Nuclear Lunch: Fall 2021
This is an archive of the Fall 2021 topics; the schedule for the current semester is located here .
Schedule
| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| 25 August | Daniel Phillips | Organizational Meeting |
| 1 September |
Ibrahim Alnamlah | Measurement of the positive muon anomalous magnetic moment to 0.46 ppm
,
Physical Review Letters, Volume 126, 141801, 2021. Faculty Advisor: Justin Frantz |
| 8 September | Justin Warren | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 15 September | Nisha Singh | Investigating the dark matter minispikes with the gamma-ray signal from the halo of M31
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arXiv:2108.09204 Faculty Advisor: Daniel Phillips |
| 22 September | Mahesh Poudel | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 29 September |
Justin Bryan | Executive Summary of “Science Requirements and Detector Concepts for the Electron-Ion Collider: EIC Yellow Report”
arXiv:2103.05419 Faculty Advisor: Chaden Djalali |
| 6 October |
Shyam Chauhan | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 13 October |
No meeting | DNP meeting (virtual) |
| 20 October | Robert Radloff | First Precision Measurement of the Parity Violating Asymmetry in Cold Neutron Capture on 3
He
,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 131803 (2020). Faculty Advisor: Carl Brune |
| 27 October | Bradley McClung | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 3 November | Gula Hamad | Accurate determination of the neutron skin thickness of 208Pb through parity violation in electron scattering
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 172502 (2021). Faculty Advisor: Charlotte Elster |
| 10 November | Alexandra Semposki | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 17 November | Joseph Derkin | An increase in the 12
C+ 12
C fusion rate from resonances at astrophysical energies
Faculty Advisor: Zach Meisel |
| 24 November |
No meeting | Thanksgiving break |
| 1 December | Yenuel Jones-Alberty | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
The lead coordinators for Nuclear lunch this semester were faculty members Daniel Phillips and Julie Roche. Other coordinators were Charlotte Elster, Zach Meisel, Chaden Djalali, Justin Frantz, and Carl Brune.