Nuclear Lunch -- Spring 2009
Schedule
| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| 1 Apr | Andreas Schiller | B 2 FH: Synthesis of the Elements in Stars , E. Margaret Burbidge, G. R. Burbidge, William A. Fowler, and F. Hoyle, Rev. Mod. Phys. 29, 547-650 (1957). |
| 8 Apr | Rakitha Beminiwattha | Measurement of the Negative Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment
to 0.7 ppm
,
G. W. Bennett et al.
[Muon (g-2) Collaboration],
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 161802 (2004). Faculty adviser: Ken Hicks |
| 15 Apr | Buddhini Waidyawansa | Precision pins down the electron's magnetism
,
Gerald Gabrielse and David Hanneke,
Cern Courier (Oct 5, 2006). Faculty adviser: Ken Hicks |
| 22 Apr | Carl Brune | Japanese Nuclear and Particle Physics Facilities |
| 29 Apr | Parisa Roustazadeh | The highest-energy cosmic rays appear to come from nearby
active galactic nuclei
,
Bertram Schwarzschild, Physics Today, January 2008, pp. 16-19. Faculty advisers: Brune/Roche |
| 6 May | Jerry Yang | White Paper on Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays
Faculty advisers: Brune/Roche |
| 13 May | Sergey Postnikov | Hadronization and the Early Universe: Quark Recombination Hadronization in heavy ion collisions: Recombination and fragmentation of partons , Rainer Fries, et.al. Physical Review Letters, May 2003. (+ "Cover Interview"). Faculty adviser: Justin Frantz |
| 20 May | Anton Wiranata | Hadronization and the Early Universe: Statistical Hadronization Chemical equilibration in Pb+Pb collisions at the SPS , P. Braun-Munzinger, I. Heppe and J. Stachel, Physics Letters B Volume 465, Issues 1-4, 21 October 1999. Faculty adviser: Justin Frantz |
| 27 May | Daniel Sayre | MSU's Reaccelerated Beam Facility (ReA3) MSU/NSCL ReA3 Webinars Faculty adviser: Andreas Schiller |
| 3 Jun | Chen Ji | Bonner Prize Winner: Robert McKeown, "For his pioneering work on
studying nucleon structure using parity-violating electron scattering,
in particular for the first measurement of the strange quark
contribution to the electromagnetic structure of the proton." The reading is: How Strange Is the Proton? , Günther Rosner, Science 290, 2083-2084 (2000) and Investigating the proton's strange sea , David Armstrong and Kandice Carter, Cern Courier, September 29, 2005. Faculty adviser: Julie Roche |
Background Information
- New g-2 Measurement Deviates Further From Standard Model , BNL press release.
- New Determination of the Fine Structure Constant from the Electron g Value and QED , G. Gabrielse, D. Hanneke, T. Kinoshita, M. Nio, and B. Odom, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 030802 (2006).
- Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays , info at the University of Utah.
- Wikipedia Hadronization
- Statistical Hadronization: Newer RHIC version of May 20 paper , Older success of the model in elementary (e.g. p+p) collisions
- Strange Magnetism and the Anapole Structure of the Proton , R. Hasty et al. , Science 15, 2117-2119 (2000).
- The Strange Quark Contribution to the Proton's Magnetic Moment , D.T. Spayde et al. (SAMPLE Collaboration), arXiv:nucl-ex/0312016v1 (2003).
Faculty coordinators for Spring 2009 were Carl Brune, Charlotte Elster, Justin Frantz, Ken Hicks, Paul King, Prakash, Julie Roche, and Andreas Schiller.
Last updated 9 September 2010 by Carl Brune.