Project Details
Through the DOE Office of Science’s Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program, which concurrently advances science and supercomputing to accelerate discovery, ORNL is participating in the five-year Nuclear Computational Low Energy Initiative (NUCLEI) project. NUCLEI researchers will calculate properties and reactions of atomic nuclei that are important both for accelerator-based experiments on earth and for thermonuclear reactions occurring in stars. They will utilize some of the worlds most powerful supercomputers, including ORNL’s TITAN, for their research. Approximately 30 scientists at 12 national labs and universities are collaborating on this project, which is led out of LANL. Thomas Papenbrock from UTK and the ORNL Physics Division is the co-director for physics. NUCLEI will include calculations of unstable or radioactive nuclei, in support of experimental research that will be carried out at DOE facilities such as the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), under construction at Michigan State University.
http://nuclei.mps.ohio-state.edu
Contact: Thomas Papenbrock (papenbr@utk.edu)
