[Triumf-journal-club] Next journal club

[Pierre Capel]

Dear all,
for next journal club (Monday March 27, noon, Boarder Room Main Office 
Building), I'd like to talk about a paper presented by Alexandro Frank 
at the CGS12 conference in Notre-Dame last september:
Nuclear Forecasting as Pattern Recognition: Can We predict Nuclear Masses?
The proceedings have just come out on the website of the AIP:
http://proceedings.aip.org/dbt/dbt.jsp?KEY=APCPCS&Volume=819&Issue=1

They propose a funny way to predict masses far from stability. Instead 
of using a detailed microscopic model, they propose to consider the 
pattern obtained when the difference between the known mass and the 
prediction of the liquid drop model is plotted in the (N,Z) plane. The 
prediction of masses beyond the known nuclei can therefore be seen as 
the extrapolation of that pattern beyond a mask. They apply discretised 
Fourier deconvolution to this end. They predict an island of stability 
around N=194, and Z=116.

Cheers,
Pierre

PS: Don't forget to bring your lunch and rumors.