Name: The African Nuclear Physics Conference 2025 (ANPC 2025)
Start: 2025-11-24T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-11-28T18:25:00+02:00
Location: No location set

Monday, 24 November 2025
09:00 Opening Session
Opening Session
09:00 - 11:15
Contributions

09:00 Welcome from the Conference Organisers and Safety Briefing - Lindsay Michelle Donaldson (SSC Laboratory, iThemba LABS)

09:10 Welcome from iThemba LABS - Makondelele Victor Tshivhase (iThemba LABS)

09:15 Keynote Address - Fulufhelo Nelwamondo (National Research Foundation)

09:30 The Proton Therapy Initiative at the University of Cape Town - Andy Buffler (UCT)

10:10 IAEA activities in support of nuclear physics research and applications - Kalliopi Kanaki (International Atomic Energy Agency)

10:35 Low-Energy Nuclear Physics Research at iThemba LABS: Highlights from the H-Line Facility - Kgashane Malatji (iThemba LABS)

11:00 NUMEN project experimental studies with the K600 spectrometer and MAGNEX detector - Thuthukile Khumalo (iThemba LABS)
11:15 Conference Photograph
Conference Photograph
11:15 - 11:25

11:25 Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
11:25 - 12:00
12:00 Facilities and Instrumentation
Facilities and Instrumentation
12:00 - 13:05
Contributions

12:00 Status of research at the FLNR, JINR - Grzegorz Kaminski (Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Rections, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

12:25 Investigation of axial and non-axial deformed shapes in nuclei at VECC - Gopal Mukherjee (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre)

12:50 Portable African Neutron-Gamma Laboratory for Innovative Nuclear Science - Pete Jones (iThemba LABS)
13:05 Lunch
Lunch
13:05 - 14:15
14:15 Nuclear Structure, Reactions and Dynamics
Nuclear Structure, Reactions and Dynamics
14:15 - 15:25
Contributions

14:15 Search for E1 extra strength below giant dipole resonance - Oliver Wieland (INFN sezione di Milano)

14:40 Study of the K quantum number of pygmy states in 154Sm - Refilwe Emil Molaeng (School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand SSC Laboratory, iThemba LABS)

14:55 Indirect experimental technique for constraining the 193,194Ir(n,γ) cross sections - Sebenzile Pretty Engelinah Magagula (IThemba Labs and University of the Witwatersrand)

15:10 Electromagnetic and thermodynamic properties in the quasi-continuum of mid-mass nuclei through inverse and direct kinematics. - Mhlangano Nkalanga (University of Johannesburg)
15:25 Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
15:25 - 16:00
16:00 Nuclear Structure, Reactions and Dynamics
Nuclear Structure, Reactions and Dynamics
16:00 - 17:20
Contributions

16:00 Systematic study of 3n and 3p Systems - Kenjiro Miki (Tohoku University)

16:25 Collective Excitations in Rare-Earth Nuclei: Insights from Isoscalar Giant Resonances - Soumya Bagchi (Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad)

16:50 Extraction of the Giant Monopole Resonance strength distribution with Multipole Decomposition Analysis - Lesedi Jafta (University of the Western Cape and iThemba LABS)

17:05 Constructing a calibration standard for photoneutron measurements by extracting cross sections of the giant-dipole resonance response in the heavy nucleus 169Tm - Benjamin Wellons (Texas A&M University)
17:30
17:30 - 18:30
Contributions

17:30 Development and testing of hot-cavity ion-sources for the LERIB project - Busani Bhengu (Msc. Student)

17:36 The Plasma Window for Enhanced Particle Beam Transmission from Vacuum to Atmosphere - Ophir Ruimi (HUJI & HIM/JGU)

17:42 Branching ratio measurements of low-lying p- and α-unbound states in 30S - Esmond Craig Vyfers (Univeraity of the Western Cape)

17:48 Systematics study of ground-state bands in rotating even-even nuclei to reveal triaxial deformation at ground state - Nkonzo Xulu (Masters student in Nuclear physics)

17:54 The practical use of small cosmic ray detectors (e.g. Cosmic Watch) to conduct lectures and exercises in many fields of science - Marcin Bielewicz (NCBJ/JINR - National Centre for Nuclear / Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

18:00 Understanding classical novae: The significance of key nuclear data for 39Ca - Sifundo Binda (iThemba LABS and Wits University)

18:06 Highly oriented pyrolytic graphite chemical bonding structure after gallium implantation - Tasabeeh Jafer (University of Pretoria )

18:12 Systematics study of octupole bands in rotating even-even nuclei to reveal rigid or soft octupole shape - Muzomuhle Mlotshwa (Nuclear Physics MSc student)

18:18 “Confined β-Soft (CBS) Insights into Rare-Earth Nuclei” - Dimitrios Papadopoulos (Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Zografou, Greece)

18:24 Analysis of High-Energy (p,p’) data on 10,11B for the PANDORA Project - Andreea Gavrilescu (ELI-NP)
Tuesday, 25 November 2025
09:00 Session A
Session A
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Constraining Neutron-Capture Cross Sections with Quasi-Continuum Nuclear Data - Mathis Wiedeking (Lawrence brekely laboratory)

