Aug 18–23, 2024
Whistler Conference Centre
America/Vancouver timezone
Proceedings deadline: OCTOBER 18, 2024

Session

Plenary

Aug 19, 2024, 9:00 a.m.
Rainbow Theatre

Rainbow Theatre

Conveners

Plenary: 1

  • Mahananda Dasgupta (Australian National University)

Plenary: 2

  • Thomas Aumann (TU Darmstadt)

Plenary: 3

  • Achim Schwenk (TU Darmstadt)

Plenary

  • Robert Tribble (TAMU)

Plenary

  • Umesh Garg (University of Notre Dame)

Plenary

  • Iris Dillmann (TRIUMF)

Plenary: EDI -Talk

  • Sherry Yennello (Texas A&M University)

Plenary

  • Paul Fallon (LBNL)

Plenary

  • Nu Xu (LBNL)

Plenary

  • Kevin Hahn (Center for Exotic Nuclear Studies, IBS)

Plenary

  • Dirk Rudolph (Lund University)

Plenary

  • A. Galindo-Uribarri (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Plenary

  • William Lynch (FRIB and the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Michigan State Univ.)

Plenary

  • Takashi Nakamura (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

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  1. Prof. Dirk Rudolph (Lund University)
    2024-08-19, 9:00 a.m.
    Heavy and Superheavy Elements
    Invited Talk

    What are the heaviest elements that can exist or be created in Nature? Does an ‘Island of Stability’ exist beyond uranium? Questions like these are often asked in connection with Long Range Plans of nuclear physics communities or large-scale accelerator facilities. Information on the chemical and physical properties of superheavy elements (Z>103) or nuclei is notoriously difficult to...

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  2. Abhay Deshpande (SUNY Stony Brook)
    2024-08-19, 9:30 a.m.
    Instrumentation and Facilities
    Invited Talk

    In 2019 US Department of Energy initiated the process of realizing the Electron Ion Collider (EIC) - by giving the project a Critical Decision 0 - status. This resulted after an almost twenty year effort by scientists around the world to make the scientistic and technical feasibility case for the same. Now the EIC project - being realized jointly by BNL and Jefferson Lab - is well underway....

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  3. Rebecca Surman (U)
    2024-08-19, 10:00 a.m.
    Nuclear Astrophysics
    Invited Talk

    The astrophysical origins of the heaviest elements via rapid neutron capture remain unresolved, even with exciting recent progress in gravitational wave and astronomical observations. One key barrier to elucidating r-process origins using these new observables are the uncertainties that arise from the unknown properties of the thousands of nuclear species that participate in the r process....

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  4. Alexandra Gade (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)
    2024-08-19, 11:00 a.m.
    Instrumentation and Facilities
    Invited Talk

    Rare isotopes far from the valley of beta stability can be efficiently produced in-flight via projectile fragmentation or fission. This presentation will provide an overview of the facilities and their associated instrumentation that makes them unique.

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  5. Randy Lewis (York University)
    2024-08-19, 11:30 a.m.
    Hadron Physics and QCD
    Invited Talk

    Nuclear physics is built on a solid understanding of individual nucleons, which can ultimately be described in terms of light quarks and gluons. The surprising recent discoveries of several tetraquark and pentaquark candidates, each containing both light and heavy quarks, offer new insight into the physics of quarks and gluons. Lattice QCD is a rigorous first-principles computational...

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  6. Francesca Gulminelli (LPC Caen/Université de Caen/ENSICAEN)
    2024-08-19, 12:00 p.m.
    Equation of State of Neutron-Rich Nuclear Matter
    Invited Talk

    General relativity imposes a one-to-one correspondence between the Equation of State (EoS) of nuclear matter and the static properties of neutron stars (NS). Because of that, since the LIGO/Virgo exceptional detection GW170817, nuclear theory and experiments were used to directly constrain the NS properties, together with the information coming from the observations. Gravitational waves and...

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  7. Sofia Quaglioni (LLNL)
    2024-08-19, 2:00 p.m.
    Nuclear Reactions
    Invited Talk

    A predictive theory of low-energy scattering and reactions between light nuclei is desirable to aid in precisely determining thermonuclear reaction rates that play an important role in fusion-energy experiments, the evolution of stars and the synthesis of the chemical elements in the universe, and tests of fundamental symmetries. First-principle (or ab initio) methods that solve the quantum...

