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Preliminary Conference Programme of CGS16
September 18-22, 2017
Hao Ran High-Tech Building, Xuhui Campus, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
上海交通大学徐汇校区浩然高科技大厦(上海徐汇区1954号院内)
Registration: Hao Ran High-Tech Building
Sunday, September 17, 14:00 – 20:00
Monday, September 18, 8:00 – 16:30
Office hours: During conference, 9:00 – 12:00, 13:30 – 16:30
Monday morning, September 18
8:30 – 8:50 Opening (Room 102, Hao Ran High-Tech Building)
Plenary Session: Nuclear physics worldwide (Room 102, Hao Ran High-Tech Building)
Session chair: Lee Riedinger (UTK/ORNL)
8:50 – 9:20 Hiroyoshi Sakurai (RIKEN)
Recent Highlights and Future Projects for the Nuclear Structure Study at RIBF
9:20 – 9:50 Bradly Sherrill (MSU)
Future Opportunities at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
9:50 – 10:20 Guoqing Xiao (IMP)
Physics Opportunities @ HIAF
10:20 – 10:50 Coffee Break
Session chair: Ani Aprahamian (Notre Dame)
10:50 – 11.20 Michael Wiescher (Notre Dame)
Stellar He burning in deep underground environments
11:20 – 11:50 Victor Zamfir (ELI-NP)
Nuclear Physics Research at ELI-NP
11:50 – 12:20 Yuri Litvinov (GSI)
Studies at the border between atomic and nuclear physics
Monday afternoon, September 18
Session 1 Experiments from major facilities (Room 306, Hao Ran High-Tech Building)
Session chair: Rick Casten (Yale/MSU-FRIB)
14:00 – 14:30 Gilles de France (GANIL)
The EXILL campaign
14:30 – 15:00 Caterina Michelagnoli (ILL)
FIPPS - A new instrument for the spectroscopy of neutron-rich nuclei at ILL
15:00 – 15:20 Brian Hales (JAEA)
Measurements of the (n,γ) cross-section of long-lived fission products as part of the ImPACT Project
15:20 – 15:40 Bo Mei (ELI-NP)
Production of neutron-rich nuclei approaching r-process by gamma-induced fission of 238U at ELI-NP
15:40 – 16:10 Coffee Break
Session chair: Weiping Liu (CIAE)
16:10 – 16:40 Jason Holt (TRIUMF)
Nuclear structure highlights from TRIUMF
16:40 – 17:10 Janne Pakarinen (Jyväskylä)
Nuclear spectroscopic studies in Jyväskylä, Finland
17:10 – 17:40 Greg Lane (ANU)
Structure of 180Ta and its creation and survival in stellar environments
17:40 – 18:00 Matthew Devlin (LANL)
New Measurements of Prompt Fission Neutron Spectra from Fast Neutron-Induced Fission of 235U and 239Pu
Monday afternoon, September 18
Session 2 Nuclear structure: Isospin symmetry and np pairing (Room 308, Hao Ran High-Tech Building)
Session chair: Taka Otsuka (Tokyo)
14:00 – 14:30 Augusto Macchiavelli (LBNL)
Experimental Studies of Neutron-Proton Pairing
14:30 – 15:00 Y H Lam (IMP)
Isospin non-conservation in shell model approach and applications
15:00 – 15:20 Guanjian Fu (Tongji)
Isovector and isoscalar pairing in low-lying states of N = Z nuclei
15:20 – 15:40 Xing Xu (IMP)
Unexpectedly Small Isospin Mixing in the Lowest T =2, Jp = 0+ Isobaric Analog state in 52Co
15:40 – 16:10 Coffee Break
Session chair: Chang-Hong Yu (ORNL)
16:10 – 16:40 Silvia Lenzi (Padova)
Excitation energy differences between analogue states: a magnifying lens on nuclear properties
16:40 – 17:10 Michael Bentley (York)
Spectroscopy of isobaric triplets in the fpg-shell
17:10 – 17:40 Ashok Kumar Jain (IIT Roorkee)
Isospin Conservation in Neutron Rich Systems of Heavy Nuclei
17:40 – 18:00 Swati Garg (IIT Roorkee)
Does Compound Nucleus remember its Isospin - An Evidence from the Fission Widths
18:00 – 21:00 Conference Reception
Tuesday morning, September 19
Session 3 Nuclear structure: Shapes (Room 306, Hao Ran High-Tech Building)