09:30 Collinear laser spectroscopy for the investigation of short-lived radionuclides - Stephan Malbrunot-Ettenauer (TRIUMF)

10:00 Nuclear structure for fundamental symmetry tests: Probing the quark and neutrino sectors with low-energy stable beams - Smarajit Triambak (University of the Western Cape)
10:30 Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Nuclear Structure, Reactions and Dynamics
Nuclear Structure, Reactions and Dynamics
11:00 - 12:50
Contributions

11:00 Spherical-oblate shape coexistence in 94Zr and the SPIDER Coulomb-excitation campaign at LNL - Marco Rocchini (INFN - Division of Florence)

11:25 Multiple shape coexistence in Cd isotopes studied with Coulomb excitation - Katarzyna Wrzosek-Lipska

11:50 Triaxiality of neutron-rich ruthenium nuclei studied by lifetime measurements - Andreas Görgen (University of Oslo, Norway)

12:05 Triaxiality in Mo and Ru nuclei - Gabriela Thiamova

12:20 Evidence for Shape coexistence and configuration mixing in 158Er via β-decay of Tm isotope - Abraham Avaa (TRIUMF)

12:35 Low-lying states of 164Hf and the systematics of N=92 isotones - Thifhelimbilu Daphney Bucher (University of Cape Town)
12:50 Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 14:00
14:00 Facilities and Instrumentation
Facilities and Instrumentation
14:00 - 15:10
Contributions

14:00 Highlights from INFN-LNL, the Status and the Future plans of the SPES project - Faical Azaiez (INFN-LNL)

14:25 Characterization of instrumental background in a (p,γ) reaction, studied at the iThemba LABS Tandetron facility - Tshegofatso Bokhutlo (student)

14:40 Measurements of angular distributions of light particles at energies of astrophysical interest with GASTLY apparatus - Mauro Romoli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

14:55 The DC-140 project: new multipurpose applied science facility at FLNR JINR Accelerator Complex. - Semen Mitrofanov (JINR FLNR)
15:10 Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
15:10 - 15:40
15:40 Applied Nuclear Physics
Applied Nuclear Physics
15:40 - 17:35
Contributions

15:40 From uNclear to Nuclear: How nuclear science contributes to our society - Thomas Elias Cocolios (KuLeuven)

16:05 Neutron-gamma emission tomography for security and non-proliferation applications - Bo Cederwall (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

16:20 Building a Hybrid Compton Camera System for Improving Medical Imaging Applications - Shanyn-Dee Hart (iThemba LABS)

16:35 Teaching Old PETs New Signals - Thomas Leadbeater (University of Cape Town)

16:50 ARDE: Neural network-based algorithms for discrimination between electrons and γ-rays - Marco Rocchini (INFN - Division of Florence)

17:05 Enhancing the Accuracy of Gamma-Ray Spectrometry Using CNN and KAN Architectures - Vuako Maluleke (Univen, iTHemba LABS )

17:20 Light ions accompanied break-up of the medium heavy fission isomers - Dmitry Kamanin (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
18:00

18:00 - 19:00
Wednesday, 26 November 2025
09:30 Nuclear Astrophysics
Nuclear Astrophysics
09:30 - 10:15
Contributions

09:30 Nuclear Level Densities and Photon Strength Functions measurements - Sunniva Siem (University of Oslo)

09:45 Measuring decays of excited states in 26Si to improve reaction rate calculations of 22Mg(α,p)25Al relevant to type I X-ray bursts - Johann Wiggert Brummer (iThemba LABS)

10:00 The Nuclear Astrophysics program at n_TOF: past, present and future - Paolo Maria Milazzo (CERN e INFN Trieste (IT))
10:15 Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
10:15 - 10:45
10:45 Facilities and Instrumentation
Facilities and Instrumentation
10:45 - 11:55
Contributions

10:45 Nuclear structure research at Australia's Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility: Electromagnetic properties and emerging collectivity in atomic nuclei - Andrew Stuchbery (The Australian National University)

11:10 Progress in ion source development at the Low Energy Radioactive Ion Beam (LERIB) facility at iThemba LABS - Skye Segal (iThemba LABS)

11:25 Warsaw active-target Time Projection Chamber for studying astrophysical reactions with gamma and neutron beams - Mikolaj Cwiok (University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics, Poland)

11:40 PolFEL - the new Free Electron Laser research infrastructure in Poland - Marcin Bielewicz (NCBJ/JINR - National Centre for Nuclear / Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
12:00

12:00 - 18:00

Lunch for Delegates Attending iThemba LABS Tour
Lunch for Delegates Attending iThemba LABS Tour
12:00 - 13:00

13:00

13:00 - 15:00
Thursday, 27 November 2025
09:30 Session B
Session B
09:30 - 10:10
Contributions

09:30 Probing Stellar Reactions and Fundamental Symmetries with Indirect Methods at Low Energies - Aurora Tumino
10:10 Discussion
Discussion
10:10 - 10:50

10:50 Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
10:50 - 11:20
11:20 Nuclear Structure, Reactions and Dynamics
Nuclear Structure, Reactions and Dynamics
11:20 - 13:00
Contributions

