Rich's publications have been sorted into the following categories:
glacial cycles
- Glacial cycles and extraterrestrial accretion,
R. Muller, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Report LBL-35665. (January, 1994).
- Glacial cycles: orbital inclination dominated for the last 900,000 years,
R. A. Muller and G. J. MacDonald, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Report LBL-35667,
(June 1994).
- Bispectral Fingerprint Identifies 100
kyr Glacial Cycle: Orbital Inclination by G. J. MacDonald and Richard
A. Muller, 1994.
- Glacial cycles and orbital inclination,
R.A. Muller and G. J. MacDonald, Nature 377, pp 107-108 (14 September 1995).
- Simultaneous presence of orbital inclination
and eccentricity in proxy climate records from Ocean drilling Program Site
806, Richard A. Muller and Gordon J. MacDonald, GEOLOGY, vol 25, pp 1-3
(1997).
- Spectrum of the 100 kyr glacial cycle: orbital inclination, not eccentricity,
Richard A. Muller and Gordon J. MacDonald, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. vol 94, pp
8329-8334 (1997).
- Glacial cycles and astronomical forcing,
Richard A. Muller and Gordon J. MacDonald, Science vol 277, pp 215-218 (1997).
- Solar Forcing and Glaciation, Richard A. Muller, Proceedings of the Stage-11
Workshop, USGS Open File Report 99-312, R. Poore et al., eds., pp 45-50 (May,
1999).
- Reply to Comment of M. Schultz and M. Mudelsee, R. A. Muller and G. F. MacDonald,
Geology vol. 25, p. 859-861 (1997).
- Glacial Cycles and Interplanetary Dust, Richard A. Muller, Abstract of Invited
Talk presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, published
in EOS, Proceedings of the 1998 Fall Meeting, page U22B-04 (1998).
- The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition: the Role of Extraterrestrial Accretion,
Daniel B. Karner, Frank Asaro, Richard A. Muller, Abstract of Poster Paper,
published in EOS, Proceedings of the 1998 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical
Union, page U31A-03 (1998)
- Dansgaard-Oeschger Events and the 1.5-kyr Cycle, Daniel B. Karner, Brian
Medeiros, Richard A. Muller, submitted to Nature.
- Glacial Cycles and Interplanetary Dust, Richard A. Muller, to be published
in the AGU Special Paper on Interplanetary Dust (2000)
- The Ice Ages and Astronomical Causes: data, spectral analysis, and models.
Richard A. Muller and Gordon J. MacDonald. Praxis Publishing, 2000.
- Causality Problem for Milankovitch.
D. Karner and R. Muller, Science vol 288, p 2143-2144 (23 June 2000).
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lunar cratering rates and the "recent" 400 Myr increase
- Cratering rates
from lunar spherules, R. A. Muller, , Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Report
LBL-34168 (1993).
- Use of surface features and chemistry to determine the origin of fourteen
Apollo 11 glass spherules, T. S. Culler and R. A. Muller, Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory Report LBNL-45703, 1999.
- Laser-heating 40Ar/39Ar
Dating of Lunar Impact Melt Spherules From Apollo 14: New Constraints for
the Cratering History of the Moon, T. S. Culler, , R.A. Muller, P.R. Renne,
T. Becker, A. Deino, , EOS Proceedings of the 1998 Spring Meeting of the AGU
page DE 5420 (1998)
- Lunar impact history from 40Ar-39Ar dating of
glass spherules, T. S. Culler, T. A. Becker, R. A. Muller, and P. R. Renne,
Science, issue of March 10. (2000)
- Solar System impact rates measured from
lunar spherule ages, R. A. Muller, T. A. Becker., T. S. Culler, P. R.
Renne, in Accretion of Extraterrestrial Matter Throughout Earth's History,
edited by B. Peucker-Ehrenbrink and B. Schmitz, Kluwer Publishers, in press
(2000)
- Time-Variable Cratering Rates? Richard A. Muller, Timothy A. Becker, Timothy
S. Culler, Daniel B. Karner, and Paul R. Renne, Science vol 288, 2095a (23
June 2000)
radioisotope dating and accelerator mass spectrometry
- Radioisotope dating with a cyclotron, Science 196, 489 (1977). This is the first paper to suggest using accelerators for radioisotope dating, and it reports a successful test using tritium to date water.
- Radioisotope Dating with an Accelerator: a Blind Measurement, R. A. Muller, E. Stephenson, T. Mast, LBL-7249 (December 1977), Science 201, 347 (1978).
- Radioisotope dating with the Berkeley 88" cyclotron, LBL-7585 (April 1978), in Proc. of the Conf. on Radiocarbon Dating With Accelerators, H.E. Gove, editor, University of Rochester, 1978.
- Radiocarbon Dating with a Cyclotron, with E. Stephenson, T. Mast. Nucl. Instr. Meth. 158, 571 (1979).