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  8. Chris Ruiz (TRIUMF)
    2024-08-20, 8:30 a.m.
    Nuclear Reactions
    Invited Talk

    The ISAC (Isotope Separator and Accelerator) Facility at TRIUMF contains two room temperature & one superconducting linear accelerators able to provide rare isotope beams from 0.107 to 16.5 MeV/u, enabling reaction studies from well below the Coulomb barrier to far above it, accessing fusion-evaporation or highly-peripheral transfer reactions. Coupled with a suite of experimental facilities...

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  9. Yi Chen (Vanderbilt University)
    2024-08-20, 9:00 a.m.
    Relativistic Heavy Ion collisions, QGP
    Invited Talk

    Heavy-ion collisions have been a fascinating venue to study Quantum Chromo-Dynamics (QCD), the theory of strong nuclear force, under extreme conditions. When the nuclei collide, an exotic phase of matter, the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), is created. The QGP is believed to have existed in the early universe microseconds after the Big Bang. Jets, sprays of particles originating from high-energy...

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  10. Jacklyn Gates (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
    2024-08-20, 9:30 a.m.
    Heavy and Superheavy Elements
    Invited Talk

    In the past two decades, significant progress has been made with the discovery of elements Z=114-118 through reactions between 48Ca beams and actinide targets, achieving production rates of atoms-per-day or more. Unfortunately, the pursuit of elements beyond Oganesson (Z=118) faces substantial challenges. The synthesis of elements with Z=119 or 120 using 48Ca would necessitate targets of Es...

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  11. Yutaka Watanabe (WNSC, IPNS, KEK)
    2024-08-20, 10:00 a.m.
    Fusion and Fission
    Invited Talk

    Multinucleon transfer (MNT) reactions have recently gained renewed interest as they provide access to heavy neutron-rich (n-rich) nuclei, particularly around N = 126 and actinides, which are relevant to r-process nucleosynthesis [1]. They produce a wide variety of nuclides around both the projectile and the target, with a wide distribution of angles and energies, requiring the development of...

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  12. Silvia M. Lenzi (University of Padua and INFN)
    2024-08-20, 11:00 a.m.
    Nuclear Structure from Collisions
    Invited Talk

    A comprehensive picture of nuclear structure results from the complementary information obtained at the different facilities by means of a variety of nuclear reactions and complex experimental setups. Gamma-ray spectroscopy is the ideal tool to obtain detailed information on different nuclear properties. The coupling of gamma-arrays to particle detectors has increase enormously the selective...

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  13. Oleg Eyser (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
    2024-08-20, 11:30 a.m.
    Hadron Physics and QCD
    Invited Talk

    The partonic structure of the proton has been established in deep inelastic scattering and a detailed picture of the nucleon has emerged from a wide range of experiments and global analyses. Hadronic collisions allow direct access to the gluon content in the nucleon and polarized beams introduce an additional degree of freedom, spin, which is naturally connected to parton kinematics. Polarized...

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  14. Betty Tsang (FRIB)
    2024-08-20, 12:00 p.m.
    Equation of State of Neutron-Rich Nuclear Matter
    Invited Talk

    Nuclear experiments become the latest ‘messenger’ to help with unravelling the mysteries of neutron stars. Combining information from astronomical observations and laboratory experiments reveals how nucleons interact in both nuclei and stars. In this talk, I’ll review the current status of the Equation of State obtained from experiments and astrophysics constraints and how they compare to ab...

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  15. Anton Wallner (HZDR)
    2024-08-20, 2:00 p.m.
    Applications of Nuclear Science and Technologies
    Invited Talk

    Earth is exposed to nearby cosmic events. Freshly produced radionuclides in the interstellar medium contain information about how and where the heavy elements are made in nature. The solar system moves through the interstellar medium (ISM) and collects interstellar dust particles that contain fresh nucleosynthetic signatures, including the radionuclides Fe-60 (t$_{1/2}$=2.6 Myr) and Pu-244...

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  16. Prof. Gwen Grinyer (University of Regina)
    2024-08-20, 4:40 p.m.
    EDI
    Invited Talk

    We are all star dust. Everyone we know and everything we see here on Earth are the leftovers of massive nuclear explosions that occurred naturally in our universe, a long time ago. Understanding the origins of the chemical elements, and how we came to be, requires detailed knowledge of the complex subatomic interactions between neutrons and protons that led to the existence of bound nuclei and...

