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Text Box: Cyclotron at MSU The club joined the Physics club to visit the widely known National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University. The Cyclotron uses superconducting magnets to accelerate positively charged nuclei in a circular pathway. The nuclei are then collided to study interaction and to form rare isotopes and study their properties such as spin, magnetic dipole, the structure of the nuclei, its mass, and its lifetime.  Interestingly,  it was found that the university had just invested a large amount of money into a project that will involve coupling essentially two cyclotrons together allowing the acceleration of particles to higher energies and perhaps resulting in new discoveries. Students were also told of details on how to properly plan experiments using the cyclotron. Attending members concluded the tour by participating in a small hands-on experiment in making a superconducting magnet using liquid nitrogen.        

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Text Box: Last Update November-29-2006  

 

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