WNPPC2025 - 62nd Winter Nuclear & Particle Physics Conference

Session

Morning 1 - Nuclear Physics

14 Feb 2025, 08:15

Kinnear Centre Room (KC 303) (Banff, Alberta)

Conveners

Morning 1 - Nuclear Physics

• Rituparna Kanungo (Saint Mary's University)

Description

Nuclear physics

16. Atom-at-a-time Chemistry: From Actinides to Superheavies

Jennifer Pore (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

14/02/2025, 08:15

Nuclear Physics

Invited Oral

The chemical properties of heavy elements are anticipated to diverge from established periodic trends due to significant relativistic effects. However, experimental investigations in this region remain extremely challenging and necessitate the use of nuclear physics techniques. This is especially true for the late actinides (Z > 100) and superheavy elements (Z > 104), where studies are limited...

37. Questions of nuclear structure: a study of 80Ge

Fatima H. Garcia (Simon Fraser University)

14/02/2025, 08:45

Nuclear Physics

Invited Oral

The study of nuclear shapes has greatly benefited from the capabilities of the current generation of detector arrays, uncovering different phenomena in different regions of the nuclear chart. Shape coexistence, once thought to be quite rare is now observed to occur throughout the nuclear landscape. An experiment to study the structure of ${}^{80}$Ge was conducted at TRIUMF, populating excited...

42. β-decay of 68Mn: Probing the N=40 island of inversion

Rashmi Umashankar (TRIUMF)

14/02/2025, 09:15

Nuclear Structure

Contributed Oral

Although the shell model forms the backbone of our understanding of nuclear structure, the breakdown of traditional magic numbers far from stability gives insight into the nature of the underlying nuclear interactions and acts as a tool to test existing models. Islands of inversion (IoI) in the nuclear landscape are characterized by the presence of deformed multi-particle multi-hole (npnh)...

48. Highly-Charged Radioactive Molecules: Amplifying Sensitivity for New Physics

Rane Simpson (TRIUMF)

14/02/2025, 09:30

Nuclear Physics

Contributed Oral

One necessary extension to the Standard Model of Particle Physics (SM) is one which describes the behavior of the early universe that leads to the matter-antimatter asymmetry which we observe today. It is commonly assumed that any explanation of this matter-antimatter imbalance must rely on the violation of the combined symmetry of charge conjugation (C) and parity (P) that is presently,...