- 3D Nucleon Structure
This mini-symposium will be dedicated to the recent advances in understanding of the three-dimensional (3D) nucleon structure. 3D nucleon structure is encoded in position and momentum space via Generalized Parton Distributions and Transverse Momentum Dependent distributions. The minisymposium will cover theory, phenomenology, and experiment, as well as studies of these distributions in lattice QCD.
- Accessing the Third r-Process Peak: Nuclear Structure and Fission Studies
A new era of multi-messenger astronomy has opened new windows to better understand nucleosynthesis of heavy elements during the nucleosynthesis r process. Nuclear physics data are key pieces of information to link theoretical models of the r-process with astronomical data. With great advances in experimental work in the yet unexplored region of N = 126 as well as astrophysics and fission models one can now better understand the synthesis of elements in the third peak of the r process and beyond. This minisymposium will bring together theory and experimental talks describing the most current efforts to understand the most massive peak of the r process.
- Applications of Advanced Statistics and Machine Learning methods in Nuclear Physics
Machine learning and advanced statistics have become crucial components of many stages of the theory-experiment cycle in nuclear physics. In this minisymposium, we present recent efforts -- often made in collaboration with statisticians and computer scientists -- in which the use of these methods is fundamental.
- Baryon-Baryon Interactions Involving Strangeness
Rapid experimental progress has been made in studies of hyperon-nucleon and hyperon-hyperon interactions in the US and Japan, including hyperon-nucleon scattering, baryon-baryon correlation measurements and spectroscopy of light Lambda hypernuclei and doubly strange hypernuclei. Theoretically, the field has also advanced through studies of hypernuclei, baryon-baryon interactions, and the intimate connection with the neutron star equation of state. This minisymposium will present new results and future prospects.
- Connections Between Nuclear PDFs and Nuclear Structure
Measurements at Jefferson Lab have shown the connection between the EMC effect and nuclear structure, employing light nuclei and connecting the observed EMC effect to the presence of short-range correlations (SRCs) in nuclei. This minisymposium will provide the opportunity to discuss and compare current results and previous phenomenological attempts to explain this connection, as well as new calculations that directly address these questions, and preview new results and the new insight they can provide with focused theory input.
- Equation of State Information from Astrophysics and Nuclear Physics Experiments
Nucleus-nucleus collisions explore the equation of state within nuclear matter and neutron stars over a wide range of densities and temperatures. This minisymposium focuses on recent progress in this field with emphasis on experiments in existing facilities in the US and Japan. By combining the terrestrial and astronomical constraints, the nuclear equation of state can be obtained from low to high densities.
- Fundamental Symmetries: Electric Dipole Moments and the Search for New Physics
This minisymposium will address the status of neutron, atomic/molecular, and muon/proton EDM searches using advanced quantum sensing techniques such as spin masers and the latest accelerator facilities. The origin of CP violation derived from these experiments will be discussed.
- Low-Energy Neutrinos: Shedding Light on the Nature of Matter and Our Universe
The elusive nature of neutrinos allows them to be used to interrogate a broad array of fundamental physics, whilst also offering insights into the Universe around us. The search for neutrinoless double beta decay is one of the highest priorities in nuclear physics, offering the potential to discover lepton number violation and, in so doing, shed light on the nature of neutrinos and, potentially, the source of the matter-antimatter asymmetry. At the same time, neutrinos can offer insights into the natural world, including the fusion processes that power our Sun, geological models for heat production in the Earth, and the explosion mechanism of distant supernovae.
- Novel Materials and Manufacturing Processes for Nuclear Physics Detectors
Technological advances in materials and manufacturing methods offer promising new possibilities for radiation detection. This minisymposium will present and discuss the applications of some of these developments in detector technology for basic science.
- Physics of Exotic Hadrons — From Discovery to Understanding
This minisymposium focuses on the challenges to conventional hadron spectroscopy presented by the proliferation of observed exotic states. We expect to discuss broad issues related to both theory and experiment that could lead to a comprehensive understanding of both exotic and conventional hadrons. Contributions concerning the latest experimental and theoretical results are welcome.
- Single-Particle Strengths of Exotic Nuclei Probed by Transfer and Knock-Out Reactions
The occupation probability of single-particle orbits is one of the important properties characterizing the nuclear structure that plays a role in our understanding of structure, reactions and nuclear astrophysics. Direct reactions have been one of the key experimental probes to build up our understanding of the nuclear shell structure since the 1950s and with the recent advanced beams available at various facilities there is much more data available to probe their nature and effects in unstable nuclei. This minisymposium will focus on recent advances and results from reaction experiments and reaction theory related to spectroscopic factors and the physics of the single particle strength distributions in nuclei.
- Solid State Physics in Neutron Stars: Crystallography and Superfluidity
Since the discovery of pulsar glitches, the crustal part of a neutron star has been an important interdisciplinary target of nuclear, solid-state, and astrophysics. The salient features of the crust lie in the coexistence of superfluid neutrons and a lattice or liquid crystalline structure of nuclei. This minisymposium aims to gather contributions on matter in the crust, which would cover the equation of state, neutron band structure and superfluidity, nuclear pasta structure, quantum simulations with ultracold atoms, and constraints from neutron star observations.
- Three-Nucleon Forces: Recent Results and Implications
Recent results on three-nucleon forces (3NFs) in nuclei demonstrate their key role across nuclear physics: from few-nucleon systems through medium-mass nuclei to neutron stars in both structure and reactions. This topic is ideally suited to a minisymposium, since discerning the effects of 3NFs requires collaboration between theorists and experimentalists. This minisymposium will discuss recent theoretical work on 3NFs, experimental efforts to test 3NFs and discern new 3NF signatures, as well as connections to cold atomic gases.
The DNP 2023 Fall meeting website is supported by FRIB, MSU.