Experimental Nuclear Physics at Stony Brook Past, Present, and Future
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ExperimentalExperimental NuclearNuclear PhysicsPhysics atat StonyStony BrookBrook Past,Past, Present,Present, andand FutureFuture Prof. Gene D. Sprouse Stony Brook • Nov 24, 2006 4:00 pm Superconducting LINAC completed its last experiment at Stony Brook • This is an opportune time to review the history of the Van de Graaff and the LINAC and the people involved in their acquisition and operation, and to look into the future a little. Superconducting LINAC 1983 1975 Van de Graaff 1968 1966 Department of Physics 1964 Bob deZafra Alec Cliff Pond Arnie Swartz Peter Juliet Feingold Lee- Kahn Franzini Proposal for EN tandem Van de Graaff to SUNY-Alec Pond Van de Graaff proposal s person Time Line for proposal • 14 Dec 1962 Proposal prepared for EN (6MV) VdG. • 24 Jan 1963 NSF issues positive report on Nuc. Physics, proposing to double funding and make money available to build facilities • 13 Feb 1963 Provost Porter gets positive review Time Line for proposal • 14 Dec 1962 Proposal prepared for EN (6MV) VdG. • 24 Jan 1963 NSF issues positive report on Nuc. Physics, proposing to double funding and make money available to build facilities • 13 Feb 1963 Provost Porter gets positive review • 15 April 1964 State Legislature appropriates $1.35M for machine and ½ of the building, Time Line for proposal • 14 Dec 1962 Proposal prepared for EN (6MV) VdG. • 24 Jan 1963 NSF issues positive report on Nuc. Physics, proposing to double funding and make money available to build facilities • 13 Feb 1963 Provost Porter gets positive review • 15 April 1964 State Legislature appropriates $1.35M for machine and ½ of the building, • 27 October 1964 NSF grant for ½ of building ($291k) approved. Pond Proposes going for an FN(King) rather than an EN(Standard). This is known as “bait and switch” Time Line for proposal • 14 Dec 1962 Proposal prepared for EN (6MV) VdG. • 24 Jan 1963 NSF issues positive report on Nuc. Physics, proposing to double funding and make money available to build facilities • 13 Feb 1963 Provost Porter gets positive review • 15 April 1964 State Legislature appropriates $1.35M for machine and ½ of the building, other ½ ($291k) from NSF funding. • Jan 1 1965 First NSF research grant for $34,000 • Sept 1965 Lin Lee, Dave Fossan hired • Sept 1966 Peter Paul, Bob Weinberg hired • Oct 1966 Building started October-10-1966 (view from top of Harriman Hall toward Old Chemistry. Trees are site of Grad Chemistry building) November-10-1966 December-5-1966 February-1-1967 February-1-1967 Completed Van de Graaff building Trees at right rear of the building will become site of Grad Physics Building Delivery of the Van de Graaff tank We all live in a yellow submarine, Yellow submarine, yellow submarine, We all live in a yellow submarine, Yellow submarine, yellow submarine, Tank entering the building Current picture of the Van de Graaff Nuclear Experiment Facilities and Faculty 1965-2007 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 Van deGraaff FACULTY Robert Weinberg Linwood Lee David Fossan Peter Paul Robert McGrath Gene Sprouse resigned Van de Graaff Physics Programs Gamma Ray Spectroscopy Dave Fossan Giant Dipole Resonance Peter Paul Charged Particle Reactions Bob McGrath Lin Lee Nuclear moments and applications to Solid State, Atomic Physics Gene Sprouse Two PDP-9 computers from DEC, each costing $100,000. The “big” machine had 16k 18 bit memory cells, and the “small” one 8k! The machine ran 24-7, and we hired people to operate the machine at night. Dr. Ron Chestnut, Dr. Dan Dietrich, Livermore. CPE at SLAC (Metcalf student who did thesis with van de Graaff) Dr. Phil Goldstone, Los Alamos The lab ski trip Igloo 101 Prof. Steve Rolston, Assoc. Chairman, Univ of Fred Raab, head of the Md. LIGO Hanford Observatory (Metcalf student) Prof. Partha Chowdhury, Univ of Mass. Lowell Ehud Dafni, VP Business Development, CMT Dr. John Noe, Laser Teaching Center Prof. Gunter Schatz, Univ. Konstanz • Friedlander Panel on Future of Nuclear Science NAS/NRC, 1975–77 recommends that two University Van de Graaffs should get “booster accelerators” • Peter Paul motivates the group to compete for one of these two. • Collaboration initiated with Cal Tech to build a superconducting LINAC at Stony Brook(We could not buy LINAC like vdG) • Paul and Sprouse stop physics research to devote full time to the project To expedite the transfer of the superconducting resonator technology to Stony Brook, Sprouse spends a semester at Cal Tech. Whose car is this?? Collaboration with Cal Tech to build superconducting resonators • There were competing development proposals to NSF from: – Stanford(Hanna, Glavish and Ben