Roxanne P. Springer

Professor Roxanne P. Springer is a faculty member at Duke University's Department of Physics within Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, specializing in weak interactions and quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Her research explores fundamental symmetry violations and hadronic structure through effective field theories.

• Education: Ph.D. in Physics from California Institute of Technology (1990)

Research Interests: Springers work focuses on hadronic parity violation, large-Nc expansion, and precision nuclear physics. She applies pionless effective field theory (EFT(π/)) to study neutron-deuteron capture, two-nucleon interactions, and neutrinoless double-beta decay. Her projects bridge QCD symmetries with nuclear dynamics.

Publication Trends: Recent works emphasize large-Nc scaling, parity-violating observables, and cross-section calculations in nuclear reactions. Key topics include Wigner-SU(4) symmetry, renormalization group constraints, and hadronic structure analysis.

Scientific Awards:

• POWRE Visiting Professorship (1998-1999)

Grants: Principal investigator for DOE-funded projects on lattice QCD and effective field theory since 2005. Co-PI for multiple DOE grants on high-energy nuclear physics from 1990-2005. Includes support for strangeness physics and extreme energy density studies.

Teaching: Taught graduate courses on quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, and nuclear physics since 2022. Led methods courses for physics research.

Advising: Chaired thesis and preliminary committees for students including James Wheeler (2019), Adryanna Major (2020), and Qiaofeng Liu (2021). Mentored graduate students Xincheng Lin, H Nguyen, and Son Nguyen through 2021.