African Nuclear Physics Conference 2021

from Monday, 20 September 2021 (08:00) to Friday, 24 September 2021 (17:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
20 Sep 2021
21 Sep 2021
22 Sep 2021
23 Sep 2021
24 Sep 2021
AM
09:30
Welcome and Opening - Faiҫal Azaiez (iThemba LABS) Rudolph Nchodu (iThemba LABS) (until 09:45) ()
09:45
Session 1 - Muhsin Harakeh (KVI) (until 11:15) ()
09:45 R-process in neutron star mergers and magneto-rotational supernovae - Almudena Arcones (TU Darmstadt and GSI)   ()
10:15 Highlights from GANIL - Olivier Sorlin (GANIL)   ()
10:45 Heavy Ions in Therapy and Space - Marco Durante (GSI)   ()
11:15 --- Tea/Coffee/Short Break ---
11:30
Session 2 - Nasser Kalantar-Nayestanaki (KVI-CART) (until 13:30) ()
11:30 Complementarity and Future Prospects on experiments using the high-resolution magnetic spectrometers at RCNP and iThemba LABS - Atsushi Tamii (Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University)   ()
12:00 Electric and magnetic dipole response in $^{58}$Ni from inelastic proton scattering - Isabelle Brandherm (TU Darmstadt)   ()
12:20 Transfer reactions to populate the PDR in 96Mo - Thuthukile Khumalo (iThemba LABS)   ()
12:40 Low-lying dipole and quadrupole states as new excitation modes - Edoardo G. Lanza   ()
13:00 In-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy at RIKEN - Kathrin Wimmer   ()
09:45
Session 4 - Fairouz Hammache (IJCLab Orsay) (until 11:15) ()
09:45 Neutron capture cross section measurements for the astrophysical s-process - Claudia Lederer-Woods   ()
10:15 Nuclear Astrophysics with the K600 and the CAKE - Philip Adsley (iThemba LABS/Wits)   ()
10:35 Ferromagnetism in neutron matter - Jacobus Diener (Botswana International University of Science and Technology)   ()
10:55 Nucleosynthesis in Novae and X-Ray Bursts – Open Issues - Jordi Jose (UPC Barcelona)   ()
11:15 --- Tea/Coffee/Short Break ---
11:30
Session 5 - Nikolai Antonenko (BLTP, JINR) (until 13:30) ()
11:30 Optical Spectroscopy of the Heaviest Elements - Mustapha Laatiaoui (JGU)   ()
12:00 Ab initio theory and the structure of heavy nuclei - Jason Holt (TRIUMF)   ()
12:20 Statistical properties of the well deformed $^{153,155}$Sm nuclei and the scissors resonance - Kgashane Malatji (iThemba LABS)   ()
12:40 Coexistence of single-particle and collective structures in 1f $_{7/2}$ nuclei - Ritwika Chakrabarti (Department of Physics, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India)   ()
13:00 Isospin dependence of NN correlations, quenching of spectroscopic factors, and effects on other nuclear structure observables - Marina Petri (University of York)   ()
09:25
Session 3 Continued - Sotirios Charisopoulos (IAEA) (until 09:45) ()
09:25 The Felsenkeller accelerator for nuclear astrophysics - Kai Zuber (TU Dresden)   ()
09:45
Session 6 - Angela Bracco (Università di Milano e INFN) (until 11:15) ()
09:45 Nuclear physics and r-process observables - Rebecca Surman (University of Notre Dame)   ()
10:15 Radiative proton-capture cross-sections with $^{112,114}$Cd - Polytimos Vasileiou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)   ()
10:35 Investigation of the dipole response of 64Ni in real-photon scattering experiments - Miriam Müscher (Institute for Nuclear Physics, University of Cologne)   ()
10:55 Experimental Study of the 30Si(p,γ)31P via the 30Si( 3He,d)31P transfer reaction for understanding elemental anomalies in Globular Clusters. - Djamila Sarah Harrouz (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/in2p3, IJCLab)   ()
11:15 --- Tea/Coffee/Short Break ---
11:30
Session 7 - Andy Buffler (UCT) (until 13:30) ()
11:30 A Study of Environmental Radioactivity Measurement of selected Kaolin Mining Fields in Kwara, Nigeria - Mojisola Rachael Usikalu (Covenant University)   ()
