[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Special Seminar today at 14:00

TRIUMF Seminars triumf-seminars at lists.triumf.ca
Wed Oct 30 05:00:03 PDT 2013


Date/Time: Wed 2013-10-30 at 14:00

Location:  Auditorium          

Speaker:   Jason Holt (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

Title:     Exploring the nuclear landscape at the extremes: three-body forces and the physics of exotic nuclei

Abstract: The pioneering activities of rare-isotope beam facilities worldwide have sparked a new era of nuclear physics. With the advent of future facilities, such as ARIEL at TRIUMF, thousands of undiscovered nuclei, often existing at the limits of stability, will be created and studied in the laboratory. The quest to understand from first principle the properties of exotic nuclei, many critical for understanding the origin of heavy elements in the universe, represents a cornerstone of modern nuclear science. At the heart of these efforts are three-nucleon (3N) forces. Within different ab-initio frameworks, I will discuss the key role 3N forces play in understanding physics at and beyond the oxygen dripline as well as the evolution of shell structure in calcium, including predictions of masses and N=32,34 magic numbers. I then extend this approach to investigate exotic proton-rich nuclei, where 3N forces are important to describe both ground- and excited-state properties. Finally I will present applications to fundamental symmetries, focusing on first steps towards an ab-initio calculation of neutrinoless beta-decay nuclear matrix elements.

Stimulants available 15 minutes before the talk.

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