U.S.-German Cooperative Research on the Spontaneous Fission Process

该奖项支持James汉密尔顿教授和A.V. Ramayya教授以及范德比尔特大学的两名学生与法兰克福大学理论物理研究所的Walter Greiner教授及其团队合作进行物理研究。 他们将一起研究核裂变过程，包括原子团的放射性。 德国小组预测了这种新型的放射性，他们的理论工作可以卓有成效地应用于美国小组的实验工作。 利用新的高分辨率伽马射线探测器设施，汉密尔顿博士和他的同事们获得了突破性的测量某些多个产品的核自发裂变。 这些领先的美国和德国团体之间的及时互动将指导和加强他们的理论和实验工作，并显着扩展对核物理这一令人兴奋的新领域的理解。

This award supports Professors James Hamilton and A.V. Ramayya and two students from Vanderbilt University to collaborate in physics research with Professor Walter Greiner and his group at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Frankfurt. Together they will study the nuclear fission process, including cluster radioactivity. The German group predicted this new type of radioactivity and their theoretical work can be applied fruitfully to the experimental work of the U.S. group. Using new high resolution gamma ray detector facilities, Dr. Hamilton and his colleagues have obtained ground breaking measurements of certain multiple products of nuclear spontaneous fission. Timely interaction between these leading U.S. and German groups will guide and enhance both their theoretical and experimental efforts and significantly extend understanding of this exciting new area of nuclear physics.