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SUMMARY:National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory Seminar
DESCRIPTION:
 Xilin Zhang from The Ohio State University will 
 be speaking.\n
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 The seminar is titled "Ab initio 
 nuclear scattering and reaction calculation 
 and its synergy with experiments."\n
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 Abstract: 
 One central paradigm in contemporary 
 nuclear theory is to predict nuclear phenomena 
 starting from nucleon interactions rooted in 
 quantum chromodynamics. An array of many-body 
 methods, combined with growing computational 
 capabilities, have pushed such structure calculations 
 to compute medium-mass nuclei. However, 
 the calculations for scattering and reactions 
 are much more limited, and their synergy 
 with experimental measurements has rarely 
 been discussed. A method that works for heavier 
 nuclei and can efficiently incorporate outside 
 information will be valuable for nuclear 
 astrophysics and the coming FRIB program. In 
 this talk, I will present my research program 
 on developing such a method by using a computer-experiment 
 strategy. I will highlight recent 
 encouraging results on neutron-alpha and 
 neutron--Oxygen-24 scattering. I will then 
 discuss two essential components of the method: 
 cluster-level theories and data analysis tools, 
 their applications within and outside my 
 ab initio method, and their ongoing developments 
 in my research. They will demonstrate the 
 organic synergy of the ab initio calculations 
 and experimental measurements and point out 
 future steps to generalize the ab initio method 
 for reactions and three-cluster systems.\n
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 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.nscl.msu.edu/\n
 Contact name: National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory\n
 Contact phone: 517-355-9671\n
 Contact email: nscl.msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://www.nscl.msu.edu/apps/seminars.php\n
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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