CHARISSA (derived from 'CHARged particle Instrumentation for a Solid State Array') is a nuclear structure research collaboration originally conceived, initiated and partially built by Dr. William Rae of the University of Oxford (retired) and now run by the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham, UK. The other members of the collaboration are the University of Surrey with occasional contributions from LPC CAEN and Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb. The collaboration is funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).
Experiments
The CHARISSA collaboration carries out experiments at many of the world's leading research centres. Due to the nature of the research experiments performed must be undertaken with the use of a particle accelerator and complex detection systems. The group probes the structure of nuclei.
Accelerators
Experiments are currently being carried out utilising the following facilities: