7th International Conference on Collective Motion in Nuclei under Extreme Conditions (COMEX7)

11 Jun 2023, 10:00 → 16 Jun 2023, 18:35 Europe/Rome

Aula Magna (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Ettore Majorana")

Angela Bracco (MI), Edoardo G. Lanza (CT)

The 7th International Conference on Collective Motion in Nuclei under Extreme Conditions (COMEX7 ) will be held in 2023 in Catania, Italy  from June 11, 2023 (Sunday) to June 16, 2023 (Friday).

The conference is hosted by the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare,  Sezione di Catania e Sezione di Milano in collaboration with the Università degli Studi di Milano and the Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Ettore Majorana" of Catania University.

The Conference will be held in person in Catania at the Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Ettore Majorana” of Catania University. 

The COMEX conferences are a continuation of the long series of topical conferences on giant resonances started in 1979. The scope of COMEX7 will be similar to that of the previous ones:

• COMEX1, held in Paris (France) in 2003,
• COMEX2, held in Sankt Goar (Germany) in 2006,
• COMEX3, held in Michigan (US) in 2009 and
• COMEX4, held in Kanagawa (Japan) in 2012
• COMEX5, held in Krakow (Poland) in 2015
• COMEX6, held in Cape Town (South Africa) in 2018

The main topics of COMEX7 conference are:

• Giant resonances in cold and hot nuclei,
• Collective and new excitation modes in nuclei,
• Spin and isospin modes,
• Clustering and pairing effects in excitations,
• Studies of the decay of highly excited states,
• Collective excitations and the nuclear equation of state,
• Applications in astrophysics,
• Novel instrumentation and methods.

On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee

 

COMEX7 - Book of Abstracts.pdf

final-circular.pdf

first-circular-COMEX7.pdf

poster-comex7.pdf

second-circular.pdf

Sunday, 11 June

19:00 → 22:00 Session 0: Welcome Reception

Monday, 12 June

09:00 → 09:45 Opening Session

Conveners: Maria Grazia Grimaldi (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Ettore Majorana"), Santo Gammino (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Alessia Rita Tricomi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Francesco Priolo (UNIVERSITA' di CATANIA & CNR-IMM)

09:45 → 10:45 Session 1

Convener: Enrico Vigezzi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

09:45 In memory of Ricardo Broglia and Peter Schuck

Speaker: Marcello Baldo (CT)

10:00 Status of DFT calculations for collective states and application to the monopole resonances

Speaker: Gianluca Colò

gcolo_COMEX7_v2.pdf

10:30 Isoscalar giant monopole strength in 58Ni, 90Zr, 120Sn and 208Pb *

Speaker: Armand Bahini (iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences)

Presentation_COMEX_Armand_Bahini_2023 2023-06-13 10_47_31.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 → 12:45 Session 2

Convener: Yorick Blumenfeld (IJCLab Orsay)

11:15 The study of giant dipole resonances with quasiparticle vibration coupling approach

Speaker: Yifei Niu (School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China)

YifeiNiu@COMEX7 2023-06-13 14_10_35.pdf

11:45 Feeding of the residual states with GDR gamma decay studied by nuBall coupled to PARIS

Speaker: Michal Lukasz Ciemala

Ciemala-M-Comex_7.pptx

12:15 Finite temperature effects on nuclear excitations and weak interaction processes

Speaker: Esra Yüksel (University of Surrey)

E_Yuksel - Copy 2023-06-14 07_08_51.pdf

12:45 → 14:15 Lunch Break

14:15 → 15:35 Session 3

Convener: Oliver Wieland (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

14:15 Study of the Pygmy Dipole Resonance using neutron inelastic scattering at GANIL-SPIRAL2/NFS

Speaker: Marine Vandebrouck (CEA Saclay)

COMEX2023_MVandebrouck 2023-06-13 10_37_11.pdf

14:45 The low-lying electric dipole strength in nuclei: the role of deformation

Speaker: Luna Pellegri (iThemba LABS/ Univeristy of the Witswatersand)

15:15 A PDR study on 142Nd

Speaker: Retief Neveling (iThemba LABS)

RNeveling-COMEX7-PDR-142Nd-2023.pdf

15:35 → 16:05 Coffee break

16:05 → 17:50 Session 4

Convener: Lidia Ferreira (CFIF/IST- Lisbon)

