Dugarsuren Dashdorj, Ph.D, North Carolina State University
currently guest scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, USA
Nuclear Physics Coordinator of MonAme SRC
Education
Ph.D. in Physics - 2005,
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
M.S. in Physics - 2002,
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
B.S. in Physics - 1994,
National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Professional Experience
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
May 2005 to present
Participating guest, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
January 2003 to present
Graduate Research Assistant, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
January 2003 to May 2005
Thesis Advisors - Prof. Gary E. Mitchell, Prof. Paul E. Garrett
Graduate Teaching Assistant, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
August 2000 to January 2003
Research Assistant, Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, NC
May 1999 to August 2000
Awards and Honors
Recognition of Excellence, National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of
Energy, Albuquerque, NM, March 2004
Travel award to participate in the Second Rare Isotope Accelerator Summer School, NSCL,
East Lansing, Michigan, 2003
Travel award to participate in the 6-th LANSCE User Group meeting, LANL,
Los Alamos, New Mexico, 2003
Professional Committees
Local Organizing Committee, International School on Contemporary Physics-IV,
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, August 10 - 17, 2007.
International Program Committee, International School on Contemporary Physics-III,
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, August 8 - 15, 2005.
Publications
1.Effect of pre-equilibrium spin distribution on 48Ti cross sections}, D. Dashdorj, T. Kawano, P. E. Garrett, J. A. Becker, U.
Agvaanluvsan, L. A. Bernstein, M. B. Chadwick, M. Devlin, N. Fotiades, G. E. Mitchell, R. O. Nelson, and W. Younes, Phys. Rev. C
75, 054612 (2007).
2.Gamma-ray production cross sections in multiple channels for neutron induced reaction on 48Ti for En = 1 to 200 MeV, D. Dashdorj,
G. E. Mitchell, P. E. Garrett, U. Agvaanluvsan, J. A. Becker, L. A. Bernstein, W. Younes, M. B. Chadwick, M. Devlin, N. Fotiades, T.
Kawano, R. O. Nelson, Nuclear Science and Engineering 157, 65-77, (2007).
3.Neutron induced inelastic cross sections of 150Sm for En = 1 to 35 MeV,
D. Dashdorj, G. E. Mitchell, T. Kawano, J. A. Becker, U. Agvaanluvsan, M. B. Chadwick,
J. R. Cooper, M. Devlin, N. Fotiades, P. E. Garrett, R. O. Nelson, C. Y. Wu, and
W. Younes, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B261, 948-952, (2007).
4.Pulsed and monoenergetic beams for neutron cross section measurements using activation and scattering techniques at Triangle
Universities Nuclear Laboratory, A. Hutchenson, et. al., Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B261, 369-372, (2007).
5.The TRIUMF nuclear structure program and TIGRESS, P. E. Garrett, et. al., Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B261, 1084-1088,
(2007).
6.High-spin lifetime measurements in the N = Z nucleus 72Kr, C. Andreoiu, et. al., Phys. Rev. C 75, 041301(R), (2007).
7.Identification of the g9/2 proton and neutron band crossing in the N = Z nucleus 76Sr, P. J. Davies, et. al., Phys. Rev. C 75, 011302(R),
(2007).
8.Nuclear structure research at TRIUMF, P. E. Garrett, et. al., Acta Physica Polonica, B. 38, 1169-1178, (2007).
9.TRIUMF-ISAC Gamma-Ray Escape-Suppressed spectrometer (TIGRESS): a versatile tool for radioactive beam physics, G. C. Ball,
et. al., Nuclear Physics B787, 118C-125C, (2007).
10.Gamma-ray cross section standards in the MeV energy range and 56Fe inelastic scattering, R. O. Nelson, M. Devlin, N. Fotiades,
J. A. Becker, P. E. Garrett, W. Younes, D. Dashdorj, T. Ethvignot, and T. Granier, Proceedings of Capture Gamma-Ray
Spectroscopy and Related Topics: 12th International Symposium, Edited by A. Woehr and A. Aprahamian, 323-327, (2006).
11.Lifetime measurements in N = Z 72Kr, C. Andreoiu, et. al., Phys. Scr. T125, 127-129, (2006).
