Peter Gorham

Professor of Physics
Watanabe Hall 324
808-956-9157 office
808-956-7391 (group secretary)
808-956-2930 fax

Education:

B.A, English Literature, University of California at Irvine, 1980

B.S., Physics, UC Irvine, 1980

M.S. Physics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1983

Ph.D., Physics, UH Manoa, 1986

Positions:

Research Fellow in Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1987-1989

Senior Research Fellow in Physics, Caltech, 1989-1991

Research Professor, UH Manoa 1991-1996

Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, 1996-2001

Teaching:

Physics 170, Spring 2002

Physics 305, Computational Physics, Spring 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

Physics 475 Electronics for Physicists, Fall 2002, 2003, 2004

Physics 272, spring 2007

Physics 485, spring 2007

Research:

Radio Detection of High Energy Particles

RADHEP 2000 (UCLA)

Goldstone Lunar Ultra-high energy neutrino Experiment (GLUE)

ongoing experiment w/ JPL & UCLA

Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA)

NASA Particle Astrophysics Research & Technology program (2002)

New Scientist news note (Nov. 2001)

Under study as a NASA Small Explorer Program (SMEX) Mission 2004

Results (PRL, 2006) of ANITA-lite prototype flight in Antarctica, 2004

First flight of ANITA, 2007

Measurements of the Askaryan effect

at Argonne & SLAC (1999-2000)

SLAC 2002 (results in PRD 2005, 2006)

Observations of the Askaryan Effect in Ice 2007

Measurements of salt formation radio transparency

SalSA: Saltdome Shower Array, a Teraton Neutrino detector concept

Publications on the web:

hep-ex/0611008 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :: Title: Observations of the Askaryan Effect in Ice
Authors: ANITA collaboration: P. W. Gorham, S. W. Barwick, J. J. Beatty, D. Z. Besson, W. R. Binns, C. Chen, P. Chen, J. M. Clem, A. Connolly, P. F. Dowkontt, M. A. DuVernois, R. C. Field, D. Goldstein, A. Goodhue, C. Hast, C. L. Hebert, S. Hoover, M. H. Israel, J. Kowalski, J. G. Learned, K. M. Liewer, J. T. Link, E. Lusczek, S. Matsuno, B. Mercurio, C. Miki, P. Miocinovic, J. Nam, C. J. Naudet, J. Ng, R. Nichol, K. Palladino, K. Reil, A. Romero-Wolf, M. Rosen, D. Saltzberg, D. Seckel, G. S. Varner, D. Walz, F. Wu

hep-ex/0602043 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :

Title: Time-Domain Measurement of Broadband Coherent Cherenkov Radiation
Authors: P. Miocinovic, R. C. Field, P. W. Gorham, E. Guillian, R. Milincic, D. Saltzberg, D. Walz, D. Williams
Comments: 10 pages, 9 figures, accepted by Phys. Rev. D
Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 74, 043002 (2006)

