Nuclear Lunch: Spring 2023
This is an archive of the Spring 2023 topics; the schedule for the current semester is located here .
Schedule
| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| 18 January | Justin Frantz | Organizational Meeting |
| 25 January |
Jacob Murphy | Neutrinoless double-β decay: Combining quantum Monte Carlo and the nuclear shell model with the generalized contact formalism
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Ronen Weiss, Pablo Soriano, Alessandro Lovato, Javier Menendez, and R. B. Wiringa, Phys. Rev. C 106, (2022) Faculty Advisor: Christian Drischler |
| 4pm 31 January Tuesday 4:00 pm |
Justin Warren | Discussion of questions from previous week. NOTE @ Tuesday Seminar time |
| 1 February |
Yuri Kovchegov | Seminar presentation and discussion. |
| 8 February |
Bikash Chauhan | Constraints on the onset of color transparency from quasi-elastic $^{12}$C$(e,e'p)$ up to $Q^2=14.2$~GeV/$c^2$
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Bhetuwal et. al. submitted (2022). Faculty Advisor: Paul King |
| 15 February | Justin Bryan | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 22 February |
Alexandra Semposki | Observation of a correlated free four-neutron system
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Duer et. al. Nature 606, 678–682 (2022). Faculty Advisor: Daniel Phillips |
| 1 March | Joseph Derkin | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 8 March |
Chirag Rathi | Measurement of the Higgs boson width and evidence of its off-shell contributions to ZZ production
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The CMS Collaboration, Nature 18, pages 1329–1334 (2022). Faculty Advisor: Justin Frantz |
| 15 March | SPRING BREAK | |
| 22 March | Joseph Foy | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| 29 March | Shyam Chauhan | Burning plasma achieved in inertial fusion
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Zylstra et. al. Nature 601542–548 (2022) Faculty Advisor: Carl Brune |
| April 5 | Nisha Singh | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
| April 12 |
Michael Jeswald | Evidence for a QCD accelerator in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
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Bland et. al. Phys. Rev. C 106, 034902 (2022) Faculty Advisor: Madappa Prakash |
| April 19 | Andrius Burnelis | Discussion of questions from previous week. |
The lead coordinator for Nuclear lunch this semester was faculty member Justin Frantz. Other coordinators are Carl Brune, Chaden Djalali, Christian Drischler, Charlotte Elster, Justin Frantz, Daniel Phillips, Prakash, and Julie Roche.