RESEARCH ON NUCLEAR ISOMERS, TRIGGERED GAMMA EMISSION AND GAMMA-RAY LASERS

AT THE

YSU X-RAY EFFECTS LABORATORIES (XEL and XEL2)

PART OF THE PROGRAM IN PHOTON-INDUCED PROCESSES AND LASER STUDIES
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY


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PART OF OUR EXPERIMENTAL TEAM WITH THE YSU MINIBALL DETECTOR ARRAY

                                       Nathan Caldwell                              Ron Propri                        Joe Lazich

                                                                       Tom Drummond                    Kim Henshaw                         Philip Ugorowski

                    Sarkis Karamian (JINR, Russia)                                                                                James Carroll

NOT PICTURED:  MICHAEL HARSTON, KAREN ZREBIEC

THANKS TO ALL OUR COLLABORATORS AT SPring-8 (Japan), NSRRC (Taiwan), JINR (Russia), Surrey (England), Stuttgart (Germany), Darmstadt (Germany), TRIUMF (Canada), SRS Technologies, Inc. (USA), Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA), Brookhaven Technologies Group (USA), Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (USA) and the Army Research Laboratory (USA)

We gratefully acknowledge support by AFOSR, DURIP and the Advanced Technology Program.

© James J. Carroll 2004