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In Celebration of
K C Hines
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Bruce H J McKellar • Ken Amos
University of Melbourne, Australia
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Kenneth Charles Hines (1926–2005)
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Preface
KenHines came to Melbourne University as an undergraduatein 1944,
wasappointeda seniorlecturer atthe Universityin 1960,andpromotedto
reader in 1966. He retired in 1991 but continued to do research in physics
until his death on 23rd February 2005. On 18th March 2005 several of
Ken’s colleagues participated in a memorial conference in his honour. The
papers delivered at this conference form the core of this book, but there
are other chapters written by some who could not be present, but wished
to contribute to this celebration of Ken’s career.
Ken was a talented theoretical physicist, with a great gift for teaching
and for supervising, guiding and mentoring students. Notable in his CV
is the list of students who did a MSc with Ken, and then, with Ken’s
encouragement, went on to do their PhD elsewhere. These students, and
his ownPhDstudents wentonto establishnoteworthycareersinAustralia
and overseas. It is a great pleasure that so many of them have been able
to contribute to this volume, dedicated to the celebrationof Ken’s life and
his physics.
After his honours degree in cosmic ray physics, and a time doing cos-
mic rayresearchonMacquarieIsland,he completedhis PhDin theoretical
physicsandthenworkedatHarwellonfastbreederreactors. This research
was a part of the U.K. development program on such reactors, leading to
their construction in the late 1950s and experimental and commercial use
subsequently. He thenreturnedto the AustralianAtomicEnergyCommis-
sion’s researchestablishment at Lucas Heights working on reactor physics.
He continued these studies on reactor physics for a brief period after com-
ing to Melbourne, and then movedinto plasma physics, an area of interest
he maintained in many ways throughout his career. His interest moved
from laboratory plasmas to astrophysicalplasmas, including some unusual
ones, such as particle-antiparticle plasmas. This was a subject which was
of great astrophysical interest for a time, when it was realised by Alfv´en
that such plasmas would form in the boundary regionbetween matter and
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anti-mattergalaxiesinthe universe,andthe searchforthe annihilationra-
diation from them was actively pursed. At about the time he was working
onthis problem,Kenarrangeda visitby Alfv´ento Melbourne. Inhis later
work, Ken turned to a detailed study of the properties of tachyons,and to
the study of the plasma physics involved in accretion on black holes.
Hannes Alfv´en was one of Ken’s many international contacts who were
able to visitAustralia. Another wasDirk ter Haarof Oxford,who came to
be a friend ofmany of us in Melbourne. Ken’s lastinternationalcollabora-
tionwaswithaformerMelbournestudent,FulvioMeliaoftheUniversityof
Arizona. Fulvio has contributed a chapter to this book which provides an
account of the results of that collaboration. All of his internationalfriends
enriched our lives in the School of Physics at Melbourne University.
Formany yearsKen playeda significantrole in twoof the ongoingcon-
ference series in Australian physics, the plasma physics conferences spon-
sored by the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering and
held atLucasHeights everysecondyear,andthe AustralianMathematical
Society’s Applied Mathematics Conferences. Ken’s contribution to these
conferences do not appear in his publications list, as proceedings were not
published,buthisformalcontributionswereoftenovershadowedbyhiscon-
tribution to the discussion, during conference sessions, at the dinner table
and late into the evening.
As youwill gather fromthe obituary which appearedin the Melbourne
Age which is part of Chapter 1, Ken’s skills were not confined to physics,
butextendedtoliterature,thelanguagesandcultureofGermanyandItaly,
and to music. He was a well-known face of the School of Physics on the
campus, and spent many years on the executive of the Staff Association.
He also spent 6 years as the Deputy Head of the School of Physics.
By his teaching,researchandfellowshiphe enrichedthe life ofthe Mel-
bourne University School of Physics, and the lives of those who worked in
itandpassedthroughit. Ken’s contributionsshouldbe celebrated,andwe
are pleased to be able to do so with this volume of contributions by his
friends.
Ken Amos
Bruce McKellar
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Contents
Preface vii
1. Concerning Ken Hines ... 1
2. Structures of Exotic Nuclei from Nucleon-Nucleus
Scattering Data 17
Ken Amos
3. Resonant X-Ray Scattering and X-Ray Absorption:
Closing the Circle? 35
Zwi Barnea, Chris T. Chantler, Martin D. de Jonge,
Andrew W. Stevenson and Chanh Q. Tran
4. The Screened Field of a Test Particle 47
Robert L. Dewar
5. Self-Avoiding Walks as a Canonical Model of Phase Transitions 75
A. J. Guttmann
6. Aspects of Plasma Physics 99
Roger J. Hosking
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