Below we present a final version of the COMEX5 Conference program.
See a short version of a program.
See a program of the poster session.
MONDAY, 14th of September
9:00 - 14:00 Satellite event (IFJ PAN, Radzikowskiego 152)
Begin of the COMEX5 Conference
(AGH, Auditorium of the Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics, Akademicka 2)
14:00 - 18:00 Registration
15:00 - 15:30 Opening (Adam Maj, Maria Kmiecik, Marek Jeżabek, Zbigniew Kąkol)
15:30 - 17:20 Key-note introductory talks I (open to public) - chair: Angela Bracco
- Witold Nazarewicz (MSU/UW Warszawa) – Challenges in low-energy nuclear physics (40') (slides)
- Muhsin Harakeh (Groningen) – Collective excitations of atomic nuclei (40') (slides)
- Stanisław Kistryn (UJ Kraków) – Experimental studies of few-body interactions (30') (slides)
17:20 - 17:40 Short break
17:40 - 19:30 Key-note introductory talks II (open to public) - chair: Sydney Gales
- Baha Balantekin (Wisconsin-Madison) – Challenges in nuclear astrophysics (40') (slides)
- Richard Casten (Yale) – Dynamical and partial dynamical symmetries in nuclei and their breaking (40') (slides)
- Paweł Olko (IFJ PAN Kraków) – Nuclear physics for medicine – hadron theraphy (30') (slides)
20:00 - 22:00 Welcome Coctail at the Collegium Maius of the Jagiellonian University (Jagiellońska 15 st.)
TUESDAY, 15th of September
8:30 - 10:00 Registration
8:30 - 11:00 Collective and new excitation modes in nuclei I - chair: Andreas Zilges
- Paul-Gerhard Reinhard (Erlangen) – Giant resonances in the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock theory (30') (slides)
- Angela Bracco (Milan) – Gamma decay of pygmy states from inelastic scattering of ions (30') (slides)
- Deniz Savran (GSI) – Experimental results on the pygmy dipole resonance using the NRF method (30') (slides)
- Chichiro Iwamoto (Osaka) - Pygmy dipole resonances and dipole polarizability in Zr isotopes (15')
- Olivier Wieland (Milan) – A search for E1 strength in Ni-70 around the threshold (15') (slides)
- Ricardo Avigo (Milan) – Investigation of pygmy dipole resonance in iron neutron rich exotic isotopes (15') (slides)
- Simon G. Pickstone (Cologne) – The gamma decay behaviour of the PDR in Mo-92,94 (15') (slides)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:30 Collective and new excitation modes in nuclei II - chair: Ronald Schwengner
- Noritaka Shimizu (Tokyo) – Large-scale shell model calculations on E1 spectra in medium-heavy nuclei (30') (slides)
- Konstanze Boretzky (GSI) – Experimental studies of PDR and GDR in exotic nuclei (30') (slides)
- Magne Guttormsen (Oslo) – Scissors resonances in the quasi-continuum of heavy nuclei (30') (slides)
- Vera Derya (Cologne) – Recent results on the pygmy dipole resonance studied via hadronic probes at intermediate energy (15') (slides)
- Johann Isaak (Darmstadt) – Investigation of the decay pattern of the pygmy dipole resonance in Te-128 using the gamma-3 setup (15') (slides)
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:30 Giant resonances in cold and hot nuclei I - chair: Muhsin Harakeh
- Gianluca Colò (Milano) – Overview of mean-field and beyond mean-field theoretical studies on giant resonances (30') (slides)
- Sonia Bacca (TRIUMF) – Electromagnetic strength in ab-initio approaches (30') (slides)
- Marine Vandebrouck (GANIL) – Measurements of the isoscalar monopole response in the neutron rich nucleus Ni-68 (30') (slides)
- Remco Zegers (MSU) – Observation of the isovector giant monopole resonance via the 28Si(10Be,10B+g) reaction (15')
- Masonari Dozono (Tokyo) – Parity-transfer reaction for study of spin-dipole 0- mode (15') (slides)
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 19:30 Giant resonances in cold and hot nuclei II - chair: Umesh Garg
- Nasser Kalantar-Nayestanaki (Groningen) – The use of storage rings and active targets in the study of giant resonances (30') (slides)
- Attila Krasznahorkay (Debrecen) – Neutron-skin thickness and symmetry-energy constraints from the study of the anti-analog giant dipole resonance (30') (slides)
- Heiko Scheit (TU Darmstadt) – Observation of the competitive double-gamma decay (30')
- Yogesh Gupta (Notre Dame) – Are there nuclear structure effects on the isoscalar giant monopole resonance near A=90 ? (15') (slides)
