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Prof. Cataldo Salerno (President of Kore University of Enna), Prof. Francesco Castelli (Pro-rector of Kore University of Enna), Dr Maurizio Dipietro (Mayor of Enna), Avv. Antonio Cammarata (Mayor of Piazza Armerina), Dr Carmelo Nicotra (Director of Villa Romana del Casale), Dr Santo Gammino (Director of INFN-LNS), Dr Paolo Giubellino (President of CSN3 INFN), Prof. Kouichi Hagino (Kyoto University), Prof. Atsushi Tamii (Research Center for Nuclear Physics, the University of Osaka)09/03/2026, 09:15
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Dr David Mascali (LNS)09/03/2026, 10:00
The abundance of elements in the Cosmos is currently a topic of active investigation. Since the dawn of nuclear astrophysics, various processes have been identified to explain the synthesis of elements, as the slow (s-) and rapid (r-) neutron capture processes providing 99% of elements beyond the iron peak. Nucleosynthesis models are sensitive to a variety of inputs, such as neutron capture...
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Giovanni De Gregorio (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)09/03/2026, 10:30
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Giovanna Benzoni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)09/03/2026, 11:30
The GAMMA collaboration collects the Italian community devoted to experimental studies of nuclear structures by means of gamma-spectroscopy techniques.
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In this talk the activities of the GAMMA group will be presented, highlighting the campaigns at Japanese research centers, such as Osaka and Riken. -
Fumitaka ENDO (RIKEN Nishina Center)09/03/2026, 12:00
The nuclear matter equation of state (EOS) is fundamental to understanding not only the bulk properties and structure of atomic nuclei but also various astrophysical phenomena, including neutron star mergers and supernova explosions.
The isoscalar giant monopole resonance (ISGMR) provides a direct constraint on the incompressibility of nuclear matter. In particular, the isospin-dependent...
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Fulong Liu09/03/2026, 12:15
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Andrea Gottardo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)09/03/2026, 12:30
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Gianluca Colo' (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)09/03/2026, 14:00
In this contribution, I will review some recent progress in nuclear Density Functional Theory (DFT), mainly carried out within our group and/or with emphasis on the collaboration with Japan.
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The three main topics that will be discussed will be (i) DFT-based models for an accurate description of excited states, (ii) Bayesian inference of the Energy Density Functional (EDF) parameters, (iii)... -
Yutaka Utsuno (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)09/03/2026, 14:30
The quadrupole moments in the first 11/2- states in Cd isotopes are systematically measured from N=63 to N=81 (D. T. Yordanov et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 192501 (2013)), presenting a very clear linear increase from negative to positive values. Since this linearity well follows what the single-j shell model with the pairing force provides analytically, it is interpreted as a manifestation of...
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Akane Sakaue (The University of Osaka)09/03/2026, 15:00
Double Gamow–Teller (DGT) transition is a nuclear process in which both the spin and isospin are flipped twice without a change in the orbital angular momentum. The high excitation energy region of the DGT transition is hardly known. Especially, the giant resonance in the DGT transition, double Gamow–Teller giant resonance (DGTGR), is expected to exist, but there has not been the established...
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Tokuro Fukui (Kyushu University)10/03/2026, 09:00
We clarify the relationship between spin–orbit (SO) splitting and three-nucleon forces (3NFs) derived from chiral effective field theory. While the influence of 3NFs on enhancing SO splitting is well known, the mechanisms underlying this enhancement have remained elusive. Through the irreducible tensor decomposition of the chiral 3NF, our investigation reveals that the rank-1 tensor component...
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Elena Filandri (ECT*)10/03/2026, 09:30
The synthesis of carbon and oxygen plays a central role in nuclear astrophysics, as the reactions 3α → ¹²C + γ and ¹²C(α,γ)¹⁶O govern the stellar C/O ratio and influence stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis. Despite their importance, a consistent theoretical description of these processes at low energies remains challenging due to strong Coulomb effects. In this talk, I present a...
