TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface (1997 Annual Report)

Users' Executive Committee and PAC Members

SECTION 1

Nuclear Structure - Experimental

MEASUREMENT OF PARENTAGE IN STRIPPING REACTIONS OF HALO NUCLEI; Daniel Bazin, N. Alahari, B. Blank, J.E. Bush, J.A. Caggiano, L. Chen, B. Davids, T. Glasmacher, K. Govaert, V. Guimares, P.G. Hansen, R.W. Ibbotson, D. Karnes, J.J. Kolata, V. Maddalena, B. Pritychenko, H. Scheit, B.M. Sherrill

SPECTROSCOPY OF RADIOACTIVE BEAMS FROM SINGLE-NUCLEON KNOCKOUT REACTIONS: APPLICATION TO THE SEARCH FOR PROTON HALOS; A. Navin, D. Bazin, B.A. Brown, B. Davids, G. Gervais, T. Glasmacher, K. Govaert, P.G. Hansen, M. Hellström, R.W. Ibbotson, V. Maddalena, B. Pritychenko, H. Scheit, B.M. Sherrill, M. Steiner, J.A. Tostevin and J. Yurkon

MEASUREMENT OF THE ELASTIC AND INELASTIC CROSS SECTIONS FOR PROTON SCATTERING ON 36Ar AND 42,44Ar IN INVERSE KINEMATICS; H. Scheit, Y. Blumenfeld, J.A. Brown, T. Glasmacher, R.W. Ibbotson, B. Pritychenko, and T. Suomijärvi

ELASTIC AND INELASTIC SCATTERING OF PROTONS ON THE UNSTABLE NUCLEI 40S AND 43Ar; F. Maréchal, T. Suomijärvi, Y. Blumenfeld, A. Azhari, D. Bazin, J. A. Brown, P. D. Cottle, M. Fauerbach, T. Glasmacher, S. E. Hirzebruch, J. K. Jewell, J. H. Kelley, K. W. Kemper, P. F. Mantica, D. J. Morrissey, L. A. Riley, H. Scheit, J. A. Scarpaci, and M. Steiner

COULOMB EXCITATION OF ODD-A NEUTRON-RICH p(s-d)- AND n(f-p)- SHELL NUCLEI; R.W. Ibbotson, T. Glasmacher, P.F. Mantica, H. Scheit

ANOMALOUS p-SHELL ISOSCALAR MAGNETIC MOMENTS: REMEASUREMENT OF 9C AND THE INFLUENCE OF ISOSPIN NONCONSERVATION; M. Huhta, P.F. Mantica, D.W. Anthony, B.A. Brown, B.S. Davids, R.W. Ibbotson, D.J. Morrissey, C.F. Powell, and M. Steiner

DEVELOPMENTS IN THE MEASUREMENT OF SPIN-POLARIZED FRAGMENTS USING BETA-NMR AT THE NSCL; P.F. Mantica, D.W. Anthony, M. Huhta, J.I. Prisciandaro, M.A. Vance

ON THE TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF THE GDR IN 120Sn; G. Gervais, M. Thoennessen and W. E. Ormand

MASS DEPENDENCE OF THE EFFECTIVE CHARGES IN THE sd-SHELL; M. Fauerbach, P.D. Cottle, K.W. Kemper, T. Glasmacher, R.W. Ibbotson, B. Pritychenko, H. Scheit, M. Steiner

MEASUREMENT OF E2 TRANSITIONS IN THE COULOMB DISSOCIATION OF 8B; B. Davids, D.W. Anthony, Sam M. Austin, D. Bazin, B. Blank, J.A. Caggiano, M. Chartier, H. Esbensen, P. Hui, C.F. Powell, H. Scheit, B.M. Sherrill, M. Steiner, P. Thirolf, J. Yurkon, A. Zeller

SEARCH FOR THE DI-PROTON-DECAY OF THE FIRST EXCITED STATE IN 17Ne; M. J. Chromik, A. Azhari, J. Brown, M. Fauerbach, T. Glasmacher, R. Ibbotson, R. A. Kryger, D. J. Morrissey, H. Scheit, M. Steiner, P. G. Thirolf, P. J. Woods, S. Yokoyama, and M. Thoennessen

