NUMEN2015

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

Main Conference Room

INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (Italy)

Via Santa Sofia 62 I-95123 Catania Italy
Clementina Agodi (INFN-LNS), Francesco Cappuzzello (University of Catania and INFN-LNS), Maria Colonna (INFN-LNS)
Description

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.


 
Participants
  • Alba Formicola
  • Alessandra Calanna
  • Alessia Di Pietro
  • Amand Faessler
  • Andrea Lavagno
  • Andrea Vitturi
  • Angela Gargano
  • Angelo Pagano
  • Annamaria Muoio
  • Antonino Foti
  • Chiara Brofferio
  • Claudia Tomei
  • Clementina Agodi
  • Concettina Maiolino
  • Daniele Giuseppe Bongiovanni
  • Danilo Luigi Bonanno
  • Danilo Rifuggiato
  • Diana Carbone
  • Dieter Frekers
  • Domenico Lo Presti
  • Domenico Santonocito
  • Domenico Torresi
  • Elena Santopinto
  • Emilio Radicioni
  • Enrico Vigezzi
  • Fabio Longhitano
  • Francesca Rizzo
  • Francesco Cappuzzello
  • Francesco Catara
  • Francesco La Via
  • Francesco Scardina
  • Gaetano Lanzalone
  • Gianluca Santagati
  • Giuseppe Edoardo Lanza
  • Giuseppe Verde
  • Grazia D'Agostino
  • Gregory Potel
  • Hiro Ejiri
  • Horst Lenske
  • Hua Zheng
  • Jenni Kotila
  • Jessica Ilaria Bellone
  • Jesus Lubian Rios
  • Josè Antonio Lay Valera
  • Jun Terasaki
  • Kai Zuber
  • Leandro Romeiro Gasques
  • Luciano Calabretta
  • Luciano Pandola
  • Lucio Gialanella
  • Luigi Coraggio
  • Luigi Giovanni Cosentino
  • Manuela Cavallaro
  • Maria Colonna
  • Maria Fisichella
  • Matteo Biassoni
  • Matthias Junker
  • Mihai Horoi
  • Motonobu Takaki
  • Naftali Auerbach
  • Nunzia Simona Martorana
  • Nunzio Itaco
  • Oliviero Cremonesi
  • Osvaldo Civitarese
  • Ricardo Broglia
  • Riccardo Brugnera
  • Riccardo Introzzi
  • Ruslan Magana Vsevolodovna
  • Salvatore Calabrese
  • Salvatore Tudisco
  • Santo Gammino
  • Sara Pirrone
  • Silvio Cherubini
  • Stefano Burrello
  • Umberto Lombardo
  • Valerio Pirronello
  • Vincenzo Greco
  • Vinicius Zagatto
  • Tuesday, December 1
    • 1
      Welcome
      Slides
    • Session #1
      Convener: Andrea Vitturi (PD)
      • 2
        Experimental studies of neutrino nuclear responses for double beta decays
        Speaker: Prof. Hiro Ejiri (RCNP Osaka University)
        Slides
      • 3
        Heavy ion reactions as a probe for weak interactions in nuclei
        Speaker: Prof. Horst Lenske (Univ. Giessen)
        Slides
    • 11:00 AM
      Coffee break
    • Session #2
      Convener: Andrea Vitturi (PD)
      • 4
        Double-beta decay and possible implications for double charge exchange
        Speaker: Prof. Amand FAESSLER (University of Tuebingen)
        Slides
      • 5
        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
    • 1:00 PM
      Lunch
    • Session #3
      Convener: Jun Terasaki (University of Tsukuba)
      • 6
        Coherent multi-nucleon transfer in nuclei
        Speaker: Dr Gregory POTEL (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
        Slides
      • 7
        Nuclear structure constraints for double-beta decay nuclear matrix element
        Speaker: Prof. Mihai HOROI (Dept. Phys., Central Michigan University)
        Slides
      • 8
        Description of neutrinoless double beta decay using IMB-2
        Speaker: Prof. Jenni KOTILA (Dept.Phys. University of Jyvaskila)
        Slides
    • 4:50 PM
      Coffee break
    • Open discussion
      Convener: Ricardo Broglia (MI)
      slides
    • 6:45 PM
      Bus to downtown 18:45
  • Wednesday, December 2
    • Session #4
      Convener: Chiara Brofferio (MIB)
      • 9
        Status and perspectives of neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments
        Speaker: Prof. Kai ZUBER (Technische Universitat Dresden)
        Slides
      • 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
    • 10:50 AM
      Coffee break
    • Session #5
      Convener: Chiara Brofferio (MIB)
      • 11
        Nuclear structure aspects of double charge exchange
        Speaker: Prof. Naftali Auerbach (Tel Aviv University)
        Slides
      • 12
        Challenges with heavy-ion double charge exchange reactions at RCNP and RIBF
        Speaker: Dr Motonobu TAKAKI (Center for Nuclear Study, Univ. of Tokyo)
        Slides
    • 12:40 PM
      Lunch
    • Session #6
      Convener: Danilo Rifuggiato (LNS)
      • 13
        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
      • 14
        Challenges of SiC technology for high radiation hardness detectors
        Speaker: Dr Francesco LA VIA (CNR-IMM)
        Slides
      • 15
        Front-end and read-out electronics for the NUMEN FPD
        Speaker: Domenico Lo Presti (CT)
        Slides
    • 4:00 PM
      Coffee break
    • Open discussion
      Convener: Prof. Dieter FREKERS
    • 16
      Closing remarks
    • 6:30 PM
      Bus to downtown 18:30