PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

Thursday, October 5, 2006

4:10P.M.

1415 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg.

Refreshments at 3:30p.m. in Rm. 1400 BPS Bldg.


Speaker:  Georg Bollen
          Michigan State University

Title:    LEBIT - Smashed Atoms Tamed

Abstract:

With the Low-Energy Beam and Ion Trap facility LEBIT at the NSCL we have
demonstrated that rare isotopes produced by fast-beam fragmentation can
be slowed down and prepared such that high-precision experiments with
ions at rest become possible. Penning trap mass measurements performed
on short-lived rare isotopes provide important information for the test
of fundamental interactions, for nuclear structure studies and for
nuclear astrophysics. The results obtained with LEBIT will be summarized
and discussed together with future plans to extend the new low-energy
physics program at the NSCL.