Session chair: Steven Yates (Kentucky)
8:30 – 9:00 Paul Garrett (Guelph)
Collective states and shape co-existence in the Z=50 region
9:00 – 9:30 Mitch Allmond (ORNL)
Triaxiality in Neutron-Rich Mo-Ru Isotopes from Coulomb Excitation
9:30 – 9:50 Andrei Andreyev (York)
Shape coexistence in gold, mercury and bismuth isotopes studied by in-source laser spectroscopy at RILIS-ISOLDE
9:50 – 10:10 Volker Werner (Darmstadt)
Nuclear Shapes: Quest for triaxiality in 86Ge and the shape of 98Zr
10:10 – 10:40 Coffee break
Session chair: Hiroshi Wantanabe (Beihang)
10:40 – 11:10 Kathrin Wimmer (Tokyo)
Shape Coexistence at N=Z: Spectroscopy of the Tz = -1 Nucleus 70Kr and its Neighbors
11:10 – 11:40 Magda Zielinska (Warsaw)
Nuclear shapes studied with low-energy Coulomb excitation
11:40 – 12:00 Guangxin Zhang (Beihang)
β - γ and isomeric decay spectroscopy of 168Dy
12:00 – 12:20 Xiao-Tao He (Nanjing)
High-K isomers in exotic nuclei by a PNC-CSM method
Tuesday morning, September 19
Session 4 Nuclear astrophysics: New developments (Room 308, Hao Ran High-Tech Building)
Session chair: Xiaodong Tang (IMP)
8:30 – 9:00 Taka Kajino (Beihang)
Origin of r-process and vp-process in Supernovae and Neutron Star Mergers
9:00 – 9:30 Rene Reifarth (Frankfurt)
Prospects of nuclear astrophysics at storage rings
9:30 – 9:50 Wanpeng Tan (Notre Dame)
Alpha cluster structures in 16O
9:50 – 10:10 Yi Xu (ELI-NP)
Impacts of nuclear ingredients on astrophysical reaction rates for capture and photodisintegration reactions involving charged particles
10:10 – 10:40 Coffee break
Session chair: Rebecca Surman (Notre Dame)
10:40 – 11:10 Stephane Goriely (Brussels)
New progress on microscopic nuclear inputs for astrophysics applications
11:10 – 11:40 Zach Meisel (Ohio)
Coolers in the Crust: Production and Impact of Urca Nuclides on Accreting Neutron Stars
11:40 – 12:00 Wendell Misch (SJTU)
Nuclear neutrino spectra in late stellar evolution
Tuesday afternoon, September 19
Session 5 Nuclear structure: Collectivity – Experiment and theory (Room 306, Hao Ran High-Tech Building)
Session chair: Norbert Pietralla (Dramstadt)
14:00 – 14:30 Ani Aprahamian (Notre Dame)
Low-Lying Oscillations of Deformed Nuclei
14:30 – 15:00 Robert Bark (iThemba)
Studies of Low-Spin States in the A = 150 Region
15:00 – 15:20 Christina Burbadge (Guelph)
Investigation of excited 0+ states in 160Er populated via the (p,t) two-neutron transfer reaction
15:20 – 15:40 Jose-Enrique Garcia-Ramos (Huelva)
On the nature of the shape coexistence and the quantum phase transition phenomena in the lead region
15:40 – 16:10 Coffee Break
Session chair: Luis Egido (Madrid)
16:10 – 16:40 Piet Van Isaker (GANIL)
Geometry in the nuclear shell model
16:40 – 17:10 Rick Casten (Yale/MSU-FRIB)
A new Approximate Symmetry, Proxy-SU(3), and parameter-free predictions for deformed nuclei
17:10 – 17:30 R.Burcu Cakirli (Istanbul)
Analytic predictions for nuclear shapes in a new approximate symmetry, proxy-SU(3)
17:30 – 17:50 Yu Zhang (Dalian)
Two-nucleon transfer reactions as a test of quantum phase transitions in nuclei
17:50 – 18:10 Amiram Leviatan (Hebrew)
Partial dynamical symmetry and the vibrational structure of Cd isotopes
Tuesday afternoon, September 19
Session 6 New facilities and underground labs (Room 308, Hao Ran High-Tech Building)
Session chair:
14:00 – 14:30 Yan-Lin Ye (Beijing)
Proposed Beijing-ISOL Facility - An Initial Design
14:30 – 15:00 Weiping Liu (Beijing)
Progress of Jinping Underground laboratory for Nuclear Astrophysics (JUNA)
