Jessica C. Kintner

Jessica C.

Overview

Department: 
School of Science » Physics and Astronomy
SMC Email Address: 
jkintner@stmarys-ca.edu
Contact Information: 

Office
Galileo Hall - 106B

Phone: (925) 631-4416
Email: jkintner@stmarys-ca.edu
Mail: PMB 4237, Moraga, CA  94575

Website and Video Links: 
Personal Website

Education

  • Ph.D. Experimental Nuclear Physics, University of California, Davis, 1995
  • MS Physics, University of California, Davis, 1992
  • BA Physics and Mathematics, DePauw University, 1988
    Magna Cum Laude

Professional Experience

Teaching Experience:

  • Full Professor - Saint Mary's College of California (2005 - Present)
  • Associate Professor - Saint Mary's College of California (2000 - 2005)
  • Assistant Professor - Saint Mary's College of California (1996 - 2000)
  • Visiting Assistant Professor - Lawrence University, Appleton WI (1995 - 1996)

Courses Taught

Recently Taught:

Service

College Service:

  • Rank and Tenure Committee, at-large-member
    (2005 - 2008)
  • Collegiate Seminar Governing Board
    (2005 - 2008)
  • Department Chair, Physics and Astronomy
    (2003 - 2006)
  • Faculty Technology Group
    (2001 - 2006)
  • Academic Senate, Vice-Chair
    (2001 - 2002)
  • Faculty Technology Group
    (1999 - 2006)
  • Academic Senate, Science Rep
    (1998 - 2001)

Professional Organizations:

  • American Association of Physics Teachers
  • American Physical Society
  • Division of Nuclear Physics

Presentations

Selected Presentations

  • Nucleon-Induced Secondaries: A Review and Future Experimental Developments. Romero, J.L., Tang, H.K., Morrissey, D.J., Fauerback, M., Pfaff, R., Powell, C.F., Sherrill, B.M., Brady, F.P., Cebra, D.A., Chance, J., Kintner, J.C. and Osborne, J.H.
    American Institue of Physics Conference Proceedings, CP392, 655
    (April 1997)
  • Collective Effects of Pions at 1.15 GeV/nucleon Au+Au. Kintner, Jessica
    D. Cebra for the EOS Collaboration, Proceedings of the 1st Catania Relativistic Ion Studies, Acicastello, Italy
    (May 27, 1996)
  • Pion Squeeze-Out and Flow at 1.15 GeV/nucleon Au+Au. Kintner, Jessica
    D. Cebra for the EOS Collaboration, Proceedings of the 12th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Snowbird, UT
    (February 03, 1996)
  • Strange Particle Measurements from the EOS TPC. Kintner, Jessica
    M. Justice for the EOS Collaboration, Proceedings of the International Winter Meeting on Nuclear Physics, Bormio, Italy
    (January 23, 1995)

