Nuclear Solid State Physics: Research strongly oriented on systems produced or transformed by ion implantation and ion beam modification.
- Ion beam interaction with matter: Ion implantation
- Soft landing
- Rutherford backscattering spectrometry
- Channeling of energetic ions Emission Channeling probing the position of the radioactive atom in the lattice. Use of radiation emitted by radioactive probe nuclei to observe the nuclear hyperfine interaction between the nuclear moments and the electronic environment of the solid measured by means of the nuclear methods Synchotron Mössbauer reflectometry and conventional Mössbauer spectroscopy, Perturbed Angular Correlation spectroscopy (PAC) and low temperature nuclear orientation. Investigation of low dimensional systems produced by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) depostion, ion implantation or soft landing and supported by conventional production and characterization techniques and electronic structure calculations.
- Nuclear Physics :
* Nuclear spectroscopy of short lived isotopes using recoil fragment separators at accelerators as GANIL, GSI and Argonne.
* Nuclear spectroscopy at the isotope separators on-line at the heavy ion cyclotron of Louvain-la- Neuve and at the PS-Booster accelerator in CERN (ISOLDE).
* Nuclear reaction studies using post-accelerated radioactive beams.
- Nuclear Astrophysics : Radioactive Ion Beams accelerated to stellar energies are used to measure reactions of astrophysical interest.
- Weak Interaction Physics: fundamental properties of the weak interaction are tested in nuclear beta-decay.