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Kouichi Hagino (Kyoto University)10/03/2026, 09:45
It has been well known that nuclear collective excitations significantly affect heavy-ion reactions at energies around the Coulomb barrier. A prominent example is the large enhancement of fusion cross sections at subbarrier energies. To account for such enhancement, the coupled-channels approach has been widely employed.
While the coupled-channels approach has been successful in...
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Dr Yasutaka TANIGUCHI (Fukuyama University)10/03/2026, 10:15
The ¹²C+¹²C fusion reaction plays essential roles in various astrophysical phenomena, including carbon burning in massive stars, Type Ia supernova ignition, and X-ray superbursts. However, its reaction rate at low temperatures remains highly uncertain due to difficulties in direct measurements. In this talk, we discuss our recent microscopic studies of the ¹²C+¹²C fusion reaction based on...
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Yuto Hijikata (RIKEN Nishina Center)10/03/2026, 10:45
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Takuhiro Asozu (Department of Research Infrastructure Technology Development, JAEA)10/03/2026, 11:30
The JAEA Tokai Tandem Accelerator, at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), is one of the largest electrostatic accelerators in the world, with a maximum accelerating voltage of 20 MV. It has been in continuous operation since 1982.
In general, the advantages of a tandem accelerator include ion-species versatility, adjustable accelerating voltage, continuous beam operation, a small beam...
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Tommaso Marchi (INFN - LNL)10/03/2026, 12:00
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Riccardo Orlandi (Advanced Science Research Center, JAEA)10/03/2026, 12:30
The existence of long-lived super heavy elements depends on the presence of shell gaps that increase nuclear stability against fission. The "Island of Stability" (IoS) is predicted to have the largest gaps, specifically around atoms with proton number Z=114, 120 and neutron number N=184. Small energy gaps occurring near Z=100,108 and N=152,162 also enhance the stability of heavy...
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Nobu Imai10/03/2026, 14:00
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Masayuki Matsuo (Niigata U. / RCNP Osaka U.)10/03/2026, 14:30
The r-process, competing reactions of beta-decay and radiative neutron capture, takes place in neutron-rich nuclei with small neutron separation energy, typically around 2MeV. We shall describe the neutron capture reaction by means of the nuclear density functional theory, and predict a new mechanism in which roles are played by low-lying collective excitations specific to neutron-rich nuclei,...
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Dr Tomoya Naito (The University of Tokyo)10/03/2026, 15:00
The isospin symmetry breaking part of the nuclear interaction is a small part of the whole; however, it sometimes gives important contributions to nuclear properties, such as the difference of mirror nuclei, the isobaric analog states, and the neutron-skin thickness. The isospin symmetry breaking terms also affect the estimation of the slope parameter of the nuclear symmetry energy.
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Peter Schury (KEK/IPNS Wako Nuclear Science Center)10/03/2026, 15:15
Precision atomic mass measurements are of great importance throughout nuclear physics. Within RIKEN's RIBF, we perform high-precision atomic mass measurements at three multi-reflection time-of-flight mass spectrographs with two more coming soon. These will allow us to cover the full range of nuclides, from the light halo nuclei to the superheavy elements. In addition to mass measurements,...
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Hirokazu Tamura11/03/2026, 09:00
The Japan-Italy collaboration in hypernuclear physics has a long history since the 1990s at DAΦNE (FINUDA experiment) and then at J-PARC.
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At J-PARC, we have studied spectroscopic studies of Ξ hypernuclei with the (K-,K+) reaction (E05) as well as neutron-rich Λ hypernuclei with the (π-,K+) reaction (E10), employing magnetic spectrometers at the K1.8 beam line. A missing mass spectrum for... -
Lucio Ludovici (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)11/03/2026, 09:30
Hyper-Kamiokande is a next-generation neutrino experiment currently under construction in Japan. It will be the largest underground water Cherenkov detector ever built, with a fiducial volume eight times larger than its predecessor, Super-Kamiokande, which these days is celebrating 30 years of data taking. The inner detector will be equipped with tens of thousands of new photosensors,...
