Reflections on the atomic nucleus

28 Jul 2015, 08:45 → 30 Jul 2015, 14:00 Europe/London

                                            

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The meeting will touch upon a few sub-topics of current interest in nuclear structure physics including shapes, shell evolution and super-heavy elements as well as sessions devoted to nuclear astrophysics, novel instrumentation and radioactive-ion beam projects. The topics of the conference will reflect not only the development of the field in recent years but also to look to the future when facilities on the horizon offer the promise of exciting new discoveries. The meeting will be held in the Chadwick Building and Central Teaching Laboratory at the University of Liverpool. These buildings are on the main University campus, which is a 15 minute walk from the city centre and a short bus ride to the city’s riverside and cultural attractions. Liverpool is well served by two international airports, Liverpool John Lennon Airport and Manchester Airport.

Photo credit: Tim Greenshaw

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Tuesday 28 July

08:45 → 09:30 Registration

09:30 → 10:05 Opening

Convener: Maria Jose Garcia Borge (CERN)

09:30 Welcome

Speaker: Peter Butler (University of Liverpool)

09:35 Nuclear Structure Theory: today and tomorrow

Speaker: Witold Nazarewicz (MSU/ORNL/Warsaw)

Nazarewicz web.pdf

10:05 → 10:30 Shell structure via heavy nuclei I

Convener: Maria Jose Garcia Borge (CERN)

10:05 Impact of superheavy element research on nuclear theory

Speaker: Teng Lek Khoo (Argonne National Laboratory)

Khoo web.pdf

10:30 → 11:15 Break, Registration

11:15 → 12:30 Shell structure via heavy nuclei II

Convener: Paul Greenlees (University of Jyväskylä)

11:15 The shell structure and stability of super-heavy nuclei

Speaker: Michael Bender (Université Bordeaux and CNRS/IN2P3)

Bender.pdf

11:40 Current challenges in superheavy element research

Speaker: Rodi Herzberg (University of Liverpool)

12:05 In-beam studies of the structure of exotic nuclei

Speaker: Rauno Julin (University of Jyväskylä)

Julin web.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch, Industrial exhibition, Registration

14:00 → 15:15 New experimental probes I

Convener: Robert Page (University of Liverpool)

14:00 Developments in in-beam conversion electron spectroscopy

Speaker: Janne Pakarinen (University of Jyväskylä)

Pakarinen web.pdf

14:25 Recent developments in detection technology for scientific research applications

Speaker: James Cocks (Canberra Industries)

Cocks.pdf

14:50 Nuclear Physics Experiments with High-Power Lasers and Brilliant Gamma Beams at the ELI-NP Facility

Speaker: Dimiter Balabanski (ELI-NP)

Balabanski web.pdf

15:15 → 16:00 Break, Industrial exhibition

16:00 → 17:15 Shapes & strengths

Convener: Sunniva Siem (University of Oslo)

16:00 Thermodynamic and electromagnetic properties of nuclei

Speaker: Magne Guttormsen (University of Oslo)

Guttormsen.pdf

16:25 Couplings between particle and phonons around neutron-rich doubly-magic nuclei

Speaker: Silvia Leoni (University of Milano and INFN)

Leoni web.pdf

16:50 Beta-strength, decay heat and anti-neutrino spectra from Total Absorption Spectroscopy

Speaker: Krzysztof Rykaczewski (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Rykaczewski.pdf

17:15 → 18:00 Leisure time

18:00 → 20:00 Reception

Wednesday 29 July

09:15 → 10:30 Nuclear astrophysics

Convener: Mats Lindroos (European Spallation Source)

09:15 Can we use nuclear structure to constrain the sites of the r-process?

Speaker: Ani Aprahamian (University of Notre Dame)

Aprahamian.pdf

09:40 The Triangular D3h Symmetry of 12C

Speaker: Moshe Gai (University of Connecticut)

Gai.pdf

10:05 If you like it you should have put a ring on it

Speaker: Philip WOODS (University of Edinburgh)

Woods web.pdf

10:30 → 11:15 Break, Industrial exhibition

11:15 → 12:30 Aspects of nuclear collectivity I

Convener: Sven Åberg (Lund University)

11:15 Coexisting quadrupole shapes in heavy exotic nuclei

Speaker: Piet Van Duppen (KU Leuven)

Van Duppen web.pdf

11:40 Spin 60 and beyond: Exotic behavior at the limits of angular momentum

Speaker: Mark Riley (Florida State University)

Riley web.pdf

12:05 Myths of Collective Structures in Atomic Nuclei

Speaker: John Sharpey-Schafer (University of the Western Cape)

Sharpey-Schafer web.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch, Industrial exhibition

14:00 → 15:15 New vistas of nuclear structure

Convener: Rafał Broda (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)

14:00 Exploring yrast structures in neutron-rich nuclei with deep-inelastic collisions

Speaker: Bogdan FORNAL (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)

Fornal web.pdf

14:25 New developments in nuclear DFT

Speaker: Jacek Dobaczewski (Universities of Warsaw, Jyväskylä and York)

Dobaczewski.pdf

14:50 Precision Measurements of Nuclear Ground-state Properties for Nuclear Structure, Astrophysics and Fundamental Studies

Speaker: Klaus Blaum (Max-Planck-Institute Heidelberg)

Blaum web.pdf

15:15 → 16:00 Break, Conference photo

16:00 → 17:15 Nuclear structure & fundamental physics

Convener: Lorenz Willmann (University of Groningen)

16:00 Nuclear physics with ion traps

Speaker: Juha Äystö (Helsinki Institute of Physics)

Äystö web.pdf

16:25 Constraining the Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Matrix Elements using Transfer Reactions

Speaker: Sean Freeman (University of Manchester)

Freeman web.pdf

16:50 Probing beyond-‘Standard-‘Model physics at low energy

Speaker: Tim Chupp (University of Michigan)

Chupp.pdf

17:15 → 19:00 Leisure time

19:00 → 23:00 Conference Banquet

Thursday 30 July

09:15 → 10:30 Aspects of nuclear collectivity II

Convener: Doug Cline (University of Rochester)

09:15 Measurement of B(E3; 0 - 3-) strength in strongly octupole correlated nuclei near 224Ra

Speaker: Marcus Scheck (University of the West of Scotland)

Scheck.pdf

09:40 Octupole correlations beyond the mean field

Speaker: Luis Robledo (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

Robledo web.pdf

10:05 Dual quantum liquid picture of nuclei and its implication to reflection asymmetry

Speaker: Takaharu Otsuka (University of Tokyo)

Otsuka.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:15 New experimental probes II

Convener: Angela Bracco (Università di Milano and INFN)

11:00 Producing radioactive ion beams through the ISOL method: advances, challenges and opportunities

Speaker: Mark Huyse (KU Leuven)

Huyse web.pdf

11:25 TSR project at ISOLDE

Speaker: Fredrik Wenander (CERN)

Wenander web.pdf

11:50 Radioactive Beam Facilities for Tomorrow

Speaker: Yorick Blumenfeld (Institut de Physique Nucléaire-Orsay)

Blumenfeld.pdf

12:15 → 12:35 Summary

Convener: Paul Nolan (University of Liverpool)

12:15 Summary talk

Speaker: John Simpson (STFC Daresbury Laboratory)

Simpson web.pdf

12:35 → 14:00 Lunch