Prof.
Takaharu Otsuka
(Department of Physics, University of Tokyo)
02/12/2013, 09:20
Oral
The shell evolution due to nuclear forces can be seen in many places on the nuclear chart, and the tensor and three-body forces play particularly important and characteristic roles. The recent experimental discovery of
N=34 magic number in 54Ca at RIBF of RIKEN Nishina Center is a good example. I will overview the shell evolution. This shell evolution implies changes as functions of N...
Dr
Fadi ibrahim
(IPN Orsay, CNRS)
02/12/2013, 09:55
Oral
The ALTO facility (Accélérateur Linéaire et Tandem d'Orsay) at Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay is ready for operation. The aim of this facility is to provide neutron rich isotope beams for both nuclear physics study (away from the valley of stability) and developments dedicated to next generation facilities such as SPIRAL2. The neutron rich isotopes are produced by photofission of 238U...
Dr
Andrey POPEKO
(Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear reactions, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
02/12/2013, 10:20
Oral
The goal of the DRIBs project is to provide more possibilities for the effective study of the properties of heavy and light exotic nuclei at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions. In the course of the project, physical tasks will be shared among three specialized accelerators.
The realization of project DRIBs provides for:
creation of a Superheavy Element Factory,
...
Prof.
Victor Voronov
(Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
02/12/2013, 10:45
Oral
It is shown that many properties of the nuclear collective excitations in stable and unstable nuclei can be described within a microscopic approach based on the density functional method. The pseudospin symmetry in the structure of the very heavy nuclei
is discussed.
John L. Wood
(Georgia Tech)
02/12/2013, 11:30
Oral
All even-even nuclei possess excited 0+ states. Often, they are poorly characterized because they can be difficult to populate. However, the identification of 0+ states and the characterization of their properties is critical to the elucidation of the structure of all even-even nuclei. Examples at both closed and open shells will be selected to illustrate this aspect of nuclear structure...
Dr
Hans-Jürgen Wollersheim
(GSI Helmholtzzentrum)
02/12/2013, 12:05
Oral
The new PreSPEC-AGATA project is aimed at nuclear structure and reaction studies using radioactive isotope beams. At the SIS/FRS facility at GSI exotic beams at relativistic energies were employed for Coulomb excitation and secondary fragmentation experiments. High-resolution gamma-ray spectroscopy is the main tool to investigate the shell evolution far off stability, proton-neutron...
Prof.
Nico Orce
(University of the Western Cape)
02/12/2013, 12:30
Oral
The highly-efficient and segmented TIGRESS gamma-ray spectrometer at TRIUMF has been used to perform a reorientation-effect Coulomb-excitation study of the first 2+ state at 3.368 MeV in 10Be. This is the first Coulomb-excitation measurement that enables one to obtain information on diagonal matrix elements for such a high-lying first excited state from gamma-ray data. With the availability of...
Dr
Christian BECK
(IPHC & Universite de Strasbourg)
02/12/2013, 13:55
Oral
A great deal of research work has been performed in the field of alpha clustering since the pioneering discovery, by Bromley and his collaborators half a century ago, of molecular resonances in the excitation functions for 12C+12C scattering [1]. Our knowledge of this field of nuclear molecular physics has increased considerably [2] and nuclear clustering remains one of the most fruitful...
Dr
Retief Neveling
(iThemba LABS)
02/12/2013, 14:30
Oral
The investigation of medium-energy hadronic scattering and reactions at zero degrees
has the advantage of being very selective to excitations with low angular momentum transfer. This simplifies analysis of the many contributions to the spectra due to the complex nature of the nuclear interaction. The addition of coincident particle and gamma detection further enhances the selectivity of such...
Prof.
Yury Tchuvilsky
(INP Moscow State University)
02/12/2013, 14:55
Oral
The influence of the electronic surrounding (the electron shell of an atom or an ion and the electron gas in solids) on the alpha-decay width is analyzed. Both decreasing of the penetrability of the potential barrier due to nonzero electron density in the internal (relatively to the outer turning point) area and the change of the outer boundary conditions on the resonance solution (reflection...
Prof.
