Nuclear Lunch -- Fall 2010

This is an archive of the Fall 2010 topics; the schedule for the current quarter is located here .

Schedule

Date Discussion Leader Topic / Paper(s)
September 8 D. Phillips Organizational
September 15 A. Orazbayev For the general idea, you should read "The case for mini black holes" , A. Barrau and J. Grain, CERN Courier, Nov. 2004. A more quantitative presentation can be found in "Black Holes at the Large Hadron Collider" , by S. Dimopolous and G. Landsberg, Phys. Rev. Lett., 87, 161602.
September 22 S. Chandhavar Discussion of previous week's open questions
September 29 A. P. Ramirez "The size of the proton" , by R. Pohl, et al., Nature, 466 , 213 (2010)
October 6 H. Atanayake Discussion of previous week's open questions
October 13 B. Xia CP Violation in B-meson decays: is D0 seeing beyond-the-standard-model physics? Read the viewpoint in the APS's "Physics" here or download the Physical Review Letter here.
October 20 A. Wiranata Discussion of previous week's open questions
October 27 B. Acharya What is the equation of state for cold QCD matter? Read the viewpoint in APS's Physics here or download the Physical Review D article here .
November 3 K. Moore Discussion of previous week's open questions
November 10 C. Parker The Nobel Prize in Physics, 2010. Find everything you need at the Nobel Prize website . We will be studying the "Advanced Information". Which is not really that advanced actually....

Faculty coordinators for Fall 2010 were Daniel Phillips, Charlotte Elster, Justin Frantz, Ken Hicks, Prakash, and Andreas Schiller.
Last updated 5 January 2011 by Carl Brune.
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