Program


International School of Nuclear Physics
36th Course
Nuclei in the Laboratory and in the Cosmos
Erice-Sicily
September 16-24, 2014

Blackett Institute (San Domenico)


Wednesday  Thursday  Friday  Saturday  Sunday  Monday  Tuesday


Wednesday, September 17

Chair: J. Wambach
09:00 - 09:05 Welcome
09:05 - 09:35 Amand Faessler (Tuebingen, Germany)
A brief history of the town of Erice
09:35 - 10:15 Brian Fulton (York, England)
Nuclear reactions and astrophysics
10:25 - 11:05 Gabriel Martinez-Pinedo (Darmstadt, Germany)
Explosive nucleosynthesis of heavy elements
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee
Chair: A. Faessler
11:45 - 12:25 Jerome Margueron (Villeurbanne, Lyon, France)
Superfluidity in nuclei and in the crust of neutron stars
12:35 Lunch

Chair: C. Broggini
16:00 - 16:30 Anthony Thomas (Adelaide, Australia)
Hyperons and quarks in the EoS of dense matter
16:40 - 17:10 Fiorella Burgio (Catania, Italy)
The equation of state of nuclear matter and neutron star structure
17:20 - 17:50 Coffee
Chair: T. Otsuka
17:50 - 18:20 Pedro Sarriguren (Madrid, Spain)
QRPA calculations of stellar weak decay rates
18:30 - 19:00 Myung-Ki Cheoun (Seoul, Korea)
A description of neutron rich nuclei within the deformed QRPA

Thursday, September 18

Chair: P. Biermann
09:00 - 09:30 Theocharis Kosmas (Ioannina, Greece)
Standard and non-standard neutrino-nucleus interactions
09:40 - 10:10 Carlo Broggini (Padova, Italy)
LUNA: from the sun to novae and beyond
10:20 - 11:00 David Morrissey (East Lansing, Michigan, USA)
Production of Unstable Nuclei for Astrophysical Studies and the new Accelerator Project at MSU
11:10 - 11:40 Coffee
Chair: H. Ejiri
11:40 - 12:20 Thomas Rauscher (Hatfield, United Kingdom)
Challenges in nucleosynthesis of nuclei beyond Fe
12:30 - 12:55 Giuseppe Cardella (Catania, Italy)
Fragmentation beams at LNS: recent results
13:00 Lunch

Chair: A. Drago
16:00 - 16:25 Rosanna Depalo (Padova, Italy)
Low-energy resonances in the 22Ne(p,gamma)23Na reaction directly observed at LUNA
16:30 - 16:55 Daniela Kirilova (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Helium-4 from big bang nucleosynthesis and cosmic neutrinos
17:00 - 17:25 Diego Semmler (Darmstadt, Germany)
The low energy photon tagger NEPTUN: Toward a detailed study of the pygmy dipole resonance with real photons
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee
Chair: Th. Aumann
18:00 - 18:25 Nadia Tsoneva (Giessen, Germany)
The role of low-energy multipole excitations for nucleosynthesis
18:30 - 18:55 Jure Bericic (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Measurement of Generalized Polarizabilities of the Proton by Virtual Compton Scattering
19:00 - 19:25 Daniele Fargion (Rome, Italy)
GRB jets ejecting radioactive UHECR: from MeV to boosted PeV neutrino energy

Friday, September 19

09:00 - 20:00 Excursion:
Monreale and Palermo
Leaving exactly at 9:00 h from Porta Trapani, the big parking lot at the entrance of Erice. Lunch will be provided.

Saturday, September 20

Chair: Th. Walcher
09:00 - 09:40 Francesco Pederiva (Trento, Italy)
Effective field theory for lattice nuclei
09:50 - 10:30 Petr Navratil (Vancouver, Canada)
Ab-initio treatment of nuclear reactions
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee
Chair: S. Aberg
11:10 - 11:40 James Vary (Ames, USA)
Ab initio nuclear structure theory: progress and prospects
11:50 - 12:20 Thomas Walcher (Mainz, Germany)
The proton radius puzzle
12:30 Lunch

