Campus Facilities

Our old building being demolished

We are now in a beautiful brand new building in which we also have some highly functional new lab space for our detector lab.

More information on the old and the new building can be found in the main Physics Department web pages for the new building.

Jefferson Laboratory

Our group makes extensive use of the facilities at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab or Jefferson Lab), which is located in Newport News Virginia.

There is a large effort underway to upgrade the Jefferson Lab accelerator from a 6 GeV to 11 GeV.

Hall-B & CLAS detector

Schematic of the CLAS detector

Photo of the CLAS detector

Much of our work at Jefferson Lab is done in Hall-B, which contains the CLAS detector. The UNH group contributed the Time of Flight system (TOF) to this detector when it was originally build. Commissioning starting in 1996. Since then we have contributed strongly to the software efforts and have conducted several experiments with the CLAS (mainly the E2, EG2 & EG3 runs).

The upgraded CLAS, CLAS12, will be an almost entirely new detector with many new detector components. The UNH group is involved with the Silicon Vertex Tracker for the CLAS12.

Hall-A

We have been involved in several experiments in Hall-A at Jefferson Lab.

Hall-C

In Hall-C we are involved with the Qweak experiment. The UNH group is contributing the design of the target to the Qweak experiment. Silviu Covrig has been making calculations using FLUENT to make sure that the target flow is sufficient to avoid target boiling.

Oak Ridge - SNS

An aerial photograph of the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

We are involved in the neutron beta decay experiments at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The goal of the experiments is to improve our knowledge of each of the neutron beta decay coefficients by an order of magnitude in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model.

HIGS

We are involved with the compton scattering experiments at the High Intensity Gamma Source (HIGS) facility at Duke University, which is presently undergoing an upgrade in intensity and energy.

BLAST at Bates Laboratory

The BLAST detector at Bates Laboratory in Middleton MA was used for several years and provided thesis data for several of our students. Unfortunately the laboratory was shut down in 2006. The BLAST detector may be moved to a different lab, but its future is now still uncertain.