From left, graduate students Andrea Richard, Shamim Akhtar, Sushil Dhakal, Dr. Heather Crawford, and graduate student Cody Parker visit Michigan State and pose in front of the CAESAR (CAESium iodide ARray) gamma-ray detector array, which consists of 192 individual CsI crystal detectors, at the target position of the S800.
Dr. Heather Crawford, Adjunct Professor of Physics & Astronomy, and several graduate students traveled to the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University to participate in an experiment studying the very neutron-rich Carbon isotopes (16,18,20C) by measuring the states populated in proton-knockout reactions from neutron-rich nitrogen.
The experiment used the S800 spectrograph to detect carbon nuclei produced in the knockout reaction, and the CAESAR scintillator array to detect gamma-rays emitted from excited states in the carbon isotopes nuclei.
They were there as a part of a collaboration between researchers at NSCL, University of California at Berkeley, TU-Darmstadt and Ohio University, and took shifts on the experiment, monitoring the data as it was taken, and keeping things running over the 7-day 24/7 experiment.
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