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In Celebration of K C Hines TThhiiss ppaaggee iinntteennttiioonnaallllyy lleefftt bbllaannkk In Celebration of K C Hines editors Bruce H J McKellar • Ken Amos University of Melbourne, Australia World Scientific NEW JERSEY • LONDON • SINGAPORE • BEIJING • SHANGHAI • HONG KONG • TAIPEI • CHENNAI Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. 5 Toh Tuck Link, Singapore 596224 USA office: 27 Warren Street, Suite 401-402, Hackensack, NJ 07601 UK office: 57 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9HE British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. IN CELEBRATION OF K C HINES Copyright © 2010 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. 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CheeHok - In Celebration of K C Hines.pmd 1 10/8/2009, 6:16 PM November11,2009 14:43 WorldScientificReviewVolume-9inx6in hines-book Kenneth Charles Hines (1926–2005) November11,2009 14:43 WorldScientificReviewVolume-9inx6in hines-book vi November11,2009 14:43 WorldScientificReviewVolume-9inx6in hines-book Preface KenHines came to Melbourne University as an undergraduatein 1944, wasappointeda seniorlecturer atthe Universityin 1960,andpromotedto reader in 1966. He retired in 1991 but continued to do research in physics until his death on 23rd February 2005. On 18th March 2005 several of Ken’s colleagues participated in a memorial conference in his honour. The papers delivered at this conference form the core of this book, but there are other chapters written by some who could not be present, but wished to contribute to this celebration of Ken’s career. Ken was a talented theoretical physicist, with a great gift for teaching and for supervising, guiding and mentoring students. Notable in his CV is the list of students who did a MSc with Ken, and then, with Ken’s encouragement, went on to do their PhD elsewhere. These students, and his ownPhDstudents wentonto establishnoteworthycareersinAustralia and overseas. It is a great pleasure that so many of them have been able to contribute to this volume, dedicated to the celebrationof Ken’s life and his physics. After his honours degree in cosmic ray physics, and a time doing cos- mic rayresearchonMacquarieIsland,he completedhis PhDin theoretical physicsandthenworkedatHarwellonfastbreederreactors. This research was a part of the U.K. development program on such reactors, leading to their construction in the late 1950s and experimental and commercial use subsequently. He thenreturnedto the AustralianAtomicEnergyCommis- sion’s researchestablishment at Lucas Heights working on reactor physics. He continued these studies on reactor physics for a brief period after com- ing to Melbourne, and then movedinto plasma physics, an area of interest he maintained in many ways throughout his career. His interest moved from laboratory plasmas to astrophysicalplasmas, including some unusual ones, such as particle-antiparticle plasmas. This was a subject which was of great astrophysical interest for a time, when it was realised by Alfv´en that such plasmas would form in the boundary regionbetween matter and vii November11,2009 14:43 WorldScientificReviewVolume-9inx6in hines-book viii Preface anti-mattergalaxiesinthe universe,andthe searchforthe annihilationra- diation from them was actively pursed. At about the time he was working onthis problem,Kenarrangeda visitby Alfv´ento Melbourne. Inhis later work, Ken turned to a detailed study of the properties of tachyons,and to the study of the plasma physics involved in accretion on black holes. Hannes Alfv´en was one of Ken’s many international contacts who were able to visitAustralia. Another wasDirk ter Haarof Oxford,who came to be a friend ofmany of us in Melbourne. Ken’s lastinternationalcollabora- tionwaswithaformerMelbournestudent,FulvioMeliaoftheUniversityof Arizona. Fulvio has contributed a chapter to this book which provides an account of the results of that collaboration. All of his internationalfriends enriched our lives in the School of Physics at Melbourne University. Formany yearsKen playeda significantrole in twoof the ongoingcon- ference series in Australian physics, the plasma physics conferences spon- sored by the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering and held atLucasHeights everysecondyear,andthe AustralianMathematical Society’s Applied Mathematics Conferences. Ken’s contribution to these conferences do not appear in his publications list, as proceedings were not published,buthisformalcontributionswereoftenovershadowedbyhiscon- tribution to the discussion, during conference sessions, at the dinner table and late into the evening. As youwill gather fromthe obituary which appearedin the Melbourne Age which is part of Chapter 1, Ken’s skills were not confined to physics, butextendedtoliterature,thelanguagesandcultureofGermanyandItaly, and to music. He was a well-known face of the School of Physics on the campus, and spent many years on the executive of the Staff Association. He also spent 6 years as the Deputy Head of the School of Physics. By his teaching,researchandfellowshiphe enrichedthe life ofthe Mel- bourne University School of Physics, and the lives of those who worked in itandpassedthroughit. Ken’s contributionsshouldbe celebrated,andwe are pleased to be able to do so with this volume of contributions by his friends. Ken Amos Bruce McKellar November11,2009 14:43 WorldScientificReviewVolume-9inx6in hines-book Contents Preface vii 1. Concerning Ken Hines ... 1 2. Structures of Exotic Nuclei from Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering Data 17 Ken Amos 3. Resonant X-Ray Scattering and X-Ray Absorption: Closing the Circle? 35 Zwi Barnea, Chris T. Chantler, Martin D. de Jonge, Andrew W. Stevenson and Chanh Q. Tran 4. The Screened Field of a Test Particle 47 Robert L. Dewar 5. Self-Avoiding Walks as a Canonical Model of Phase Transitions 75 A. J. Guttmann 6. Aspects of Plasma Physics 99 Roger J. Hosking ix
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