Acquisition of Gamma-ray Spectrometer System for Undergraduate Nuclear Physics Laboratory

最近对韦伯州立大学高级现代物理理论课程的课程进行了重大修订，将核物理和粒子物理作为一个不同的学科领域。计划对现代物理实验室课程进行相应的修改。物理部将为这个核物理实验室购买一个基于IBM-PC的多道分析系统(MCA)、一个高分辨率HPGe伽马射线探测器和快速定时探测器，以及相关的电子部件。这将允许在这个实验室进行广泛的核实验，而这些实验目前在现有设备下是不可能的。除了实验室课程，这些设备还将使学生在核物理和固态物理方面的研究项目成为可能。以计算机为基础的MCA将使学生有机会使用计算机接口的科学设备，这对他们作为物理学家的培训是无价的。

Significant revisions have recently been made in the curriculum of the senior-level modern physics theory course at Weber State to include Nuclear and Particle Physics as a distinct subject area. A corresponding change in the Modern Physics Laboratory course is planned. The Physics Department will acquire an IBM-PC-based multi-channel analyzer system (MCA), a high resolution HPGe gamma-ray detector, and fast timing detectors, with associated electronics components for this nuclear physics lab. This will permit a wide range of nuclear experiments to be carried out in this laboratory that are not currently possible with available equipment. In addition to the laboratory course, the equipment will also make possible student research projects in nuclear and solid state physics. The computer-based MCA will give students an opportunity to work with computer-interfaced scientific equipment which is invaluable to their training as physicists.