Journal club¶

PDF links here are password protected as people who do not have subscription to these journals are not supposed to have free access to the papers. Check your email for password. You should have received it from me via the NSCL/FRIB email. If not, ask around or contact Fanurs.
Alternatively, you can go to I:\projects\hira\journal_club\2020\papers. PDF stored there are not password protected.
PowerPoints, if provided by the presenters after the presentations, can be found under I:\projects\hira\journal_club\2020\presentations. Or you can view the PowerPoints in PDF by clicking the PowerPoints logo below.

Yes, we are still using the subfolder 2020\ because I'm lazy to modify my script for generating this website.

-Fanurs, February 2021

Announcement¶

The hira journal club has been revived for 2021!
We will meet at 5:10 pm every Wednesday!
Please suggest future papers and presenters!

Coming soon¶

20210310
Two recent papers that report the finding from PREX-II experiment.
- Presenter: Rohit Kumar
- Paper 1
- Title: Implications of PREX-II on the equation of state of neutron-rich matter
- Author: Brendan T. Reed, F. J. Fattoyev, C. J. Horowitz, J. Piekarewicz
- Original source:https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03193
- PDF (password): https://groups.nscl.msu.edu/hira/journal_club/papers/Reed21-arXiv-Implications.pdf
- Paper 2
- Title: Constraints on the Symmetry Energy from PREX-II in the Multimessenger Era
- Author: Tong-Gang Yue, Lie-Wen Chen, Zhen Zhang, Ying Zhou
- Original source:https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05267
- PDF (password): https://groups.nscl.msu.edu/hira/journal_club/papers/Yue21-arXiv-Constraints.pdf

Past journal club events¶

20210224
Joe will talk about Sections I, II and III (maybe IV).
- Presenter: Joseph Wieske
- Title: Compound-nuclear reaction cross sections from surrogate measurements
- Author: J.E. Escher, J.T. Burke, et al.
- Original source:https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.84.353
- PDF (password): https://groups.nscl.msu.edu/hira/journal_club/papers/Escher12-RMP-Compound.pdf

20201119
A recent paper on neutron skin. The PRC paper (see reference) offers more details, but Joe's presentation will mainly follow the PRL paper.
- Presenter: Joseph Wieske
- Title: Systematic Matter and Binding-Energy Distributions from a Dispersive Optical Model Analysis
- Author: C.D. Pruitt, R.J. Charity, et al.
- Original source:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.102501
- PDF (password): https://groups.nscl.msu.edu/hira/journal_club/papers/Pruitt20-PRL-Systematic.pdf
- Other related papers:
  - Title: Isotropically resolved neutron total cross sections at intermediate energies
    - Author: C.D. Pruitt, R.J. Charity, et al.
    - Original source:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.102.034601
    - PDF (password): https://groups.nscl.msu.edu/hira/journal_club/papers/Pruitt20-PRC-Isotropically.pdf

20201112
An early paper on fission.
- Presenter: Adam Anthony
- Title: Helium-Ion-Induced Fission of Bi, Pb, Tl, and Au
- Author: J.R. Huizenga, R. Chaudhry and R. Vandenbosch
- Original source:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.126.210
- PDF (password): https://groups.nscl.msu.edu/hira/journal_club/papers/Huizenga62-PhysRev-Helium.pdf

20201029
This is a long paper. Chenyang will discuss a few more topics that were not covered in the previous discussion.
- Presenter: Chenyang Niu
- Title: The thermodynamic model for relativistic heavy ion collisions
- Author: S. Das Gupta and A.Z. Mekjian
- Original source:https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-1573(81)90012-0
- PDF (password): https://groups.nscl.msu.edu/hira/journal_club/papers/Gupta81-PhysReports-Thermodynamic.pdf

20201015
This is a long paper. Chenyang will talk about Section 1-6.
- Presenter: Chenyang Niu
- Title: The thermodynamic model for relativistic heavy ion collisions
- Author: S. Das Gupta and A.Z. Mekjian
- Original source:https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-1573(81)90012-0
- PDF (password): https://groups.nscl.msu.edu/hira/journal_club/papers/Gupta81-PhysReports-Thermodynamic.pdf

20201008
Here is a recent publication by Tommy on neutron stars
- Presenter: Tommy Tsang
- Title: Impact of the neutron-star deformability on equation of state parameters
- Author: C.Y. Tsang, M.B. Tsang, Pawel Danielewicz and W.G. Lynch
- Original source:https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.05239
- PDF (password): https://groups.nscl.msu.edu/hira/journal_club/papers/Tsang20-arXiv-Impact.pdf

20201001
This should educate us more for future ML side projects.
- Presenter: Tommy Tsang
- Title: Application of artificial intelligence in the determination of impact parameter in heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energies
- Author: Fupeng Li, Yongjia Wang, et. al
- Original source:https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11540
- PDF (password): https://groups.nscl.msu.edu/hira/journal_club/papers/Li20-arXiv-Application.pdf

20200924
Part 2 (From Section V onward). There are quite a lot of erratum (see references) made for this paper. Make sure you check them out!
- Presenter: Fanurs Teh
- Title: Neutron Stars for Undergraduates
- Author: Richard R. Silbar and Sanjay Reddy
- Original source:https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1703544
- PDF (password): https://groups.nscl.msu.edu/hira/journal_club/papers/Silbar03-AmerJourPhys-Neutron.pdf
- Other related papers:
  - Title: Erratum: "Neutron stars for undergraduates"
    - Author: Richard R. Silbar and Sanjay Reddy
    - Original source:https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1852544
    - PDF (password): https://groups.nscl.msu.edu/hira/journal_club/papers/Silbar04-AmerJourPhys-Erratum.pdf