- Radioisotope Dating with Accelerators, Physics Today, p.23-29 (February 1979).
- Radiocarbon Dating, with E. Taylor, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 5th edition, p. 328-335 (1982).
- Radioisotope Detection and Dating with Accelerators, Terry S. Mast and Richard A. Muller, Nuclear Science Applications 1, 7 (1980).
- Radioisotope detection with accelerators, T.S. Mast, R.A. Muller, and P.P. Tans, in "The Ancient Sun", R. Pepin, J. Eddy, R. Merrill ed., (Permagon Press, 1980); Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Suppl. 13, 191 (1980).
- Mass Spectrometry with a Very Small Cyclotron, R.A. Muller, P.P. Tans, T.S. Mast, and J.J. Welch, LBL-12797, published in Proceedings of the Symposium on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Argonne National Lab, Report ANL/PHY-81-1 (1981).
- Submarines, Quarks, and Radioisotope Dating, LBL-13902 (January 1982). in The Selected Works of Luis W. Alvarez, with Commentary, W. Peter Trower editor, Univ. Chicago Press, 1987.
- A Low Energy Cyclotron for Radiocarbon Dating, J.J. Welch, K.J. Bertsche, P. Friendman, and D.E. Morris, R. A. Muller, and P. P. Tans, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B18, 202-214 (1987).
- A low background-rate detector for 40 keV ions, P. G. Friedman, K. J. Bertsche, M. C. Michel, D. E. Morris, R. A. Muller, P. P. Tans, and J. J. Welch, LBL-22676 (January 1987), Reviews of Scientific Instruments 59, 98-111 (1988).
- Status of the Berkeley Small Cyclotron AMS Project, K. J. Bertsche, P. G. Friedman, Donald E. Morris, Richard A. Muller, James J. Welch, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B29, 105-109 (1987).
- Current Status of the Berkeley Cyclotrino, K.J. Bertsche, P.G. Friedman, R.A. Muller, and J.J. Welch, LBL-25450 (1988), to be published int he proceedings of the 13 International Radiocarbon Conference, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, June 20-25, 1988.
- Detection of radiocarbon in the cyclotrino, K.J. Bertsche, C.A. Karadi, R.A. Muller, G. C. Paulson, LBL-29556, Nucl Instr Meth in Physics Research B, 398-404(1991).
- Radiocarbon detection with a small low energy cyclotron, K.J. Bertsche, C.A. Karadi, R.A. Muller, LBL-29567 (1990), Nucl. Instr. Meth. A301, March 1 1991.
- Accelerator AMS: Cyclotrons and Cyclotrinos, R. A. Muller and K. J. Bertsche, in "Rare Nuclear Processes," pp. 93-99, World Scientific (1992); the Proceedings of the 14th Europhysics Conference on Nuclear Physics, 22-26 October 1990, Bratislava Czechoslovakia.
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supernovae
- An Automated Search for Supernova Explosions, with J. T. Kare, M. S. Burns, F. S. Crawford, P. G. Friedman, C. R. Pennypacker, S Perlmutter, and R. Williams, LBL-23782 (July 1987); Reviews of Scientific Instruments. 59(7), 1021-1030 (July 1988).
- Observation of the Type II Supernova in M99, Carl Pennypacker, M. S. Burns, F. S. Crawford, P. G. Friedman, J. R. Graham, J. T. Kare, R. A. Muller, S. Perlmutter, C. K. Smith, R. R. Treffers, R. W. Williams, G. Basri, J. Bixler, A. V. Filippenko, C. Foltz, D.R. Garnett, R. P. Harnkess, V. Junkkarinen, R. Kennicutt, P. J. McCarthy, H. Spinrad, J. C. Wheeler, H. Willick, B. J. Wills, The Astronomical Journal 97, 186-193, plate p. 313 (January 1989).
- High Rate for Type Ic Supernovae, Richard A. Muller, Heidi Jo Marvin Newberg, Carlton R. Pennypacker, Saul Perlmutter, Timothy P. Sasseen, and Craig K. Smith, LBL preprint #31220, Ap. J. Lett. 384, L9-L13, January 1, 1992.
- A Supernova at z = 0.458 and Implications for the Cosmological Deceleration, S. Perlmutter et al, Proc. Texas/PASCOS 92, Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 688, p 554-557 (1993).
- A Supernova at z = 0.458 and implications for measuring the cosmological deceleration, S. Perlmutter et al., Ap. J. 440, L41-L44 (1995).
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geomagnetic reversals
- Geomagnetic Reversals from Impacts on the Earth, Richard A. Muller and Donald E. Morris, LBL-20131, (September 1985, revised August 1986), published in Geophysical Research Letters 13, 1177-1180 (1986). The article is summarized in Physics Today, February 1987, pp 17-20.
