RUI: Radioactive Nuclear Beam Physics with Undergraduates at Hope College

霍普学院核小组参与了圣母大学（ND）、密歇根州立大学的国家超导回旋加速器实验室和劳伦斯伯克利实验室的BEARS设施的放射性核束（RNB）研究。有了这个建议，核小组将继续应用多年来在核反应研究的传统领域中所积累的专业知识，以及我们最近在RNB的经验，来解决有关外来核行为的问题。具体来说，这个项目旨在发展学科的理解不稳定的核。 为此，将对各种不稳定粒子的各种截面进行测量，包括：两个和一个中子转移截面，近势垒聚变裂变截面和总反应截面。 为了促进这些研究，我们将开发各种探测器（平行板雪崩计数器，中子探测器和电子倍增器）。 我们还将继续分析以前的实验和准备其他论文从过去的工作.本科生希望学院将参与实验的各个方面：规划，探测器的发展（包括探测器的制造和测试），探测器和电子设置，数据采集，离线分析，和建模. 我们多年来的经验表明，本科研究提高了学生的教育，更好地为学生的研究生工作或各种各样的职业，无论是行业或学术界。

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.