University of
Notre Dame
College of
Science
Department of
Physics


Nuclear Seminar

 

Nuclear Structure results with RISING at GSI and future plans at FAIR


Dr. Plamen Boutachkov
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany


Monday, April 7, 2008   4:00 p.m.   NSH 124
(Refreshments served prior to seminar in NSH 124)

 

The Rare ISotopes INvestigation (RISING) project combines the FRagment Separator(FRS) at GSI with a high-efficiency Germanium array. The project focuses on studies of shell evolution far off stability, pn-pairing, symmetries and nuclear shapes utilising projectile fission and fragmentation beams.

The Germanium setup has been used in three different geometries, optimized for stopped beams,  g-factor measurements and scattering experiments at relativistic energies. The stopped beam setup provides the highest absolute photo-peak g-efficiency of 15% at 1.3 MeV, and was used for isomer and beta decay studies.

Since 2003 the RISING collaboration obtained numerous experimental results[1].  The successful experimental program  promoted the development of the HISPEC/DISPEC project [2],  which is planed for the future FAIR/NUSTAR facility [3].

Highlights of resent results obtained with the RISING stopped beam setup along the N=Z line and the structure of the N=126 isotones will be presented. An overview of the current development and the future plans for  HISPEC/DISPEC will be discussed .

[1] http://www-linux.gsi.de/~wolle/EB_at_GSI/index.html
[2] http://www-linux.gsi.de/~wwwnustar/tech_report/09-hispec_despec.pdf
[3] http://www.gsi.de/fair/reports/index.html

 

 

All interested persons are cordially invited to attend.