- Magnetic reversal rate and sea level, R. A. Muller and D. E. Morris, Nature 332, 211 (1988).
- Geomagnetism, Sea Level and Tectonics, a letter in reply, R.A. Muller and D.E. Morris, Physics Today 41, 122 (1988).
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mass extinctions, comet showers, and Nemesis
- Extinction of Species by Periodic Comet Showers, Marc Davis, Piet Hut, and R.A. Muller, LBL-177298 (December 1983), Nature 308, 715-717 (1984).
- Evidence in Crater Ages for Periodic Impacts on the Earth, W. Alvarez and R.A. Muller, LBL- 17300 (January 1984), published in Nature 308, 718-720 (1984).
- Evidence for a Solar Companion Star, LBL-18271 (August 1984), published in The Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Recent Developments (M.D. Papagiannis, editor), pp. 233-243, (D. Riedel Pub. Co., Dordrecht, Holland, 1985).
- Terrestrial catastrophism: Nemesis or Galaxy? R.A. Muller, M. Davis, and P. Hut, Nature 313, 503 (February 1985).
- Cometary showers and unseen solar companions -- a reply, R. A. Muller, P. Hut, M. Davis, and W. Alvarez, Nature 314,517-518 (1985).
- Evidence for Nemesis: a Solar Companion Star, September 1985, LBL-20438 (October 1985), published in The Galaxy and the Solar System, ed. R. Smoluchowski, J. Bahcall, and M. Matthews, pp. 387-396 (University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1986).
- Comet Showers, Periodic Extinctions, and Iridium, Science 234, 1484-1485 (1986).
- The Berkeley search for a faint stellar companion to the sun, S. Perlmutter, M. S. Burns, F. Crawford, P. Friedman, J. Kare, R. A. Muller, and C. Pennypacker, in Astrophysics of Brown Dwarfs, eds. M. Kafatos, R. Harrington, and S. Maran, p. 87-92 (Cambridge University Press, 1986).
- Evidence for Comet Showers in Meteorite Ages, S. Perlmutter and R. A. Muller, LBL-22659 (December, 1986), Icarus.74, 369-373 (1988).
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3K cosmic microwave background
- Aether Drift and the Isotropy of the Universe: Proposal to NASA for a search for anisotropy in the primordial blackbody radiation (1976). Principal Investigator.
- Anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation, M. Gorenstein, R.A. Muller, G. Smoot, Bulletin of Am. Astron. Soc. 9, 431 (1977).
- Detection of anisotropy in the cosmic blackbody radiation, G. Smoot, M. Gorenstein and R.A. Muller, Phys. Rev. Lett. 39, 898 (1977).
- Radiometer system to map the cosmic background radiation, M. Gorenstein, R.A. Muller, G. Smoot, J. Tyson, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 49, 440 (1978).
- The Cosmic Background Radiation and the New Aether Drift, Scientific American 238, 64-74 (May 1978).
- Cosmic Microwave Background--present status and future prospects, LBL-8799, Annals New York Acad. Science 336, 116 (1980).
- Cosmology, 1980 McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology.
- Cosmic Microwave Radiation, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 5th edition, p. 668-670 (1982).
- Cosmic Quadrupole?, Nature 291, 609 (1981).
- How Black is the Universe? Nature 295, 95 (1982).
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adaptive optics
- Real-time correction of atmospherically degraded telescope images through sharpening, R. A. Muller and A. Buffington, J. Opt. Soc. Am. 64, 1200 (1974).
- Image, optical, R. A. Muller and A. Buffington, 1976 McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology.
- Active image restoration with a flexible mirror, with 4 other authors, Topical Meeting on Imaging in Astronomy, Cambridge, MA (June 18-21, 1975).
- Active image restoration with a flexible mirror, with 4 other authors, SPIE/SPSE Tech. Symp. East, 75 (March 23, 1976).
- Correction of atmospheric distortion with an image sharpening telescope, A. Buffington, F. Crawford, R. Muller, A. Schwemin, R. Smits, Jour. Opt. Soc. Am. 67, 298 (1977).
- First observatory results with an image-sharpening telescope, A. Buffington, F. Crawford, R. Muller, and C. Orth, Jour. Opt. Soc. Am. 67, 304 (1977).
- Sharpening Stellar Images, A. Buffington, F. Crawford, R.A. Muller, S. Pollaine, C. Orth, Science 200, 489 (1978).
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cometary orbits
- Tidal Gravitational Forces: The Infall of "New" Comets and Comet Showers, D. E. Morris and R.A. Muller, LBL-18942 (January 1985), Icarus 65, 1-12 (1986).
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special relativity
- Twin paradox in special relativity, Am. J. Phys. 40, 966 (1972).
- Thomas Precession: Where is the Torque? R. A. Muller, Am. J. Physics. 60, 313-317 (1992).
