Nuclear Lunch -- Winter 2008
Schedule
| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| 16 Jan | Ken Hicks | Meson Resonances (reading from handout) |
| 23 Jan | Remi Adekola | Dalitz Plots (reading from handout) |
| 30 Jan | Dan Sayre | Statistical Analysis. The required reading is Pentaquark Searches , Ken Hicks, arXiv:hep-ph/0703004v3, Proceedings of the Hypernuclear 2006 Conference. See also the paper on pentaquark signals listed below under background reading. |
| 6 Feb | Moses Oginni | Laser Backscattering. The required reading is Laser Compton back-scattering gamma-ray beamline on NewSUBARU , Shuji Miyamoto et al. , Radiation Measurements 41- Supplement 2, S179-S185 (2006). See also the background readings below. |
| 13 Feb | Andreas Schiller | Parity Measurements of Nuclear Levels Using a Free-Electron-Laser Generated gamma-Ray Beam , N. Pietralla et al. , Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 012502 (2001). |
| 20 Feb | Anton Wiranata | Island of Rare Earth Nuclei with Tetrahedral and Octahedral Symmetries: Possible Experimental Evidence , J. Dudek et al. , Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 072501 (2006). |
| 27 Feb | Ting Lin | Asymptotic freedom as a spin effect , N. K. Nielsen, American Journal of Physics 49(12), 1171-1178 (1981). |
| 5 March | Sergey Postnikov | Asymptotic Freedom. The reading comes from the same paper as the previous week. |
| 12 March | Kellen Murphy | "Glueballs": results and perspectives from the lattice , Gunnar S. Bali, Talk presented at Photon 2001, Ascona, CH, 2.9. - 7.9.01, arXiv:hep-ph/0110254v1 (2001). |
Background Information
- Kinematics Information , from the Particle Data Group. Includes some information on resonances and Dalitz Plots.
- A Bayesian analysis of pentaquark signals from CLAS data , The CLAS Collaboration: D. G. Ireland et al. , arXiv:0709.3154v2.
- Gamma-Ray Production in a Storage Ring Free-Electron Laser , V. N. Litvinenko et al. , Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 4569-4572 (1997).
- Photon polarization properties in laser backscattering , D. Babusci, G. Giordano, G. Matone, Physics Letters B, 355, 1-8 (1995).
- The glueball spectrum from an anisotropic lattice study , Colin J. Morningstar and Mike Peardon, Phys. Rev. D 60, 034509 (1999).
Faculty coordinators for Winter 2008 were Ken Hicks, Carl Brune, Paul King, Daniel Phillips, Prakash, Julie Roche, and Andreas Schiller.
Last updated 7 April 2008 by Carl Brune.