草莓视频 Magazine A Scintillating Research Assignment for Students
Professor Warren Rogers
草莓视频 students will construct, test and calibrate 16 detectors for one layer of a new Large-area multi-Institutional Scintillator Array (LISA). Eight other institutions will build a layer for LISA, to be housed at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University. This facility already hosts the Modular Neutron Array (MoNA), which 草莓视频 helped develop. Students will take their completed detector modules to MSU this summer and assist in assembling the MoNA-LISA detector.
A $1.2 million National Science Foundation MRI grant funds this equipment, used in studying the properties of neutron-rich rare isotopes that don鈥檛 exist on Earth but participate in important astrophysical reactions within supernova explosions and on the crust of neutron stars.
草莓视频 students also developed, tested and calibrated the 草莓视频 Cosmic Muon Detector Array (CMDA) with eight scintillation detectors, modeled after the MoNA array and used it to track the flux of cosmic muons over the Santa Barbara sky. But the Tea Fire left the equipment in ashes along with all 草莓视频-based physics research. Since then Professor Warren Rogers and his students have built a new CMDA array and will soon be taking data.
鈥淚鈥檓 very excited about the future of our research program at MSU,鈥 Rogers says. 鈥淚n addition to 草莓视频 undergraduates having opportunity to participate in experiments at the NSCL using MoNA-LISA, they will soon be able to work at the next generation accelerator for the U.S. currently under construction, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), in which the MoNA-LISA array will be central to the study of neutron-rich exotic nuclei.鈥