12.Spin distribution in neutron induced pre-equilibrium reactions, D. Dashdorj, T. Kawano, M. Chadwick, M. Devlin, N. Fotiades, R. O.
Nelson, G. E. Mitchell, P. E. Garrett, U. Agvaanluvsan, J. A. Becker, L. A. Bernstein, R. Macri, and W. Younes, Proceedings of
ISCP- III, Edited by G. Khuukhenkhuu and J. Vanchinkhuu, 22-29 (2005).
13.Evidence for nontermination of rotational bands in 74Kr, J. J. Valiente-Dobon, et. al., Phys. Rev. Letters, 95 232501 (2005).
14.Spin distribution in preequilibrium reactions for 48Ti + n, D. Dashdorj, Ph. D. thesis, North Carolina State University (2005).
15.48Ti(n,xnpag) reaction cross sections using spallation neutrons for En = 1 - 20 MeV, D. Dashdorj, G. E. Mitchell, P. E. Garrett, U.
Agvaanluvsan, J. A. Becker, L. A. Bernstein, J. R. Cooper, R. D. Hoffman, R. Macri, and W. Younes, LLNL Technical Report,
UCRL- TR-209474 (2005).
16.High-Spin rotational structures in 76Kr, J. J. Valiente-Dobon, et al., Phys. Rev. C 71, 034311 (2005).
17.48Ti(n,xnpag) reactions for neutron energies up to 250 MeV, D. Dashdorj, P. E. Garrett, J. A. Becker, L. A. Bernstein, J. R.
Cooper, M. Devlin, N. Fotiades, G. E. Mitchell, R. O. Nelson, W. Younes, AIP Conf. Proc. 769, 1035 (2005).
18.Improved nuclear level densities via identification of spurious levels, U. Agvaanluvsan, G. E. Mitchell, D. Dashdorj, C. M. Frankle, S.
L. Lokitz, J. F. Shriner, Jr, AIP Conf. Proc. 769, 1164 (2005).
19.Lifetimes of high-spin states in 76Kr, J. J. Valiente-Dobon et al., Acta Physica Polonica B. 36, 1339 (2005).
20.Production of a 76Kr radioactive ion beam using a batch mode method, J. R. Cooper, L. Bernstein, M. A. McMahan, J. Powell, D.
Wutte, L. Ahle, N. Benczer-Koller, D. Dashdorj, G. Kumbartzki, T. J. Mertzimekis, A. Shiller, C. Silver, M. J. Taylor, Nuclear
Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A553, 287-294 (2004).
Talks and presentations
1.Neutron induced reaction cross sections measured at LANSCE, an invited talk at Department of Physics, Kyungpook National University,
Daegu, South Korea, November, 2007.
2.Effect of pre-equilibrium spin distribution on neutron induced reaction cross sections, a contributed talk at Compound Nuclear Reactions and
Related Topics Workshop, Yosemite National Park, Fish Camp, CA, 22-26 October 2007.
3.Updates of Gadolinium neutron capture measurements at DANCE, a contributed talk at the APS Division of Nuclear Physics Fall 2007
meeting, Newport News, VA, October 2007.
4.Effect of pre-equilibrium spin distribution on neutron induced reaction cross sections, an invited talk at LANSCE seminar, Los Alamos
National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, April 2007.
5.Effect of pre-equilibrium spin distribution on neutron induced 150Sm cross sections, a poster at International Conference on Nuclear Data for
Science and Technology, Nice, France, April 22-27, 2007.
6.Pre-Equilibrium spin distribution effects on the neutron induced cross sections, a poster at the SSAA Symposium, Washington, DC, February
2007, UCRL-POST-227644.
7.Neutron induced reactions of 150Sm and influence of spin distribution in the pre-equilibrium process, a contributed talk at the APS Division
of Nuclear Physics Fall 2006 meeting, Nashville, TN, October 2006.
8.Neutron induced inelastic cross sections of 150Sm for En = 1 - 35 MeV, a poster at the 19th International Conference on the Application of
Accelerators in Research and Industry, Forth Worth, Texas, USA, August 20-25, 2006.
9.How does Pre-equilibrium effect calculations of 48Ti + n cross sections?, an invited talk at NNSA Academic Alliance Seminar, LLNL,
Livermore, CA, June 2006.
