Session B4: Astrophysics

10:30 AM–11:54 AM, Friday, October 6, 2006
Eccles Conference Center - Room 305

Chair: Tom Tierney, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Abstract: B4.00002 : Low energy accelerator for studying laboratory nuclear astrophysics.

10:42 AM–10:54 AM

Preview Abstract

Authors:

  Matthew R. Nerdin
  John E. Ellsworth
  Steven E. Jones
    (Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University)

We present progress on the development of research equipment to study laboratory nuclear astrophysics reactions by bombarding deuterided metallic targets with accelerated ions. This effort consists of constructing a low energy accelerator and the initial testing of specialized low-rate, neutron and charged-particle detectors.