astro-ph/0512265 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :: Title: Constraints on Cosmic Neutrino Fluxes from the ANITA Experiment
Authors: ANITA collaboration: S. W. Barwick, J. J. Beatty, D. Z. Besson, W. R. Binns, B. Cai, J. M. Clem, A. Connolly, D. F. Cowen, P. F. Dowkontt, M. A. DuVernois, P. A. Evenson, D. Goldstein, P. W. Gorham, C. L. Hebert, M. H. Israel, J. G. Learned, K. M. Liewer, J. T. Link, S. Matsuno, P. Miocinovic, J. Nam, C. J. Naudet, R. Nichol, K. Palladino, M. Rosen, D. Saltzberg, D. Seckel, A. Silvestri, B. T. Stokes, G. S. Varner, F. Wu
Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted to PRL
Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett. 96 (2006) 171101
physics/0509023 [abs, pdf] :: Title: The Large Analog Bandwidth Recorder And Digitizer with Ordered Readout (LABRADOR) ASIC
Authors: Gary S. Varner, Jing Cao, Mavourneen Wilcox, Peter Gorham
Comments: 13 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables; to be submitted to NIM A
Subj-class: Instrumentation and Detectors
physics/0507013 [abs, pdf] :: Title: Evaluation of Giga-bit Ethernet Instrumentation for SalSA Electronics Readout (GEISER)
Authors: Gary S. Varner, Laine Murakami, David Ridley, Chaopin Zhu, Peter Gorham
Comments: 8 pages, to be submitted to NIM A
Subj-class: Instrumentation and Detectors
Journal-ref: Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A554 (2005) 437-443
astro-ph/0503304 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :: Title: Tuning into UHE Neutrinos in Antarctica - The ANITA Experiment
Authors: P. Miocinovic, S. W. Barwick, J. J. Beatty, D. Z. Besson, W. R. Binns, B. Cai, J. M. Clem, A. Connolly, S. Coutu, D. F. Cowen, P. F. Dowkontt, M. A. DuVernois, P. A. Evenson, D. Goldstein, P. W. Gorham, C. L. Hebert, M. H. Israel, J. G. Learned, K. M. Liewer, J. T. Link, S. Matsuno, J. W. Nam, C. J. Naudet, R. Nichol, K. J. Palladino, M. Rosen, D. Saltzberg, D. Seckel, A. Silvestri, G. S. Varner, D. Williams
Comments: Presented at 22nd Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics at Stanford, Palo Alto, 13-17 December 2004, (TSRA04-2516) 6 pages, LaTeX, 10 eps figures
astro-ph/0412128 [abs, ps, pdf, other] :: Title: Accelerator Measurements of the Askaryan effect in Rock Salt: A Roadmap Toward Teraton Underground Neutrino Detectors
Authors: P. W. Gorham (1), D. Saltzberg (2), R. C. Field (3), E. Guillian (1), R. Milincic (1), D. Walz (3), D. Williams (2) ((1) University of Hawaii at Manoa, (2) UCLA, (3) Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
Comments: 15 pages, 16 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Subj-class: Astrophysics; Accelerator Physics; Instrumentation and Detectors
Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D72 (2005) 023002; Title: Planet-sized Detectors for Ultra-high Energy Neutrinos & Cosmic Rays
Authors: Peter W. Gorham (University of Hawaii)
Comments: 2 pages, 1 figure; white paper submitted for inclusion in the NASA Advanced Planning Office's Capability Roadmap Public Workshop, Nov. 30, 2004
: Title: Status of ANITA and ANITA-lite
Authors: A. Silvestri, S. W. Barwick, J. J. Beatty, D. Z. Besson, W. R. Binns, B. Cai,J. M. Clem, A. Connolly, D. F. Cowen, P. F. Dowkontt, M. A. DuVernois, P. A. Evenson, D. Goldstein, P. W. Gorham, C. L. Hebert, M. H. Israel, H. Krawzczynski, J. G. Learned, K. M. Liewer, J. T. Link, S. Matsuno, P. Miocinovic, J. Nam,C. J. Naudet, R. Nichol, M. Rosen, D. Saltzberg, D. Seckel, G. S. Varner, F. Wu
Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures, to be published in Proceedings of International School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics, 14th Course: "Neutrinos and Explosive Events in the Universe", Erice, Italy, 2-13 July 2004
: Title: Prospects for radio detection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays and neutrinos
Authors: H. Falcke (1), P. Gorham (2), R.J. Protheroe (3) ((1) ASTRON, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands, (2) Univ. of Hawaii, USA (3) University of Adelaide, Australia)
Comments: latex, 26 pages, 17 figures, to appear in: "Science with the Square Kilometer Array," eds. C. Carilli and S. Rawlings, New Astronomy Reviews, (Elsevier: Amsterdam)
: Title: Experimental Limit on the Cosmic Diffuse Ultra-high Energy Neutrino Flux
Authors: P. W. Gorham, C. L. Hebert (Univ. of Hawaii), K. M. Liewer, C. J. Naudet (JPL), D. Saltzberg, D. Williams (UCLA)
Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures, revtex4 style. New intro section, Fig. 2, Fig 4; in final PRL review
Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett. 93 (2004) 04110
: Title: FORTE satellite constraints on ultra-high energy cosmic particle fluxes
Authors: Nikolai G. Lehtinen (1), Peter W. Gorham (1), Abram R. Jacobson (2), Robert A. Roussel-Dupre (2) ((1) University of Hawaii at Manoa, (2) Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Comments: added a table, updated references and Figure 8, this version is submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D69 (2004) 013008
: Title: Synchrotron Radiation at Radio Frequencies from Cosmic Ray Air Showers
Authors: Denis A. Suprun, Peter W. Gorham, Jonathan L. Rosner
Comments: 18 pages, LaTeX, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Astropart. Phys. Added pancake profiles (fig. 1)
Journal-ref: Astropart.Phys. 20 (2003) 157-168
: Title: Detecting Radio Emission from Cosmic Ray Air Showers and Neutrinos with a Digital Radio Telescope
Authors: Heino Falcke (MPIfR Bonn), Peter Gorham (Univ. Hawaii)
Comments: Astropart. Phys., in press, LaTex (elsart.cls included), 29 pages, 4 figures, also available at this http URL
Journal-ref: Astropart.Phys. 19 (2003) 477-494
: Title: Neutrino-induced Collapse of Bare Strange Stars Via TeV-scale Black Hole Seeding
Authors: Peter Gorham, John Learned, Nikolai Lehtinen (Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy)
Comments: 10 pages, 2 figures, revtex4 style

