Brad Sherrill
Michigan State University
Friday, September 14, 2007
4:00 pm in SPL 57
Femtotechnology: Prospects and progress in creating designer nuclei
Abstract: Over the past 5 to 10 years tremendous progress has been made in techniques to produce new, exotic atomic nuclei. The talk will include a brief review of some of these advances and concentrate on some of the scientific results in nuclear and astrophysics that have resulted. These results include the discovery that the magic numbers for atomic nuclei are not constant, and that the nucleus may be able to bind many more neutrons than previously thought. The prospects for future advances will also be presented along with the potential impact this will have on astrophysics.
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