Smarajit Triambak
(University of Western Cape)
02/12/2013, 15:40
In this talk I shall focus on some experiments that use the atomic nucleus as a probe to search for and place bounds on interactions that arise from physics beyond the Standard Model. One key aspect in such tests that has been under scrutiny in recent times is the contribution of nuclear structure. While nuclear structure can provide an enhancement of the effects arising from exotic...
Dr
Kai Zuber
(TU Dresden)
02/12/2013, 16:15
Double beta decay is an extremely rare nuclear decay process characterised by
a change in the atomic number Z by two units while leaving the mass number A constant. Basically it can occur in two modes, with the emission of two electrons and two anti-neutrinos or the emission of two electrons only. While the rst mode is expected within the current Standard Model of Particle Physics, the...
Mr
Giuseppe Lorusso
(RIKEN)
02/12/2013, 16:40
The shell structure at N = 82 plays a crucial role for the rapid neutron capture (r-) process. For example, it determines the shape of the large A∼130 peak in the solar system abundance pattern and affects the timescale of the r-process as well as the amount of neutrons later available for induced fission. However, below Z = 50 the evolution of the N = 82 gap is still unknown and, therefore,...
Dr
Leonid Grigorenko
(FLNR, JINR)
02/12/2013, 17:05
ACCULINNA is in-flight fragment separator based on U-400M cyclotron
at Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions (FLNR, JINR, Dubna, Russia).
In the recent years there was a successful line of research at FLNR
dealing with light dripline systems. Novel results were obtained
for such isotopes as 5H [1,2,3], 7H [4], 8He [5], 9He [6], 10He [5,7],
6Be [8], and 26S [9]. The major results of...
Dr
Robert Bark
(iThemba LABS)
03/12/2013, 09:35
Oral
iThemba LABS, based around the Separated Sector Cyclotron (SSC), is already the premier nuclear particle accelerator laboratory in Africa and indeed in the Southern Hemisphere. It proposes to address two of the “Grand Challenges” identified by the Dept. of Science & Technology, – i.e. Energy Security and Space Sciences – by building a rare-ion beam facility to bring South Africa to a position...
Prof.
Michael Thoennessen
(Michigan State University)
03/12/2013, 10:10
Oral
The next generation radioactive beam facility in the U.S. is the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) which is currently being established at Michigan State University. FRIB is based on a 200 MeV/u 400kW superconducting linear accelerator. Initial capabilities include fragmentation of fast heavy-ion beams combined with gas stopping and reacceleration. The science program of FRIB will cover...
Dr
Marek Lewitowicz
(GANIL)
03/12/2013, 11:05
Oral
Recent results related to study of nuclei far from stability obtained at the GANIL facility [1] will be presented. A short-term scientific program of the current facility and, in particular, the AGATA campaign at GANIL will be discussed.
A first phase of the SPIRAL 2 facility [1], an ambitious extension of the GANIL accelerator complex, will be accomplished in 2014. In the frame of this...
Dr
Karl Johnston
(Experimentalphysik, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken)
03/12/2013, 11:40
Oral
The ISOLDE facility is the longest running experiment at CERN. It is also the last fully dedicated to nuclear physics and its applications. In the 45 years since it first produced radioactive beams, it has pioneered the production of radioisotopes using the ISOL technique producing ever-more exotic beams. Now, in 2013, more than 1000 radioisotopes from 70 elements can be produced and this has...
Dr
Hideto En'yo
(RIKEN Nishina Center)
03/12/2013, 12:15
Oral
RIKEN Radio Isotope Beam Factory (RIBF) presently provides the most intense RI beam in the world. We outline the 80-year history of accelerator developments in RIKEN to reach the present facility, and the physics scope of RIBF is discussed, based on the recent results. The research strategy of Japanese nuclear physics is also introduced in connection with the world trend of upcoming nuclear...
Dr
Robert Tribble
(Texas A&M University)
03/12/2013, 13:50
Oral
We have developed indirect techniques to determine reaction rates at stellar energies for radioactive nuclei that are important in stellar evolution. The work to date has focused on measurements that are relevant for (p,gamma) reactions. The techniques that we have developed include determinations of Asymptotic Normalization Coefficients from transfer reactions to fix direct capture reaction...
