Department of Physics

Co-Host: Dr. Aspnes

Title: Neutrinos in and from Supernovae Abstract: Ninety-nine percent of the energy released in a core-collapse supernova is emitted in the form of neutrinos. Due to their central role in the supernova paradigm, our understanding of these stellar explosions ultimately…

Title: Measuring the Neutron Lifetime: Much Ado About Nothing? Abstract: Neutrons are stable inside atomic nuclei. Outside the nucleus, they decay into a proton, electron, and antineutrino, with a lifetime of about 880 s. The rate of decay can be…

Title: Emergent Phenomena at Transition Metal Oxide Interfaces Abstract: Transition metal oxides (TMOs) exhibit a wide range of physical properties including high-temperature superconductivity, ferroelectricity, ferromagnetism and metal-insulator transitions. While these physical properties are understood in the bulk forms of these…

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Title: Searching for new physics with strong QCD Abstract: The Standard Model of Particle Physics, the mathematical framework that describes the basic building blocks of the visible Universe, has been enormously successful. But we know that it is incomplete: it…

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Title: Operator Mechanics: A new form of quantum mechanics without waves or matrices Abstract: Quantum mechanics was created with the matrix mechanics of Heisenberg, Born, and Jordan. Schroedinger's wave mechanics shortly followed and allowed for simpler and more powerful calculations.…