Nuclear Lunch: Spring 2019
This is an archive of the Spring 2019 topics; the schedule for the current semester is located here .
Schedule
| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| 23 January | Hicks | Organizational Meeting |
| 30 January | Cancelled | Due to weather. |
| 6 February | Kristyn Brandenburg | High-Speed neutron Imaging Using a Current-Biased Delay-Line Detector of Kinetic Inductance
,
H. Shishido et al.
, Phys. Rev. Applied 10,
044044 (2018). Faculty Advisor: Z. Meisel |
| 13 February | Mahesh Poudel | Sensitivity of nuclear statistical equilibrium to nuclear uncertainties during stellar core collapse
,
Shun Furusawa, Phys. Rev. C 98,
065802 (2018). Faculty Advisor: M. Prakash |
| 20 February | Irin Sultana | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 27 February | Joey Rowley | Dissecting the Mass of the Proton
,
Andre Walker-Loud, Physics 11,
118 (2018). Proton Mass Decomposition from the QCD Energy Momentum Tensor , Y.-B. Yang et al. , Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 212001 (2018). Faculty Advisor: K. Hicks |
| 6 March | Matt Burrows | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 13 March | Spring Break | |
| 20 March | Ibrahim Alnamlah | Short-Lived Radioisotope 98Tc Synthesized by the Supernova Neutrino Process
,
T. Hayakawa et al.
, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121,
102701 (2018). Faculty Advisor: C. Elster |
| 27 March | Bishnu Karki | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 3 April | Shiv Subedi | 7Be(n,p)7Li Reaction and the Cosmological Lithium Problem: Measurement of the cross section in a wide energy range at n_TOF at CERN
,
L. Damone et al.
, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121,
042701 (2018). Faculty Advisor: C. Brune |
| 10 April | Som Nath Paneru | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 17 April | Utsav Shrestha | Creation of quark-gluon plasma droplets with three distinct geometries
,
PHENIX Collaboration, Nature Physics ,
1 (2018). Faculty Advisor: J. Frantz |
| 24 April | Cole Raisbeck | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
The lead coordinators for Nuclear lunch this semester were faculty members Ken Hicks and Zach Meisel. Other coordinators were Carl Brune, Charlotte Elster, Justin Frantz, Paul King, Prakash, and Julie Roche.