: Title: Measurements of the Suitability of Large Rock Salt Formations for Radio Detection of High Energy Neutrinos
Authors: Peter Gorham, David Saltzberg, Allen Odian, Dawn Williams, David Besson, George Frichter, Sami Tantawi
Comments: 21 pages, 8 figures, to be submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods
Journal-ref: Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A490 (2002) 476-491
: Title: Radio limits on an isotropic flux of >100 EeV cosmic neutrinos
Authors: P. W. Gorham, K. M. Liewer, C. J. Naudet (JPL), D. P. Saltzberg, D. R. Williams (UCLA)
Comments: 12 pages, 7 fig., presented at the First International Workshop on Radio Detection of High Energy Particles (RADHEP 2000), Nov. 16-18, 2000
Subj-class: Astrophysics; Instrumentation and Detectors
: Title: Observation of the Askaryan Effect: Coherent Microwave Cherenkov Emission from Charge Asymmetry in High Energy Particle Cascades
Authors: David Saltzberg, Peter Gorham, Dieter Walz, Clive Field, Richard Iverson, Allen Odian, George Resch, Paul Schoessow, Dawn Williams
Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
Subj-class: High Energy Physics - Experiment; Accelerator Physics
Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett. 86 (2001) 2802-2805
: Title: Radio-Frequency Measurements of Coherent Transition and Cherenkov Radiation: Implications for High-Energy Neutrino Detection
Authors: Peter Gorham, David Saltzberg, Paul Schoessow, Wei Gai,John G. Power, Richard Konecny, M. E. Conde
Comments: updated figure 10; fixed typo in equation 2.2; accepted by PRE
Subj-class: High Energy Physics - Experiment; Accelerator Physics
Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. E62 (2000) 8590-8605
: Title: On the possibility of radar echo detection of ultra-high energy cosmic ray- and neutrino-induced extensive air showers
Authors: Peter. W. Gorham (JPL/Caltech)
Comments: 29 pages, 16 figures, uses aas2pp4.sty. Final version, to appear in Astroparticle Physics. Contains new figs, better estimate of angular precision possible
Subj-class: High Energy Physics - Experiment; Instrumentation and Detectors; Space Physics
Journal-ref: Astropart.Phys. 15 (2001) 177-202
: Title: Enabling concepts for a dual spacecraft formation-flying optical interferometer for NASA's ST3 mission
Authors: Peter W. Gorham, William M. Folkner, Gary H. Blackwood, (JPL/Caltech)
Comments: 6 pp, 4 fig., to appear in "Working on the Fringe", Proc. of the 1999 Dana Pt. Conf. on Optical Interferometry, PASP conf. proc., in press; (some slight revisions from conference version)
Subj-class: Astrophysics; Space Physics; Optics
Journal-ref: PASP conf. series vol. 194, page 359.
: Title: Markarian 421's Unusual Satellite Galaxy
Authors: Peter W. Gorham (JPL), Liese van Zee (NRAO), Stephen C. Unwin (JPL), Christopher S. Jacobs (JPL)
Comments: LaTeX (aaspp4 style), 28 pages, 8 figures, to appear in AJ. Revised text from ref. comments; new & modified figures; new photometry included; minor corrections of typos. Color version of Fig. 1 to appear in Feb. 2000 Sky & Telescope
Journal-ref: Astronomical Journal v. 119, no 4, page 1677
: Title: Initial Results from a Search for Lunar Radio Emission from Interactions of >= 10^{19} eV Neutrinos and Cosmic Rays
Authors: P. W. Gorham, K. M. Liewer, C. J. Naudet (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Comments: 4 pages of LaTex, 2 figures, to appear in the Proc. of 26th ICRC, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 1999

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