M. A. McMahan

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
87 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

M. A. McMahan is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Radiation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, M. A. McMahan has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 39 papers in Radiation and 31 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in M. A. McMahan's work include Nuclear physics research studies (57 papers), Nuclear Physics and Applications (29 papers) and Atomic and Molecular Physics (26 papers). M. A. McMahan is often cited by papers focused on Nuclear physics research studies (57 papers), Nuclear Physics and Applications (29 papers) and Atomic and Molecular Physics (26 papers). M. A. McMahan collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. M. A. McMahan's co-authors include L. G. Moretto, R. J. Charity, R. J. McDonald, L. G. Sobotka, G. J. Wozniak, G.J. Wozniak, W. G. Lynch, M. B. Tsang, G. Guarino and A. Pantaleo and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

M. A. McMahan

85 papers receiving 2.3k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Systematics of complex fragment emission in niobium-induced reactions

1988 447 citations R. J. Charity, M. A. McMahan et al. Nuclear Physics A profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
M. A. McMahan United States	26	2.0k	814	692	646	118	87	2.3k
B. Gebauer Germany	24	1.7k 0.8×	755 0.9×	606 0.9×	323 0.5×	149 1.3×	86	1.9k
L. Phair United States	26	1.8k 0.9×	596 0.7×	583 0.8×	574 0.9×	72 0.6×	118	2.2k
H. Breuer United States	24	1.5k 0.8×	669 0.8×	579 0.8×	336 0.5×	98 0.8×	79	1.7k
G. J. Wozniak United States	25	1.9k 0.9×	666 0.8×	702 1.0×	523 0.8×	65 0.6×	87	2.2k
K. D. Hildenbrand Germany	27	2.8k 1.4×	1.1k 1.4×	999 1.4×	662 1.0×	85 0.7×	82	3.1k
J. S. Winfield United States	31	2.5k 1.2×	950 1.2×	801 1.2×	405 0.6×	154 1.3×	114	2.6k
W. H. Trzaska Finland	26	2.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.4×	1.0k 1.5×	386 0.6×	171 1.4×	241	2.8k
J. Tõke United States	22	1.7k 0.8×	649 0.8×	562 0.8×	454 0.7×	71 0.6×	75	1.8k
K. Sümmerer Germany	28	2.4k 1.2×	892 1.1×	1.2k 1.8×	727 1.1×	89 0.8×	99	2.7k
F. Plasil United States	29	2.4k 1.2×	941 1.2×	807 1.2×	689 1.1×	75 0.6×	73	2.6k

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Basunia, M. S., R. M. Clark, L. A. Bernstein, et al.. (2008). Study of the ([sup 3]He,t) Charge Transfer Reaction as a Surrogate for Neutron Energy Between 10 to 20 MeV. AIP conference proceedings. 1005. 101–104. 1 indexed citations

George, J., et al.. (2008). Neutron Soft Errors in Xilinx FPGAs at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. 118–123. 3 indexed citations

McMahan, M. A.. (2005). The Berkeley accelerator space effects facility (BASE) - A new mission for the 88-inch cyclotron at LBNL. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 4 indexed citations

Benczer-Koller, N., G. Kumbartzki, J. R. Cooper, et al.. (2005). First g-factor measurement using a radioactive 76Kr beam. The European Physical Journal A. 25(S1). 203–304. 2 indexed citations

McMahan, M. A., et al.. (2005). A 16 MeV/nucleon cocktail for heavy ion testing. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 156–159. 2 indexed citations

Clark, R. M., L. Phair, Martina Descovich, et al.. (2005). Population of nuclei via Li7-induced binary reactions. Physical Review C. 72(5). 7 indexed citations

Taylor, M. J., N. Benczer-Koller, L. A. Bernstein, et al.. (2004). Shell model configurations in the 21+ state in 46Ca from a g-factor measurement. Physics Letters B. 605(3-4). 265–272. 12 indexed citations

Leitner, Daniela, et al.. (2002). Heavy ion cocktail beams at the 88 inch Cyclotron. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 8 indexed citations

Fan, Tieshuan, K. Jing, L. Phair, et al.. (2000). Excitation functions and mass asymmetric fission barriers for compound nuclei Se. Nuclear Physics A. 679(2). 121–146. 17 indexed citations

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Boger, J., J. Alexander, A. Elmaani, et al.. (1994). Intermediate mass fragments from the reactions 486, 550, 640, and 730 MeVKr86+63Cu. Physical Review C. 49(3). 1597–1602. 6 indexed citations

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Feinberg, B., Harvey Gould, W. E. Meyerhof, et al.. (1993). Relativistic electron- and proton-impact ionization of highly stripped heavy ions determined from projectile-electron loss inH2and He. Physical Review A. 47(3). 2370–2373. 4 indexed citations

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Phair, L., D. R. Bowman, N. Carlin, et al.. (1993). Azimuthal correlations as a test for centrality in heavy-ion collisions. Nuclear Physics A. 564(3). 453–472. 15 indexed citations

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Phair, L., W. Bauer, D. R. Bowman, et al.. (1992). Multifragment emission in 36Ar+197Au and 129Xe+197Au collisions. Percolation model. Physics Letters B. 285(1-2). 10–14. 24 indexed citations

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Bowman, D. R., G. F. Peaslee, N. Colonna, et al.. (1991). Equilibrium and non-equilibrium complex fragment emission in 50–100 MeV/u 139La + 12C reactions. Nuclear Physics A. 523(2). 386–425. 21 indexed citations

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Płaneta, R., K. Kwiatkowski, S. H. Zhou, et al.. (1990). Nucleon exchange properties of theE/A=8.5 MeVGe74+165Ho reaction. Physical Review C. 41(3). 942–957. 14 indexed citations

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Shor, A., E.F. Barasch, J. Carroll, et al.. (1989). Subthreshold antiproton,K−,K+, and energetic-pion production in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions. Physical Review Letters. 63(20). 2192–2195. 49 indexed citations

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Bowman, D. R., G.J. Wozniak, R. J. Charity, et al.. (1989). Complex fragments from excited actinide nuclei. A new test of the finite range model. Physics Letters B. 218(4). 427–430. 10 indexed citations

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Płaneta, R., K. Kwiatkowski, S. H. Zhou, et al.. (1989). Nucleon exchange and heat partition in damped collisions. Physical Review C. 39(3). 1197–1200. 15 indexed citations

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Tsang, M. B., D. Ardouin, C. K. Gelbke, et al.. (1983). Fission following capture reactions ofS32+Pb208. Physical Review C. 28(2). 747–760. 28 indexed citations

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McMahan, M. A. & J. Alexander. (1980). Barrier to complete fusion forHe4andH1and that for evaporation fromHg194. Physical Review C. 21(4). 1261–1270. 28 indexed citations

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