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Academic Lectures
Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy with Radioactive Ion Beams at TRIUMF
Department / Organization: Nuclear Science and Engineering
Professor Carl Svensson, University of Guelph. 4 pm Wednesday Nov. 15, Hill Hall 202
Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy Research with Radioactive Ion Beams at TRIUMF-ISAC Carl Svensson, Professor, Department of Physics University of Guelph
4 pm Wednesday November 15, 2023 Hill Hall 202
The Isotope Separator and Accelerator (ISAC) facility located at the TRIUMF laboratory in Vancouver, Canada, is an advanced radioactive ion beam facility of the Isotope Separation On-Line type. Intense beams of rare isotopes are produced by bombarding thick production targets with up to 100 uA of 500 MeV protons from the TRIUMF main cyclotron. These isotopes are ionized, mass-separated, and delivered to a variety of experimental facilities in the form of high-quality, low-energy ion beams which support a diverse program of nuclear structure, nuclear astrophysics, fundamental symmetries, and condensed matter research. The rare isotope beams can also be accelerated through a series of room temperature and superconducting linear accelerators to energies relevant to nucleosynthesis in explosive astrophysical environments, and beyond to energies above the Coulomb barrier.
This presentation will focus on the gamma-ray spectroscopy research programs with both low-energy radioactive ion beams at ISAC-I and accelerated beams at ISAC-II. The high-efficiency GRIFFIN and TIGRESS gamma-ray spectrometers will be described and recent highlights from the nuclear structure, nuclear astrophysics, and fundamental symmetries research programs with them will be presented.
