Orlando Gomez, a third-year graduate student working in the Nuclear Science Laboratory with Prof. Anna Simon, received the Glenn T. Seaborg Institute at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory “Nuclear Forensics Summer Internship”. The internship provides a stipend and travel cost reimbursement for a graduate student who is then paired with an LLNL scientist for a two-month …
Category Archive: News
Aug 07
CENTAUR
In April this year, my group joined the Center of Excellence CENTAUR funded by National Nuclear Security Administration at Texas A&M. Through the center, we will continue our work with the HYPERION array at the Texas A&M cyclotron to investigate the statistical properties of rare-earth nuclei. Such measurements provide constraints for the neutron capture cross …
Jun 29
REU 2018
May 04
COS Jam
Dec 07
Beam time with Hyperion
During the week of November 20, 2017, Nathan, Craig and myself went to Texas A&M to perform an experiment using the Hyperion array. With twelve clover detectors for gamma-rays and a deltaE-E telescope for particle id and energy, we measured (p,d) and (p,t) reactions for rare earth targets. The data will be utilized to extract …
Jul 28
p-process Workshop
The sixth p-process Workshop was held at the University of Notre Dame, June 29 – July 1, 2017. 35 participants from Europe and U.S. joined the meeting to talk about the recent progress in computational, experimental and theoretical efforts to understand the astrophysical p-process. The presentations from the meeting were commented on live via twitter! …
Jul 28
REU 2017
Joe Arroyo from Illinois Institute of Technology joined our group this summer as an REU student. During his second week, he took nightshifts for the experiment with HECTOR and learned how to operate a tandem Van de Graaff accelerator. His summer project was to figure out the efficiency of HECTOR after few modifications to the …
Oct 03
Post-doc
Farheen Naqvi has joined our group as a postdoctoral researcher. Formely at MSU and Yale, Farheen has worked in nuclear structure and astrophysics and will be working with the students helping them with data analysis.
Sep 12
NSF grant
Our group’s research has been granted a four-year funding from National Science Foundation. The grant provides salaries for the students and funds for isotopically enriched target materials that will be used for experiments with HECTOR.