- Shinsuke Ota (Tokyo) – Towards the first observation of isoscalar giant monopole resonance in unstable Tin isotopes with CNS active target (15') (slides)
- Jumpei Yasuda (Fukuoka) – Study of Gammow-Teller transitions from 132Sn via the (p,n) reaction in inverse kinematics (15') (slides)
- Dinesh Negi (Mumbai)– Nature of pygmy dipole resonance in Ge-74 (15') (slides)
WEDNESDAY, 16th of September
8:30 - 11:00 Studies of the decay of highly excited states - chair: Marta Kicińska-Habior
- Nguyen Dinh Dang (RIKEN/Hanoi) – Effect of thermal fluctuations in the pairing field on the width of giant dipole resonance (30') (slides)
- Michał Ciemała (IFJ PAN Kraków) – GDR and charged particle decay from highly excited nuclei (30') (slides)
- Indranil Mazumdar (Mumbai) – Search for rare shape-phase transitions in heavy nuclei (30') (slides)
- Simone Ceruti (Milano) – Study of isospin symmetry in Zr-80 (15') (slides)
- Balaram Dey (Kolkata) – Giant dipole resonance width at very low temperature and the critical behavior (15') (slides)
- Simone Valdre (Florence) – Decay features of medium mass nuclei at high excitation and spins (15') (slides)
- Paramasivan Arumugam (Roorkee) – Pairing fluctuations and giant dipole resonance (15') (slides)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:30 Spin and isospin modes - chair: Remco Zegers
- Atsushi Tamii (Osaka) – Excitations of the Pygmy E1 states in inelastic proton scattering and RCNP activities (30') (slides)
- Naftali Auerbach (Tel Aviv) – Isoscalar and isovector dipole strength distribution in nuclei (30') (slides)
- Masaki Sasano (RIKEN) – Study of Gamow-Teller transitions in unstable nuclei (30') (slides)
- Maciej Konieczka (UW Warszawa) – Gamow-Teller matrix elements for beta transitions in T=1/2 mirror nuclei calculated using DFT-rooted no-core methods (15') (slides)
- Monotobu Takaki (Tokyo) – Search for double Gamow-Teller resonance via heavy-ion double charge exchange reaction (15') (slides)
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:30 Multiphonon excitations, clustering and pairing effects in excitations I - chair: Witek Nazarewicz
- Jacek Dobaczewski (UW Warszawa) – Coupling of single-particle motion to nuclear vibrations (30') (slides)
- Yoshitaka Fujita (Osaka) – Roles of pairing interactions in the formation of low- and high-energy Gamow-Teller excitations (30') (slides)
- Jie Meng (Beijing) – Anomalous linear-alpha-cluster structure and rod shape nuclei with covariant density functional theory (30') (slides)
- Alexander Volya (Tallahassee) – Alpha clustering in the modern shell model approach (15') (slides)
- Mark Spieker (Cologne) – Alpha clustering and its connection to the E1 response of heavy nuclei (15') (slides)
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 19:15 Multiphonon excitations, clustering and pairing effects in excitations II - chair: Paul Stevenson
- Elias Khan (IPN Orsay) – Nuclear clustering and excitations in the EDF approach (30') (slides)
- Roelof Bijker (ICN-UNAM Mexico) – Alpha-clustering in light nuclei (30') (slides)
- Yanlin Ye (Beijing) – Probing the clustering effects in nuclear excitations (30') (slides)
- Francesco Cappuzzello (LNS Catania) – Signatures of the giant pairing vibration in the 14C and 15C nuclei (30') (slides)
- Vazgen Sargsyan (Dubna) – Population of rotational bands with cluster approach (15') (slides)
THURSDAY, 17th of September
8:30 - 11:00 Novel instrumentation I (parallel session A) - chair: Vandana Nanal
- David Jenkins (York) – Novel scintillator arrays (30') (slides)
- Didier Beaumel (IPN Orsay) – A new high-granularity silicon array for future reaction studies (30') (slides)
- Jonathan Wilson (IPN Orsay) – A new technique to produce and study the most exotic neutron-rich nuclei (15') (slides)
- Oliver Kirsebom (Aarhus) – Using gamma decay to study low-lying resonances in 12C (15') (slides)
- Jie Chen (Beijing) – Spectroscopic study of the intruder states in 12Be via transfer reaction (15') (slides)
- Konrad Czerski (Szczecin) – Effects of a threshold resonance in the dd mirror reactions studied in metallic environments (15') (slides)
- Chandan Ghosh (Mumbai) – GDR studies in 28Si + 124Sn at E*~71 MeV (15') (slides)
- Iyabo Usman (Johannesburg) – Fine structure of the isoscalar giant quadrupole resonance and fragmentation of E2 strengths in Si-28 and Al-27 (15') (slides)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:15 Novel instrumentation II (parallel session A) - chair: Reinhard Kulessa
