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Current Status
I am a graduate student and a Research Assistant with the Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (INPP), Department of Physics and Astronomy of the Ohio University. My Advisor is Carl R. Brune.
Brief Statement of my Ph. D. research work
I am currently studying the level structure of 19Ne as it relates to nova nucleosynthesis.
The nuclear structure of 19Ne near the proton threshold is of interest for understanding the rates of proton-induced reactions on 18F in novae. Analogues for several states in the mirror nucleus 19F have not yet been identified in 19Ne, indicating the level structure of 19Ne in this region is incomplete. The proton-transfer 18F(d,n)19Ne and neutron-transfer 18F(d,p)19F reactions have been measured simultaneously at Ec.m. = 14.9 MeV. The experiments were performed at the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facilities of Oak Ridge National Laboratory by bombarding a 720-µg/cm2 CD2 target with a radioactive 18F beam. The 19Ne ions of interest are highly excited and promply decay by breakup into α and 15O particles. The same holds true for states in 19F which decays into α and 15N particles. These charged particles were detected in coincidence in position-sensitive E-ΔE silicon telescopes. The reconstruction of relative energy of the detected particles reveals the excited states of 19Ne and 19F which are populated.
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(1) Scattering chamber (2) Detectors configuration |
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(3) Inner telescope PIH
(4) Outer telescope PIH |
The Figures above are; (1) the experiment scattering chamber, (2) the detectors configuration, while (3) and (4) are the particle identification histograms for the inner and outer telecopes respectively.
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