RUI: Radioactive Nuclear Beam Physics with Undergraduates at Hope College

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The Hope College Nuclear Group is involved in research with the RadioactiveNuclear Beams (RNB) available at the University of Notre Dame (ND), theNational Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University,and the BEARS facility at Lawrence Berkeley Labs. With this proposal, theNuclear Group will continue to apply the expertise developed over many yearsof work in traditional areas of nuclear reaction studies and our recentexperience with RNB to address questions about the behavior of the exoticnuclei. Specifically, this project seeks to develop the disciplines understanding ofunstable nuclei. To do this measurements of various cross sections for avariety of unstable particles will be made including: two- and one-neutrontransfer cross sections, near-barrier fusion-fission cross sections, and totalreaction cross sections. To facilitate these studies, we will develop avariety of detectors (parallel-plate avalanche counters, neutron detectors andelectron multipliers). We will also continue our analysis of a previousexperiments and the preparation of other papers from past work.Undergraduate students from Hope College will participate in all aspects ofthe experiments: planning, detector development (including detectorfabrication and testing), detector and electronic setup, data taking,off-line analysis, and modeling. Our experience over the years demonstratesthat undergraduate research enhances a student's education and better preparesthe student for graduate work or a wide variety of careers in either industryor academia.