Possible Nuclear Lunch Topics

This list will serve as a record of possible nuclear lunch topics which have been suggested but not chosen. Eventually, this could grow into a list of both non-chosen and chosen topics, with links to the archives of the terms in which a topic was discussed. The schedule for the current term is located here.

Possible future topics

"Investigation of the 240P(n,g) reaction at the n_TOF/EAR2 facility in the 9meV-6MeV range", Stamatopoulos et al., Phys. Rev. C 102, 014616 (2020). [Fall 2020]
"Black dwarf supernova in the far future", Caplan et al., Month. Not. R. Soc. 497, 4357 (2020). [Fall 2020]
"Improved constraints on sterile neutrino mixing from disappearance searches in the MINOS, MINOS+, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 experiments", Adamson et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 071801 (2020). [Fall 2020]
"Identification of the new isotope 244Md", Pore et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 25202 (2020). [Fall 2020]
"Dynamical evidence for a fifth force explanation of the ATOMKI nuclear anomalies", Feng et al., Phys. Rev. D 102, 036016 (2020). [Fall 2020]
"Precision microwave spectroscopy of the positronium n=2 fine strucutre", Gurung et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 073002 (2020). [Fall 2020]
"Laser resonance chromatography of superheavy elements", Laatiaoui et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 023002 (2020). [Fall 2020]
"Evidence for quark-matter cores in massive neutron stars", Annala et al., Nat. Phys. Lett. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-0914-9 (2020). [Fall 2020]
"Probing the core of the strong interaction", Schmidt et al., Nat. 578, 540 (2020). [Fall 2020]
"Longitudinal wobbling motion in 187Au", Sensharma et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 052501 (2020). [Fall 2020]
"Axiogenesis", Co and Harigaya, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 111602 (2020). [Fall 2020]
"Indirect measurements of the 3He(n,p)3H reaction cross section at Big Bang energies", Pizzone et al., Euro. Phys. J. A 56, 199 (2020). [Fall 2020]
"Evidence for the first excited state of 7H", Bezbakh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 022502 (2020). [Fall 2020]
Multiple Shape Coexistence in 110,112Cd, P.E. Garrett et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 142502 (2019).
Suggested January 2020. and Fall 2020.
The Sun at TeV energies: gammas, neutrons, neutrinos and a cosmic ray shadow, Miguel Gutierrez, Manuel Masip, arXiv:1911.07530 (2019).
Suggested January 2020.
Asymmetric fission around lead: The case of 198Po, Shilpi Gupta et al., Phys. Rev. C 100, 064608 (2019).
Suggested January 2020.
Sensitivity of Seismically Cued Antineutrino Detectors to Nuclear Explosions, Rachel Carr, Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress, and Adam Bernstein, Phys. Rev. Applied 10, 024014 (2018). Suggested August 2018.
Verification of Spent Nuclear Fuel in Sealed Dry Storage Casks via Measurements of Cosmic-Ray Muon Scattering, J. M. Durham et al., Phys. Rev. Applied 9, 044013 (2018). Suggested August 2018.
Creating small circular, elliptical, and triangular droplets of quark-gluon plasma, C. Aidala et al. (PHENIX Collaboration), arXiv:1805.02973v2, submitted to Nature. Suggested August 2018.
Observation of Higgs boson decay to bottom quarks, The CMS Collaboration, arXiv:1808.08242v1, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. Suggested August 2018.
Hard exclusive pion electroproduction at backward angles with CLAS, K. Park et al., Physics Letters B 780, 340-345 (2018). Suggested August 2018.
Structure of 78Ni from First-Principles Computations, G. Hagen et al., PRL 117, 172501 (2016)
Investigation of the 10Li shell inversion, M. Cavallero et al. PRL 118, 012701 (2017)
"Parking-garage" structures from nuclear pasta, D.K. Berry et al., PRC 94, 055801 (2016)
19Ne(p,g) reaction rate, including onto excited state, J. Belarge et al., PRL 117, 182701 (2016)
Precision measurment of radiative β-decay of the free neutron, M.J. Bales et al., PRL 116, 242501 (2016)
Search for ν-less double-β-decay with NEMO-3, R. Arnold et al., PRD 94, 072003 (2016)
New method to image using γ-rays and MRI, Y. Zheng et al., Nature 537, 652 (2016)
The 2015 Lang Range Plan for Nuclear Science [24 Aug 2016]
Study of 23Na(alpha,p) and 23Na(alpha,n), Avila et al., arXiv:1608.03292v1 [24 Aug 2016]
Completing the nuclear reaction puzzle of the nucleosynthesis of 92Mo, PRC 94, 024804 (2016) [24 Aug 2016]
Pentaquark Discovery Confirmed (LHC), PRL 117, 082002 & 082003 +synopsis [24 Aug 2016]
Heavy-flavor e-muon correlations in p+p and d+Au @ 200 GeV, PRC 89, 034915 (2014) [24 Aug 2016]
Proton Radius from Electron Scattering Data, PRC 93, 055207 (2016) [24 Aug 2016]
Beyond Mean Field Theories with Nuclear Density Functions, arXiv:1606.00407v1 [24 Aug 2016]
Nonexistence of Large Nuclei in the Liquid Drop Model, Lett. Math. Phys. 106, 1033 (2016) [24 Aug 2016]
Parity Violation in Heavy Ion Collisions (Suggested Again in Fall '14)
Looking for parity violation in heavy-ion collisions (http://physics.aps.org/viewpoint-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.251601 (Suggested in 2011?)
Dibaryons/Tetraquarks at the LHC (Suggested Fall '14)
Low Energy Nuclear Shape Evolution (Suggested Fall '14)
Muon Capture / Pseudoscalar Coupling (8 Jan 2013)
Muon-antineutrino disappearence (physics.aps.org/viewpoint-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.021801) (electron-nu disappearance was covered in Fall 2012 Daya Bay paper)
Supersymmetry (Viewpoint: Still Waiting for Supersymmetry result from CMS at LHC. (topic added on 11-2012)
mu->e gamma (e.g. http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.5547)
Bottom baryons (e.g. http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v107/i10/e102001)
"Mass Measurements of Very Neutron-Deficient Mo and Tc Isotopes and Their Impact on rp Process Nucleosynthesis" (http://physics.aps.org/viewpoint-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.122501)
"New equation of state for astrophysical simulations" (http://prc.aps.org/abstract/PRC/v83/i3/e035802) ("Structure of Matter below Nuclear Saturation Density" covered in Fall 2013)
Atomic parity violation (http://physics.aps.org/viewpoint-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.071601)
Electron capture in unstable nuclei (http://physics.aps.org/articles/v4/91)
Isospin symmetry breaking in superallowed beta decay (http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.182301)
Rotations of the Hoyle State in Carbon-12 (http://physics.aps.org/articles/v4/94)

Last updated 24 August 2016 by Carl Brune.