Conveners
Morning 1 - Nuclear Physics
- Rituparna Kanungo (Saint Mary's University)
Description
Nuclear physics
The chemical properties of heavy elements are anticipated to diverge from established periodic trends due to significant relativistic effects. However, experimental investigations in this region remain extremely challenging and necessitate the use of nuclear physics techniques. This is especially true for the late actinides (Z > 100) and superheavy elements (Z > 104), where studies are limited...
The study of nuclear shapes has greatly benefited from the capabilities of the current generation of detector arrays, uncovering different phenomena in different regions of the nuclear chart. Shape coexistence, once thought to be quite rare is now observed to occur throughout the nuclear landscape. An experiment to study the structure of $^{80}$Ge was conducted at TRIUMF, populating excited...
Although the shell model forms the backbone of our understanding of nuclear structure, the breakdown of traditional magic numbers far from stability gives insight into the nature of the underlying nuclear interactions and acts as a tool to test existing models. Islands of inversion (IoI) in the nuclear landscape are characterized by the presence of deformed multi-particle multi-hole (npnh)...
One necessary extension to the Standard Model of Particle Physics (SM) is one which describes the behavior of the early universe that leads to the matter-antimatter asymmetry which we observe today. It is commonly assumed that any explanation of this matter-antimatter imbalance must rely on the violation of the combined symmetry of charge conjugation (C) and parity (P) that is presently,...
