Conveners
Plenary
- Rosario Nania (BO)
- Renato Angelo Ricci (LNL)
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- Alexander SORIN (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
- Luisa Cifarelli (BO)
Plenary
- Luca Venturelli (PV)
- Marek Lewitowicz (GANIL)
Plenary
- Cristian Massimi (BO)
- Claes Ladefoged (Department of Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine and PET, Rigshospitalet Copenhagen, DK)
Plenary
- Johan Messchendorp (KVI-CART/University of Groningen)
- Fabiana Gramegna (LNL)
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- Krzysztof Rusek (University of Warsaw)
- Silvia Leoni (MI)
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- Tord Johansson (Uppsala University)
- Boris Sharkov (JINR Dubna)
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- Eberhard Widmann (Stefan Meyer Institute)
- Adriana Nannini (FI)
Plenary
- Nicola Bianchi (LNF)
- Sotirios Harissopulos (NCSR "Demokritos" - Athens)
Description
SALONE BOLOGNINI
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Ermanno Vercellin (TO)03/09/2018, 10:00Heavy-ion experiments at RHIC and LHC are aimed at studying the properties of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions. The temperatures and energy densities reached in these high-energy Nucleus-Nucleus collisions lead to a form of strongly interacting QCD matter in which quarks and gluons are no longer confined: the so-called quarkโgluon plasma (QGP). A selection of recent...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Itzhak Tserruya (Weizmann Institute of Science)03/09/2018, 10:30In this talk, I shall (i) review the results from almost 25 years of dilepton measurements, from the top RHIC energy of sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV down to the lowest SPS energy of sqrt(s_NN)= 9 GeV, and their relation to chiral symmetry restoration, (ii) discuss the potential, challenges and prospects of extending the dilepton measurements at much lower energies, mainly at the NICA facility under...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Tetyana Galatyuk (TU Darmstadt / GSI)03/09/2018, 11:30Collisions of heavy atomic nuclei at (ultra-)relativistic energies provide a fascinating opportunity to produce in the laboratory, for a short moment (10๔23 s), matter under extreme conditions of temperature (1012 K) and density (2๔5 times ground state density). Such matter radiates photons, whose spectrum re ects the temperature as well as possible critical behavior in the vicinity...Go to contribution page
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Elena Petreska (VU/Nikhef)03/09/2018, 12:00A detailed, multidimensional imaging of protons and nuclei at high energy is one of the main goals of Quantum Chromodynamics. We review two complementary theories that study the dynamics of partons (quarks and gluons) in protons and nuclei when they are accelerated to large velocities: the factorization approach with multidimensional distribution functions and the Colour Glass Condensate...Go to contribution page
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Magdalena Kowalska (CERN)04/09/2018, 08:30Beta-NMR, in which the resonances are observed as changes in beta-decay anisotropy, is over 10 orders of magnitude more sensitive than conventional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. The method has been used widely in nuclear physics and condensed matter, but not yet in soft matter. In the former it allows determining precisely the electromagnetic moments of exotic nuclei, thus providing information...Go to contribution page
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Dr Ubirajara van Kolck (Institut de Physique Nucleaire d'Orsay and University of Arizona)04/09/2018, 09:00Understanding the structure of nuclei from the underlying theory of strong interactions, QCD, has been a longstanding problem. Over the last quarter-century significant progress has been achieved with low-energy effective field theories (EFTs) of QCD and ab initio methods for the solution of the Schroedinger equation (and its many-body variants). Yet, this description remains highly complex....Go to contribution page
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Prof. Patrick Achenbach (Institut fรผr Kernphysik, Joh. Gutenberg-Universitรคt Mainz)04/09/2018, 09:30Charge symmetry is broken in QCD by the up-down quark mass difference and electromagnetic interactions. In ฮ hypernuclei, charge symmetry breaking (CSB) manifests itself in a charge dependence of ฮ separation energies. At the Mainz Microtron MAMI the novel method of high-resolution spectroscopy of decay-pions in strangeness electroproduction was established to measure ฮ separation energies. A...Go to contribution page
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Prof. David Ireland (University of Glasgow)04/09/2018, 10:00The spectrum of bound hadronic states is intimately connected with the behavious of QCD at low energies, where the theory in non-perturbative. An overview will be given of the progress in the study of baryon spectroscopy from recent experimental programmes. In particular, a range of photo-production measurements has been carried out, which include the extraction of several polarization...Go to contribution page
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Dr Aurora Tumino (LNS)04/09/2018, 11:00C-burning plays a pivotal role in astrophysics to understand stellar burning scenarios in carbonrich environments [1-4]. The temperature for carbon burning to occur is greater than 0.4 GK, corresponding to center-of-mass energies exceeding 1 MeV. The dominant evaporation channels below 2 MeV are ฮฑ and proton, leading to 20Ne and 23Na, respectively. In spite of the considerable efforts...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Marialuisa Aliotta (University of Edinburgh)04/09/2018, 11:30Except for primordial hydrogen, helium and few other light species, all chemical elements in the universe originate from nuclear reactions occurring in both quiescent and explosive stages of stellar evolution. Such reactions take place over a narrow energy region, typically well below the Coulomb barrier between the interacting nuclei [1]. As a result, their reaction cross sections are...Go to contribution page
