Name: TRIUMF ARIEL Science Workshop 2026
Start: 2026-04-20T08:30:00-07:00
End: 2026-04-23T19:50:00-07:00
Location: TRIUMF

Monday, 20 April 2026

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
Room: Auditorium
09:00
09:00 - 10:45
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Welcome address - Nigel Smith (TRIUMF) Rituparna Kanungo (TRIUMF)

09:15 ARIEL Facility Overview - Luca Egoriti (TRIUMF)

10:00 ARIEL Experiments Overview - Adam Garnsworthy (TRIUMF)
10:45

10:45 - 12:20
Room: Auditorium

12:20

12:20 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 TBD - Alison Laird

13:50 Direct Measurements of (α,n) Reactions for Nuclear Astrophysics with ARIEL - Matthew Williams (Univesisity of Surrey)

14:10 Indirect Neutron-Capture Constraints Far from Stability - Andrea Richard (Ohio University)

14:30 Panel Discussion - Falk Herwig (University of Victoria) Gavin Lotay (University of Surrey) Greg Christian (St Mary's University) Wei Jia Ong
15:00

15:00 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

15:30 TBD - Carl Svensson

15:50 Beta-decay and neutron emission - a strained relationship - Robert Grzywacz (University of Tennessee)

16:10 Opportunities for Decay Spectroscopy with ARIEL - Heather Crawford (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:30 Panel Discussion - Paul Garrett Pietro Spagnoletti (Simon Fraser University)
17:00

17:00 - 19:00
Tuesday, 21 April 2026
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Coulomb excitation with TIGRESS for nuclear structure - Jack Henderson (University of Surrey)

09:20 Probing shape coexistence in neutron-rich nuclei with transfer reactions - Kathrin Wimmer

09:40 Study of the octupole collectivity of neutron-rich Ba isotopes - Nobu Imai (Center for Nuclear Study, Univ. of Tokyo)

10:00 Panel Discussion - Daniel Rhodes Mitch Almond Peter Bender
10:30

10:30 - 11:00
Room: Auditorium
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 The Scattering Experiment Chamber of HIE – ISOLDE and the study of di-neutron correlations via 2n-transfer reactions in of 11Li and 13Be - Olof Tengblad (IEM - CSIC)

11:20 Pairing studies with transfer reactions at ARIEL* - Augusto Macchiavelli (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

11:40 ACTAR science opportunities at ARIEL - Thomas ROGER (GANIL)

12:00 Panel Discussion - Alessia di Pietro Beatriz Fernandez Dominguez (University of Santiago de Compostela) Benjamin Kay (Argonne National Laboratory) Wilton Catford (University of Surrey)
12:30

12:30 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 The BeEST experiment in the ARIEL era - Annika Lennarz (TRIUMF)

13:50 The Superconducting Array for Low Energy Radiation (SALER) at ARIEL - Kyle Leach (Queen's University)

14:10 New science directions using a high-voltage MR-ToF device at ARIEL - Franziska Maier (FRIB)

14:30 Panel Discussion - Jaideep Taggart Singh Jonas Karthein Nick Hutzler Steven Hoekstra
15:00

15:00 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

15:30 Nuclear structure studies from precision mass measurements at ISAC and in the ARIEL era - Moritz Pascal Reiter (University of Edinburgh)

15:50 MRTOF-MS at RIBF/BigRIPS: Recent measurements and developments, and dealing with rare events - M. Rosenbusch (RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science)

16:10 Experience of TITAN's MR-TOF-MS at ISAC and its potential capabilities at ARIEL - Samuel Ayet San Andres (IFIC - UV)

16:30 Panel Discussion - Peter Schury Roshani Silwal Ryan Ringle (FRIB/Michigan State University)
17:00

17:00 - 17:30
Room: Auditorium

18:30

18:30 - 21:00
Wednesday, 22 April 2026
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Ab initio calculations around neutron-rich shell closures - Achim Schwenk (TU Darmstadt)