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elementary particle physics
- Production and decay of cascade hyperon, with P. Dauber, J. Berge, J. Hubbard, D. Merrill, Phys. Rev. 179, 1262 (1969).
- Study of the reaction K-N to X-K from threshold to 2.7 GeV/c (Ph.D. thesis), UCRL-19372 (August 8, 1969).
- Observation of cascade hyperon interactions, Phys. Lett. 38B, 123 (1972).
- Quarks with unit charge: a search for anomalous Hydrogen, R.A. Muller, L. Alvarez, W. Holley, E. Stephenson, Science 196, 521 (1977).
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particle detectors
- Liquid-filled proportional counter, Richard A. Muller, S. Derenzo, G. Smadja, D. Smith, R. Smits, H. Zaklad, L. Alvarez, Phys. Rev. Lett. 27, 532 (1971).
- High precision charged particle detector using Noble liquids, with S. Derenzo, G. Smadja, R. Smits, H. Zakland, L. Alvarez, Nature 233, 617 (1971).
- Liquid Xenon radioisotope camera, with H. Zaklad, S. Derenzo, G. Smadja, R. Smits, L. Alvarez, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. NS-19, 206 (1972).
- Liquid-filled multi-wire proportional counter, with S. Derenzo, et al., Fourth Hawaii Topical Conf., U. Hawaii UH-511-109, 109-111 (August 1971).
- Preliminary images in a 24 wire liquid Xenon gamma ray camera, with H. Zaklad, S. Derenzo, R. Smits, L. Alvarez, IEEE Trans, Nuc. Sci. NS-20, 429 (1973).
- Liquid Xenon filled wire chambers, with S. Derenzo, et al., LBL-1321, Proc. XVI Int. Conf. High Energy Physics, U. Chicago (September 1972).
- Liquid Xenon Compton telescope: a new technique for gamma-ray astronomy, with 7 other authors, UCBSSL report series 14, issue 17.
- Electronic processes in liquid Xenon, with S. Derenzo, T. Mast, H. Zaklad, Nucl. Inst. & Meth. 118, 611 (1974).
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miscellaneous
- Innovation and Scientific Funding, Science 209, 880 (1980). (Based on testimony to the House Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology, 11 September 1979. Excerpts in Federation of American Scientists Newsletter.)
- Impact Fusion with a Segmented Rail Gun, R. Garwin, R.A. Muller, and B. Richter, in Proc. of the Conference on Impact Fusion, Los Alamos (1979)
- Light-water reactor safety, H. Lewis and 11 other authors, Rev. Mod. Phys. 47 Suppl 1 (1975). Summary section published separately in Physics Today 28, 38 (July 1975); Nuclear Safety (October 1975).
- Search for seismic signals from gravitational radiation of pulsar CP1133, with T. Mast, J. Nelson, J. Saarloos, B. Bolt, Nature 240, 140 (1972).
- Measurements of geomagnetic cutoff rigidities, with C. Pennypacker, G. Smoot, A. Buffington, L. Smith, Jour. Geophys. Res. 78, 1515 (1973).
- Magnet-gun Igniter for Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion, R. Garwin, R.A. Muller and B. Richter, SRI Technical report JSN-77-20 (1978), Atomkernenergie 35, 300 (1980).
- Red Sprites triggered by meteors? R. A. Muller, Eos 76, F105 (November 7, 1995)
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patents
- Subatomic particle detector with liquid electron multiplication medium, with L. Alvarez, S. Derenzo, R. Smits, H. Zaklad, S. #3,659,105 (assigned to U.S.A.).
- Imaging transducer for radiation particles, with H. Zaklad, S. Derenzo, R. Smits, #3,898,465 (assigned to U.S.A.). (biomedical instrumentation)
- Method and Composition of Matter for Detecting Large Quantities of Paper Currency (tagging of banknotes) to impede smuggling; US Patent #5,057,268 (Oct 15, 1991).
- Optically-Neutral Laser Shield (for broad-band eye protection); US Patent #5,208,698, May 4, 1993.
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Books
- Nemesis, published in Japanese by Shuei Sha, 1987; in English by Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, May 1988; Great Britain by Wm. Heinemann, Ltd. 1989; in Croatian by Be Etra, 1995; in Serbian by (I can't figure out those funny letters); Literary Guild alternate selection; Science Fiction Book Club. First and last chapters were published in "The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics", editor Timothy Ferris.
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The Three Big Bangs (with Phil Dauber), Addison-Wesley, January 1996.
- The Sins of Jesus, a novel, Auravision Publishing (1999), distributed by BookPeople (Oakland), available on Amazon.com.
- Ice Ages and Astronomical Causes: data, spectral analysis, and models. Richard A. Muller and Gordon J. MacDonald. Book to be published Praxis Publishing, (July, 2000).
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