meson Structure at COMPASS, APS DNP Town Meeting on Electromagnetic & Hadronic Physics, Newport News, Va. https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0012063
Moinester, M. A., & Steiner, V. (1998). Pion and kaon polarizabilities and radiative transitions. In Chiral Dynamics: Theory and Experiment (pp. 247-263). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ex/9801008.pdf
Milstene, C., Cooper, P. S., & Moinester, M. A. (1998). Kaon Radiative Decay K+-> mu+ nu gamma at CKM at the Fermilab Main Injector. https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ex/9803033.pdf
Moinester, M. A. (1995). Pion and sigma polarizabilities and radiative transitions. In Chiral Dynamics: Theory and Experiment (pp. 152-163). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/9409463.pdf
Akhundov, A. A., Gerzon, S., Kananov, S., & Moinester, M. A. (1995). Radiative corrections for pion polarizability experiments. Zeitschrift für Physik C Particles and Fields 66, 279-284.https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01496602
Moinester, M. A. (1994). Pion Polarizability, Radiative Transitions, and Quark Gluon Plasma Signatures.https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/9410215.pdf
Alexander, G., et al., (1994). Two-photon physics capabilities of KLOE at DAΦNE. Il Nuovo Cimento A107, 837-861. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02731100
Moinester, M. A. (1992). Measuring pion and sigma polarizabilities and radiative transitions. AIP Conference Proceedings 243, 553-558.https://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.41608
Babusci, D., et al. (1992). Chiral symmetry and pion polarizabilities. Physics Letters B277, 158-162. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0370269392909738
Lipkin, H. J., & Moinester, M. A. (1992). Electromagnetic matrix elements in baryons. Physics Letters B287, 179-184. https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:23088401
Moinester, M. A., & Blecher, M. (1990). Kaon Factory Workshop, TRIUMF, 1990; Electric and magnetic polarizabilities of hadrons via elastic Compton scattering at KAON (TRIUMF TRI-PP–90-60).https://inis.iaea.org/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/24/060/24060131.pdf

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Giant Resonances

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Long, S. A., et al. (1998). Spin-isovector giant resonances induced by (n, p) reactions on heavy nuclei. Physical Review C57, 3191 https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.57.3191
Pourang, R., et al. (1993) High-Spin Stretched States Excited in (n,p) Reaction at 300 MeV Phys. Rev. 47C, 2751-2758. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.47.2751
Pourang, R., et al. (1991) Energy Dependence of Stretched States Excited in (p,n) Reactions, Phys. Rev. C44, 689. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.44.689
Raywood, K. J., et al. (1990). Spin-flip isovector giant resonances from the Zr⁹⁰ (n,p) ⁹⁰Y reaction at 198 MeV. Physical Review C41, 2836. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.41.2836
Moinester, M. A. et al. (1989). A study of spin isovector giant resonances with the ²⁰⁸Pb (n,p) ²⁰⁸Tl reaction. Physics Letters B230, 41-45. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/037026938991650X
Raywood, K. J., et al. (1988). Isovector spin resonances in 90Y from the 90Zr(n, p)90Y reaction at 198 MeV. AIP Conference Proceedings 176, 1148-1150. https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.37729
Jackson, K. P. et al. (1988) The (n,p) reaction as a probe of Gamow-Teller strength.”Physics Letters B201, 25-28. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0370269388900731
Yen, S., et al. (1988). Gamow-Teller strength and giant resonances in ⁹⁰Zr (n,p) at 198 MeV. Physics Letters B206, 597-600. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0370269388907034
Vetterli, M. C., et al. (1987) Gamow-Teller Strength Deduced from ⁵⁴Fe(n,p)⁵⁴Mn Cross Section at 298 MeV, Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 439-442 https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.439
Moinester, M. A. (1987). Multipole decomposition of Gamow–Teller strength. Canadian Journal of Physics, 65, 660-665. https://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/p87-094#.XdUMZtIzaUk , MultDecomCanJ.pdf
Erell, A., et al. (1986). Measurements on isovector giant resonances in pion charge exchange. Physical Review C34, 1822. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.34.1822
Irom, F., et al. (1986). Excitation of isovector giant resonances in pion single-charge exchange at 120, 165, and 230 MeV. Physical Review C34, 2231.
Bowman, et al. (1984) Mass Dependence of the Excitation Energy, Width, And Cross Section of the Isovector Monopole Resonance. Journal de Physique Colloques 45 (C4), 351-355, https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/jpa-00224093/document
Erell, A., et al. (1984). Properties of the isovector monopole and other giant resonances in pion charge exchange. Physical Review Letters 52, 2134. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.34.2231
Bowman, J. D., et al. (1983). Observation of the nuclear isovector monopole resonance. Physical Review Letters50, 1195. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.50.1195
Baer, H. W., et al. (1983). Study of isovector resonances with pion charge exchange. Nuclear Physics A396, 437-453. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0375947483900374
Baer, H. W., et al. (1982). Observation of Analogs of the Giant-Dipole Resonance in Pion Single Charge Exchange on Ca40. Physical Review Letters49, 1376. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.1376
Bowman, J. D., et al. (1978). A High Resolution π^o Spectrometer for Nuclear Structure Studies. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 25, 344-346. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/4329328