12:00 Development of a digital data acquisition system for neutron metrology - Chloe Sole (UCT)   ()
12:20 The South African Space Neutron Initiative (SASNI) - Tanya Hutton (University of Cape Town)   ()
12:40 Are LaBr3:Ce detectors the optimum instruments for naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) activity measurements? - Munirat Bashir ( Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University )   ()
13:00 Advances in radon research and protection in Cameroon - Saïdou - (Research Centre for Nuclear Science and Technology)   ()
09:45
Session 8 - Hiroyoshi Sakurai (RINE Nishina Center) (until 11:15) ()
09:45 The Neutrons For Science Facility of GANIL/SPIRAL2 - Diego Ramos (GANIL)   ()
10:15 Search for $E$0 transitions in $^{54}$Mn via electron-pair spectroscopy - Abraham Avaa (iThemba/Wits)   ()
10:35 Analysis of fission yield measurements from $^{236}$U* using prompt $\gamma$-ray spectroscopy: Challenges, Anomalies, and Resolutions - Aniruddha Dey (1) Nuclear Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 400 085, India, 2) Department of Physics, Siksha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal 731 235, India)   ()
10:55 Overlap integrals in core + n + n systems - Makoto Ito (Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Kansai University)   ()
11:15 --- Tea/Coffee/Short Break ---
11:30
Session 9 - Alinka Lépine-Szily (USP) (until 13:30) ()
11:30 Fission fragment spectroscopy of isotopically identified neutron rich nuclei - Sarmishtha Bhattacharyya (Variable Energy Cyclotron centre)   ()
12:00 A study of the nuclear structure in the even-even Yb isotopes - Aikaterini Zyriliou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)   ()
12:20 Direct Measurement of Fusion Reaction in $^8$B + $^{40}$Ar using the Active-Target TexAT - Valdir Guimaraes (Universidade de São Paulo - Brazil)   ()
12:40 Look for non-axially deformed halo nuclei - Kaiyuan Zhang (Peking University)   ()
13:00 Novel method for accessing tens-to-hundreds femtoseconds nuclear state lifetimes, examples and results - Michał Ciemała (IFJ PAN Kraków, Polska)   ()
09:45
Session 11 - Sydney Gales (IPN Orsay) (until 11:15) ()
09:45 Recent results from n_TOF - Alberto Mengoni (ENEA and INFN, Bologna, Italy)   ()
10:15 Systematic study of neutron-deficient nuclei by beta-decay spectroscopy - Sonja Orrigo (IFIC (CSIC-UV))   ()
10:35 Triaxial odd-odd nuclei at proton drip-line - Pooja Siwach (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee)   ()
10:55 Measurement of the B(E2; 4$^+ \rightarrow $ 2$^+$)/ B(E2; 2$^+ \rightarrow $ 0$^+$) ratio in 164W - Bahadir Saygi   ()
11:15 --- Tea/Coffee/Short Break ---
11:30
Session 12 - Claes Fahlander (Lund University) (until 13:00) ()
11:30 Nuclear Structure Studies at the NSCL - Alexandra Gade (NSCL/FRIB)   ()
12:00 Damping of the ISGMR in 90Zr and 120Sn - Armand Bahini (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)   ()
12:20 Microscopic description of isoscalar giant monopole resonance: The case of 132Sn - Nikolay Arsenyev (Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)   ()
12:40 Polarizability of $^{40}$Ca and $^{48}$Ca: Implications for the density dependence of the symmetry energy - Peter von Neumann-Cosel (Institut f\"ur Kernphysik, Technische Universit\"at Darmstadt)   ()
PM
13:30 --- Meal/Long Break ---
14:00
Session 3 - Sotirios Charisopoulos (IAEA) (until 15:30) ()
14:00 Precision electroweak measurements of the neutron radii of calcium and lead - Mark Dalton (Jefferson Lab)   ()
14:30 Upgrade of the iThemba LABS Fast Neutron Beam Facility towards ISO/IEC 17025 Accreditation - Zina Ndabeni (University of Cape Town / iThemba LABS)   ()
