Speaker
Akaa Ayangeakaa
(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and TUNL)
Description
Photon beams are a highly selective probe of the charge and current distributions of nuclei. The specific spin selectivity and strength sensitivity of this probe enables an almost model-independent spectroscopic study of dipole excitations at energies up to the particle emission threshold and investigations of the collective response of the internal degrees of freedom of the nucleus. In this talk, recent developments and experimental results of nuclear structure studies obtained from photonuclear reactions with nearly-monoenergetic, polarized photon beams from the HIγS facility at TUNL will be presented and compared with those obtained with hadron-induced reactions.
Primary author
Akaa Ayangeakaa
(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and TUNL)
