Nuclear Lunch -- Winter 2004
Schedule
| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| 14 Jan | Hang Liu | Proton Form Factor: Background Nucleon Electromagnetic Form Factors , Haiyan Gao, published: Int. J. Mod. Phys E12:1-40 (2003). Please read sections 3.2 and 4.3. |
| 21 Jan | Roundtable Discussion | Neutron Form Factor Developments in the measurement of G n E , the neutron electric form factor , talk presented by Donal Day at LOWq03 (summer 2003). |
| 28 Jan | Ting Lin | 2003 Nobel Prizes
Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg, Anthony J. Leggett: "for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids" Reading: Advanced Information |
| 4 Feb | Catalin Matei | DOE 20 Year Plan
|
| 11 Feb | Yannis Parpottas | DOE 20 Year Plan
|
| 18 Feb | George Caia | Are the fundamental constants constant?
,
A Cern Courier article by Harald Fritzsch |
| 25 Feb | Moses Oginni | Further Evidence for Cosmological Evolution
of the Fine Structure Constant
,
J. K. Webb et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 091301 (2001). |
| 3 Mar | Deepshikha Choudhury | The Oklo bound on the time variation of the fine-structure
constant revisitited
, T. Damour and F. Dyson,
Nucl. Phys. B480, 37 (1996). |
| 10 Mar | Anders Gardestig | COLOR-SUPERCONDUCTING QUARK MATTER
,
Mark Alford,
Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science,
December 2001, Vol. 51, pp. 131-160.
The reading assignment for this week is sections 1-4;
the rest will be covered next quarter. |
Background Information
- Astrophysics: The inconstant constant? , LENNOX L. COWIE AND ANTOINETTE SONGAILA, more about the time variation of the fine-structure constant.
- The Nuclear Physics Scientific Horizon: Projects for the Next Twenty Years (Report of the Ad-hoc Facilities Subcommittee of NSAC) (March 2003)
- LOWq03 Conference website . A useful source of background info on the neutron form factor. Follow the link at the upper left to "Talks Online" and look under "Effective Neutron-Target Physics."
Faculty coordinators for Winter 2004 were Carl Brune, Daniel Carman, Charlotte Elster, and Daniel Phillips.
Last updated 11 March 2004 by Carl Brune.