The 12th European Summer School on Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics

16 Jun 2024, 08:00 → 22 Jun 2024, 19:00 Europe/Rome

Grand Hotel Faraglioni

Livio Lamia, Rosario Pizzone (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

We have the pleasure to announce the 12th European Summer School on Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics (Santa Tecla School), devoted to the education of young Ph.D. students and young researchers. The school belongs to the European Network of Nuclear Astrophysics Schools (ENNAS), a network made by the European schools on nuclear astrophysics and related areas (the Santa Tecla, the Sinaia, the Russbach school), having the common effort of preparing and educating young physicists in nuclear physics, astrophysics and their mutual relationship in the nuclear astrophysics field.

For such a reason, the school will deal with both various astrophysical issues, ranging from primordial nucleosynthesis to stellar evolution, and nuclear topics, including novel experimental approaches, radioactive ion beams, and indirect methods. The lectures of the school will be given by high-quality level scientists, selected for their didactical skills. The lectures are scheduled in plenary morning and afternoon sessions. In the spirit of the school, large room will be given to young researcher oral contributions. Specific sessions will be allocated to allow them to present their latest scientific results.

A certificate of attendance will be delivered to the students by the Scientific Secretariat. Moreover, for those who are interested in, a session of final exam will be arranged upon proper request.

The school will be held in Acitrezza (Catania) at the “Grand Hotel Faraglioni”, a four star hotel in front of the Ionian sea.
The school is supported by the INFN LNS, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "E. Majorana" (DFA-UniCT) of Catania, Chetec-INFRAIA, Centro Siciliano di Fisica Nucleare e Struttura della Materia (CSFNSM) and NuPECC.

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                               The school is also sponsored by "Distilleria Russo Sicilia" and "Frantoio Scalia".

                                                                

 

 

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Poster_ESSENA2024.pdf

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Sunday, 16 June

08:00 Arrivals

Monday, 17 June

1 Welcome from authorities

2 The Physics of low energy reaction rates

Speaker: Michael Wiescher (University of Notre Dame)

3 Primordial Nucleosynthesis after Planck

Speaker: Taka Kajino (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, The University of Tokyo)

11:10 Coffee Break

Young Researchers Session

13:00 Lunch

4 Stellar Evolution and standard solar models

Speaker: Oscar Straniero (INAF)

santatecla_2024.pdf

5 Compact Object Equation of State

Speaker: Francesca Gulminelli (Unicaen/LPC/Ensicaen)

Gulminelli_ESSENA.pdf

Young Researchers Session

17:00 Break

Public Lecture: The impact of the Manhattan program on nuclear astrophysics

Extra Activities: Tour at the LNS Visitor Center

Extra Activities: Welcome Cocktail at INFN-LNS terrace

Tuesday, 18 June

6 Neutrino induced nucleosyntheis

Speaker: Taka Kajino (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, The University of Tokyo)

7 Stellar chemical compositions and open questions

Speaker: Andreas Korn (Uppsala University)

StellarCompositions_AKorn.pdf

10:40 Coffee Break

8 Galactic chemical evolution

Speaker: Donatella Romano (INAF, Astrophysics and Space Science Observatory, Bologna)

ESSENA-GCE-DR.pdf

9 Nuclear Clusters and their Role in Nucleosyntheses

Speaker: Grigory Rogachev (Texas A&M University)

13:00 Lunch

10 RIB: production and experiments

Speaker: Marco Mazzocco (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11 Nuclear Astrophysics with RIBs at CRIB

Speaker: Hidetoshi Yamaguchi (Center for Nuclear Study, the University of Tokyo)

240618_ESSENA_HY.pdf

16:00 Coffee Break

12 Storage rings for nuclear astrophysics

Speaker: Yuri Litvinov (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)

20240617_ESSENA_Litvinov.pdf

13 Update of the triple alpha reaction rate

Speaker: Takahiro KAWABATA (Department of Physics, Osaka University)

Young Researchers Session

Wednesday, 19 June

14 Indirect methods

Speaker: Carlos Bertulani (Texas A&M University-Commerce)

Bertulani-ESSENA2024WS.pdf

15 Guidelines to THM applications

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

10:40 Coffee Break

16 Supernova Nucleosynthesis

Speaker: Carla Frohlich (NC State University)

frohlich_24_catania_public.pdf

17 Experimental studies for explosive nucleosynthesis

Speaker: Sunghoon (Tony) Ahn (Center for Exotic Nuclear Studies, Institute for Basic Science)

18 The ERNA facility

Speaker: Raffaele Buompane (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

13:30 Lunch

Extra Activities: Social Excursion and Dinner

Thursday, 20 June

19 Nuclear astrophysics at LUNA

Speaker: Marialuisa Aliotta

20 The PANDORA project: an experimental setup for measuring in-plasma -decays of astrophysical interest

Speaker: Dr David Mascali (LNS)

Mascali_ESSENA_School_2024.pptx

10:40 Coffee Break

21 Nuclear astrophysics with R-matrix

Speaker: Carl R. Brune (Ohio University)

22 r-process nucleosynthesis: an experimental approach

Speaker: Artemis Spyrou (NSCL/MSU)

Young Researchers Session

13:40 Lunch

23 Nuclear Astrophysics at ELI-NP

Speaker: Catalin Matei (ELI-NP)

24 To be(t) or not to be(t): a Bayesian approach to statistical data analysis

Speaker: Silvia Pisano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

pisanos_bayesian_statistics.pdf

Young Researchers Session

Extra Activities: Social Dinner at Faraglioni Restaurant

Friday, 21 June

25 The n_ToF facility for nuclear astrophysics

Speaker: Luigi Giovanni Cosentino (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

26 Resonant Scattering and its recent applications

Speaker: Vladilen Goldberg (Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA)

10:40 Coffee Break

27 Laser induced reactions for nuclear astrophysics

Speaker: Dario Lattuada (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

28 Exploring the origin of the rarest stable isotopes naturally occurring on Earth with photon beams

Speaker: adriana banu (james madison university)

ESSENA2024_ABanu-web.pdf

29 Developing system arrays for new experimental approaches in nuclear astrophysics

Speaker: Giovanni Luca Guardo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Guardo_STecla2024.pdf

13:10 Lunch

Young Researchers Session

30 Final Remarks

Speakers: Livio Lamia (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Prof. Rosario Gianluca Pizzone (The University of Catania and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Saturday, 22 June

09:00 Departures