Nuclear Lunch: Spring 2021
This is an archive of the Spring 2021 topics; the schedule for the current semester is located here .
Schedule
| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| 20 January | Carl Brune | Organizational Meeting |
| 26 January Tuesday 4:00 pm |
Joey Rowley | Urca nuclide production in Type-I X-ray bursts and implications for
nuclear physics studies
,
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 500, Issue 3,
pp. 2958-2968, 2021. Faculty Advisor: Zach Meisel |
| 3 February | Gula Hamad | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 10 February | Mahesh Poudel | Can Extreme Electromagnetic Fields Accelerate the α Decay of Nuclei?
,
Adriana Pálffy and Sergey V. Popruzhenko, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 212505 (2020). Faculty Advisor: Carl Brune |
| 17 February | Jacob Murphy | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 23 February Tuesday 4:00 pm |
Alexandra Semposki | The impact of nuclear shape on the emergence of the neutron dripline
,
Nature volume 587, 66-71 (2020). Faculty Advisor: Charlotte Elester |
| 3 March | Wellness Break | |
| 9 March Tuesday 4:00 pm |
Ibrahim Alnamlah | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 17 March | Shyam Chauhan | Improved calculations of β decay backgrounds to new physics in liquid xenon
detectors
,
S. J. Haselschwardt, J. Kostensalo, X. Mougeot, and J. Suhonen
Phys. Rev. C 102, 065501 (2020). Faculty Advisor: Justin Frantz |
| 24 March | Justin Bryan | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 31 March | Yenuel Jones-Alberty | Experimental study of the Γ p1
/Γ p0
ratios of
resonance states in 8
Be for deducing the 7
Be(n,p 1
) 7
Li ∗
reaction
rate relevant to the cosmological lithium problem
,
N. Iwasa et al.
, Phys. Rev. C 103, 015801 (2021). Faculty Advisor: Carl Brune |
| 7 April | Kristyn Brandenburg | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 14 April | Justin Warren | High-energy topic Measurement of the proton spin structure at long distances
Z. Zheng et al.
, submitted to Nature Physics Faculty Advisor: Julie Roche |
| 21 April | Joseph Derkin | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
The lead coordinators for Nuclear lunch this semester were faculty members Carl Brune and Justin Frantz. Other coordinators are Charlotte Elster, Paul King, Zach Meisel, Daniel Phillips, Madappa Prakash, and Julie Roche.