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The Nuclear Structure Research Group maintains CHICO, Rochester's position-sensitive heavy-ion auxiliary detector for Gammasphere. CHICO specifications and performance information can be found in the NIM paper. |
- Research Interests
- - Nuclear structure, such as mixing phenomena and K-isomers in collective nuclei
- - Multistep Coulomb excitation analysis
- Education
- - Ph.D. in nuclear physics, University of Rochester, 2005
- - B.S. in physics, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1996
- Experience
- - Former co-op student, Lockheed-Martin
(then Martin-Marietta) in Oak Ridge, TN. 1993—1995 - News
- - Get the latest updates of GOSIA, the Coulomb excitation least-squares search code.
- - The Gammasphere video
- - August, 2008: Experiment at ATLAS with CHICO and Gammasphere, "Direct measurement of the GSB-->K=16+ isomer band matrix elements in 178Hf"
- - The first TIGRESS experiment at ISAC-II
- Recent talks
- - June 3 — 6, 2008: Talk on 242Am results at the Nuclear Structure 2008 conference
- - June 21 — 26, 2009: Poster and contributed talk at the Gordon Research Conference in Nuclear Chemistry on ongoing 242mAm work
| CHICO (Rochester) | TRIUMF | ATLAS | Gammasphere | TIGRESS | Bambino (Rochester/ LLNL) |
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