Introduction to the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory John Kelley NCSU and TUNL Overview of TUNL Physics Program Emphasis on neutron induced partial cross section measurements

Laboratory Tandem Accelerator Laboratory High Intensity  -ray Source (HIGS) Lab for Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics Low background Radiation Counting Area Offsite projects: Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, KamLAND, JLab, Argonne Nat’l Lab, etc…

Physicists at TUNL (highlights) Nuclear Astrophysics Weak Interactions studies Fundamental Quantity Measurements Nucleon Structure Few-nucleon Interactions Nuclear Spectroscopy Nuclear Reactions Studies

LENA Formation of the elements attracts our curiosities Measurements of relevant Astrophysical Reaction rates are very difficult –Rates change drastically with energy (star temperature) –Low energies are most important –Hindered by Coulomb force Energy (keV)

LENA

Weak Interaction Studies

Fundamental Physics Quantities EDM

HIGS Laboratory

Nucleon Structure

Nuclear Spectroscopy

Nuclear Astrophysics

Tandem Vander graph Lab

Few-body dynamics n-d breakup For the simple 3-body system, we are unable to calculate simple observables.

Few-body dynamics

Nuclear Spectroscopy Nuclear Resonance Flouresence –Resonant  -ray scattering

Before too long things are out of control