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Award for Mentoring Given at APS/DNP Meeting
Congratulations to Michael Thoennessen, NSCL faculty member and Associate Director for Education, for winning the fifth annual American Physical Society Division of Nuclear Physics Mentoring Award. He received the award last week at the annual APS/DNP meeting held in Newport … Continue reading
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GRETINA Explores N=40 Structure
The goal of this week’s experiment was to determine the single-particle structure of neutron-rich N=40 nuclei. In this region, a reduction of the N=40 harmonic oscillator shell gap leads to a sudden increase in collectivity in the Fe and Cr … Continue reading
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NSCL TRIPLEX Plunger’s Debut with GRETINA
This week, experiment 11013 was performed with the TRIPLEX plunger device mounted in the target position of the S800 spectrograph. Gamma rays emitted from nuclei in flight were measured by GRETINA. Excited-state lifetimes were measured for a range of nuclei … Continue reading
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CycStopper Update
The helium bobbin for the new Cyclotron Stopper beam thermalization device is being machined and is due in the first part of November. For a short video clip of that process, check out http://youtube/FkP5t8PpocU. Shortly thereafter, the coils will be … Continue reading
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N4 Vault Beamlines Tested Successfully
The first of a series of commissioning runs for the new beam thermalization equipment in the N4 vault was successfully completed on Wednesday of this week. This was the first time that radioactive beams were delivered to the vault in … Continue reading
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2012 JINA Frontiers Meeting
The 2012 JINA Frontiers Meeting took place at the lab this week on Sunday and Monday, October 7-8. The fourth in the series of conferences on astrophysics, the workship was organized soley by JINA graduate students and post-docs. The primary … Continue reading
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MSU and CMU Celebrate Collaboration
An event took place in the Atrium on Thursday afternoon celebrating the beginning of a new collaboration between Michigan State University and Central Michigan University (CMU). The Mt. Pleasant-based university recently hired three new faculty members in nuclear physics who … Continue reading
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Deformation of Nickel-72
The currently running experiment, e12009, is delving into the mysteries regarding the onset of deformation for nickel isotopes in the middle of the neutron g9/2 shell. Previous experiments in nickel-70 and nickel-74 suggest that these isotopes are three times more … Continue reading
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FRIB Isotope Harvesting
During the Staff Information Talk on Wednesday, David Morrissey, NSCL University Distinguished Professor, talked about the potential of isotope harvesting at FRIB to serve more than one user at a time. Though FRIB has been designed to produce one specific … Continue reading
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FRIB BPM Test at ReA3
Beam Position Monitors (BPMs) that are planned to be utilized in the FRIB linac in the future underwent three series of tests in recent months in a collaboration with the ReA commissioning team and the FRIB diagnostics group. The first … Continue reading
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