16:05 Quartet structure of 𝑁=𝑍 nuclei

Speaker: Michelangelo Sambataro (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

sambataroCOMEX7.pdf

16:35 Shape changes, quadrupole collectivity and configuration invertions along N = Z

Speaker: Francesco Recchia (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Recchia_Shape_changes_quadrupole collectivity_and_configuration_inversions along_NeqZ_04_web.pdf

17:05 Mirror energy differences as a probe for cross-shell excitations in 43Sc-43Ti mirror pair

Speaker: Kseniia Rezynkina (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Slides_KR_vOnline.pdf

17:20 Properties of rotational bands from symmetry breaking and restoration

Speaker: Andrea Idini (Lund University)

2023 - COMEX - Idini 16-9 2023-06-14 07_46_11.pdf

17:35 Axial quadrupole and octupole dynamics in heavy even-even nuclei

Speaker: Radu Budaca (Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering)

SemCatania 2023-06-14 05_49_28.pdf

Tuesday, 13 June

09:00 → 10:30 Session 5

Convener: Franco Camera (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

09:00 The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and the first year

Speaker: Kyle Brown (MSU)

09:30 Overview of the MUGAST silicon array at GANIL

Speaker: Valérian Alcindor (TU-Darmstadt)

10:00 Latest results on the FRAISE facility and possible physics cases at INFN-LNS

Speaker: Nunzia Simona Martorana (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

COMEX7 Nunzia Simona Martorana -up.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:35 Session 6

Convener: Yifei Niu (School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China)

11:00 Strength Function of Pairing Vibrations in the Continuum Beyond RPA

Speaker: Francisco Barranco (University of Seville)

Catania2023_FBarranco_.pdf

11:30 The Giant pairing vibration from an experimental point of view

Speaker: Marlène Assié (IPN Orsay)

12:00 Nuclear Josephson-like γ-emission

Speaker: Enrico Vigezzi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

comex7_vigezzi_b.pdf

12:20 Excited states of zero seniority based on a pair condensate *

Speaker: Th. Popa (National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, 76900 Bucharest, Romania)

Presentation_Theodor_Popa.pptx

12:35 → 13:25 Poster presentation

Convener: Benedicte Million (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:35 Linear response of warm nuclei with thermal and pairing fluctuations.

Speakers: Abhishek Abhishek (University of Surrey), TBA

12:40 Seniority isomers and their whereabouts

Speaker: Bhoomika Maheshwari (University of Zagreb, Croatia)

12:45 FARCOS detector in the CHIFAR experiment

Speaker: Cristina Zagami (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Zagami_minitalk_COMEX7.pptx

12:50 Latest results on NArCoS: a new correlator for neutrons and charged particles with high angular and energy resolution

Speaker: Emanuele Vincenzo Pagano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

PaganoEmanuele-Presentazione_5minuti_EVP_COMEX7.pdf

12:55 Systematic investigation of the Pygmy Dipole Resonance near the magic $N=82$ shell closure

Speaker: Florian Kluwig (University of Cologne)

13:00 Systematic investigation of E1 strength below $S_n$ in the tin isotopic chain using the $(d,p\gamma)$ reaction

Speaker: M. Müllenmeister (University of Cologne, Institute for Nuclear Physics, D-50937 Cologne, Germany)

Presentation_m_muellenmeister_sysInvTin(dpg)_v2_long.pdf

13:05 Status of the 140Ce(n,n’g) experiment at GANIL-SPIRAL2/NFS

Speaker: Périne Miriot-Jaubert (CEA Saclay Irfu/DPhN)

13:10 A=100 nuclei study within CNS model

Speaker: Samra Kaim (Frères Montouri University of Constantine)

13:25 → 14:45 Lunch Break

14:45 → 16:25 Session 7

Convener: Andreas Zilges (University of Cologne)

14:45 Indirect methods: a bridge between nuclei and stars

Speaker: Marco La Cognata (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

lacognata-comex-2023.pdf

15:15 Nuclear structure constraints on nucleosynthesis

Speaker: Lidia Ferreira (CFIF/IST- Lisbon)

15:35 12C+12C moclecular resonances to enhance 12C+12C fusion reaction

Speaker: Yasutaka Taniguchi (National Institute of Technology, Kagawa College)

15:55 From precision nuclear structure information to constraining statistical properties - methodical developments in photonuclear reactions

