Richard Miller

Associate Professor

Research Areas

• Particle & High-energy Astrophysics (gamma-rays, neutrinos, neutrons, cosmic-rays)
• Nuclear & Particle Physics Detector Technologies
• Radiation Imaging Methodologies
• Astrophysics with the Moon

Education

• B.S. Physics, University of California, Irvine (1987)
• M.S. Physics, Louisiana State University (1992)
• Ph.D. Physics, University of New Hampshire (1995)

Employment

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory (1995-1999)
• Research Scientist II, University of New Hampshire (1999-2001)
• Assistant Research Professor, University of New Hampshire (2001-2003)
• Assistant Professor, The University of Alabama in Huntsville (2003-2006)
• Associate Professor, The University of Alabama in Huntsville (2006-present)

Awards

• Bruno Rossi Prize (co-recipient), American Astronomical Society (1989)
• NASA Graduate Student Research Fellowship (1992-1995)
• Distinguished Achievement Award, Los Alamos National Laboratory (1997)

Past Graduate Students

• Jennifer Konecny, “Hard X-ray Directivity from High Energy Solar Flares”, M.S. (2008)

Current Graduate Students

• Mikal Burgess (M.S. pending)
• Vanessa DeWitt (M.S. pending... for the next decade)
• Peter Jenke (Ph.D. pending)
• Matthew Orr (Ph.D. pending)

Representative Presentations and Papers

• “Observation of a Neutrino Burst in Coincidence with Supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud”, R.M. Bionta, G. Blewitt, C.B. Bratton, et al., Physical Review Letters, 58:14 (1987) pp. 1494-1496
• “IMB-3: A Large Cherenkov Detector for Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Interactions”, R. Becker-Szendy, R.M. Bionta, C.B. Bratton, et al., Nucl. Instr. Meth., A324 (1993) pp. 363-382
• “A Search for Astrophysical Sources of Low-Energy Neutrinos Using the IMB Detector”, R.S. Miller, R. Becker-Szendy, C.B. Bratton, et al., ApJ, 428 (1994) pp. 629-632
• “A Search for Moderate and High-Energy Neutrino Emission Correlated with Gamma-Ray Bursts”, R. Becker-Szendy, C.B. Bratton, D. Casper, et al., ApJ, 444 (1995) pp. 415-418
• “Neutrino Measurements with the IMB Detector”, R. Becker-Szendy, C.B. Bratton, D. Casper, et al., Nucl. Phys. B, 38 (1995) pp. 331-336
• “A Search for Radiative Neutrino Decay from Supernovae”, R.S. Miller, J.M. Ryan, and R.C. Svoboda, Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser., 120 (1996) pp. 635-636
• “Conceptual Design of a High Sensitivity Gamma-Ray Telescope Operating at TeV Energies”, R.S. Miller & S. Westerhoff, Astroparticle Physics, 11 (1999) pp. 379-393
• “TeV Observations of Mkn501 with the Milagrito Water Cherenkov Detector”, R. Atkins, et al., ApJ Lett., 525 (1999) L25
• “SONTRAC: An Imaging Spectrometer for MeV Neutrons”, R.S. Miller, et al., Nucl. Instr. Meth A 505 (2003), 36-40
• “TeV Gamma-Ray Survey of the Northern Hemisphere Sky Using the Milagro Observatory”, R. Atkins, et al., ApJ., 608 (2004), 680-685
• “Cosmic-Ray Induced Neutrino Fluxes at the Moon: A Semi-Analytic Approach”, R.S. Miller & T. Cohen, (2006), Astroparticle Physics, 25 (2006), 368-374
• “The Lunar Occultation Observer (LOCO), A Hard X-ray All-Sky Survey Mission Concept”, R.S. Miller, (2007), “Astrophysics Enabled by the Return to the Moon”., Cambridge University Press, in press