14:50 Flow measurement and characterisation from positron annihilation - Thomas Leadbeater (University of Cape Town)   ()
15:30 --- All Delegates Move Over to Poster Session - Gather.Town ---
15:45
Poster Session 1 (until 17:45) ()
15:45 A compact neutron spectrometer for neutrons produced by cosmic rays - Erin Jarvie (University of Cape Town)   ()
15:45 A new fast neutron facility for materials analysis at UCT - Mr Sizwe Mhlongo (University of Cape Town)   ()
15:45 A study on the photon interaction parameters of some meteorite samples - Dr Canel Eke (Akdeniz University)   ()
15:45 Cluster excitation and alpha radioactivity within covariant EDF framework - Florian Mercier (IJCLab, Orsay, France)   ()
15:45 Competing excitation modes in A $\sim$ 80 region - Dr Anagha Chakraborty (Department of Physics, Siksha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati University)   ()
15:45 Davydov-Chaban Hamiltonian within the formalism of deformation-dependent effective mass for Kratzer potential - Prof. Alaaeddine Lahbas (ESMaR, Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco)   ()
15:45 Density modified tracer particles for Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT) - Mr Michael van Heerden (University of Cape Town)   ()
15:45 DICER: A new device for indirect capture experiments on radionuclides - Dr Athanasios Stamatopoulos (Los Alamos National Laboratory)   ()
15:45 Dipole excitations in $^{162}$Er - $^{166}$Yb - Nilufer Demirci Saygı   ()
15:45 Disappearance of channel coupling effects in $^{12}$C + $^{24}$Mg fusion far below the barrier - Mirco Del Fabbro (Dip. di Fisica e Scienze della Terra Univ. di Ferrara and INFN Padova )   ()
15:45 Experimental investigation of nuclei in A ~ 50 - 60 region - Mr Sansaptak Basu (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata-700064, India ; HBNI, Training School Complex, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai-400094, India)   ()
15:45 First observation of a rotational band in neutron-deficient $^{187}$Pb: evidence for triple shape coexistence - Wenqiang Zhang (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)   ()
15:45 In-beam spectroscopy of 94Ag - Jesus Pereira-Lopez (University of York)   ()
15:45 Investigation of limit of detection using standard radioactive sources with a LaBr3:Ce: detector - Ferdie van Niekerk (Tshwane University of Technology)   ()
15:45 Investigation of reaction channels in the production of alpha particles in light systems collisions - Bruno Penteado Monteiro (Instituto de Física da USP)   ()
15:45 Magnetic giant resonances in the relativistic energy density functional theory - Goran Kružić (Ericsson-Nikola Tesla)   ()
15:45 New evidence for alpha clustering structure in the ground state band of $^{212}$Po - Martin von Tresckow (TU Darmstadt)   ()
15:45 Nuclear matrix elements of neutrinoless double-β decay in the triaxial projected shell model - Dr Yakun Wang (Peking University)   ()
15:45 Radiation Damage by Low Energy Neutrons with Geant4: A Review of Current Approaches and Results - Samuel Terungwa Temaugee (School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)   ()
15:45 Reaction processes at near barrier energies: the case of 9Be+197Au - Malika Kaushik (Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar - 140 001, Punjab, India)   ()
15:45 SIMSPEC-G: a new code for simulating the working of HPGe detectors - Satya Samiran Nayak (Variable Energy Cyclotron Center, India)   ()
15:45 Spectroscopic studies in $^{152-154}$Gd - S. Pelonis (Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)   ()
15:45 Studying the microscopic structure of the low-energy electric dipole response of $^{120}$Sn - Michael Weinert (University of Cologne, Institute for Nuclear Physics, 50937 Cologne, Germany)   ()
