1. 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

5. 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…

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

8. 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)

9. LENA

10. Weak Interaction Studies

12. Fundamental Physics Quantities EDM

13. HIGS Laboratory

15. Nucleon Structure

17. Nuclear Spectroscopy

19. Nuclear Astrophysics

21. Tandem Vander graph Lab

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

23. Few-body dynamics

24. Nuclear Spectroscopy Nuclear Resonance Flouresence –Resonant  -ray scattering

29. Before too long things are out of control