Name: FATAH ZOUHIR KHIARI

Title: Associate Professor

Brief Research Interests:

• Determination of pollutants in soil using Neutron Activation Analysis and Gamma Ray Spectrometry.
• Study of Polarization effects in High Energy Physics

Research Areas: Applied Nuclear Physics, High Energy Physics

Office: 6/229

Tel: 966-1-860-2430

Email: khiari@kfupm.edu.sa

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Research Interests:

• Determination of pollutants in soil using NAA
• Determination of Radioactive elements in the environment using gamma ray spectrometry
• Study of polarization effects in High Energy Physics (Theory)

Biographical Sketch 

• Graduated with BSc from the University of Science and Technology of Algiers, Algeria (1980)
• Graduated with PhD in High Energy Physics from The University of Michigan, USA (1986)
• Fellow in Accelerator Physics at Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA (1986-1988)
• Accelerator Physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA (1988-1989)
• Scientist at the Research Institute at KFUPM, (1989-2004)
• Joined Physics Department at KFUPM in 2004

AWARDS & HONORS

KEY PUBLICATIONS 

• Detection of sulfur in soil samples using 2.5 MeV neutron activation

  Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry Volume 321, Issue 1, Pages 355 - 36015 July 2019 

• Oil condition monitoring using 14 MeV neutron activation analysis

  Asian Journal of Spectroscopy Volume 13, Issue 4, Pages 67 – 74 October 2009 

• Analysis of phosphate rock samples for vanadium using accelerator-based thermal neutrons

  Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry Volume 261, Issue 3, Pages 507 – 511 2004
  

• Back angle anomaly in scattering of α -particles from 28-Si at low energies

  Nuclear Physics A Volume 678, Issue 1-2, Pages 3 - 1025 September 2000
  

• Beam emittance reconstructions at the KFUPM 350 keV ion accelerator

  Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A Volume 343, Issue 2-3, Pages 383 – 389 11 April 1994
  

• Acceleration of polarized protons to 22 GeV/c and the measurement of spin-spin effects in p+p p+p Physical Review D Volume 39, Issue 1, Pages 45 – 85 1989