15:45 Triple RFQ Trap System for Measuring Neutron Capture of Fission Fragments - Heinrich Wilsenach (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)   ()
15:45 Unveiling the excitation modes of $^{28}$Si in interpreting the barrier distribution data - Saumyajit Biswas (Department of Physics, Siksha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati University)   ()
13:30 --- Meal/Long Break ---
14:00
Workshop Session 1 - Adam Maj (IFJ PAN Krakow) (until 16:15) ()
14:00 A selection of “exotic” nuclear states: stretched, near threshold and shape-isomer-like states - Silvia Leoni (INFN)   ()
14:25 Q&A with Discussion - Adam Maj (IFJ PAN Krakow)   ()
14:35 Probing collective excitation modes of nuclei with stable beams using gamma and particle detector arrays - Rudrajyoti Palit (TIFR)   ()
15:00 Q&A with Discussion - Adam Maj (IFJ PAN Krakow)   ()
15:10 --- Tea/Coffee/Short Break ---
15:25 Decay Spectroscopy of Superheavy Elements - Daniel Cox (Lund University)   ()
15:50 Q&A with Discussion - Adam Maj (IFJ PAN Krakow)   ()
16:00 Summary Discussion - Adam Maj (IFJ PAN Krakow)   ()
13:30 --- Meal/Long Break ---
14:00
Workshop Session 2 - Augusto Macchiavelli (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) (until 15:25) ()
14:00 Photon Strength Functions: Prospects for Nucleosynthesis and Nuclear Structure Studies - Mathis Wiedeking (iThemba LABS)   ()
14:25 Q&A with Discussion - Augusto Macchiavelli (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)   ()
14:35 Novel Techniques for Understanding Reactions Critical to Astrophysics - Kelly Chipps (ORNL)   ()
15:00 Q&A with Discussion - Augusto Macchiavelli (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)   ()
15:10 Summary Discussion - Augusto Macchiavelli (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)   ()
13:30 --- Meal/Long Break ---
14:00
Session 10 - Patrick Regan (University of Surrey & The National Physical Laboratory, UK) (until 15:20) ()
14:00 Advances in $^{211}$At production at Texas A&M University - Sherry Yennello (Texas A&M University)   ()
14:30 DNA damage response of haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells to high-LET neutron irradiation. - Monique Engelbrecht (NRF-iThemba LABS)   ()
14:50 Production and chelation of alpha-emitting radiometals for targeted alpha therapy (TAT) - Caterina Ramogida (Simon Fraser University & TRIUMF)   ()
15:20 --- All Delegates Move Over to Poster Session - Gather.Town ---
15:30
Poster Session 2 (until 17:30) ()
15:30 A ground-based evaluation of the impact of neutron dose rate on health effects during space travel - Dr Randall Fisher (Division of Radiation Biophysics, Separated Sector Cyclotron Laboratory, NRF iThemba LABS)   ()
15:30 B(E2) value of even-even 124-130Barium transitional nuclei with cubic terms from Casimir invariant operators and IBM-1 - Rekha Mehta Rekha (Guru Kashi University, talwandi sabo,punjab)   ()
15:30 Charge changing cross section and proton distribution radii of Be isotopes - Gen Takayama   ()
15:30 DURGA: A novel facility in India to study capture gamma, fission fragment and decay spectroscopy - Dr Somsundar Mukhopadhyay (Nuclear Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India)   ()
15:30 Electron screening effect @ IJS - Aleksandra Cvetinović (JSI)   ()
15:30 Emerging collectivity in neutron-hole transitions near doubly magic 208Pb - Dr Matthew Gerathy (The Australian National University)   ()
15:30 Erosion of N = 28 Shell Closure in Light Nuclei - Mr Pankaj Kumar (Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla)   ()
15:30 Fast timing characteristics of 1.5′′ x 1.5′′ CeBr$_{3}$ detector - Sneha Das   ()
15:30 FRAISE: The New Fragment In-Flight Separator at INFN-LNS - Dr Nunzia Simona Martorana (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia and INFN-LNS)   ()
