Nuclear Experiments
FRIB will enable some pioneering experiments in nuclear astrophysics, measurements that will provide crucial information needed to understand how stars explode as well as numerous other astrohysical phenomena. Astrophysics-motivated experiments will likely be carried out at all the experimental halls at FRIB, over a very wide range of beam energies and species.
The following pages describe some general characteristics of a number of types of astrophysics-motivated experiments that will likely be carried out at FRIB:
direct measurements of capture reactions
transfer reaction measurements
scattering reaction measurements
mass, decay lifetime, and nuclear structure measurements
measurements of neutron-induced reactions
other measurements
It is desirable to formulate a list of representative FRIB experiments for each of these categories to help to continue to make the science case for FRIB and to determine performance specifications on experimental equipment.
There are a number of review articles describing these experiments. One such article is M.S. Smith and K.E. Rehm, "Nuclear Astrophysics Measurements with Radioactive Beams", Ann. Reviews Nuclear Particle Science 51 (2001) 91 - 130.
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