The programme of research into the properties of exotic nuclei is carried out at various overseas laboratories such as Jyväskylä in Finland, GANIL (Caen) in France, GSI (Darmstadt) in Germany, ISOLDE (CERN) in Switzerland, ORNL (Tennessee) USA, TRIUMF (Vancouver) Canada, using stable and radioactive beams and targets. The research on nuclei at high angular momentum is carried out at the laboratories at Strasbourg (France) and Argonne (USA) using the EUROBALL and GAMMASPHERE gamma-ray spectrometers. At these laboratories we are developing novel techniques in gamma-ray, alpha-particle and electron spectroscopy, and direct mass measurements, in order to study the behaviour of nuclei which lie far from the line of beta-stability.

We are playing a leading role in the design and construction of many of the major European instruments (eg the Advance Gamma Tracking Array (AGATA), the EXOtic GAMma-ray spectrometer (EXOGAM), the Gamma Recoil Electron Alpha Tagging (GREAT) focal plain detector and SACRED) used in our broad research programme. Thus postgraduates studying for their PhD in Liverpool are likely to carry out their research using a variety of different instruments in many different areas of nuclear physics.

Follow the links to find out more about our extensive research portfolio:

• Spectroscopy of Superheavy Nuclei
• Nuclei at the Extremes of Angular Momentum
• Nuclear Shape Coexistence
• N = Z Nuclei
• Neutron Rich Nuclei
• Proton Rich Nuclei
• Heavy Octupole Nuclei
• Nuclear Instrumentation Developments and Current Projects