Speaker: Deniz Savran

16:25 → 16:55 Coffee Break

16:55 → 18:15 Session 8

Convener: Marine Vandebrouck (CEA Saclay)

16:55 Theoretical description of the photon strength function and nuclear level densities

Speaker: Stephane Goriely (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)

Goriely.pdf

17:25 The Oslo Method With Inverse Kinematics

Speaker: Vetle Wegner Ingeberg

17:45 Statistical properties of well-deformed 153,155Sm and the M1 scissors mode *

Speaker: Kgashane Malatji (SSC Laboratory, iThemba LABS)

Malatji_COMEX7.pdf

18:00 The pygmy dipole resonance in Sn isotopes studied with the Oslo method *

Speaker: Maria Markova

Wednesday, 14 June

09:00 → 10:15 Session 9

Convener: Marlène Assié (IJCLab Orsay)

09:00 Tests of the Algebraic Cluster Model and Conjectured Hole States of the Cluster Shell Model

Speaker: Moshe Gai (University of Connecticut)

Gai_COMEX7_14Jun23.pdf

09:30 Disentangling clustering phenomena in 12C and 16O

Speaker: Kevin Ching Wei Li (University of Oslo)

10:00 10Be clustering states investigation at LNS *

Speaker: Fabio Risitano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

comex2023_Risitano-num3.pptx

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 12:55 Session 10

Convener: Adam Maj (IFJ PAN)

10:45 Accessing the Single-Particle Structure of the PDR

Speaker: Mark-Christoph Spieker (Florida State University)

2023_COMEX7_Spieker_for_website.pdf

11:15 Probing the 11Li low-lying dipole strength via 9Li(t, p)

Speaker: Gregory Potel Aguilar (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

11:45 The Many Faces of the Pygmy Dipole Resonance in 120Sn

Speaker: Michael Weinert (University of Cologne)

Weinert_COMEX7_2023_publish.pdf

12:05 One-nucleon transfer reactions as a tool to investigate the character of the PDR in 96Mo *

Speaker: Thuthukile Khumalo (iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences, Old Faure Road Faure, Somerset West PO Box 722, 7129 South Africa)

12:20 Study of the Ni-isotopic chain in real photon-scattering experiments *

Speaker: Miriam Müscher

Müscher_upload.pdf

12:35 Electric dipole strength of 52Ca

Speaker: Yasuhiro Togano (RIKEN Nishina Center)

Togano_COMEX7_Publish_202306165.pdf

12:55 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 19:00 Afternoon Free

Thursday, 15 June

09:00 → 10:30 Session 11

Convener: Faiçal Azaiez (IN2P3/CNRS)

09:00 Clustering in nuclear systems: from finite to infinite

Speaker: Zaihong Yang (Peking University, China)

COMEX7-YANG.pdf

09:30 Nuclear structure revealed in density profiles near the nuclear surface

Speaker: Wataru Horiuchi (Osaka Metropolitan University)

10:00 Collective core effects and dineutron correlations in three-body nuclei

Speaker: Jesús Casal (University of Seville)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 13:10 Session 12

Convener: Elena Litvinova (Western Michigan University)

11:00 Beyond mean field model for spin-isospin excitations and beta-decays

Speaker: Hiroyuki Sagawa (RIKEN)

COMEX7-Sagawa.pdf

11:30 Gamow-Teller strengths and electron captures in stellar phenonema

Speaker: Remco Zegers (Michigan State University/Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)

Comex7-zegers.pptx

12:00 Recent studies within the Subtracted Second RPA

Speaker: Danilo Gambacurta (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

COMEX_Gambacurta.pdf

12:30 Gamow-Teller Giant Resonance in 11Li neutron drip line nucleus

Speaker: Masaki Sasano (RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Japan)

12:50 Impact of the isospin symmetry breaking on the neutron-skin thickness and the nuclear equation of state

Speaker: Tomoya Naito (RIKEN iTHEMS Program)

Naito.pdf

13:10 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 15:45 Session 13

Convener: Luna Pellegri (iThemba LABS/ Univeristy of the Witswatersand)

14:30 Present and future activities with the ELIGANT setups at ELI-NP

Speaker: Pär-Anders Söderström (Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics)

comex7_soderstrom_online.pdf

15:00 Status of ELIADE gamma-ray spectrometer at ELI-NP

Speaker: Dmitry Testov (ELI-NP)

comex2023_report_pub.pdf

15:15 Ground-breaking developments in 10B with inelastic proton scattering

Speaker: Asli Kusoglu (ELI-NP/Istanbul University)

