Nuclear Physics Town Hall Meeting
As part of the input gathering process to NSERC's Long Range Plan for Subatomic Physics, the DNP and the TRIUMF User's Group are holding a Nuclear Physics Town Hall Meeting, at TRIUMF, on Sept 9,10/05.
-- FRIDAY SEPT 9 AM --
Registration outside auditorium
INTRODUCTORY SESSION
Garth Huber, Chair
09:00 "Subatomic Physics Long Range Planning Committee Status" (15+5)
Ken Ragan, Chair of the NSERC LRPC
09:20 "The Revolution in Nuclear Theory" (50+10)
Byron Jennings, TRIUMF
10:20 "TRIUMF Status and the 2005-10 Plan" (20+5)
J.M. Poutissou, TRIUMF
10:45 Coffee and Discussion
HADRON STRUCTURE
Elie Korkmaz, Chair
Malcolm Butler, Secretary
11:15 "Investigations of Hadronic Structure using Electromagnetic Probes" (20+5)
David Hornidge, Mt. Allison
on behalf of Garth Huber, Regina, Adam Sarty, St. Mary's
11:40 "Nucleon Weak Form Factors (G0)" (15+5)
Jeff Martin, Winnipeg
12:00 Lunch at TRIUMF Cafeteria
-- FRIDAY SEPT 9 PM --
NUCLEAR STRUCTURE AND REACTIONS
Malcolm Butler, Chair
Garth Huber, Secretary
13:00 "Precision atomic laser spectroscopy on radioactives" (20+5)
Matt Pearson, TRIUMF
13:25 "Reaction mechanisms and isospin influence from collision studies at
ISAC-II energies" (20+5)
Rene Roy, Laval
13:50 "Nuclear structure/astrophysics with the 8pi spectrometer" (20+5)
Paul Garrett, Guelph
14:15 "Opportunities for TIGRESS at ISAC-II" (20+5)
Roby Austin, St. Mary's
14:40 "TIGRESS research at ISAC-I and the Electric Dipole Moment Search
Program" (20+5)
Carl Svensson, Guelph
15:05 Coffee and Discussion
SYMMETRY AND STANDARD MODEL TESTS - I
J.M. Poutissou, Chair
Garth Huber, Secretary
15:35 "Ultra-cold francium at ISAC: tests of the Standard Model, nuclear anapole
moments, and nuclear magnetism" (20+5)
Gerald Gwinner, Manitoba
16:00 "Physics program of the TITAN Collaboration" (20+5)
Jens Dilling, TRIUMF
16:25 "Studies of super allowed beta decay" (20+5)
Paul Garrett, Guelph
on behalf of Gordon Ball, TRIUMF
16:50 "Correlations in nuclear beta decay using TRIUMF's neutral atom trap
(TRINAT)" (20+5)
John Behr, TRIUMF
17:15 Adjourn for Day 1
-- SATURDAY SEPT 10 AM --
NUCLEAR ASTROPHYSICS
Paul Garrett, Chair
Jens Dilling, Secretary
08:30 "Experimental nuclear astrophysics with stable and radioactive heavy ion
beams using the DRAGON facility" (30+10)
John d'Auria, TRIUMF
09:10 "Indirect Methods in Nuclear Astrophysics (EMMA)" (20+5)
Barry Davids, TRIUMF
09:35 "Nuclear Astrophysics Studies with TUDA/TUDA-2" (20+5)
Pat Walden, TRIUMF
10:00 Coffee and Discussion
SYMMETRY AND STANDARD MODEL TESTS - II
Jens Dilling, Chair
Paul Garrett, Secretary
10:30 "T-violation and J-PARC" (20+5)
Chary Rangacharyulu, Saskatchewan
10:55 "Tests of the Standard Model: Qweak, 12 GeV Moller at JLab" (20+5)
Jeff Martin, Winnipeg
11:20 "Fundamental physics with cold neutrons at the SNS (weak interaction
tests)" (20+5)
Shelley Page, Manitoba
11:45 "Current Status of and Future Plans for the Canadian Penning Trap Mass
Spectrometer at the Argonne National Laboratory" (20+5)
Kumar S. Sharma, Manitoba
12:10 "ALPHA antihydrogen symmetry test" (20+5)
Makoto Fujiwara, TRIUMF
12:35 Box Lunch at TRIUMF
-- SATURDAY SEPT 10 PM --
FUTURE FACILITIES
Garth Huber, Chair
Elie Korkmaz, Secretary
13:30 "SNOLAB Projects Overview" (40+20)
Mark Chen, Queen's
14:30 "TRIUMF Possibilities for the upcoming 2010-15 Plan" (15+45)
J.M. Poutissou, TRIUMF
Discussion includes short presentations by:
Lothar Buchman - Storage rings at ISAC
Art Olin - pi>e+nu branching ratio
15:30 Coffee and Discussion
NUCLEAR THEORY WORKSHOP
Malcolm Butler, Chair
J.M. Poutissou, Secretary
16:00 "Overview of Canadian Nuclear Theory" (10+50)
Malcolm Butler, St. Mary's
Topics to be discussed:
-Funding to nuclear theory
-Promoting the hiring of nuclear theorists
-Access to institutional resources for nuclear theorists
-Computational needs
-Synergy with experimental efforts in Canada (how well do the interests
of Canadian theorists overlap with the experimental program?)
17:00 GENERAL DISCUSSION
17:30 Adjourn