Applications of High-Precision Gamma-Spectroscopy

PROGRAM

Tuesday June 30, 1998
5:00 - 9:00 p.m. Reception and Registration
(Center for Continuing Education)
Wednesday July 1
Session Chair: A. Aprahamian - University of Notre Dame
8:45 - 9:00 Welcome - Prof. A.K. Hyder
V.P. of the Graduate School of Notre Dame
9:00 - 9:50 R. Deslattes
High-resolution gamma-spectroscopy: the first 85 years
9:50 - 10:30 E. Kessler
Precision Measurements of Fundamental Constrants Using GAMS4 I
10:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 11:40 M.S. Dewey
Precision Measurements of Fundamental Constrants Using GAMS4 II
11:40 - 12:20 M. Jentschel
The GRID-technique: current status and new trends
12:20 LUNCH
Session Chair: C.J. Lister - Argonne National Laboratory
14:00 - 14:50 D.D. Warner
Nuclear Structure: The Future with Radioactive Beams
14:50 - 15:20 J. Doering
Low-spin states from decay studies
15:20 - 16:00 R. Kruecken
Precision lifetime measurements using the Recoil Distance Method
16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:30 - 17:20 T. Glasmacher
High-resolution gamma-ray spectroscopy with fast exotic beams
17:20 - 18:00 C.Y. Wu
Sub-nanosecond lifetime measurements using the recoil distance method
Thursday July 2
Session Chair: M. Jentschel - Institute Laue Langevin
9:00 - 9:40 K.H. Heinig
Gamma-Ray Induced Doppler Broadening Measurements with Single-Crystalline Targets (Crystal-GRID)- the Principles
9:40 - 10:20 N. Stritt
Study of interatomic potentials using the Crystal-GRID method on oriented single crystals of Ni, Fe, and Cr
10:20 COFFEE BREAK
10:50 - 11:20 T. Koch
Study of Interatomic potentials in ZnS: Crystal-GRID experiments versus ab initio calculations
11:20 - 12:00 J. Jolie
Neutrino Induced Doppler Broadening
12:00 LUNCH
Session Chair: R.W. Hoff - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
14:00 - 14:50 G. Mathews
Current topics in Gamma-ray astrophysics
14:50 - 15:30 J. Goerres
Nuclear structure and Galactic gamma-ray activity
15:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 - 16:40 S. Robinson
GRID and the study of multiphonon states
16:40 - 17:10 F. Beçvar
Simulations of gamma-cascades and modelling atomic collision chains
17:10 - 17:35 R. de Haan
Lifetimes of states in 178Hf
17:35 - 18:00 R. Schwengner
Magnetic Rotation in the A=80 Region: M1 bands in heavy Rb isotopes
19:30 COOKOUT AND JAZZ BAND
Friday July 3
Session Chair: D.D. Warner - Daresbury Laboratory
9:00 - 9:50 C.J. Lister
How far from stability can we go using Gammasphere and the FMA?
9:50 - 10:30 S. Yates
Electric dipole transistion and octupole-coupled excitations in spherical nuclei
10:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 11:40 N.V. Zamfir
Phonons and Phase transitions in Finite Nuclei
11:40 - 12:10 W. Reviol
Measurements of dynamic electromagnetic moments in neutron-deficient nuclei
12:10 LUNCH
Session Chair: R.D. Deslattes - N.I.S.T.
14:00 - 14:40 R. Moreh
New nuclear resonance photon scattering studies of molecular adsorption and of single crystals
14:40 - 15:20 C. Doll
GAMS 5 - The new gamma-ray spectrometer in double-Dumond geometry at the ILL
15:20 COFFEE BREAK
15:50 - 16:30 G. Savard
High-accuracy mass measurements of trapped radioactive isotopes
16:30 - 17:10 D. Seweryniak
Studies of nuclear structure far from stability using the Recoil-Decay Tagging method
17:10 CLOSING REMARKS
19:00 WORKSHOP RECEPTION