Nuclear Lunch -- Spring 2008

This is an archive of the Winter 2008 topics; the schedule for the current quarter is located here.

Schedule

Date	Discussion Leader	Topic / Paper(s)
9 April	Prakash	Introduction to Equation of State (EOS)
16 April	Ting Lin	The Giant Monopole Resonance in the Sn Isotopes: Why is Tin so “Fluffy”?, U. Garg et al., Nucl. Phys. A788, 36c-43c (2007).
23 April	Jerry Yang	Parity Violation in Astrophysics, C. J. Horowitz, arXiv:nucl-th/0410074v1 (2004).
30 April	Kellen Murphy	Direct URCA process in neutron stars, James M. Lattimer, C. J. Pethick, Madappa Prakash, and Pawel Haensel, Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 2701 (1991).
7 May	Moses Oginni	Synthesis of the isotopes of elements 118 and 116 in the ²⁴⁹Cf and ²⁴⁵Cm+⁴⁸Ca fusion reactions, Yu. Ts. Oganessian et al., Phys. Rev. C 74, 044602 (2006); and Evidence for a long-lived superheavy nucleus with atomic mass number A=292 and atomic number Z=~122 in natural Th, A. Marinov, I. Rodushkin, D. Kolb, A. Pape, Y. Kashiv, R. Brandt, R.V. Gentry, H.W. Miller, arXiv:0804.3869v1 (2008).
14 May	Gcina Mavimbela	LIGO and the Detection of Gravitational Waves, Barry C. Barish and Rainer Weiss, Physics Today 52(10) 44 (1999).
21 May	Chen Ji	Setting upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134 using the first science data from the GEO 600 and LIGO detectors, B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 69, 082004 (2004).
28 May	Daniel Sayre	Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis, B.D. Fields and S. Sarkar, The Reviews of Particle Physics (Particle Data Group, November 2007).
4 June	Zach Heinen	Photodisintegration of deuterium and big bang nucleosynthesis, K. Y. Hara et al., Phys. Rev. D 68, 072001 (2003).

Background Information

Measurement of the GMR in the Unstable ⁵⁶Ni Nucleus using the Active Target Maya, C. Monrozeau et al., Nucl. Phys. A788, 182c-187c (2007).
What can we learn from recent non-relativistic mean field calculations ?, G. Colo, P.F. Bortignon, S. Fracasso, and N. Van Giai, Nucl. Phys. A788, 173c-181c (2007).
Parity violating measurements of neutron densities, C. J. Horowitz, S. J. Pollock, P. A. Souder, and R. Michaels, Phys. Rev. C 63, 025501 (2001).
Cooling of neutron stars, C. J. Pethick, Rev. Mod. Phys. 64, 1133 (1992).
Elements 116 and 118 Are Discovered, Physics New Update Number 797 #1, October 16, 2006 by Phil Schewe, Ben Stein, and Davide Castelvecchi.
Laser interferometry for the detection of gravitational waves, Jim Hough and Sheila Rowan, J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 7 S257-S264 (2005).
Gravitational Waves from Compact Bodies, Kip S. Thorne, arXiv:gr-qc/9506084v1 (1995).
Caltech LIGO website
The Cosmological Baryon Density from the Deuterium-to-Hydrogen Ratio in QSO Absorption Systems: D/H toward Q1243+3047, David Kirkman, David Tytler, Nao Suzuki,John M. O’Meara and Dan Lubin, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 149, 1–28 (2003).

Faculty coordinators for Spring 2008 were Prakash, Carl Brune, Ken Hicks, Paul King, Daniel Phillips, Prakash, Julie Roche, Andreas Schiller.
Last updated 5 September 2008 by Carl Brune.