15:00 – 15:20 Frank Wienholtz (CERN)
Recent applications of ISOLTRAP’s multi-reflection time-of-flight mass separator/spectrometer (MR-ToF MS) and the development of a dedicated ISOLDE MR-ToF MS
15:20 – 15:40 Rui-Jiu Chen (IMP)
A method to measure the transition energy of the isochronously tuned storage ring
15:40 – 16:10 Coffee Break
Session chair:
16:10 – 16:40 Francesca Cavanna (Gran Sasso)
Nuclear astrophysics at Gran Sasso Laboratory: the LUNA experiment
16:40 – 17:10 Daniel Bemmerer (Dresden)
Felsenkeller 5MV underground accelerator in Germany
17:10 – 17:30 Zhihong Li (CIAE)
Beta-decay half-lives of the neutron-rich nuclei and the impact on the r-process
17:30 – 17:50 Sophia Han (Knoxville)
Constraining dense matter properties from thermal and spin evolution of neutron stars
17:50 – 18:10 Gaolong Zhang (Beihang)
Study of breakup and transfer of weakly bound Nucleus 6Li to explore the low energy reaction dynamics
18:00 – 21:00 Poster session
Wednesday morning, September 20
Session 7 Experimental nuclear structure (Room 306, Hao Ran High-Tech Building)
Session chair:
8:30 – 9:00 Steven Yates (Kentucky)
Studying Collective Nuclear Excitations with Fast Neutrons: A Comparison of 76Ge and 76Se
9:00 – 9:30 Alison Bruce (Brighton)
Lifetime measurements in A-100 nuclei using LaBr3(Ce) arrays
9:30 – 9:50 Badamsambuu Jigmeddorj (Guelph)
Nuclear Structure of 122Xe Studied Through High-Statistics β+/EC Decay of 122Cs
9:50 – 10:10 Julien Piot (GANIL)
Studying Nuclear Structure at the extremes with S3
10:10 – 10:40 Coffee break
Session chair:
10:40 – 11:10 Hiro Iwasaki (MSU)
Electromagnetic responses of weakly-bound neutron-rich nuclei studied by lifetime measurements
11:10 – 11:40 Heather Crawford (LBNL)
First Spectroscopy in 40Mg
11:40 – 12:00 Chuan Xu (Beijing)
Spectroscopy of N=42 nuclei in A ∼ 70 mass region
12:00 – 12:20 Chen Liu (Shandong)
Multiple Chiral Doublet with Octupole Correlations and chirality-parity quartet bands
Wednesday morning, September 20
Session 8 Nuclear reaction: Experiment and Theory (Room 308, Hao Ran High-Tech Building)
Session chair:
8:30 – 9:00 Filomena Nunes (MSU)
New developments in reaction theory: preparing for the FRIB era
9:00 – 9:30 Artemis Spyrou (MSU)
Neutron capture reactions on exotic nuclei
9:30 – 9:50 Adrià Casanovas (Catalonia)
Tl204 neutron capture cross section measurement at the n TOF facility (CERN)
9:50 – 10:10 Tatsuya Katabuchi (Tokyo)
Neutron capture cross sections of 185Re leading to ground and isomer state of 186Re in the keV-neutron energy region
10:10 – 10:40 Coffee break
Session chair:
10:40 – 11:10 Jutta Escher (LLNL)
Capture Reactions on Unstable Isotopes: Determining Unknown Cross Sections from Indirect Measurements
11:10 – 11:40 Jolie Cizewski (Rutgers)
Neutron capture on short-lived nuclei via the surrogate (d,pγ) reaction
11:40 – 12:00 Richard Deboer (Notre Dame)
Measurements of the 12C(α,γ) 16O reaction in higher energy off-resonance regions
12:00 – 12:20 Shi-Sheng Zhang (Beihang)
Neutron Capture Cross Sections on Sn Isotopes
Wednesday afternoon, September 20
13:30 – 19:00 Excursion + group photo
Thursday morning, September 21
Session 9 Nuclear Structure: Challenge in theory (Room 306, Hao Ran High-Tech Building)
Session chair:
8:30 – 9:00 Peter Ring (Munich)
Covariant density functional theory: predictive power and first attempts of a microscopic derivation
9:00 – 9:30 Takaharu Otsuka (Tokyo)
Single-particle states vs. collective modes: friends or enemies ?
