Experimental Nuclear Physics
Overview
The focus of our group remains the understanding of the strong interaction in the nuclear medium. Our intention is to measure the elementary amplitudes for meson photoproduction and baryon excitation on the nucleon and see how they are modified in the nuclear medium, particularly in the light nuclei, where the nuclear density changes dramatically with very little change in nuclear size.
The focus of our group remains the understanding of the strong interaction in the nuclear medium.
Our Data Analysis Center is operated under the auspices of The George Washington University Institute for Nuclear Studies.
About Our Work
Our emphasis is the study of the nucleon and few-body nuclei with electromagnetic probes. In the past, we have complemented these efforts with key measurements with hadronic probes (pion scattering from few-body nuclei, radiative pion capture on the proton) and/or on very heavy nuclei (photofission on the actinides and pre-actinides) as well, but most of these results are now published or submitted for publication, and this aspect of our program is occupying a smaller fraction of our effort as time goes on.
At the same time, we have been building up our computational resources and expertise, so that now we have at our command a substantial array of modern workstations and PCs. We now have developed a massively parallel computational installation capable of analyzing several terabytes of data. We now also have the use of the multi-terabyte GW data-storage silo. Hand in glove with this buildup has been the establishment of the GW Data Analysis Center, as part of our Center for Nuclear Studies, at our Virginia Campus.
We continue to receive support from the George Washington University, as well as from Jefferson Lab.
Training Students and Postdocs
Faculty
- Evangeline Downie
- Gerald Feldman
- Allena Opper
- Igor Strakovsky