10–12 Oct 2005
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  1. 10/10/2005, 13:30
  2. Dr Karsten Riisager (CERN)
    10/10/2005, 13:40
  3. Prof. Peter Butler (Liverpool University)
    10/10/2005, 13:45
  4. Prof. Timothy Beers (MSU)
    10/10/2005, 14:00
    Nuclear astrophysics
    Invited oral contribution
    I summarize recent observational progress on measurement of the elemental abundances of early generation stars, which have recorded (and preserved) the first episodes of nucleosynthesis in the Galaxy. I discuss two major recent surveys, one just completed, one just beginning. The first, the Hamburg/ESO R-process-Enhanced Star (HERES) survey has obtained ``snapshot'' high-resolution...
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  5. Prof. Friedrich-Karl Thielemann (University of Basel)
    10/10/2005, 14:25
    Nuclear astrophysics
    Invited oral contribution
  6. Prof. Karlheinz Langanke (GSI & TU Darmstadt)
    10/10/2005, 14:50
    Nuclear astrophysics
    Invited oral contribution
  7. Dr Ari Jokinen (University of Jyvaskyla)
    10/10/2005, 15:15
    Nuclear astrophysics
    Invited oral contribution
    A variety of astrophysical processes contribute to the synthesis of heavier elements in nature. The characteristics of the processes are governed by the astrophysical environment and details of the nuclear processes involved. Experiments performed at ISOLDE have played a central role in developing understanding of these processes. In this presentation, highlights to be discussed...
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  8. Dr Maria Lugaro (University of Cambridge)
    10/10/2005, 16:10
    Nuclear astrophysics
    Invited oral contribution
    The first evidence of the occurrence of nucleosynthesis in stars was provided in the 1950s by the detection of the unstable heavy element technetium in the atmospheres of stars on the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB), a late evolutionary phase of stars of low mass. Technetium can be produced by slow neutron captures (the s process) and thus its detection requires that neutron source...
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  9. Prof. John D'Auria (Simon Fraser University)
    10/10/2005, 16:35
    Nuclear astrophysics
    Invited oral contribution
    As pointed out by Willie Fowler, the goals of nuclear astrophysics are to understand the mechanism of Nucleosynthesis and the process of energy generation in stellar environments. While a good deal is now known on what occurs in quiescent stellar burning, much less is known about pathways to heavy element production in explosive scenario. The former is largely dominated by nuclear...
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  10. Dr Michael Heil (FZK Karlsruhe)
    10/10/2005, 17:00
    Nuclear astrophysics
    Invited oral contribution
    In the last decades considerable effort in experimental nuclear astrophysics, stellar modelling, and observations led to an improved understanding of various nucleosynthesis scenarios. This is particularly true for the main s process in low-mass AGB stars, which is largely responsible for the production of about half of the elemental abundances in the mass range 90 ≤ A ≤ 209. The weak s...
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  11. Dr Stéphane GORIELY
    10/10/2005, 17:25
    Nuclear astrophysics
    Invited oral contribution
    Important effort has been devoted in the last decades to measure reaction cross sections. These measurements are fundamental to put the nuclear astrophysics models on a sound basis. However, despite such effort, many nuclear applications, and most particularly nuclear astrophysics, still require the use of theoretical predictions to estimate experimentally unknown cross sections. Most...
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  12. Dr Maria Jose Garcia Borge (IEM-CSIC)
    11/10/2005, 08:30
    Physics at the proton and neutron drip lines
    Invited oral contribution
    For nuclei far from stability the differences in isobaric masses increases quadratically and the binding energy of the last nucleon decreases dramatically making beta-delayed particle emission the dominant decay channel at the drip lines. Beta decay is a well understood process and allows for a wide variety of spectroscopic information to be extracted from experiment: level energies,...
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  13. Dr Gerda Neyens (KU Leuven, IKS)
    11/10/2005, 09:10
    Physics at the proton and neutron drip lines
    Invited oral contribution
    In this presentation, we show how nuclear ground state properties like spins, magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole moments, and nuclear charge radii can provide us with detailed information about the nuclear structure and how systematic studies of these observable towards the driplines can help to test the validity of newly developed nuclear models and interactions. This will be...
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  14. Prof. Georg Bollen (Michigan State University)
    11/10/2005, 09:35
    Physics at the proton and neutron drip lines
    Invited oral contribution
  15. Dr Marek Ploszajczak (GANIL)
    11/10/2005, 10:30
    Physics at the proton and neutron drip lines
    Invited oral contribution
  16. Dr Thomas Nilsson (Chalmers University of technology and TU Darmstadt)
    11/10/2005, 10:55
    Physics at the proton and neutron drip lines
    Invited oral contribution
    Our picture of the structure of nuclei is undergoing dramatic changes when systems far away from the line of stability are studied. Established landmarks in the nuclear landscape like the magic numbers are weakened or displaced, and the nuclear spin-orbit interaction appears to diminish. In the most extreme nuclear systems that can be experimentally studied today, various types of...
