A. Eugene Livingston

A. Eugene Livingston is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Notre Dame, where he has served on the faculty since 1978. He obtained his B.S. in Physics in 1969, M.S. in 1970, and Ph.D. in 1974, all from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.

Livingston's research in experimental atomic physics focuses on measurements of atomic structures, atomic interactions, and transition rates in highly charged ions. He uses ultraviolet and X-ray spectroscopies with fast beams and high-resolution spectrometers featuring photon-counting position-sensitive detectors to study excitation, structure, and decay characteristics. Experiments are conducted at the Notre Dame Tandem and APAL Laboratories, ATLAS at Argonne National Laboratory, and UNILAC and SIS/ESR at GSI-Darmstadt, Germany. Current topics include precision spectroscopy of relativistic and quantum electrodynamic effects in few-electron ions, time-resolved measurements of transition rates with hyperfine interactions, X-ray continuum from two-photon de-excitation in heliumlike ions, Rydberg state spectroscopy, and laser-based lifetime measurements.

He was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1998. Key publications include "Fast-beam laser lifetime measurements of the cesium states" (Phys. Rev. A 60, 3648, 1999), "Energies and lifetimes of excited states in copperlike Kr VIII" (Phys. Rev. A 21, 771, 1980), "Lifetime of the 2¹S₀ state of heliumlike Ni²⁶⁺" (Phys. Rev. A 38, 5423, 1988), "Precision lifetime measurements of the 6p ²P_1/2,3/2 states in atomic cesium" (Phys. Rev. A 50, R1976, 1994), and "1s2s²p^{2 3}s ⁶P-1s2p^{3 3}s ⁶S₀ Transitions in O IV" (Phys. Rev. A 67, 062507, 2003). His contributions test atomic theory and support plasma modeling for astrophysics and laboratories.

Professional Email: alivings@nd.edu