Many-Body Nuclear Dynamics Group:

What's New

09/10/07

Posted pictures from Summer 2007 Experiment at GANIL in France, and reorganized photos section

Updated info on group members

10/14/06

New manuscript on Proximity Decay and Tidal Effects (nucl-ex/0607028) pdf

Updated Info on group members

Started Web page detailing E432a preparations

Modified decription of the Research section

Updated de Souza Publication list, CV

12/17/04

Updated Photo gallery of progress in the lab -- Reassembling ISiS!

Finally a picture of Alan Mcintosh! After his first semester of graduate studies at IU.

11/19/04

Added Presentations given at DNP04, Chicago, Illinois

See the characteristic values of the IU Pre-amplifiers

Schematic of the IU Low pressure Gas Handling System

Learn about the analog electronics under development in the group. IU Multiplexed Analog Shaped Electronics

10/16/04

Added Photo gallery of progress in the lab preparing for E432

Fixed navigation problem on some pages

10/1/04

Breakup Densities of Hot Nuclei, V.E. Viola et al. published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 93.

9/1/04

Manuscript on Interplay of initial deformation and Coulomb proximity on nuclear decay, S. Hudan et al., accepted by Phys. Rev. C for publication as a Rapid Communication.

Alan McIntosh joins the nuclear chemistry graduate program!

Welcome to Carl Metelko

, fresh from his PhD at the University of Birmingham.

Updated photos of group members

Added photos of new mechanical setup of FIRST + LASSA + ISiS (preparation for E432).

Updated "to do" list for E432

Updated RdS publication list

6/22/04

Recent publication in Phys. Rev. C 69, Moving-source and caloric-curve analyses of reactions induced by 1.8-4.8 GeV ⁴He beams on ^natAg and¹⁹⁷Au nuclei, D.S. Bracken et al.
Chapter in recently published book: The Handbook of Nuclear Chemistry, Nuclear Reactions, V.E. Viola , A. Vertes, S. Nagy and Z Klencsar (eds.), pp. 137-189, 2003. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Link to talk by V.E. Viola at the 8th Intl. Conf on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions in Moscow (June 2003)

5/19/2004

Added photos and updated Contacts page (Congratulations to Todd Bredeweg to being promoted to Staff Scientist at LANL!)
Submitted manuscript: Interplay of initial deformation and Coulomb proximity on nuclear decay, S. Hudan et al.
Updated Publication list
Updated Presentations

8/1/2003

Updated progress on HIRA and FIRST with new photographs
Updated Publication list
Updated Presentations

2/23/2003

Seminar at IUCF by R. de Souza: Formation and decay of highly excited nuclear matter in intermediate energy heavy-ion collisions

10/30/2002

Article published in Nuclear Physics News, The Nuclear Liquid-Gas Phase Transition: Studies with the ISiS Array, by V.E. Viola and K. Kwiatkowski.
Recent publication in Phys. Rev. C 66 Caloric curve of 8 GeV/c ..., A. Ruangma et al.

10/22/2002

New information on Graduate Research Projects
Updated information about FIRST (under Instrumentation)

09/28/2002

Added information about FIRST (under Instrumentation)

09/12/2002

Added recent publications
- Fragment Isospin as a Probe of Heavy-ion Collisions.
- Fragment Production in Non-central Collisions of Intermediate Energy Heavy Ions
Added presentations at Gordon Conference 2002 (S. Hudan) and ACS Symposium on "Nuclei and Nuclear Matter at the Limits of Stability" (S. Hudan, R. Yanez, and V.E. Viola)
link to V.E. Viola's talk at the Boston ACS meeting, August 2002
"Teaching nuclear science in a nucleosynthesis context".

07/29/2002

New PRC publication
Updated version: THE NUCLEAR LIQUID-GAS PHASE TRANSITION (invited talk by V.E. Viola at the Canadian Association of Physicists Congress, June 2002)

02/16/2002

Upgraded general layout and graphics of site.
Added Theses section
Updated Publication links

01/28/2002

ISiS RESULTS

Nuclei Go Through Phases, Jan. 8, 2002 Physics News Updates
Evaporating Nuclei Yield their Sources, Jan. 22, 2002, Science Now
Alchemy for beginners. To turn base metals into gold, first boil your nuclei
Added several new publications (see Viola Publications and ISiS Research Highlights)
Some "Contacts" have changed

07/20/2001

Added preprint "Fragment Isospin as a Probe of Heavy-Ion Collisions" to Publication/Preprint section.