Nuclear Lunch

Fall 2002

This is an archive of the Fall 2002 topics; the schedule for the current quarter is located here .

Schedule

Date

Discussion Leader

Topic / Paper(s)

11 Sep

Daniel Carman

Organization and Kick-Off

18 Sep

Hang Liu

Introduction to Neutrino Physics

Neutrino Oscillations and the Solar Neutrino Problem , by W. Haxton.

25 Sep

Glen MacLachlan

Neutrino Physics at Super-Kamiokande

Evidence for Oscillation of Atmospheric Neutrinos , The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1562-1567 (1998).

2 Oct

Catalin Matei

Neutrino Physics at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Direct Evidence for Neutrino Flavor Tranformation from Neutral-Current Interactions in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, The SNO Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 011301 (2002); and Measurement of charged current interactions produced by 8B solar neutrinos at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, The SNO Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 071301 (2001). The papers are available here .

9 Oct

Americo Salas

Detector Physics (Experimental methods handout)

16 Oct

Deepshikha Choudhury

2002 Nobel Prize for Physics

Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba: "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos"
Riccardo Giacconi: "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources"

Reading: Advanced Information

23 Oct

Vladimir Pascalutsa

Intro to CP Violation / B Physics

B Physics and CP Violation , by Helen Quinn

30 Oct

George Caia

Observation of Direct CP Violation in K[S,L] --> pi-pi Decays, the KTeV Collaboration

6 Nov

Ishaq Hleiqawi

Measurement of the CP-Violating Asymmetry Amplitude sin2beta , the BABAR collaboration

13 Nov