Zvi) – Stony Brook(Paul and Sprouse) • Stony Brook won! Testing the Prototype superconducting resonator with beam Ilan BenZvi, Director of the Accelerator Test Facility, BNL Next step: Test a prototype module containing 3 resonators What is the difference between these two proposals? The advanced computer control system of the accelerator was developed primarily by a PhD. Student Dr. Alfred Scholldorf, VP for development at Reuters Joseph M. Brennan, AGS Department, BNL Mike Brennan and Chen Chia-erh, work on the beam sweeper Chen later becomes President of Beijing University and President of the Chinese Physical Society Linac room before 400 W Helium Refrigerator Installation Professor Miriam Rafailovich, Director, Garcia Center, Materials Science Department, Stony Brook Helium gas storage tank delivery Installation of Bob McGrath’s scattering chamber “big mac” Linac room before Linac room after • SCIENCE Volume 291, Number 5506, 9 Feb Starosta, Fossan, Koike, 2001, p. 962. LaFosse, Beausang, and Copyright © 2001 by The American Association Vaman for the Advancement of Science. • NUCLEAR PHYSICS: Nuclei Crash Through The Looking-Glass • David Voss • Gloves do it. Toupees do it. Even twists of DNA do it. And now, for the first time, physicists have discovered that atomic nuclei come in right- and left-handed models, too. In the 5 February issue of Physical Review Letters (PRL), a team of researchers from the State University of New York (SUNY), Yale, the University of Tennessee, and Notre Dame reports observations of rapidly spinning nuclei morphing into mirror-image forms. In the process, the physicists also uncovered solid evidence that a long-disputed feature of nuclear anatomy really does exist. Nuclear Lifetimes of Fr Isotopes (work done with Luis Orozco, now at UMd.) Made at Stony Brook Boulder 1.E+04 1.E+02 1.E+00 1.E-02 1.E-04 Lifetime(seconds) 1.E-06 1.E-08 205 209 221 213 217 201 225 229 Isotope Francium Atomic Level Scheme (work done with Luis Orozco, now at UMd.) 67.7+-2.9 ns 9s 7d 83.5±1.5 ns 5/2 107.53±0.90 ns. 8p3/2 7d3/2 8p1/2 73.60+-0.3 ns 149.3±3.5 ns 8s 53.48 +- 0.33 ns 6d5/2 6d3/2 7p3/2 21.02+-0.11 ns 7p1/2 29.45+-0.11 ns trapping transition 718 nm Found at Stony Brook Still unknown 7s Dave Fossan Bob McGrath Gene Sprouse Lin Lee Peter Paul Aniko Paul Dot Lee Carolyn McGrath Ann Fossan H’y Sprouse DAVID B. FOSSAN (1934-2003) 21 Ph.D. students, 17 postdoctorates, 260 refereed publications First recipient of “Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity” 1. Neutron Total Cross Sections of Be, 10B, B, C and O, D.B. Fossan and R.L. Walter, W.E. Wilson and H.H. Barschall, Phys. Rev. 123, 209 (1961). • 2. Differential Cross Sections for the T(p,n)3He Reaction, W.E. Wilson, • R.L. Walter and D.B. Fossan, Nucl. Phys. 27, 421 (1961). • 3. Rotational-State Lifetimes, D.B. Fossan and B. Herskind, Phys. Letters 2, 155 (1962). • 4. Half-Lives of Two Excited States in 172Yb, B. Herskind and D.B. Fossan, Nucl. Phys. 40, 489 (1963). • 5. Half-Lives of First Excited 2+ States (150<A<190), D.B. Fossan and B. Herskind, Nucl. Phys. 40, 24 (1963). • 6. Protons from the 63Cu(p,p) Reaction, N. Cindro, D.B. Fossan and D. Zastavnikovic, Nucl. Phys. 50, 281 (1964). • 7. Small-Angle Elastic Scattering of Neutrons and the Electric Polarizability of the Neutron, D.B. Fossan and M. Walt, Phys. Rev. Letters 12, 672 (1964). •. •. •. • 259. Signature inversion in doubly odd 124La H. J. Chantler, E. S. Paul, A. J. Boston, C. J. Chiara, P. T. W. Choy, A. Fletcher, D. B. Fossan, R. V.F. Janssens, N. S. Kelsall, T. Koike, D. R. LaFosse, P. J. Nolan, D. G. Sarantites, D. Seweryniak, J. F. Smith, K. Starosta, R. Wadsworth, and A. N. Wilson, Phys. Rev. C 66, 014311 (2002) • 260. Observation of excited states in the near-drip-line nucleus 125Pr A.N.Wilson, D.R.LaFosse, J.F.Smith, C.J.Chiara, A.J.Boston, M.P.Carpenter, H.J.Chantler, R.Charity, P.T.W.Choy, M.Devlin, A.M.Fletcher, D.B.Fossan, R.V.F.Janssens, D.G.Jenkins, N.S.Kelsall, F.G.Kondev, T.Koike, E.S.Paul, D.G.Sarantites, D.Seweryniak, K.Starosta, and R.Wadsworth, Phys.Rev. C66 , 021305 (2002) Dave Fossan, one of the creators of “Gammasphere” Funding/year $1,000,000 $2,000,000 $0 1965 NSF Funding of Nuclear Structure Laboratory Structure Nuclear of NSF Funding 1968 1971 1974 1977 1980 1983 ∫ = = Year 1986 1989 $ 1992 4 1.2Μ 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 Department Visiting Committee Comments on Nuclear Physics The Future: Linac: Beijing Atomic Energy Institute wishes to acquire the LINAC as a booster for their tandem. Van de Graaff: MARIACHI (Cosmic ray detectors for outreach to high schools) Tandem Teaching Lab (experiments for advanced laboratory, and C14 dating for outreach) Detector Research and Development A.