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CAWONAPS 2010

CAWONAPS (The Canadian Workshop on the Nuclear and Astro- Physics of Stars) was held at TRIUMF on December 9th/10th 2010. This workshop brought together Canada's top researchers in the field, including observational astronomers, experimental nuclear physicists and theoretical astrophysicists, in order to take measure of what the Canadian community has to offer in the field and to foster greater future collaboration within this highly multi-disciplinary field.

Program for CAWONAPS 2010

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Thursday 9th December

 

9:00

Welcome

Nigel Lockyer

9:05

Introduction

Lothar Buchmann

 

Facilities and associated experiments

 

9:15

DRAGON and TUDA nuclear astrophysics facilities

Chris Ruiz

9:35

TIGRESS-SHARC and 8pi facilities

Adam Garnsworthy

9:55

Neutron-deficient mass measurements with TITAN

Stephan Ettenauer

10:15

Mass measurements on neutron-rich nuclei using the CPT mass spectrometer @ CARIBU

Kumar Sharma

10:35

Coffee (20 minutes)

 

 

Observational/Theoretical astrophysics

 

10:50

Neutron Star masses

Ingrid Stairs

11:15

Positron production by pulsars and magnetars

Jeremy Heyl

11:40

Nuclear physics in type I X-ray bursts

Andrew Cumming

12:05

Lunch (1 hour)

 

 

Modeling, sensitivity studies

 

13:05

NuGrid and MESA – a framework for numerical
experiments in nuclear astrophysics (.zip archive)

+ Quicktime Movie

Falk Herwig

13:30

3D numerical simulations of thermohaline mixing in
low-mass red giants

Pavel Denisenkov

13:55

Nucleosynthesis simulations with the NuGrid PPN code

Athira Menon

14:10

Sensitivity studies of x-ray bursts and classical novae

Anuj Parikh

14:35

Coffee (20 minutes)

 

 

R-Matrix, theory, politics

 

14:55

Azure R-Matrix code

Dick Azuma

15:20

Ab initio calculations of radiative capture

Peter Navratil

15:45

The Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics

Michael Wiescher

16:10

Discussion

 

18:00

Pub Dinner at Mahoney’s Irish Pub – UBC Campus

 

Friday 10th December

 

 

Nuclear Reactions of Astrophysical importance

 

9:00

Low energy reaction theory: the forsaken realm

Lothar Buchmann

9:25

The 15O(α,γ)19Ne reaction

Barry Davids

9:50

The 3He(α,γ)7Be reaction

Sky Sjue

10:10

Absolute resonance strength measurements of the
22Na(p,γ) reaction

Chris Wrede

10:35

Coffee (20 minutes)

 

 

Nuclear Reactions (cont)

 

10:55

14N(p,γ) via 15O state lifetimes

Naomi Galinski

11:15

33S(p,γ)

Jennifer Fallis

11:35

A study of the 30P(p,γ)31S reaction via the 32S(d,t)31S reaction and its astrophysical relevance

Dan Irvine

11:55

The structure of 30S and the 29P(p,γ)30S reaction rate

Kiana Setoodehnia

12:15

Lunch (1 hour)

 

 

Quark-Novae

 

13:15

Distinct photometric and chemical evidence of the Quark-Nova in SN2006gy

Matthew Kostka

13:35

Numerical simulations of the explosive transition
from hadronic to strange quark matter

Brian Niebergal

13:55

Trends in 44Ti and Calcium in (dual-shock) Quark-Novae

Rachid Ouyed

14:15

Java-based r-process code: applications to SNe and QNe

Nico Koning

14:30

Coffee (15 minutes)

 

14:45

Tour of TRIUMF (Buchmann, Davids, Ruiz)

 

 

Summary Session and discussion

 

16:00

Summary of the Workshop

Alan Shotter

16:20

Discussion