20200917
Part 1 (up till Section IV). There are quite a lot of erratum (see references) made for this paper. Make sure you check them out!
- Presenter: Fanurs Teh
- Title: Neutron Stars for Undergraduates
- Author: Richard R. Silbar and Sanjay Reddy
- Original source:https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1703544
- PDF (password): https://groups.nscl.msu.edu/hira/journal_club/papers/Silbar03-AmerJourPhys-Neutron.pdf
- Other related papers:
  - Title: Erratum: "Neutron stars for undergraduates"
    - Author: Richard R. Silbar and Sanjay Reddy
    - Original source:https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1852544
    - PDF (password): https://groups.nscl.msu.edu/hira/journal_club/papers/Silbar04-AmerJourPhys-Erratum.pdf

20200910
Mirror nuclei by Alex Brown.
- Presenter: Kyle Brown
- Title: Mirror Charge Radii and the Neutron Equation of State
- Author: B. Alex Brown
- Original source:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.122502
- PDF (password): https://groups.nscl.msu.edu/hira/journal_club/papers/Brown17-PRL-Mirror.pdf

20200903
We will talk about two reaction plane papers. Their contents overlap quite a bit, but offer different perspectives.
- Presenter: Som Paneru
- Paper 1
- Title: Reaction plane determination using azimuthal correlations
- Author: W.K. Wilson, R. Lacey, C.A. Ogilvie and G.D. Westfall
- Original source:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.45.738
- PDF (password): https://groups.nscl.msu.edu/hira/journal_club/papers/Wilson92-PRC-Reaction.pdf
- Paper 2
- Title: Transverse momentum analysis of collective motion in relativistic nuclear collisions
- Author: P. Danielewicz and G. Odyniec
- Original source:https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(85)91535-7
- PDF (password): https://groups.nscl.msu.edu/hira/journal_club/papers/Danielewicz85-PLB-Transverse.pdf

20200827
First machine learning paper!
- Presenter: Joseph Wieske, Thomas Ladouceur
- Title: Unsupervised Learning for Identifying Events in Active Target Experiments
- Author: R. Solli, D. Bazin, M.P. Kuchera, R.R. Strauss and M. Hjorth-Jensen
- Original source:https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02757
- PDF (password): https://groups.nscl.msu.edu/hira/journal_club/papers/Solli20-arXiv-Unsupervised.pdf

20200820
An overview of nuclear fission. Kaitlin Cook joins the meeting, too.
- Presenter: Adam Anthony
- Title: Nuclear fission: a review of experimental advances and phenomenology
- Author: A.N. Andreyev, K. Nishio and K-H. Schmidt
- Original source:https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6633/aa82eb
- PDF (password): https://groups.nscl.msu.edu/hira/journal_club/papers/Andreyev17-RepProgPhys-Nuclear.pdf

20200806
Up to Section 6.6, inclusive, only. This can be considered as an earlier work by FOPI that precedes the work presented on 20200730. We may construct observables resembling isospin tracing and varxz for our experiments at NSCL.
- Presenter: Tommy Tsang
- Title: Systematics of central heavy ion collisions in the $1~A\mathrm{GeV}$ regime
- Author: FOPI Collaboration, W. Reisdorf, et al.
- Original source:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2010.09.008
- PDF (password): https://groups.nscl.msu.edu/hira/journal_club/papers/FOPI10-NuclPhysA-Systematics.pdf

20200730
FOPI's 2016 efforts to constraining EoS using elliptic flow using IQMD. Presentation was not recorded after until Section 1.2 (forgot, sorry). Many off-topic but valuable discussions at the beginning - could be future journal club events.
- Presenter: Fanurs Teh
- Title: Constraining the nuclear matter equation of state around twice saturation density
- Author: A. Le Fevre, Y. Leifels, W. Reisdorf, J. Aichelin, Ch. Hartnack
- Original source:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2015.09.015
- PDF (password): https://groups.nscl.msu.edu/hira/journal_club/papers/LeFevre16-NuclPhysA-Constraining.pdf
- Other related papers:
  - Title: Modelling the many-body dynamics of heavy ion collisions: Present status and future perspective
    - Author: Ch. Hartnack, et al.
    - Original source:https://doi.org/10.1007/s100500050045
    - PDF (password): https://groups.nscl.msu.edu/hira/journal_club/papers/Hartnack98-EurPhysA-Modelling.pdf
    - Remark: Details of IQMD

20200720
This is the first paper. In the near future, we hope to improve the EoS constraint by analyzing the latest experimental data by either method in this Science paper or Bayesian inference.
- Presenter: Danny Jammooa
- Title: Determination of Equation of State of Dense Matter
- Author: Pawel Danielewicz, Roy Lacey, William G. Lynch
- Original source:https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1078070
- PDF (password): https://groups.nscl.msu.edu/hira/journal_club/papers/Danielewicz02-Science-Determination.pdf
- Other related papers:
  - Title: Bayesian inference of the skewness parameter of supra-dense nuclear matter from energetic heavy-ion reactions
    - Author: Wen-Jie Xie, Bao-An Li
    - Original source:https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03669
    - PDF (password): https://groups.nscl.msu.edu/hira/journal_club/papers/Xie20-arXiv-Bayesian.pdf

Others¶

Now that people in the group find this website convenient for posting presentations, we will also be putting up other presentations that are useful but not exactly from journal club events.

20200904: Dan Cozma, Symmetry energy constraint above saturation point from S$\pi$RIT pion data
20200910: WANG Rensheng, Isoscaling results from Ca+Ni and Ca+Sn systems at $E/A=56$ MeV, $140$ MeV
20200910: Maria, BUU
20200910: Tommy Tsang, Isoscaling ratio
20201002: Sean Sweany, Isoscaling ratio