The particle accelerators in the Nuclear Structure Laboratory produce proton, deuteron and heavier ion beams for wide-ranging research in nuclear structures.
Computer systems provide data acquisition and off-line data analysis.
There is equipment for all phases of spectroscopic studies. Basic research in a wide spectrum of areas that overlap with most of the highest priority scientific objectives in modern nuclear physics is carried out with the accelerator facilities in this laboratory. Selected ongoing projects are described below. One major research program of Notre Dame's nuclear structure group is the study of reactions induced by short-lived radioactive nuclear beams. This area was pioneered in the Nuclear Structure Laboratory at Notre Dame, where the world's first usable beams of radioactive nuclei at nonrelativistic energies were developed in 1987.