Nuclear Lunch: Spring 2020
Schedule
| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| 15 January | P. King | Organizational Meeting |
| 22 January | J. Rowley | A small proton charge radius from an electron-proton scattering experiment
Xiong, W., et al. , Nature 575147–150 (2019). Also see the Nature "News & Views": Progress on the proton-radius puzzle . Alternate access link for the paper Faculty Advisor: Hicks |
| 29 January | I. Alnamlah | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 5 February | M. Poudel | Direct Observation of Proton Emission in 11Be
Y. Ayyad et al. , Phys.Rev.Lett. 123, 082501 (2019). Faculty Advisor: Brune |
| 12 February | J. Derkin | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 19 February | J. Warren | Discovery of an Exceptionally Strong Beta Decay Transition of 20F and Implications for the Fate of Intermediate-Mass Stars
O. S. Kirsebom et al. , Phys.Rev.Lett. 123, 262701 (2019). Also see the Viewpoint: A Forbidden Transition Allowed for Stars Faculty Advisor: King |
| 26 February | J. Murphy | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 4 March | U. Shrestha | Nuclear spallation in active galaxies
L.C. Gallo, J.S. Randhawa, S.G.H. Waddell, M.H. Hani, J.A. García, C.S. Reynolds, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 484, 3036–3041 (2019), arXiv:1901.08383 Faculty Advisor: Meisel |
| 11 March | Spring Break | |
| 18 March | Extended Spring Break | |
| 25 March | G. Hamad | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 1 April | Y. Jones-Alberty | Multispectral Photon-Counting for Medical Imaging and Beam Characterization
E. Brücken, et al. , arXiv:2001.02726 (2020). Faculty Advisor: Roche |
| 8 April | D. Soltesz | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 15 April | K. Brandenburg | Location of the Neutron Dripline at Fluorine and Neon
D. S. Ahn et al. , Phys.Rev.Lett. 123, 212501 (2019). Also see Viewpoint: Reaching the Limits of Nuclear Existence Faculty Advisor: Elster Local copy of the paper: PDF copy |
| 22 April | S. Subedi | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
The lead coordinators for Nuclear lunch this semester were faculty members Paul King and Daniel Phillips. Other coordinators were Carl Brune, Charlotte Elster, Justin Frantz, Ken Hicks, Zach Meisel, Madappa Prakash, and Julie Roche.