Physics with Radioactive Ion Beams at the Nuclear Science Laboratory

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The University of Notre Dame is home to a rich history of nuclear science efforts, including some of the earliest developments in the production and creation of radioactive ion beams (RIBs). The resulting TwinSol facility stands as the longest continuously-operating RIB facility in the United States, and has enabled a wide range of experimental efforts in nuclear structure, astrophysics and fundamental symmetries through in-flight RIBs one to two nucleons from stability. A recent upgrade to TwinSol via a third solenoid constituted the founding of the TriSol facility, which provides cleaner, better-focused RIBs to downstream experiments. In this paper, we present a summary of RIB science at the Nuclear Science Laboratory (NSL) with both TwinSol and TriSol and discuss recent upgrades and future experimental plans at the facilities.

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@misc{porter2026physics,
  title = {{Physics with Radioactive Ion Beams at the Nuclear Science Laboratory}},
  author = {W. S. Porter and D. W. Bardayan and M. Brodeur and C. Dembski and P. D. O'Malley and F. Rivero and W. W. von Seeger and C. Boomershine and O. Bruce and S. R. Carmichael and S. Coil and A. M. Houff and J. J. Kolata and D. Schroeder and A. A. Valverde and R. Zite},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.20236},
  eprint = {2610.20236},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20236},
  note = {CC BY-NC-SA 4.0},
}

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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Physics with Radioactive Ion Beams at the Nuclear Science Laboratory
AU  - W. S. Porter
AU  - D. W. Bardayan
AU  - M. Brodeur
AU  - C. Dembski
AU  - P. D. O'Malley
AU  - F. Rivero
AU  - W. W. von Seeger
AU  - C. Boomershine
AU  - O. Bruce
AU  - S. R. Carmichael
AU  - S. Coil
AU  - A. M. Houff
AU  - J. J. Kolata
AU  - D. Schroeder
AU  - A. A. Valverde
AU  - R. Zite
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/14
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.20236
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20236
AB  - The University of Notre Dame is home to a rich history of nuclear science efforts, including some of the earliest developments in the production and creation of radioactive ion beams (RIBs). The resulting TwinSol facility stands as the longest continuously-operating RIB facility in the United States, and has enabled a wide range of experimental efforts in nuclear structure, astrophysics and fundamental symmetries through in-flight RIBs one to two nucleons from stability. A recent upgrade to TwinSol via a third solenoid constituted the founding of the TriSol facility, which provides cleaner, better-focused RIBs to downstream experiments. In this paper, we present a summary of RIB science at the Nuclear Science Laboratory (NSL) with both TwinSol and TriSol and discuss recent upgrades and future experimental plans at the facilities.
ER  -

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