NUMEN2015

1 Dec 2015, 08:00 → 2 Dec 2015, 18:50 Europe/Rome

Main Conference Room (INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (Italy))

Clementina Agodi (INFN-LNS), Francesco Cappuzzello (University of Catania and INFN-LNS), Maria Colonna (INFN-LNS)

Double-charge exchange (DCE) reactions are the object of a worldwide renewed interest, also for the information that one could extract on the nuclear matrix elements entering the expression of the life time of the double beta decay. This possibility is essentially based on the coincidence of the initial and final state wave-functions in the two classes of processes and the similarity of the transition operators, which in both cases present a given superposition of Fermi, Gamow-Teller and rank-two tensor components with a relevant implicit momentum available.
An intense experimental activity on double charge exchange reactions is planned at the LNS-Catania, according to the NUMEM project. The aim of the workshop is to critically discuss the status of the art and possible future developments of the theoretical models of DCE reactions, as well as the crucial aspects of the experimental techniques and analyses. A central point would be the identification of the experimental conditions more suitable to extract, by comparison with the model predictions, the nuclear matrix elements of the DCE process. We also aim at dedicating critical discussions to the analogy between the theoretical description of the neutrino-less double beta decay, and of double charge exchange reactions, to point out differences and similarities between the two processes.


 

Tuesday, 1 December

09:00 → 09:20 Welcome

Slides Introduzione_cappuzzello.pdf

09:20 → 11:00 Session #1

Convener: Andrea Vitturi (PD)

09:20 Experimental studies of neutrino nuclear responses for double beta decays

Speaker: Prof. Hiro Ejiri (RCNP Osaka University)

Slides 15-12_Catania_Ejiri.pdf

10:10 Heavy ion reactions as a probe for weak interactions in nuclei

Speaker: Prof. Horst Lenske (Univ. Giessen)

Slides Numen_Lenske_011215.pdf

11:00 → 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 → 13:00 Session #2

Convener: Andrea Vitturi (PD)

11:20 Double-beta decay and possible implications for double charge exchange

Speaker: Prof. Amand FAESSLER (University of Tuebingen)

Slides Catania-Faessler-short.pdf

12:10 Field theoretical treatment of the double beta decay: GT and pairing vibrational modes

Speaker: Prof. Osvaldo Civitarese (Department of Physics. University of La Plata. Argentina)

Slides catania2015_civitarese.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:50 Session #3

Convener: Jun Terasaki (University of Tsukuba)

14:30 Coherent multi-nucleon transfer in nuclei

Speaker: Dr Gregory POTEL (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Slides Potel_Catania2015.pdf

15:10 Nuclear structure constraints for double-beta decay nuclear matrix element

Speaker: Prof. Mihai HOROI (Dept. Phys., Central Michigan University)

Slides mhoroi-numen15.pdf

16:00 Description of neutrinoless double beta decay using IMB-2

Speaker: Prof. Jenni KOTILA (Dept.Phys. University of Jyvaskila)

Slides kotila_numen15.pdf

16:50 → 17:10 Coffee break

17:10 → 18:30 Open discussion

Convener: Ricardo Broglia (MI)

slides RoundTable.pdf vitturi.pdf

18:45 → 19:05 Bus to downtown 18:45

Wednesday, 2 December

09:30 → 10:50 Session #4

Convener: Chiara Brofferio (MIB)

09:30 Status and perspectives of neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments

Speaker: Prof. Kai ZUBER (Technische Universitat Dresden)

Slides 2015NUMEN-zuber.pdf

10:10 Nuclear matrix elements for double beta decay from nuclear reactions and electron capture: present status and perspectives

Speaker: Prof. Dieter FREKERS (University of Muenster)

Slides DFrekers-CAT.pdf

10:50 → 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 → 12:40 Session #5

Convener: Chiara Brofferio (MIB)

11:20 Nuclear structure aspects of double charge exchange

Speaker: Prof. Naftali Auerbach (Tel Aviv University)

Slides Auerbach-NUMEN2015.pdf

12:00 Challenges with heavy-ion double charge exchange reactions at RCNP and RIBF

Speaker: Dr Motonobu TAKAKI (Center for Nuclear Study, Univ. of Tokyo)

Slides NUMEN2015_Takaki_open.pdf

12:40 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:00 Session #6

Convener: Danilo Rifuggiato (LNS)

14:30 Refurbishing of the superconducting cyclotron of LNS to deliver ion beam for NUMEN experiment with high intensity (1-10 kW)

Speaker: Luciano Calabretta (LNS)

Slides Numen_2015_Calabretta.pdf

15:00 Challenges of SiC technology for high radiation hardness detectors

Speaker: Dr Francesco LA VIA (CNR-IMM)

Slides Workshop_NUMEN_finaleLaVia.pdf

15:30 Front-end and read-out electronics for the NUMEN FPD

Speaker: Domenico Lo Presti (CT)

Slides NUMEN_-_Front-end_and_Read-out_Electronics_for_the.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 18:00 Open discussion

Convener: Prof. Dieter FREKERS

18:00 → 18:15 Closing remarks

18:30 → 18:50 Bus to downtown 18:30