17th Varenna Conference on Nuclear Reaction Mechanisms

from Sunday, 14 June 2026 (17:00) to Friday, 19 June 2026 (14:00)
Villa Monastero

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
15 Jun 2026
16 Jun 2026
17 Jun 2026
18 Jun 2026
19 Jun 2026
AM
09:30 Opening - Francesco Cerutti (CERN)  
09:40
Nuclear Structure - Enrico Vigezzi (until 11:00)
09:40 Spectral Properties of Pygmy and Giant Resonances - Dr Nadia Tsoneva (Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP))  
10:10 Structure of 14N via $\alpha$+$^{10}$B reactions at sub-barrier energies - Daniele Dell'Aquila  
10:40 Probing nuclear excited-state properties - Radomira LOZEVA  
11:00 --- COFFEE BREAK ---
11:30
Form Factors - Simone Pacetti (Università degli Studi di Perugia and INFN Perugia) (until 12:00)
11:30 How to "read" hadron timelike form factors. - Andrea Bianconi (Università di Brescia)  
09:00
Nuclear Potential -Prof. Hugo Arellano (until 10:50)
09:00 Toward Consistent Nuclear Level Densities from the Optical Potential - Guillaume Blanchon (CEA,DAM,DIF)  
09:30 Microscopic optical potentials: new results and perspectives - Paolo Finelli  
10:00 Collectivity and mass in nuclear scattering potentials - Paul Fraser  
10:30 Beyond ADC(2): A Multichannel Dyson Equation Approach to Nuclear Optical Potentials - Mr Thibault Demartini (CEA,DAM,DIF)  
10:50 --- COFFEE BREAK ---
11:20
Nuclear Potential - Guillaume Blanchon (CEA,DAM,DIF) (until 13:00)
11:20 Self-consistent microscopic folding-model approach for positive and negative energies - Prof. Hugo Arellano  
11:50 Towards optical potentials from ab initio theories - Vittorio Soma  
12:20 Low-Energy Nucleon–Nucleus Interactions in a Quadrupole Rotor Framework Using MCAS - Ms Deeparna Bhattacharyya  
12:40 Application of the iterative perturbative approach to nonlocal and deformed potentials in N–alpha scattering and (alpha, n) reactions - Dr N. J. Upadhyay (Department of Physics, Amity School of Applied Sciences, Amity University Maharashtra, Panvel - 410206, INDIA)  
09:00
Reaction Theory -Prof. Horst Lenske (Justus-Liebig-Universitaet Giessen) (until 11:10)
09:00 Pair strength, two-nucleon transfer reactions and and many-body processes - Enrico Vigezzi  
09:30 Microscopic Framework for Multi-Nucleon Transfer Reactions - Aurel Bulgac (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA)  
10:00 Are breakup reactions sensitive to spectroscopic factors? (Spoiler alert: they ain’t) - Pierre Capel  
10:30 Reactions in three-body nuclear and hypernuclear systems - Arnoldas Deltuva (Vilnius University)  
10:50 Quantum computing: a novel framework for reaction theory - Evan Rule  
11:10 --- COFFEE BREAK ---
11:40
Fission - Stefano Marin (until 13:10)
11:40 Prompt neutron and gamma emission in U238 fast-neutron-induced fission - Gilbert Bélier (CEA/DAM/DIF)  
12:10 Prompt and delayed γ-ray emission as an experimental probe of fission - Jonathan WILSON  
12:40 Nuclear Fission: Connecting Fundamental Physics and Real-World Applications - Dr Patrick Talou (Stardust Science Labs)  
09:00
Fission - Patrick Talou (Stardust Science Labs) (until 11:00)
09:00 The multiple facets of mass division in nuclear fission: an inexhaustible source of inspiration - Nicolae Carjan  
09:30 Long relaxation times in fission dynamics in the mass-asymmetry degree of freedom - Karl-Heinz Schmidt  
10:00 Characteristics of Primary Fission Fragments from a Microscopic Perspective - Dr Marc Verriere (CEA,DAM,DIF)  
10:20 Angular Momentum in Fission through 241Am(2nth,f) Isomeric Ratio measurements with the Lohengrin spectrometer - Anna Skouloudaki (CEA Cadarache)  
10:40 A Theoretical Model for the Angular Correlations of Gamma Rays Emitted by Fission Fragments - Stefano Marin (CERN)  
11:00 --- COFFEE BREAK ---
11:30
Measurements - Giuseppe Tagliente (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT)) (until 12:40)
11:30 Quadrupole moments of the first 2+ state in the even-even Sn isotopes approaching Sn-100 - Joakim Cederkall (Lund University (SE))  
12:00 Nucleon transfer in 12C+12C reaction at 105 MeV beam energy - Andrea De Rosa  
12:20 Measurements of (n,cp) reactions for tritium breeding in fusion reactors at n_TOF - Giulio Perfetto (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
09:00
Heavy Ions - Egle Tomasi (CEA Saclay) (until 10:50)
09:00 Quarkonia spectroscopy in the quark-gluon plasma - Georg Wolschin  
09:30 Surrogate reactions in inverse kinematics at heavy-ion storage rings - Lucas Bégué--Guillou (LP2ib-Laboratoire de Physique des 2 infinis de Bordeaux)  
09:50 Majorana-type heavy ion Double Charge Exchange reactions - Caterina Garofalo  
10:10 Dinuclear system description of capture, fusion and evaporation residues in superheavy element production - Dr Bakhodir Kayumov (New Uzbekistan University)  
