Conveners
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- Simone Bottoni (Università degli Studi di Milano and INFN)
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Caterina Michelagnoli (Institut Laue-Langevin)04/02/2026, 09:00Invited Talk
High-flux reactors such as the one at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL, Grenoble) provide intense neutron sources for many different physics purposes. In particular, thermal neutron-induced reactions can be used to probe different phenomena in an approach to study the structure of nuclei. Neutron capture reactions on (rare) stable or radioactive targets populate low-spin states below the...
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35. High-Resolution Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy of 136Ba: Implications for Neutrinoless Double Beta DecayJelena Bardak04/02/2026, 09:30Oral Contribution
Neutrinoless double beta decay (0$\nu\beta\beta$) is a rare nuclear process predicted by beyond-Standard Model theories, offering crucial insights into the nature of neutrinos and lepton number violation. A confirmed observation of 0$\nu\beta\beta$ would establish the Majorana nature of neutrinos and provide constraints on their absolute mass scale. Among candidate isotopes, the decay of...
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Gilles de FRANCE (GANIL)04/02/2026, 09:45Invited Talk
In 2026, the EXOGAM array will celebrate its 25 years of operation at GANIL. Composed of high efficiency segmented Clover detectors, it has been used in numerous experiments in the various areas of GANIL. In 2012 we also setup the array at the ILL high flux reactor for a serie of cold-neutron induced fission experiments and for certain neutron capture reaction studies. At GANIL, the array has...
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Francois Didierjean04/02/2026, 10:15Oral Contribution
Experimental studies of excited states have been performed to probe the evolution of the shell structure in neutron-rich nuclei. In the case of N=50 isotopes from 90Zr to 78Ni, specific excited states correspond mainly to neutron excitations across the N=50 gap. Thus, the evolution of the excitation energy of these states, particularly in the 82Ge nuclei, enables to deduce the size of the N=50...
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Jonathan Wilson04/02/2026, 10:30Invited Talk
The recent experimental campaign using the ν-Ball2 state-of-the-art hybrid gamma-ray spectrometer at the ALTO facility of IJC Lab in Orsay will be reviewed. ν-Ball2 consists of several coupled detectors and devices, including Gammapool high efficiency Ge clovers, the FATIMA fast-timing array [1], eight clusters of the PARIS array [2] and the DSSD segmented silicon detector from Warsaw [3]. A...
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