<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Hello All,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">We will be restarting the ISAC journal club, following our summer hiatus, next Wednesday (the 14th) .</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Please encourage your new students (who may not be on mailing lists yet) to attend as it is a good opportunity for them to learn and to interface with other research groups.</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">This week we will be looking at something outside of research topics of anyone at TRIUMF, in-beam fission studies:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269316304300" target="_blank">http://www.sciencedirect.com/<wbr>science/article/pii/<wbr>S0370269316304300</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">The following questions will be used as a starting point for the discussion:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">How is particle ID achieved? What limits/facilitates the observed resolution?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">What factors affect the fission barrier?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">How are masses determined, what are limitations of the method?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">What assumptions are made, how do these effect the results?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">What are the limitations of extending this study further into the actinides?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">What area of physics understanding does the research benefit? Is anything surprising observed?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">What is the quasi-fission process, does it need to be considered?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Regards</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">James S</div></div>
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