15:30 Measurement of 17F breakup on 4He using the pAT-TPC - Guilherme Ferrari Fortino (Instituto de Física da USP)   ()
15:30 Multi-channel experimental and theoretical approach to the $^{12}$C($^{18}$O,$^{18}$F)$^{12}$B single charge exchange reaction at 275 MeV - Alessandro Spatafora (INFN-LNS)   ()
15:30 Novel Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Pathway Inhibitors for Targeted Radionuclide Therapy of Glioblastoma - Julie Bolcaen (Radiobiology, Radiation Biophysics Division, Nuclear Medicine Department, iThemba LABS, Cape Town 7131, South Africa)   ()
15:30 One neutron removal cross sections for the 16N isomeric state - Miki Fukutome   ()
15:30 Recent results from INGA and VENUS at VECC - Gopal Mukherjee (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India)   ()
15:30 Recent tests on the construction of a new correlator for neutrons and charged particles - Emanuele Vincenzo Pagano (INFN - LNS)   ()
15:30 Resonances in 11C above 10B+p threshold using thick target in inverse kinematics - Gurpreet Kaur   ()
15:30 Rotational Structure in Nuclei Near 66Fe - Emma Rice   ()
15:30 Selection rules of electromagnetic transitions for chirality-parity violation in atomic nuclei - Dr Yuanyuan Wang (North China Electric Power University)   ()
15:30 Shape Coexistence and Octupole Correlations in 72Se - Arunita Mukherjee (Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur(C.G), India)   ()
15:30 Shapes, Softness and Non-Yrast Collectivity in 186W - AJ Mitchell (Australian National University)   ()
15:30 Structural Evolution and Octupole Correlations in Transitional Nuclei - Mr Sutanu Bhattacharya (Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya )   ()
15:30 Study of $^4$He + $^4$He inelastic scattering at the MAGNEX facility - Dr Vasileios Soukeras (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Ettore Majorana”, Universit \`a di Catania, Catania, Italy and INFN – Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy)   ()
15:30 Study of electromagnetic properties of even-even medium-mass tellurium isotopes - Rani Devi (University of Jammu)   ()
15:30 Study of the reactions 78Kr+40Ca and 86Kr+48Ca at 10 AMeV - Dr Brunilde Gnoffo (UNICT & INFN - CT)   ()
15:30 Study of the single-nucleon transfer reactions in the $^{18}$O+$^{48}$Ti collision at 275 MeV - Dr Onoufrios Sgouros (INFN-LNS)   ()
15:30 The B(E2) transition Probabilities for 122-130Te (Tellurium) Even-Even Isotopes with the help of Cubic terms from Casimir Invariant Operators and IBM-1 - Pinky Rani (Research Scholar)   ()
15:30 The design of a radon chamber for the calibration of radon monitors at the Centre for Applied Radiation Science and Technology, Mafikeng, South Africa. - Moses Radebe   ()
15:30 The energy levels of 21Ne and the s-process in rapidly rotating metal poor stars - C. Angus (University of York & TRIUMF)   ()
15:30 The TUSCC project: What can elephants teach us about cancer prevention and treatment in humans - Charlot Vandevoorde (iThemba LABS)   ()
13:00 --- Meal/Long Break ---
13:30
Workshop Session 3 - Vandana Nanal (TIFR) (until 15:45) ()
13:30 Physics opportunities with isotopically identified Fission Fragments - Antoine Lemasson (GANIL)   ()
13:55 Q&A with Discussion - Vandana Nanal (TIFR)   ()
14:05 Recent studies of heavy ion transfer reactions using large solid angle magnetic spectrometers - Suzana Szilner (dr)   ()
14:30 Q&A with Discussion - Vandana Nanal (TIFR)   ()
14:40 --- Tea/Coffee/Short Break ---
14:55 Angular momentum generation in nuclear fission - Jonathan Wilson (IPN Orsay)   ()
15:20 Q&A with Discussion - Vandana Nanal (TIFR)   ()
15:30 Summary Discussion - Vandana Nanal (TIFR)   ()
15:45
Conference Closing (until 16:00) ()