Studies of Nuclear Reactions and Structure

“核反应与结构研究”项目将支持实验核物理基础研究和培养为国家服务的前沿科学研究、教育、国土国防、国家安全、提高经济竞争力的博士生。在佛罗里达州立大学的约翰·d·福克斯超导加速器实验室，新的RESOLUT稀有离子设备将允许研究远离稳定的原子核的反应和结构，这对天体物理学和新天文台的观测结果的解释至关重要。我们独特的14C光束将使我们能够研究核结构最基本的性质，即壳层，是如何随着中子与质子比例的日益不平衡而变化的。家庭实验室也是博士生理想的实践训练基地，其他核结构研究将在国际设施进行，如ATLAS的伽马球和国家超导加速器实验室。我们研究计划的其他组成部分包括在相对论重离子对撞机（相对论重离子对撞机）的领导工作，研究大爆炸后不到一秒存在的一种新形式的物质，以及在德国波恩的CB-ELSA寻找以前看不见的激发重子共振。

This project on Studies of Nuclear Reactions and Structure willsupport fundamental research in experimental nuclear physics and thetraining of Ph.D. students for service to the nation in forefrontscientific research, education, homeland defense, national security,and enhancing economic competitiveness. At the John D. FoxSuperconducting Accelerator Laboratory at Florida State University,the new RESOLUT rare ion facility will allow the study of thereactions and structure of nuclei far from stability which arecritical to astrophysics and the interpretation of observations madeby the new astronomical observatories. Our unique beams of 14C willallow us to study how the most fundamental property of nuclearstructure, the shells, changes with increasing imbalance in theproportion of neutrons to protons. The home laboratory is also anideal hands-on training ground for Ph.D. studentsOther nuclear structure studies will be carried out at internationalfacilities such as Gammasphere at ATLAS and the NationalSuperconducting Accelerator Laboratory. Other components of ourresearch program include leading efforts at the Relativistic Heavy IonCollider to study a new form of matter that existed a fraction of asecond after the Big Bang and at CB-ELSA in Bonn, Germany to searchfor previously unseen excited baryon resonances.