Nuclear Lunch -- Fall 2006

This is an archive of the Fall 2006 topics; the schedule for the current quarter is located here.

Schedule

Date	Discussion Leader	Topic / Paper(s)
6 Sep	Carl Brune	Introduction and Kickoff
13 Sep	Daniel Phillips	Universality in Few-body Systems with Large Scattering Length, by Eric Braaten and Hans-Werner Hammer, Phys. Rep. 428, 259 (2006). The ``required reading'' is Sections 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, and 4.2 of the paper.
20 Sep	Ting Lin	A ménage à trois laid bare, Brett D. Esry and Chris H. Greene, Nature 440, 289 (2006). The required reading is this short article and Sections 3.1 and 3.2 of the Braaten-Hammer paper from last week.
27 Sep	Anton Wiranata	Evidence for Efimov quantum states in an ultracold gas of caesium atoms, T. Kraemer et al., Nature 440, 315 (2006).
4 Oct	Daniel Sayre	Laser Spectroscopic Determination of the ⁶He Nuclear Charge Radius, L.-B. Wang et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 142501 (2004).
11 Oct	Zach Heinen	Neutrino mass and mixing parameters: A short review, G.L. Fogli, E. Lisi, A. Marrone, A. Palazzo, and A.M. Rotunno (2005). This paper is more-or-less a condensed version of the background-information paper below by the same group.
18 Oct	Sergey Postnikov	Neutrino physics, Wick C. Haxton and Barry R. Holstein, American Journal of Physics 68, 15 (2000); Neutrino physics: An update, Wick C. Haxton and Barry R. Holstein, American Journal of Physics 72, 18 (2004). The required reading is IV.intro and IV.A (pages 23-25) of the first paper, and IV of the update paper.
25 Oct	Moses Oginni	Recent Results from K2K, M. Yokoyama, for the K2K Collaboration, SLAC Summer Institute on Particle Physics, Aug. 2-13, 2004. You may also want to take a look at this recent PRL: Improved Search for ν_μ→ν_e Oscillation in a Long-Baseline Accelerator Experiment, S. Yamamoto et al. (K2K Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett 96, 181801 (2006).
1 Nov	Carl Brune	Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN). The required reading is the following three articles Intro & Overview Physics Motivation How KATRIN works from the KATRIN website.
8 Nov	Shaleen Shukla	2006 Physics Nobel Prizes (Advanced Information): John C. Mather and George F. Smoot "for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation"

Background Information

Threshold and resonance phenomena in ultracold ground-state collisions, E. Tiesinga, B. J. Verhaar, and H. T. C. Stoof, Phys. Rev. A 47, 4114 (1993).
Three-Body Recombination at Large Scattering Lengths in an Ultracold Atomic Gas, Tino Weber, Jens Herbig, Michael Mark, Hanns-Christoph Nägerl, and Rudolf Grimm, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 123201 (2003).
Click here for information on the ⁶He nuclear charge radius from the ANL website.
Click here for a nice presentation by Peter Mueller on nuclear charge radii.
Neutrino Mass, Mixing, and Flavor Chnage, from the Particle Data Group (2006).
Neutrino Oscillations for Dummies, Chris Waltham, published in American Journal of Physics, 72 742-752 (2004).
Global analysis of three-flavor neutrino masses and mixings, G.L. Fogli, E. Lisi, A. Marrone, and A. Palazzo, to be published in Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics (2006).
K2K Website
The KATRIN experiment: Direct ν−mass measurement with sub-eV sensitivity Guido Drexlin, talk at GERDA collaboration meeting, MPIK Heidelberg, February 21, 2006. This is a very nice discussion of the experiment and neutrino mass in general.

Faculty coordinators for Fall 2006 were Brune, Elster, and Phillips.

Last updated 22 November 2006 by Carl Brune.