Conveners
Session 2: Facilities and Instrumentation
- Andrew Stuchbery (The Australian National University)
The scientific programme of the laboratory includes experimental research in the synthesis and studies of nuclear physics and chemical properties of new superheavy elements, fusion and fission reactions and multi-nucleon transfer in heavy-ion collisions; studies of the properties of nuclei on the border of the nucleon stability and mechanisms of nuclear reactions with accelerated radioactive...
The experimental investigation of nuclear shapes remained one of the fascinating field of research in nuclear structure research. Normally, the deformed shapes are expected in nuclei with mid-shell nucleon numbers, away from the magic numbers. However, for nuclei close to either proton or neutron shell closures, interesting structural effects are observed. In addition to axially symmetric...
iThemba LABS has pioneered a mobile gamma-ray detection unit[1] which allows a user to operate in the field and chart the location, strength and energy of gamma radiation. The system incorporates a sensitive scintillation detector[2] typically used for accelerator-based spectroscopy at the SSC laboratory and was integrated into a backpack incorporating a fast 125 MHz digitiser for readout and...