09:20 Investigating fundamental symmetries at ARIEL - Chien Yeah Seng (University of Tennesee, Knoxville)

09:40 Some recent advances in the description of exclusive and inclusive transfer reactions populating unbound states - A.M. Moro (Universidad de Sevilla)

10:00 Panel Discussion - Alex Gezerlis (University of Guelph) Dean Lee Gregory Potel Aguilar (Michigan State University) Nicolas Schunck
10:30

10:30 - 11:00
Room: Auditorium
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 TBD - Alan Jamison

11:20 Searching for Lorentz Violation at TRIUMF and J-PARC - Jiro Murata (Rikkyo University)

11:40 Nuclear Physics Activities in Fundamental Symmetries and Astrophysics at Central Michigan University - Matthew Redshaw (Central Michigan University)

12:00 Panel Discussion - Amar Vutha Dan Melconian (Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University) David O'Donnell Gerald Gwinner
12:30

12:30 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 Testing Static Octupole Deformation in Radium Isotopes via Collinear Laser Spectroscopy at ARIEL - Aiko Takamine (Institute of Science Tokyo)

13:50 TBD - Ruben P. de Groote

14:10 TBD - T BD

14:30 Panel Discussion - Jens Lassen (TRIUMF Canada's particle accelerator centre) Ruohong Li (TRIUMF) Yoshikazu HIRAYAMA (KEK WNSC)
15:00

15:00 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

15:30 Dual-Mode solenoidal spectrometers at ARIEL - Yassid Ayyad (USC-IGFAE)

15:50 A Low-Energy Storage Ring at an ISOL Facility: A Vision for the Future - Yury Litvinov (GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research)

16:10 Electron-RI scattering at SCRIT and ARIEL - Tetsuya Ohnishi (RIKEN Nishina Center)

16:30 Open Discussion
Thursday, 23 April 2026

09:00

09:00 - 09:05
Room: Auditorium
09:05
09:05 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

09:05 Introductory remarks - Marcella Grasso (IN2P3 Director for Nuclear Physics)

09:10 Accelerator Technology R&D in France - Arnaud Lucotte (IN2P3 Director for Accelerator Technology)

09:30 Accelerator Technology R&D at TRIUMF - Oliver Kester (TRIUMF)

09:50 SRF collaboration with IJCLab & TRIUMF - Camille Cheney (IJCLab, Orsay)

10:05 Discussion
10:30

10:30 - 10:50
Room: Auditorium
10:50
10:50 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

10:50 Recap of DRAGON/TUDA program - Chris Ruiz (TRIUMF)

10:55 Nucleosynthesis and nuclear data - Nicole Vassh (TRIUMF)

11:10 Nuclear astrophysics with HINA (+AME) - Sarah Naimi (IJCLab, Orsay)

11:25 Discussion

11:40 Recap of BeEST (TRIUMF/LPC-Caen) activities - Annika Lennarz (TRIUMF)

11:45 Radioactive molecules at GANIL - Serge Franchoo (IJCLab, Orsay)

12:00 Radioactive molecules at TRIUMF - Stephan Malbrunot-Ettenauer (TRIUMF)

12:15 Discussion
12:30

12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:15
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 The GANIL SPIRAL2 facility and science program - Hervé Savajols (GANIL (CNRS))
15:15
15:15 - 16:15
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

15:15 Nuclear structure at ISAC (experiment) - Greg Hackman (TRIUMF)

15:35 Nuclear structure by LPC-Caen (experiment) - Franck Delaunay (LPC-Caen)

15:55 Discussion
16:15

16:15 - 16:30
Room: Auditorium
16:30
16:30 - 17:20
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

16:30 Nuclear theory projects - Jason Holt (TRIUMF)

16:45 Nuclear theory projects - guillaume Hupin (IJCLab, Orsay)

17:00 Discussion
17:20

17:20 - 17:30
Room: Auditorium