Nuclear Lunch -- Spring 2006

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

Date	Discussion Leader	Topic / Paper(s)
5 Apr	Ting Lin	Fundamental Neutron Physics, Jeffrey S. Nico and W. Michael Snow, Annual Reviews of Nuclear and Particle Science 55, 27 (2005). The required reading is pages 27-40 (first 2 sections).
12 Apr	Deepshika Choudhury	Neutron Physics: section 5 of the Nico and Snow paper from last week.
19 Apr	Daniel Sayre	Neutron Physics: section 6 of the Nico and Snow paper from the first week.
26 Apr	Zach Heinen	Nucleosynthesis in Classical Nova Explosions: Modeling and Nuclear Uncertainties, Jordi Jose and Alain Coc, Nuclear Physics News 15(4), 17 (2005).
3 May	Sergey Postnikov	Gamma-Ray Line Astronomy, Roland Diehl, published in Nucl. Phys. A758 (2005) 225-233.
10 May	Aderemi Adekola	Hydrogen Burning of ¹⁷O in Classical Novae, A. Chafa et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 031101 (2005); Erratum.
17 May	Shaleen Shukla	Charmonium and Bottomium, Section 6.1 (pages 132-139) from Particle Physics, B.R. Martin and G. Shaw, Wiley (Wiley, New York, 1992).
24 May	Chieh Jen Yang	Recent Bottomonium and Charmonium Results from CLEO, T. Ferguson, to be published in the proceedings of the XLIst Rencontres de Moriond on QCD and High Energy Hadronic Interactions
31 May	Moses Oginni	Molecular Quarkonium, M.B. Voloshin, talk at the Flavor Physics and CP Violation Conference, Vancouver, 9-12 April 2006.

Fundamental Physics with Neutrons -- Report to the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, Submitted by the Subcommittee on Fundamental Physics with Nuetrons, August 29, 2003.
Sixteenth Summer School in Nuclear Physics Bar Harbor, Maine, June 13 - June 25, 2004. Check out Mike Snow's lecture notes on neutron physics. You may also be interested in checking out Daniel Phillips's lectures on EFT methods.
Thermonuclear reaction rate of ¹⁷O(p,gamma)¹⁸F, C. Fox et al., Phys. Rev. C 71, 055801 (2005).

Faculty coordinators for Spring 2006 were Brune, Carman, Elster, Hicks, and Prakash.
Last updated 6 September 2006 by Carl Brune.