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Rare Isotope Science Assessment Committee
Summary
The committee will define a scientific agenda for a U.S. domestic rare-isotope facility, taking into account current government plans. In preparing its report, the committee will address the role that such a facility could play in the future of nuclear physics, considering the field broadly, but placing emphasis on its potential scientific impact on nuclear structure, nuclear astrophysics, fundamental symmetries, stockpile stewardship and other national security areas, and future availability of scientific and technical personnel. The need for such a facility will be addressed in the context of international efforts in this area.
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Committee and Staff Members
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Committee Membership
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John F. Ahearne, Sigma Xi and Duke University, Co-Chair
Stuart J. Freedman, University of California at Berkeley, Co-Chair
Adam S. Burrows, University of Arizona
Ricardo Alarcon, Arizona State University
Peter Braun-Munzinger, GSI
Yanglai Cho, Argonne National Laboratory (retired)*
Richard F. Casten, Yale University
Gerald T. Garvey, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Wick C. Haxton, University of Washington
Robert L. Jaffe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Noemie B. Koller, Rutgers University
Stephen Libby, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Shoji Nagamiya, Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex
Witold Nazarewicz, University of Tennessee
Michael Romalis, Princeton University
Paul Schmor, TRIUMF
Michael Wiescher, University of Notre Dame
Stanford E. Woosley, University of California at Santa Cruz
*unable to participate because of illness
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NRC Staff
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Donald C. Shapero, Director
Timothy I. Meyer, Senior Program Officer
Pamela Lewis, Program Associate
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Comments can be posted via the Current Projects System.
Statement of Task
In particular, the committee will address the following questions:
• What science should be addressed by a rare isotope facility and what is its importance in the overall context of research in nuclear physics and physics in general?
• What are the capabilities of other facilities, existing and planned, domestic and abroad, to address the science agenda? What scientific role could be played by a domestic rare-isotope facility that is complementary to existing and planned facilities at home and elsewhere?
• What are the benefits to other fields of science and to society of establishing such a facility in the United States?
Final Report
The committee’s final report was released in unedited, prepublication form on December 8, 2006.
Dissemination and Outreach Activities
National media attention
Feedback
To send comments or suggestions to the committee, please send e-mail to ria-ctee@nas.edu.
1) Documents from D. Geesaman et al.
Related Links
The committee is pleased to acknowledge support from the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.
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