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Kevin Ching Wei Li

Associate Professor - Nuclear and Energy Physics
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Email k.c.w.li@fys.uio.no
Phone +47 22 85 54 85
Room V216C
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Visiting address Sem Sælands vei 24 Fysikkbygningen 0371
Postal address Postboks 1048 Blindern 0316 Oslo

Academic interests

  • Nuclear structure and clustering
  • Nuclear astrophysics
  • Medical applications of nuclear physics

Higher education and employment history

  • 2020: Postdoctoral research fellow (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions), UiO, Norway
  • 2020: Postdoctoral research fellow, iThemba LABS, South Africa
  • 2016 - 2020: PhD University of Stellenbosch: Nuclear Physics
  • 2014 - 2015: MSc University of Stellenbosch: Nuclear Physics
  • 2013: Honours University of Stellenbosch: Physics, Astronomy and Meteorology
  • 2010 - 2012: BSc University of Stellenbosch: Physics, Astronomy and Meteorology

Awards

  • 2016: John Todd Morrison Research Medal

Cooperation

Oslo Cyclotron Laboratory (OCL) http://ocl.uio.no

PANDORA collaboration

Publications

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  • W. Paulsen, K. C. W. Li, S. Siem, V. W. Ingeberg, A. C. Larsen, T. K. Eriksen, H. C. Berg, F. L. B. Garrote, D. Gjestvang et al., “Remeasuring the γ-decay branching ratio of the Hoyle state”, Physical Review C 112 (2025) 015803, https://doi.org/10.1103/2h2s-sbyx
  • K. C. W. Li, R. Neveling, P. Adsley, H. Fujita, P. Papka, F. D. Smit et al., "Understanding the total width of the 31- state in 12C", Phys. Rev. C 109, 015806 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.109.015806
  • K.C.W. Li, F. D. Smit, P. Adsley, R. Neveling, P. Papka et al., “Investigating the predicted breathing-mode excitation of the Hoyle state”, Physics Letters B 827 (2022) 136928, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2022.136928
  • K. C. W. Li, P. Adsley, R. Neveling, P. Papka, F. D. Smit et al., “Multiprobe study of excited states in 12C: Disentangling the sources of monopole strength between the energy of the Hoyle state and Ex = 13 MeV”, Physical Review C 105, 024308 (2022), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.105.024308
  • K. C. W. Li, R. Neveling, P. Adsley, P. Papka, F. D. Smit et al., “Characterization of the proposed 4-alpha cluster state candidate in 16O”, Physical Review C, 95(3) (2017), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.95.031302
  • P. Adsley, M. Heine, D. G. Jenkins, S. Courtin, R. Neveling, J. W. Br ü mmer, L. M. Donaldson, N. Y. Kheswa, K. C. W. Li et al., “Extending the Hoyle-state Paradigm to 12C + 12C Fusion”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 102701 (2022), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.102701
  • P. Adsley, J. W. Brümmer, K. C. W. Li et al., “Re-examining the 26Mg(α,α′)26Mg reaction: Probing astrophysically important states in 26Mg”, Physical Review C, 96(5) (2017), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.96.055802
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