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Pion Absorption, Pion Double Charge Exchange, Photodisintegration Reactions

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Hahn, H. et al (1999). Analyzing Powers and Partial Wave Decomposition of pn→ pp(¹S₀)π⁻ at Low Energies. Physical Review Letters 82, 2258. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.2258
Duncan, F. et al. (1998). Differential Cross Section of the pn→ pp(¹S₀)π⁻ Reaction Extracted from pd→ pppπ−.Physical Review Letters 80, 4390. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.4390
Hahn, H., et al. (1996). Pion absorption on He³ at low energies. Physical Review C53, 1074. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.53.1074
Tedeschi, D. J., et al. (1994). Exclusive Photodisintegration of He³ with Polarized Photons. Physical review letters 73, 408. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.408
Ruth, C., et al. (1994). First measurement of the reaction He3 (γ,p)X with polarized photons. Physical review letters 72, 617. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.617
Stasko, J. C., et al. (1994). Radiative decay of the Delta resonance: Analyzing powers for π^–p –> γn. Physical review letters 72, 973-976. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994PhRvL..72..973S/abstract
Aclander, J., et al. (1993). Proton polarization from π+ absorption in 4He. Physics Letters B300, 19-23. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/037026939390741Y
Bernstein, A. M., Nozawa, S., & Moinester, M. A. (1993). Quadrupole amplitude in the γN⇆Δ transition. Physical Review C47, 1274.
https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.47.1274
MayTal-Beck, S.,et al. (1992). Proton polarization from π+ absorption in He³. Physical review letters 68, 3012. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.3012
Blanpied, G. et al. (1992). pγ→ pπ⁰ reaction and the E2 excitation of the Δ.Physical Review Letters, 69, 1880. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.1880
Mukhopadhyay, S., et al. (1991). Pion absorption by He³ at the Δ-resonance energy. Physical Review C, 43(3), 957. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.43.957
Ponting, C., et al. (1989). Analyzing-power measurement in pn → π⁻pp (¹S₀): Pion absorption by quark clusters? Physical review letters 63, 1792. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.63.1792
Smith, L. C., et al. (1989). Reaction He³ (π⁺,pp)p at T_π= 350 and 500 MeV. Physical Review C40, 1347. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.40.1347
Aniol, K. A., et al. (1986). Pion absorption on He³ at T_π= 62.5 and 82.8 MeV. Physical Review C33, 1714. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.33.1714
Piasetzky, E., Ashery, D., Moinester, M. A., Miller, G. A., & Gal, A. (1986). Pion absorption on the diproton.Physical Review Letters 57, 2135. Moinester et al. respond. Physical review letters, 58, 841. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.33.1714
Moinester, M. A. (1986). Quark clusters in pion absorption. AIP Conference Proceedings150, 636-639. https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.36040
Moinester, M. A. et al. (1984). Isospin Dependence of Pion Absorption on Nucleon Pairs at T_π= 65 MeV. Physical Review Letters 52, 1203. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.52.1203
Navon, I., et al. (1984). Pion Double Charge Exchange at 50 MeV on C¹⁴. Physical Review Letters52, 105. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.52.105
Ritchie, B. G., et al. (1981). Reaction π⁺d→pp at 20 to 65 MeV. Physical Review C24, 552; Err: Phys. Rev. C26, 2337 (1982). https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.24.552

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Doubly Charmed Baryons, Charmed Hadrons

