Third RIA Summer School on Exotic Beam Physics

The third annual RIA Summer School on Exotic Beam Physics was held at Argonne National Laboratory from August 8-14, 2004, at the ATLAS Facility on the campus of Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois. The aim of the summer school series is to nurture future RIA scientists so that the community will have sufficient manpower to effectively use RIA when it comes online. The RIA summer school is jointly organized by LBNL's 88-Inch Cyclotron, ANL's ATLAS, ORNL's HRIBF, and MSU's NSCL, and is an annual event, rotating among these laboratories.

In years to come, substantial progress in low-energy nuclear physics will have a broad impact on society, ranging from our understanding of the origin of the elements to the enhancement of National Security. An important element in this task will be to extend the study of nuclei into new domains of isospin. This will require new radioactive ion beam facilities, together with advanced multi-detector arrays and mass spectrometers.

Based on the outstanding scientific opportunities that would be enabled by an advanced radioactive ion beam facility, the Rare Isotope Accelerator (RIA) project was ranked among the top three priorities in the Department of Energy 20-Year Science Facility Plan.

(see http://www.sc.doe.gov/Sub/Facilities_for_future/facilities_future.htm). The RIA concept brings together a unique combination of technologies to produce high-quality beams of short-lived nuclei of all chemical elements at intensities far exceeding what is currently available.


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	The third annual RIA Summer School on Exotic Beam Physics was held at Argonne National Laboratory from August 8-14, 2004, at the ATLAS Facility on the campus of Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois. The aim of the summer school series is to nurture future RIA scientists so that the community will have sufficient manpower to effectively use RIA when it comes online. The RIA summer school is jointly organized by LBNL's 88-Inch Cyclotron, ANL's ATLAS, ORNL's HRIBF, and MSU's NSCL, and is an annual event, rotating among these laboratories. In years to come, substantial progress in low-energy nuclear physics will have a broad impact on society, ranging from our understanding of the origin of the elements to the enhancement of National Security. An important element in this task will be to extend the study of nuclei into new domains of isospin. This will require new radioactive ion beam facilities, together with advanced multi-detector arrays and mass spectrometers. Based on the outstanding scientific opportunities that would be enabled by an advanced radioactive ion beam facility, the Rare Isotope Accelerator (RIA) project was ranked among the top three priorities in the Department of Energy 20-Year Science Facility Plan. (see http://www.sc.doe.gov/Sub/Facilities_for_future/facilities_future.htm). The RIA concept brings together a unique combination of technologies to produce high-quality beams of short-lived nuclei of all chemical elements at intensities far exceeding what is currently available.