Dr
Giacomo de Angelis
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)
03/12/2013, 14:25
Oral
The study of neutron-rich nuclei with unusually large neutron/proton ratio is challenging the conventional description of the structure of nuclei. Almost a decade of investigation has established that when moving from the region of β-stability to the drip line, the shell structure undergoes important modifications with the possible disappearance of the usual shell gaps and the emergence of new...
Dr
Florian Weissbach
(FAIR GmbH, Darmstadt)
03/12/2013, 15:20
Oral
The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe, FAIR, will provide worldwide unique accelerator and experimental facilities offering to scientists from the whole world an abundance of outstanding research opportunities, broader in scope than any other contemporary large-scale facility worldwide. Indeed, it is the largest basic research project on the roadmap of the European Strategy...
Sydney GALES
(ELI-NP)
03/12/2013, 15:55
Oral
The development of high power lasers and the combination of such novel devices with accelerator technology has enlarged the science reach of many research fields, in particular High energy, Nuclear and Astrophysics as well as societal applications in Material Science, Nuclear Energy and Medicine.
The European Strategic Forum for Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) has selected a proposal based...
Prof.
Reiner Kruecken
(TRIUMF)
04/12/2013, 09:00
Oral
TRIUMF's high power ISOL facility ISAC features world leading experiments that address current topics in nuclear structure, nuclear astrophysics, fundamental symmetries, and material science. This talk will provide an overview of the current facility and its capabilities, recent developments in terms of beam delivery and experimental capabilities, as well as recent highlights of the scientific...
Prof.
Steven Karataglidis
(University of Johannesburg)
04/12/2013, 09:35
Oral
The study of exotic nuclei, especially near and beyond the drip lines, is becoming increasingly important with the advent of new facilities, which seek to explore the nuclear landscape well beyond the valley of stability. Theoretical efforts have increased in order to develop realistic models and determine (predict) properties, given that many of the nuclei of relevance may still be...
Dr
Giordano Cerizza
(University of Tennessee)
04/12/2013, 10:00
Oral
Characterizing the nature of single-particle states outside of double shell closures is essential to a fundamental understanding of nuclear structure. This is especially true for those doubly magic nuclei that lie far from stability and where the shell closures influence nucleosynthetic pathways. The region around Sn-100 is one of the most important due to the proximity of the N=Z=50 magic...
Prof.
Anthony Cowley
(Stellenbosch University and iThemba LABS)
04/12/2013, 10:25
Oral
Two-nucleon transfer, such as (p,t) and (p,3He) reactions on stable nuclei, was studied extensively in the past, thereby successfully revealing crucial properties of stable nuclei. For unstable target systems this type of reaction also promises to be especially useful. However, a theoretical description of the reaction in terms of the distorted-wave Born approximation suffers from several...
Prof.
Krishanlal Bharuth-Ram
(University of KwaZulu-Natal)
04/12/2013, 11:10
The hyperfine interactions between the magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole moments of probe nuclei embedded in condensed matter have been utilized for many years to infer information either on the properties of the probe nuclei or of the matrix in which they are located [1]. These hyperfine interactions have led to development of interrogation techniques which allow the study of effects at...
Dr
Deena Naidoo
(School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS, 2050)
04/12/2013, 11:45
Oxides, in particular ZnO doped with 3d-metal impurities has been of scientific interest since the suggestion that it could be a magnetic semiconductor with applications in spintronics [1]. 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy is a powerful method to determine the properties of the probe atoms, giving simultaneously information on the charge/spin state, site symmetry and on magnetic interactions. In...
Dr
Ulrich Wahl
(IST/ITN, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa)
04/12/2013, 12:10
Emission channeling (EC) relies on implanting single crystals with radioactive probe atoms that decay by the emission of charged particles such as alpha, beta- or beta+ particles or conversion electrons, which, on their way out of the crystal, experience channeling or blocking effects along crystallographic axes and planes. The resulting anisotropic particle emission yield from the crystal...
Dr
Filip Kondev
(Argonne National Laboratory)
05/12/2013, 10:00
Deformed, axially-symmetric nuclei in the trans-fermium region are known to exhibit high-K isomerism, because of the presence of high-$\Omega$ orbitals near both the proton and neutron Fermi surfaces. The properties of such isomers provide important information on the single-particle structures and on the role played by the pairing, and residual nucleon-nucleon interactions in the region. It...
