Nuclear Lunch -- Spring 2011
Schedule
| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| March 30 | Organizational Meeting | |
| April 6 | Andreas Schiller / David Ingram | Physics of Reactors and Energy Production |
| April 13 | Cody Parker | Questions from last week. Nuclear Fuel Behavior in Loss-of-coolant Accident (LOCA) Conditions , OECD/NEA report number 6846. |
| April 20 | Riveli Nowo | Production of anti-nuclei in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions. Observation of antimatter helium-4 nucleus , arXiv paper submitted to Nature by RHIC STAR Collaboration. A (shorter) physicsworld.com article discussing this and a similar result from the LHC Collaboration ALICE. |
| April 27 | Sushil Dhakal | Questions about the RHIC AntiHelium paper from the previous week. |
| May 4 | Bijaya Acharya | Superdeformation in the N=Z Nucleus 36 Ar: Experimental, Deformed Mean Field, and Spherical Shell Model Descriptions C.E. Svensson et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2693 (2000). |
| May 11 | Bing Xia | Open questions about backbending. |
| May 18 | Young Shin Byun | S-process Nucleosynthesis. The reading is these pages from a 1994 review article by Brad Meyer. The citation and link to the full article from the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics are given below in the Background Informaton section. |
| May 25 | Shamim Akhtar | Questions about the S Proces . |
| June 1 | TBA | Informational on Radiation Safety |
Background Information
- High-spin phenomena in atomic nuclei , M. J. A. de Voigt, J. Dudek, and Z. Szymański, Rev. Mod. Phys. 55, 949–1046 (1983).
- The r-, s-, and p-Process in Nucleosynthesis , Bradley S. Meyer, Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 32, 153-190 (1994).
- The s process: Nuclear physics, stellar models, and observations , F. Käppeler, R. Gallino, S. Bisterzo, and Wako Aoki, Rev. Mod. Phys. 83, 157-194 (2011).
- Synthesis of the elements in stars: forty years of progress , George Wallerstein et al. , Rev. Mod. Phys. 69, 995-1084 (1997).
Faculty coordinators for Spring 2011 were Prakash, Carl Brune, Charlotte Elster, Justin Frantz, Ken Hicks, Paul King, Daniel Phillips, Julie Roche, and Andreas Schiller.
Last updated 1 September 2011 by Paul King.