Professor
Anthony Thomas
AC FAA
Professor Thomas has an outstanding international reputation on the borderline of nuclear and particle physics. He developed an understanding of pion-nucleus interactions and nuclear structure based initially on a three-body calculation of the pion-nucleon-nucleon system. His cloudy bag model describes the nucleon as three confined quarks obeying chiral symmetry through interaction with a pion cloud. It predicts important nucleon properties such as the neutron charge distribution and describes the nucleon in the presence of other nucleons which helps to understand the apparent dependence of nucleon structure on the nuclear environment.
Fields of research
51 PHYSICAL SCIENCES-
5106
NUCLEAR AND PLASMA PHYSICS
- 510601 Nuclear Physics
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5107
PARTICLE AND HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
- 510703 Particle Physics
For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .
Expertise type
- High Energy Physics
- Nuclear Physics
- Particle Physics
- Physics
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