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Buddhini Waidyawansa

  • Research Assistant Professor, Physics
 https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6130-2763
20082025

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About

Buddhini Waidyawansa is a Research Assistant Professor of Physics at the Louisiana Tech University, LA. She conducts research in the field of experimental precision electroweak measurements at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia. She is an instructor in physics and also the lab-coordinator and TA supervisor of the sophomore physics labs. Buddhini completed her undergraduate degree in engineering physics at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2002, and her doctorate in Physics from Ohio University, Athens, OH in 2013. She then joined Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility as a Hall C postdoctoral fellow working on the 12 GeV upgrades and in 2015 moved on to work at Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois as a senior postdoctoral fellow. In 2020, she joined the faculty of the department of physics at the Louisiana Tech University as an intructor in physics for PHYS2611 and PHYS2621 lab courses.  Her current research work involves data analysis software and tools development for the MOLLER experiment at Jefferson Lab which is planned to start collecting data in Summer of 2026.

Research interests

  • Searches for physics beyond the Standard Model of Particle physics using precision electron scattering experiments
  • Data acquisition, analysis and software development for precision electroweak measurements

Teaching

PHYS2611 and PHYS262 sophomore physics labs where students use pre-designed experiments to understand theoretical concepts they learn in physics theory courses. In addition to getting the hands-on experience of conducting experiments, students are exposed to the use of MS Excel as a data analysis tool and methods in scientific data reporting.

Contact Information

IESB317
Collage of Engineering and Science
Louisiana Tech University 

318-257-2461

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Education/Academic qualification

Physics, PhD, Ohio University

2007 → 2013

Award Date: Aug 20 2013

Engineering Physics, BSc, University of Colombo

2002 → 2006

Award Date: Aug 30 2006

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Research Interests

  • particle detectors
  • data acquisition systems
  • Data Mining
  • Precision Electroweak Measurements
  • Software Development
  • Data Analysis

Disciplines

  • Nuclear

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  • Precision Measurement of the Beam-Normal Single-Spin Asymmetry in Forward-Angle Elastic Electron-Proton Scattering

    (Qweak Collaboration), Sep 2020, In: Physical Review Letters. 125, 11, 112502.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access

  • Measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in the N → Δ transition at low Q2

    Adhikari, D., AlShayeb, T., Androić, D., Armstrong, D. S., Asaturyan, A., Bartlett, K., Beminiwattha, R. S., Benesch, J., Benmokhtar, F., Carlini, R. D., Cornejo, J. C., Dusa, S. C., Dalton, M. M., Davis, C. A., Deconinck, W., Dunne, J. A., Dutta, D., Duvall, W. S., Elaasar, M. & Falk, W. R. & 54 others, Finn, J. M., Gal, C., Gaskell, D., Gericke, M. T. W., Hoskins, J. R., Jones, D. C., Jones, M. K., King, P. M., Korkmaz, E., Kowalski, S., Leacock, J., Leckey, J. P., Lee, A. R., Lee, J. H., Lee, L., MacEwan, S., Mack, D., Magee, J. A., Mahurin, R., Mammei, J., Martin, J. W., McHugh, M. J., Mesick, K. E., Michaels, R., Micherdzinska, A., Mkrtchyan, A., Mkrtchyan, H., Ndukum, L. Z., Nuhait, H., Nuruzzaman, van Oers, W. T. H., Page, S. A., Pan, J., Paschke, K. D., Phillips, S. K., Pitt, M. L., Radloff, R. W., Rajotte, J. F., Ramsay, W. D., Roche, J., Sawatzky, B., Simicevic, N., Smith, G. R., Solvignon, P., Spayde, D. T., Subedi, A., Tobias, W. A., Tvaskis, V., Waidyawansa, B., Wang, P., Wells, S. P., Wood, S. A., Zang, P. & Zhamkochyan, S., Jul 17 2025, In: Physical Review C. 112, 1, p. L0125011-L0125016