9:30 – 9:50 Xiaobao Wang (Huzhou)
Revisiting the monopole components of effective interactions for the shell model
9:50 – 10:10 Zaochun Gao (CIAE)
Implementation of the Variation After Projection calculations with a time-odd Hartree-Fock mean-field
10:10 – 10:40 Coffee break
Session chair:
10:40 – 11:10 J. Luis Egido (Madrid)
A Beyond Mean Field description of global and spectroscopic properties of atomic nuclei.
11:10 – 11:40 Chong Qi (KTH)
Shell model description of heavy nuclei and abnormal collective motions
11:40 – 12:00 Noritaka Shimizu (Tokyo)
Recent progress of sign problem in Onishi formula
12:00 – 12:20 Fang-Qi Chen (Beijing)
Chiral geometry in symmetry restored Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov states: Chiral doublet bands in 128Cs
Thursday morning, September 21
Session 10 Reaction with photons (Room 308, Hao Ran High-Tech Building)
Session chair:
8:30 – 9:00 Anton Tonchev (LLNL)
Connecting Nuclear Structure to Stellar Astrophysics
9:00 – 9:30 Hiroaki Utsunomiya (Konan)
Photoneutron Reaction Data for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics
9:30 – 9:50 Johann Isaak (RCNP)
Study of photon strength functions via the (,) reaction at the γ3 -setup
9:50 – 10:10 Adriana Banu (James Madison)
Cross-section Measurements of the 94Mo(g,n) and 90Zr(g,n) Reactions Using Real Photons at the HIgS Facility
10:10 – 10:40 Coffee break
Session chair:
10:40 – 11:10 Pieter Doornenbal (RIKEN)
In-beam spectroscopy of low-lying energy levels at extreme isospin with SEASTAR
11:10 – 11:40 Werner Tornow (Duke/TUNL)
Neutron radiative capture cross-section measurements on special nuclei
11:40 – 12:00 Nobuyuki Iwamoto (JAEA)
Evaluation of neutron capture cross section on 205Pb with photonuclear data
12:00 – 12:20 Paraskevi Dimitriou (IAEA)
Development of reliable reaction gamma-ray data
Thursday afternoon, September 21
Session 11 Nuclear structure: Around 132Sn (Room 306, Hao Ran High-Tech Building)
Session chair:
14:00 – 14:30 Shaofei Zhu (ANL)
First experiments with re-accelerated neutron-rich beams from CARIBU
14:30 – 15:00 Hiroshi Watanabe (Beihang)
Isomers and shell evolution in neutron-rich nuclei below the doubly magic nucleus 132Sn
15:00 – 15:20 He Wang (RIKEN)
Nuclear structure study for the neutron-rich nuclei beyond 132Sn: In-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy of 136Sn and 132Cd
15:20 – 15:40 Radomira Lozeva (CSNSM/CNRS)
New nuclear structure data beyond 132Sn
15:40 – 16:10 Coffee Break
Session chair:
16:10 – 16:40 Robert Grzywacz (UTK/ORNL)
Beta delayed neutron spectroscopy close to 78Ni and 132Sn
16:40 – 17:10 Gilles de France (GANIL)
The EXILL campaign
17:10 – 17:30 Thomas Materna (CEA)
Fission fragment de-excitation study with the EXILL experiment and comparison with FIFRELIN simulations
17:30 – 17:50 Yixiao Luo (Vanderbilt)
Triaxial deformations in neutron-rich nuclei with Z = 41-46 and A ∼ 101-116 based on prompt fission gamma spectroscopy
17:50 – 18:10 E. E. Peters (Kentucky)
Probing the Structure of the Stable Xe Isotopes with Inelastic Neutron Scattering
Thursday afternoon, September 21
Session 12 Masses, quasi-continuum, etc. (Room 308, Hao Ran High-Tech Building)
Session chair:
14:00 – 14:30 Yu-Hu Zhang (IMP)
Progress of mass measurements of short-lived nuclides at the heavy-ion storage ring in Lanzhou
14:30 – 15:00 Ning Wang (Guilin)
Weizsaecker-Skyrme mass model and the statistical error
15:00 – 15:20 Yuanming Xing (IMP)
The mass measurements of 79Y, 81,82Zr, 83,84Nb and their impact on rp process
15:20 – 15:40 Ningtao Zhang (IMP)