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Blanco-Covarrubias, A., et al. (2009). Nuclear dependence of charm production. The European Physical Journal C64, 637-644. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-1174-0
Vazquez-Jauregui, et al. (2008). First observation of the Cabibbo-suppressed decays Ξ_c⁺→ Σ⁺ π⁻ π⁺ and Ξ_c⁺→ Σ⁻ π⁺ π⁺ and measurement of their branching ratios. Physics Letters B666, 299-304. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269308009222
Sanchez-Lopez, J.L., et al. (2007). Polarization of Lambda0 and anti-Lambda0 inclusively produced by 610-GeV/c Sigma- and 525-GeV/c proton beams. FERMILAB-PUB-07-312-E, https://arxiv.org/pdf/0706.3660.pdf
Iori, M., et al. (2007). Measurement of the Omega0(c) lifetime, FERMILAB-PUB-07-011-E, https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ex/0701021.pdf
Ocherashvili, A., et al. (2005). Confirmation of the doubly charmed baryon Ξcc⁺ (3520) via its decay to pD⁺K⁻, Physics Letters B628, 18-24. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269305013808
Evdokimov, A. V. et al. (2004). Observation of a Narrow Charm-Strange Meson D_sJ⁺(2632)→ D_s⁺η and D⁰K⁺. Physical Review Letters 93, 242001. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.242001
Pogodin, P., et al. (2004). Polarization of Σ⁺ hyperons produced by 800 GeV/c protons on Cu and Be. Physical Review D70, 112005. https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.70.112005
Moinester, M., et al. (2003) First Observation of Doubly Charmed Baryons, Advanced Study Institute on Symmetries and Spin (Praha SPIN 2002), Prague, Czech Republic, Czech. J. Phys. 53 (2003) B201, https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ex/0212029.pdf
Kaya, M., et al. (2003). Production asymmetry of Ds from 600 GeV/c Σ⁻ and π⁻Physics Letters B558, 34-40. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269303002466
Mattson, M., et al., (2002). First observation of the doubly charmed baryon Ξcc⁺. Physical review letters89, 112001. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.112001
Garcia, F. G., et al. (2002). Hadronic production of Λc from 600 GeV/c π⁻, Σ⁻ and p beams. Physics Letters B528, 49-57. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269301014848
Kushnirenko, A., et al. (2001). Precision Measurements of the Λ_c⁺ and D₀Physical review letters 86, 5243. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.5243
Iori, M. et al. (2001). Measurement of the Ds^±Physics Letters B, 523, 22-28. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026930101320X
Jun, S. Y., et al. (2000). Observation of the Cabibbo-Suppressed Decay Ξ_c⁺→ pK⁻π⁺. Physical review letters 84, 1857. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.1857
Moinester, M. A. (1996). How to search for doubly charmed baryons and tetraquarks. Zeitschrift für Physik A Hadrons and Nuclei 355, 349-362. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02769709

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Spin Structure of the Nucleon

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Adolph, C., et al. (2013). Leading order determination of the gluon polarisation from DIS events with high-pT hadron pairs. Physics Letters B718, 922. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269312012221
Adolph, C., et al. (2012). Transverse spin effects in hadron-pair production from semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering. Physics Letters B713, 10-16. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269312005321
Alekseev, et al. (2010). Azimuthal asymmetries of charged hadrons produced by high-energy muons scattered off longitudinally polarised deuterons. European Physical Journal C-Particles and Fields 70, 39 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1461-9
Alekseev, M., et al. (2010). Measurement of the Collins and Sivers asymmetries on transversely polarised protons. Physics Letters B692, 240-246. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269310009184
Alekseev, M., et al. (2010). The spin-dependent structure function of the proton and a test of the Bjorken sum rule. Physics Letters B690, 466 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269310006726
Alekseev, M., et al. (2010). Quark helicity distributions from longitudinal spin asymmetries in muon–proton and muon–deuteron scattering, Physics Letters B693, 227. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269310009810
Alekseev, M., et al. (2009). Gluon polarisation in the nucleon and longitudinal double spin asymmetries from open charm muoproduction. Physics Letters B676, 31-38. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269309004742
Alekseev, M., et al. (2009). Flavour separation of helicity distributions from deep inelastic muon–deuteron scattering. Physics Letters B680, 217-224. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269309010351
Alekseev, M., et al. (2009). Measurement of the Longitudinal Spin Transfer to Lambda and Anti-Lambda Hyperons in Polarised Muon DIS, Eur. Phys. J. C64, 171 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-1143-7
Alekseev, M., et al. (2009), Collins and Sivers asymmetries for pions and kaons in muon-deuteron DIS, Phys. B673, 127 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269309000884
Alekseev, M., et al. (2008) The Polarised Valence Quark Distribution from semi-inclusive DIS, Phys.Lett. B660, 458 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269308000427
Alekseev, M., et al. (2008). Direct measurement of the gluon polarisation in the nucleon via charmed meson production, https://arxiv.org/pdf/0802.3023.pdf
Alekseev, M., et al. (2007). Double spin asymmetry in exclusive ρ0 muoproduction at COMPASS. European Physical Journal C52, 255-265. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0376-6
Ageev, E.S., et al. (2007). Spin asymmetry A1(d) and the spin-dependent structure function g1(d) of the deuteron at low values of x and Q**2, Phys. B647, 330 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269307002419
Ageev, E.S., et al., (2007). A New measurement of the Collins and Sivers asymmetries on a transversely polarised deuteron target, Nucl. Phys. B765, 31 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321306008571
Alexakhin, V. Y. et al. (2007). The deuteron spin-dependent structure function and its first moment.Physics Letters B647, 8-17. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026930700113X
Ageev, E. S., et al. (2006). Gluon polarization in the nucleon from quasi-real photoproduction of high-pT hadron pairs. Physics Letters B633, 25-32. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269305017132
Ageev, E.S., et al. (2005) Measurement of the Spin Structure of the Deuteron in the DIS Region, Phys. B612, 154 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269305003709
Alexakhin, V. Y., et al. (2005). First measurement of the transverse spin asymmetries of the deuteron in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering. Physical review letters 94, 202002. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.202002

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Color Transparency, Muon Induced Reactions