10.Cross section measurements of fast neutron induced reactions, an invited talk at Nuclear Research Center, National University of Mongolia,
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, June 2006.
11.Neutron induced reactions of 150Sm and influence of spin distribution in the pre-equilibrium process, an invited talk at 14th International
Seminar on Interaction of Neutrons with Nuclei, JINR, Dubna, Russia, May 2006.
12.Spin distribution effects in neutron induced pre-equilibrium reactions, a contributed talk at the 2nd APS and JPS Joint Division of Nuclear
Physics meeting, Kapalau, Hawaii, September 2005.
13.Spin distribution in pre-equilibrium reactions, a poster at the SSAA symposium, Las Vegas, NV, August 2005, UCRL-POST-214388.
14.Spin distribution in pre-equilibrium reactions, an invited talk at the International School on Contemporary Physics - III, Ulaanbaatar,
Mongolia, August 2005.
15.Spin distribution effects in pre-equilibrium reactions: 48Ti + n case, an invited talk at T-16 group seminar, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Los Alamos, NM, March 2005.
16.48Ti(n,xnpag) reactions for neutron energies up to 250 MeV, a poster at the International Conference on Nuclear Data ND2004, Santa
Fe, NM, September 2004.
17.Measurement of the partial gamma-ray cross section for 48Ti + n reaction for En = 1-20 MeV, an invited talk at the Joint Meeting of the
Nuclear Theory and Modeling and the Experimental Nuclear Physics Groups, LLNL, Livermore CA. May 2004, UCRL-PRES-204688.
18.Partial gamma ray cross section for the 48Ti + n reaction, a poster at the SSAA Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, March 2004, UCRL-
POST-203154.
19.48Ti(n,xnpag) reaction cross sections using spallation neutrons for En = 1 to 250 MeV, a contributed talk at the APS Division of Nuclear
Physics Fall 2003 meeting, Tucson, AZ, October 2003, UCRL-JC-154205-ABS.
20.48Ti(n,xnpag) reaction cross sections using spallation neutrons for En = 1 to 20 MeV, D. Dashdorj, a poster at the 6-th LANCSE user
group meeting, Los Alamos, NM, October 2003. UCRL-POST-200312.
currently guest scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, USA
Nuclear Physics Coordinator of MonAme SRC
Education
Ph.D. in Physics - 2005,
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
M.S. in Physics - 2002,
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
B.S. in Physics - 1994,
National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Professional Experience
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
May 2005 to present
Participating guest, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
January 2003 to present
Graduate Research Assistant, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
January 2003 to May 2005
Thesis Advisors - Prof. Gary E. Mitchell, Prof. Paul E. Garrett
Graduate Teaching Assistant, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
August 2000 to January 2003
Research Assistant, Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, NC
May 1999 to August 2000
Awards and Honors
Recognition of Excellence, National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of
Energy, Albuquerque, NM, March 2004
Travel award to participate in the Second Rare Isotope Accelerator Summer School, NSCL,
East Lansing, Michigan, 2003
Travel award to participate in the 6-th LANSCE User Group meeting, LANL,
Los Alamos, New Mexico, 2003
Professional Committees
Local Organizing Committee, International School on Contemporary Physics-IV,
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, August 10 - 17, 2007.
International Program Committee, International School on Contemporary Physics-III,
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, August 8 - 15, 2005.
Publications
1.Effect of pre-equilibrium spin distribution on 48Ti cross sections}, D. Dashdorj, T. Kawano, P. E. Garrett, J. A. Becker, U.
Agvaanluvsan, L. A. Bernstein, M. B. Chadwick, M. Devlin, N. Fotiades, G. E. Mitchell, R. O. Nelson, and W. Younes, Phys. Rev. C
75, 054612 (2007).
2.Gamma-ray production cross sections in multiple channels for neutron induced reaction on 48Ti for En = 1 to 200 MeV, D. Dashdorj,
G. E. Mitchell, P. E. Garrett, U. Agvaanluvsan, J. A. Becker, L. A. Bernstein, W. Younes, M. B. Chadwick, M. Devlin, N. Fotiades, T.
Kawano, R. O. Nelson, Nuclear Science and Engineering 157, 65-77, (2007).
