Conveners
Nuclear Physics
- Gojko Vujanovic (University of Regina)
Nuclear Physics
- Gojko Vujanovic (University of Regina)
First principles, or ab initio, nuclear theory describes atomic nuclei as systems of nucleons interacting by QCD-based chiral effective field theory (EFT) nucleon-nucleon and three-nucleon forces. In combination with chiral EFT electroweak currents, ab initio nuclear calculations can provide model-independent results with quantifiable uncertainties relevant for precision electroweak physics....
Traditional pairing in nuclear systems is of the identical-particle kind (i.e., neutron-neutron or proton-proton). This is counter-intuitive, given that the neutron-proton interaction is stronger. In earlier work, we had hypothesized that such neutron-proton pairing may appear in heavy nuclei. Such studies had assumed spherical symmetry, which is known to be an inappropriate assumption in this...
As standalone detections or in the context of multi-messenger signals, neutrinos offer opportunities to understand our universe in unprecedented ways. Their weakly interacting nature provides information about, among others, binary neutron star mergers. Interpreting neutrino observations from compact objects relies on models of neutrino emission and the still not fully understood nuclear...
Ultra-relativistic heavy-ions collisions performed at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produce a deconfined state of quarks and gluons, called the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). One of the primary goals of these collisions is to infer the properties of the QGP through the modifications it imparts on the evolution of high-energy quarks and gluons (also...
Upper year theoretical physics courses are conventionally delivered in a strict didactic form, where the instructor delivers 3 independent hour-long lectures per week. In the didactic method, students are left to work through the related highly complex and lengthy derivations independently. The degree to which these are assessed varies as they are difficult to incorporate into standard...
