Wright Lab All Hands Meeting, Michael Jewell, Yale, "ALPHA/HAYSTAC Update"
The Wright Lab community is invited to a weekly meeting on Mondays at 9:30 a.m. to hear about and discuss what is going on at the lab.
Undergraduate
NPA Seminar: Anders Knospe, Lehigh University, "From Light to Heavy Flavor: Using Hadrons as Probes of Ion-Ion Collisions"
Ultrarelativistic ion-ion collisions enable physicists to study the strong nuclear interaction at extreme temperatures. A wide variety of probes can be used to characterize the properties of the matter produced in such collisions. In this presentation, the speaker will discuss the many ways in which hadrons containing light (up, down, and strange) and heavy (charm and bottom) quarks can be used to examine the quark-gluon plasma and search for possible collective behavior small collision systems.
Special Physics Club: Gail Dodge, Old Dominion University, "2023 Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science"
This Special Physics Club will feature a webinar presentation of the 2023 Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science by Professor Gail Dodge, Chair of the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC). The presentation will be followed by a Q&A with Prof. Dodge, in addition to a panel discussion by Yale Physics faculty involved in nuclear physics research. The 2023 Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science outlines the scientific priorities and opportunities for nuclear science in the US for the next decade.
Host: Helen Caines
NPA Seminar: Michael Wilensky, University of Manchester, "Addressing the Challenges in 21-cm Cosmology using Bayesian Inference and other Data Analysis Techniques"
Detailed measurements of 21-cm emission from neutral Hydrogen during the Epoch of Reionization will eventually enable us to tomographically map this relatively unconstrained cosmic era. Furthermore, post-reionization measurements offer an independent probe of the baryon acoustic oscillation scale, ultimately constraining the dark energy equation of state. A measurement of the 21-cm power spectrum using radio interferometers is a critical scientific target for understanding both of these eras.
Wright Lab All Hands Meeting, Karsten Heeger, Yale, "Wright Lab Outlook"
The Wright Lab community is invited to a weekly meeting on Mondays at 9:30 a.m. to hear about and discuss what is going on at the lab.
HAYSTAC Collaboration Meeting
The HAYSTAC Collaboration will have a 2-day meeting in WL 216 from Sept 27-28.
ALPHA Collaboration Meeting
The ALPHA Collaboration will have a 2-day meeting in WL 216 from Sept 25-26.
HAYSTAC Collaboration Meeting
The HAYSTAC Collaboration will have a 2-day meeting in WL 216 from Sept 27-28.
ALPHA Collaboration Meeting
The ALPHA Collaboration will have a 2-day meeting in WL 216 from Sept 25-26.
NPA Seminar: Yacine Mehtar Tani, Brookhaven National Laboratory, “Exploring the proton structure: from partons to strong gauge fields”
At short distances, the proton consists of weakly interacting point-like quarks and gluons, aka partons. At high energy this picture of the proton is expected to break down before confining forces take over when soft enough gluons, that are abundantly present inside the proton, interact in a non-linear fashion. This regime of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is known as the saturation regime and is best described by strong classical gauge fields.
