Travis Wright
· ProfessorUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison · Counseling Psychology
Active 1973–2024
About
Dr. Travis Wright is a professor in Counseling Psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the founder and director of the BASES Project, a school and community-based intervention designed to support homeless preschool students, their families, and teachers. Dr. Wright is a nationally recognized expert on resilience and emotionally responsive teaching, particularly for children developing in the midst of adversity. His professional background includes work as a school-based mental health counselor, public school teacher, and early childhood educator in Washington, D.C., and Boston Public Schools. His research and contributions focus on understanding and supporting children experiencing homelessness, trauma, and challenging life circumstances, with an emphasis on fostering resilience and emotional well-being in early childhood education.
Research topics
- Physics
- Nuclear physics
- Particle physics
- Quantum mechanics
- Statistics
- Archaeology
Selected publications
Advances and new ideas for neutron-capture astrophysics experiments at CERN n_TOF
The European Physical Journal A · 2023 · 20 citations
- Physics
- Nuclear physics
- Archaeology
Abstract This article presents a few selected developments and future ideas related to the measurement of $$(n,\gamma )$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>n</mml:mi> <mml:mo>,</mml:mo> <mml:mi>γ</mml:mi> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> data of astrophysical interest at CERN n_TOF. The MC-aided analysis methodology for the use of low-efficiency radiation detectors in time-of-flight neutron-capture measurements is discussed, with particular emphasis on the systematic accuracy. Several recent instrumental advances are also presented, such as the development of total-energy detectors with $$\gamma $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>γ</mml:mi> </mml:math> -ray imaging capability for background suppression, and the development of an array of small-volume organic scintillators aimed at exploiting the high instantaneous neutron-flux of EAR2. Finally, astrophysics prospects related to the intermediate i neutron-capture process of nucleosynthesis are discussed in the context of the new NEAR activation area.
High-precision measurement of the <i>W</i> boson mass with the CDF II detector
Science · 2022 · 507 citations
- Physics
- Particle physics
- Nuclear physics
, speed of light in a vacuum). This measurement is in significant tension with the standard model expectation.
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021
- Physics
- Particle physics
- Nuclear physics
At the Fermilab Tevatron proton-antiproton ($p\bar{p}$) collider, high-mass electron-neutrino ($eν$) pairs are produced predominantly in the process $p \bar{p} \rightarrow W(\rightarrow eν) + X$. The asymmetry of the electron and positron yield as a function of their pseudorapidity constrain the slope of the ratio of the $u$- to $d$-quark parton distributions versus the fraction of the proton momentum carried by the quarks. This paper reports on the measurement of the electron-charge asymmetry using the full data set recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab in 2001--2011 and corresponding to 9.1~fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity. The measurement significantly improves the precision of the Tevatron constraints on the parton-distribution functions of the proton. Numerical tables of the measurement are provided.
Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2021 · 2 citations
- Physics
- Particle physics
- Nuclear physics
At the Fermilab Tevatron proton-antiproton ($p\overline{p}$) collider, high-mass electron-neutrino ($e\ensuremath{\nu}$) pairs are produced predominantly in the process $p\overline{p}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}W(\ensuremath{\rightarrow}e\ensuremath{\nu})+X$. The asymmetry of the electron and positron yield as a function of their pseudorapidity constrain the slope of the ratio of the $u$- to $d$-quark parton distributions versus the fraction of the proton momentum carried by the quarks. This paper reports on the measurement of the electron-charge asymmetry using the full data set recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab in 2001--2011 and corresponding to $9.1\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{fb}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ of integrated luminosity. The measurement significantly improves the precision of the Tevatron constraints on the parton-distribution functions of the proton. Numerical tables of the measurement are provided.
Physical Review Letters · 2020 · 29 citations
- Physics
- Nuclear physics
- Statistics
The neutron capture cross sections of several unstable nuclides acting as branching points in the s process are crucial for stellar nucleosynthesis studies. The unstable ^{171}Tm (t_{1/2}=1.92 yr) is part of the branching around mass A∼170 but its neutron capture cross section as a function of the neutron energy is not known to date. In this work, following the production for the first time of more than 5 mg of ^{171}Tm at the high-flux reactor Institut Laue-Langevin in France, a sample was produced at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. Two complementary experiments were carried out at the neutron time-of-flight facility (n_TOF) at CERN in Switzerland and at the SARAF liquid lithium target facility at Soreq Nuclear Research Center in Israel by time of flight and activation, respectively. The result of the time-of-flight experiment consists of the first ever set of resonance parameters and the corresponding average resonance parameters, allowing us to make an estimation of the Maxwellian-averaged cross sections (MACS) by extrapolation. The activation measurement provides a direct and more precise measurement of the MACS at 30 keV: 384(40) mb, with which the estimation from the n_TOF data agree at the limit of 1 standard deviation. This value is 2.6 times lower than the JEFF-3.3 and ENDF/B-VIII evaluations, 25% lower than that of the Bao et al. compilation, and 1.6 times larger than the value recommended in the KADoNiS (v1) database, based on the only previous experiment. Our result affects the nucleosynthesis at the A∼170 branching, namely, the ^{171}Yb abundance increases in the material lost by asymptotic giant branch stars, providing a better match to the available pre-solar SiC grain measurements compared to the calculations based on the current JEFF-3.3 model-based evaluation.
Frequent coauthors
- 1808 shared
E. J. Jeon
Institute for Basic Science
- 1702 shared
K. K. Joo
- 1454 shared
F. Šforza
University of Genoa
- 1306 shared
A. Cerri
- 1261 shared
S. Uozumi
Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information
- 1222 shared
A. Warburton
McGill University
- 1195 shared
S. Y. Jun
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- 1182 shared
H. S. Lee
Institute of Aging
Education
- 2005
Ph.D., Counseling Psychology
University of Wisconsin–Madison
- 2002
M.S., Counseling Psychology
University of Wisconsin–Madison
- 1999
B.A., Psychology
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Awards & honors
- Community Engaged Scholarship Award , University of Wisconsi…
- The Beiber Invited Lecture on Education , Bank Street Colleg…
- The Mithoff Family Invited Lecture on Early Childhood Educat…
- UW-Madison Wisconsin Idea Baldwin Award , Ineva Reilly Baldw…
- AERA Early Childhood Education and Child Development Researc…
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