Conveners
Session 1: Opening Session
- Lindsay Michelle Donaldson (SSC Laboratory, iThemba LABS)
The University of Cape Town is leading the project to establish a proton therapy facility in Cape Town, near to both the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and Groote Schuur Hospital [1]. Proton therapy centres (new and proposed) are few in the Southern Hemisphere and absent from the African continent, besides the newly established centre in Cairo, within a context where most of the...
Facilitation of development and promotion of nuclear applications for peaceful purposes and related capacity building are among the IAEA missions where Physics Section contributes most [1]. The relevant activities fall under the IAEA's program on nuclear science and cover three main thematic areas: research and applications with particle accelerators and neutron sources (incl. research...
Photon strength functions (PSFs) are fundamental quantities in nuclear physics, describing the average electromagnetic decay properties of excited nuclei. Accurate PSF information is essential for modeling nuclear reactions relevant to both astrophysical processes and nuclear structure.
At iThemba LABS, a dedicated facility has been developed for low-energy nuclear physics experiments that...
The NUMEN (NUclear Matrix Elements for Neutrinoless double-beta decay) project aims to obtain the nuclear matrix elements (NME) to be used as inputs in models to determine the lifetime of neutrinoless double-beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay, which is related to the absolute mass of the neutrino [1]. This will be achieved by conducting heavy-ion double charge-exchange (DCE) reactions and measuring...
