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NSCL User
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August
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This year's NSCL User Workshop will be held
in East Lansing on August 16-17, 2007. It will start on the morning of
Thursday August 16 and end on the afternoon of Friday August 17. The workshop will provide a forum for
exchange of ideas and a platform for joint action among NSCL users. The program
will include a facility status report, an overview of operations following
the reconfiguration of the experimental vaults now underway, and discussion
of the exciting research possibilities opened up by the user-driven new
capabilities that have been or will be added. Discussion leaders will present
reports on and facilitate discussion about: o
Performance and
research possibilities of newly commissioned or reconfigured equipment (RF
fragment separator, more flexible distribution of MoNA detectors); o
Status and research
possibilities of equipment currently under design or construction (neutron
time-of-flight setup, high-efficiency gamma-ray detector array, low-energy
neutron array, instrumentation for the study of laser interaction with slow
beams); o
Suggestions for new
instrumentation for experiments with reaccelerated beams at astrophysical
energies (maximum energy of 3.2 MeV/nucleon in the first phase of the NSCL reaccelerator project.) We want to engage our users in a dialog
about what instrumentation capabilities will be needed to carry out their
experiments, especially in those projects that are still in a formative stage
or are yet to take shape. Examples include: capabilities desired for the
scattering chamber for the neutron time-of-flight setup, the instrumentation for
laser interaction studies, and the instrumentation for experiments with reaccelerated
beams. In order to have meaningful discussions, users are requested to send
their ideas beforehand in the form of brief writeups to Raman Anantaraman. By identifying groups
that have similar needs and interests, and facilitating their writing joint
proposals for equipment funding, the workshop will serve the cause of all
NSCL users. This approach has worked well for large collaborative detector
proposals in the past. Presentations of results from recent
experiments performed at the Coupled Cyclotron Facility will form another
component of the workshop program. The Users' Executive Committee solicits
your suggestions for making the workshop scientifically more productive for
NSCL users. Please send your comments to the Chair of the Committee, Ingo Wiedenhoever. To register
on-line for the Workshop, please fill out and submit the registration. Housing information is posted at accommodations. |
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