Jerry Peacher

Jerry L. Peacher, Professor of Physics (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1965), is an atomic and molecular collision theorist currently interested in the use of perturbative methods to describe elastic, excitation, and charge-transfer processes in ion-atom collisions. Much of this work is done in collaboration with experimentalists working to measure differential cross sections for these various processes in the intermediate energy range.

S.W. Bross, S.M. Bonham, A.D. Gaus, J.L. Peacher, T. Vajnai, and M. Schulz, "Differential transfer ionization cross sections for 50-175 keV proton-helium collisions", Phys. Rev. A 50, 337 (1994).

D.R. Schultz, C. Bottcher, D.H. Madison, J.L. Peacher, G. Buffington, M.S. Pindzola, T.W. Gorczyca, P. Gavras, and D.C. Griffin, "Time-dependent approach to atomic autoionization", Phys. Rev. A 50, 1348 (1994).

M. Schulz, W. Htwe, A.D. Gaus, J.L. Peacher, and T. Vajnai, "Differential Double-Excitation Cross Sections in 50-150 keV Proton-Helium Collisions", Phys. Rev. A 51, 2140 (1995).

T. Vajnai, A.D. Gaus, J.A. Brand, W. Htwe, D.H. Madison, R.E. Olson, J.L. Peacher, and M. Schulz, "Observations of Post-Collision Effects in the Scattered Projectile Spectra for Ionizing Proton-Helium Collisions", Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 3588 (1995).

J.L. Peacher, D.H. Madison, R.P. McEachran, and I. Bray, “The Effect of Atomic Polarizability in Electron-Hydrogen Excitation”, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 30, 3445 (1997).