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Koji Miwa11/03/2026, 10:00
The hyperon-nucleon interactions are fundamental information to describe many-body nucleon systems containing hyperons, such as hypernuclei and neutron stars.
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By extending the nuclear force to baryon-baryon interactions, we also can understand the nuclear force as the interaction between quark clusters, because new aspects of baryon-baryon interaction are expected to appear especially at... -
Margherita Sagina (University of Pisa, INFN)11/03/2026, 10:30
In recent years, there has been a notable interest in investigating hypernuclear systems, which pro- vide a unique laboratory for studying strong interactions in the strange quark sector. One of the main applications is related to the so-called “hyperon puzzle” in neutron stars, where theoretical models including hyperons predict maximum masses of ∼ 1.5 M⊙ or less, in conflict with...
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Antonio Passeri (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)11/03/2026, 10:45
The rare kaon decay $K_L \to \pi^0\nu\bar{\nu}$ is extremely sensitive to new physics, because in the Standard Model (SM) the decay is highly suppressed and its rate is known very accurately: its SM branching ratio (BR) is $3\times10^{-11}$ with a theoretical uncertainty of just 2\%. Measurement of this BR will provide essential new information about the flavor structure of the quark sector...
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Matteo De Gerone (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)11/03/2026, 11:30
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Antonio Passeri (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)11/03/2026, 12:00
The Belle II experiment is an upgraded version of the previous Belle experiment and operates at the SuperKEKB energy asymmetric 𝑒+𝑒− collider located at the KEK laboratory in Tsukuba. Together the two experiments have collected more than 1.3 ab-1 of collision data at the Y(4S) resonance and about 200 fb-1 at other bottomonium resonances. A wide physics program has already started, including...
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Alessandro Feliciello (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)11/03/2026, 12:30
Antinucleon ($\bar{p}$ and $\bar{n}$) interactions with matter were extensively investigated at the CERN Low Energy Antiproton Ring (LEAR) for more than a decade throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Several series of systematic measurements of their cross sections on protons and nuclei led to significant advances in our understanding of hadronic interactions involving antimatter.
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Aldo Bonasera (LNS)11/03/2026, 13:00
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Maria Colonna (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)11/03/2026, 14:30
We review recent theoretical developments for the description of charge-exchange reactions involving heavy ions. In particular, second-order processes provide a crucial touchstone to test our understanding of the underlying physics mechanisms and the modelling of nuclear structure aspects. In this contribution, collisional heavy ion double charge exchange (DCE) reactions, induced by second...
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Lorenzo Fortunato (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)11/03/2026, 15:00
I will discuss the contributions to nuclear theory (structure and reactions) that were born out of the collaboration between researchers working in Padova and in Japan in the last decade.
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A few selected topics will be highlighted from various studies on pairing correlations, three-body models, nuclear halos, Borromean systems, nuclear molecule, cluster physics, transfer reactions, etc. -
Alessia Francesca Di Pietro (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)11/03/2026, 15:30
The INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud in Catania has undergone a major renovation in the last five years. The upgrade of the superconducting cyclotron, the installation of a new fragment separator for the production of in-flight radioactive beams, not to mention the installation of a new laser facility or other experimental facility like Pandora. Also some of the largest apparata, like for...
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Yuma Osawa11/03/2026, 16:00
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Marco Mazzocco (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)11/03/2026, 17:00
The reaction dynamics induced by light weakly-bound nuclei at energies around the Coulomb barrier has been a puzzle for many years. Compared to reactions induced by stable well-bound nuclei, these projectiles trigger a larger variety of nuclear processes while approaching a target nucleus. Being very weakly-bound, they can more easily breakup in the target Coulomb and nuclear field. At the...
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Dr Shunji Nishimura (RIKEN Nishina Center (RNC))11/03/2026, 17:30
Approximately half of our solar system's elements are believed to have been synthesized through the rapid neutron-capture process (r-process), which occurs when a competition between neutron-capture reactions and β-decay takes place in extremely neutron-rich nuclei. Recent multi-messenger observations combining gravitational-wave and electromagnetic signals have provided compelling evidence...
