Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2020
Volume 65, Number 2
Saturday–Tuesday, April 18–21, 2020; Washington D.C.
Session W01: Plenary: Frontiers of Discovery: Flavor, Color, and ExoplanetsInvited Live Plenary Undergrad Friendly
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Sponsoring Units: APS Chair: Priscilla Cushman, University of Minnesota Room: Marriott Ballroom 2/3 |
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 8:30AM - 9:06AM Live |
W01.00001: The Exoplanet Revolution Invited Speaker: Didier Queloz Exoplanet collection identified over the last 25 years ranges from massive and big planets like our own Jupiter to smaller denser objects alike the Earth. The diversity and the prolific amount of planets discovered revolutionized our outstanding about the nature and the formation history of planets. It opened up a surprising new perspective on the possible rarity of planetary systems similar to our own but also exciting prospects about the potential of probing planet atmosphere for traces of life activity. The talk will present an outlook of this landscape and will discuss the implications of these recent findings. New insights about the origins of life will be presented in the light of recent experiments about a possible origin of pre-biotic chemical building blocks as well as a possible long-range pathway for detecting Earth-like systems amenable for remote study of life. [Preview Abstract] |
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 9:06AM - 9:42AM Live |
W01.00002: Who Ordered That? Invited Speaker: Chris Polly Just as early 20th century physicists were starting to believe the sub-atomic world was understood, the muon showed up and turned science upside down. Throughout the years it has fueled discoveries and become a uniquely sensitive tool for probing physics beyond the standard model. Now a next generation of experiments is underway, where once again the muon is taking center stage. The new Muon Campus at Fermilab will produce the world’s most intense muon sources in the quest for new physics. The Muon g-2 experiment will address the 20-year old question of whether or not new physics has already been observed in the anomalous magnetic moment, while Mu2e will have unprecedented sensitivity to discern if charged leptons morph like their neutral cousins. This talk will focus on describing the current muon program at Fermilab along with future prospects. [Preview Abstract] |
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 9:42AM - 10:18AM Live |
W01.00003: 20 Years of RHIC and Beyond Invited Speaker: Larry McLerran The RHIC accelerator has discovered and explored properties of the Quark Gluon Plasma. The equation of state of the Quark Gluon Plasma is tested in measurements of the flow of matter produced in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions, and its space time evolution by jet-quenching. The central theme of this talk is to describe these accomplishments and their implications. These discoveries have led to rich experimental programs: The Large Hadron Collider, provides extraordinary reach in matter energy density and jet energy. Experiments at RHIC have led to major new ideas concerning interacting gluonic matter such as the Color Glass Condensate that is important for the matter produced at the earliest time in hadronic collisions, and that will be probed in the Electron Ion Collider. Studies of neutron stars, including recent results from the LIGO gravitational wave experiments, have shown that the properties of baryon rich matter change dramatically at a few times nuclear matter density. Such matter may be studied at the NICA and FAIR accelerator facilities and in the RHIC low energy heavy ion runs. [Preview Abstract] |
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