MNT2024 - Exploring the heavy exotic neutron-rich nuclides via multinucleon transfer reactions

2 Jul 2024, 09:30 → 5 Jul 2024, 18:00 Asia/Tokyo

Nishina RIBF bldg. room #201 (RIKEN, Wako, Japan)

The international workshop MNT2024 - Exploring the heavy exotic neutron-rich nuclides via multinucleon transfer reactions  is co-organized on July 2-5, 2024 by the KEK Wako Nuclear Science Center, University of York (UK), RIKEN Nishina Center, and JAEA Advanced Science Research Center, and will be held at RIKEN in Japan. The workshop will be mainly devoted to new research scope which is opened by nuclear production using multinucleon transfer reactions. 

Topics

Production of heavy exotic neutron-rich nuclides via multinucleon transfer reactions

Techniques of experimental studies relevant to multinucleon transfer reactions

Projects and facilities focusing on multinucleon transfer reactions

Decay, mass, and laser spectroscopy of heavy exotic neutron-rich nuclides

Theoretical studies on multinucleon transfer reactions

Alternative methods to produce heavy neutron-rich nuclides

Related topics

Workshop schedule and place

The workshop will start on Tuesday, 2 July in the morning, and end on 5 July in the evening.

The workshop will be held at the room #201 of Nishina RIBF Bldg. in the Wako Campus of RIKEN.

Registration

Those who wish to participate the workshop are kindly requested to register by clicking the link in the left menu before 15 June 2024.

Attendees requiring a Visitor Visa to enter Japan, please request an invitation letter when registering, and start the application process as soon as you can.

Abstract submission

Those who wish to make a presentation are kindly requested to submit an abstract by clicking the link in the left menu before 13 April 2024.

Workshop fee

We ask for the workshop fee 2000 JPY per person for coffee breaks, which can be paid at the registration desk in the morning of 2 July, Tuesday.

Buffet party

We will have a buffet party in the evening of 4 July, Thursday. It costs 6000 JPY per person. Participants who join the dinner are requested to pay at the registration desk in the morning of 2 July, Tuesday.

Tuesday, 2 July

10:00 → 10:15 Opening session

10:00 Opening address

Speaker: Yutaka Watanabe (KEK)

10:05 Welcome address

Speaker: Naohito SAITO (KEK)

10:10 Welcome address

Speaker: Hiroyoshi Sakurai (RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science)

10:15 → 11:45 Session: Session 1

10:15 KISS for nuclear spectroscopy of MNT products

Speaker: Yoshikazu HIRAYAMA (IPNS, KEK)

10:45 MNT experiments with stable and secondary beams at the FRS and Super-FRS Ion Catcher

Speaker: Timo Dickel (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)

11:15 Production and studies of neutron-rich nuclei at IGISOL

Speaker: Anu Kankainen (University of Jyväskylä)

11:45 → 13:15 Lunch

13:15 → 14:45 Session: Session 2

13:15 Status of MNT studies at JINR and perspectives

Speaker: Alexander Karpov (JINR)

13:45 Separation of evaporation residues produced in MNT reactions using JAEA-Recoil Mass Separator

Speaker: Katsuhisa Nishio (JAEA)

14:15 Synthesis of heavy nuclei in multinucleon transfer reaction 136Xe + 238U close to 0 degree

Speaker: Barbara Suligano (CEA)

14:45 → 15:10 Break

15:10 → 16:25 Session: Session 3

15:10 MNT studies with Velocity Filters

Speaker: DEVARAJA HM (FLNR, JINR)

15:40 The experimental study of properties of MNT fragments formed in the reactions with 238U

Speaker: Galina Knyazheva (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

16:05 Multi-Nucleon-Transfer and the production of Heavy Elements

Speaker: Kris Hagel (Cyclotron Institute, Texas A & M University)

16:25 → 16:50 Break

16:50 → 18:15 Session: Session 4

16:50 Studies of MNT reactions at the Coulomb barrier with Jyväskylä in-flight-separator

Speaker: Jan Saren (University of Jyväskylä)

17:20 MNT studies with TOF methods at GSI, JYFL and Dubna

Speaker: Emanuele Vardaci (INFN, Naples)

17:50 Current status and prospects of MNT study with helium gas-cell + MRTOF system towards N = 126 and 152

Speaker: Dr Sota KIMURA (KEK)

Wednesday, 3 July

09:10 → 10:10 Session: Session 5

09:10 Theoretical investigation of mutinucleon transfer reactions within the dynamic model based on Langevin equations

Speaker: Mr Vyacheslav Saiko (FLNR JINR / INP)

09:40 What is NEXT? A setup to study Neutron-rich, heavy, EXotic nuclei produced in multinucleon Transfer reacitons

Speaker: Julia Even (University of Groningen)

10:10 → 10:35 Break

10:35 → 11:35 Session: Session 6

10:35 Microscopic approaches for multinucleon transfer reactions beyond TDHF: recent progress

Speaker: Dr Kazuyuki Sekizawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

11:05 Development and commissioning of the MNT gas cell for IGISOL

Speaker: Alexandra Zadvornaya (The University of Edinburgh)

11:35 → 13:05 Lunch

13:05 → 14:45 Facility tour

14:45 → 15:05 Break

15:05 → 16:40 Session: Session 7

15:05 Future plan of KISS for spectroscopy of neutron-rich actinoids

Speaker: Yutaka Watanabe (KEK)

15:30 Simulation of MNT experiments with INCREASE (GSI) and IGISOL (JYFL)

Speaker: Paul Constantin (ELI-NP/IFIN-HH Romania)

