Name: Italy-Japan Symposium on Joint Activities in Fundamental Physics - 日伊基礎物理学共同研究活動シンポジウム
Start: 2026-03-09T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-12T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Kore University of Enna

Italy-Japan Symposium on Joint Activities in Fundamental Physics - 日伊基礎物理学共同研究活動シンポジウム

from Monday, 9 March 2026 (09:00) to Thursday, 12 March 2026 (19:00)

Monday, 9 March 2026
09:15 Opening Session
09:15 - 10:00
Contributions

09:15 Welcome - Cataldo Salerno (President of Kore University of Enna) Francesco Castelli (Pro-rector of Kore University of Enna) Maurizio Dipietro (Mayor of Enna) Avv. Antonio Cammarata (Mayor of Piazza Armerina) Carmelo Nicotra (Director of Villa Romana del Casale) Santo Gammino (Director of INFN-LNS) Paolo Giubellino (President of CSN3 INFN) Kouichi Hagino (Kyoto University) Atsushi Tamii (Research Center for Nuclear Physics, the University of Osaka)
10:00 Session 1
10:00 - 11:00
Contributions

10:00 PANDORA: a new experimental setup for measuring in-plasma nuclear β-decays - David Mascali (LNS)

10:30 Recent studies within the realistic shell model, focusing on first-forbidden beta decays and ordinary muon capture - Giovanni De Gregorio (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
11:00 Break
Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Session 2
11:30 - 13:00
Contributions

11:30 The GAMMA spectroscopy group activities between Italy and Japan - Giovanna Benzoni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:00 Current status of systematic ISGMR measurements using an active target CAT-M - Fumitaka ENDO (RIKEN Nishina Center)

12:15 Experimental Investigation of the 6He + p Reaction: Elastic Scattering and Two-Neutron Transfer - Fulong Liu

12:30 Gamma-ray spectroscopy at LNL and possible synergies - Andrea Gottardo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Session 3
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 A few avenues in the search for improved nuclear Energy Density Functionals - Gianluca Colo' (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

14:30 What do the Q moments in Cd isotopes indicate? - Yutaka Utsuno (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)

15:00 Double Gamow-Teller resonance - Akane Sakaue (The University of Osaka)
16:00 Guided tour of Enna historical center
Guided tour of Enna historical center
16:00 - 18:30
Tuesday, 10 March 2026
09:00 Session 4
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 Uncovering the mechanism of chiral three-nucleon force in driving spin–orbit splitting - Tokuro Fukui (Kyushu University)

09:30 ¹²C, ¹⁶O and their production reactions in near-zero-range Effective Field Theory - Elena Filandri (ECT*)

09:45 Heavy-ion fusion reactions at deep subbarrier energies - Kouichi Hagino (Kyoto University)

10:15 Microscopic Description of Low-Energy ¹²C+¹²C Fusion Reaction - Yasutaka TANIGUCHI (Fukuyama University)

10:45 Proton elastic scattering measurement from 132Sn to extract the matter radius - Yuto Hijikata (RIKEN Nishina Center)
11:00 Break
Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Session 5
11:30 - 13:00
Contributions

11:30 Distinctive Features and Research Strengths of the JAEA Tokai Tandem Accelerator - Takuhiro Asozu (Department of Research Infrastructure Technology Development, JAEA)

12:00 Status of LNL - Tommaso Marchi (INFN - LNL)

12:30 Spectroscopy of heavy actinide nuclei at the JAEA Tandem accelerator: investigating deformation and magicity in the A~252 region - Riccardo Orlandi (Advanced Science Research Center, JAEA)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Session 6
14:00 - 15:45
Contributions

14:00 Outputs and perspectives with decelerated RI beams using OEDO - Nobu Imai

14:30 Density functional approach to low-energy radiative neutron capture reaction on very neutron rich-nuclei - Masayuki Matsuo (Niigata U. / RCNP Osaka U.)