3.Neutron induced inelastic cross sections of 150Sm for En = 1 to 35 MeV,
D. Dashdorj, G. E. Mitchell, T. Kawano, J. A. Becker, U. Agvaanluvsan, M. B. Chadwick,
J. R. Cooper, M. Devlin, N. Fotiades, P. E. Garrett, R. O. Nelson, C. Y. Wu, and
W. Younes, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B261, 948-952, (2007).
4.Pulsed and monoenergetic beams for neutron cross section measurements using activation and scattering techniques at Triangle
Universities Nuclear Laboratory, A. Hutchenson, et. al., Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B261, 369-372, (2007).
5.The TRIUMF nuclear structure program and TIGRESS, P. E. Garrett, et. al., Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B261, 1084-1088,
(2007).
6.High-spin lifetime measurements in the N = Z nucleus 72Kr, C. Andreoiu, et. al., Phys. Rev. C 75, 041301(R), (2007).
7.Identification of the g9/2 proton and neutron band crossing in the N = Z nucleus 76Sr, P. J. Davies, et. al., Phys. Rev. C 75, 011302(R),
(2007).
8.Nuclear structure research at TRIUMF, P. E. Garrett, et. al., Acta Physica Polonica, B. 38, 1169-1178, (2007).
9.TRIUMF-ISAC Gamma-Ray Escape-Suppressed spectrometer (TIGRESS): a versatile tool for radioactive beam physics, G. C. Ball,
et. al., Nuclear Physics B787, 118C-125C, (2007).
10.Gamma-ray cross section standards in the MeV energy range and 56Fe inelastic scattering, R. O. Nelson, M. Devlin, N. Fotiades,
J. A. Becker, P. E. Garrett, W. Younes, D. Dashdorj, T. Ethvignot, and T. Granier, Proceedings of Capture Gamma-Ray
Spectroscopy and Related Topics: 12th International Symposium, Edited by A. Woehr and A. Aprahamian, 323-327, (2006).
11.Lifetime measurements in N = Z 72Kr, C. Andreoiu, et. al., Phys. Scr. T125, 127-129, (2006).
12.Spin distribution in neutron induced pre-equilibrium reactions, D. Dashdorj, T. Kawano, M. Chadwick, M. Devlin, N. Fotiades, R. O.
Nelson, G. E. Mitchell, P. E. Garrett, U. Agvaanluvsan, J. A. Becker, L. A. Bernstein, R. Macri, and W. Younes, Proceedings of
ISCP- III, Edited by G. Khuukhenkhuu and J. Vanchinkhuu, 22-29 (2005).
13.Evidence for nontermination of rotational bands in 74Kr, J. J. Valiente-Dobon, et. al., Phys. Rev. Letters, 95 232501 (2005).
14.Spin distribution in preequilibrium reactions for 48Ti + n, D. Dashdorj, Ph. D. thesis, North Carolina State University (2005).
15.48Ti(n,xnpag) reaction cross sections using spallation neutrons for En = 1 - 20 MeV, D. Dashdorj, G. E. Mitchell, P. E. Garrett, U.
Agvaanluvsan, J. A. Becker, L. A. Bernstein, J. R. Cooper, R. D. Hoffman, R. Macri, and W. Younes, LLNL Technical Report,
UCRL- TR-209474 (2005).
16.High-Spin rotational structures in 76Kr, J. J. Valiente-Dobon, et al., Phys. Rev. C 71, 034311 (2005).
17.48Ti(n,xnpag) reactions for neutron energies up to 250 MeV, D. Dashdorj, P. E. Garrett, J. A. Becker, L. A. Bernstein, J. R.
Cooper, M. Devlin, N. Fotiades, G. E. Mitchell, R. O. Nelson, W. Younes, AIP Conf. Proc. 769, 1035 (2005).
18.Improved nuclear level densities via identification of spurious levels, U. Agvaanluvsan, G. E. Mitchell, D. Dashdorj, C. M. Frankle, S.
L. Lokitz, J. F. Shriner, Jr, AIP Conf. Proc. 769, 1164 (2005).
19.Lifetimes of high-spin states in 76Kr, J. J. Valiente-Dobon et al., Acta Physica Polonica B. 36, 1339 (2005).
20.Production of a 76Kr radioactive ion beam using a batch mode method, J. R. Cooper, L. Bernstein, M. A. McMahan, J. Powell, D.
