Wandering Accelerators throughout My Life (II)

Abstract

My wandering about accelerator started from a van de Graaff accelerator on the Nakanoshima campus of Osaka University. The accelerator was originally designed by Prof. K. Husimi before the World-War II, and completed by Prof. K. Sugimoto, under the severe financial difficulties after the war. It was almost totally handmade, and consequently we were very well trained through various experiences fighting with difficulties. After finishing thesis work, I moved to Berkeley and enjoyed heavy-ion experiments at the world best heavy-ion accelerator, HILAC. The heavy-ion accelerator revealed new facets of nuclei through studies of high-spin states and phenomena.