MEASUREMENT OF THE REACTION CROSS SECTION OF d(7Be,8B)n; C. F. Powell, D. J. Morrissey, D. Anthony, B. Davids, M. Fauerbach, P. F. Mantica, F. M. Nunes, B. M. Sherrill, M. Steiner

FINAL-STATE INTERACTIONS IN THE SYSTEM 8He + n; L. Chen, K. Govaert, B. Blank, M. Chartier, A. Galonsky, P.G. Hansen, J. Kruse, V. Maddalena, M. Thoennessen, K. Ieki, Y. Iwata, Y. Higurashi, S. Takeuchi, F. Deák, Á. Horváth, Á. Kiss, Z. Seres

NEW EVIDENCE FOR PARITY INVERSION IN 10Li FROM 9Li-[gamma] COINCIDENCES; M. Chartier, L. Chen, K. Govaert, B. Blank, A. Galonsky, N. Gan, P.G. Hansen, J. Kruse, V. Maddalena, M. Thoennessen, R.L. Varner

SPECTROSCOPY IN RP-PROCESS NUCLEI WITH THE S800; J. Caggiano, D. Bazin, W. Benenson, B. Blank, M. Chartier, B. Davids, A. Garcia, J. Greene, R. Ibbotson, M. Bhattacharya, J. Nolen, M. Steiner, H. Scheit, B. Sherrill, M. Wiescher, A. Wuosmaa, J. Yurkon, A. Zeller

BETA DECAY OF 56Cu TO EXCITED STATES OF 56Ni; M. Huhta, D.W. Anthony, J.C. Batchelder, P.A. Lofy, B.D. MacDonald, P.F. Mantica, A. Piechaczek, J.I. Prisciandaro, M. Steiner, and E. F. Zganjar

Nuclear Structure - Theory

QUANTUM CHAOS AND CONVERGENCE OF SHELL MODEL ENERGIES; Mihai Horoi, Alexander Volya and Vladimir Zelevinsky

ESTIMATING UNKNOWN SPINS FROM RANDOM MATRIX THEORY; Declan Mulhall and Vladimir Zelevinsky

DICKE COHERENT STATE AS A SIMPLE MODEL OF STRUCTURE DETERMINED BY CONTINUUM; James Armstrong and Vladimir Zelevinsky

Nuclear Reactions - Experimental

EXAMINING THE COOLING OF HOT NUCLEI; H. Xi, M.J. Huang, W.G. Lynch, S.J. Gaff, C.K. Gelbke, T. Glasmacher, G.J.Kunde, L. Martin, C.P. Montoya, S. Pratt, M.B. Tsang, W.A. Friedman, P.M. Milazzo, M. Azzano, G. V. Margagliotti, R. Rui, G. Vannini, N. Colonna, L. Celano, G. Tagliente, D'Agostino, M. Bruno, M.L. Fiandri, F. Gramegna, A.Ferrero, I. Iori, A. Moroni, F.Petruzzelli, P.F. Mastinu

DYNAMICAL EMISSION AND ISOTOPE THERMOMETRY; H.F. Xi, G.J.Kunde, O. Bjarki, C.K. Gelbke, R.C. Lemmon, W.G. Lynch, D. Magestro, R. Popescu, R.Shomin, M.B. Tsang, A.M. Vander Molen, G.D. Westfall G. Imme, V. Maddalena, C. Nociforo, G. Raciti, G. Riccobene, F.P. Romano, A. Saija, C. Sfienti, S.Fritz, C. Gross, T. Odeh, C. Schwarz, A. Nadasen, D. Sisan, K.A.G. Rao

PRODUCTION OF NEUTRON-RICH ISOTOPES FOLLOWING 82Se FRAGMENTATION; M. Huhta, P. F. Mantica, D.W. Anthony, R. Harkewicz, P. A. Lofy, and J. I. Prisciandaro

Nuclear Reactions - Theory

OPTIMIZED DISCRETIZATION OF SOURCES IMAGED IN HEAVY--ION REACTIONS; David A. Brown and Pawel Danielewicz

SOLUTION OF THE REDUCIBILITY PUZZLE; W. Bauer and S. Pratt

FRAGMENT MULTIPLICITY DISTRIBUTIONS, A SIGNAL OF TRUE NUCLEAR MULTIFRAGMENTATION; Wolfgang Bauer, Tarek Gharib, and Scott Pratt

