Operation of the Nuclear Structure Laboratory

该奖项支持纽约州立大学石溪分校核结构实验室的一项重离子核物理研究计划，该计划将超导助推加速器与FN串列加速器结合使用。这项研究由纽约州立大学石溪分校的工作人员进行，为研究生提供核科学、加速器物理和仪器开发方面的培训。许多研究的目的是找出原子核在高自旋和/或高温的极端条件下的行为。另一项努力涉及应用激光光谱学和原子物理方法来确定核矩和放射性原子的性质。从集体核反应重要的库仑势垒以下到单个核子-核子碰撞开始明显的较高能量，在一系列入射能量范围内探索了核-核反应机制。该项目还需要开发新的仪器和加速器，并继续完善设施。

This award supports a program of research in heavy ion nuclear physics at the Nuclear Structure Laboratory, State University of New York at Stony Brook, using a superconducting booster accelerator in conjunction with a model FN tandem accelerator. The research is carried out by SUNY Stony Brook staff and provides for the training of graduate students in nuclear science, accelerator physics and instrumentation development. The objective of much of the research is to find how nuclei behave under extreme conditions of high spin and/or high temperature. Another effort involves the application of laser spectroscopy and atomic physics methods to determine nuclear moments and properties of radioactive atoms. Nucleus-nucleus reaction mechanisms are probed over a range of incident energies from below the Coulomb barrier, where collective nuclear response is important, to higher energies where individual nucleon-nucleon collisional aspect begin to be evident. The project also entails new instrumentation and accelerator development, and continuing facility refinement.