Nuclear Lunch -- Fall 2006
Schedule
Date
Discussion Leader
Topic / Paper(s)
6 Sep
Carl Brune
Introduction and Kickoff
13 Sep
Daniel Phillips
Universality in Few-body Systems with Large Scattering Length
,
by Eric Braaten and Hans-Werner Hammer,
Phys. Rep. 428, 259 (2006).
The ``required reading'' is Sections 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, and 4.2 of the paper.
20 Sep
Ting Lin
A ménage à trois
laid bare
,
Brett D. Esry and Chris H. Greene, Nature 440, 289 (2006).
The required reading is this short article and Sections 3.1 and 3.2
of the Braaten-Hammer paper from last week.
27 Sep
Anton Wiranata
Evidence for Efimov quantum states in an ultracold gas of
caesium atoms
,
T. Kraemer et al.
, Nature 440, 315 (2006).
4 Oct
Daniel Sayre
Laser Spectroscopic Determination of the 6
He
Nuclear Charge Radius
,
L.-B. Wang et al.
,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 142501 (2004).
11 Oct
Zach Heinen
Neutrino mass and mixing parameters: A short review
,
G.L. Fogli, E. Lisi, A. Marrone, A. Palazzo, and A.M. Rotunno (2005).
This paper is more-or-less a condensed version of the
background-information paper below by the same group.
18 Oct
Sergey Postnikov
Neutrino physics
, Wick C. Haxton and Barry R. Holstein,
American Journal of Physics 68, 15 (2000);
Neutrino physics: An update , Wick C. Haxton and Barry R. Holstein, American Journal of Physics 72, 18 (2004).
The required reading is IV.intro and IV.A (pages 23-25) of the first paper, and IV of the update paper.
Neutrino physics: An update , Wick C. Haxton and Barry R. Holstein, American Journal of Physics 72, 18 (2004).
The required reading is IV.intro and IV.A (pages 23-25) of the first paper, and IV of the update paper.
25 Oct
Moses Oginni
Recent Results from K2K
, M. Yokoyama, for the K2K Collaboration,
SLAC Summer Institute on Particle Physics, Aug. 2-13, 2004.
You may also want to take a look at this recent PRL: Improved Search for ν μ
→ν e
Oscillation in a Long-Baseline Accelerator Experiment
,
S. Yamamoto et al.
(K2K Collaboration),
Phys. Rev. Lett 96, 181801 (2006).
1 Nov
Carl Brune
Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN). The required reading
is the following three articles
from the KATRIN website .
from the KATRIN website .
8 Nov
Shaleen Shukla
2006 Physics Nobel Prizes
( Advanced
Information
):
John C. Matherand George F. Smoot
"for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation"
John C. Matherand George F. Smoot
"for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation"
Background Information
- Threshold and resonance phenomena in ultracold ground-state collisions , E. Tiesinga, B. J. Verhaar, and H. T. C. Stoof, Phys. Rev. A 47, 4114 (1993).
- Three-Body Recombination at Large Scattering Lengths in an Ultracold Atomic Gas , Tino Weber, Jens Herbig, Michael Mark, Hanns-Christoph Nägerl, and Rudolf Grimm, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 123201 (2003).
- Click here for information on the 6 He nuclear charge radius from the ANL website.
- Click here for a nice presentation by Peter Mueller on nuclear charge radii.
- Neutrino Mass, Mixing, and Flavor Chnage , from the Particle Data Group (2006).
- Neutrino Oscillations for Dummies , Chris Waltham, published in American Journal of Physics, 72742-752 (2004).
- Global analysis of three-flavor neutrino masses and mixings , G.L. Fogli, E. Lisi, A. Marrone, and A. Palazzo, to be published in Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics (2006).
- K2K Website
- The KATRIN experiment: Direct ν−mass measurement with sub-eV sensitivity Guido Drexlin, talk at GERDA collaboration meeting, MPIK Heidelberg, February 21, 2006. This is a very nice discussion of the experiment and neutrino mass in general.
Last updated 22 November 2006 by Carl Brune.