Dr
Karsten Riisager
(CERN)
10/10/2005, 13:40
Prof.
Peter Butler
(Liverpool University)
10/10/2005, 13:45
Prof.
Timothy Beers
(MSU)
10/10/2005, 14:00
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...
Prof.
Friedrich-Karl Thielemann
(University of Basel)
10/10/2005, 14:25
Prof.
Karlheinz Langanke
(GSI & TU Darmstadt)
10/10/2005, 14:50
Dr
Ari Jokinen
(University of Jyvaskyla)
10/10/2005, 15:15
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...
Dr
Maria Lugaro
(University of Cambridge)
10/10/2005, 16:10
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...
Prof.
John D'Auria
(Simon Fraser University)
10/10/2005, 16:35
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...
Dr
Michael Heil
(FZK Karlsruhe)
10/10/2005, 17:00
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...
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,...
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...
Prof.
Georg Bollen
(Michigan State University)
11/10/2005, 09:35
Physics at the proton and neutron drip lines
Invited oral contribution
Dr
Marek Ploszajczak
(GANIL)
11/10/2005, 10:30
Physics at the proton and neutron drip lines
Invited oral contribution
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...
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...
Dr
William Marciano
(BNL)
11/10/2005, 13:30
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...
Dr
Klaus Blaum
(Univeristy of Mainz)
11/10/2005, 14:00
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...
Dr
Oscar Naviliat-Cuncic
(LPC)
11/10/2005, 14:20
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...
Prof.
Thomas Wichert
(Saarland University)
11/10/2005, 15:30
Applications: material science, life sciences and nuclear technologies
Invited oral contribution
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...
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...
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)....
Dr
Gerd Beyer
(HUG)
11/10/2005, 17:20
Applications: material science, life sciences and nuclear technologies
Invited oral contribution
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...
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...
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...
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...
Prof.
Piet Van Duppen
(Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
12/10/2005, 09:30
Evolution of nuclear structure, shapes, and fission
Invited oral contribution
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...
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...
Dr
Heloise Goutte
(CEA)
12/10/2005, 11:30
Invited oral contribution
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...
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....
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....
12/10/2005, 14:40
Facilities at CERN: injectors, short and mid-term plans for n_TOF and ISOLDE
Invited oral contribution
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...
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...
Prof.
Isao Tanihata
(Argonne National Laboratories)
12/10/2005, 16:30
