Download Whitepaper

The whitepaper is composed of multiple sections including introductory material and more comprehensive descriptions of the scientific motivation and technical plans for the Isotope Science Facility (ISF). Below, readers have the choice to download specific sections or the entire whitepaper.

Individual sections of the whitepaper

• Index, Preface, Acknowledgements
  (PDF 0.2 MByte)

• Executive summary (PDF < 0.1 MByte)
• Introduction and overview (PDF 2.7 MByte)
• Physics of nuclei (PDF 5.8 MByte)
• Nuclear astrophysics (PDF 1.2 MByte)
• Studies of fundamental interactions
  (PDF 0.2 MByte)

• Isotope Science Facility (PDF 11.9 MByte)
• Future upgrade options (PDF 5.0 MByte)
• NSCL site option (PDF 6.0 MByte)
• Project cost estimate (PDF 2.2 MByte)
• Epitome (PDF < 0.1 MByte)
• References (PDF 0.3 MByte)
• Abbreviations (PDF 0.2 MByte)

Complete whitepaper

• Isotope Science Facility at Michigan State University: Upgrade of the NSCL rare isotope research capabilities (PDF 35.4 MByte)