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d’Hose, N., et al. (2004). Possible Measurements of GPDs at COMPASS, “Future Physics at COMPASS” Workshop, Geneva, Switzerland, CERN Yellow Report 2004-011, http://wwwcompass.cern.ch/compass/publications/2004_yellow/
Moinester, M; Grajek, O A; Piasetzky, E; Sandacz, A; Color Transparency via Coherent Exclusive ρ0 Production, Nuclear Physics Supp. B105 (2002) 168-170, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920563201019752
Moinester, M., Grajek, O. A., Piasetzky, E., & Sandacz, A. (2002). Color transparency at COMPASS via exclusive coherent vector meson production. https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ex/0212061.pdf
Sandacz, A., Grajek, O. A., Moinester, M., & Piasetzky, E. (2001). Color Transparency at COMPASS-Feasibility Study. https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ex/0106076.pdf
Pochodzalla, J., Piller, G., Moinester, M., Sandacz, A., Mankiewicz, L., & Vanderhaeghen, M. (1999). Exclusive meson production at COMPASS. Submitted to 6th INT/Jlab Workshop on Exclusive and Semiexclusive Meson Production, https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/9909534.pdf
Moinester, M. A. (1994). Two-Meson and Multi-Pion Final States from 600 Gev Pion Interactions. https://arxiv.org/pdf/nucl-th/9405024.pdf

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Isobaric Analog States

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Celler, A., et al. (1993) Search for Gamow-Teller strength in the continuum via the He3(n,p)3H reaction at 288 MeV. Physical Review C 47,1563-1570 https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.47.1563
Moinester, M., et al. (1987). Pion Single Charge Exchange on Deuterium Paper C-72, Particles and Nuclei International Conference, Kyoto, Japan, 1987.
Leitch, M. J., et al. (1986). Pion single charge exchange angular distributions at T_π = 48 MeV. Physical Review C33, 278. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.33.278
Irom, F., et al. (1985). Pion single charge exchange on Li7 at low energies. Physical Review C31, 1464. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.31.1464
Cooper, M. D., et al. (1984). Angular Distribution for N 15 (π+, π 0) O 15 (gs) at T π= 48 MeV. Physical Review Letters 52, 1100. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.52.1100
Sennhauser, U., et al. (1983). Isobaric analog states in pion single-charge-exchange reactions on and above the (3,3) resonance energy. Physical Review Letters51, 1324. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.51.1324
Irom, F., et al. (1983). Pion single charge exchange on C¹⁴. Physical Review C28, 2565. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.28.2565
Doron, A., et al. (1982). Angular distributions of single pion charge exchange reactions to isobaric analog states in light nuclei. Physical Review C26, 189. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.26.189
Doron, A., et al. (1982). Energy Dependence of the Small-Angle Differential Cross Sections to Isobaric Analog States in Li 7 (π+, π 0) Be 7 and C 13 (π+, π 0) N 13. Physical Review Letters 48, 989. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.989
Cooper, M. D., et al. (1982). He3 (π⁻,π⁰) reaction at T_π= 200 MeV. Physical Review C25, 438. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.25.438
Baer, H. W., et al. (1980). Observation of Isobaric Analog States in Pion Single-Charge-Exchange Reactions. Physical Review Letters45, 982. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.45.982
Shamai, Y., et al. (1976). Measurements of the (π⁺,π⁰) Reaction on Light Elements in the (3,3)-Resonance Region. Physical Review Letters 36, 82. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.36.82
Alster, J., Ashery, D., Yavin, A. I., Duclos, J., Miller, J., & Moinester, M. A. (1972). Detection of Pion Single Charge Exchange in Zirconium. Physical Review Letters, 28, 313. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.28.313

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Stripping & Pickup Direct Reactions

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Gilad, S., Cochavi, S., Moinester, M. A., Alster, J., Buenerd, M., & Martin, P. (1974). Study of the ^92,96Zr(d,α) ^90,94Y Reactions. Nuclear Physics A233, 81-90. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0375947474902425
Cochavi, S., Gilad, S., Moinester, M. A., Alster, J., Buenerd, M., & Martin, P. (1974). Study of the ⁹¹Zr(d,³He)⁹⁰Y reaction. Nuclear Physics A233, 73-80. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0375947474902413
Moinester, M. A., Finkel, G., Alster, J., & Martin, P. (1973). Neutron hole states in ⁹¹Mo and ⁹³Mo studied by the (p,d) reaction. Nuclear Physics A202, 473-496. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0375947473906374
Moalem, A., Moinester, M. A., Alster, J., & Dupont, Y. (1972). Study of the Even Molybdenum Isotopes with the (p,t) Reaction. Nuclear Physics A196, 605-614. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0375947472907968
Ashery, D., Alper, S., Moalem, A., Shamai, Y., Yavin, A., Bruge, G., Moinester, M. A. (1972). (He³,d) Stripping to Unbound Analog States in Tc Isotopes. Physical Review C5, 1729. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.5.1729
Moalem, A., Moinester, M. A., Auerbach, N., Alster, J., & Dupont, Y. (1971). A nuclear structure study with the ⁹⁴Mo(p,t)⁹²Mo reaction. Nuclear Physics A177, 145-160. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0375947471901679
Moalem, A., Moinester, M. A., Alster, J., Dupont, Y., & Chabre, M. (1971). The ⁹²Mo(p,t)⁹⁰Mo reaction at 40 MeV. Physics Letters B34, 392-394. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0370269371906344
Moinester, M. A., & Alford, W. P. (1970). The structure of ³⁶Ar and ³⁸Ar via the (3He, d) reaction on ³⁵Cl and ³⁷Nuclear Physics A145, 143-176. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0375947470903131
Moinester, M. A. (1967). Multipole sum rule analysis of single-nucleon transfer reactions on ⁵¹V. Nuclear Physics A94, 81-94. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/037594746790810X

