Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2011 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics
Volume 56, Number 12
Wednesday–Saturday, October 26–29, 2011; East Lansing, Michigan
Session AA: Plenary Session: Dennis Kovar's Influence on the Past, Present, and Future US Nuclear Physics Program |
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Chair: Robert Tribble, Texas A&M University Room: Big Ten A |
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 3:00PM - 3:36PM |
AA.00001: Hadronic Physics in the Kovar Era Invited Speaker: Lawrence S. Cardman The period of Dennis Kovar's leadership of the nuclear physics program at the DOE Office of Science was remarkably productive for the subfield of hadronic physics. As it began, research utilizing the newly-constructed Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at Jefferson Lab started and the RHIC Spin program was initiated. In addition, a variety of important smaller initiatives have been supported at other facilities world-wide, and careful plans were laid for the next generation of experiments in the field, with the 12 GeV Upgrade of CEBAF as a major initiative. The research program has produced a number of surprising discoveries and a substantive refinement of our understanding of the nucleon and its underlying quark structure, of the dynamics of the strong interaction, and of the relationships between nucleon structure and nuclear structure. The upgrade of CEBAF is now well underway that, together with the continuation of a broad variety of smaller initiatives, will support continued progress well into the next decade. [Preview Abstract] |
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 3:36PM - 4:12PM |
AA.00002: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions: Status and Future Invited Speaker: Steven Vigdor Dennis Kovar's critical role in overseeing funding for the construction and early operation years of RHIC helped to launch a new subfield exploring unique quantum many-body manifestations of QCD in quark-gluon matter. In relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC, and now at LHC as well, unanticipated discoveries and remarkable progress have been made in characterizing ultra-hot matter created under conditions akin to those of the early universe about one microsecond after the Big Bang. I will summarize the intellectual advances by presenting highlights of the learning curves (early results, recent developments, open questions) for a few key properties of the matter related to fundamental aspects of QCD. Included will be manifestations of nearly perfect quantum fluid behavior, of jet quenching, of high-temperature quantum fluctuations and of features of the QCD phase diagram. Considerations of the initial states of the colliding nuclei, and of manifestations of gluon proliferation and recombination, will also lead naturally to properties of cold nuclear matter unveiled to date in deuteron-nucleus and polarized proton-proton collisions at RHIC, and to be studied quantitatively at a future Electron-Ion Collider. I will also discuss how ongoing and planned facility upgrades will enhance the unique capabilities RHIC brings to this science and complement QCD matter explorations at LHC. [Preview Abstract] |
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 4:12PM - 4:48PM |
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011 4:48PM - 5:24PM |
AA.00004: Where do the Neutrinos go? Invited Speaker: Stuart Freedman Everybody knows that nuclear physics is the study the kind of matter found inside the atomic nucleus whether they it is at the center of atoms or the core of neutron stars. Nevertheless, nuclear physicists have made important discoveries about the neutrino. Figuring out where the neutrinos go in nuclear physics has challenged nuclear scientists, policy makers and those responsible for funding the enterprise. I will consider these and other challenges and how insightful scientific management has contributed the feast of wonderful discoveries about the neutrino. [Preview Abstract] |
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 5:24PM - 6:00PM |
AA.00005: Dennis Kovar and Low-Energy Nuclear Science in the United States at the turn of the century Invited Speaker: Robert V.F. Janssens This presentation will retrace aspects of Dennis Kovar's research career as a staff member within the Physics Division at Argonne National Laboratory. Dennis led pioneering work on understanding how the total cross section in heavy-ion induced reactions is distributed into elastic and inelastic scattering, transfer, incomplete and complete fusion with a focus on the interaction between these different channels. It will also discuss the decisive role Dennis played in stewarding low energy nuclear science, once he joined the Office of Nuclear Physics at the Department of Energy. In particular, this presentation will review Dennis' role in helping making the case for physics with rare isotopes. Through his many valuable suggestions and probing questions he was instrumental in challenging and stimulating to community into an adventure that ultimately culminated in the proposal for the development of FRIB, the facility for Rare Isotope Beams. [Preview Abstract] |
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 6:00PM - 6:15PM |
AA.00006: Remarks from Dennis Kovar Invited Speaker: Dennis Kovar . [Preview Abstract] |
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