Colloquium - Zach Meisel (Ohio U) - Opportunities in Nuclear Astrophysics Across the Nuclear Landscape at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams

March 1, 2022

3:45PM - 4:45PM

Virtual Zoom link below

Add to Calendar 2022-03-01 15:45:00 2022-03-01 16:45:00 Colloquium - Zach Meisel (Ohio U) - Opportunities in Nuclear Astrophysics Across the Nuclear Landscape at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams Opportunities in Nuclear Astrophysics Across the Nuclear Landscape at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams Dr. Zach Meisel Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University Virtual only Faculty Host: Michael Lisa Abstract: When matter is added to one of the densest possible objects in the universe, does that object expand or contract in size? Where were the elements from zinc to tin made? Can radioactive afterglows give us insight into how massive stars explode? Answers to these seemingly simple questions have remained elusive over a century of nuclear astrophysics research. Recent opportunities, including the dawn of multi-messenger astronomy and first science operations beginning at Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, place us at a unique time to provide solutions. I will discuss ongoing work and future plans at the frontiers of nuclear astrophysics experiment, focusing on new techniques employing radioactive ion beams that will improve constraints on the properties of ultradense matter and the origin of the heavy elements. Bio: Zach Meisel is an Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio University. He received his PhD from Michigan State University in 2015 for mass measurements of neutron-rich nuclei for nuclear astrophysics and nuclear structure. As a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Notre Dame, he commissioned the St. George recoil separator, a device tailored for low-background measurements of nuclear reactions for astrophysics. In 2016 Meisel joined the faculty of Ohio University, where he became the Edwards Accelerator Laboratory Director in 2018. He has served as the chair of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) user community and is presently in the chair line for the Separator for Capture Reactions (SECAR) collaboration at FRIB. Meisel’s research focus is on the nuclear physics of explosive astrophysical phenomena and associated compact objects, in particular the nucleosynthesis of core collapse supernovae and the transient phenomena associated with accreting neutron stars. Please use the Zoom link below to attend virtually: https://osu.zoom.us/j/94858307115?pwd=K0JDMTROWVhIOUp6bU1sU0prZjNUZz09 Meeting ID: 948 5830 7115 Password: PRB1080 Virtual Zoom link below OSU ASC Drupal 8 ascwebservices@osu.edu America/New_York public

2022-03-01 15:45:00 2022-03-01 16:45:00 Colloquium - Zach Meisel (Ohio U) - Opportunities in Nuclear Astrophysics Across the Nuclear Landscape at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams Opportunities in Nuclear Astrophysics Across the Nuclear Landscape at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams Dr. Zach Meisel Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University Virtual only Faculty Host: Michael Lisa Abstract: When matter is added to one of the densest possible objects in the universe, does that object expand or contract in size? Where were the elements from zinc to tin made? Can radioactive afterglows give us insight into how massive stars explode? Answers to these seemingly simple questions have remained elusive over a century of nuclear astrophysics research. Recent opportunities, including the dawn of multi-messenger astronomy and first science operations beginning at Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, place us at a unique time to provide solutions. I will discuss ongoing work and future plans at the frontiers of nuclear astrophysics experiment, focusing on new techniques employing radioactive ion beams that will improve constraints on the properties of ultradense matter and the origin of the heavy elements.   Bio: Zach Meisel is an Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio University. He received his PhD from Michigan State University in 2015 for mass measurements of neutron-rich nuclei for nuclear astrophysics and nuclear structure. As a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Notre Dame, he commissioned the St. George recoil separator, a device tailored for low-background measurements of nuclear reactions for astrophysics. In 2016 Meisel joined the faculty of Ohio University, where he became the Edwards Accelerator Laboratory Director in 2018. He has served as the chair of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) user community and is presently in the chair line for the Separator for Capture Reactions (SECAR) collaboration at FRIB. Meisel’s research focus is on the nuclear physics of explosive astrophysical phenomena and associated compact objects, in particular the nucleosynthesis of core collapse supernovae and the transient phenomena associated with accreting neutron stars.     Please use the Zoom link below to attend virtually: https://osu.zoom.us/j/94858307115?pwd=K0JDMTROWVhIOUp6bU1sU0prZjNUZz09 Meeting ID: 948 5830 7115 Password: PRB1080   Virtual Zoom link below America/New_York public

Opportunities in Nuclear Astrophysics Across the Nuclear Landscape at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams

Dr. Zach Meisel
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University

Virtual only

Faculty Host: Michael Lisa

Abstract: When matter is added to one of the densest possible objects in the universe, does that object expand or contract in size? Where were the elements from zinc to tin made? Can radioactive afterglows give us insight into how massive stars explode? Answers to these seemingly simple questions have remained elusive over a century of nuclear astrophysics research. Recent opportunities, including the dawn of multi-messenger astronomy and first science operations beginning at Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, place us at a unique time to provide solutions. I will discuss ongoing work and future plans at the frontiers of nuclear astrophysics experiment, focusing on new techniques employing radioactive ion beams that will improve constraints on the properties of ultradense matter and the origin of the heavy elements.

Bio: Zach Meisel is an Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio University. He received his PhD from Michigan State University in 2015 for mass measurements of neutron-rich nuclei for nuclear astrophysics and nuclear structure. As a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Notre Dame, he commissioned the St. George recoil separator, a device tailored for low-background measurements of nuclear reactions for astrophysics. In 2016 Meisel joined the faculty of Ohio University, where he became the Edwards Accelerator Laboratory Director in 2018. He has served as the chair of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) user community and is presently in the chair line for the Separator for Capture Reactions (SECAR) collaboration at FRIB. Meisel’s research focus is on the nuclear physics of explosive astrophysical phenomena and associated compact objects, in particular the nucleosynthesis of core collapse supernovae and the transient phenomena associated with accreting neutron stars.

Please use the Zoom link below to attend virtually:

https://osu.zoom.us/j/94858307115?pwd=K0JDMTROWVhIOUp6bU1sU0prZjNUZz09

Meeting ID: 948 5830 7115

Password: PRB1080