Degrees:
Ph.D., North Carolina State Univ.
B.A., The College of Wooster
Kelly Patton studied physics at the College of Wooster before continuing on to a PhD at North Carolina State University. Her interest in both astronomy and fundamental particles led her to specialize in neutrino astrophysics, specifically the ways in which neutrinos can teach us about other complex systems. Her work is theoretical and computational. Kelly held postdoctoral research positions at both Arizona State University and the Institute for Nuclear Theory. During those years, her research expanded and shifted focus to neutrino production during the final stages of the lives of large stars. Before arriving at Trinity, Kelly was at Colby College as a Faculty Fellow teaching quantum and classical mechanics.
While at Trinity, Kelly has taught both introductory and advanced level courses. She enjoys helping students develop strategies to approach any complex problem, whether in physics or any other field. Her philosophy is that physics does not need to be scary and can in fact be fun with the right tools.
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Neutrino production in massive stars
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Pre-supernova neutrino detection
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Neutrino oscillations
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Nuclear structure
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- Ebraheem Farag, F.X. Timmes, Morgan Taylor, Kelly M. Patton, R. Farmer “On Stellar Evolution In A Neutrino Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram”, Astrophys. J. 893 133 (2020) arXiv:2003.05844
- K. M. Patton, C. Lunardini, R. J. Farmer, and F. X. Timmes “Neutrinos from beta processes in a presupernova: probing the isotopic evolution of a massive star”, Astrophys. J. 851 6 (2017) arXiv:1709.01877
- K. M. Patton, C. Lunardini, and R. J. Farmer “Presupernova Neutrinos: Realistic Emissivities from Stellar Evolution”, Astrophys. J. 840 2 (2017) arXiv:1511.028020
- K. M. Patton, J. P. Kneller and G. C. McLaughlin “Stimulated neutrino transformation through turbulence on a changing density profile and application to supernovae”, Phys. Rev. D 91, 025001 (2015) arXiv:1407.7835
- K. M. Patton, J. P. Kneller and G. C. McLaughlin “Stimulated Neutrino Transformation Through Turbulence”, Phys. Rev. D 89, 073022 (2014) arXiv:1310.5643
- K. M. Patton, G. C. McLaughlin and K. Scholberg “Prospects for using coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering to measure the nuclear neutron form factor”, Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 22 1330013 (2013).
- J. P. Kneller, G. C. McLaughlin and K. M. Patton, “Stimulated Neutrino Transformation with Sinusoidal Density Profiles”, J. Phys. G 40, 055002 (2013). arXiv:1202.0776
- K. M. Patton, J. Engel, G. C. McLaughlin and N. Schunck, “Neutrino-nucleus coherent scattering as a probe of neutron density distributions”, Phys. Rev. C 86, 024612 (2012). arXiv:1207.0693
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- GAANN Fellowship in Nuclear Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, 2010-2013
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