Nuclear Lunch -- Spring 2013

The Ohio University lunchtime nuclear seminar meets weekly, 11:50-12:45 Wednesdays in the Roger Finlay Conference Room, to discuss interesting papers in nuclear and particle physics. All graduate students and postdocs interested in nuclear physics are welcome to attend. We like to start the talks at 11:50 sharp, so please feel free to come ~11:30 for eating and socializing.

Remember that your presentation should be less than 12 slides long. The purpose of this rule is not to overly constrain you -- it's to give you a better idea of what we expect. We do not expect your talk to be the last word on the subject or a polished seminar. Your presentation is meant to raise some of the key issues, and, ideally, to initiate discussion. If you do not understand something in the paper, say so, or write down your question. We will collect the written questions, and discuss the issues raised as a group. Feel free to contact the course organizers if you have any organizational questions.

The lead coordinators for Nuclear lunch this semster are faculty members Justin Frantz and Daniel Phillips. Other coordinators are Carl Brune, Charlotte Elster, Ken Hicks, Paul King, Ken Nollet, Prakash, and Julie Roche.

Tentative Schedule

Date Discussion Leader Topic / Paper(s)
January 16 Azmat Orazbayev Observation of Time-Reversal Violation in the B0 Meson System, J. P. Lees et al. (BABAR Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 211801 (2012).
Viewpoint: Particle Decays Point to an Arrow of Time. Faculty adviser: Julie Roche
January 23 Arbin Thapaliya Discussion of questions from previous week.
January 30 Harsha Atanayake Dark Force Detection in Low Energy e-p Collisions arXiv:0909.2862 by M. Freytsis, G. Ovanesyan, and J. Thaler
Faculty adviser: Daniel Phillips
February 6 Brian Muccioli Discussion of questions from previous week.
February 13 Bijaya Acharya Observation of Sequential Upsilon Suppression in PbPb Collisions, S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 222301 (2012).
Viewpoint: New Temperature Probe for Quark-Gluon Plasma.
Faculty adviser: Justin Frantz
February 20 Alina Karki Discussion of questions from previous week.
February 27 Nowo Riveli Electron ion collider: the next QCD frontier arXiv:1212.1701 by Elke C. Aschenauer et al.
Faculty adviser: Ken Hicks
March 13 Linda Hlophe Discussion of questions from previous week.
March 20 Cody Parker Cosmic Ray Radiography of the Damaged Cores of the Fukushima Reactors , Konstantin Borozdin, Steven Greene, Zarija Lukic, Edward Milner, Haruo Miyadera, Christopher Morris, and John Perry Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 152501 (2012).
Synopsis: Peeking into Fukushima's Reactors .
Faculty adviser: Paul King
March 27 Andrea Richard Discussion of questions from previous week.
April 3 Shamim Akhtar Detection of the Second r-Process Peak Element Tellurium in Metal-Poor Stars, Ian U. Roederer et al., Astrophysical Journal 747, L8 (2012).
Faculty adviser: Carl Brune
April 10 Bing Xia Discussion of questions from previous week.
April 17 Anthony Ramirez First Observation of Ground State Di-neutron Decay: 16Be, A. Spyrou et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 102501 (2012); see also the comment accompanying the PRL and the authors' response.
Focus: Nuclei Emit Paired-up Neutrons, by M. Schirber.
Faculty adviser: Charlotte Elster
April 20 Sushil Dhakal Discussion of questions from previous week.

Background Information

Administrative Details

A couple of administrative notes for Ohio University Physics and Astronomy graduate students:

If you have any questions about any of this please feel free to contact a faculty coordinator.

Previous Nuclear Lunches

Fall 2012    
Fall 2011 Winter 2012 Spring 2012
Fall 2010 Winter 2011 Spring 2011
Fall 2009 Winter 2010 Spring 2010
Fall 2008 Winter 2009 Spring 2009
Fall 2007 Winter 2008 Spring 2008
Fall 2006 Winter 2007 Spring 2007
Fall 2005 Winter 2006 Spring 2006
Fall 2004 Winter 2005 Spring 2005
Fall 2003 Winter 2004 Spring 2004
Fall 2002 Winter 2003 Spring 2003

Last updated January 23, 2013 by D. Phillips.