Test of the predictive powers of fusion theories at deep sub-barrier energies
15:40 – 16:10 Coffee Break
Session chair:
16:10 – 16:40 Magne Guttormsen (Oslo)
Gamma-widths, lifetimes and fluctuations in the nuclear quasi-continuum
16:40 – 17:10 Meng Wang (IMP)
Nuclear mass measurement and evaluation
17:10 – 17:30 Mathis Wiedeking (iThemba)
Measurements in the quasi-continuum at iThemba LABS - latest developments
17:30 – 17:50 Guo-Xiang Dong (Huzhou)
Gamow shell model description of radiative capture reactions 6Li(p, γ) 7Be and 6Li(n, γ) 7Li
17:50 – 18:10 Yongshou Chen (CIAE)
Strong constraints of capture and decay rates of light nuclei on the noncanonical stellar evolution of low-mass stars
18:30 – 20:30 Conference Banquet
Friday morning, September 22
Session 13 Nuclear structure: What else new? (Room 102, Hao Ran High-Tech Building)
Session chair:
8:30 – 9:00 Norbert Pietralla (Darmstadt)
Shell Evolution and E2 Collectivity: New Spectroscopy Information
9:00 – 9:30 Andrew E. Stuchbery (ANU)
Pushing the limits of excited-state g-factor measurements
9:30 – 9:50 Tobias Beck (Darmstadt)
Probing the E2 properties of the scissors mode with real photons
9:50 – 10:10 Junchen Pei (Beijing)
Soft Multipole Collective Modes of 40Mg
10:10 – 10:40 Coffee break
Session chair:
10:40 – 11:10 Andreas Zilges (Cologne)
The Electric Multipole Response of Nuclei: Pygmy Resonances and Related Structures
11:10 – 11:40 Filip Kondev (ANL)
Spectroscopy of Deformed, Neutron-Rich Nuclei in the Light Rare-Earth Region Near A ≈ 160
11:40 – 12:00 Julius Wilhelmy (Cologne)
Investigation of the γ-decay behavior of 48,50Ti and 52Cr with the γ3 setup at HIγS
12:00 – 12:20 Xiao Fang (Zhuhai)
Measurement of cross sections of 12C + 16O fusion at stellar energies
Friday morning, September 22
Session 14 Resonances and cluster aspects (Conference room, Faculty Club)
Session chair:
8:30 – 9:00 Nobuyuki Kobayashi (Osaka)
E1 response of nuclei with neutron skin and halo
9:00 – 9:30 Peter Von Neumann-Cosel (Darmstadt)
Gamma Strength Functions and Level Densities from High-Resolution Proton Scattering under 00
9:30 – 9:50 Daniz Savran (GSI)
Experimental results on the Pygmy Dipole Resonance
9:50 – 10:10 Sergej Bassauer (Darmstadt)
Systematics of the Electric Dipole Response in Stable Tin Isotopes
10:10 – 10:40 Coffee break
Session chair:
10:40 – 11:10 Timur Shneidman (Dubna)
Role of clustering in the structure of heavy nuclei
11:10 – 11:40 Zhongzhou Ren (Nanjing)
Cluster approach on exotic structure of some light nuclei
11:40 – 12:00 Lorenzo Fortunato (Padova)
Vibrational modes of light nuclei
12:00 – 12:20 Chang Xu (Nanjing)
Alpha Cluster Formation and Decay in Quartetting Wave Function Approach
Friday afternoon, September 22
Session 15 Interdisciplinary research, application, etc. (Room 102, Hao Ran High-Tech Building)
Session chair:
14:00 – 14:30 Ana Hayes (LANL)
Challenges with Reactor Antineutrino Spectra
14:30 – 15:00 Chang-Hong Yu (ORNL)
The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR – Status and Initial Results
15:00 – 15:30 Rebecca Surman (Notre Dame)
Quantifying nuclear physics uncertainties in r-process abundance patterns
15:30 – 15:50 Xian-Rong Zhou (Shanghai)
Exotic structure of medium-heavy hypernuclei in the Skyrme Hartree-Fock model
15:50 – 16:20 Coffee Break
Session chair:
16:20 – 16:50 Yoshitaka Fujita (Osaka)
Gamow-Teller Transitions - a key to open the Jewels Box of nuclear structure
16:50 – 17:20 Zheng-Tian Lu (Hefei)
Atom Trap, Krypton-81, and Global Groundwater
17:20 – 17:40 Closing