angular correlations in the beta decays of 8Li and 8B
University of Washington Nuclear Physics Laboratory 1996 Annual Report
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Sect 1. Fundamental Symmetries, Weak Interactions and Nuclear Astrophysics
Page 1
Sect 1.1 Measurements of the
angular correlations in the beta decays of 8Li and 8B
Page 2
Sect 1.2 Calibration method for the 
-counters in the Mass-8 experiment
Page 3
Sect 1.3 Effect of the energy loss of
the 
- particles
on the angular
correlation in Mass-8
Page 4
Sect 1.4 The 
decay of 100Mo
to the first excited 0+ state of 100Ru
Page 5
Sect 1.5 The 
correlation in the superallowed decays of
32Ar and 33Ar
Page 6
Sect 1.6 The
correlation in 8Li decay
Page 7
Sect 1.7 Target composition studies relevant to a proposed
7Be
8B cross section
measurement
Page 8 Sect 1.8 An apparatus to measure the PNC spin rotation of cold neutrons in a liquid helium target
Page 9 Sect 1.9 Time reversal in neutron beta decay--the emiT experiment
Page 10 Sect 1.10 A custom VME-based data acquisition system for the emiT experiment
Page 11 Sect 1.11 Progress with a spin-polarized torsion pendulum
Page 12 Sect 1.12 Progress with the rotating-source torsion balance experiment
Page 13 Sect 1.13 Construction of a new rotating torsion balance
Page 14 Sect 1.14 A new technique for measuring Newton's constant G
Page 15 Sect 2.1 Neutral current detector project at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO)
Page 16 Sect 2.2 SNO NCD electronics
Page 17 Sect 2.3 SNO data acquisition system
Page 18 Sect 2.4 SNO DAQ hardware module support
Page 19 Sect 2.5 The miniSNO detector and test facility
Page 20 Sect 2.6 Extensions to the SNO DAQ software
Page 21 Sect 2.7 Progress on the acrylic vessel for the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Page 22 Sect 2.8 Development of a compact 20 MeV gamma-ray source for energy calibration at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Page 23 Sect 2.9 SAGE: The Russian American Gallium Experiment
Sect 3. Nucleus-Nucleus Reactions
Page 24 Sect 3.1 Entrance channel effects of light charged particle emission from the 156Er compound nucleus
Page 25 Sect 3.2 The Giant Dipole Resonance and bremsstrahlung in 16,18O + 92,100Mo reactions
Page 26 Sect 3.3 Distributions of fusion barriers for systems involving targets with prolate and oblate static quadrupole deformation
Page 27 Sect 3.4 Fusion reactions for 40Ca + 46,48,50Ti at energies close to the Coulomb barrier
Page 28 Sect 3.5 Temperature dependence of the level density parameter
Page 29 Sect 3.6 Quasi-fission with A < 20 projectiles
Page 30 Sect 3.7 Light charged particles from 19F+181Ta reactions leading to evaporation residues
Page 31 Sect 3.8 Disappearance of entrance channel dependence of fission fragment anisotropies at above-barrier energies
Page 32 Sect 3.9 Scaling of high energy fission anisotropies
Page 33 Sect 3.10 APEX recent results
Sect 4. Ultra-Relativistic Heavy Ions
Page 34 Sect 4.1 URHI overview
Page 35 Sect 4.2 First physics from NA49 lead beam operation at the CERN SPS
Page 36 Sect 4.3 Event-by-event correlation analysis for NA49
Page 37 Sect 4.4 Formalism and simulations of multiparticle Bose-Einstein correlations including coherence and contamination effects
Page 38 Sect 4.5 Multiparticle HBT for single event physics?
Page 39 Sect 4.6 A fast temperature extraction algorithm for single event physics
Page 40 Sect 4.7 Fourier ripples in multiparticle Bose-Einstein correlations
Page 41 Sect 4.8 STAR trigger algorithms
Page 42 Sect 4.9 NA49 main TPC tracking software
Page 43 Sect 4.10 NA49 geometry determination
Page 44 Sect 4.11 NA49 event display
Page 45 Sect 4.12 Experience with SControl in the 1995 NA49 run
Page 46 Sect 4.13 STAR TPC fast simulator
Page 47 Sect 4.14 STAR TPC high voltage regulation system
Page 48 Sect 4.15 A vertex silicon detector (VSD) for CERN experiment NA49
Page 49 Sect 4.16 Energy deposition by low energy electron in Ar and other gases
Sect 5. Atomic and Molecular Clusters
Page 50
Sect 5.1 
beam by electron bombardment
of C60 vapor
Page 51 Sect 5.2 A gas target for atomic cluster fragmentation
Sect 6. Electronics, Computing and Detector Infrastructure
Page 52 Sect 6.1 Electronic equipment
Page 53 Sect 6.2 VAX-based acquisition systems
Page 54 Sect 6.3 Analysis and support system developments
Page 55 Sect 6.4 NSAC - a personal computer based data acquisition program
Page 56 Sect 6.5 A high resolution particle detector using a PIN photodiode
Page 57 Sect 6.6 Design of a long gas cell for measuring the gamma ray spectrum from 8Be
Page 58 Sect 6.7 New 3-spectrometer setup and beamline for high energy gamma ray experiments
Sect 7. Van de Graaff, Superconducting Booster and Ion Sources
Page 59 Sect 7.1 Van de Graaff accelerator operations and development
Page 61 Sect 7.2 Booster operations
Page 62 Sect 7.3 High energy buncher operating at 13/12 the linac frequency
Page 63 Sect 7.4 13/12 buncher electronic upgrade
Page 64 Sect 7.5 Tandem terminal ion source
Page 65 Sect 7.6 Cryogenic operating experience
Page 66 Sect 8. Nuclear Physics Laboratory Personnel (photo)
Page 68 Sect 9. Degrees Granted Academic Year 1995-1996
Page 69 Sect 10. List of Publications from 1995-1996