Collaborative experiments at Yale

Argonne National Laboratory

• Pair correlations in nuclei involved in neutrinoless double beta decay: ⁷⁶Ge and ⁷⁶Se. See abstract of paper here.

University of Manchester

• Shifts in neutron single-particle states outside N=82

University of North Carolina

• Study of the ²²Ne(α,γ)²⁶Mg and ²²Ne(α,n)²⁵Mg reaction rates by looking at states in ²⁶Mg via the ²²Ne(⁶Li,d)²⁶Mg reaction

McMaster University

• Using the ²⁸Si(¹²C,⁶He)³⁴Ar reaction to study the (α,p) process in x-ray bursts by looking for ³⁰S+α resonances in ³⁰S(α,p)³³Cl

Collaborative experiments outside Yale

HRIBF @ ORNL

• Production of an ²⁶Al beam

ATLAS @ ANL

• Experiments to test a gas-catcher system as part of a next-generation facility
• Measuring the masses of the light tin isotopes
• Mass measurements around ⁹²Pd relevant for the rp process and the new νp process
• Measurement of the &beta - &nu correlation in ¹⁴O
• Mass measurements of ²⁶Mg, ²⁶Al and ²⁶Si.

ISAC @ TRIUMF

• Measurement of the ³³S(p,&gamma)³⁴Cl reaction rate with DRAGON. See proposal here.
• Measurement of the ³⁰P(p,&gamma)³¹S reaction rate in classical novae. See proposal here.
• Measurement of the ²⁵Al(p,&gamma)²⁶Si reaction rate
• Direct measurement of ²⁶Al(p,&gamma)²⁷Si. See paper here.

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