selected publications academic article Hebborn, C., Nunes, F. M., Potel, G., Dickhoff, W. H., Holt, J. W., Atkinson, M. C., ... Whitehead, T. R. (2023). Optical potentials for the rare-isotope beam era. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics. 50(6), 060501-060501. Lim, Y., & Holt, J. W. (2022). Neutron Star Radii, Deformabilities, and Moments of Inertia from Experimental and Ab Initio Theory Constraints of the Pb-208 Neutron Skin Thickness. Galaxies. 10(5), 99-99. Du, X., Steiner, A. W., & Holt, J. W. (2022). Hot and dense matter equation of state probability distributions for astrophysical simulations. PHYSICAL REVIEW C. 105(3), 035803. Godbey, K., Zhang, Z., Holt, J. W., & Ko, C. M. (2022). Charged pion production from Au plus Au collisions at v???????s(NN)=2.4 GeV in the relativistic Vlasov-Uehling-Uhlenbeck model. Physics Letters B. 829, 137134-137134. Whitehead, T. R., Lim, Y., & Holt, J. W. (2021). Global Microscopic Description of Nucleon-Nucleus Scattering with Quantified Uncertainties. Physical Review Letters. 127(18), 182502. Lim, Y., Bhattacharya, A., Holt, J. W., & Pati, D. (2021). Radius and equation of state constraints from massive neutron stars and GW190814. PHYSICAL REVIEW C. 104(3), l032802. Brady, J., Wen, P., & Holt, J. W. (2021). Normalizing Flows for Microscopic Many-Body Calculations: An Application to the Nuclear Equation of State. Physical Review Letters. 127(6), 062701. Wen, P., & Holt, J. W. (2021). Constraining the nonanalytic terms in the isospin-asymmetry expansion of the nuclear equation of state. PHYSICAL REVIEW C. 103(6), 064002. Lim, Y., & Holt, J. W. (2021). Proton pairing in neutron stars from chiral effective field theory. PHYSICAL REVIEW C. 103(2), 025807. Whitehead, T. R., Lim, Y., & Holt, J. W. (2020). Neutron elastic scattering on calcium isotopes from chiral nuclear optical potentials. PHYSICAL REVIEW C. 101(6), 064613. Holt, J. W., Kawaguchi, M., & Kaiser, N. (2020). Implementing Chiral Three-Body Forces in Terms of Medium-Dependent Two-Body Forces. Frontiers in Physics. 8, 100. Lim, Y., Holt, J. W., & Stahulak, R. J. (2019). Predicting the moment of inertia of pulsar J0737-3039A from Bayesian modeling of the nuclear equation of state. PHYSICAL REVIEW C. 100(3), 035802. Whitehead, T. R., Lim, Y., & Holt, J. W. (2019). Proton elastic scattering on calcium isotopes from chiral nuclear optical potentials. PHYSICAL REVIEW C. 100(1), 014601. Du, X., Steiner, A. W., & Holt, J. W. (2019). Hot and dense homogeneous nucleonic matter constrained by observations, experiment, and theory. PHYSICAL REVIEW C. 99(2), 025803. Lim, Y., & Holt, J. W. (2019). Bayesian modeling of the nuclear equation of state for neutron star tidal deformabilities and GW170817. European Physical Journal A. 55(11), 209. Lim, Y., & Holt, J. W. (2018). Neutron Star Tidal Deformabilities Constrained by Nuclear Theory and Experiment. Physical Review Letters. 121(6), 062701. Holt, J. W., Kaiser, N., & Whitehead, T. R. (2018). Tensor Fermi liquid parameters in nuclear matter from chiral effective field theory. PHYSICAL REVIEW C. 97(5), 054325. Zhang, Z., Lim, Y., Holt, J. W., & Ko, C. M. (2018). Nuclear dipole polarizability from mean-field modeling constrained by chiral effective field theory. Physics Letters B. 777, 73-78. Holt, J. W., & Lim, Y. (2018). Universal correlations in the nuclear symmetry energy, slope parameter, and curvature. Physics Letters B. 784, 77-81. Lim, Y., & Holt, J. W. (2017). Structure of neutron star crusts from new Skyrme effective interactions constrained by chiral effective field theory. PHYSICAL REVIEW C. 95(6), 065805. Holt, J. W., & Kaiser, N. (2017). Equation of state of nuclear and neutron matter at third-order in perturbation theory from chiral effective