More on Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics Experiment
Each experiment typically involves several graduate students, one or two
postdocs, and faculty. Graduate students are involved in every aspect of the
work from equipment design, through the actual measurements, to data
reduction and analysis, and manuscript preparation. Students acquire many
experimental skills such as knowledge and use of electronics and computers,
and design and use of mechanical equipment. The variety of skills obtained is
reflected in the positions obtained by our graduate students after they finish
their Ph.D.s. While many are presently in academic positions, others have ended
up in such fields as geophysics, satellite communications, and medical physics.
Current physics research topics include:
- Hadronic charge exchange reactions at medium energies.
- Isovector components of nucleon-nucleon interaction.
- Nuclear matrix elements important in solar/galactic neutrino detection.
- Reaction rates relevant to stellar and primordial nucleosynthesis.
- Reactions of radioactive nuclei of importance to fast nucleosynthesis in
both stellar burning and primordial nucleosynthesis.
- Accelerator mass spectroscopic searches for supersymmetric and
strange particles..c.
- Relativistic heavy-ion collisions.
- Boson interferometry studies for pion/kaon source sizes.
- Transverse momentum distribution studies (pion, kaon, proton,
antiproton).
- Silicon drift detector development.
Created by: furnstah@mps.ohio-state.edu [29 October 94]