Nuclear Lunch -- Spring 2015
Schedule
| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| January 14 | No talk | Organizational Meeting |
| January 21 | Md. Abdullah Al Mamun | New equation of state for astrophysical simulations
,
G. Shen, C. J. Horowitz, and S. Teige,
Phys. Rev. C 83, 035802 (2011). Faculty Advisor: Prakash |
| January 28 | Sudhanva Lalit | Discussion of questions from the previous week. |
| February 4 | Tyler Danley | Plasma physics: A promising advance in nuclear fusion
,
Mark Herrmann, Nature, 506, 302-303 (2014). See also Fuel gain exceeding unity in an inertially confined fusion
implosion
, O.A. Hurricane et al.
,
Nature 506, 343-348 (2014). Faculty Advisor: Carl Brune |
| February 11 | Linda Hlophe | Discussion of questions from the previous week. |
| February 18 | Cody Parker | Viewpoint: Recreating a Stellar Electron Catch
,
Karlheinz Langanke, Physics 4, 91 (2011). See also Gamow-Teller Transition Strengths from 56
Ni
,
M. Sasano et al.
,
Phys. Rev. Lett 107, 202501 (2011). Faculty Advisor: Carl Brune |
| February 25 | Taya Chetry | Discussion of questions from the previous week. |
| March 4 | No lunch | Spring Break |
| March 11 | Andrea Richard | Observation of the Resonant Character of the Z(4430) -
State
, R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration). See also: Synopsis: Four-Quark State Confirmed
. Faculty Advisor: Justin Frantz |
| March 18 | Nick Compton | Discussion of questions from the previous week. |
| March 25 | Nadyah Alanazi | Stretched states in 12,13
B with the (d,alpha) reaction
,
A. H. Wuosmaa et al.
,
Phys. Rev. C 90, 061301(R) (2014). Faculty Advisor: Charlotte Elster |
| April 1 | Sushil Dhakal | Discussion of questions from the previous week. |
| April 8 | Arbin Thapaliya | Dark Matter with Pseudoscalar-Mediated Interactions Explains the
DAMA Signal and the Galactic Center Excess
,
Chiara Arina, Eugenio Del Nobile, and Paolo Panci,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 011301 (2015). Faculty Advisor: Prakash |
| April 15 | No lunch | April APS Meeting |
| April 22 | Brian Muccioli | Discussion of questions from the from the previous lunch. |
The lead coordinators for Nuclear lunch this semester were faculty members Carl Brune and Justin Frantz. Other coordinators were Charlotte Elster, Paul King, Daniel Phillips, and Prakash.
Last updated 27 August 2015, by C.R. Brune.