CaNPAN Jam 2024

Session

Afternoon

1 May 2024, 13:00

Auditorium (TRIUMF)

Conveners

Afternoon: Student Day

• Stephanie Ciccone (University of Guelph)
• Mallory Loria (University of Victoria/TRIUMF)

Afternoon

• There are no conveners in this block

17. A Q&A Panel with CaNPAN Experts

Chris Ruiz (TRIUMF), Falk Herwig (University of Victoria), Iris Dillmann (TRIUMF), Liliana Caballero (University of Guelph), Pavel Denissenkov (University of Victoria)

01/05/2024, 13:00

A panel to ask our CaNPAN experts any curious question about research, scientific writing, careers in this field, the academic community, and more!

20. Mallory Loria: Illuminating Nuclear Physics Uncertainties in Astrophysics With CaNPAN Tools

Mallory Loria (University of Victoria/TRIUMF)

01/05/2024, 14:30

Our framework, developed through the Canadian Nuclear Physics for Astrophysics Network (CaNPAN), is crucial for guiding nuclear astrophysics experiments. It has the capacity to identify key nuclear reactions responsible for element synthesis in various astrophysical phenomena. Notably, this framework has identified the 39K(p, 𝛾)40Ca and 38K(p, 𝛾)39Ca reactions as the most impactful for the...

18. Stephanie Ciccone: An Exploration of La, Ba, Eu Ratios from r-process candidate sites

Stephanie Ciccone (University of Guelph)

01/05/2024, 15:00

Neutron star mergers are an ideal environment for rapid (r-process) neutron captures to take place that lead to the production of neutron-rich nuclei far from the valley of stability. This is one encouraging site to investigate for where abundances of the heaviest elements in our Solar System and beyond are thought to have come from. We explored the r-process regime in mergers through the...

28. New discoveries with gravitational-wave astrophysics

Jess McIver (UBC)

03/05/2024, 13:30

In the last six years, the field of gravitational wave astrophysics has grown from a groundbreaking first discovery to revealing new populations of black holes and neutron stars through distant cosmic collisions, which has provided new insights into extreme spacetime curvatures, cosmology, and ultra-dense matter as well as the origin of heavy elements. I'll give an overview of the current...

29. (*R) Cosmic collisions: nuclear astrophysics with gravitational waves

Phil Landry (CITA)

03/05/2024, 13:55

Multimessenger observations of GW170817 indicate that binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are sites for rapid neutron-capture (r-process) nucleosynthesis. However, it remains an open question whether BNS mergers can account for all the r-process element enrichment in the Milky Way's history. I will discuss what GW170817 and subsequent gravitational-wave observations are teaching us about the...

30. (*R) Gravitational Laboratories for Nuclear Physics

Reed Essick (CITA)

03/05/2024, 14:20

The structure of neutron stars provides a unique way to probe two fundamental physical interactions: gravity and the strong nuclear force. I will review our current understanding of the macroscopic properties of neutron stars and discuss associated constraints on microscopic phenomenology, including the presence of strong phase transitions. Time permitting, I will also discuss how well we can...

31. Discussion with coffee

03/05/2024, 14:45

32. End of workshop

03/05/2024, 15:15