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Nuclear Physics

Argonne maintains a wide-ranging science and technology portfolio that seeks to address complex challenges in interdisciplinary and innovative ways. Below is a list of all articles, highlights, profiles, projects, and organizations related specifically to nuclear physics.

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  • Kawtar Hafidi

    Kawtar Hafidi is Associate Laboratory Director for Physical Sciences and Engineering. She oversees the laboratory’s research programs in nuclear and high energy physics, materials science, chemical science and engineering, and nanoscience and technology.

  • Sunita Kamboj

    Expertise in human and non-human risk and dose assessment, NRC license termination process, radiation protection standards and regulations, release of real and non-real property for reuse and recycling, and environmental monitoring.

  • Michael P. Carpenter

    Experimental physicist whose research focuses on the understanding the structure of nuclei utilizing gamma-ray spectroscopy.

  • Nuclear Structure

    Argonne physicists work to understand the structure of nuclei, both stable and radioactive, found here on Earth and produced in the cosmos.
    Physics Division Nuclear Structure

  • Nuclear Astrophysics

    Nuclear astrophysics includes the study of how all the elements in the universe were created and how stars evolve during their lifetime.
    Physics Division Cosmos

  • Hadronic Physics

    The focus of Argonne’s hadron physics to understand how the strong force gives rise to the mass, spin and dynamic structure of protons and neutrons, which make up almost all visible matter in our universe.

  • 4 Tesla Magnet Facility

    The magnet allows for the measurement and calibration of the experiment’s custom-built probes, as it provides not only a strong field but one that is uniform and stable.

  • Physics

    The mission of the Physics division is to understand the origin, evolution and structure of baryonic matter in the universe – the matter that makes up stars, planets and human life itself.