Physics 802 Spring 2015 Student Presentations May 5, 7:45-9:45am, 1420 BPS May 8, 12:45-2:45 1300 BPS
May 5, 7:45-9:45am, 1420 BPS Rebecca Lewis: A New Measurement of the Half-Life of Fe-60 Debra Richman: Novel technique for constraining r-process (n,gamma) reaction rates Rachel Taverner: Strong neutrino cooling by cycles of electron capture and beta- decay in neutron star crusts Brandon Elman: Quadrupole Collectivity beyond N = 28: Intermediate Energy Coulomb Excitation of Ar-47,48 Max Hughes: Testing Lorentz Invariance with Beta Decay Thomas Redpath: Mysterious Abundance Patterns in Metal-poor Stars and the nu-p Process Bryan Isherwood: One-proton breakup of 24Si and the 23Al(p,gamma) 24Si reaction in type I x-ray bursts Sarah Schwartz: Key Resonances in the P-30(p,gamma)S-31 Gateway Reaction for the Production of Heavy Elements in ONe Novae Chunli Zhang: Microscopic Study of the Triple-alpha Reaction Yuchen Cao: Pear Shaped Nuclei Eric Goodwin: Neutrinos from the primary proton-proton fusion process in the Sun Roy Ready: Lasers Are Cool Alicia Palmisano: Abundance of the p-process nuclei, Se-74
May 8, 12:45-2:45 1300 BPS Lisa Carpenter: Cluster Structure in Nuclei Sean Sweany: Restrictions on the Nuclear Equation of State Rachel Sandler: First direct determination of the superallowed beta-decay Q-value for O-14 Terri Poxon-Pearson: Shell Model Studies of the Astrophysical Rapid-Proton-Capture Reaction P-30(p,gamma)S-31 Zachary Matheson: Calculation of fission barriers at the end of the chart of nuclides Hao Lin: Green's Function Monte Carlo Method in a nutshell Andrew LaJoie: Fusion of Halo Nuclei Chris Izzo: Penning Trap Mass Measurements Beyond the Proton Drip Line Hillary Asberry: Nuclear moments and charge radii of neutron-deficient francium isotopes and isomers Andrew Miller: New Observations from the Hyperfine Structure of K-49 and K-51 Han Liu: Neutron Skin of Pb-208 from Coherent Pion Photoproduction Walter Buhro: Long-Range Three-Body Coulomb Effects in Two Proton Decay Eric Deleeuw: Determining the rp-Process Flow through Ni-56 Matt Rizik: Noodles