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Department of Physics
Yale University
P.O. Box 208120
New Haven, CT 06520-8120
Phone: 203-432-3650
Fax: 203-432-6175
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Department of Physics
Research: Experimental Nuclear Physics
Yale has an active program in experimental nuclear physics that is aligned with and has helped define international priorities in this field. Focus areas are: the structure of the strongly interacting nuclear many-body system, including the emergence of collective phenomena in nuclei, dynamical symmetries, quantum phase transitional behavior, and structural evolution; nuclear reactions which shed light on the properties and production of the heaviest elements and that create the elements in astrophysical scenarios; study of relativistic heavy ions collisions to explore new forms of matter such as the primordial quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and quark-gluon interactions, as well as searches for strangelets. Yale's Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory (WNSL) houses the world's largest university-based
stand-alone tandem Van de Graaff accelerator. The Relativistic Heavy Ion group carries out research on the QGP at RHIC and at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
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