An REU student can help with the design, construction and testing of detector components in the summer. An experiment using a prototype of the array has been approved at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility. If the experiment is scheduled in the summer, the student can also participate. This nucleus with 50 protons and 82 neutrons is one of the most exotic which as been studied experimentally. The results will be important for many applications including the determination of the nuclei which can be made in the astrophysical rapid-neutron capture process.
Several projects are available on topics involving quantum chaos and nuclear structure.
Spectroscopic tools are knockout reactions and gamma spectroscopy on relativistic radioactive secondary ion beams as available at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. An REU student is invited to participate in these efforts and to support ongoing research mainly in technical developments and data analysis. We offer an introduction to contemporary techniques in nuclear physics and to the understanding of the underlying processes. The student is expected to work to some extent independently and to have good knowledge of one programming language and basic knowledge of Unix or VMS operating systems. Skills in calculus and quantum physics are advantageous.