Nuclear Lunch -- Fall 2003

This is an archive of the Fall 2003 topics; the schedule for the current quarter is located here.

Schedule

Date	Discussion Leader	Topic / Paper(s)
17 Sep	Carl Brune	National Underground Science Laboratory Recommendation 3, excerpted from the the overview of the DOE/NSF Long Range Plan (June 2002).
24 Sep	Anders Gardestig	Charge Independence and Charge Symmetry, G.A. Miller and W.T.H. van Oers, in Symmetries and Fundamental Interactions in Nuclei, eds. W. Haxton and E. Henley, World Scientific, Singapore (1995) p. 127-168.
1 Oct	Michael Hornish	Charge Symmetry Breaking: OU/TRIUMF experiment Charge symmetry breaking in n+p --> d+pi₀, A.K. Opper et al., submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett.
8 Oct	Catalin Matei	Charge Symmetry Breaking: IUCF experiment Observation of the Charge Symmetry Breaking d + d -> ⁴He + pi₀ Reaction Near Threshold, E. J. Stephenson et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. (in press).
15 Oct	Deepshikha Choudhury	Pentaquark: Overview Four Experiments Give Evidence of an Exotic Baryon With Five Quarks, Bertram Schwarzschild, Physics Today, September 2003, p. 19.
22 Oct	John Bevington	Pentaquark: CLAS experiment Observation of an Exotic S=+1 Baryon in Exclusive Photoproduction from the Deuteron, S. Stepanyan et al. (The CLAS collaboration)
29 Oct	Hang Liu	PentaquarkTheory Diquarks and Exotic Spectroscopy, R.L. Jaffe and F. Wilczek See ``Background Information'' links below for optional reading.
5 Nov	George Caia	Proton Form Factor: Theory Nucleon Electromagnetic Form Factors, Haiyan Gao, published: Int. J. Mod. Phys E12:1-40 (2003).
12 Nov	Glen MacLachlan	Proton Form Factor: Experiment Measurements of the Electromagnetic Form Factor of the Proton at JLab, V. Punjabi, C. Perdrisat, JLab Hall A Collaboration, and GEp-III Collaboration.

Background Information

Spin Structure Measurements from E143 at SLAC, Linda M. Stuart representing the E143 Collaborations, SLAC-PUB-7101 (1996). This paper provides a good background on form factor measurements.
The Electromagnetic Properties of Dirac Particles, L. L. Foldy, Phys. Rev. 87, 688 (1952). Background reading on form-factor theory.
Exotic Anti-Decuplet of Baryons: Prediction from Chiral Solitons, D. Diakonov, V. Petrov, and M. Polyakov -- the prediction of the Pentaquark!
Positive Parity Pentaquarks Pragmatically Predicted, Carl E. Carlson, Christopher D. Carone, Herry J. Kwee, and Vahagn Nazaryan -- a constituent quark model of the Pentaquark.
Pentaquark hadrons from lattice QCD, F. Csikor, Z. Fodor, S.D. Katz, and T.G. Kovacs
DOE/NSF Nuclear Science Advisory Comittee , includes links to the most recent Long Range Plan (and overview).
NUSEL website (University of Washington)
South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle's Homestake site

Faculty coordinators for Fall 2003 were Carl Brune, Daniel Carman, Charlotte Elster, and Daniel Phillips (the latter two on a part-time basis).
Last updated 4 January 2006 by Carl Brune.