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Heavy Ion Discussion Group

Schedule for the 2022-2023 season

The Heavy Ion Discussion Group meets on Fridays at 3:30 p.m. The talks will be held in a virtual or hybrid format (as specified). Some will be restricted to a local audience.
(Wednesday) 7 Sep 2022 (local audience)

Special Heavy Ion Discussion Group meeting held at 9:00 a.m. CST
George Zimba, University of Jyväskylä
Gamma spectroscopy and beta tagging method of exotic nuclei 84Mo and 70Kr using JURGAM 3 at MARA
Host: Michael Carpenter

23 Sep 2022 (via Zoom this week)

Stephanie Lyons, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Improving Nuclear Data Across the Nuclear Chart
Host: Ben Kay

30 Sep 2022 (hybrid)

Tuomas Grahn, University of Jyväskylä
New Isotopes and Nuclear Data of Heavy Neutron-Rich Nuclei Close to N = 126
Host: Ben Kay

7 Oct 2022 (hybrid)

Panu Ruotsalainen, University of Jyväskylä
Spectroscopic studies of N = Z nuclei at JYFL-ACCLAB
Host: Ben Kay

14 Oct 2022

No Heavy Ion Discussion this week

21 Oct 2022 (via Zoom this week)

James Cubiss, University of York
In-source Laser Spectroscopy Studies of Charge Radii across the Lead Region
Host: Ben Kay

28 Oct 2022

No Heavy Ion Discussion
2022 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics
New Orleans, 27-30 October, 2022

4 Nov 2022

No Heavy Ion Discussion this week

11 Nov 2022

No Heavy Ion Discussion this week

(Thursday) 17 Nov 2022 (local audience)

Special Heavy Ion Discussion Group meeting held at 10:00 a.m. CST
Vasil Karayonchev, TRIUMF
Lifetime Measurements in Radioactive Nuclei Close to Stability at University of Cologne
Host: Michael Carpenter

25 Nov 2022

No Heavy Ion Discussion, Thanksgiving

2 Dec 2022 (special doubleheader, hybrid)

A recording of this entire session (~2.5 hours) is available here, please use Passcode: J0?m#cMd. Links to the PDFs of the slides can be found below.

»Part 1, 2:30 - 3:15 pm (CST)
Michael Carpenter and Patrick Copp, Argonne National Laboratory
The Gammasphere Upgrade -- Overview. Slides for talk 1 here and talk 2 here.

»Part 2, 3:30 - 4:15 pm (CST)
John Anderson and Michael Oberling, Argonne National Laboratory
The Gammasphere Upgrade -- Technical Aspects. Slides for talk 3 here and talk 4 here.
Host: Ben Kay

9 Dec 2022 (in-person)

Kelly Chipps, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Tests of Hauser-Feshbach using Astrophysical (α,p) Measurements
Host: Ben Kay

16 Dec 2022

No Heavy Ion Discussion

23 Dec 2022

No Heavy Ion Discussion, winter break

30 Dec 2022

No Heavy Ion Discussion, winter break

6 Jan 2023

No Heavy Ion Discussion

13 Jan 2023 (local audience only)

Joint LER and LETS discussion

20 Jan 2023

No Heavy Ion Discussion -- Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics tours of ATLAS

27 Jan 2023

Marco Siciliano, Argonne National Laboratory
Nuclear Collectivity in Z~50 Region
Host: Ben Kay

3 Feb 2023 (local audience only)

LER equipment discussion (all)

10 Feb 2023
17 Feb 2023

Giacomo de Angelis, INFN Legnaro
(hybrid) Nuclear Spectroscopy with the AGATA detector array, Dzhanibekov effect, Berry Phase and other paraphernalia
Host: Ben Kay

24 Feb 2023

Patrick Müller, Technische Universität Darmstadt
(in-person only) Collinear Laser Spectroscopy and the Nuclear Charge Radii of 12,13C4+
Host: Ben Kay

3 Mar 2023

No HIDG this week

9 Mar 2023 (Thursday at 3:00 p.m. this week) (hybrid)

Julien Masseron, Micron Technologies
Development of HPGe and Si(Li) detectors for a wide range of applications
Host: Mike Carpenter

(Thursday) 16 Mar 2023 (local audience)

Special Heavy Ion Discussion Group meeting held at 10:00 a.m. CDT
Nirupama Sensharma, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nuclear Structure Physics from a Multidimensional Approach
Host: Michael Carpenter

17 Mar 2023 (in-person)

Bernhard Maass, Argonne National Laboratory
First Results from ATLANTIS - The New Collinear Laser Spectroscopy Setup at ANL
Host: Ben Kay

(Tuesday) 21 Mar 2023 (local audience)

Special Heavy Ion Discussion Group meeting held at 9:00 a.m. CDT
Saket Suman, UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mumbai
Isomers from Collective and Intrinsic Modes in Z=80-83 nuclei
Host: Michael Carpenter

24 Mar 2023

Soumen Nandi, Argonne National Laboratory
TBA
Host: Ben Kay

(Tuesday) 28 Mar 2023 (local audience)

Special Heavy Ion Discussion Group meeting held at 9:00 a.m. CDT
Aysegul Ertoprak, INFN LNL, Padova, Italy
Experimental Studies in the Vicinity of the N=Z Nucleus 100Sn and in the Neutron Deficient 172Pt Nucleus
Host: Michael Carpenter

31 Mar 2023

Kay Kolos McCubbin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
ATLAS User Update from the Chair of the ATLAS User Executive Committee
Host: Ben Kay

7 Apr 2023

Louis Varriano, Argonne National Laboratory
TBA
Host: Ben Kay

14 Apr 2023

No Heavy Ion Discussion
2022 APS April Meeting
Minneapolis, 15-18 April, 2023

21 Apr 2023

Chloé Fougères, Argonne National Laboratory
Measurement of (⍺,xn) reactions with MUSIC for the weak r-process in core-collapse supernovae (abstract linked in due course)
Host: Ben Kay

28 Apr 2023
5 May 2023

Walter Reviol, Argonne National Laboratory
(Tentative) Incomplete Fusion as a Spectroscopic Tool (abstract linked in due course)
Host: Ben Kay

12 May 2023

Amy Renné, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory
TBA
Host: Ben Kay

19 May 2023
26 May 2023
2 Jun 2023
9 Jun 2023
16 Jun 2023