10:30 Investigation of the fusion process for 6Li + 196Pt at energies near the Coulomb barrier - Jessica Chaves (Dalva Sonia Lemos)  
10:50 --- COFFEE BREAK ---
11:20
Modeling and Codes - Francesco Cerutti (CERN) (until 12:50)
11:20 Recent Improvements and Educational use of the Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System (PHITS) - Lembit Sihver (The University of Rio Grande Texas)  
11:50 Antineutron and antideuteron as projectile in the INCL (IntraNuclear Cascade of Liège) code. - Jean-Christophe David  
12:20 Model bias and parameter optimisation with the example of INCL/ABLA - Dr Jason Hirtz (CEA Saclay)  
PM
12:00
QCD - Simone Pacetti (Università degli Studi di Perugia and INFN Perugia) (until 12:40)
12:00 Hyperon Form Factors in the complex plane - Francesco Rosini  
12:20 The $H$-dibaryon from lattice QCD - Davide Laudicina (Ruhr University Bochum)  
15:00
Astrophysics - Hirokazu Sasaki (until 17:00)
15:00 Astrophysical $S$ factors for $p+{}^{7}$Li-, $n+{}^{7}$Be-, and $d+{}^{6}$Li-induced reactions in a microscopic many-channel cluster model - Yuliya Lashko (Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyiv, Ukraine; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova, Italy)  
15:30 Four-body reaction analysis of the astrophysical factor $S_{18}$ of the $^8$B($p$,$\gamma$)$^9$C reaction via $^9$C breakup - Shoya Ogawa  
16:00 Nuclear astrophysics at LUNA - Dr Sandra Zavatarelli (INFN e Universita Genova (IT))  
16:30 Twenty-five Years of Nuclear Astrophysics at the n_TOF Facility - Giuseppe Tagliente (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
17:00 --- TEA BREAK ---
17:30
Astrophysics -Dr Sandra Zavatarelli (INFN e Universita Genova (IT)) (until 19:10)
17:30 Nuclear reactions in neutron stars and binary neutron star mergers - Domenico Logoteta (INFN sezione Milano Bicocca)  
18:00 Thermal deuteron-deuteron fusion in accelerator experiments at sub-keV energies - Prof. Konrad Czerski  
18:30 Background-Limited Studies of Low-Energy Deuteron– Deuteron Fusion Using Silicon Detector Telescope - Mr Gokul Das Haridas (University of Szczecin)  
18:50 Relativistic QRPA calculation of neutrino–nucleus cross sections on 92Zr. - Rade Smolović  
15:00
Reaction Theory - Toshihiko Kawano (LANL) (until 17:10)
15:00 From Nuclear Double Charge Exchange Reactions to Lepton Number Violating Electron Scattering - Prof. Horst Lenske (Justus-Liebig-Universitaet Giessen)  
15:30 Memories of Takeshi Udagawa - Prof. Horst Lenske (Justus-Liebig-Universitaet Giessen)  
15:40 Application of a noniterative finite amplitude method to direct and pre-equilibrium processes in neutron-induced reactions - Hirokazu Sasaki  
16:10 Investigating the Validity of Hauser Feshbach Theory on Compound Nuclear Reactions - Ibrahim Abdurrahman  
16:30 Towards Predictive Modeling for Reactions on Rare Isotopes - Kyle Beyer  
16:50 Pre-Equilibrium Emission Microscopic Modelisation - Mr Benjamin Menant (CEA, DAM, DIF)  
17:10 --- TEA BREAK ---
17:40
Medical Radioisotopes -Dr Nadia Tsoneva (Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP)) (until 19:10)
17:40 Medical radionuclides production at GIP ARRONAX and impact of systematic cross section measurements - Arnaud GUERTIN  
18:10 Study of retention effects in radio-isotope production with the Szilard-Chalmers reaction - Ivano Lombardo (INFN Sezione di Catania & Univ. Catania)  
18:40 Radioisotope Centre POLATOM at the National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ): research and development programmes for novel radiopharmaceuticals - Małgorzata Żółtowska  
20:30 --- RECEPTION ---
21:00
Honorary session - Vittorio Soma Barbara Sulignano (until 23:00)
21:15 Egle - Simone Pacetti (Università degli Studi di Perugia and INFN Perugia)  
21:45 Memories of a lucky research line - Andrea Bianconi (Università di Brescia)  
22:15 PHYSICS(@) Varenna (…& me) - Egle Tomasi (CEA Saclay)  
15:00
Measurements - Gilbert Bélier (CEA/DAM/DIF) (until 16:20)
15:00 ALICE highlights - Siegfried Foertsch (iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation (ZA))  
15:30 Observed oscillations in neutron capture cross sections - Thanos Stamatopoulos  
16:00 New measurements of capture gamma ray production cross sections at UMass Lowell Research Reactor - Daniel Fernandez (University of Massachusetts Lowell)  
16:20
Evaluations - Gilbert Bélier (CEA/DAM/DIF) (until 16:40)
16:20 Zr-90 in the Nuclear Data Evaluation Pipeline of Uppsala (NEPU): Uncertainty Quantification with Model Defect Treatment - Dr Jinti Barman (Uppsala University)  
16:40 The mysteries of the proton  
17:00 --- TEA BREAK ---
19:30
Ettore Gadioli Wine Party - Lembit Sihver (The University of Rio Grande Texas) (until 21:30)