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Pion Induced Reactions

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Dersch, U., et. al. (2000), Total Cross-Section Measurement with p^– , S^– and Protons on Nuclei and Nucleons around 600-GeV/c, Nucl. Phys. B579, 277. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321300002042
Zaider, M., Ashery, D., Cochavi, S., Gilad, S., Moinester, M. A., Shamai, Y., & Yavin, A. I. (1977). Deexcitation gamma rays from the interaction of 70-MeV pions with s− d shell nuclei. Physical Review C16, 2313. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.16.2313
Doron, A., Julien, J., Moinester, M. A., Palmer, A., & Yavin, A. I. (1975). Detection of He Ions in the Interaction of 70-MeV π− with Aluminum. Physical Review Letters34, 485. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.34.485
Zaider, M., Alster, J., Ashery, D., Cochavi, S., Moinester, M. A., & Yavin, A. I. (1974). (π^∓,πN) knockout reactions on N¹⁴ from 50 to 90 MeV. Physical Review C10, 938. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.10.938
Ashery, D., Zaider, M., Shamai, Y., Cochavi, S., Moinester, M. A., Yavin, A. I., & Alster, J. (1974). Interaction of Positive and Negative Pions with Al 27 and Si 28. Physical Review Letters 32, 943. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.32.943
Moinester, M. A., Zaider, M., Alster, J., Ashery, D., Cochavi, S., & Yavin, A. I. (1973). (π∓, π N) Knockout Reactions on C¹² from 30 to 90 MeV. Physical Review C8, 2039. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.8.2039

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Archaeology (Multi-Spectral Imaging)

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Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., et al., (2017). Multispectral imaging reveals biblical-period inscription unnoticed for half a century. PloS one 12, e0178400. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0178400
Faigenbaum-Golovin, S., et al. (2015). Computerized paleographic investigation of Hebrew Iron Age ostraca. Radiocarbon, 57(2), 317-325. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/radiocarbon/article/computerized-paleographic-investigation-of-hebrew-iron-age-ostraca/ECDF2E03995BFE6C09788D73CA394D68
Sober, B., et al., (2014). Multispectral imaging as a tool for enhancing the reading of ostraca. Palestine Exploration Quarterly146, 185-197. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/0031032814Z.000000000101
Faigenbaum, S., et al., (2014). Multispectral imaging of two Hieratic inscriptions from Qubur el-Walaydah. Egypt and the Levant, 349-353. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43553807?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Nir-El, Y., Goren, Y., Piasetzky, E., Moinester, M., Sober, B., (2014). X-ray fluorescence (XRF) measurements of red ink on a Tel Malhata ostracon. Tel Malhata. A Central City in the Biblical Negev, Itzhaq Beit-Arieh (ed)., Tel Aviv University.
Faigenbaum, S.,et al., (2012). Multispectral images of ostraca: acquisition and analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science39, 3581-3590. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030544031200252X

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Physics Education

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Moinester, M., Gerland, L., Liger-Belair, G., & Ocherashvili, A. (2012). Fizz-ball Fizzics. The Physics Teacher50, 284-287 https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1119/1.3703544
A. Moinester, A. Somechi, Laboratory Manual for Students of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 1994.
A. Moinester, A. Somechi, Laboratory Manual for Third Year Physics Students, Digital Electronics, Tel Aviv University, 1994.
A. Moinester, A. Somechi, Laboratory Manual for Second Year Physics Students,Analog Electronics, Tel Aviv University, 1994.

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Shell Model Effective Residual Interactions

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Moinester, M., Schiffer, J. P., & Alford, W. P. (1969). Multipole Analysis of Particle-Particle or Particle-Hole Multiplets.Physical Review 179, 984. https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.179.984
Moinester, M. A., & Alford, W. P. (1970). A determination of the f72-d32 effective interaction using multipole sum rule methods. Nuclear Physics A144, 305-320. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0375947470903623

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Primakoff Physics: Hybrid Mesons, Chiral Anomaly, Radiative Transitions

