CENPA 2011 Annual Report
INTRODUCTIONThe Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, CENPA, was establishedin 1998 at the University of Washington as the institutional home for a broad program ofresearch in nuclear physics, astrophysics and related fields. Research activities are conductedlocally and at remote sites. CENPA has been a major participant in the Sudbury NeutrinoObservatory (SNO) and is presently contributing substantially to the KATRIN tritium betadecay experiment, the MAJORANA 76 Ge double beta decay experiment, and the SNO+ 150 Nddouble beta decay experiment in Canada. With the arrival of the Muon Physics group fromIllinois we have new activities at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland, and developmentof a new program to measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon at Fermilab. Thefundamental symmetries program also includes “in-house” research using the local tandemVan de Graaff accelerator, and neutron physics at other locations. We conduct user-moderesearch on relativistic heavy ions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven.[EXCERPT from Annual Report 2011 Introduction]http://www.npl.washington.edu/annualreport2011