Contact Information:

Campus Box 8106
785 S. 8th Ave.
Pocatello, ID 83209
Phone: (208) 282-3986
FAX: (208) 282-4649
e-mail: wells@physics.isu.edu
Office: PS 120A

2002 - present:

Associate Professor, Idaho State University

1997 - 2002:

Assistant Professor of Physics, Idaho State University

1996 - 1997:

Associate Professor of Health Physics (non-tenure-track, Idaho State University)

1993 - 1996:

Radiation Health Physicist, Radiation Protection Division, Washington State Department of Health, Olympia, WA

• Fundamental Nuclear Physics
• Non-Exponential Decay (NED)
• Photon Scattering and the E&M Polarizabilities of Bound Nucleons
• Isospin Symmetry: Is Isospin a "good" symmetry in compound nuclei?
• Applied Nuclear Science
• Accelerator Cabinet-Safe Technology and Accelerator Health Physics
• Small Accelerator Applications: (XRF, Fluorescence/Phosphorescence, NTOF)
• Environmental Health Physics: (Measurement Techniques, Fate and Transport Modeling)

• D.P. Wells, J.L. Jones, W.Y. Yoon and F. Harmon, "Cabinet-Safe" Study of 1-8 MeV Electron Accelerators, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 463, 118 (2001).
• D.P. Wells, J.F. Harmon, W.W. Scates and R. Spaulding, A Test of the Exponential Decay Law by Photo-Production of Nuclear Isomers, 16th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry CARI 2000, AIP Press, Denton, TX (2001).
• J.L. Alvarez, R. Geddes, J.E. Rice, T.F. Gesell and D. Wells, Elementary Phosphorous Slag Exposure Study in Southeastern Idaho, USA, 5th International Conference on High Levels of Natural Radiatio and Radon Areas: Radiation Dose and Health Effects, Munich, Germany, 2000. (To be published in International Conference Series No. 1225: 5th International Conference on High Levels of Natural Radiation and Radon", 2001)
• Chouffani, K., Wells, D.P., Harmon, J.F., Optical Transition Radiation from Copper, Aluminum and Silicon Crystals, Proceedings of the 21st ICFA Beam Dynamics International Conference on Colliding Beams, Brookhaven, NY (2001)
• Selim, F.A., D.P. Wells, J.F. Harmon, W.Scates, J. Kwofie, R. Spaulding, S.P. Duttagupta, J.L. Jones, T. White and T. Roney, Doppler Broadening Measurements of Positron Annihilation Using Bremsstrahlung Radiation, 11th International Positron Conference, Sante Fe, NM, July, 2001. (Accepted for Publication in Nucl. Instr. Meth. B, 2002)
• D.P. Wells, F.A. Selim, J.F. Harmon, W. Scates, J. Kwofie, R. Spaulding, S.P. Duttagupta, J.L. Jones, T. White and T. Roney, Development of Accelerator-Based X-ray Fluorescence for Large Sample Assay, 40th International Denver X-ray Conference, Steamboat Springs, CO, July 2001. (To be published in Advances in X-ray Analysis, Volume 45 (2002).
• Wells, D.P., Kwofie, J.E. Selim, F., Harmon, J.F., and Scates, W., Accelerator-Based X-Ray Fluorescence (AXRF) for Waste Assays and Environmental Applications, Health Physics 80, S114 (2001).
• Scates, W., Harmon, J.F., Nigg, D., Harker, Y., and Wells, D.P., Monte-Carlo Investigation of Photo-Neutron Sources for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy, Health Physics 80, S108 (2001).
• Wells, D.P., DeVeaux, L.C., Roethlisberger, E.L., and Gesell, T.F., Development of Biologically-Based Radiation Dosimetry, Health Physics 80, S100 (2001).
• Chouffani, K., Wells, D.P., Harmon, J.F., Endo, I., Uberall, H., Axial Coherent Bremsstrahlung of Type A in a Diamond Crystal, Radiation from Relativistic Electron Beams in Periodic Structures, Lake Aya, Russia (2001).
• Wells, D.P., Modern Mathematical Methods for Physicists and Engineers: A Book Review, Health Physics 80, 622 (2001).