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  17. Iris Dillmann (TRIUMF), Mathis Wiedeking (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
    2024-08-20, 5:10 p.m.
    Invited Talk
  18. Chloe Hebborn (Facility for Rare Isotopes Beam, Michigan State University)
    2024-08-21, 11:00 a.m.
    Nuclear Reactions
    Invited Talk

    Accurate predictions of nuclear reaction rates are essential to refine our comprehension of the nucleosynthesis and to support the experimental study of unstable nuclei. Reactions involving light nuclei at low energies can be accurately described using first-principle methods, treating all nucleons as active. For reactions with heavier nuclei and at energies above ~10 MeV/nucleon, such...

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  19. Tomofumi Nagae (Kyoto University)
    2024-08-21, 11:30 a.m.
    Hadron Physics and QCD
    Invited Talk

    New experimental data on various hypenuclei have been produced at J-PARC hadron experimental facility, in Japan. New information on hyperon-proton interactions are accumulated with high intensity hyperon proton scattering measurements one of which was J-PARC E40 measuring $\Sigma^+$p and $\Sigma^-$p scattering at rather high momentum. It was suggested that the effects of the repulsive core...

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  20. Prof. Faical Azaiez (LNL-INFN)
    2024-08-21, 12:00 p.m.
    Instrumentation and Facilities
    Invited Talk

    INFN-LNL is constructing an ISOL (Isotope Separation On Line) facility to deliver neutron rich ion beams up to 10 A MeV, making use of the linear accelerator ALPI as the post-accelerator. In parallel, an applied physics facility based on the usage of the high intensity proton beam from the cyclotron driver of the ISOL facility, is included. The status and future plans for completion of the...

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  21. Gaute Hagen
    2024-08-22, 8:30 a.m.
    Nuclear Structure from Collisions
    Invited Talk

    Atomic nuclei exhibit multiple energy scales ranging from hundreds of MeV in binding energies to fractions of an MeV for low-lying collective excitations. Describing these different energy scales within an ab-initio framework is a long-standing challenge that we overcome by using high-performance computing, many-body methods with polynomial scaling, and ideas from effective-field-theory. With...

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  22. Prof. Stefan Floerchinger (Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena)
    2024-08-22, 9:00 a.m.
    Relativistic Heavy Ion collisions, QGP
    Invited Talk

    The soft or low transverse momentum physics of relativistic heavy ion collisions can be well described by relativistic fluid dynamics. This is a universal theoretical description which employs from QCD as the underlying quantum field theory the thermodynamic equation of state and transport properties like viscosities and conductivities, as well as relaxation times. I will review the overall...

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  23. Prof. Magdalena Bazalova-Carter (UVic)
    2024-08-22, 9:30 a.m.
    Applications of Nuclear Science and Technologies
    Invited Talk

    This presentation will provide an overview of ultrahigh dose-rate (FLASH) radiotherapy, one of the most exciting recent advancements in radiotherapy of cancer. FLASH radiotherapy, delivered in a fraction of a second, is an experimental treatment modality that reduces normal tissue toxicity while maintaining tumor control compared to conventional radiotherapy. FLASH radiotherapy is typically...

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  24. Thomas Roger (GANIL)
    2024-08-22, 10:00 a.m.
    Instrumentation and Facilities
    Invited Talk

    The use of active targets and time projection chambers in nuclear physics experiments can be traced back nearly 30 years. These detectors have found profitable applications due to their intrinsic high efficiency and their ability to be operated with a very large effective target thickness while maintaining the ability to track low-energy recoil particles. The combination of rapidly decreasing...

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  25. Almudena Arcones (TU Darmstadt)
    2024-08-22, 11:00 a.m.
    Nuclear Astrophysics
    Invited Talk

    In 2017, a multimessenger era started with the first gravitational wave detection from the merger of two neutron stars (GW170817) and the rich electromagnetic follow-up. The most exciting electromagnetic counterpart was the kilonova. The neutron-rich material ejected during the neutron star merger undergoes an r-process (rapid neutron capture process) that produces heavy elements and a...

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  26. Khuyagbaatar Jadambaa (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)
    2024-08-22, 11:30 a.m.
    Heavy and Superheavy Elements
    Invited Talk

    Superheavy nuclei (SHN) with extremely large amount of nucleons (e.g., protons up to Z = 126) are still one of the main subject in nuclear physics 1. The main purpose of this research is to examine the fission-stability of SHN at around Z = 114 − 126 and N = 184, where occurrences of next closed shells are theoretically expected [1].

