Nuclear Lunch -- Spring 2006
Schedule
| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| 5 Apr | Ting Lin | Fundamental Neutron Physics , Jeffrey S. Nico and W. Michael Snow, Annual Reviews of Nuclear and Particle Science 55, 27 (2005). The required reading is pages 27-40 (first 2 sections). |
| 12 Apr | Deepshika Choudhury | Neutron Physics: section 5 of the Nico and Snow paper from last week. |
| 19 Apr | Daniel Sayre | Neutron Physics: section 6 of the Nico and Snow paper from the first week. |
| 26 Apr | Zach Heinen | Nucleosynthesis in Classical Nova Explosions: Modeling and Nuclear Uncertainties , Jordi Jose and Alain Coc, Nuclear Physics News 15(4), 17 (2005). |
| 3 May | Sergey Postnikov | Gamma-Ray Line Astronomy , Roland Diehl, published in Nucl. Phys. A758 (2005) 225-233. |
| 10 May | Aderemi Adekola | Hydrogen Burning of 17 O in Classical Novae , A. Chafa et al. , Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 031101 (2005); Erratum . |
| 17 May | Shaleen Shukla | Charmonium and Bottomium, Section 6.1 (pages 132-139) from Particle Physics , B.R. Martin and G. Shaw, Wiley (Wiley, New York, 1992). |
| 24 May | Chieh Jen Yang | Recent Bottomonium and Charmonium Results from CLEO , T. Ferguson, to be published in the proceedings of the XLIst Rencontres de Moriond on QCD and High Energy Hadronic Interactions |
| 31 May | Moses Oginni | Molecular Quarkonium , M.B. Voloshin, talk at the Flavor Physics and CP Violation Conference, Vancouver, 9-12 April 2006. |
Background Information
- Fundamental Physics with Neutrons -- Report to the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, Submitted by the Subcommittee on Fundamental Physics with Nuetrons, August 29, 2003.
- Sixteenth Summer School in Nuclear Physics Bar Harbor, Maine, June 13 - June 25, 2004. Check out Mike Snow's lecture notes on neutron physics. You may also be interested in checking out Daniel Phillips's lectures on EFT methods.
- Thermonuclear reaction rate of 17 O(p,gamma) 18 F , C. Fox et al. , Phys. Rev. C 71, 055801 (2005).
Faculty coordinators for Spring 2006 were Brune, Carman, Elster, Hicks, and Prakash.
Last updated 6 September 2006 by Carl Brune.