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  17. Dr Angela Bonaccorso (INFN-PISA)
    11/10/2005, 11:20
    Physics at the proton and neutron drip lines
    Invited oral contribution
    The position and even the existence of a neutron and a proton drip lines are among the great, still unresolved, questions of nature. In this talk first I will state the problem of Physics at the proton and neutron drip lines in general terms of understanding the structure of the matter. Then I will specialize on Nuclear Physics theoretical issues. A "roadmap" for future research will...
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  18. Dr William Marciano (BNL)
    11/10/2005, 13:30
    Standard model tests
    Invited oral contribution
    A new method for computing hadronic effects on electroweak radiative corrections to low energy semileptonic weak interaction processes is described. Applying this approach to the extraction of the quark mixing matrix element Vud, Alberto Sirlin and I find from superallowed nuclear beta decay Vud = 0.97377(27). Combining that result with recent determinations of Vus from kaon decays...
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  19. Dr Klaus Blaum (Univeristy of Mainz)
    11/10/2005, 14:00
    Standard model tests
    Invited oral contribution
    Like few other parameters, the mass of an atom, and its inherent connection with the atomic and nuclear binding energy is a fundamental property, a unique fingerprint of the atomic nucleus. Each nuclide comes with its own mass value different from all others. For short-lived exotic atomic nuclei the importance of its mass ranges from the verification of nuclear models to a test of the...
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  20. Dr Oscar Naviliat-Cuncic (LPC)
    11/10/2005, 14:20
    Standard model tests
    Invited oral contribution
    Precision measurements of correlation observables in nuclear beta decay constitute a sensitive tool to search for signatures of new physics beyond the standard electroweak model. Over the past decade, measurements in nuclear and neutron decays provided new constraints on the possible presence of exotic weak couplings as well as new tests of maximal parity violation and time reversal...
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  21. Prof. Thomas Wichert (Saarland University)
    11/10/2005, 15:30
    Applications: material science, life sciences and nuclear technologies
    Invited oral contribution
  22. Dr Ulrich Wahl (Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear)
    11/10/2005, 15:45
    Applications: material science, life sciences and nuclear technologies
    Invited oral contribution
    Solid state physics at ISOLDE aims at the study of the structural, electrical, optical, magnetic and transport properties related to impurities in a variety of technologically and fundamentally relevant materials, including semiconductors, metals, high-Tc superconductors and ceramic oxides. Rather than providing an extensive overview of the complete solid state physics activities at...
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  23. Prof. Hans Christian Hofsäß (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
    11/10/2005, 16:10
    Applications: material science, life sciences and nuclear technologies
    Invited oral contribution
    Radioactive probe atoms in solids have proven to be unique sensors for internal magnetic and electrical fields and markers to study diffusion phenomena, impurity lattice sites and optical properties of impurity atoms. In contrast to conventional solid state methods applied to study magnetism and structural properties, the use of radioactive probes as sensors of internal fields is...
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  24. Prof. Tilman Butz (University of Leipzig)
    11/10/2005, 16:35
    Applications: material science, life sciences and nuclear technologies
    Invited oral contribution
    The understanding of the function of metalloproteins and metal-containing enzymes is usually based on the detailed knowledge of the structure of these macromolecules obtained by X-ray diffraction. In many cases, crystals of sufficient quality are not available and one has to rely on spectroscopy such as, e.g., Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) or Electron Paramagnetic Resonance EPR)....
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  25. Dr Gerd Beyer (HUG)
    11/10/2005, 17:20
    Applications: material science, life sciences and nuclear technologies
    Invited oral contribution
  26. Prof. SRINIVASAN GANESAN (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre)
    11/10/2005, 17:45
    Applications: material science, life sciences and nuclear technologies
    Invited oral contribution
    The development of Accelerator Driven Sub-critical Systems proposed by Carlo Rubbia and others require significant amount of new nuclear data in extended energy regions and significant improvement of the presently available nuclear data. The ADSS concepts have given a fresh look at the use of thorium fuel cycle in a lead-bismuth coolant environment. The nuclear data of isotopes of...
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  27. Dr Ulrich Fischer (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe)
    11/10/2005, 18:10
    Applications: material science, life sciences and nuclear technologies
    Invited oral contribution
    The need to develop and qualify materials that can withstand the high radiation and heat loadings anticipated for a fusion reactor is a key problem in the development of fusion as a future energy source. No appropriate materials test facility is available at present to properly simulate a fusion neutron radiation field and investigate the effect of the resulting radiation damage and...
