Laser spectroscopy for nuclear structure physics

Physics Today Higher precision in nuclear spectroscopy

Laser Induced Nuclear Physics and Applications

Laser induced beams of protons, neutrons and gamma rays using short pulse lasers is currently important principally because of the potential applications e.g. isotope production, transmutation studies, laser induced fission, heavy ion fusion reactions, neutron production and radiography, fast ignitor and spallation studies of neutrons. Although the Strathclyde group in collaboration with teams ...

Nuclear Structure, Random Interactions and Mesoscopic Physics

Standard concepts of nuclear physics explaining the systematics of ground state spins in nuclei by the presence of specific coherent terms in the nucleon-nucleon interaction were put in doubt by the observation that these systematics can be reproduced with high probability by randomly chosen rotationally invariant interactions. We review the recent development in this area, along with new origi...

Lecture Notes in Nuclear Structure Physics

Shaped Femtosecond Laser Pulse Spectroscopy for Nuclear Forensics

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is a type of atomic emission spectroscopy which utilizes the emissions produced by a laser-produced plasma. A pulsed laser is focused onto a sample with enough energy to ablate the material and generate plasma. Light from the plasma is collected by an optical system and transported to a spectrometer for spectral analysis, which can yield elemental and...