Nuclear Lunch -- Fall 2004
Schedule
| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| 15 Sep | Hang Liu | Redesigning Lattice QCD , Peter Lepage. |
| 22 Sep | Hayrullo Shoniyozov | Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics Comes of Age , Carleton DeTar and Steven Gottlieb, Physics Today 57(2), 45 (2004). |
| 29 Sep | Shaleen Shukla | "From Monte Carlo Integration to Quantum Chromodynamics", by Massimo Di Pierro, Sections 4.1 and 4.2 (pages 31-37). A link to the article is available below under "Backgroundi Information". |
| 6 Oct | Deepshikha Choudhury | Lattice QCD meets experiment in hadron physics , Christine Davies and Peter Lepage, Review talk given at Hadron 03: 10th International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy, Aschaffenburg, Germany, 31 Aug - 6 Sep 2003. |
| 13 Oct | Moses Oginni | 7 Be(p, gamma) 8 B Astrophysical S Factor from Precision Cross Section Measurements , A. R. Junghans et al. , Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 041101 (2002). |
| 20 Oct | Catalin Matei | High Precision Measurement of the Superallowed 0 + -->0 + beta Decay of 22 Mg , J. C. Hardy et al. , Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 082501 (2003). |
| 27 Oct | Rafail Yarulin | Direct measurement of the neutron-neutron scattering cross section at the reactor YAGUAR , W. I. Furman et al. , J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 28, 2627-2641 (2002). |
| 3 Nov | Sedar Kizilgul | 21 Na(p,gamma) 22 Mg Reaction and Oxygen-Neon Novae , S. Bishop et al. , Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 162501 (2003). |
| 10 Nov | Zach Heinen | 2004 Physics Nobel Prizes
David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, and Frank Wilczek: "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction" Reading: Advanced Information |
Background Information
- From Monte Carlo Integration to Quantum Chromo Dynamics (an introduction) , Massimo Di Pierro.
- High-Precision Lattice QCD Confronts Experiment , C. T. H. Davies et la. (HPQCD, Fermilab Lattice, MILC, and UKQCD Collaborations), Phys. Rev. Lett 92, 022001 (2004).
Faculty coordinators for Fall 2004 were Brune, Carman, Elster, Opper, and Phillips.
Last updated 5 January 2005 by Carl Brune.