16:00 Shell effect in multinucleon transfer reactions

Speaker: penghui chen (yangzhou university)

16:20 Cluster transfer and cluster emission in massive transfer reactions

Speaker: Zhaoqing Feng (South China University of Technology)

16:40 → 17:05 Break

17:05 → 18:35 Session: Session 8

17:05 The N = 126 Factory

Speaker: Maxime Brodeur (University of Notre Dame)

17:35 Opportunities with the N = 126 Factory at Argonne National Laboratory

Speaker: Adrian Valverde (Argonne National Laboratory)

17:55 Status of the Commissioning of the N = 126 factory at ANL

Speaker: Guy Savard (Argonne National Laboratory / University of Chicago)

18:15 Prospects of MNT studies at N = 126 for r-process nucleosynthesis with the ISOLDE Superconducting Recoil Separator

Speaker: Teresa Kurtukian Nieto (IEM-CSIC Spain)

Thursday, 4 July

09:10 → 10:10 Session: Session 9

09:10 ISOLDE studies of the neutron-rich nuclides east of 208Pb

Speaker: Andrei Andreyev (University of York)

09:40 Shell model study of allowed and forbidden beta decay in the Pb region

Speaker: Praveen Srivastava (Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee, 247667, India)

10:10 → 10:35 Break

10:35 → 11:40 Session: Session 10

10:35 The progress of in-gas-cell laser ionization spectroscopy of neutron-rich tungsten isotopes

Speaker: Momo Mukai (Nagoya University)

11:00 Configuration-Interaction Shell Model (CISM) Understanding of Medium and Heavy Mass Nuclei

Speaker: Cenxi YUAN (Sun Yat-sen University)

11:20 Exploration on the effective nuclear force for the N > 126 nuclei

Speaker: Menglan LIU (Sun Yat-sen University)

11:40 → 13:10 Lunch

13:10 → 14:40 Session: Session 11

13:10 High-resolution resonance ionization spectroscopy at the S3-Low Energy Branch of the GANIL-SPIRAL2 facility

Speaker: Rafael Ferrer-Garcia

13:40 Laser ionization of thorium via Rydeberg states in hypersonic gas jets

Speaker: Arno Claessens (KU Leuven)

14:00 Simulation-aided offline optimization of the JetRIS apparatus

Speaker: Fedor Ivandikov (IKS, KU Leuven)

14:20 Studies of K Isomers using Multi-nucleon Transfer REactions and Gammasphere

Speaker: Filip Kondev (Argonne National Laboratory)

14:40 → 15:05 Break

15:05 → 16:20 Session: Session 12

15:05 Actinide experimental efforts for uncovering the origin of the heaviest elements

Speaker: Matthew Mumpower (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:35 Origin of the r-process elements in cosmic evolution and nuclear physics

Speaker: Prof. Toshitaka Kajino (Beihang Univerdity / University of Tokyo / NAOJ)

16:00 Discovery of new ms-isomers in 213Tl and 215Tl at RIBF-RIKEN

Speaker: Anabel Morales (IFIC)

16:20 → 16:45 Break

16:45 → 17:35 Session: Session 13

16:45 Study of neutron-rich Fm and transfermium nuclei with 254Es target and MNT

Speaker: Masato Asai (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)

17:15 Systematic study of fission process in heavy and superheavy mass regions related to multinucleon transfer reactions

Speaker: Yoshihiro Aritomo (Kindai University)

18:00 → 20:00 Social dinner

Friday, 5 July

09:10 → 10:10 Session: Session 14

09:10 208Pb fragmentation at BigRIPS vs MNT reactions to produce N ~ 126 nuclei

Speaker: Zsolt Podolyak (University of Surrey)

09:40 Production and discovery of high-Z neutron-rich isotopes at NSCL and FRIB

Speaker: Dr Oleg Tarasov (FRIB / MSU)

10:10 → 10:35 Break

10:35 → 11:35 Session: Session 15

10:35 Photoinduced many proton knockout - a new method to access neutron rich nuclei?

Speaker: Dan Watts (University of York)

11:05 Status of the MNT program and its future plan at IMP

Speaker: zhong liu (IMP,CAS)

11:35 → 13:05 Lunch

13:05 → 14:50 Session: Session 16

13:05 Ab initio calculations of heavy,m exotic nuclei for r-process nucleosynthesis

Speaker: Jason Holt (TRIUMF)

13:30 New paths for the study of heavy nuclei

Speaker: Jonathan Bequet (CEA/DRF/Irfu/DPhN)

13:50 Exploring exotic nuclei via multinucleon transfer reactions using light neutron-rich beams

Speaker: Alisher Sanetullaev (New Uzbekistan University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan)

14:10 Coupled reaction channel description of single-nucleon transfer 40Ca + 96Zr

Speaker: Gonika Gonika (Inter-University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi)

14:30 Study of transfer reactions in 28Si + 140,142Ce

Speaker: Chandra Kumar (Inter-University Accelerator Centre (IUAC) New Delhi)

14:50 → 15:15 Break

15:15 → 16:55 Session

15:15 NEWGAIN project

Speaker: Gheorghe Iulian Stefan (IPN Orsay)

15:40 Highly selective and high-flux MR-ToF mass separation

Speaker: Franziska Maier (FRIB/MSU)

16:00 The mrtof mass measurement project at BigRIPS

Speaker: Marco Rosenbusch (RIKEN Nishina Center of Accelerator-Based Science)

16:30 Operation and Perspectives of the ZeroDegree Helium Gas Catcher at RIKEN

Speaker: Mr Jinn Ming Yap (The University of Hong Kong)

16:55 → 17:00 Closing

16:55 Closing