Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2020 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics
Volume 65, Number 12
Thursday–Sunday, October 29–November 1 2020; Time Zone: Central Time, USA
Session RE: Mini-Symposium: The Next Generation Nuclear Workforce I |
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Chair: Thomas Redpath, MSU-NSCL/FRIB |
Sunday, November 1, 2020 8:30AM - 9:06AM |
RE.00001: History of the National Society of Black Physicists Invited Speaker: Sekazi Mtingwa We will provide a historical overview of the years before and after the founding of the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP). In doing so, we will describe the contributions of those who played pivotal roles in bringing the small community of African-American physicists together to celebrate the lives of their mentors and colleagues, thereby leading to the impetus to formalize an organization to sustain their efforts for future generations. [Preview Abstract] |
Sunday, November 1, 2020 9:06AM - 9:18AM |
RE.00002: Physicist Inspiring the Next Generation (PING): Exploring the Nuclear Matter -- An Undergraduate Student Perspective Tracy Edwards A week-long pilot program to expose high school students to the field of nuclear physics, Physicist Inspiring the Next Generation: Exploring the Nuclear Matter, was launched in the Summer 2019 at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams/National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. Four high school students and two undergraduate students travelled to Michigan State University to participate in this unique opportunity. The students built two parallel plate avalanche counters and were guided by two senior undergraduate students. The program included scientific talks from physics graduate students, meetings with scientists from FRIB/NSCL, and presentation of their research during the MoNA Collaboration weekly meetings. PING 2019 also served as a mentorship training opportunity for the undergraduate students. Their roles included teaching each high school student laboratory skills and fundamental physics principles. The program concluded with the students delivering a scientific talk to the MSU Physics and Astronomy Department that detailed their research project, personal career interests and what they have learned throughout their stay at MSU. This presentation will provide some insights of the program from an undergraduate student perspective. [Preview Abstract] |
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RE.00003: Experimental nuclear physics at the University of the Western Cape and iThemba LABS, South Africa Smarajit Triambak In this talk, I shall briefly summarize specific experimental nuclear physics research performed at the University of the Western Cape and iThemba LABS, South Africa. I will also describe some of our recent work related to $^{136}$Xe neutrinoless double beta decay matrix element calculations, that was done in collaboration with Michigan State University, University of Guelph (Canada), Techniche Universit\"at and Ludwig Maximilians Universit\"at (Munich), and several other institutions. [Preview Abstract] |
Sunday, November 1, 2020 9:30AM - 9:42AM |
RE.00004: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN |
Sunday, November 1, 2020 9:42AM - 9:54AM |
RE.00005: Deeply virtual Compton scattering off the neutron Meriem Benali The best way to probe the three dimensional structure of nucleons (protons and neutrons) is through the so-called Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering (DVCS), where a high energy electron is scattered off a nucleon which in turns emits a high energy photon. This photon is produced by one of the quarks inside the nucleon and carries information about its transverse position and longitudinal momentum. Our experiment was performed in the Hall A of Jefferson Lab to measure the unpolarized cross sections of the DVCS off the neutron in the valence region ($x_B=0.36$) at $Q^2=1.75$ $GeV^2$ for two beam energies. On the one hand, DVCS off the neutron is sensitive to the GPD "E", the least constrained GPD. This GPD is closely linked to the quark orbital momenta which may constitute the missing piece of the nucleon spin puzzle. On the other hand, by combining proton and neutron data taken at the same $x_B$ , $Q^2$ and $t$, we have extracted separatly the contributions from the u and d quark flavours to the helicity-conserved Compton form factors (related to the GPDs). The first observation of DVCS off a neutron and an estimated flavor decomposition of the u and d quarks contributions to the photon electroproduction cross sections will be presented here. [Preview Abstract] |
Sunday, November 1, 2020 9:54AM - 10:06AM |
RE.00006: Nuclear Physics in the Maghreb Fatiha Benmokhtar \textbf{Abstract:} \newline Many of the North African brains in the STEM and engineering fields end up in Europe or America. Scientists in Nuclear Physics in particular do not have much choice other than becoming full time faculty in higher education with limited resources for research. However, how is the situation for female nuclear Physicists? This talk will discuss the situation of the Maghrebin Nuclear Physicist in general with a focus on the women faculty and researchers in particular, the discussion will cover society, cultural obstacles and more. [Preview Abstract] |
Sunday, November 1, 2020 10:06AM - 10:18AM |
RE.00007: From Pre-Med to Physics: my PING effect Phuonghan Pham While in high-school, I was able to be part of the first cohort of students to attend the newly created ``Physicists Inspiring the Next Generation (PING): Exploring the Cosmos'' which run in the Summer 2014. The program exposed me to college (Hampton University and Norfolk State University), nuclear physics (Jefferson Lab) and radio-astronomy (Green Bank Observatory). My passion to astronomy kept growing, even after starting a pre-med track in college. Continuous interactions over the years with the program leaders and peers, allowed me to gain a summer experience at NSCL/FRIB in the Summer 2019 and eventually becoming a physics major at Michigan State University in the Spring 2020. This presentation is a short overview of my journey during and after my exposure to the PING program. [Preview Abstract] |
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