NTC Mission :

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Nuclear Theory Center FY 2004-05 Planning and
Budget Conference

• NTC Mission
• Conduct fundamental research in subatomic
• and nuclear physics
• Support existing and planed experimental efforts
  at IUCF
• and in the Physics Department
• Provide research opportunities by organizing
  seminars,
• workshops and conferences.

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Faculty Chuck Horowitz Tim Londergan Brian
Serot Adam Szczepaniak Research
Associates Patrick Bowman Joanna
Kuros-Zolnierczuk Jeff McIntire (starting April
1) Soma Sanyal (visitor) Staff Patty Halstead
Graduate students Liliana Caballero Joe
Carriere Helber Dussan Carrie Halkyard Pawel
Krupinski Nikodem Poplawski

• Summary of 2003
• 22 visitors
• over 30 publications
• over 20 invited talks and seminars

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Supernova explosion (Crab nebula)
Nuclear Pasta is at lower limit of inner crust ¼
½ km down.
Exotic quark matter?
Supernovae radiate 99 of their energy in
neutrinos.
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Chucks pasta simulations (in collab. with AVL)
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Behold the pentaquark
By Dr David Whitehouse BBC News Online science
editor
Physicists have discovered a new class of
subatomic particle that will provide unexpected
insights into the fundamental building blocks of
matter.
5 quark particles may exist in black holes
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Plans for 2004-05

• Hire a junior faculty (to replace Malcolm
  Macfarlane)
• Increase external funding (DOE/NSF) to support
  GlueX-HallD,
• physics analysis activists and collaborative
  research with Poland,
• Mexico, Australia and Brazil.
• Introduce a joint theory seminar series with
  Physics Department
• Organize theory meetings (QNP2004, CSB, PWA)

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Ed Stephensons Charge Symmetry Braking
experiment dd ! Hep0 at IUCF 100 Science
Stories list of the Discovery Magazine. Physicist
s find suspected flaw in cosmic symmetry
Chuk Horowitz has beein leading a tem of
theorists to explan the effects He organized a
workhop at the NTC and will do another one in
2004