field theory. PHYSICAL REVIEW C. 95(3), 034326. Holt, J. W., Kuo, T., Phua, K. K., Rho, M., & Zahed, I (2017). Preface. International Journal of Modern Physics E. 26(01n02), 1702001-1702001. Holt, J. W., & Rockcliffe, K. E. (2017). Partial restoration of chiral symmetry in hot and dense neutron matter. International Journal of Modern Physics E. 26(1-2), 1740010-1740010. Holt, J. W., Kaiser, N., & Miller, G. A. (2016). Microscopic optical potential for exotic isotopes from chiral effective field theory. PHYSICAL REVIEW C. 93(6), 064603. Rrapaj, E., Roggero, A., & Holt, J. W. (2016). Microscopically constrained mean-field models from chiral nuclear thermodynamics. PHYSICAL REVIEW C. 93(6), 065801. Wellenhofer, C., Holt, J. W., & Kaiser, N. (2016). Divergence of the isospin-asymmetry expansion of the nuclear equation of state in many-body perturbation theory. PHYSICAL REVIEW C. 93(5), 055802. Holt, J. W., Rho, M., & Weise, W. (2016). Chiral symmetry and effective field theories for hadronic, nuclear and stellar matter. Physics reports. 621, 2-75. Kuo, T., Holt, J. W., & Osnes, E. (2016). Introduction to low-momentum effective interactions with Brown-Rho scaling and three-nucleon forces. Physica Scripta. 91(3), 033009-033009. Wellenhofer, C., Holt, J. W., & Kaiser, N. (2015). Thermodynamics of isospin-asymmetric nuclear matter from chiral effective field theory. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics. 92(1), 015801. Sammarruca, F., Coraggio, L., Holt, J. W., Itaco, N., Machleidt, R., & Marcucci, L. E. (2015). Toward order-by-order calculations of the nuclear and neutron matter equations of state in chiral effective field theory. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics. 91(5), 054311. Rrapaj, E., Holt, J. W., Bartl, A., Reddy, S., & Schwenk, A. (2015). Charged-current reactions in the supernova neutrino-sphere. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics. 91(3), 035806. Davesne, D., Holt, J. W., Pastore, A., & Navarro, J. (2015). Effect of three-body forces on response functions in infinite neutron matter. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics. 91(1), 014323. Wlazowski, G., Holt, J. W., Moroz, S., Bulgac, A., & Roche, K. J. (2014). Auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo simulations of neutron matter in chiral effective field theory. Physical Review Letters. 113(18), 182503. Maurizio, S., Holt, J. W., & Finelli, P. (2014). Nuclear pairing from microscopic forces: Singlet channels and higher-partial waves. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics. 90(4), 044003. Wellenhofer, C., Holt, J. W., Kaiser, N., & Weise, W. (2014). Nuclear thermodynamics from chiral low-momentum interactions. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics. 89(6), 064009. Coraggio, L., Holt, J. W., Itaco, N., Machleidt, R., Marcucci, L. E., & Sammarruca, F. (2014). Nuclear-matter equation of state with consistent two- and three-body perturbative chiral interactions. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics. 89(4), 044321. Tzeng, Y., Tzeng, S., Kuo, T., & Holt, J. W. (2014). Binding Energy of O-16 in the Ring Diagram Method with Chiral Two- and Three-Nucleon Low Momentum Interactions. Chinese Journal of Physics. 52(5), 1450-1458. Kuo, T., & Holt, J. W. (2014). Core polarization, Brown Rho scaling and a memory of Gerry's Princeton Years. NUCLEAR PHYSICS A. 928, 30-42. Dong, H., Kuo, T., & Holt, J. W. (2014). Non-degenerate shell-model effective interactions from the Okamoto-Suzuki and Krenciglowa-Kuo iteration methods. NUCLEAR PHYSICS A. 930, 1-19. Holt, J. W., Kaiser, N., & Weise, W. (2013). Nuclear chiral dynamics and thermodynamics. Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics. 73, 35-83. Holt, J. W., Kaiser, N., Miller, G. A., & Weise, W. (2013). Microscopic optical potential from chiral nuclear forces. