Research in Low Energy Nuclear Physics

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The Stony Brook Superconducting Linear Accelerator provides heavy ion beamsfor basic research in nuclear and atomic physics, and an infrastructure forthe recruitment, development and training of students in the areas ofradiation detection, hardware development and experimental analysis. Theplanned research with the accelerator and at other facilities will buildupon the activities currently in progress, and will continue the educationalprogram of current and new PhD and other students. The research program ingamma ray spectroscopy will investigate several areas of nuclear structureincluding two projects that were started at Stony Brook and are now veryactive areas of research. The first studies the fingerprints of chirality,which involves the existence of right-handed and left-handed geometries incertain special nuclei, and the second project studies the limit of how muchangular momentum a nucleus can carry. Another research project uses theunique capability of our LINAC to provide intense Fr beams of 107particles/sec. The effort will focus on polarizing, cooling and trapping ofFr for precision measurements of the nuclear magnetic moments that areneeded to test the atomic calculations of the Fr atom. The Fr beams willalso be used to continue the development of weak interaction measurements inatoms. The Stony Brook Nuclear Structure Laboratory also serves as a focusof many educational activities. Students at the high school, undergraduate,graduate, and postdoctoral levels participate in the research program withvarious intensities, from beam line construction to running actualexperiments. In addition to these students, high school students, incomingstudents, and various classes tour the laboratory as an example of anaccelerator research facility.