- Thomas Roger (GANIL) – ACTAR TPC: an active target and time projection chamber for nuclear physics (30') (slides)
- Chiara Mazzocchi (UW Warszawa) – Nuclear reactions at astrophysical energies with gamma-ray beams: a novel experimental approach (30') (slides)
- Anna Corsi (Saclay) – MINOS: a new device for the spectroscopy of exotic nuclei (30') (slides)
- Keiichi Kisamori (RIKEN) – A candidate of tetra-neutron state populated by 4He(8He,8Be)4n reaction (15') (slides)
8:30 - 11:00 Novel methods I (parallel session B) - chair: Elena Litvinova
- Mikhail H. Urin (Moscow) – Damping of simple modes of high-energy nuclear excitations: dispersive optical models and their implementations (30') (slides)
- Hoazhao Liang (RIKEN) – Towards the self-consistent and relativistic study of spin-isospin excitations in deformed nuclei (30') (slides)
- Valentin Nesterenko (Dubna) - Dipole toroidal resonance: vortical properties, deformation impact, relation to pygmy mode (30') (slides)
- Paul Stevenson (Surrey) – Dynamics of low-lying modes (15') (slides)
- Eduardo Lanza (Catania) – Formfactors for the pygmy dipole resonance (15') (slides)
- Ersa Yuksel (Istanbul) – Evolution of multipole response in nuclei at finite temperature (15') (slides)
- Jan Kvasil (Prague) – Giant monopole resonance in spherical and deformed nuclei (15') (slides)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:15 Novel methods II (parallel session B) - chair: Jerzy Dudek
- Andrzej Góźdź (Lublin) – Partial symmetries in nuclear models (30') (slides)
- Andrea Idini (Jyväskylä) – Interweaving between collective and single-particle excitations in Sn-120 (15') (slides)
- Mariola Kłusek-Gawenda (IFJ PAN Kraków) – Electromagnetic excitation of nuclei in photoabsorption reactions and in upc (15') (slides)
- Sophie Peru (Arpajon) – QRPA with the gogny force with or without charge exchange applied to spherical and deformed nuclei (15') (slides)
- Francois Lechaftois (Arpajon) – Introduction of a valence space in QRPA: impact on vibrational mass parameters and spectroscopic properties (15') (slides)
- Artur Dobrowolski (Lublin) – A quadrupole-octupole collective approach (15') (slides)
13:15 - 13:30 Conference Photo
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:00 Collectivity at low and high spins - chair: Ashok Kumar Jain
16:00 - 24:00 Excursion to Wieliczka Salt Mine & Conference dinner in Folwark Zalesie
FRIDAY, 18th of September
8:30 - 10:30 Applications in astrophysics - chair: Nicolas Alamanos
- Dieter Frekers (Muenster) – Charge-exchange reactions, GT transitions and the things beyond for the double beta decay (30') (slides)
- Artemis Spyrou (MSU) – Constraining (n,gamma) reaction cross-sections for astrophysical applications (30') (slides)
- Nils Paar (Basel/Zagreb) – Relativistic energy density functional for astrophysical applications (30') (slides)
- Kamila Sieja (Strasbourg) – Strength functions from large scale shell model and their applications in nuclear astrophysics (15') (slides)
- Hiroaki Utsunomiya (Kobe) – Photodisintegration of 9Be through the 1/2+ state and pygmy dipole resonance (15') (slides)
10:30 - 10:55 Coffee break
10:55 - 12:35 Existing facilities - chair: Hide Sakai
- Sudhee R. Banerjee (Kolkata) – GDR studies at VECC facility (25') (slides)
- Georgi Georgiev (CSNSM Orsay) - Stable and radioactive beam studies at ALTO facility (25') (slides)
- Mikhail Itkis (Dubna) – Novel instrumentation at JINR Dubna (25') (slides)
- Bogdan Fornal (IFJ PAN Kraków) – NLC: two-center (Krakow-Warsaw) facility in Poland (25') (slides)
12:35 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Future facilities - chair: Faical Azaiez
- Calin A. Ur (Bucharest) – Challenges for nuclear physics research at the advanced gamma beam system of ELI-NP (25') (slides)
- Ismael Martel (Huelva) – The ECOS-LINCE project (25') (slides)
- Marek Lewitowicz (GANIL) - EURISOL Distributed Facility initiative (25') (slides)
- Wojciech Królas (IFJ PAN) – ELAMAT - an initiative to host the IFMIF/DONES facility in Poland (15')
15:00 - 15:30 Sydney Gales (Bucharest) - Outlook - chair: Adam Maj (slides)
15:30 - 15:45 Closing (Adam Maj, Maria Kmiecik)
15:45 - 16:00 Farewell coffee
16:00 - 18:00 Visit to the Cyclotron Center Bronowice at IFJ PAN (for interested)
