The Joint Institute for Heavy Ion Research (JIHIR) is a collaborative endeavor of the University of Tennessee, Vanderbilt University, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The institute promotes and supports heavy-ion research at the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility (HRIBF) by providing an intellectual center and physical support for researchers who work at the HRIBF to the mutual benefit of all sponsors and participants in the field of heavy-ion research. The Joint Institute is housed in two buildings, which are adjacent to the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility.

The Physics Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory is concerned primarily with studies of the fundamental properties of matter at the atomic, nuclear, and subnuclear levels, and the development of experimental devices in support of these studies. With a staff of approximately 100, the Division hosts annually more than 400 scientific collaborators, facility users, and visitors as part of its programs. The mission of the division is to perform basic research in the fields of atomic and nuclear physics, and provide the supporting capabilities for this research.

Please go to http://www.phy.ornl.gov/ for more information.

The University of Tennessee Department of Physics and Astronomy is a large, diverse department of approximately 40 full and part-time faculty, 60 research and adjunct faculty, 60 research staff and associates, 90 graduate students, 80 undergraduate students with either a major or minor in physics or engineering physics, and 20 support staff members. The faculty has a strong commitment to quality graduate and undergraduate education while maintaining close collaborative relationships with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and several other facilities around the world.

Please go to the following websites for more information:
http://www.phys.utk.edu/research_nuclear.html for nuclear structure research
http://http://www.phy.ornl.gov/theory/nt.shtml for nuclear theory
http://www.phys.utk.edu/for departmental ihformation

The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Vanderbilt University has 30 full-time faculty, 50 research faculty, and 87 graduate students. Both undergraduate and graduate students actively engage in Departmental research programs that are supported by more than $8 million in external funding annually. These research programs are at the cutting edge of traditional areas of physics as well as being a major contributor to contemporary interdisciplinary institutions and centers that involve Departments of Chemistry and Biology and the Schools of Engineering and Medicine.

Please go to http://www.vanderbilt.edu/physics/ for more information.

Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility is operated as a National User Facility for the U.S. Department of Energy, producing high quality beams of short-lived, radioactive nuclei for studies of exotic nuclei and astrophysics research. These nuclei are produced when intense beams of light ions from the Oak Ridge Isochronous Cyclotron (ORIC) strike highly refractory targets. The radioactive isotopes diffuse out of the production target and are ionized, formed into a beam, and mass selected. This technique of radioactive ion beam production is known as the isotope separator on-line (ISOL) technique. The radioactive ion beam is then injected into the 25-MV Tandem, the world's highest voltage electrostatic accelerator.

Please go to http://www.phy.ornl.gov/hribf/misc/whatishribf.shtml for more information.

JUSTIPEN is located at RIKEN and has been established in order to facilitate collaborations between U.S. and Japanese scientists whose main research thrust is in the area of the physics of nuclei. JUSTIPEN is located at the RIKEN RIB Experimental Facility in Wako, near Tokyo, Japan. U.S. participation in JUSTIPEN is in the form of travel grants and subsistence grants to those individuals who are interested in collaborating with Japanese scientists. JUSTIPEN’s purview is in the area of physics of or with exotic nuclei, including nuclear structure and reaction theory, nuclear astrophysics, and tests of the standard model using exotic nuclei. While JUSTIPEN primarily focuses on theory collaborations, experimentalists with theoretical collaborators in Japan are also encouraged to apply. Funding for JUSTIPEN is being provided by the Office of Nuclear Physics of the U. S. Department of Energy. Additional local support is provided by the University of Tokyo and RIKEN.

Please go to http://www.phys.utk.edu/JUSTIPEN/ for more information.

The University Radioactive Ion Beam (UNIRIB) group is a unique division at the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education. UNIRIB personnel conduct cutting-edge basic nuclear physics research using the fast-growing technique of radioactive ion beams. The consortium is a collaborative effort of several universities who participate in the research programs at HRIBF. The UNIRIB group leverages national laboratory and university resources to effectively accomplish the Department of Energy's strategic goals in the fundamental structure of nuclei.

Please go to http://orise.orau.gov/other/unirib/index.htm for more information.