11:20 Testing the shell model at N=28 with nucleon-transfer reactions - AJ Mitchell (Australian National University)

11:45 Probing 174Yb and 178Hf Structure With (p,t) Reactions - John Santucci (Texas A&M University)

12:00 Nuclear structure studies close to doubly magic 100Sn nucleus - Dinesh Negi (Manipal Institute of Technology )

12:15 Re-evaluation of Structures in 70Se with SPICE and TIGRESS - James Smallcombe (JAEA)

12:30 R-matrix type parametrization of the Jost function for analysing experimental total cross-sections to obtain partial-wave cross sections and resonance parameters. - Paul Vaandrager (University of South Africa (UNISA))

12:45 Bragg peak modeling and matter-wave interferometry in gaseous track detectors - Jean-Marc Sparenberg (Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB))
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Neutron Physics
Neutron Physics
14:00 - 15:05
Contributions

14:00 Recent results from the n_TOF facility at CERN - Jorge Lerendegui Marco (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC-UV))

14:25 Characterization of High-Energy Neutron Beamlines Using Silicon and Diamond Detectors - Carlo Cazzaniga (Science and Technology Facilities Council)

14:50 Results on the CROSSTEST@LNL experiment for NArCoS: the Cross-talk problem - Emanuele Vincenzo Pagano (INFN - LNS)
15:05 Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
15:05 - 15:35
15:35 Nuclear Structure, Reactions and Dynamics
Nuclear Structure, Reactions and Dynamics
15:35 - 17:00
Contributions

15:35 Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence for Nuclear Structure - Akaa Daniel Ayangeakaa (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

16:00 First principles theory for nuclear structure, astrophysics, and new-physics searches - Jason Holt (TRIUMF)

16:15 Systematic study of Coulomb barrier heights with the double-folding nucleus-nucleus interaction - Muhluri Gerald Maluleke Bahati Mukeru (`Supervisor) Joshua Majekodunmi (Co-author)

16:30 Breakup Dynamics of a Neutron-Halo System at Sub-Barrier Incident Energies - Tapuwa Sithole (UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA (UNISA))

16:45 Role of a weakly bound core nucleus in the breakup of a weakly bound halo nucleus - Bahati Mukeru
19:00 Bus Departs iThemba LABS for Conference Dinner
Bus Departs iThemba LABS for Conference Dinner
19:00 - 19:30

19:30

19:30 - 23:30
Friday, 28 November 2025
09:45 Applied Nuclear Physics
Applied Nuclear Physics
09:45 - 10:45
Contributions

09:45 Exposure to 1 Gy protons, 1 Gy neutrons or their combination at a dose of 0.5 Gy for each particle does not affect emotional state, but affected body weight of rats - Kseniia Belokopytova (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

10:00 BEGAM, a new setup for the identification of beta emitters in radiopharmaceuticals - Marco Perri (INFN - Firenze)

10:15 Environmental Radiation Assessment of Uranium Exploration Activities in Botswana: A Multi-Detector Approach to Baseline Monitoring and Risk Evaluation - Sankwasa Chika (Botswana International University of Science and Technology)

10:30 Mechanical stresses in solids irradiated with swift heavy ions: in-situ and postradiation examination - Vladimir Skuratov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
10:45 Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
10:45 - 11:15
11:15 Nuclear Structure, Reactions and Dynamics
Nuclear Structure, Reactions and Dynamics
11:15 - 13:05
Contributions

11:15 ISGMR studies at iThemba LABS - Retief Neveling (iThemba LABS)

11:40 First test of MNT reactions with secondary beams at the FRS Ion Catcher - Ali Mollaebrahimi (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research)

12:05 Theoretical description of direct nuclear reactions in the FRIB era - Linda Hlophe (Michigan State University and Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:20 Reaction dynamics in the 58Ni+58Ni system at intermediate energies - Lucia Baldesi (Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia Università di Firenze , INFN Sezione di Firenze)

12:35 Systematic studies to produce heavy above-target nuclides in multinucleon transfer reactions - Devaraja H M (FLNR, JINR)

12:50 Difference and Peculiarity of multinucleon transfer in reactions induced by 40,48Ca ions on Au and U targets - Sergey Lukyanov (Flerov Laboratory of JINR)
13:05 Lunch
Lunch
13:05 - 14:15
14:15 Nuclear Astrophysics and Structure
Nuclear Astrophysics and Structure
14:15 - 15:10
Contributions

14:15 Photoabsorption Cross Sections and Branching Ratios in Light Nuclei Studied by Proton Scattering - Atsushi Tamii (Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University)

14:40 PANDORA Project: Photonuclear Reactions in Light Nuclei - Jacob Bekker (University of the Witwatersrand)

14:55 Investigating the Photon Strength Function for 61Cu using 60Ni (p, γ) Reaction at iThemba LABS - Tshegofatso Goitseone Modise (UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA)
15:10 Collaborations
Collaborations
15:10 - 15:25
Contributions

15:10 SA-Norway Collaboration - Sunniva Siem (University of Oslo)
15:25

15:25 - 15:40