Nature’s Recipe for Nuclear Matter Atoms for Peace + 50 Conference October 22, 2003 James Symons Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Themes in 2003 Neutrino Properties Nuclear Astrophysics Nuclear Matter Understanding Quark Confinement Nuclear Structure
Neutrino Properties - The nucleus as laboratory for fundamental studies
1964: Bahcall and Davis propose an experiment to detect solar Neutrinos But the experiment only detects neutrinos at one third of the expected rate from the ssm!
Situation in neutrino species Mass < 1eV Solar neutrino problem
Why Kamioka? KamLAND 80% of flux from baselines 140 to 210 km Kashiwazaki Takahama Ohi
National Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory
Nuclear Physics and the Universe
Phase Diagram of Nuclear Matter Density Temperature
Jefferson Lab - CEBAF Understanding Quark Confinement
Nuclear Structure
Rare Isotope Accelerator
rp process r process Where RIA can take us solar r abundance observed Metal -poor halo star (HST) abundance Z CS RIA intensities (nuc/s) > neutrons protons X-ray burst (RXTE) Frequency (Hz) Time (s) 4U Wavelength ( ) V382 Vel Ne Nova (HST) T Pyxidis Nova (Chandra)
One view of the field neutrinos RHIC CEBAF RIA nucleonQCD few-body systems free NN force many-body systems effective NN force fewnucleons heavynuclei quarksgluons quark-gluonplasmaQCD USL
"for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith" "for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging" MRI Image using Polarized 3 He
Available from Office of Science Web Site
Scientific Challenges Measure value of neutrino mass Understand how supernovae explode Explore the nature of nuclear matter Explore limits of quark confinement Heavy Element Nucleosynthesis and Structure
CHL-2 Upgrade magnets and power supplies Enhance equipment in existing halls 6 GeV CEBAF Add new hall