Faculty Lecture Notes

Lecture notes from the faculty presentations given at the summer school are available for download below. Several of these documents are very large and may take a few minutes to download based on the speed of your connection; a broadband connection is suggested for most of the files.

White Paper: The Intellectual Challenges of RIA (761 kb PDF)

Larry Ahle, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Applications at RIA: Working with Radioactive Material and Targets (4.60 mb PDF)

Cody Folden, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Heavy Elements Overview (3.76 mb PDF)

Robert Grzywacz, University of Tennessee/ORNL
Nuclear Structure Studies through Isomers
Lecture I: Introduction to Isomers (5.35 mb PDF)
Lecture II: Isomers and Nuclear Structure (7.40 mb PDF)
Lecture III: Isomers at RIA (5.12 mb PDF)

Daniela Leitner, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Accelerators and ECR Ion Sources for Radioactive Ion Beam Facilities (6.32 mb PDF)

Augusto Macchiavelli, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Gamma Ray Tracking (3.18 mb PDF)

Peggy McMahan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Safety at the 88-Inch Cyclotron (785 kb PDF)

Guy Savard, Argonne National Laboratory.
Fundamental Symmetry Studies at Low Energies
Lecture I (xx mb PDF)
Lecture II (xx mb PDF)
Lecture III (3.85 mb PDF)

Hendrik Schatz, Michigan State University.
Astrophysics with RIA
Lecture I (4.27 mb PDF)
Lecture II (5.05 mb PDF)

Jim Vary, Iowa State University.
Microscopic Nuclear Theory
Lecture I (815 kb PDF)
Lecture II (1.31 mb PDF)
Lecture III (1.96 mb PDF)

Sherry Yenello, Texas A&M University.
Nuclear Reactions
Lecture I (3.14 mb PDF)
Lecture II (2.84 mb PDF)