Collaborative research-MRI: Development of the LSU-FSU Array for Nuclear Astrophysics with Exotic Nuclei

该奖项支持建造一系列探测器，这些探测器将被优化用于低能带电粒子反应的研究。用该阵列进行的反应研究将大大提高我们对新星和x射线爆发中的能量产生和核合成的理解，影响天文测量及其解释。佛罗里达州立大学（FSU）和密歇根州立大学（MSU）的国家超导回旋加速器实验室（NSCL）的新型低能放射性离子束设备有望提供各种各样的短寿命、富含质子的低能量束流，这些束流以前是不可用的。该仪器将为FSU和MSU的实验室带来大量的新能力，并将成为这些设施更广泛用户基础的资源。这些实验室没有类似的基础设施。该仪器将在路易斯安那州立大学（LSU）和FSU开发和建造，并将在FSU， NSCL以及未来可能的其他设施中进行实验。该仪器将对美国的天体物理学、实验核物理学能力以及学生的教育和培训产生重大影响。该项目将大量利用本科生和研究生，并将为这些学生提供一个重要的机会，让他们参与到国家需要领域的最先进仪器的实际开发中来。该项目还将促进路易斯安那州立大学、FSU和MSU的学生和教师之间的合作。

This award supports the construction of an array of detectors that will be optimized for studies of low-energy, charged-particle reactions. The reaction studies to be conducted with the array will substantially improve our understanding of energy generation and nucleosynthesis in novae and X-ray bursts, impacting astronomical measurements and their interpretation. New low-energy radioactive ion beam facilities at Florida State University (FSU) and at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University (MSU) promise to provide a wide variety of low-energy beams of short-lived, proton-rich nuclei that have been previously unavailable. The instrument will bring substantial, new capabilities to the laboratories at FSU and MSU, and it will be a resource for the broader user base at those facilities. Similar infrastructure does not exist at those laboratories. The instrumentation will be developed and constructed at Louisiana State University (LSU) and FSU, and will be deployed for experiments at FSU, the NSCL, and possibly other facilities in the future. The proposed instrument will have a great impact on astrophysics, experimental nuclear physics capabilities in the U.S., and on the education and training of students. This project will heavily utilize both undergraduate and graduate students and will provide an important opportunity for these students to be involved in the hands-on development of state-of-the-art instrumentation in an area of national need. The project will also foster collaboration between the students and faculty at LSU, FSU, and MSU.