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics. 88(2), 024614. Holt, J. W., Kaiser, N., & Weise, W. (2013). Chiral Fermi liquid approach to neutron matter. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics. 87(1), 014338. Coraggio, L., Holt, J. W., Itaco, N., Machleidt, R., & Sammarruca, F. (2013). Reduced regulator dependence of neutron-matter predictions with perturbative chiral interactions. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics. 87(1), 014322. Holt, J. W., Kaiser, N., & Weise, W. (2012). Chiral nuclear dynamics with three-body forces. Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics. 67(2), 353-358. Holt, J. W., Kaiser, N., & Weise, W. (2012). Quasiparticle interaction in nuclear matter with chiral three-nucleon forces. NUCLEAR PHYSICS A. 876, 61-76. Holt, J. W., Kaiser, N., & Weise, W. (2011). Nuclear energy density functional from chiral two-nucleon and three-nucleon interactions. European Physical Journal A. 47(10), 128. Holt, J. W., Kaiser, N., & Weise, W. (2011). Second-order quasiparticle interaction in nuclear matter with chiral two-nucleon interactions. NUCLEAR PHYSICS A. 870-71(1), 1-22. Holt, J. W., Kaiser, N., & Weise, W. (2010). Density-dependent effective nucleon-nucleon interaction from chiral three-nucleon forces. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics. 81(2), 024002. Brown, G. E., Harada, M., Holt, J. W., Rho, M., & Sasaki, C. (2009). Hidden Local Field Theory and Dileptons in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions. Progress of Theoretical Physics. 121(6), 1209-1236. Holt, J. W., Kaiser, N., & Weise, W. (2009). Chiral three-nucleon interaction and the C-14-dating beta decay. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics. 79(5), 054331. Siu, L., Holt, J. W., Kuo, T., & Brown, G. E. (2009). Low-momentum NN interactions and all-order summation of ring diagrams of symmetric nuclear matter. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics. 79(5), 054004. Holt, J. W., Brown, G. E., Kuo, T., Holt, J. D., & Machleidt, R. (2008). Shell model description of the 14C dating beta decay with Brown-Rho-scaled NN interactions. Physical Review Letters. 100(6), 062501. Holt, J. D., Pietralla, N., Holt, J. W., Kuo, T., & Rainovski, G. (2007). Microscopic restoration of proton-neutron mixed symmetry in weakly collective nuclei. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics. 76(3), 034325. Hestenes, D., & Holt, J. W. (2007). Crystallographic space groups in geometric algebra. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 48(2), 023514-023514. Holt, J. W., Brown, G. E., Holt, J. D., & Kuo, T. (2007). Nuclear matter with Brown-Rho-scaled Fermi liquid interactions. NUCLEAR PHYSICS A. 785(3-4), 322-338. Brown, G. E., Holt, J. W., Lee, C., & Rho, M. (2007). Vector manifestation and matter formed in relativistic heavy-ion processes. Physics reports. 439(4), 161-191. Orce, J. N., Holt, J. D., Linnemann, A., McKay, C. J., Lesher, S. R., Fransen, C., ... Yates, S. W. (2006). Identification of mixed-symmetry states in an odd-mass nearly spherical nucleus. Physical Review Letters. 97(6), 062504. Holt, J. D., Holt, J. W., Kuo, T., Brown, G. E., & Bogner, S. K. (2005). Low momentum shell model effective interactions with all-order core polarizations. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics. 72(4), 041304. book Brown, G. E., Kuo, T., Holt, J. W., & Lee, S. (2010). The NucleonNucleon Interaction and the Nuclear Many-Body Problem. WORLD SCIENTIFIC. chapter Drischler, C., Holt, J. W., & Wellenhofer, C. (2021). Chiral Effective Field Theory and the High-Density Nuclear Equation of State. Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. ANNUAL REVIEW OF NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE SCIENCE, VOL 71, 2021. (pp. 403-432). Annual Reviews. Holt, J. W., Kaiser, N., & Weise, W. (2011). Density-Dependent Nuclear Interactions and the Beta Decay of 14 C : Chiral Three-Nucleon Forces and Brown-Rho Scaling. From Nuclei to Stars. (pp. 187-221). World Scientific Publishing. Holt, J. W., Brown, G. E., Holt, J. D., & Kuo, T. (2010). BrownRho Scaling in Nuclei, Nuclear Matter and Neutron Stars. The NucleonNucleon Interaction and the Nuclear Many-Body Problem. (pp. 552-597). WORLD SCIENTIFIC. Holt, J. D., Holt, J. W., Kuo, T., Brown, G. E., & Bogner, S. K. (2010). Low-Momentum NN Interactions in a Renormalization Group Approach. The NucleonNucleon Interaction and the Nuclear Many-Body Problem. (pp. 362-551). WORLD SCIENTIFIC. Holt, J., & Brown, G. E. (2006). Hans Bethe and the Nuclear Many-Body Problem. Hans Bethe and His Physics. (pp. 201-237). World Scientific Publishing. conference paper Holt, J. W., & Lim, Y. (2019). Dense matter equation of state and neutron star properties from nuclear theory and experiment. AIP Conference Proceedings. 020019. Coraggio, L., Gargano, A., Holt, J. W., Itaco, N., Machleidt, R., Marcucci, L. E., & Sammarruca, F. (2016). Chiral nucleon-nucleon forces in nuclear structure calculations. EPJ Web of Conferences. 02001-02001. Finelli, P., Maurizio, S., & Holt, J. W. (2015). Nuclear pairing from two-body microscopic forces: analysis of the Cooper pair wavefunctions. EPJ Web of Conferences. 04021-04021. Sammarruca, F., Coraggio, L., Holt, J. W., Itaco, N., Machleidt, R., & Marcucci, L. E (2015). How well does the chiral expansion converge in nuclear and neutron matter?. Proceedings of Science. Coraggio, L., Holt, J. W., Itaco, N., Machleidt, R., Marcucci, L. E., & Sammarruca, F. (2014). Study of nucleonic matter with a consistent two- and three-body perturbative chiral interaction. Journal of Physics : Conference Series. 012010-012010. Kuo, T., Holt, J. D., Holt, J. W., Brown, G. E., & Bogner, S. K. (2005). Kirson-Babu-Brown core polarization diagrams and low-momentum shell model effective interactions. Journal of Physics : Conference Series. 1-6.
principal investigator on CAREER: Nuclear Microphysics of Neutron Stars, Core-Collapse Supernovae, and Compact Object Mergers awarded by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2017 - 2022
investigator on Center of Excellence in Nuclear Training and University Based Research (CENTUAR) awarded by United States Department of Energy - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States) 2018 - 2023
teaching activities PHYS206 Newtonian Mechanics Engr & Sci Instructor PHYS207 Elec & Magnetism Engr & Sci Instructor PHYS285 Directed Studies Instructor PHYS291 Research Instructor PHYS412 Quantum Mechanics I Instructor PHYS485 Directed Studies Instructor PHYS491 Hnr-research Instructor PHYS685 Directed Studies Instructor PHYS691 Research Instructor
education and training Ph.D. in Physics, State University of New York - (Albany, New York, United States) 2008 M.A. in Physics, State University of New York - (Albany, New York, United States) 2004 A.B. in Philosophy, EGMONT - The Royal Institute for International Relations - (Brussels, Belgium) 2002 B.A. in Physics, EGMONT - The Royal Institute for International Relations - (Brussels, Belgium) 2002 B.S. in Mathematics, EGMONT - The Royal Institute for International Relations - (Brussels, Belgium) 2002
awards and honors Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program, conferred by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States), 2017
mailing address Texas A&M University Physics And Astronomy 4242 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-4242 USA