UC Davis Nuclear Physics Group

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Welcome to the home page for the nuclear physics group at UC Davis! We consist of four faculty and staff members and from seven to ten students, and are located on the fifth floor of the Physics/Geology building (with a senic view of I-80 as well as the rest of campus) on the Davis campus of the University of California.

Nuclear physics is the study of the nucleus and the forces represented inside it. Our current research areas range from the scattering of neutrons off atoms and the equation of state for nuclear matter up to the attempt to create the quark-gluon plasma, a new state of matter where the quarks inside existing particles are freed from their usual trapped states inside nucleons (represented by the picture at right).

Information About Our Group & Experiments

Faculty, staff, and students
Current research:
Neutron scattering at LAMPF
The EOS experiment at the LBL Bevalac
The E895 experiment at Brookhaven's AGS
The NA49 experiment at the CERN SPS
The XTPC detector for the Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR)
We also have some smaller projects at UC Davis's Crocker Nuclear Laboratory and Michigan State's cyclotron laboratory.

Physics links

Links to other useful nuclear physics sites:

• National labs, including
Brookhaven National Laboratory (Brookhaven, NY).
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, CA). In particular, we have close connection with the Relativistic Nuclear Collisions group (RNC) there.
Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, NM).
Nuclear Physics Laboratory (Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA), and the
National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (Michigan State U., East Lansing, MI).
• The Alternating Gradient Synchrotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
• The Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider also at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
• The STAR detector being built at RHIC.
• The EOS Collaboration's home page at LBL.
• The Kent State home page for the E895 experiment at Brookhaven.
• Jerry Chance's page for the MUSIC detector at E895.
• The NA49 experiment at CERN, and the closer home page for it at LBL.
• The American Physical Society home page.
• The National Science Foundation's home page.
• On-line searching/browsing/retrieval of the journal Nuc Phys A & B.
• A professor in our department has listed a number of Web sites related to job opportunities and discussions. Ok, so this isn't immediately related to nuclear physics, but it's quite important to all of us!

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Other links

• The UCD Physics Department's home page. Newly improved!
• The UC Davis home page.
• The Office of Graduate Studies at UC Davis. One useful thing here is a list of thesis requirements and format.
• The home page for the city of Davis.
• Here are some home pages of several people in our group:
Jason Dunn.
Tom Gutierrez.
Scott Tooker.
Lynn Wood.

If you need to see our older, messier home page, go here.

Another useful thing for people setting up their own home pages is an index of all the GIFs we have available locally...