Nuclear Structure Research

9402761 Kolata这笔赠款将支持在圣母大学原子结构实验室以及美国和其他地方的其他主要核研究机构开展的核反应、核结构和核天体物理领域的广泛基础研究计划。感兴趣的领域包括大爆炸和爆炸性氢燃烧过程中重元素的合成研究，放射性核束的产生和使用，以及超形变态和超形变态等奇异核系统的研究，以及在中子(可能还有质子)滴线附近出现的“晕”核的研究。我们还将研究变形原子核中的多声子振动，以及“巨共振”现象。最后，最近在实验室的研究项目中增加了一个新的组成部分，即研究核系统中的弱相互作用和基本过程。巴黎圣母院核结构实验室的研究项目强调了与其他大学的实验和理论物理学家的广泛合作。在拟议的赠款下，这种运作模式将继续下去，我们自己也将使用新的或预期的研究工具，如橡树岭国家实验室的放射性核束设施Gammashpere和密歇根州立大学的S800光谱仪。

9402761 Kolata This grant will support a wide-ranging program of basic research in the areas of nuclear reactions, nuclear structure, and nuclear astrophysics to be conducted in the Nuclear Structure Laboratory of the University of Notre Dame, and at other major nuclear research facilities in the US and elsewhere. The areas of interest include the study of the synthesis of heavy elements in the Big Bang and in explosive hydrogen-burning processes, the production and use of radioactive nuclear beams, and the study of exotic nuclear systems such as superdeformed and hyperdeformed states and the "halo" nuclei that occur near the neutron- (and possibly the proton-) drip line. Multiphonon vibrations in deformed nuclei, and the "giant resonance" phenomenon, will also be investigated. Finally, a new component, recently added to the research programs at the laboratory, is the study of weak interactions and fundamental processes in nuclear systems. The research program at the Notre Dame Nuclear Structure Laboratory has emphasized extensive collaboration with experimental and theoretical physicists at other universities. This mode of operation will continue under the proposed grant, as will our own use of such new or anticipated research tools as Gammashpere, the radioactive nuclear beam facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the S800 spectrograph at Michigan State University.