Conveners
Facilities, Camapigns, and Devices
- Walter Reviol
The University of Kentucky Accelerator Laboratory (UKAL) celebrates the 60th year of continuous operation of its 7 MV model CN VDG accelerator in 2024. While the laboratory’s capabilities at low energy are quite broad, neutron induced reactions and neutron scattering investigations have dominated the UKAL scientific program for the last 30 years. Nuclear structure investigations using the...
The HIE-ISOLDE facility began operations in 2016 and ran has delivered beams from across the whole chart of nuclides from 7Be up to 228Ra, accelerated by the four superconducting cryomodules to energies ranging from 2 MeV/u up to 9.8 MeV/u for 28Mg.
There are three permanent experimental setups at the end of HIE-ISOLDE's beam lines with the Miniball gamma-ray spectrometer taking most of the...
In April 2022, AGATA, the European Ge-array at the forefront of gamma detection technology [1,2] was installed at LNL. Based on the new concept of gamma-ray tracking, it can identify the gamma interaction points (pulse shape analysis) and reconstruct via software the trajectories of the individual photons (gamma-ray tracking). Shortly thereafter a physics campaign has started using stable...
The neutron-deficient region of the nuclear chart in the vicinity of the doubly magic nucleus 100Sn is of great interest in nuclear structure physics. Measurement of the decay properties of the spherical N ≈ Z ≈ 50 nuclei in this region acts as a direct test of the shell model around the major shell closures, and can assist in establishing the location of the proton drip-line. An experiment at...
The search for the mechanisms to drive the possible shell evolution phenomena is ongoing. Originally and up to date, two mechanisms are considered. The first one, is the so called monopole migration [1], which acts for both proton and neutron-rich nuclei, and the second one, the shell quenching due to a softening of the potential shape that results from the presence of an excessive number of...
