Mark Huyse

Research interests

My research deals with experimental nuclear physics and more specific I try to disentangle the fundamental forces that are active in the atomic nucleus by studying nuclei under extreme conditions. Such exotic nuclei are manmade at accelerators and need to be prepared for detailed studies by applying different methods. It is the combination of techniques from nuclear physics (nuclear reactions and decay, ion sources, accelerators, beam manipulation, detectors), from atomic physics (lasers) and chemistry (stopping in gases, ion behavior) that makes this research so challenging and interesting. It brings me at different accelerators all over the world.

One of the interesting questions in nuclear structure is how macroscopic phenomena, such as static deformation leading to different shapes or collective behavior such as rotations and vibrations, are related to the underlying microscopic situation of the individual nucleons.

• Experimental Nuclear Physics
• Shapes and Shells studied through Exotic Nuclei
• Nuclear Spectroscopy and Nuclear Reactions
• Radioactive Ion Beams
• Selective Laser Ionization