Nuclear Lunch -- Fall 2012
Schedule
| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| September 5 | Linda Hlophe | Observation
of Electron-Antineutrino Disappearance at Daya Bay
,
F. P. An et al.
,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 171803 (2012). Faculty adviser: Julie Roche |
| September 12 | Harsha Attanayake | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| September 19 | Arbin Thapaliya | Observation of a new boson
at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
,
The CMS Collaboration, arXiv:1207.7235v1. Faculty adviser: Ken Hicks |
| September 26 | Dilu Divaratne | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| October 3 | Brian Muccioli | Dark Matter Results
from 100 Live Days of XENON100 Data
,
The XENON100 Collaboration, arXiv:1104.2549. Faculty adviser: Prakash |
| October 10 | Bijaya Acharya | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| October 17 | Sushil Dhakal | Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in 136 Xe with EXO-200 , M. Auger |
| October 24 | Cody Parker | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| October 31 | Alina Karki | At the Frontiers of Fundamental Science
Research
,
Rose Hansen, Science and Technology Review Jan/Feb 2012
(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory article about NIF). Faculty adviser: Carl Brune |
| November 7 | Azmat Orazbayev | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| November 14 | Andrea Richard | The 2012
Nobel Prize in Physics
was awarded to Serge Haroche and
David J. Wineland "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable
measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems." Popular
and advanced
information is available from the Nobel Prize website. Faculty adviser: Charlotte Elster |
| November 28 | Youngshin Byun | Constraining Dark Matter Models from a Combined Analysis of Milky Way Satellites with the Fermi Large Area Telescope , M. Ackermann et al. (The Fermi-LAT Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett 107, 241302 (2012). Faculty advser: Daniel Phillips |
| December 5 | Anthony Ramirez | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
Background Information
- Viewpoint: Rethinking the Neutrino , Janet Conrad, Physics 5, 47 (2012).
- Inside story: the search in CMS for the Higgs boson , The CMS collaboration, CERN Courier, Aug 23, 2012.
- The Higgs particle, or something much like it, has been spotted , Johanna Miller, Physics Today 65(9), 12-15, September 2012.
- Fermi LAT Search for Dark Matter in Gamma-ray Lines and the Inclusive Photon Spectrum , Fermi-LAT Collaboration, arXiv:1205.2739 (2012).
The lead faculty coordinators for Fall 2012 were Carl Brune and Charlotte Elster. Other coordinators were Justin Frantz, Ken Hicks, Paul King, Ken Nollet, Daniel Phillips, Prakash, and Julie Roche.
Last updated December 12, 2012 by C. Brune.