Roy J. Holt

Professional experience

• 2007-present: Argonne Distinguished Fellow
• 2000-2007: Senior Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
• 2000-present: Chief, Medium Energy Physics, Argonne National Laboratory
• 2000-present: Adjunct Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• 1994-2000: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL; Professor, Physics Department; Director/Co-Director, Nuclear Physics Laboratory
• 1988-1995: Senior Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1978-1988: Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1974-1977: Assistant Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1972-1974: Research Staff Physicist, Yale University

Education

• 1972: Ph.D., Yale University
• 1971: M.Phil., Yale University
• 1969: B.S., Southern Methodist University

Selected honors and awards

• Tom W. Bonner Prize of the American Physical Society, 2005
• Fellow, Institute of Physics, London
• Fellow, American Physical Society
• Arnold O. Beckman Research Award, 1994

Selected professional activities

• 2007-2009 — Chair, Jefferson Lab Program Advisory Committee
• 2005-2008 — NSERC Grant Selection Committee for Subatomic Physics in Canada
• 2000-present — Steering Committee, Electron Ion Collider
• 1997-2005 — Editorial Board, Journal of Physics G
• 1997-2001 — MIT-Bates Program Advisory Committee
• 1997-1999 — Editorial Board, Nuclear Physics A
• 1996-1998 — Editorial Board, Physical Review C
• 1993-1996 — Program Advisory Committee, CEBAF
• 1990-1993 — Board of Directors, CEBAF (Chair 1991-1992)
• 1990 — Chairman, 1990 Gordon Research Conference on Photonuclear Physics
• 1989-1993 — Program Advisory Committee, Indiana University Cyclotron Facility
• 1988-1990 — Program Committee, APS, Division of Nuclear Physics
• 1986-1989 — Program Advisory Committee, Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility
• 1984-1986 — Program Advisory Committee, SLAC
• 1983-1986 — Chairman, Internal Target Working Group at CEBAF
• 1983-1984 — Board of Directors, CEBAF

Research interests

• The use of high energy electron scattering as a means to probe the structure of the nucleon and nuclei.
• The search for a non-zero electric dipole moment in optically trapped atoms of 225 Ra as a signal for new physics beyond the Standard Model.

Recent publications

• "Measurement of Tensor Analyzing Powers in Deuteron Photodisintegration," I. A. Rachek et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 (2007) 182303
• "Recoil-Proton Polarization in High-Energy Deuteron Photodisintegration with Circularly Polarized Photons," X. Jiang et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 (2007) 182302
• "Laser Trapping of ²²⁵Ra and ²²⁶Ra with Repumping by Room-Temperature Blackbody Radiation," J. R. Guest et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 (2007) 093001
• "Measurement of the Lifetimes of the Lowest ³P₁ State of Neutral Ba and Ra," N. D. Scielzo et al., Phys. Rev. A 73 (2006) 010501 (R)
• "Pion Parton Distribution Function in the Valence Region," K. Wijesooriya, P. E. Reimer, R. J. Holt, Phys. Rev. C 72 (2005) 065203
• "Cross Section Measurements of Charged Pion Photoproduction in Hydrogen and Deuterium from 1.1 to 5.5 GeV," L. Y. Zhu et al., Phys. Rev. C 71 (2005) 044603