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Adolph, C., et al. (2012). First Measurement of Chiral Dynamics in π⁻γ→ π⁻π⁻π⁺, Physical review letters 108, 192001. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.192001
Molchanov, V. V., et al. (2004). Upper limit on the decay Σ(1385)⁻→ Σ⁻ γ and cross section for γΣ⁻→ Λπ⁻. Physics Letters B590, 161-169. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269304005763
Moinester, M. (2002). Hybrid Meson Production via Pion Scattering from the Nuclear Coulomb Field. “Future Physics at COMPASS” Workshop, Geneva, Switzerland, CERN Yellow Report 2004-011, http://wwwcompass.cern.ch/compass/publications/2004_yellow/, https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ex/0301023.pdf
Molchanov, V. V., et al. (2001). Radiative decay width of the a2 (1320)⁻Physics Letters B521, 171-180. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269301011947
Moinester, M., & Chung, S. U. (2000). Hybrid meson structure at COMPASS. https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0003008
Moinester, M. A., Steiner, V., & Prakhov, S. (1999). Hadron-Photon Interactions in COMPASS. https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ex/9903017.pdf
Moinester, M. A., & Steiner, V. (1998). Primakoff physics for CERN COMPASS hadron beam: Hadron polarizabilities, hybrid mesons, chiral anomaly, meson radiative transitions, https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ex/9801011.pdf
Bijnens, J., et al. (1998). Working group on goldstone boson production and decay. In Chiral Dynamics: Theory and Experiment(pp. 311-334). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/9710555.pdf
Moinester, M. A. (1994). Chiral anomaly tests. Proceedings of the Conference on Physics with GeV-Particle Beams, Juelich, Germany, Aug. 1994, World Scientific, Eds. H. Machner and K. Sistemich. https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/9409307.pdf
Moinester, M. A. (1994). Chiral anomaly tests. https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9409307

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Exotic Hadrons

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Alekseev, M. G. et al. (2010). Observation of a J^pc=1⁻⁺ exotic resonance in diffractive dissociation of 190 GeV/c π⁻into π⁻π⁻π⁺.Physical Review Letters 104, 241803. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.241803
Ageev, E.S., et al. (2005). Search for the Phi(1860) Pentaquark at COMPASS, Eur. Phys. J. C41, 469 https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0503033
Moinester, M. A., Ashery, D., Landsberg, L. G., & Lipkin, H. J. (1996). How to search for pentaquarks in high energy hadronic interactions. Zeitschrift für Physik A Hadrons and Nuclei, 356, 207-218. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02769218
Landsberg, G. L., Moinester, M. A., & Kubantsev, M. A. (1994). On the search for exotic hadrons in the experiments with high energy hyperon beam(No. IHEP-94-19). SCAN-9410002. http://cds.cern.ch/record/269599/files/SCAN-9410002.pdf
Moinester, M. A., Dover, C. B., Lipkin, H. J. (1992). Possibility of H dibaryon production with energetic hyperon and meson beams.Physical Review C46, 1082. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.46.1082
Moinester, M. A., & Lipkin, H. J. (1992). Δ components in the ³He ground state. Physics Letters B277, 221-226. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/037026939290738P

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Nucleon Swelling

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Krauss, R. A., et al. (1992). K+ total cross sections on C 12 and medium effects in nuclei. Physical Review C46, 655. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.46.655
Mardor, Y. et al. (1990). K⁺ total cross sections as a test for nucleon ‘‘swelling’’.Physical Review Letters 65, 2110. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.2110

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Bose–Einstein Correlations

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Nigmatkulov, G. A., et al. (2016). The transverse momentum dependence of charged kaon Bose–Einstein correlations in the SELEX experiment. Physics Letters B753, 458-464. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269315009892

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Instrumentation

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Abbon, P., et al. (2015). The COMPASS setup for physics with hadron beams. Nuclear Instruments and Methods A779, 69-115. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900215000662
Gautheron, F., et al. (2010). Compass-ii proposal(No. CERN-SPSC-2010-014). http://cds.cern.ch/record/1265628#
Abbon, P., et al. (2007) The COMPASS experiment at CERN, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A577, 455 https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0703049
Gilad, S., et al. (1977) A Position – Sensitive, High Energy Gamma-Ray Detector Nucl. Instr. and Meth. l44, 3-8 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0029554X77900982
Balatz, M. Y., et al. (2005). The lead-glass electromagnetic calorimeter for the SELEX experiment. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A545, 114-138. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900205005310
Fedorov, A., et al. (2002). Stabilized dye laser for crystal electromagnetic calorimeter monitoring. Nuclear Instruments and Methods A488, 155-161. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900202005090
Atamantchuk, A., et al. (1999). Design and performance of the Fermilab E781 (SELEX) hardware scattering trigger. Nuclear Instruments and Methods A425, 529-535. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900298014296
Russ, J., Cooper, P., Lach, J., Moinester, M., Giller, I., Steiner, V., & Ocherashvili, A. (1997). SELEX in a Nutshell. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.56.2653&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Moinester, M. et al. (1995) The SELEX E781 Calorimeter Light Monitor System, TAU project for FNAL SELEX.SELEX-TAU-LaserMonitorSystemH688.pdf
Baer, H. W., et al. (1981). Design, construction, and performance of a high-resolution π0 spectrometer for nuclear physics experiments. Nuclear Instruments and Methods 180, 445-459. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0029554X81900859
Bowman, J. D., et al. (1978). A High Resolution π^o Spectrometer for Nuclear Structure Studies. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 25, 344-346. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/4329328
Gilad, S., Baer, H. W., Cooper, M. D., & Moinester, M. A. (1977). Tests of 5-inch Venetian-blind-type photomultiplier tubes.[For lead glass Cherenkov counters](No. LA-6441-MS). Los Alamos Scientific Lab., https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/7312828

