Edinburgh University, Edinburgh
TRIUMF, Vancouver
Since the 1980s the nuclear physics community has pursued the development of intense and exotic radioactive ion beams for many areas of study including astrophysics. The myriad of radionuclides that exist fleetingly inside explosive stellar scenarios are involved in nuclear reactions which are extremely difficult to model from theory, and in these cases experimental data is crucial. The measurement problems of astrophysics often require not only the most sensitive detectors and most intense radioactive beams, but also the right combination of experimental facilities, accelerators and detectors. The community has tackled these problems in a variety of different ways, with many labs already active or coming online with new aggressive accelerator, isotope production and measurement technology ready to target the big astrophysics questions. This talk gives an overview of some experimental methods and facilities used to derive astrophysically-relevant nuclear properties and highlights the places in the world that perform these studies.
