Nuclear Lunch: Fall 2022
This is an archive of the Fall 2022 topics; the schedule for the current semester is located here .
Schedule
| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| 24 August | Carl Brune | Organizational Meeting |
| 31 August |
Joseph Derkin | Experimental demonstration of optical stochastic cooling
,
J. Jarvis et al.
, Nature 608, pages 287-292 (2022). Faculty Advisor: Julie Roche |
| 7 September | Michael Jeswald | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 14 September |
Pramita Tiwari | Evidence for intrinsic charm quarks in the proton
,
The NNPDF Collaboration, Nature 608, pages 483-487 (2022). Faculty Advisor: Justin Frantz |
| 21 September | Yenuel Jones-Alberty | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 28 September |
Justin Bryan | Evidence for Nonlinear Gluon Effects in QCD and Their Mass Number
Dependence at STAR
,
STAR Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 092501 (2022). Faculty Advisor: Prakash |
| 5 October | Shyam Chauhan | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 12 October |
Sijan Regmi | Neutron-upscattering enhancement of the triple-alpha process
,
J. Bishop et al.
, Nature Communications 13, 2151 (2022). Faculty Advisor: Carl Brune |
| 19 October | Bikash Chauhan | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 26 October | Joseph Foy | Bootstrapping the deuteron
,
Dong Bai, arXiv:2201.00551 [nucl-th]. Faculty Advisor: Daniel Phillips |
| 2 November | Bradley McClung | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 9 November |
Andrius Burnelis | Variational approaches to constructing the many-body nuclear ground
state for quantum computing
,
I. Stetcu, A. Baroni, and J. Carlson Phys. Rev. C 105, 064308 (2022). Faculty Advisor: Charlotte Elster |
| 16 November | Alexandra Semposki | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 23 November | No Meeting | Thanksgiving Break |
| 30 November | Nisha Singh | 2022 Nobel Prize
in Physics:Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger,
“ for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the
violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information
science
.” See the the Scientific Background
. Faculty Advisor: Paul King |
The lead coordinator for Nuclear lunch this semester was faculty member Carl Brune. Other coordinators are Chaden Djalali, Christian Drischler, Charlotte Elster, Justin Frantz, Daniel Phillips, Prakash, and Julie Roche.