1) Accelerator
Operation Related Experience
i)
Opertation of the KFUPM 350 keV Cockcraft
Walton type electrostatic accelerator
ii)
Operation of the KFUPM Atomic Beam Polarized Ion source
2 Basic Physics Research
i) Dynamics of neutron induced fission in transuranic elements.
ii)
Measurement
of Maxwell-averaged fast neutron capture cross sections for study of
of s-process in stellar evolution.
iii) Analyzing
power measurements of nuclear reaction
iii)
Deuteron Beam
polarization measurements
iii) Nuclear Reaction studies using low energy deuteron beams.
3 Applied Physics Research
i)
Development of analytical
techniques for elemental analysis of bulk samples.
ii) Measurements of response functions of
organic scintillators
4 Research Facilities Development
|
Facility Name |
1 |
Accelerator Based Prompt-Gamma ray Neutron
Activation Analysis Facility |
2 |
Accelerator based Moisture Measurement Setup
|
3 |
Scattering Chamber for Nuclear Reaction Studies |
4 |
2H and 3He targets fabrication facility for beam
polarimetry |
5 |
Neutron Time-of Flight Detection System |
6 |
241Am-Be source based setup for response
function measurement of organic scintillation detectors |
7 |
14 MeV Neutron Activation Analysis
Laboratory |
8 |
gg
coincidence measurement setup to measure energy resolution of the organic
scintillation detectors. |
9 |
241Am-Be source
Based Neutron Irradiator |
10 |
Low Level Gamma Ray Spectroscopy Laboratory |
5 Colloborative Research with International Universities.
Project Title
|
Host Institute
|
Duration
|
Distorted
Wave Born Approximation analysis of 12C(d,p) 13C
reaction at Sub-Coulomb energies |
Prof. E.
Ludwig, Physics Department, Univ. of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA |
July 20 -
Aug.24, 1993 |
Optical
model analysis of 116Sn(n,n) at 1.0,1.6 and 4.02 MeV energies |
Prof. J.
Weil, Nuclear Physics Lab. Univ. of
Kentucky Lexington, USA. |
June 5 -
Aug. 30,1989 |
Performance
Tests of ANAC Atomic Beam Polarized Ion Source |
Dr. Huttel
External Ions Sources Lab., Nucl.Res.Center Cyclotron Lab. IK III, Karlsruhe
West Germany. |
July 31 -
Aug.31, 1988 |
Atomic Beam
intensity measurement of a Polarized Ion Source |
Prof. Wiley
Haeberli Physics Department Nuclear Physics Lab. Univ. of Wisconsin Madison, USA. |
June 5 -
July 28, 1988 |
Measurements
of Analyzing Powers Ay(q) of 12C(n,n0), 12C(n,n1),
28Si(n,n0)
& 28Si(n,n1) at 18.2 and 19 MeV neutron
energies. |
Prof. R.
Walter Physics Department, Duke University, Durham, and Triangle Universities
Nuclear Lab., Durham, N.C. USA |
June 1 -
Aug. 28, 1986 |
Measurement
of fast neutron elastic and inelastic scattering cross sections from 12C
at 11 & 14 MeV |
Prof. R.
Walter Physics Department, Duke University, Durham, and Triangle Universities
Nuclear Lab., Durham, N.C. USA |
June 5
-Sept. 20, 1985 |
Study of
n-d break up reaction with polarized neutron at 11.0 MeV energy |
Prof. R.
Walter Physics Department, Duke University, Durham, and Triangle Universities
Nuclear Lab., Durham, N.C. USA |
² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² |
Design of a
BCS detector as a focal plane detector for ATLAS at Argon National Laboratory
Arbor, Illinois, USA |
Prof. F.
Bechetti Phys. Deptt University of Michigan,
Ann USA. |
June 10
-Sept. 20, 1984 |
Modification
and tests of a Bragg Curve Spectroscopy (BCS) detector using 27Al(a,X) at Ea =104 MeV |
Prof. H.
Rebel, Cyclotron Laboratory Nuclear Res. Center (KFK), Karlsruhe West Germany. |
June 15-
Sept.25,1983 |
Measurement
of Maxwell averaged fast neutrons capture cross section of 84Kr
and 86Kr at kT= 25 &54 keV |
Van de
Graaff Lab Nuclear Res. Center (KFK), Karlsruhe West Germany |
June 10
-Sept.20, 1982 |