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Carbon Sequestration

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Carmi, I., Kronfeld, J., & Moinester, M. (2019). Sequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide as inorganic carbon in the unsaturated zone under semi-arid forests. Catena 173, 93-98. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S034181621830420X

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Archaeology (RHX Dating)

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Moinester, M., Piasetzky, E., & Braverman, M. (2015). RHX dating of archeological ceramics via a new method to determine effective lifetime temperature. Journal of the American Ceramic Society 98, 913-919. https://ceramics.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jace.13343
J. Hare, J. Kärger, M. Moinester, and E. Piasetzky, (2016). Testing the (time)^1/4 diffusion law of rehydroxylation in fired clays: evidence for single-file diffusion in porous media?, Diffusion Fundamentals (Online) 25, 1-11. http://ul.qucosa.de/landing-page/?tx_dlf[id]=http%3A%2F%2Ful.qucosa.de%2Fapi%2Fqucosa%253A14633%2Fmets

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Electron Scattering

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Giller, I., Ocherashvili, A., Ebertshäuser, T., Moinester, M. A., & Scherer, S. (2005). A new determination of the γπ→ ππ anomalous amplitude via πe-→ πeπ⁰ data. The European Physical Journal A-Hadrons and Nuclei, 25, 229-240. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epja/i2005-10116-1
Eschrich, I. et al. (2001). Measurement of the Σ⁻ charge radius by Σ⁻ electron elastic scattering. Physics Letters B522, 233-239. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269301012850
Moinester, M. A., et al. (1999). Inelastic electron-pion scattering at FNAL (SELEX). https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ex/9903039.pdf
Lichtenstadt, J., et al., (1990). Multi-nucleon degrees of freedom in inelastic form factors of ⁷Li. Physics Letters B244, 173-177. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/037026939090050G
Plum, M. A., et al., (1989). 180° electron scattering from C¹⁴. Physical Review C40, 1861. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.40.1861
Lichtenstadt, J., (1989) High Momentum Transfer Longitudinal and Transverse form Factors of the ₇Li Ground-State Doublet, Phys. Lett. B219, 394-398 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0370269389910836
Plum, M. A., et al., (1984). Isoscalar and isovector M4 spin transitions in ¹⁴C. Physics Letters B137, 15-19. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0370269384910967
Lichtenstadt, J., et al., (1983). The low lying levels of ⁷Li studied by electron scattering. Physics Letters B121, 377-380. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0370269383911814
Moinester, M. A., Alster, J., Azuelos, G., & Dieperink, A. E. L. (1982). Charge and transition densities of samarium isotopes in the interacting boson model. Nuclear Physics A383, 264-284. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0375947482904523
Moinester, M. A., et al., (1981). Charge and transition densities for the samarium isotopes by electron scattering. Physical Review C24, 80-88; Err: Phys. Rev. C25, 2l37 (l982). https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.24.80
Nakada, A., et al., (1977). Excitation of the Ground-State Rotational Band of Sm¹⁵² by 250-MeV Electrons. Physical Review Letters 38, 584. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.38.584

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Pion Elastic & Inelastic Scattering

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Obenshain, F. E., et al. (1983). Positive-pion-nucleus elastic scattering at 20 MeV. Physical Review C27, 2753. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.27.2753
Dam, S. H., et al. (1982). Elastic scattering of π⁺ and π⁻ from Ca⁴⁰ at 64.8 MeV. Physical Review C25, 2574. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.25.2574
Preedom, B. M., et al. (1981). Positive pion-nucleus elastic scattering at 30 and 50 MeV. Physical Review C23, 1134. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.23.1134
Blecher, M., et al. (1979). Positive pion-nucleus elastic scattering at 40 MeV. Physical Review C20, 1884. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.20.1884
Moinester, M. A. et al. (1978). Elastic scattering of positive pions on C¹² at 49.9 MeV. Physical Review C18, 2678. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.18.2678
Malbrough, D. J., et al. (1978). Elastic scattering of positive pions on O¹⁶ at 40.0 and 49.7 MeV. Physical Review C17, 1395. https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.17.1395
Milder, F., et al. (1977). Inelastic scattering of π⁺ mesons from nuclei at 50 MeV. Physics Letters B72, 159-162. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0370269377906906