EFFECTS OF ISOSPIN ASYMMETRY AND IN-MEDIUM CORRECTIONS ON BALANCE ENERGY; F. Daffin and W. Bauer

PIONIC FUSION; Alexander Volya, Scott Pratt and Vladimir Zelevinsky

PARTONS IN PHASE SPACE; David A. Brown and Pawel Danielewicz

Theory -- Other

INVARIANT ENTROPY AND COMPLEXITY OF QUANTUM STATES; Valentin V. Sokolov, B. Alex Brown and Vladimir Zelevinsky

Operations

USER FACILITY STATUS IN 1997; N. Anantaraman

K1200 OPERATING EXPERIENCE;D. Poe, P. Miller, and M. Garbek

RADIOACTIVE BEAMS AT THE NSCL; Mathias Steiner

STATUS OF COMPUTER NETWORK UPGRADE AT THE NSCL; Kevin Behrooz, Ron Fox, Barbara Pollack

THE NSCL COUPLED CYCLOTRON PROJECT - OVERVIEW AND STATUS; R.C. York, H.G. Blosser, T.L. Grimm, F. Marti, J. Vincent, X. Wu, A. Zeller

A1900 BEAMLINE DIPOLE DESIGN PROGRESS; J. Wagner, J. DeKamp, A. Zeller, D.A. Johnson, F. Marti

A1900 QUADRUPOLE TRIPLETS CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS; J. DeKamp, J. Alfredson, M. Babcock, D. Capelli, S. Hitchcock, J. Wagner, A. Zeller, R. Zink

ALL UNIVERSITY OUTREACH SCIENCE CHALLENGE FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS; E. Kashy, D. Morrissey, K. Nadlera, N. E. Davis

Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation

COMPLETION OF THE K500 CYCLOTRON UPGRADE; T.L. Grimm, T. Berenc, J. Brandon, S. Bricker, C. Compton, G. Horner, F. Marti, J. Ottarson, D. Sanderson, J. Vincent and R.C. York

DESIGN OF AN ION CYCLOTRON RESONANCE ACCELERATOR FOR EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; C.T. Ramsell, T.L. Grimm, R.C. York, and S.A. Rice

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF AN ECR ION SOURCE FOR ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; T.L. Grimm, C.C. Compton, C.T. Ramsell and S.A. Rice

DESIGN OF AN ARRAY OF GERMANIUM DETECTORS FOR EXPERIMENTS WITH FAST RADIOACTIVE BEAMS; T. Glasmacher, P.G. Hansen, V. Maddalena, P. Mantica, D.J. Morrissey, M. Thoennessen, and A. Wagner

FOCAL PLANE DETECTOR FOR THE S800 HIGH RESOLUTION SPECTROMETER; J. Yurkon, D. Bazin, W. Benenson, D.J. Morrissey, B.M. Sherrill, D. Swan and R. Swanson

SEGMENTED ZERO DEGREE DETECTOR FOR COULOMB EXCITATION EXPERIMENTS WITH RADIOACTIVE NUCLEAR BEAMS; B. Pritychenko, T. Glasmacher, R.W. Ibbotson and H. Scheit

COMMISSIONING OF THE BEAM SWEEPING DIPOLE MAGNET; J.J. Kruse, A. Galonsky, C. Snow, J. Wang

POSITIONING THE A1900 FOR THE COUPLED CYCLOTRON PROJECT; D. P. Sanderson

AN OBJECT ORIENTED DISTRIBUTED FRAMEWORK TO ADD CONTROLS PARAMETERS TO THE NSCL EVENT STREAM; R. Fox, C. Molhoek

INEXPENSIVE VIDEO CONFERENCING AT THE NSCL; A. Vander Molen and Kevin Behrooz

A TEST OF AN APPLICATION OF THE GENETIC ALGORITHM TO OBTAIN NEUTRON SPECTRA FROM BONNER-SPHERE MEASUREMENTS; B. Mukherjee and R.M. Ronningen

SKYSHINE MEASUREMENTS AT THE NSCL USING BUBBLE DOSIMETERS; B. Mukherjeea, R.M. Ronningen, and P. Rossi

SECTION 2

Publications, Thesis Titles, and Visitors

Publications

Thesis Titles

Visitors in 1997