RUI: Radioactive Nuclear Beam Physics with Undergraduates at Hope College

希望学院核集团参与了圣母大学(ND)的放射性核束(RNB)、密歇根州立大学的国家超导回旋实验室和劳伦斯·伯克利实验室的熊设施的研究。有了这项建议，核小组将继续应用在核反应研究的传统领域多年积累的专业知识和我们最近在RNB方面的经验，以解决有关外来核行为的问题。具体地说，这个项目寻求发展对不稳定核的理解。为此，将对各种不稳定粒子的各种截面进行测量，包括：两个和一个中子转移截面、近势垒聚变-裂变截面和总反应截面。为了促进这些研究，我们将开发各种探测器(平行板雪崩计数器、中子探测器和电子倍增器)。我们还将继续分析以前的实验和准备过去工作中的其他论文。来自希望学院的本科生将参与实验的方方面面：规划、探测器开发(包括探测器制造和测试)、探测器和电子设置、数据获取、离线分析和建模。我们多年来的经验表明，本科研究可以加强学生的教育，更好地为学生从事研究生工作或在行业或学术界从事各种职业做好准备。

The Hope College Nuclear Group is involved in research with the RadioactiveNuclear Beams (RNB) available at the University of Notre Dame (ND), theNational Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University,and the BEARS facility at Lawrence Berkeley Labs. With this proposal, theNuclear Group will continue to apply the expertise developed over many yearsof work in traditional areas of nuclear reaction studies and our recentexperience with RNB to address questions about the behavior of the exoticnuclei. Specifically, this project seeks to develop the disciplines understanding ofunstable nuclei. To do this measurements of various cross sections for avariety of unstable particles will be made including: two- and one-neutrontransfer cross sections, near-barrier fusion-fission cross sections, and totalreaction cross sections. To facilitate these studies, we will develop avariety of detectors (parallel-plate avalanche counters, neutron detectors andelectron multipliers). We will also continue our analysis of a previousexperiments and the preparation of other papers from past work.Undergraduate students from Hope College will participate in all aspects ofthe experiments: planning, detector development (including detectorfabrication and testing), detector and electronic setup, data taking,off-line analysis, and modeling. Our experience over the years demonstratesthat undergraduate research enhances a student's education and better preparesthe student for graduate work or a wide variety of careers in either industryor academia.