    To date, SHN with Z up to 118 (Og, Oganneson) are known...

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  27. Caterina Ramogida (TRIUMF & Simon Fraser University)
    2024-08-22, 12:00 p.m.
    Applications of Nuclear Science and Technologies
    Invited Talk

    Radiopharmaceutical therapy (RPT) is emerging as a promising method to treat advanced and hard-to-treat cancers. This approach relies on a radionuclide attached to a targeting vector that has strong affinity for unique cell biomarkers overexpressed on cancer cells, enabling the direct and selective delivery of a radioactive payload to diseased cells to facilitate diagnosis/staging or therapy,...

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  28. Dr Araceli Lopez-Martens (IJCLab)
    2024-08-22, 2:00 p.m.
    Heavy and Superheavy Elements
    Invited Talk

    Heavy and super-heavy nuclei, which form the upper end of the chart of nuclei, owe their stability, and for the heaviest systems their sheer existence, to the delicate interplay between the repulsive Coulomb interaction between the many protons of the nucleus and the strong nuclear interaction, which binds the nucleons together. The study of the heaviest nuclei is not only an experimental...

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  29. Takashi Nakamura
    2024-08-23, 9:00 a.m.
    Nuclear Reactions
    Invited Talk

    How many more neutrons can be added to a given atomic nucleus, and how do such extremely neutron-rich nuclei behave? These are fundamental questions for understanding nuclear structure and relevant nuclear interactions at the edge of stability of nuclei, the driplines. I will show the recent progress of spectroscopic studies of neutron-rich nuclei near and beyond the neutron drip line using...

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  30. Patrick Huber (Virgina Tech)
    2024-08-23, 9:30 a.m.
    Applications of Nuclear Science and Technologies
    Invited Talk

    Nuclear reactors are the brightest artificial neutrino sources and have been the workhorse of neutrino physics since the discovery of the neutrino. In the 1970s Lev Mikaelyan realized that neutrinos also can be used to learn about the internal state of a nuclear reactor. The past decade has seen a significant increase in the interest in reactor neutrinos and their applications to nuclear...

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  31. Piotr Magierski (Warsaw University of Technology)
    2024-08-23, 10:00 a.m.
    Heavy and Superheavy Elements
    Invited Talk

    Superfluidity and superconductivity are remarkable manifestations of quantum coherence at a macroscopic scale. The existence of superfluidity has been experimentally confirmed in many condensed matter systems, in He-3 and He-4 liquids, in nuclear systems including nuclei and neutron stars, in both fermionic and bosonic cold atoms in traps, and it is also predicted to show up in dense quark...

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  32. Marc Vanderhaegen (U. Mainz)
    2024-08-23, 11:00 a.m.
    Hadron Physics and QCD
    Invited Talk

    Nucleons are the building blocks of atomic nuclei, and are responsible for more than 99 % of the visible matter in the universe. Around 50 years after the establishment of Quantum Chromo Dynamics as the quantum field theory describing the strong
    interaction within the Standard Model of particle physics, the precise way in which the quarks and gluons compose the nucleon and build up its global...

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  33. Dr Andreas Best (INFN Naples)
    2024-08-23, 11:30 a.m.
    Nuclear Astrophysics
    Invited Talk

    Nuclear fusion reactions are at the heart of nuclear astrophysics as they control the energy production in stars and determine the synthesis of the elements in our Universe. Most cross sections are too small to be directly measured in a laboratory at the stellar energies. They are extrapolated by means of phenomenological nuclear models anchored to available high energy data. Cosmic rays,...

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  34. Thomas Aumann (TU Darmstadt)
    2024-08-23, 3:30 p.m.
    Nuclear Structure from Collisions
    Invited Talk

    Quasi-free knockout reactions have been established in the past years as a versatile spectroscopic tool to study exotic nuclei accelerated to high energy of few hundred MeV/nucleon. The advantage of inverse kinematics is the possibility of kinematical complete measurements of the reaction including the detection of the remaining residue after the knockout. The applications of quasi-free...

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  35. Jochen Klein (CERN)
    2024-08-23, 4:00 p.m.
    Instrumentation and Facilities
    Invited Talk

    Relativistic heavy-ion collisions provide unique opportunities to study a variety of physics questions, in particular in the realm of QCD matter at high temperatures and/or densities. The need to track and identify the large number of particles produced in individual collisions poses particular challenges on the detectors. This results in different optimisations of experiments targeting...

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