Nuclear Lunch -- Winter 2005
Schedule
| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| 12 Jan | Ting Lin | Introduction to Neutron Stars , M. Coleman Miller. |
| 19 Jan | Remi Adekola | Supernova explosions in the Universe , Adam Burrows, Nature 403, 727 (2000). |
| 26 Jan | Sedar Kizilgul | Radiative Corrections: Tritium Beta Decay and the Search for Neutrino Mass , Thomas J. Bowles and R. G. Hamish Robertson as told to David Kestenbaum, Los Alamos Science 25, 6 (1997). |
| 2 Feb | Anders Gardestig | Weak Interactions in Atoms and Nuclei: The Standard Model and Beyond , M.J. Ramsey-Musolf and J. Secrest (2003). Required reading: Sections I, II.A,C,D, III.A,C. |
| 9 Feb | Moses Oginni | The SAMPLE Experiment and Weak Nucleon Structure , E. J. Beise, M. L. Pitt, and D. T. Spayde, Review article to appear in Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics. Required reading: sections 1.1, 1.3, pages 16-17, 28-29, 35-42. |
| 16 Feb | Zach Heinen | The SAMPLE Experiment and Weak Nucleon Structure , E. J. Beise, M. L. Pitt, and D. T. Spayde, Review article to appear in Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics. |
| 23 Feb | Damodar Pokharel | Quantum Color Transparency and Nuclear Filtering , Pankaj Jain, Bernard Pire, John P. Ralston (1995). Required reading: Chapter 1. |
| 2 Mar | Shaleen Shukla | Quark Propagation Through Cold QCD Matter , Will Brooks et al. , Jefferson Lab Proposal PR02-104 (2002). |
| 8 Mar | Deepshika Choudhury | Experimental search for color transparency at Jefferson Lab , D. Dutta, European Physical Journal A 19, S1, 179 (2004). |
Background Information
- General Properties of the Electromagnetic Corrections to the Beta Decay of a Physical Nucleon , A. Sirlin, Phys. Rev. 164, 1767 (1967).
- Radiative tritium beta-decay and the neutrino mass , S. Gardner, V. Bernard, and U.-G. Meissner, Phys.Lett. B 598, 188 (2004).
- The Physics of Neutron Stars , J. M. Lattimer and M. Prakash, Science 304, 536-542 (2004).
Faculty coordinators for Winter 2005 were Carl Brune, Daniel Carman, Charlotte Elster, Ken Hicks, Allena Opper, and Daniel Phillips.
Last updated 1 April 2005 by Carl Brune.