Instrumentation for nuclear‐structure analysis

JUL 01, 1966

With plenty of beams and detectors available, students of nuclear structure are turning to computers in their efforts to get the most information from their experiments. Time‐sharing computers, real‐time time‐sharing computers and generalized interfaces permit them to control apparatus automatically and change their experiments in response to what they find.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3048392

John V. Kane

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION is undergoing revolutionary changes because of rapidly increasing use of stored‐program computers by experimentalists in nuclear‐structure laboratories. With currently available electronic instrumentation (see box on page 60) and the principles that make a computer useful in running a laboratory, it appears possible to achieve the goal of this revolution: a maximum of wish fulfillment for every user in his scientific investigations.

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John V. Kane. Michigan State University.