Conveners
M2-1 Nuclear Structure I (DNP) / Structure nucléaire I (DPN)
- Dennis Muecher (University of Guelph)
Mr
Joochun (Jason) Park
(University of British Columbia/TRIUMF)
13/06/2016, 13:00
Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
$^{100}$Sn is the heaviest self-conjugate doubly magic nuclei with $N = Z = 50$. Research on this nucleus has been aggressively pursued, for its properties yield valuable information on many topics of nuclear physics: the robustness of the magic number 50 far from stability, the effect of proton-neutron interaction, and the location of the proton dripline and the end of the rapid...
Steffen Cruz
13/06/2016, 13:15
Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
Nuclei near the so called magic numbers of protons and neutrons are observed to have a spherical shape in their low lying states. Nuclei between magic numbers, where the binding energy tends to be less, are often observed to show deformation in low lying states. These deformations have either a prolate or oblate nature.
States within a nucleus that have different shapes that are close in...
Mr
Harris Bidaman
(University of Guelph)
13/06/2016, 13:30
Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
Located at the stability line, the low lying spin states of the 154Gd nucleus were investigated at the University of Jyväskylä accelerator laboratory in Finland using the 154Gd(p,p'γ) reaction. A proton beam of 12 MeV was used to excite the 154Gd target, with the gamma-rays from the reaction detected with the JUROGAM II array, while the LISA charged-particle spectrometer was used for...
Christina Burbadge
(University of Guelph)
13/06/2016, 13:45
Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
Many approaches have been implemented in nuclear structure physics to interpret the nature of excited states in well-deformed nuclei, such as vibrational excitations in $\beta$ phonons and $\gamma$ phonons, as well as pairing excitations. However, due to a paucity of data about excited states in rare earth nuclei, in many cases even the first excited state, 0$^+_2$, is not known.
Direct...
Mr
Joseph Turko
(University of Guelph)
13/06/2016, 14:00
Nuclear Physics / Physique nucléaire (DNP-DPN)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
The DEuterated SCintillator Array for Neutron Tagging (DESCANT) is a newly developed high-efficiency neutron detection array composed of 70 hexagonal deuterated scintillators. Due to the anisotropic nature of elastic neutron-deuteron (n,d) scattering, the pulse-height spectra of a deuterated scintillator contains a forward-peaked structure that can be used to determine the energy of the...
