Nuclear Lunch -- Spring 2008
Schedule
| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| 9 April | Prakash | Introduction to Equation of State (EOS) |
| 16 April | Ting Lin | The Giant Monopole Resonance in the Sn Isotopes: Why is Tin so “Fluffy”? , U. Garg et al. , Nucl. Phys. A788, 36c-43c (2007). |
| 23 April | Jerry Yang | Parity Violation in Astrophysics , C. J. Horowitz, arXiv:nucl-th/0410074v1 (2004). |
| 30 April | Kellen Murphy | Direct URCA process in neutron stars , James M. Lattimer, C. J. Pethick, Madappa Prakash, and Pawel Haensel, Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 2701 (1991). |
| 7 May | Moses Oginni | Synthesis of the isotopes of elements 118 and 116 in the 249 Cf and 245 Cm+ 48 Ca fusion reactions , Yu. Ts. Oganessian et al. , Phys. Rev. C 74, 044602 (2006); and Evidence for a long-lived superheavy nucleus with atomic mass number A=292 and atomic number Z=~122 in natural Th , A. Marinov, I. Rodushkin, D. Kolb, A. Pape, Y. Kashiv, R. Brandt, R.V. Gentry, H.W. Miller, arXiv:0804.3869v1 (2008). |
| 14 May | Gcina Mavimbela | LIGO and the Detection of Gravitational Waves , Barry C. Barish and Rainer Weiss, Physics Today 52(10)44 (1999). |
| 21 May | Chen Ji | Setting upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134 using the first science data from the GEO 600 and LIGO detectors , B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 69, 082004 (2004). |
| 28 May | Daniel Sayre | Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis , B.D. Fields and S. Sarkar, The Reviews of Particle Physics (Particle Data Group, November 2007). |
| 4 June | Zach Heinen | Photodisintegration of deuterium and big bang nucleosynthesis , K. Y. Hara et al. , Phys. Rev. D 68, 072001 (2003). |
Background Information
- Measurement of the GMR in the Unstable 56 Ni Nucleus using the Active Target Maya , C. Monrozeau et al. , Nucl. Phys. A788, 182c-187c (2007).
- What can we learn from recent non-relativistic mean field calculations ? , G. Colo, P.F. Bortignon, S. Fracasso, and N. Van Giai, Nucl. Phys. A788, 173c-181c (2007).
- Parity violating measurements of neutron densities , C. J. Horowitz, S. J. Pollock, P. A. Souder, and R. Michaels, Phys. Rev. C 63, 025501 (2001).
- Cooling of neutron stars , C. J. Pethick, Rev. Mod. Phys. 64, 1133 (1992).
- Elements 116 and 118 Are Discovered , Physics New Update Number 797 #1, October 16, 2006 by Phil Schewe, Ben Stein, and Davide Castelvecchi.
- Laser interferometry for the detection of gravitational waves , Jim Hough and Sheila Rowan, J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 7S257-S264 (2005).
- Gravitational Waves from Compact Bodies , Kip S. Thorne, arXiv:gr-qc/9506084v1 (1995).
- Caltech LIGO website
- The Cosmological Baryon Density from the Deuterium-to-Hydrogen Ratio in QSO Absorption Systems: D/H toward Q1243+3047 , David Kirkman, David Tytler, Nao Suzuki,John M. O’Meara and Dan Lubin, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 149, 1–28 (2003).
Faculty coordinators for Spring 2008 were Prakash, Carl Brune, Ken Hicks, Paul King, Daniel Phillips, Prakash, Julie Roche, Andreas Schiller.
Last updated 5 September 2008 by Carl Brune.