Category Archives: Stories and Media
Here you will find stories about the most fascinating current research in nuclear physics and regular tips and ideas for stories and reports for the media.
Watch the Construction of GRETINA
GRETINA is a new detector that has been setup and is working in tandem with the S800 Spectrograph in the S3 vault. A collaborative effort between many laboratories and institutions throughout the United States, GRETINA is spending about one year … Continue reading →
Nuclear Matters Newsletter Launches
This week saw the launch of the inaugural issue of the Nuclear Matters Newsletter. If you haven’t noticed, several new, exciting stories have been added to the blog that also appear in the first issue. It is our hope that many … Continue reading →
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Two Neutrons at the Same Time: Discovery of Dineutron Decay
Contributed by Ken Kingery, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory Nuclear physicists recently witnessed an atomic nucleus do something that nobody had ever seen one do before – two neutrons at the same time. Emitting them, that is. The experiment revealed a … Continue reading →
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First Science Results from CARIBU
Contributed by Shaofei Zhu, Argonne National Laboratory The Californium Rare Isotope Breeder Upgrade (CARIBU) facility of ATLAS is now delivering beams of neutron-rich nuclei to experiments. A first series of experiments has concentrated on mass measurements close to the doubly-closed … Continue reading →
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Precise Determination of the Isovector Giant Quadrupole Resonance in Nuclei
Contributed by H. R. Weller and M. W. Ahmed, Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory–HIγS Program All nuclei are known to exhibit giant electromagnetic resonances….compact collective excitations which contain almost all of the electromagnetic absorption strength allowed by fundamental quantum mechanics. The … Continue reading →
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ANASEN Tracks Rare Isotopes from RESOLUT
Contributed by Ingo Wiedenhoever, Florida State University In the last five years, Florida State University’s Nuclear Physics group has developed and operated an in-flight rare ion beam facility named RESOLUT. The in-flight technique allows the production of relatively large intensities … Continue reading →
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Understanding Helium
First direct mass measurements of exotic helium isotopes and precision calculations for understanding the nuclear interaction Contributed by Tim Meyer, TRIUMF Neutron-rich light nuclei exhibit fascinating phenomena, including the formation of a halo structure of loosely-bound neutrons surrounding a tightly … Continue reading →
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PAN Finishes Up Another Successful Summer
The eighteenth PAN (Physics of Atomic Nuclei) program was a great success thanks to the contributions of JINA and NSCL faculty, staff and students. There were 19 science teachers and 24 high school students who spent a week on campus … Continue reading →
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Nature View on Tin-100 Published
In a recent edition of Nature, NSCL Senior Physicist Daniel Bazin contributes a “News & Views” piece on the progress made towards unlocking the secrets of 100Sn – the heaviest symmetrical doubly magic nucleus on the chart of the nuclides … Continue reading →
Detroit International Academy Visits Lab
On Friday, May 18, NSCL welcomed students from DIA (Detroit International Academy), a women’s high school that is located in the heart of downtown Detroit. DIA is the first high school that the recently formed WaMPS Outreach team ever visited. … Continue reading →