Chair: P. Sarriguren
16:00 - 16:30 Amand Faessler (Tuebingen, Germany)
Can we look back to the origin of our universe? Cosmic photon, neutrino and gravitational wave background
16:40 - 17:10 Adrian Weber (Mainz, Germany)
Puzzling out the proton radius puzzle with initial state radiation
17:15 - 17:35 Hongjie Li (Stockholm, Sweden)
First identification of the band structure in the very neutron-deficient 166Re
17:40 - 18:10 Coffee
Chair: J. Hamilton
18:10 - 18:40 Yoshitaka Fujita (Ibaraki, Osaka , Japan)
Observation of low- and high-energy Gamow-Teller phonon excitations in nuclei
(additional slides about the coupled pendulum)
18:50 - 19:20 Thomas Aumann (Darmstadt, Germany)
Experiments with relativistic radioactive beams

Sunday, September 21

Chair: A. Thomas
09:00 - 09:30 Peter Biermann (Bonn, Germany)
Cosmic background due to the formation of the first supermassive black holes
09:40 - 10:10 Karlheinz Langanke (Darmstadt, Germany)
Neutrino-nucleus reactions and its effect on supernova dynamics and nucleosythesis
10:20 - 10:50 Takaharu Otsuka (Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
Dual quantum liquids and shell evolutions in exotic nuclei
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: K. Langanke
11:30 - 12:00 Tobias Frederico (Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil)
Universal aspects of halo nuclei
12:10 - 12:40 Jochen Wambach (Darmstadt, Germany)
The dipole polarizability of 208Pb: A constraint on the neutron matter equation of state
13:45 - 19:00 Excursion: San Vito lo Capo
Excursion with lunch packages and towels on the bus to the beach in San Vito lo Capo. Bus leaves at 13:45 h from Porta Trapani.

Monday, September 22

Chair: Th. Kosmas
09:00 - 9:40 Oliviero Cremonesi (Milano, Italy)
Results and status of CUORE
09:50 - 10:20 Frank Avignone (Columbia, South Carolina, USA)
The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR experiment: an up-date
10:30 - 11:00 Hiroyasu Ejiri (Ibaraki , Japan)
Neutrino muclear responses for double beta decays and astro-neutrinos
11:10 - 11:40 Coffee
Chair: M. Buballa
11:40 - 12:10 Jenni Kotila (, Finland)
Ingredients for double beta decay
12:20 - 12:50 Alessandro Drago (Ferrara, Italy)
High density matter in compact stars
13:00 Lunch

Chair: F. Burgio
16:00 - 16:30 Francesco Cappuzzello (Catania, Italy)
Double charge-exchange reactions: a tool for 0νββ nuclear matrix elements
16:40 - 17:10 Vaitsa Tsakstara (Ioannina, Greece)
Flux folded neutrino-nucleus cross sections at geo-neutrino and reactor neutrino energies
17:20 - 18:00 Coffee
Chair: Y. Fujita
18:00 - 18:30 Sonja Orrigo (Paterna, Valencia, Spain)
First observation of beta-delayed gamma-proton decay in the fp-shell in 56Zn
18:40 - 19:10 Giuseppe Tagliente (Bari, Italy)
Nuclear Astrophysics at n_TOF, CERN

Tuesday, September 23

Chair: M.-K. Cheoun
09:00 - 09:40 Ari Jokinen (, Finland)
Ion traps in nuclear physics
09:50 - 10:20 Joseph Hamilton (Nashville, TN, USA)
Synthesis of new elements 113, 115 and 118 and their confirmation
10:30 - 11:00 Horst Lenske (Giessen, Germany)
Nucleon resonances in exotic nuclear matter
11:10 - 11:40 Coffee
Chair: F. Avignone
11:40 - 12:10 Sven Aberg (Lund, Sweden)
Structure of nuclear level densities
Chair: J. Wambach
12:20 - 12:30 Frank Avignone (Columbia, South Carolina, USA)
A tribute to Amand Faessler
12:30 Lunch

Chair: H. Lenske
16:00 - 16:40 Hiroyoshi Sakurai (Wako, Japan)
Emergence of exotic phenomena in unstable nuclei -how to observe them-
16:50 - 17:20 Sergei Molodtsov (Dubna, Moscow region, Russia)
Quark ensembles with infinite correlation length
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee
Chair: J. Wambach
18:00 - 19:30 Anthony Thomas (Adelaide, Australia)
Summary

20:15 - 24:00 Conference Dinner