Fast timing for nuclear structure and applications - FAST'26

from Monday, 27 April 2026 (09:00) to Wednesday, 29 April 2026 (19:00)
Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH) (Training and Conference Center (CCI))

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
27 Apr 2026
28 Apr 2026
29 Apr 2026
AM
10:00 --- Registration ---
09:10
Day 2 - Sorin Gabriel Pascu (Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (RO)) (until 10:20)
09:10 Some aspects of fast timing measurements and background considerations - Volker Werner (TU Darmstadt)  
09:35 Are the medium-mass odd-A Ag nuclei shell-model systems? - Dr Stefan Lalkovski (Sofia University)  
10:00 Fast-timing lifetime measurements in the 176Yb and 178Yb isotopes - P. Koseoglou (Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Zografou Campus, GR-15784 Athens, Greece)  
10:20 --- Coffee Break ---
10:40
Day 2 -Prof. Luis M Fraile (CERN) (until 12:30)
10:40 Enhanced collectivity observed through the first $0^+_3$ lifetime measurements in $^{118,120}$Sn using the fast-timing technique - Frank Wu (Simon Fraser University)  
11:05 Fast-timing measurements in actinide nuclei - David O'Donnell  
11:30 Enhanced octupole correlations in 148Dy - Victoria Vedia (CERN)  
11:50 Fast-timing study of shape evolution around N≈60 in the 98-102Rb β-decay chain - Jesús Sánchez Prieto (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) (ES))  
12:10 Nuclear structure of neutron-rich Ge isotopes - Pablo Gonzalez-Tarrio Vicente (Universidad Complutense (ES))  
09:20
Day 3 - Volker Werner (TU Darmstadt) (until 10:40)
09:20 Fast-timing measurement of the $2^+_1$ state lifetime in $^{106}\mathrm{Pd}$ - Dr Polytimos Vasileiou (Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH))  
09:40 In-flight $\gamma$-ray spectroscopy and $T_{1/2}$ measurements of low-lying excited states in $^{129}In$ and $^{128}Cd$ - Michal Mikolajczuk  
10:00 New Results in 115Rh β-decay spectroscopy - Krzysztof Albert Solak (University of Warsaw (PL))  
10:20 Fast-timing lifetime measurements in $^{83}$Se and $^{83}$Br - LUDOVICO LAPO LUPERI (CEA Paris-Saclay)  
10:40 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Day 3 - James Cubiss (The University of Edinburgh (GB)) (until 12:40)
11:00 Fast front-end amplifiers for time-of-flight PET - Dr Ivan Yakymenko (V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (UA))  
11:20 Sum-Amplifier Circuit For Fast Timing With Large Area SiPM Arrays - William Marshall (University of York)  
11:40 Intrinsic coincidence time resolution of candidate data acquisition systems for the HISTARS project - Victor Martinez Nouvilas (Universidad Complutense (ES))  
12:00 Performance evaluation of GaGG(Ce) crystals coupled to different photosensors - Miriam Caballero Rodriguez (Universidad Complutense (ES))  
12:20 Development of perovskite-based scintillator films for fast timing applications - Juan Francisco Gonzalez Linares (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia - CSIC)  
PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
Day 1 - Razvan Lica (Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (RO)) (until 15:05)
13:00 The ROSPHERE array at IFIN-HH - Sorin Gabriel Pascu (Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (RO))  
13:25 Fast-Timing Spectroscopy with FATIMA: Status, Highlights, and Future Directions - Vassil Karayonchev  
13:50 Lifetime measurements at FIPPS - Dr Marek Stryjczyk (Institut Laue-Langevin (FR))  
14:15 Lifetime measurements in exotic fission fragments at Lohengrin - Simone Bottoni (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))  
14:40 A review of measurements using halide scintillators at the National Physical Laboratory UK - Rob Shearman  
15:05 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30
Day 1 - Agnieszka Barbara Korgul (University of Warsaw (PL)) (until 17:20)
15:30 Experiments with large volume LaBr3(Ce) and CeBr3 detectors at the IFIN-HH 9MV Tandem facility - Pär-Anders Söderström (ELI-NP/IFIN-HH)  
15:55 Fast-Timing at the GRIFFIN Facility - Ms Rashmi Umashankar (TRIUMF/UBC)  
16:20 Portable African Neutron-Gamma Laboratory for Innovative Nuclear Science - Dr Pete Jones (iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation (ZA))  
16:40 Development and Current Status of the FLASH Campaign at HIL Warsaw - Andrej Špaček (Heavy Ion Laboratory at the University of Warsaw)  
17:00 HISTARS: A High-Performance Detector for Nuclear Excited-State Lifetimes at HIE-ISOLDE - Nikita Bernier (Universidad Complutense (ES))  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Day 2 - Simone Bottoni (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT)) (until 14:30)
13:30 Fast scintillators from LUXIUM - Fabien Dubar (LUXIUM SOLUTIONS)  
14:00 Compact and Scalable Electronics for Sub-10 ps Timing in Particle and Nuclear Physics - Mr Yuri Venturini (CAEN SpA)  
14:30
Day 2 - Agnieszka Barbara Korgul (University of Warsaw (PL)) (until 15:20)
14:30 Probing the chiral geometry in $^{126}$La using the ROSPHERE array - Himanshu Kumar Singh  
14:35 Recent Advances in the β-Decay Spectroscopy of $^{118}$Pd - Michał Młynarczyk (Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, PL-02-093 Warsaw, Poland)  
14:40 Investigation of Excited States in 124Sn Populated in β Decay of 124In - Pawel Wakuluk (University of Warsaw (PL))  
14:44 A desktop digital TDPAC spectrometer based on a CAEN DT5730S digitizer and the PACIFIC² Python analysis suite - Pedro Miguel Da Rocha Rodrigues (Universidade do Porto (PT))  
14:48 l-forbidden M1 transitions in N=50 isotones - Gabriel Garcia De Lorenzo (Universidad Complutense (ES))  
14:52 Optimization of time-stamping methods in digital acquisition systems for $\gamma$ detection - Antonio Duarte Neves Cesario (Universidade do Porto (PT))  
14:56 Testing results of a novel front-end readout ASIC with precise timing capabilities for next generation LHCb RICH detectors: the FastRICH - Vlad-Mihai Placinta (Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH RO))  
15:00 Investigating shape-effects of neutron deficient Sr-82 with safe multi-step Coulomb Excitation - Manfred Jaftha (University of the Western Cape)  
15:04 Investigating shape coexistence using β+/EC decay spectroscopy in 80Sr and 118Te - Geneva Anelska April (University of the Western Cape (ZA))  
15:08 Fusion-fission yield measurements: Current gamma-ray spectroscopy and prospective ToF upgrades - Piotr Michal Garczynski (University of Warsaw (PL))  
15:12 Heterostructured scintillators for enhanced timing resolution in ToF PET imaging - Dr Ivan Yakymenko (V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (UA))  
15:20 --- Coffee Break ---
15:30
Poster Session (until 17:00)
19:00 --- Workshop Dinner (Direct bus leaving from ELI-NP Gate at 18:00) ---
12:40 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Visit of IFIN-HH facilities - Vlad Vasilca (Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP)) Andrei Turturica (Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH)) (until 15:00)