Bulletin of the American Physical Society
5th Joint Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics and the Physical Society of Japan
Volume 63, Number 12
Tuesday–Saturday, October 23–27, 2018; Waikoloa, Hawaii
Session GA: DNP Awards Session |
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Chair: David Dean, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Room: Hilton Monarchy Ballroom |
Friday, October 26, 2018 12:15PM - 12:50PM |
GA.00001: Division of Nuclear Physics Mentoring Award: Adventures in Physics Research and Education: a Retrospective Invited Speaker: Robert McKeown For over 40 years I have had the great privilege to perform research in physics, enabled by a remarkable group of students and postdocs. This highly motivated and talented group of people have made important contributions to an impressive and broad body of physics knowledge, and along the way have inspired me and many others. I will try to review many of these accomplishments and the people who made them possible, and to convey a sense of how exciting and rewarding this journey has been. |
Friday, October 26, 2018 12:50PM - 1:25PM |
GA.00002: Division of Nuclear Physics Dissertation Award: First observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and its future in searches for new physics Invited Speaker: Grayson Rich More than 40 years after its theoretical description, the process of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) has been observed for the first time by the COHERENT Collaboration, using the world’s smallest functional neutrino detector: a 14.6-kg CsI[Na] crystal located at the Spallation Neutron Source of Oak Ridge National Lab. With its observation, CEvNS has emerged as a viable and powerful mechanism for exploring a wide range of physics, with connections to nuclear structure, astrophysics, dark sector physics, and physics beyond the Standard Model. This talk will discuss the physics accessible with the process and detail aspects of the COHERENT observation, with a focus on some of the demanding calibrations necessary along with the statistical analysis of the collected data. The current and future experimental CEvNS landscape will be surveyed, highlighting the diverse efforts planned and underway within the community, emphasizing their complementarity and underscoring the significant physics reach of this capable, new tool. |
Friday, October 26, 2018 1:25PM - 2:00PM |
GA.00003: Division of Nuclear Physics Stuart Jay Freedman Award: Precision mass measurements for nuclear physics Invited Speaker: Anna A. Kwiatkowski Ion traps have long been used in atomic physics to achieve high precision and accuracy. They have since been deployed at radioactive-ion-beam facilities, primarily for Penning trap mass spectrometry. This has been exemplified by TRIUMF’s Ion Trap for Atomic and Nuclear science, TITAN. The combination of four on-line ion traps allows for sophisticated manipulation of a single ion or a cloud for beam preparation and measurements. Precision mass measurements have been used to map the island of inversion at N=20, to observe the emergence of the N=32 subshell, to study nucleosynthesis in neutron-rich nuclei, and to test the unitarity of the quark-mixing matrix. I will interleave scientific highlights with the technical developments leading to them. |
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