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<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="6" color="navy"><b>Old Dominion University</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="6" color="navy"><b>Department of Physics</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="6" color="#31849B"><b>Spring Colloquium Series</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#17365D"><b>Tuesday April 23, 2013</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#31849B"><b>"Towards weak interaction studies in Francium"</b></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#1F497D"><b>Dr. Luis Orozco, and the FrPNC Collaboration<br>
Joint Quantum Institute<br>
Department of Physics<br>
University of Maryland</b></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Francium, a radioactive element, is the heaviest alkali. Its atomic and nuclear structure makes it an ideal laboratory to study the weak interaction
at low energy. I will present our proposal and progress towards weak interaction measurements at TRIUMF, the National Canadian Accelerator in Vancouver. We can now laser trap and cool in line with the accelerator and have started spectroscopic studies that
give information on the nuclear structure: hyperfine anomaly measurements. Future includes measurement of the weak charge and the nuclear anapole moment in a chain of francium isotopes. Supported by NSF and DOE from the USA; TRIUMF, NRC and NSERC from Canada;
and CONACYT from Mexico.</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Presentation: OCNPS 200 @ 3:00 pm</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Refreshments: Atrium @ 2:30 pm</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5">More details at <a href="http://sci.odu.edu/physics/">http://sci.odu.edu/physics/</a></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5">All are Welcome!</font></div>
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