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Bharat Mishra (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)11/03/2026, 18:00
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Martina Figuera (Università degli Studi di Catania)11/03/2026, 18:15
Light nuclei may exhibit clustering behavior, with nucleon correlations giving rise to distinct groupings of protons and neutrons typically forming α particles. In some instances, these clusters assemble into molecular-like structures, bounded by valence nucleons that are shared between the clusters analogously to electrons in an atomic covalent bond. Linear-chain configurations of α particles...
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Rui Wang (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)11/03/2026, 18:30
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Alessandro Roggero (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)12/03/2026, 09:00
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Manuela Cavallaro (INFN -LNS)12/03/2026, 09:30
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Anna Togni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)12/03/2026, 10:00
I will present the results of the commissioning campaign coupling the EXOTIC facility with the AGATA γ‑ray tracking array, with a focus on the delivery of the radioactive ion beam inside the AGATA reaction chamber. I will also introduce the experiment planned with this configuration and share preliminary results from the first experimental campaigns.
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Francesco Andreis (UniPG, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)12/03/2026, 10:15
The ADONIS experiment (Aluminum DestructION in Stars) is framed within the context of Multimessenger Astronomy and aims to improve the understanding of nucleosynthesis processes through the study of the radioactive isotope 26Al. This nucleus, the first γ-ray emitter observed in our Galaxy, is crucial for understanding the evolution of massive stars, the supernova explosions and the consequent...
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Kenta Yoshimura (Institute of Science Tokyo)12/03/2026, 10:30
Neutron stars are compact objects filled with nuclear (hadronic) matter that reaches several times the nuclear saturation density at their centers, and they are regarded as one of the frontier topics in modern theoretical physics. In the region known as the inner crust, a crystalline lattice of neutron-rich nuclei coexists with a superfluid gas of unbound neutrons, a state that carries crucial...
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Silvia Trabucco (University of Innsbruck)12/03/2026, 10:45
Supersolidity is a peculiar phase of matter in which superfluidity and crystalline order coexist. Owing to this dual character, it provides a powerful platform for investigating systems with multiple simultaneously broken symmetries, such as nuclear matter in the interior of neutron stars. In this work, we simulate the dynamics of the neutron-star inner crust during a glitch, focusing on the...
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Livio Lamia (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)12/03/2026, 11:30
Neutron induced reactions on unstable nuclei play a significant role in the nucleosynthesis of the elements in the cosmos. Their interest range from the primordial processes occurred during the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis up to the “stellar cauldrons” where neutron capture reactions build up heavy elements. In the last years, several efforts have been made to investigate the possibility of...
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Hidetoshi Yamaguchi (Center for Nuclear Study, the University of Tokyo)12/03/2026, 12:00
Radioactive isotope (RI) beams broaden our scope for
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understanding the nature of exotic nuclei.
RI are rarely found on the earth, but can be artificially produced using
accelerated beams and special apparatuses.
One example is CRIB, an RI-beam separator of Center for Nuclear Study, the University of Tokyo,
installed in the RIBF of RIKEN Nishina Center.
It can produce low-energy (less... -
Atsushi Tamii (Research Center for Nuclear Physics, the University of Osaka)12/03/2026, 12:30
The study of photo-nuclear reactions is crucial for understanding nuclear structure and astrophysical processes. The PANDORA (Photo-Absorption of Nuclei and Decay Observation for Reactions in Astrophysics) project [1] aims to systematically investigate these reactions in stable nuclei with mass numbers below 60, both experimentally and theoretically. We use virtual photon exchange through...
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Vasileios Soukeras (University of Catania and INFN-LNS)12/03/2026, 13:00
The light nuclei attract the interest of the nuclear physics community for decades, however, we are still far away from their complete understanding. A notable example is the $^4$He, a simple and very stable nucleus constituted by two protons and two neutrons. Until a description of nuclei directly from the fundamental theory of quarks and gluons becomes computationally feasible, an effective...
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