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JINA Research Highlights 2009
Praise
for JINA Outreach
JINA Physicist Garnavich will play key role in largest Hubble
project. The program, which brings together a large international
team of collaborators, was awarded a record 902 orbits of
observing time as one of three large-scale projects chosen
for the Hubble Multi-Cycle Treasury Program. It takes Hubble
97 minutes to make one orbit, so observing time totals about
two months but will be spread out over the next two to three
years. Garnavich was on one of the two teams that first discovered
the accelerating universe back in 1998. Details
Dr. Zach Constan, JINA's outreach coordinator at NSCL, MSU,
published an article about the marble nuclei in The Physics
Teacher. This paper serves as an introduction to nuclear science
education through the use of a model built from magnetic marbles.
It details the many ways such models have been employed to
communicate the concepts of radioactive decay, nuclear reactions,
and the goals and methods of nuclear science. It offers the
reader suggestions on how to incorporate nuclear science into
a middle- or high-school curriculum with the model, and invites
teachers to make use of lessons and activities produced by
JINA Outreach for that purpose. View
paper
The NSF has approved the S4 funding for the development of
an underground accelerator facility at DUSEL. The main goal
of the facility is the measurement of low energy reaction
cross sections of relevance for stellar nucleosynthesis processes.
The Dakota Ion Accelerators for Nuclear Astrophysics DIANA
will consist of two accelerators to cover a broader energy
range than presently possible at the LUNA facility at the
Gran Sasso underground laboratory in Italy.
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DIANA website
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