NSCL User Workshop

August 16–17, 2007

 

National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI

 

 

 

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Location: Law Building, Room 472 (4th floor)
The after-dinner breakout sessions on Day 1 will be at the NSCL.

Thursday, August 16

9:00-9:05 AM

Opening Remarks
Ingo Wiedenhoever

9:05-9:40 AM

Facility Status
Thomas Glasmacher

9:40-10:05 AM

Low-Energy Beams at the NSCL
Georg Bollen (PDF)

10:05-10:30 AM

Coffee Break

10:30-11:00 AM

RF Fragment Separator: Performance & Research Possibilities
Daniel Bazin (PDF)

11:00-11:30 AM

Towards a Versatile Reactions Facility at the NSCL
Michael Famiano (PDF)

11:30-12:00 PM

Future MoNA Development
Andreas Schiller (PDF)

12:00-1:15 PM

Lunch

1:15-1:45 PM

Instrumentation for Experiments at Astrophysical Energies
Jeff Blackmon (PDF)

1:45-2:15 PM

MAYA: An Active Target Detector for Binary Reactions at Low to Medium Energies with Exotic Beams
Wolfgang Mittig (PDF)

2:15-2:45 PM

Instrumentation for the Study of Laser Interaction with Slow Beams
Paul Mantica (PDF)

2:45-3:15 PM

Coffee Break

3:15-3:35 PM

A Time Projection Chamber at the NSCL
Abigail Bickley (PDF)

3:35-3:55 PM

Possible GRETINA experiments at the NSCL
I-Yang Lee (PDF)

3:55-4:15 PM

A High-Efficiency Gamma-Ray Detector Array at the NSCL
Dirk Weisshaar (PDF)

4:15-4:35 PM

A Low-Energy Neutron Array at the NSCL
Remco Zegers (PDF)

4:35-5:05 PM

Isotope Science Facility: The Path Forward
Konrad Gelbke

6:00-8:00 PM

Reception and Dinner in the NSCL Atrium

8:00 PM

Breakout Session 1: Instrumentation for Experiments at Astrophysical Energies
Moderators: Jeff Blackmon and Wolfgang Mittig

Breakout Session 2: Instrumentation for Reaction Studies
Moderators: Michael Famiano and Abigail Bickley

Breakout Session 3: Instrumentation for the Study of Laser Interaction with Slow Beams
Moderator: Paul Mantica

Friday, August 17

8:30-9:00 AM

Structure of Exotic Nuclei: Some Challenges
Takaharu Otsuka

9:00-10:15 AM

Experimental Results Session I

Intruder Dominance for N~20
Vandana Tripathi (PDF)

Mass Measurements of Rare Isotopes at LEBIT
Stefan Schwarz (PDF)

Structure of 26Si via p(27Si,d)26Si
Jun Chen (PDF)

Two-Proton Decay of 45Fe
Robert Grzywacz

Free Radical Signatures of Heavy Ion Track Structure in DNA
Michael Sevilla (PDF)

10:15-10:45 AM

Coffee Break

10:45 AM-12:15 PM

Experimental Results Session II

Beta Decay Halflives of Neutron-Rich r-process Ge and Br Isotopes
Matthew Quinn

Beta-Decay Studies of r-process Nuclei Near the N=70 "Midshell"
Jorge Pereira (PDF)

128Cd: Ugly Duckling or Young Swan?
Bill Walters (PDF)

First Observation of 25O
Calem Hoffman (PDF)

Observation of New Neutron-Rich Mg, Al, and Si Isotopes
Thomas Baumann

Fission of 238U and Search for New Neutron-Rich Isotopes
Cody Folden (PDF)

12:15-1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30-2:30 PM

Experimental Results Session III

The New Physics of Heavy Ion Interactions with Nanostructures
Virginia Ayres (PPT)

Preliminary Result on Spectroscopy of Extremely Neutron Rich Nickel Isotopes
Chiara Mazzocchi

Quadrupole Moment of Ground State of 37K
Kei Minamisono (PDF)

Recoil Distance Lifetime Measurements at NSCL
Kris Starosta (PDF)

2:30-3:00 PM

Coffee Break

3:00-4:00 PM

Concluding Session
Reports from the three Breakout Sessions Astrophysics Reactions Laser
Discussion/Conclusions
Closing Remarks (5 mins) by Konrad Gelbke

 

 

 

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