Nuclear reactions with exotic beams studied with the Ge Miniball detector

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Promoter: Piet Van Duppen, Mark Huyse

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Description: This position is related to the FWO-project “Nuclear reactions with exotic beams studied with the Ge Miniball detector” and is open for a starting Ph.D student. Fundamental research will be conducted in low-energy nuclear physics by using intense beams of exotic nuclei. The experimental work is part of several European collaborations which make use of accelerated beams of ISOLDE, CERN (Genève, CH), GSI (Darmstadt, D), JYFL (Jyväskylä, FI) and LISOL (Louvain-la-Neuve, B). The aim is to manipulate radioactive ion beams through capturing, cooling and post-acceleration and use these prepared beams for decay- and reaction studies.

Key words: experimental nuclear physics, exotic nuclei, nuclear structure, radioactive ion beams

Latest application date: 2009-12-31

Financing: available

Type of Position: scholarship


Research group: Department of Physics and Astronomy

Remarks: IMPORTANT: This position is in the group of "Nuclear Spectroscopy" of the "Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica". The group consists of some 14 researchers. The experiments are performed at different large-scale facilities and require short stays (typically 2 weeks per experimental campaign).
The candidate will also have a limited number of didactical tasks within the department of physics and astronomy.