The existence of a superconducting phase associated with the breaking of particle number conservation was first identified in metals in the context of the BCS theory. It was realized very soon that the underlying mechanism, connected with pairing correlations at work in the formation of Cooper pairs, bore great generality and was expected to be relevant for a large variety of fermionic...
The Solenoid Spectrometer for Nuclear Astrophysics and Decays (SSNAPD) is a new silicon-array solenoidal spectrometer system in development at the University of Notre Dame’s Nuclear Science Lab (NSL). Using single nucleon transfer and charge exchange reactions in forward kinematics as a production mechanism, SSNAPD will provide sensitive measurements of charged particle partial widths for...
