Nuclear Lunch: Fall 2021

This is an archive of the Fall 2021 topics; the schedule for the current semester is located here.

Schedule

Date	Discussion Leader	Topic / Paper(s)
25 August	Daniel Phillips	Organizational Meeting
1 September	Ibrahim Alnamlah	Measurement of the positive muon anomalous magnetic moment to 0.46 ppm, Physical Review Letters, Volume 126, 141801, 2021. Faculty Advisor: Justin Frantz
8 September	Justin Warren	Discussion of questions from previous week.
15 September	Nisha Singh	Investigating the dark matter minispikes with the gamma-ray signal from the halo of M31, arXiv:2108.09204 Faculty Advisor: Daniel Phillips
22 September	Mahesh Poudel	Discussion of questions from previous week.
29 September	Justin Bryan	Executive Summary of “Science Requirements and Detector Concepts for the Electron-Ion Collider: EIC Yellow Report” arXiv:2103.05419 Faculty Advisor: Chaden Djalali
6 October	Shyam Chauhan	Discussion of questions from previous week.
13 October	No meeting	DNP meeting (virtual)
20 October	Robert Radloff	First Precision Measurement of the Parity Violating Asymmetry in Cold Neutron Capture on ³He , Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 131803 (2020). Faculty Advisor: Carl Brune
27 October	Bradley McClung	Discussion of questions from previous week.
3 November	Gula Hamad	Accurate determination of the neutron skin thickness of 208Pb through parity violation in electron scattering Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 172502 (2021). Faculty Advisor: Charlotte Elster
10 November	Alexandra Semposki	Discussion of questions from previous week.
17 November	Joseph Derkin	An increase in the ¹²C+¹²C fusion rate from resonances at astrophysical energies Faculty Advisor: Zach Meisel
24 November	No meeting	Thanksgiving break
1 December	Yenuel Jones-Alberty	Discussion of questions from previous week.

The lead coordinators for Nuclear lunch this semester were faculty members Daniel Phillips and Julie Roche. Other coordinators were Charlotte Elster, Zach Meisel, Chaden Djalali, Justin Frantz, and Carl Brune.