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Health Physics

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Malki, A., et al. (2012). Measurement of radon diffusion length in thin membranes. Radiation protection dosimetry150, 434-440. https://academic.oup.com/rpd/article/150/4/434/1605166
Mausner, L. F., Moinester, M. A., Knight, J. D., Cochavi, S., & Friedland, S. S. (1979). In Vivo beam localization by positron activation in pion therapy.Radiation research 80, 10-23. https://www.rrjournal.org/doi/abs/10.2307/3575112

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Statistics

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Moinester, M., & Gottfried, R. (2014). Sample size estimation for correlations with pre-specified confidence interval. The Quantitative Methods for Psychology10, 124-130. https://www.tqmp.org/RegularArticles/vol10-2/p124/p124.pdf

Research

Fields

RHX (Rehydroxylation) Dating, Multispectral Imaging, Radon Diffusion & Detection, Environmental Radioactivity, Patent law, Pion Polarizability, Chiral Anomaly, Doubly Charmed Baryons, Giant Resonances, Charmed Baryons and Mesons, Hybrid Mesons, gluon polarization in nucleons, flavor decomposition of the nucleon spin, search for exotic states, light meson spectroscopy, nuclear dependence of charm production, kaon Bose–Einstein correlations, Form Factors, Pion Scattering and Absorption Reactions, Nuclear Stripping and Pickup Reactions, Electron Scattering, Pion and Nucleon Induced Charge Exchange Reactions, Photo-Nuclear Reactions, Soil Science (Carbon Sequestration), Statistics for Social Sciences

General Description

I carried out research programs in high energy particle and nuclear physics during 1969-2012 at leading accelerator laboratories and universities worldwide (CERN in Switzerland, Heidelberg and Mainz in Germany, Grenoble and Saclay in France, Frascati in Italy, TRIUMF in Vancouver, B.C., Canada; FNAL, MIT, BNL, ORNL, LANL, UMass in USA, etc.). From 1968- 1988, these programs included one or more of my TAU colleagues Aviv Yavin, Daniel Ashery, Jonas Alster, Jechiel Lichtenstadt, Eli Piasetzky; and TAU graduate students. These research programs, following approval by the laboratory program advisory committees, focused on hadron structure and spectroscopy. They were based on a wide range of experimental apparatus, each program having its own special setup. Parts of the hardware and software for these experiments were designed, constructed, and tested at TAU. Data collection was carried out at the accelerator laboratories. Data analysis and writing journal articles was carried out at TAU and the host laboratories. Funding for our TAU participation was achieved by earning competitive grants, generally via the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation and the Israel Science Foundation. Research results are described in journal publications and conference presentations. My soil science studies involve the sequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide in connection with climate studies. My archaeology studies involve multispectral imaging of ostraca and ceramics rehydroxylation studies for scientific dating. My environmental radioactivity studies deal with the health impact of radioactivity in phosphate fertilizers and its phosphogypsum byproducts, and radon diffusion measurements.

I gained high level expertise during my teaching and research career with integrated command and control systems of detector apparatus. These allowed for on-line monitoring and control of the performance of a large variety of detection apparatus, and coordinated acquisition, handling, display and analysis of the data. My expertise was achieved through the many courses that I taught (graduate applied and theoretical Nuclear Physics, Electromagnetism, Classical and Quantum Mechanics, Electronics, Hearing and Speech Sciences, etc.), and through the many particle and nuclear physics experiments in which I participated at accelerator laboratories.

My major scientific achievements include: (a) leading systematic studies of pion polarizability using different methodologies, culminating with the successful effort to achieve a quality pion polarizability measurement at CERN COMPASS to provide an important test of chiral perturbation theory, and writing a 2019 review article on this subject; (b) spearheading the search and discovery of doubly charmed baryons via a groundbreaking 1996 review article hunter’s guide, leading to subsequent successful studies at FNAL and CERN; (c) actively contributing to the discovery of the isovector monopole giant resonance at LAMPF via the design and use of a high resolution neutral pion spectrometer for studies of pion charge exchange reactions; (d) identifying “missing’ Gamow-Teller strength in the (n,p) charge exchange continuum, by developing and applying a multipole decomposition analysis that has been since widely adopted; (e) measuring (n,p) measuring charge exchange reactions at TRIUMF, discovering spin isovector giant resonances in the continuum spectra via a multipole decomposition analysis; (f) theory analysis that revealed the multipole composition of the shell-model effective residual interaction, results quoted in detail in DeShalit-Feshbach’s nuclear structure textbook; (g) studies of nucleon-nucleon correlations via pion absorption and photodisintegration on a proton pair (in He³) and the inverse pion production process; (h) leading a TAU team to design, construct and use a low cost multispectral imaging laboratory for imaging archaeological ostraca, and then observing a biblical period inscription unnoticed for half a century; (i) climate engineering based on soil composition measurements at Yatir Forest in Israel, demonstrating how to mitigate global warming by sequestering atmospheric carbon worldwide as inorganic carbon (calcite) in the unsaturated zone under semi-arid forests; (j) Rehydroxylation (RHX) studies in ceramics for developing this technique for the purpose of scientific dating of archaeological ostraca.