Présidents de session
Session 2: Highlights from large scale facilities and laboratories
- Costel Petrache (IJCLab, Orsay, France)
A large body of experimental evidence and many theoretical models assessing shape-coexistence in the neutron-deficient Pb region has been acquired [1]. The quadrupole deformed shapes are associated with different intrinsic configurations that intrude down to energies close to the spherical ground state, resulting in a unique shape-triplet in $^{186}$Pb [2,3]. In the shell-model picture, the...
The HISPEC/DESPEC collaboration is a part of NUSTAR (NUclear STructure, Astrophysics and
Reactions), which constitutes one of the four scientific pillars of the international FAIR facility
currently under construction in Darmstadt, Germany. Experiments are divided into two main
areas: high-resolution in-flight spectroscopy (HISPEC) and stopped-beam experiments
(DESPEC).
In the future,...
GANIL/SPIRAL2 presently offers unique opportunities in nuclear physics and in many other fields that arise from not only the provision of low-energy stable beams, fragmentation beams, re-accelerated radioactive species, and recently neutron beams but also from the availability of a wide range of state-of-the-art spectrometers and instrumentation. A few examples of recent highlights will be...
The ATLAS facility at Argonne National Laboratory is a US DOE national user facility for low-energy nuclear physics. It provides the user community with any stable beam from proton to uranium at around Coulomb barrier energy, in addition to a suite of light radioactive beams produced in-flight by the RAISOR facility and heavier neutron-rich isotopes delivered at low or Coulomb barrier energy...
Among the different approaches to study the structure of nuclei, thermal neutron induced reactions can be used to probe different phenomena. Capture reactions on (rare) stable or radioactive targets populate low-spin states below the neutron separation energy. With thermal neutron induced fission on actinides, neutron-rich nuclei are populated at moderately high spin. Those reactions are used...
