SCHEDULE

Upcoming

• Alejandro Algora - IFIC (CSIC-Univ. of Valencia) Monday 1st March, 3pm GMT

  Total Absorption Measurements for Reactor Applications
  Total absorption gamma spectroscopy is one of the few techniques available that can provide beta decay data free from the systematic error called Pandemonium effect. The technique is particularly important for nuclear structure studies, in cases where a proper determination of the beta decay strength in the daughter nucleus is necessary.
  Results obtained employing the technique are also relevant for practical applications, such as the determination of the reactor antineutrino spectrum in reactors and estimations of the decay heat based on summation calculations.
  In this talk, I will present the technique, and some examples of recent measurements of relevance for reactor applications. The antineutrino related results are of particular interest in relation to the so-called antineutrino reactor anomaly.
  

• Christian Drischler - Michigan State University Monday 8th March, 3pm GMT

  Nuclear equation of state: uncertainty quantification and applications to neutron stars
  Recent neutron star observations have provided exciting insights into strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions. At the same time, chiral effective field theory (EFT) has developed into a powerful framework for studying nuclear interactions and nuclear matter properties with quantified uncertainties in the regime of interest for modeling neutron stars. Statistically meaningful comparisons between nuclear theory predictions and observational (as well as experimental) constraints on the nuclear equation of state (EOS) are needed in the era of multimessenger astronomy.
  In this lockdown seminar, I will show how Bayesian methods combined with systematic EFT calculations of the nuclear EOS allow us to efficiently quantify and propagate theoretical uncertainties to derived quantities. In particular, I will discuss the results of our recent statistical analysis of the nuclear EOS based on high-order calculations in many-body perturbation theory and their implications for neutron stars.

• Artemis Spyrou - Michigan State University Monday 15th March, 3pm GMT

  Nuclear and astrophysical considerations of i-process nucleosynthesis
  

• Heiko Hergert - Michigan State University Monday 22nd March, 3pm GMT

  Novel Ab Initio Methods for Nuclear Structure