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INPP Nuclear Lunch Page
This is an archive of the Spring 2023 topics; the schedule for the current semester is located here .
Nuclear Lunch: Fall 2023
This is an archive of the Spring 2023 topics; the schedule for the current semester is located here .
Schedule
| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| 30 August | Daniel Phillips | Organizational Meeting |
| 6 September |
Joseph Derkin | Observation of high-energy neutrinos from the galactic plane
R. Abbasi et al. , IceCube collaboration, Science 380, 1388 Faculty Advisor: Christian Drischler |
| 13 September | Joseph Foy | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 20 September |
Ryan Conaway | The impact of (n,γ) reaction rate uncertainties of unstable isotopes on the i-process nucleosynthesis of the elements from Ba to W
P. A. Dennissenkov, F. Herwig, G. Perdikakis, and H. Schatz, MNRAS 503, 3913 Faculty Advisor: Charlotte Elster |
| 27 September | Austin Rambo | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 4 October |
Sijan Regmi | Ab initio predictions link the neutron skin of 208Pb to nuclear forces
B. Hu et al. , Nature Physics 18, 1196 Faculty Advisor: Daniel Phillips |
| 11 October | Alexandra Semposki | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 18 October |
Nisha Singh | Demonstration of momentum cooling to enhance the potential of cancer treatment with proton therapy
V. Maradia, D. Meer, R. Dölling, D. C. Weber, A. J. Lomax and S. Psoroulas, Nature Physics (2023) Faculty Advisor: Paul King |
| 25 October | Mike Jeswald | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 1 November |
Bradley McClung | Constraining neutron-star matter with microscopic and macroscopic collisions
S. Huth et al. , Nature 606, 276 Faculty Advisor: Justin Frantz |
| 8 November | Bikash Chauhan | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 15 November |
Abhinav Giri | The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Evidence for a Gravitational-wave Background
G. Agazie et al. , NanoGRAV collaboration, ApJL 951, L8 Faculty Advisor: Carl Brune |
| 22 November | No meeting | Thanksgiving Break |
| 29 November |
Chirag Rathi | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 6 December | Andrius Burnelis | Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 Faculty Advisor: Chaden Djalali |
The lead coordinator for Nuclear lunch this semester was faculty member Daniel Phillips. Other coordinators were Carl Brune, Chaden Djalali, Christian Drischler, Charlotte Elster, Justin Frantz, and Paul King.