U.S.-Mexico Cooperative Research on Neutron Multiplicity

该研究项目涉及国际合作， Natowitz和R.德克萨斯农工大学（TAMU）的施密特， 教授M. E。Brendan和A.物理学的门查查罗查 墨西哥国立自治大学研究所。 的 合作者打算研究具有非常高的原子核的性质， 在接近平均结合的温度下的激发能 每个核子的能量 他们将带来最新的研究成果 实验设施，如：i）新的K500超导 回旋加速器位于TAMU，这将大大增加能量， 用于核实验的粒子质量; ii）先进的 中子球多重性探测器，它作为一个非常强大的 在研究核反应机制和性质时， 高度激发的核;和iii）离散的Phostron探测器， 由UNAM集团设计和建造，这将大大提高 中子球探测器的实用性。 调查人员将重点关注中间体的重要方面， 高能重离子碰撞技术， 设备. 美国的调查人员为 目前对反应和粒子发射机制的理解， 墨西哥的研究人员还拥有实验性的专业知识， 中低能重离子科学 程度 两组经验丰富的研究人员之间的互动增加 该项目将是一个互惠互利的可能性，因此， 实现美国的首要目标墨西哥方案。 鉴于 研究人员过去的记录，重大进展的潜力是非常 高

This research project involves an international collaboration between Professors J. Natowitz and R. Schmitt of Texas A&M University (TAMU), and Professors M.E. Brendan and A. Menchacha Rocha of the Physics Institute of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). The collaborators intend to study properties of nuclei having very high excitation energies within temperatures approaching the average binding energy per nucleon. To the research they will bring to bear the latest experimental facilities such as: i) a new K500 superconducting cyclotron located at TAMU that will greatly increase the energy and mass of particles useful for nuclear experiments; ii) an advanced neutron ball multiplicity detector, which acts as a very powerful filter in studying both nuclear reaction mechanisms and the properties of highly excited nuclei; and iii) discrete phostron detectors, to be designed and constructed by the UNAM group, which will greatly enhance the utility of the neutron ball detector. The investigators will focus on important aspects of intermediate energy heavy ion collision using sophisticated techniques and equipment. The U.S. investigators have made valuable contributions to the present understanding of reaction and particle emission mechanisms, and the Mexican investigators also possess expertise in experimental heavy ion science at low and intermediate energies. The degree of interaction between the two experienced groups of researchers increases the likelihood that the project will be one of mutual benefit, thus fulfilling a prime objective of the U.S.-Mexico Program. Given the researchers past records, the potential for significant advance is very high.