Summer Research at Los Alamos National Laboratory
The proton linear accelerator at LANSCE is one of the highest
powered in the world. It can produce proton beams of up to
800 MeV energy and currents up to 1 mA -- that's almost a
megawatt of power in the beam! The high energy protons are
used to produce neutrons in a spallation target. Low
energy neutrons are produced for experiments at the Lujan
Neutron Scattering Center while experiments using high energy
neutrons are performed at the WNR facility. We have collaborated with researchers from MIT, LANL and the University of Kentucky on measurements of the three-nucleon force, the D++ component of the 3He nucleus, the p(n,dg) reaction, and neutron capture on 151Sm. The students in this program work on nearly every aspect of the experiment, including assembling electronics and detectors, writing code, and analyzing data.  |
Each
summer, Houghton professor Dr. Mark Yuly directs the work of his
students at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in Los
Alamos New Mexico, where they participate in nuclear physics
experiments at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE).
