Fredrick Olness

Professor of Theoretical Physics
Dedman Family Distinguished Professor

Physics

Email

olness@smu.edu
Office Location

201 Fondren Life Science Building

Phone

214-768-2500
Website

http://www.physics.smu.edu/~olness/www/index.html

Education

Ph.D., Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A., Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.S., Physics, Duke University

Areas of Expertise

High energy particle physics
Nuclear physics
Mathematical and Computational Physics

Courses Taught

Music and Physics
Theoretical Methods
Computational Physics
Quantum Field Theory
Particle and Nuclear Physics

Research Interests

Nuclear structure and parton distribution functions within the nCTEQ Collaboration
Discovery and exploration of the gluon saturation regime in the quantum chromodynamics (QCT)
Heavy quark production in Aivazis-Collins-Olness-Tung (ACOT) scheme and multi-scale calculation
Deep Inelastic Scattering and related phenomena in the context of the DIS workshop series

Selected Publications

  • Modification of Quark-Gluon Distributions in Nuclei by Correlated Nucleon Pairs

    nCTEQ Collaboration, A.W. Denniston et al. Physical Review Letters 133 (2024), 152502.

  • nCTEQ15: Global Analysis of Nuclear Parton Distributions with Uncertainties in the CTEQ Framework

    nCTEQ Collaboration, K. Kovarik et al. Physical Review D 93 (2016), 085037.

  • Global QCD Analysis of Parton Structure of the Nucleon: CTEQ5 Parton Distributions

    CTEQ Collaboration, H.L. Lai et al. European Physical Journal C 12 (2000), 375–392.

  • HERAFitter

    xFitter Collaboration, S. Alekhin et al. European Physical Journal C 75 (2015), 304.

  • Heavy Quark Mass Effects in Charged-Current Deep-Inelastic Scattering at Approximate NNLO in the Aivazis-Collins-Olness-Tung Scheme nCTEQ Collaboration, Peter Risse et al. Physical Review D 112 (2025).
Fredrick Olness