Neutron Induced Reactions, Collective Nuclear Structures andNuclear Astrophysics

这笔赠款支持肯塔基大学加速器实验室的一项研究计划，该计划具有强中子通量和专业仪器。这些设施正在使用国家科学基金会EPSCoR计划和肯塔基州的资金进行升级。将测量重核中集体激发的性质，重点是核子的形状过渡区。这些测量将探索动力学对称性在确定核光谱中的作用。其他测量将研究反应机制和核结构之间的耦合，以及轻质量核对中子、质子和阿尔法粒子的辐射俘获。除了它们的核物理意义外，其中几项研究对于理解这些元素在恒星演化过程中是如何合成的也很重要。

This grant supports a program of research with the intense neutron flux and specialized instrumentation of the accelerator laboratory of the University of Kentucky. These facilities are being upgraded using funds from the EPSCOR Program of the National Science Foundation and from the state of Kentucky. Properties of collective excitations in heavy nuclei will be measured, with emphasis on shape-transitional regions of the nucleons. The measurements will probe the role of dynamical symmetries in determining nuclear spectra. Other measurements will study the coupling between reaction mechanism and nuclear structure, as well as the radiative capture of neutrons, protons, and alpha-particles by light mass nuclei. In addition to their nuclear physics implications, several of these studies also are important for understanding how the elements are synthesized during stellar evolution.