Date/Time: Thu Mar 27 2025 at 14:00<br/><br/>Location: Auditorium/ hybrid<br/><br/>Speaker: Nigel Orr (LPC Caen)<br/><br/>Title: Explorations Across the Neutron Dripline<br/><br/>Abstract: Subjecting a physical system to extreme conditions is a commonly employed means to gain a better understanding and deeper insight into its organisation and structure. In the case of the nucleus, one such approach is to investigate isotopes that have very different neutron-to-proton (N/Z) ratios than in stable nuclei. Light neutron-rich isotopes exhibit the most asymmetric N/Z ratios and those lying beyond the limits of binding, which undergo spontaneous neutron emission and exist only as very short-lived resonances (~1e-21 s) provide arguably amongst the most extreme tests of modern nuclear structure theories. The production and investigation of such systems presents, however, many challenges.
This colloquium will discuss these challenges and then illustrate some of the insights that we are gaining into these exotic systems and how they differ from more normal nuclei through examples taken from recent work by the SAMURAI collaboration working at the RIKEN Radioactive Ion Beam Factory (RIBF) in Japan.
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Remote Connection:
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Meeting ID: 616 0973 3971
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