Graduate student Alison Dreyfuss' work on the Hoyle State in 12C is featured in the most recent edition of The Pursuit

Graduate student Alison Dreyfuss' work on the Hoyle State in 12C is featured in the most recent edition of The Pursuit, the College of Science's news magazine. The Hoyle State was originally proposed in 1954 by Fred Hoyle as an excited state of 12C as a key step in stellar nucleosynthesis. Dreyfuss, working with Kristina Launey, used a new nuclear structure model (the No-Core Symplectic Model) developed at LSU to provide the first detailed explanation of the physics responsible for the Hoyle State, published in Physics Letters B.