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Frank Gunsing (CEA Saclay - Irfu)04/09/2018, 12:00Neutron-induced nuclear reactions, a substantial part of the more generic notion of nuclear data, are important for a variety of research fields, going from stellar nucleosynthesis, basic nuclear physics, to nuclear technology to applications in dosimetry, medicine, and space science. Accelerator-based neutron sources play a major role in experimental studies for the determination of...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Gerda Neyens (KU Leuven)05/09/2018, 09:00High-resolution laser spectroscopy at ISOLDE gives access to properties of nuclear ground states and long-lived (> 10 ms) isomeric states of radioactive nuclei far from stability, such as nuclear spins, nuclear magnetic and quadrupole moments and charge radii [1]. These fundamental properties of exotic nuclei provide important information for the investigation of the nuclear structure in...Go to contribution page
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Dr Nadezda Smirnova (Centre d'Etudes Nuclรฉaires de Bordeaux-Gradignan)05/09/2018, 09:30The isospin symmetry is a useful symmetry in nuclear physics, which provides important guidelines for the construction of the nucleon-nucleon interaction and can largely simplify the formalism of some nuclear structure models. However, it is an approximate symmetry, broken due to the up and down quark mass difference and electromagnetic interactions between the quarks. Experimental...Go to contribution page
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Dr Emmanuel Clement (GANIL)05/09/2018, 10:00The AGATA campaign started in 2015 at the GANIL Facility - Caen, France. High resolution gamma -ray spectroscopy is since performed with unprecedent sensitivity using the heavy ions beams provided by the CSS cyclotron complex. The european tracking array was coupled to ancillaries such as the VAMOS magnetic spectrometer, the high efficiency PARIS LaBr3 array and several devices for nuclear...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Norbert Pietralla (TU Darmstadt)05/09/2018, 11:00Electromagnetic (EM) coupling is small compared to hadronic interaction. Reaction cross sections of EM probes with nuclei can be, therefore, calculated perturbatively and are in principle under control to any desired precision. EM probes are, thus, well appreciated for being best suited for precision studies of nuclear structure. They have signicantly contributed to our understanding of...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Pawel Danielewicz (Michigan State University)05/09/2018, 11:30On account of symmetry energy dropping with density, nuclear isovector density extends farther out than the isoscalar density, leading to an isovector aura surrounding a nucleus. The faster the drop of the symmetry energy and energy of neutron matter with density, the thicker the aura. The width and sharpness of the aura can be assessed by simultaneously analyzing elastic scattering and...Go to contribution page
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Gianluca Colo' (MI)06/09/2018, 09:00Atomic nuclei constitute a formidable intellectual challenge for scientists who are still striving to answer the fundamental question: how do the complex nuclear phe- nomena emerge from the interactions between the neutrons and protons? In this contribution, I will first give a brief survey of the status of nuclear structure theory, and emphasise the role of Density Functional Theory...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Yuri Oganessian06/09/2018, 09:30A fundamental outcome of the microscopic theory is the prediction of an โislands of stabilityโ in the region of hypothetical super heavy elements (SHEs). In a heavy nucleus, going through the large-scale deformation on the way to fission, the motion of single nucleons is coupled with the collective degrees of freedom of the whole system. The most striking effect of this coupling is obtained...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Bogdan Fornal (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ PAN))06/09/2018, 10:00The phenomenon of shape isomerism, being the best example of shape coexistence in nuclei, is related to the existence of a high barrier in the nuclear potential energy surface (PES), separating the primary energy minimum (the ground state) from a secondary energy minimum at large deformation. Shape isomers at spin zero have clearly been observed, so far, only in actinide nuclei - they decay...Go to contribution page
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Dr Andrea Jungclaus (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC)06/09/2018, 11:00In this talk the progress achieved in recent years in the understanding of the structure of nuclei in the vicinity of 132Sn, the heaviest doubly-magic nucleus far-off stability accessible for experimental studies, will be reviewed. It will be discussed how the results obtained using a variety of complementary experimental techniques employed in several leading laboratories in the field of...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Klaus Kirch (ETHZ & PSI)06/09/2018, 11:30Precision experiments with high intensities of particles determine input parameters needed to describe the known interactions. They are also uniquely sensitive to physics beyond the highly successful Standard Model of particle physics, both, to very high and to very light new particles likely out of reach for direct production experiments. Last but not least they present the most sensitive...Go to contribution page
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Dr David Lhuillier (CEA-Saclay)06/09/2018, 12:00The publication of the reactor antineutrino anomaly has revived the search for a sterile neutrino state at the 1 eV mass scale. A large experimental program is ongoing to search for a new oscillation pattern in the disappearance of electronic antineutrinos at short distance from nuclear cores. We will review the different measurements with emphasis on the complementary detection technologies...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Anna Mackova (Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences)07/09/2018, 09:00There has been enormous progress in the use of nuclear physics techniques to study, characterize and preserve cultural heritage objects and artefacts. This expert review, published by the Nuclear Physics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS), seeks to provide the public with a popular and accessible account of the latest developments in this field. The contributions from a range of...Go to contribution page
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Dr Anu Kankainen (University of Jyvรคskylรค)07/09/2018, 09:30Nuclear masses reflect sensitively changes in nuclear structure, such as shell closures, pairing effects or onset of deformation. The masses are also one of the key inputs for nuclear astrophysics, and structural changes are reflected in the calculations. The recent observation of GW170817 [1] from a merger of two neutron stars and the associated kilonova manifested that a broad range of...Go to contribution page