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  • Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering Cross Section at High Bjorken xB

    (Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration), Jun 24 2022, In: Physical Review Letters. 128, 25, 252002.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access

  • Determination of the Al 27 Neutron Distribution Radius from a Parity-Violating Electron Scattering Measurement

    (Qweak Collaboration), Apr 1 2022, In: Physical Review Letters. 128, 13, 132501.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access

  • Form Factors and Two-Photon Exchange in High-Energy Elastic Electron-Proton Scattering

    Christy, M. E., Gautam, T., Ou, L., Schmookler, B., Wang, Y., Adikaram, D., Ahmed, Z., Albataineh, H., Ali, S. F., Aljawrneh, B., Allada, K., Allison, S. L., Alsalmi, S., Androic, D., Aniol, K., Annand, J., Arrington, J., Atac, H., Averett, T. & Ayerbe Gayoso, C. & 151 others, Bai, X., Bane, J., Barcus, S., Bartlett, K., Bellini, V., Beminiwattha, R., Bericic, J., Bhatt, H., Bhetuwal, D., Biswas, D., Brash, E., Bulumulla, D., Camacho, C. M., Campbell, J., Camsonne, A., Carmignotto, M., Castellanos, J., Chen, C., Chen, J. P., Chetry, T., Cisbani, E., Clary, B., Cohen, E., Compton, N., Cornejo, J. C., Covrig Dusa, S., Crowe, B., Danagoulian, S., Danley, T., Deconinck, W., Defurne, M., Desnault, C., Di, D., Dlamini, M., Duer, M., Duran, B., Ent, R., Fanelli, C., Fuchey, E., Gal, C., Gaskell, D., Georges, F., Gilad, S., Glamazdin, O., Gnanvo, K., Gramolin, A. V., Gray, V. M., Gu, C., Habarakada, A., Hague, T., Hamad, G., Hamilton, D., Hamilton, K., Hansen, O., Hauenstein, F., Hernandez, A. V., Henry, W., Higinbotham, D. W., Holmstrom, T., Horn, T., Huang, Y., Huber, G. M., Hyde, C., Ibrahim, H., Israel, N., Jen, C. M., Jin, K., Jones, M., Kabir, A., Karki, B., Keppel, C., Khachatryan, V., King, P. M., Li, S., Li, W., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liyanage, A. H., Mack, D., Magee, J., Malace, S., Mammei, J., Markowitz, P., Mayilyan, S., McClellan, E., Meddi, F., Meekins, D., Mesick, K., Michaels, R., Mkrtchyan, A., Moffit, B., Montgomery, R., Myers, L. S., Nadel-Turonski, P., Nazeer, S. J., Nelyubin, V., Nguyen, D., Nuruzzaman, N., Nycz, M., Obrecht, R. F., Ohanyan, K., Palatchi, C., Pandey, B., Park, K., Park, S., Peng, C., Persio, F. D., Pomatsalyuk, R., Pooser, E., Puckett, A. J. R., Punjabi, V., Quinn, B., Rahman, S., Rashad, M. N. H., Reimer, P. E., Riordan, S., Roche, J., Sapkota, I., Sarty, A., Sawatzky, B., Saylor, N. H., Shabestari, M. H., Shahinyan, A., Širca, S., Smith, G. R., Sooriyaarachchilage, S., Sparveris, N., Spies, R., Stefanko, A., Su, T., Subedi, A., Sulkosky, V., Sun, A., Tan, Y., Thorne, L., Ton, N., Tortorici, F., Trotta, R., Uniyal, R., Urciuoli, G. M., Voutier, E., Waidyawansa, B., Wojtsekhowski, B., Wood, S., Yan, X., Ye, L., Ye, Z. H., Yero, C., Zhang, J., Zhao, Y. X. & Zhu, P., Mar 11 2022, In: Physical Review Letters. 128, 10, 102002.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
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