Professor Carl Wheldon

Professor of Nuclear Physics, University of Birmingham

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School of Physics and Astronomy

University of Birmingham

UK

I am a Professor of Nuclear Physics in the Nuclear Physics Group at Birmingham and a Humboldtian. I am the Director of the Birmingham Accelerator Facilities and undertake research into both fundamental and applied nuclear physics. More recently, I have developed a research interest in the field of novel medical isotope production and the broad uses of accelerator-produced neutrons.

selected publications

  1. PhysRevC
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    Evidence of the $^{9}\text{B}$(1/2$^+$) state in the $^{12}\text{C}$($p$,$\alpha$)$^{9}\text{B}$ reaction
    A.D. Brooks, J. Bishop, S. Pirrie, Tz. Kokalova, $\textsf{C. Wheldon}$, N Curtis, B. Phoenix, and D. Stajkowski
    Phys. Rev. C, 2026
    DOI
  2. JPhysG
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    Coulomb energy differences in $^{9}\text{B}$ using a molecular model
    A.D. Brooks, J. Bishop, Tz. Kokalova, S. Pirrie, and $\textsf{C. Wheldon}$
    J. Phys. G, 2026
    DOI
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    Toward small, stable, and physically robust radiotracers for positron imaging
    Chloe Huckvale Bruno, Daniele Baiocco, William Peace, Dawid Hampel, Emma Catterson, Manikandan Kadirvel, Zhibing Zhang, $\textsf{Carl Wheldon}$, and Christopher Windows-Yule
    Chemical Engineering Science, 2026
    DOI
  4. NIMA
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    Simulation and analysis of an AmBe source
    Filippo Falezza, Jack Bishop, Tzany Kokalova, $\textsf{Carl Wheldon}$, Stuart Pirrie, Max Conroy, and Neil Curtis
    Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. A, 2026
    DOI
  5. PhysRevC
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    Potential absence of observed $\pi^2$ linear-chain structures in $^{14}$O via $^{10}$C($\alpha$,$\alpha$) resonant scattering
    J. Bishop, A. Hollands, Tz. Kokolova, G.V. Rogachev, $\textsf{C. Wheldon}$, E. Aboud, S. Ahn, M. Barbui, N. Curtis, J. Hooker, C. Hunt, H. Jayatissa, E. Koshchiy, S. Pirrie, B.T. Roeder, A. Saastamoinen, and S. Upadhyayula
    Phys. Rev. C, 2025
    DOI
  6. JPhysG
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    Application of a molecular model to band-head states in $^{9}\text{B}$
    A.D. Brooks, J. Bishop, Tz. Kokalova, S. Pirrie, and $\textsf{C. Wheldon}$
    J. Phys. G, 2025
    DOI
  7. PhysLettB
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    Unbound neutron ${\nu}0d_{3/2}$ strength in $^{17}\text{C}$ and the $N$=16 shell gap
    J. Lois-Fuentes, nguez B. Fernández-Domí, F. Delaunay, X. Pereira-López, N.A. Orr, M. Płoszajczak, N. Michel, T. Otsuka, T. Suzuki, W.N. Catford, O. Sorlin, N.L. Achouri, M. Assié, S. Bailey, B. Bastin, Y. Blumenfeld, R. Borcea, M. Caamaño, L. Caceres, E. Clément, A. Corsi, N. Curtis, Q. Deshayes, F. Farget, M. Fisichella, G. France, S. Franchoo, M. Freer, J. Gibelin, A. Gillibert, G.F. Grinyer, F. Hammache, O. Kamalou, A. Knapton, Tz. Kokalova, V. Lapoux, J.A. Lay, B. Le. Crom, S. Leblond, F.M. Marqués, A. Matta, P. Morfouace, A. Moro, J. Pancin, L. Perrot, J. Piot, E. Pollacco, P. Punta, D. Ramos, guez-Tajes C. Rodrí, T. Roger, F. Rotaru, M.Sénoville, N. Séréville, R. Smith, M. Stanoiu, I. Stefan, C. Stodel, D. Suzuki, J.C. Thomas, N. Timofeyuk, M. Vandebrouck, J. Walshe, and $\textsf{C. Wheldon}$
    Phys. Lett. B, 2025
    DOI
  8. PhysRevC
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    Solution to the $^{9}\text{B}(1/2^+)$ state problem using the $R$-matrix formalism
    A.D. Brooks, J. Bishop, Tz. Kokalova, and $\textsf{C. Wheldon}$
    Phys. Rev. C, 2025
    DOI
  9. NPN
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    A Birmingham Laboratory Portrait
    $\textsf{Carl Wheldon}$, Tzany Kokalova Wheldon, Jack Bishop, Yu-Lung Chiu, Ben Phoenix, and Dawid Hampel
    Nuclear Physics News, 2024
    DOI