<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">​For everyone looking for some light reading over the long weekend here is the paper for out next session:<br><a href="http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.152701" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">http://journals.aps.org/prl/<wbr>abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.<wbr>117.152701</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br>See you all next week in our usual room ISAC 223 at 3:30 there will be snacks and possibly left over turkey.<br><br>Lars Martin will ​be presenting the paper and has provided the following discussion questions :</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- What is the Cosmological Lithium problem (CLiP)?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- Why is this reaction, which doesn't involve Lithium, relevant for the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Cosmological Lithium problem?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- Why has this not been done before?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- What background issues are there? How are they addressed / what effect</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">do they have?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- Why do some of the states in Fig. 1 not alpha-decay?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- How is the DRC calculation (dashed line in Fig. 3) arrived at?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- Why is the 4+ state at 11.35 MeV not included in the reaction modeling?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- Where does the upturn of the brown curve in Fig. 3 come from?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">- How do these results affect the CLiP?</span><br></div></div>