Wutte, L. Ahle, N. Benczer-Koller, D. Dashdorj, G. Kumbartzki, T. J. Mertzimekis, A. Shiller, C. Silver, M. J. Taylor, Nuclear
Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A553, 287-294 (2004).
Talks and presentations
1.Neutron induced reaction cross sections measured at LANSCE, an invited talk at Department of Physics, Kyungpook National University,
Daegu, South Korea, November, 2007.
2.Effect of pre-equilibrium spin distribution on neutron induced reaction cross sections, a contributed talk at Compound Nuclear Reactions and
Related Topics Workshop, Yosemite National Park, Fish Camp, CA, 22-26 October 2007.
3.Updates of Gadolinium neutron capture measurements at DANCE, a contributed talk at the APS Division of Nuclear Physics Fall 2007
meeting, Newport News, VA, October 2007.
4.Effect of pre-equilibrium spin distribution on neutron induced reaction cross sections, an invited talk at LANSCE seminar, Los Alamos
National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, April 2007.
5.Effect of pre-equilibrium spin distribution on neutron induced 150Sm cross sections, a poster at International Conference on Nuclear Data for
Science and Technology, Nice, France, April 22-27, 2007.
6.Pre-Equilibrium spin distribution effects on the neutron induced cross sections, a poster at the SSAA Symposium, Washington, DC, February
2007, UCRL-POST-227644.
7.Neutron induced reactions of 150Sm and influence of spin distribution in the pre-equilibrium process, a contributed talk at the APS Division
of Nuclear Physics Fall 2006 meeting, Nashville, TN, October 2006.
8.Neutron induced inelastic cross sections of 150Sm for En = 1 - 35 MeV, a poster at the 19th International Conference on the Application of
Accelerators in Research and Industry, Forth Worth, Texas, USA, August 20-25, 2006.
9.How does Pre-equilibrium effect calculations of 48Ti + n cross sections?, an invited talk at NNSA Academic Alliance Seminar, LLNL,
Livermore, CA, June 2006.
10.Cross section measurements of fast neutron induced reactions, an invited talk at Nuclear Research Center, National University of Mongolia,
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, June 2006.
11.Neutron induced reactions of 150Sm and influence of spin distribution in the pre-equilibrium process, an invited talk at 14th International
Seminar on Interaction of Neutrons with Nuclei, JINR, Dubna, Russia, May 2006.
12.Spin distribution effects in neutron induced pre-equilibrium reactions, a contributed talk at the 2nd APS and JPS Joint Division of Nuclear
Physics meeting, Kapalau, Hawaii, September 2005.
13.Spin distribution in pre-equilibrium reactions, a poster at the SSAA symposium, Las Vegas, NV, August 2005, UCRL-POST-214388.
14.Spin distribution in pre-equilibrium reactions, an invited talk at the International School on Contemporary Physics - III, Ulaanbaatar,
Mongolia, August 2005.
15.Spin distribution effects in pre-equilibrium reactions: 48Ti + n case, an invited talk at T-16 group seminar, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Los Alamos, NM, March 2005.
16.48Ti(n,xnpag) reactions for neutron energies up to 250 MeV, a poster at the International Conference on Nuclear Data ND2004, Santa
Fe, NM, September 2004.
17.Measurement of the partial gamma-ray cross section for 48Ti + n reaction for En = 1-20 MeV, an invited talk at the Joint Meeting of the
Nuclear Theory and Modeling and the Experimental Nuclear Physics Groups, LLNL, Livermore CA. May 2004, UCRL-PRES-204688.
18.Partial gamma ray cross section for the 48Ti + n reaction, a poster at the SSAA Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, March 2004, UCRL-
POST-203154.
19.48Ti(n,xnpag) reaction cross sections using spallation neutrons for En = 1 to 250 MeV, a contributed talk at the APS Division of Nuclear
Physics Fall 2003 meeting, Tucson, AZ, October 2003, UCRL-JC-154205-ABS.
20.48Ti(n,xnpag) reaction cross sections using spallation neutrons for En = 1 to 20 MeV, D. Dashdorj, a poster at the 6-th LANCSE user
group meeting, Los Alamos, NM, October 2003. UCRL-POST-200312.
