Michael Bentley

6.8k citations

190 papers · 5.7k · 1 hit paper · h-index 38

Impact in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 5%
- Nuclear physics research studies
- Astronomical and nuclear sciences
- Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
Radiation top 0.2%
- Nuclear Physics and Applications

Papers in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics 174
- Nuclear physics research studies 169
- Astronomical and nuclear sciences 50
- Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions 28
Radiation 65
- Nuclear Physics and Applications 62

Co-authors: A. John Simpson (38 shared papers)P.J. Twin (14 shared papers)Silvia Monica Lenzi (11 shared papers)J. F. Sharpey‐Schafer (19 shared papers)P.D. Forsyth (15 shared papers)G. Sletten (12 shared papers)David Howe (10 shared papers)Paul Fallon (31 shared papers)
Journals: Physical Review C (51 papers)Physical Review Letters (24 papers)Physics Letters B (24 papers)Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle Physics (16 papers)Nuclear Physics A (15 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Sweden

In The Last Decade

Michael Bentley

181 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Michael Bentley's Hit Papers

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AGATA—Advanced GAmma Tracking Array 2011 · 356 citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2011 Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment

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1	Observation of a Discrete-Line Superdeformed Band up to 60 ℏ in Dy 152 Physical Review Letters ·P.J. Twin, B. M. Nyakó, A H Nelson, A. John Simpson, Michael Bentley, H. W. Cranmer-Gordon, P.D. Forsyth, David Howe	1986	468
2	AGATA—Advanced GAmma Tracking Array Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment ·S. Akkoyun, Alejandro Algora, Babak Alikhani, F. Ameil, Giacomo de Angelis, L. Arnold, A. Astier, Yoann Aubert Hit paper breakdown →	2011	356
3	The Clover: a new generation of composite Ge detectors Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment ·G. Duchêne, F.A. Beck, P.J. Twin, Gilles de France, Dominique Curien, Li Han, C. W. Beausang, Michael Bentley	1999	307
4	Measurements on prototype Ge and BGO detectors for the Eurogam array Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment ·C. W. Beausang, S. A. Forbes, Paul Fallon, Paul J. Nolan, P.J. Twin, J.N. Mo, J.C. Lisle, Michael Bentley	1992	231
5	Observation of identical superdeformed bands inN=86 nuclei Physical Review Letters ·T. Byrski, F.A. Beck, Dominique Curien, Carsten Schuck, Paul Fallon, Andrew Alderson, Imad Murtadha Ali, Michael Bentley	1990	201
6	Multiple superdeformed bands in 194Hg and their dynamical moments of inertia Nuclear Physics A ·Mark A. Riley, D. M. Cullen, Andrew Alderson, Imad Murtadha Ali, Paul Fallon, P.D. Forsyth, F. F. Hanna, S. M. Mullins	1990	147
7	Coulomb energy differences between high-spin states in isobaric multiplets Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics ·Michael Bentley, Silvia Monica Lenzi	2006	145
8	Rare ISotopes INvestigation at GSI (RISING) using gamma-ray spectroscopy at relativistic energies Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment ·H. J. Wollersheim, Duncan Appelbe, A. Banu, R. Bassini, Tobias Beck, F. Becker, Piotr Bednarczyk, K.-H. Behr	2004	113
9	Sn108 studied with intermediate-energy Coulomb excitation Physical Review C ·A. Banu, Jürgen Gerl, Claes Fahlander, Magda Górska, H. Grawe, T. Saito, H. J. Wollersheim, E. Caurier	2005	110
10	Decay of high-spin isomers in Os nuclei by barrier penetration Nuclear Physics A ·P. Chowdhury, B. Fabricius, Carl J. Christensen, Fatma Azgui, S. Bjørnholm, J. Borggreen, Anders Holm, J. Pedersen	1988	93
11	Intrinsic quadrupole moment of the superdeformed band in Dy152 Physical Review Letters ·Michael Bentley, Gordon Ball, H. W. Cranmer-Gordon, P.D. Forsyth, David Howe, A.R. Mokhtar, JAMES D. MORRISON, J. F. Sharpey‐Schafer	1987	92
12	The role of isospin symmetry in collective nuclear structure Nature Physics ·D. D. Warner, Michael Bentley, Piet Van Isacker	2006	89
13	Decay Out of the Doubly Magic Superdeformed Band in the N=Z Nucleus Z60n Physical Review Letters ·Carl Svensson, Dirk W. Rudolph, C. Baktash, Michael Bentley, J. A. Cameron, Michael Patten Carpenter, Matthew Devlin, J. Eberth	1999	89
14	Recent results in fragmentation isomer spectroscopy with rising Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms ·Stephane Pietri, Patrick Regan, Zs. Podolyák, Dirk W. Rudolph, S. J. Steer, A. B. Garnsworthy, E. Werner-Malento, R. Hoischen	2007	79
15	Coulomb Energy Differences in T=1 Mirror Rotational Bands in F50e and C50r Physical Review Letters ·Silvia Monica Lenzi, Nicolae Marginean, Daniel Ricardo Napoli, C. A. Ur, A. P. Zuker, Giacomo de Angelis, Alejandro Algora, Michael Axiotis	2001	71
16	Configuration-dependent transition rates in 157Ho Nuclear Physics A ·Jules Gascon, C.-H. Yu, G.B. Hagemann, Michael Patten Carpenter, J. M. Espino, Yohsei Iwata, T. Komatsubara, J. Nyberg	1990	69
17	Single particle excitations and properties of multiple band terminations near spin 50ħ in 158Er Physics Letters B ·A. John Simpson, M. A. Riley, S.J. Gale, J. F. Sharpey‐Schafer, Michael Bentley, Alison Bruce, R. Chapman, R. M. Clark	1994	67
18	The observation of 84Mo Physics Letters B ·William Gelletly, Michael Bentley, H.G. Price, A. John Simpson, C. J. Gross, John Durell, B. J. Varley, Ö. Skeppstedt	1991	65
19	Landau-Zener crossing in superdeformed Hg193 : Evidence for octupole correlations in superdeformed nuclei Physical Review Letters ·D. M. Cullen, Mark A. Riley, Andrew Alderson, Imad Murtadha Ali, C. W. Beausang, T. Bengtsson, Michael Bentley, Paul Fallon	1990	63
20	Unusual Isospin-Breaking and Isospin-Mixing Effects in the A=35 Mirror Nuclei Physical Review Letters ·J. Ekman, Dirk W. Rudolph, Claes Fahlander, A. P. Zuker, Michael Bentley, Silvia Monica Lenzi, Corina Andreoiu, Michael Axiotis	2004	61

About Michael Bentley

Michael Bentley is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Radiation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Spectroscopy and Condensed Matter Physics, having authored 190 papers that have together received 5.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Nuclear physics research studies (169 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (76 papers), Nuclear Physics and Applications (62 papers), Astronomical and nuclear sciences (50 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (39 papers), Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications (29 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (28 papers) and Rare-earth and actinide compounds (15 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (5.3k citations), Radiation (1.7k citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (2.8k citations), Condensed Matter Physics (583 citations) and Spectroscopy (679 citations). Michael Bentley has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sweden. Frequent co-authors include A. John Simpson, P.J. Twin, Silvia Monica Lenzi, J. F. Sharpey‐Schafer, P.D. Forsyth, G. Sletten, David Howe, Paul Fallon, Dominique Curien and F.A. Beck. Their work appears in journals such as Physical Review C, Physical Review Letters, Physics Letters B, Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle Physics and Nuclear Physics A.

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