Bulletin of the American Physical Society
87th annual meeting of the Southeastern Section of the APS
Volume 65, Number 19
Thursday–Friday, November 5–6, 2020; Virtual
Session A01: Plenary Session 1 |
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Chair: Nadia Fomin, University of Tennessee |
Thursday, November 5, 2020 8:45AM - 9:00AM |
A01.00001: Welcome |
Thursday, November 5, 2020 9:00AM - 9:30AM |
A01.00002: Neutrinos: Ghost Stories about the Universe Invited Speaker: Kate Scholberg Neutrinos are fundamental particles with famously ``ghostly" properties--- they hardly interact with matter at all. I will tell some stories about the properties of neutrinos, what we have learned from them about the Universe so far, and what mysteries they may yet reveal. [Preview Abstract] |
Thursday, November 5, 2020 9:30AM - 10:00AM |
A01.00003: Big Ideas to Probe the Very Small: Initial Results from Jefferson Lab at 12 GeV Invited Speaker: Cynthia Keppel The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) in Newport News, Virginia, features a unique particle accelerator, the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF), which was recently upgraded to produce high energy electron beams up to 12 GeV. Scientists and engineers constructed and rigorously commissioned novel experimental equipment to prepare for a new era of nuclear physics using this higher energy beam capability. Physicists from around the world designed experiments to collide the electron beams with nuclei in order to study the boundary between the physics of the nucleus and the physics of the protons and neutrons within it - the latter composed of puzzling particles called quarks and gluons. Probing these most basic building blocks of matter enables better understanding both of these particles and of the forces that bind them together to compose nearly all visible matter. These activities have led to exciting first scientific results, an overview of which will be presented. [Preview Abstract] |
Thursday, November 5, 2020 10:00AM - 10:30AM |
A01.00004: Advanced LIGO detectors and the birth of Gravitational Wave astronomy Invited Speaker: Siddharth Soni The gravitational wave (GW) detections made by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo in the last few years have given birth to the field of GW astronomy. Gravitational waves are generated during some of the most extreme events in our Universe, such as the collision of compact binaries. Since the first detection in Sept 2015, LIGO and Virgo detectors have identified many more GW signals, most of them from the merger of binary black holes. These detections have expanded our knowledge of compact binaries and, at the same time, have inspired us to ask more questions. In this talk, we will look at the history of GW detectors, how they work, and some of the recent discoveries made by them. [Preview Abstract] |
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