SUNY Geneseo Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
Thursdays, 4:00 p.m., in Newton 204. (There will be refreshments!)
(See Colloquia List for the Full Semester)
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“Nuclear Physics using Lasers” -or- “Why spend a year on your experiment when it can be done in a nanosecond?” |
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by Dr. Mark Yuly |
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Thursday October 31, 2024 at 4:00 pm in Newton 204 Abstract: For 100 years particle accelerators have been the way to go in nuclear physics, responsible for almost all of the progress that has been made, but they have some disadvantages. Particle accelerators shoot a beam of particles at a target, causing nuclear reactions to occur one at a time, and making experiments require hours, days, or even years. What if we could do the whole experiment in a nanosecond? In this presentation I will explain several ways high-power ultrashort pulse lasers might be used to measure nuclear cross sections that cannot easily be measured with conventional techniques. An overview of the development and testing of the Short -Lived Isotope Counting System (SLICS) will be presented. This detector system was created over the past seven years by faculty and students from SUNY Geneseo and Houghton University, and scientists from the Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE), for use with the OMEGA-60, OMEGA-EP and MTW laser systems. |
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