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  28. Prof. Jan Blomgren (Uppsala University)
    11/10/2005, 18:35
    Applications: material science, life sciences and nuclear technologies
    Invited oral contribution
    Recently, a large number of applications involving high-energy neutrons have become important. Accelerator-driven systems (ADS) for transmutation of spent nuclear fuel and nuclear weapons materials, fast-neutron cancer therapy, dose effects to the crew onboard aircraft due to cosmic-ray neutrons, as well as electronics failures induced by atmospheric neutrons have all got increasing...
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  29. Prof. Juergen Kluge (GSI)
    11/10/2005, 19:00
  30. Dr Dario Vretenar (University of Zagreb)
    12/10/2005, 09:00
    Evolution of nuclear structure, shapes, and fission
    Invited oral contribution
    Modern nuclear structure theory is rapidly evolving towards regions of short-lived nuclei far from stability. The principal objective is to build a consistent microscopic theoretical framework that will provide a unified description of bulk properties, nuclear excitations and reactions. Stringent constraints on the microscopic approach to nuclear dynamics, effective nuclear...
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  31. Prof. Piet Van Duppen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
    12/10/2005, 09:30
    Evolution of nuclear structure, shapes, and fission
    Invited oral contribution
  32. Prof. Jonathan Billowes (University of Manchester)
    12/10/2005, 10:00
    Evolution of nuclear structure, shapes, and fission
    Invited oral contribution
    The review will concentrate on the spin, charge radii and static moments measured by laser spectroscopic techniques and the physics question these studies can address. In recent years most results have been obtained by high resolution laser spectroscopy using the collinear beams technique (for example by the COLLAPS collaboration at ISOLDE and a UK collaboration at the IGISOL...
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  33. Prof. Attila Krasznahorkay (Institute of Nuclear Research, Atomki)
    12/10/2005, 11:00
    Evolution of nuclear structure, shapes, and fission
    Invited oral contribution
    The predicted variety of exotic nuclear shapes, and heavy clusterizations in the actinide region still represent big challenges for the contemporary experimental investigations. Recently, the fission probability as a function of the excitation energy has been measured with high energy resolution using the (d,pf) reaction on different targets in order to study exotic nuclear...
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  34. Dr Heloise Goutte (CEA)
    12/10/2005, 11:30
    In the past few years, experimental studies have revealed many interesting features of the fission process, such as for instance i) a transition between single and double-humped mass distributions with a triple- humped structure for some Thorium isotopes, ii) a bimodality in the Total Kinetic Energy distributions of some fermium and transfermium isotopes. From a theoretical point of...
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  35. Dr Michael Benedikt (CERN)
    12/10/2005, 13:30
    Facilities at CERN: injectors, short and mid-term plans for n_TOF and ISOLDE
    Invited oral contribution
    After analysis by the HIP working group [CERN-AB-2004-022], the number of protons that the existing accelerators can deliver after the year 2005 has been found to be insufficient for the needs of the LHC and the present generation of approved experiments. In the longer term (beyond ~2010), the definition of the needs depends upon the LHC upgrade and the physics to be addressed....
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  36. Prof. Peter Butler (University of Liverpool and CERN)
    12/10/2005, 14:05
    Facilities at CERN: injectors, short and mid-term plans for n_TOF and ISOLDE
    Invited oral contribution
    The HIE-ISOLDE project will provide beams of accelerated radioactive beams up to 10 MeV/u at CERN. The energy upgrade, carried out in two stages (the first stage will give beams of 5.5 MeV/u), will be accompanied by major developments to the Isolde target and front-end that will allow a 3-fold increase in the proton intensity anticipated from LINAC4 and a faster PSB cycling frequency....
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  37. 12/10/2005, 14:40
    Facilities at CERN: injectors, short and mid-term plans for n_TOF and ISOLDE
    Invited oral contribution
  38. Dr Thomas Otto (CERN)
    12/10/2005, 15:40
    Facilities at CERN: injectors, short and mid-term plans for n_TOF and ISOLDE
    Invited oral contribution
    ISOLDE has been designed in 1990 for a maximum proton beam power which will be exceeded by up to a factor of five in HIE ISOLDE. The consequences for radiation protection will be described. The n-TOF Ph2 facility shall be built from the outset according to radiation protection standards which will allow the use of sealed and unsealed radioactive targets and the full exploitation of...
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  39. Dr Jacques Bouchez (CEA)
    12/10/2005, 16:05
    Facilities at CERN: injectors, short and mid-term plans for n_TOF and ISOLDE
    Invited oral contribution
    I shall describe the benefits for neutrino physics of having at CERN a multimegawatt proton machine (SPL) and/or high intensity sources of radioactive ions (as envisioned in the Eurisol project). The SPL machine would deliver very intense so-called neutrino superbeams of 300 MeV in energy which could be aimed at a megaton-class underground detector located in the Frejus tunnel, while...
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  40. Prof. Isao Tanihata (Argonne National Laboratories)
    12/10/2005, 16:30