Tenth Exotic Beam Summer School - EBSS2011

The aim of this annual school is to educate young researchers on the excitement and challenges of radioactive ion beam physics. Through these schools, the research community will be able to more fully exploit the opportunities created by the next generation exotic beam facilities, such as the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB). A unique feature of this summer school series is the hands-on activities where students spend their afternoons in the lab of a radioactive beam facility, learning about the techniques and instrumentation needed to carry out experiments with unstable beams.

The EBSS series is sponsored by the US Department of Energy and National Science Foundation, and the following laboratories: Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the National Superconduction Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University. EBSS directors are Mike Carpenter (ANL), Augusto Macchiavelli (LBNL), Michael Smith (ORNL) Mark Stoyer (LLNL) and Remco Zegers (NSCL/MSU). Raman Anantaraman and Remco Zegers are the local organizers for EBSS2011 (contact ebss2011@nscl.msu.edu)

PDF versions of the full lectures can be downloaded by clicking the titles.

• W. Nazarewicz, University of Tennessee/ORNL - Physics with Rare Isotope beams, an overview
• A. Volya, Florida State University - Nuclear Structure (Theory)
• I.-Y. Lee, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Nuclear Structure (Experiments)
• I. Thompson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Nuclear Reactions (Theory)
• J. Cizewski, Rutgers University - Nuclear Reactions (Experiment)
• E. Rehm, Argonne National Laboratory - Nuclear Astrophysics
• E. Hartouni, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Role of nuclear physics research in nuclear nonproliferation, stewardship and homeland security
• B. Sherrill, Michigan State University - Accelerators and Beams
• P. Mantica, Michigan State University - Laser spectroscopy with Rare Isotope Beams
• D. Seweryniak, Argonne National Laboratory - Experimental techniques
• D. Weisshaar, NSCL - Gamma-ray spectroscopy
• D. Morrissey, Michigan State University - Planning for a standard A1900 experiment

In the afternoons, participants in the school will work in groups to prepare for an experiment with the Coupled Cyclotron Facility and the A1900 Fragment Separator at the last day of the school. The group activities will be guided by NSCL staff and include:

• Beam Optics (T. Baumann)
• Rare isotope production simulations with LISE (O. Tarasov)
• Control Systems (T. Ginter)
• Electronics (D. Weisshaar)
• DAQ/Analysis (R. Fox)
• Particle Identification at the A1900 (A. Stolz)