COMEX7_A_KUSOGLU.pdf

15:30 The emergence of multi-phonon giant resonances within a fully quantum TDDFT model *

Speaker: Petar Marević (ENS Paris-Saclay)

COMEX7_Marevic.pdf

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 → 17:15 Session 14

Convener: Esra Yüksel (University of Surrey)

16:15 New particle identification system for the MAGNEX magnetic spectrometer: the SiC-CsI telescope wall

Speaker: Diana Carbone (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Comex2023_Carbone.pdf

16:30 New developments in modeling Heavy Ion Double Charge Exchange reactions

Speaker: Jessica Ilaria Bellone (Università di Catania)

16:45 Multi-channel analysis of the 18O + 48Ti reaction at 275 MeV within the NUMEN project *

Speaker: Giuseppe Antonio Brischetto (INFN-LNS UniCt)

Brischetto-COMEX7.pdf

17:00 Experimental and theoretical analysis of 76Se(18O,17O)77Se and 76Se(18O,19F)75As transfer reactions at 15 MeV/u in a multi-channel approach within the NUMEN project *

Speaker: Irene Ciraldo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Ciraldo_COMEX7.pdf

20:30 → 23:50 Social Dinner

Friday, 16 June

09:00 → 11:00 Session 15

Convener: Isaac Vidana Haro (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

09:00 Nuclear equation of state from nuclear collective excited state properties

Speaker: Javier Roca-Maza (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Roca-Maza.pdf

09:30 Temperature evolution of the nucleon effective mass and symmetry energy coefficient in the 68−78Ni isotopic chain

Speaker: Herlik Wibowo (School of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom)

Herlik_COMEX7_talk_publish.pdf

09:45 Nuclear energy density functionals constrained by collective nuclear excitations and parity violating electron scattering experiments

Speaker: Nils Paar (University of Zagreb)

npaar_COMEX7_Catania_2023.pptx

10:05 Connecting low-lying dipole modes to nuclear structure properties and equation of state

Speaker: Stefano Burrello (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

COMEX7_Burrello.pdf

10:25 Gamma decay of ISGQR excited in 208Pb by proton inelastic scattering

Speaker: Maria Kmiecik (IFJ PAN Kraków)

comex7_Kmiecik.pdf

10:45 Electric dipole strength functions of Lambda hypernuclei obtained by the time-dependent mean-field calculation

Speaker: Shuichiro Ebata (Saitama University)

COMEX7_0616_SEbataC.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 13:11 Session 16

Convener: Nunzia Simona Martorana (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11:30 Nuclear EoS and many-body phase-space correlations in the Constrained Molecular Dynamics

Speaker: Massimo Papa (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11:50 Solving nuclear structure puzzles with the relativistic nuclear field theory

Speaker: Elena Litvinova (Western Michigan University)

COMEX7_Litvinova_comp.pdf

12:21 Search for Pygmy strength at finite temperature

Speaker: Oliver Wieland (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

comex7-WIELAND.pdf

12:31 Spurious states in "beyond" RPA and multiphonon calculations

Speaker: Frantisek Knapp (Charles University, Prague)

COMEX7_2023_Knapp.pdf

12:51 Dipole excitations in open shell nuclides near the neutron threshold from (𝛾,𝛾′) experiments : The case of Ge isotopes

Speaker: Nadia Benouaret (University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene)

commex7-Talk-Benouaret-new version1.pdf

13:11 → 14:40 Lunch Break

14:40 → 16:00 Session 17

Convener: Giuseppe Cardella (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

14:40 Density dependence of pairing functionals for the rotational excitation in neutron-rich nuclei

Speaker: Kenichi Yoshida (RCNP, Osaka University)

Yoshida_COMEX.pdf

15:10 Mo-100 monopole & quadrupole strength with triaxiality: A time-dependent density functional study

Speaker: Paul Stevenson (University of Surrey)

stevenson-comex7.pdf

15:30 On the measurement of 8B+64Zn to investigate the proton halo dynamics

Speaker: Roberta Sparta' (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Sparta_8B.pdf

15:45 Interplay Between Strong, Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions Revealed by Nuclear Decay Processes

Speaker: Alexandru Dumitrescu (Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering)

16:00 → 16:15 Conclusions