Publications

  • Klay, J.L. and , the E895 Collaboration. 2003. Charged Pion Production in 2 to 8A GeV Central Au + Au Collisions, Physical Review, C 68, 054905
  • Chung, P. 2003. Near-Threshold Production of the Multistrange Xi- Hyperon, Physical Review Letters 91, 203301
  • Chung, P. 2003. Comparison of Source Images for Protons, Pions, and Lambda Hyperons in 6A GeV Au + Au Collisions, Physical Review Letters 91, 162301
  • Chung, P. 2002. Centrality and Momentum-selected Elliptic Flow: Tighter Constraint for the Nuclear Equation of State, Physical Review C66, 021901
  • Klay, J.L. 2002. Longitudinal Flow from 2 to 8A GeV Au + Au Collisions at the Brookhaven AGS, Physical Review Letters 88, 102301
  • Panitkin, S.Y. 2001. Model-independent Source Imaging Using Two-pion Correlations in 2 to 8A GeV Au + Au Collisions, Physical Review Letters 87, 112304
  • Chung, P. 2001. Directed Flow of Lambda Hyperons in 2 - 6A GeV Au + Au Collisions, Physical Review Letters 86, 2533
  • Lisa, M.A. 2001. Azimuthal Dependence of Pion Interferometry at the AGS, Physics Letters B496 1
  • Elliot, J.B. 2000. Nuclear Multifragmentation, Percolation, and the Fisher Droplet Model: Common Features of Reducibility and Thermal Scaling, Physical Review Letters 85, 1194
  • Hauger, J.A. 2000. Two-stage multifragmentation of 1A GeV Kr, La, and Au, Physical Review C62, 024616
  • Chung, P. 2000. Antiflow of $K0_s$ Mesons in 6A Au~+~Au Collsions, Physical Review Letters 85, 940
  • Liu, H. 2000. Sideward Flow in Au + Au Collisions Between 2A GeV and 8A GeV, Physical Review Letters 84, 5488
  • Lisa, M.A. 2000. Bombarding Energy Dependence of $pi^-$ Interferometry at the Brookhaven AGS, Physical Review Letters 84, 2798
  • Insolia, A. 2000. Universality in fragment inclusive yields from Au~+~Au Collisions, Physical Review C61, 044902
  • Srivastava, B.K. 1999. Comparison of the 1A GeV $^197$Au~+~C interaction with first-stage transport codes, Physical Review C60, 064606
  • Pinkenburg, C. 1999. Elliptic Flow: Transition from Out-of-Plane to In-Plane Emission in Au + Au Collisions, Physical Review Letters 83, 1295
  • Lauret, J. 1998. Dynamics of Radical Collective Energy in near Central Collisions for 1-A-GeV Au+C, Physical Review C57, 1051
  • Hauger, J.A. 1998. Multifragmentation of the Remnant Produced in the Reaction of 1-A-GeV Gold With Carbon, Physical Review C57, 764
  • Hjort, E.L. 1997. Delta Resonance Production in (58)Ni + Cu Collisions at E = 1.97-A-GeV, Physical Review Letters 79, 4345
  • Kintner, J.C. 1997. Pion Flow and Anti-flow in the System 1.15 GeV/nucleon Au + Au, Physical Review Letters 78 4165
  • Chance, J.L. 1997. The Energy Dependence of Flow in Ni Induced Collisions from 400A to 1970A MeV, Physical Review Letters 78, 2535
  • Hauger, J.A. 1996. Dynamics of Multifragmentation of 1A GeV Gold on Carbon, Physical Review Letters 77, 235
  • Wang, S. 1996. In-plane Retardation of Collective Expansion in Heavy Ion Collisions, Physical Review Letters 76, 3911
  • Elliott, J.B. 1996. Individual Fragment yields and the determination of the critical exponent sigma, Physics Letters B381, 35
  • Lisa, M.A. 1995. Radial Flow in Au + Au Collisions at E=(0.25-1.15)A GeV, Physical Review Letters 75(14), 2662
  • Partlan, M.D. 1995. Fragment Flow in Au + Au Collisions, Physical Review Letters, 75(11), 2100
  • Wang, S. 1995. Light Fragment Production and Power Law Behavior in Au +Au Collisions, Physical Review Letters 74(14), 2646
  • Gilkes, M.L. 1994. Determination of Critical Exponents from the Multifragmentation of Gold Nuclei, Physical Review Letters 73, 1590
  • Osborne, J.H., Romero, J.L., Brady, F.P., Hjort, E.L., Caskey, W.P., Kintner, J.C., Mayo, D.R., Sorenson, D.S. and Ullmann, J.L.. A Compact System with Live Converter for Neutron Spectrum Measurements, Nuclear Instruments and Methods, A345, 308
  • . The E895 Collaboration
  • . The EOS Collaboration

Honors, Awards & Grants

Honors: 
  • Phi Beta Kappa - (1988)
Grants: 
  • NSF/RUI Grant PHY-9804672 - (1998)

Interests

Scholarly Interests: 

Interests

  • Physics
    •  Collective effects in relativistic heavy ion collisions
    • Equation of State (EOS) of nuclear matter
    • Single Event Upsets (SEUs) in microelectronic devices
    • Doctoral Research: Squeeze-out and Flow of Pions from 1.15 GeV/nucleon Au + Au
    • The E895 Experiment and Collaboration