Research Interests:

⦁ Halo and exotic nuclei
⦁ Nuclear-reaction theory (breakup, transfer, radiative capture,…)
⦁ Mathematical methods in physics

2018	Professor, JGU Mainz
2015 - 2017	Associate Professor, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
2011 - 2015	Assistant Professor, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
2011	Postdoctoral Fellow, JGU Mainz
2009 - 2010	Postdoctoral Fellow, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL), Michigan State University (MSU)
2006 - 2009	Postdoctoral Fellow, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
2004 - 2006	Postdoctoral Fellow, TRIUMF, Vancouver
2004	PhD, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

S. Ota, P. Capel, G. Christian, V. Durant, K. Hagel, E. Harris, R. C. Johnson, Z. Luo, F. M. Nunes, M. Roosa, A. Saastamoinen, and D. P. Scriven, Experimental Test of the Ratio Method for Nuclear-Reaction Analysis, Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 212501 (2025) arXiv:2407.15535 [nucl-ex]

Pierre Capel, Daniel R. Phillips, Andrew Andis, Mirko Bagnarol, Behnaz Behzadmoghaddam, Francesca Bonaiti, Rishabh Bubna, Ylenia Capitani, Pierre-Yves Duerinck, Victoria Durant, Niklas Döpper, Aya El Boustani, Roland Farrell, Maurus Geiger, Michael Gennari, Nitzan Goldberg, Jakub Herko, Tanja Kirchner, Live-Palm Kubushishi, Zhen Li, Simone S. Li Muli, Alexander Long, Brady Martin, Kamyar Mohseni, Imane Moumene, Nicola Paracone, Elad Parnes, Beatriz Romeo, Victor Springer, Isak Svensson, Oliver Thim and Nuwan Yapa, Effective field theory analysis of the Coulomb breakup of the one-neutron halo nucleus ¹⁹C, Eur. Phys. J. A 59, 273 (2023) arXiv:2301.06444 [nucl-th]

F. Colomer, P. Capel, M. Ferretti, J. Piekarewicz, C. Sfienti, M. Thiel, V. Tsaran, and M. Vanderhaeghen, Theoretical analysis of the extraction of neutron skin thickness from coherent π⁰ photoproduction off nuclei, Phys. Lett. Phys. Rev. C 106, 044318 (2022) arXiv:2204.13395 [nucl-th]

P. Capel, D. R. Phillips, and H.-W. Hammer, Dissecting reaction calculations using halo effective field theory and ab initio input, Phys. Rev. C 98 (2018) 034610 arXiv:1806.02712 [nucl-th]

D. Baye, P. Capel, Breakup Reaction Models for Two- and Three-Cluster Projectiles, Springer (2012), Clusters in Nuclei Vol. 2 pp 121-163

P. Capel, H. Esbensen, and F. M. Nunes, Comparing nonperturbative models of the breakup of neutron-halo nuclei, Phys. Rev. C 85, 044604 (2012) arXiv:1203.4335

P. Capel, R. C. Johnson, F. M. Nunes, One-neutron halo structure by the ratio method, Physics Letters B, Volume 705 Issues 1-2, Pages 112-115 arXiv:1104.2228 [nucl-th]

J.-M. Sparenberg, P. Capel, and D. Baye, Influence of low-energy scattering on loosely bound states, Phys. Rev. C 81, 011601(R) (2010) arXiv:0907.5166

G. Goldstein, P. Capel, and D. Baye, Analysis of Coulomb breakup experiments of ⁸B with a dynamical eikonal approximation, Phys.Rev. C76 (2007) 024608 arXiv:0708.0357 [nucl-th]

P. Capel, D. Baye, and Y. Suzuki, Coulomb-corrected eikonal description of the breakup of halo nuclei, Phys. Rev. C 78, 054602 (2008) arXiv:0810.2645

D. Baye, P. Capel, and G. Goldstein, Collisions of Halo Nuclei within a Dynamical Eikonal Approximation, Phys. Rev. Lett. (2005) 95, 082502

P. Capel, G. Goldstein, and D. Baye, Time-dependent analysis of the breakup of ¹¹Be on ¹²C at 67 MeV ∕ nucleon, Phys. Rev. C 70 (2004) 064605

P. Capel, D. Baye, and V. S. Melezhik, Time-dependent analysis of the breakup of halo nuclei, Phys.Rev. C68 (2003) 014612

Monica Sanjinez Ortiz
Quentin Bozet

Live-Palm Kubushishi
Victoria Durant
Chloë Hebborn
Frederic Colomer
Laura Moschini
Jiecheng Yang

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