Nuclear Lunch -- Winter 2007

This is an archive of the Winter 2007 topics; the schedule for the current quarter is located here.

Schedule

Date	Discussion Leader	Topic / Paper(s)
10 Jan	Daniel Phillips	An Introduction to QED. The reading is a handout taken from Richard Feynman's book "QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter". Please read pages 82-100 and 115-120.
17 Jan	Serdar Kizigul	New Measurement of the Electron Magnetic Moment Using a One-Electron Quantum Cyclotron, B. Odom, D. Hanneke, B. D'Urso, and G. Gabrielse, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 030801 (2006).
24 Jan	Sergey Postnikov	The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment. I also suggest that refresh your memory about neutrino oscillations by reviewing the Nuclear Lunch reading from October 11, 2006: Neutrino mass and mixing parameters: A short review, G.L. Fogli, E. Lisi, A. Marrone, A. Palazzo, and A.M. Rotunno (2005).
31 Jan	Aderemi Adekola	Selective population and neutron decay of the first excited state of semi-magic O-23, A. Schiller et al.
7 Feb	Brett Ragozzine	The Search for Dark Matter, David B. Cline, Scientific American 288(3) (March 2003), pp. 50-59.
14 Feb	Daniel Sayre	R-Process Nucleosynthesis in Supernovae, John J. Cowan and Friedrich-Karl Thielemann, Physics Today 57(10), 47-53 (October 2004).
21 Feb	Jerry Yang	An Introduction to Deep Inelastic Scattering and the Quark-Parton Model, with reading from Quarks and Leptons, An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics, by Halzen and Martin. We will be focusing mainly on pp. 188-198 (Sections 9.1, 9.2, and the first half of 9.3). However, in order to understand that we need to also read pp. 179-184 (Sections 8.3 and 8.4). You should have received a photocopies of these sections.
28 Feb	Shaleen Shukla	Where Does the Proton Really Get Its Spin?, Robert L. Jaffe, Physics Today 48(9), 24-30 (1995).
7 Mar	Ting Lin	Analytic Expression for the Joint x and Q² Dependences of the Structure Functions of Deep Inelastic Scattering, Edmond L. Berger, M. M. Block, and Chung-I Tan.

Background Information

New Determination of the Fine Structure Constant from the Electron g Value and QED, G. Gabrielse, D. Hanneke, T. Kinoshita, M. Nio, and B. Odom, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 030802 (2006).
Plumbing the Electron's Depths, Number 783 #1, July 5, 2006 by Phil Schewe and Ben Stein,
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1989: Norman F. Ramsey "for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks"
and Hans G. Dehmelt and Wolfgang Paul "for the development of the ion trap technique".
The Daya Bay Proposal: A Precision Measurement of the Neutrino Mixing Angle theta_13 using Reactor Antineutrinos at Daya Bay, the Daya Bay Collaboration.
The Modular Neutron Array (MoNA) at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory.
First Results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search in the Soudan Underground Laboratory, D.S. Akerib et al. (CDMS Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 211301 (2004).
Spin Structure Functions, E.W. Hughes and R. Voss, Annual Reviews of Nuclear and Particle Science 49, 303-339 (1999).
Deep-inelastic inclusive ep scattering at low x and a determination of alpha_s, C. adloff et al. (The H1 Collaboration), The European Physics Journal C 21, 33-61 (2001).
Review of Particle Properties: information on structure functions. See also this link for more figures.

Faculty coordinators for Winter 2007 were Brune, Elster, Hicks, King, Phillips, and Roche.
Last updated 7 March 2007 by Carl Brune.