15:00 Isospin symmetry breaking based on nuclear density functional theory - Tomoya Naito (The University of Tokyo)

15:15 High-precision atomic mass measurements using multi-reflection time-of-flight (MRTOF) mass spectrograph at RIKEN RIBF - Peter Schury (KEK/IPNS Wako Nuclear Science Center)
15:45 Group Photo
Group Photo
15:45 - 16:15

16:15 Excursion to the Roman Villa and Gala Dinner
Excursion to the Roman Villa and Gala Dinner
16:15 - 22:30
Wednesday, 11 March 2026
09:00 Session 7
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 Hypernuclear physics at J-PARC - Hirokazu Tamura

09:30 The Hyper-Kamiokande Project: Preparing for Discovery - Lucio Ludovici (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:00 Progress and future prospect on the hyperon-proton scattering experiment - Koji Miwa

10:30 The hyperon-nucleon interaction in low-energy effective field theory - Margherita Sagina (University of Pisa, INFN)

10:45 The Experimental Study of Rare Kaon Decays at J-PARC with KOTO and KOTO II - Antonio Passeri (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
11:00 Break
Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Session 8
11:30 - 13:30
Contributions

11:30 HOLMES - The Electron Capture Decay of Ho-163 to Measure the Electron Neutrino Mass - Matteo De Gerone (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:00 The Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB collider - Antonio Passeri (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:30 A new low-energy antineutron beamline at the CERN Antiproton Decelerator - Alessandro Feliciello (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

13:00 Nuclear clustering dynamics in real and imaginary times - Aldo Bonasera (LNS)
13:30 Lunch
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30
14:30 Session 9
14:30 - 16:15
Contributions

14:30 Probing charge-exchange excitations with nuclear reactions - Maria Colonna (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15:00 Halos, clusters, pairing: the Padova-Japan nucelar theory connection - Lorenzo Fortunato (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15:30 The LNS facility upgrade: status and perspectives - Alessia Francesca Di Pietro (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

16:00 Coulomb breakup measurement of 14Be - Yuma Osawa
16:15 Break
Break
16:15 - 17:00
17:00 Session 10
17:00 - 18:45
Contributions

17:00 Study of break-up reaction of 8B - Marco Mazzocco (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

17:30 Projects related to Nuclear Astrophysics at RIBF and Future Perspectives - Shunji Nishimura (RIKEN Nishina Center (RNC))

18:00 Beta-decays in stellar and laboratory plasmas - Bharat Mishra (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

18:15 Investigation of linear chain states in 14C via the reaction 4He(10Be,6He) at LNS - Martina Figuera (Università degli Studi di Catania)

18:30 Nuclear clustering in nuclear matter and heavy-ion collisions from a kinetic approach - Rui Wang (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Thursday, 12 March 2026
09:00 Session 11
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 Quantum computing for the nuclear many-body problem - Alessandro Roggero (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

09:30 Status of NUMEN experiment - Manuela Cavallaro (INFN -LNS)

10:00 Coupling of the EXOTIC facility to AGATA - Anna Togni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:15 First indirect measurement of the 26Al(n,p) and 26Al(n,α) cross sections in the context of Multimessenger Astronomy - Francesco Andreis (UniPG, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:30 Superfluid Band Calculations for Neutron Star Inner Crust - Kenta Yoshimura (Institute of Science Tokyo)

10:45 Supersolidity as a probe for Compact Objects - Silvia Trabucco (University of Innsbruck)
11:00 Break
Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Session 12
11:30 - 13:30
Contributions

11:30 THM experiments with 7Be and related topics - Livio Lamia (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:00 Recent measurements with low-energy RI beams at CRIB - Hidetoshi Yamaguchi (Center for Nuclear Study, the University of Tokyo)

12:30 PANDORA Project: Photo-Nuclear Reaction of Light Nuclei - Atsushi Tamii (Research Center for Nuclear Physics, the University of Osaka)

13:00 Probing nuclear interactions à la Rutherford: Insights on 4He from α scattering - Vasileios Soukeras (University of Catania and INFN-LNS)

13:15 Closing remarks
13:30 Lunch
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30

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