Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2017 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics
Volume 62, Number 11
Wednesday–Saturday, October 25–28, 2017; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Session AA: Plenary Session |
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Chair: David Dean, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Room: Grand Ballroom |
Wednesday, October 25, 2017 3:00PM - 3:45PM |
AA.00001: QCD: Then and Now Invited Speaker: David Gross As QCD approaches its fiftieth birthday, we continue to make enormous progress in our ability to test the theory, calculate its properties and understand its dynamics. With a nod to the past, I review this progress and comment on the outstanding questions that remain. [Preview Abstract] |
Wednesday, October 25, 2017 3:45PM - 4:30PM |
AA.00002: Physicists in the Wild Invited Speaker: Michael L. Miller Startups and large corporations are full of physicists, many hiding in plain sight. Why? I will discuss the strong parallels between basic research in nuclear/particle physics, founding teams at great startups, and leaders at some of the world's largest corporations. How big are these opportunities (mission and capital), and what can we do to help prepare more physicists for such roles? I will provide lessons learned from my winding career that began at the NSCL as a philosophy undergrad, proceeded through a PhD, postdoc and brief stint as faculty, and continued through the founding of an early cloud computing startup, a sale to IBM, and the founding of one of Silicon Valley's most active venture capital firms. [Preview Abstract] |
Wednesday, October 25, 2017 4:30PM - 5:00PM |
AA.00003: COFFEE BREAK
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Wednesday, October 25, 2017 5:00PM - 5:45PM |
AA.00004: Spin-Momentum Correlations, Aharonov-Bohm, and Color Entanglement in Quantum Chromodynamics Invited Speaker: Christine Aidala After the development of QCD in the last quarter of the 20th century, we are now in the early years of an exciting new era in which much more quantitative QCD calculations can be tested against increasingly sophisticated experimental measurements. Advances include a greater focus on the dynamics of quarks and gluons within bound states and in the process of bound-state formation. Over the last decade and a half, studies initially focused on spin-momentum correlations in the proton have brought to the fore several deep, fundamental issues within QCD. We are now exploring the physical consequences of gauge invariance in QCD as a quantum field theory, analogous to the Aharonov-Bohm effects familiar to many from QED but predicted for any gauge-invariant quantum field theory. Given the unique non-Abelian nature of the QCD gauge group, these quantum mechanical phase effects lead to an exciting novel prediction of entanglement of quarks and gluons across QCD bound states. Recent results from the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider will be highlighted. [Preview Abstract] |
Wednesday, October 25, 2017 5:45PM - 6:30PM |
AA.00005: An MRI Scan of the nucleus Invited Speaker: Calem Hoffman In the pursuit of a global description of nuclei, extensive experimental studies on short-lived isotopes have provided a wealth of new empirical information. Such data has been used to test theoretical concepts and in the development of innovative ideas. More directly, a novel device at Argonne National Laboratory, the HELIcal Orbit Spectrometer (HELIOS), was focused on providing detailed single-particle information on the malleability of the nuclear magic numbers. Once thought as immovable pillars in nuclear structure, the shell-gaps in nuclei defining magic numbers of nucleons are now well-known to evolve as proton-to-neutron ratios change. And, determination of the underlying components of the nuclear force driving the evolution is at the forefront of nuclear structure research. Additionally, the HELIOS device mentioned above also carries its own aura being that it is formed by a decommissioned MRI solenoid magnet. In this talk recent highlights and advancements in our description of nuclear shell evolution will be the focus along with a few sidestepping comments on the life-cycle and interplay between basic research and the applications of nuclear physics. [Preview Abstract] |
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