Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2024
Wednesday–Saturday, April 3–6, 2024; Sacramento & Virtual
Session CC03: V: Undergraduate Research
11:00 AM–12:36 PM,
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Room: Virtual Room 03
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Chair: Kayla Stephens, AIP; Crystal Bailey, APS
Abstract: CC03.00004 : Moment of inertia tensors of non-polarized nucleons using a parton model
11:36 AM–11:48 AM
Presenter:
Milagros L Wilson
(University of Texas at El Paso)
Authors:
Milagros L Wilson
(University of Texas at El Paso)
Jorge Munoz Jr.
(University of Texas at El Paso)
Collaborations:
Milagros L. Wilson, Jorge A. Muñoz
We build on that method by creating a Jupyter Notebook-based model with the assumption that the proton and neutron’s charges and masses can be modeled as a set number of point-like partons, attributed to Feynman’s Parton Model. Their respective quarks were also considered to be made up of partons. Models were created using known overall mass and charge vs. attributing it to the particular up and down quarks. We used the charge distributions to generate three-dimensional data frames of random points for each nucleon. These were then assigned to a “shell” in the spherical probability distribution we created manually. Finally, we calculated the moment of inertia of each nucleon using the definition for a symmetric spherical body and found K from the ratio of the neutron to the proton. From K, we obtained the Gibbs free energy of the nuclear reaction and compared it to the known estimated energy of a supernova explosion during core collapse. Results were very close to the maximum recorded output in the literature: 1046 J.
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