Dr
Manfred Deicher
(Experimentalphysik, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken)
05/12/2013, 11:10
Progress in semiconductor technology requires a thorough understanding and control of defects responsible for the properties of semiconducting materials, both of intrinsic defects, such as vacancies, self-interstitials, or anti-sites, and of extrinsic defects, such as dopants and impurity atoms. Depending on the material and the structural size used in a device, the electrical and optical...
Mr
Hilary Masenda
(School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa)
05/12/2013, 11:45
III-Nitrides doped with 3d metals have attracted much attention since the theoretical prediction that Mn-doped GaN is a potential dilute magnetic semiconductors with high Curie temperatures (Tc ≥ 300 K), resulting from carrier mediated magnetic interactions due to itinerant holes coupling with localized dopant spins. Several reports have shown these materials to exhibit different forms of...
Prof.
Patrick Regan
(University of Surrey & The National Physical Laboratory, UK)
05/12/2013, 12:10
Precision measurements of electromagnetic transition rates provide accurate inputs
into nuclear data evaluations and are also used to test and validate predictions of state of the art nuclear structure models. Measurements of transition rates can be used to ascertain or rule out multipolarity assignments for the measured EM decay, thereby providing spins and parity (difference) information...
Dr
Giacomo de Angelis
(INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)
05/12/2013, 13:35
Oral
The SPES radioactive ion beam facility is presently under construction at the Legnaro National Laboratories. The aim of the project is to provide high intensity and high-quality beams of neutron-rich nuclei to perform forefront research in nuclear structure, reaction dynamics and interdisciplinary fields like medical, biological and material sciences. SPES is a second generation ISOL...
Prof.
John F Sharpey-Schafer
(University of Western Cape)
05/12/2013, 14:10
Oral
It is well known that simple monopole pairing is a pretty crude approximation. It can account for the observations that the ground states of all even-even nuclei have spin-parity 01+ and that there is a pairing gap above the ground state in deformed nuclei before particle-hole (p-h) configurations can be excited. As an approximation it is best for proton and neutron mid-shell nuclei where the...
Dr
Muhsin Harakeh
(KVI)
05/12/2013, 14:35
Oral
For the MAYA and EXL collaborations
Isoscalar giant resonances in exotic nuclei can be studied using inelastic alpha scattering in inverse kinematics. In particular, the compression modes, i.e. isoscalar giant monopole (ISGMR) and dipole (ISGDR) resonances are very interesting because they can furnish information on the different terms of the nuclear incompressibility, especially if...
Dr
Sergey Zemlyanoy
(Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia)
05/12/2013, 15:15
Unexplored area of heavy neutron rich nuclei is very important for nuclear physics investigations and, in particular, for the understanding of astrophysical nucleosynthesis. In this region is the closed neutron shell N=126 located which is the last “waiting point” in the r-process .The half-lives and other characteristics of these nuclei are extremely important for this process and scenario of...
Mr
Christopher Bauer
(TU Darmstadt)
05/12/2013, 15:15
Recent data on transition strengths, namely the hitherto unknown B(E2) values of radioactive Nd-140 and Sm-142 in the N=80 isotones, have suggested that the proton 1g7/2 subshell closure at Z=58 has an impact on the properties of low-lying collective states [1,2].
The unstable, neutron-rich nuclei Nd-140 and Sm-142 were investigated via projectile Coulomb excitation at the REX-ISOLDE facility...
Dr
Andrey Popeko
(Joint Institute for Nuclear Reserach)
05/12/2013, 15:35
In the past, various types of reactions and identification techniques were applied in the investigation of formation cross sections and decay properties of transuranium elements. The fusion - evaporation reactions with heavy targets, recoil - separation techniques and identification of nuclei by the parent -- daughter generic coincidences with the known daughter-nuclei after implantation into...
Iyabo Usman
(University of the Witwatersrand)
05/12/2013, 15:35
Level densities are fundamental quantities in the description of many-body systems. Besides their importance as a basic nuclear structure property, it is well known that, through the statistical model of nuclear reactions, level densities have a strong impact on the results of calculations of other nuclear physics observables. This is particularly so for thermonuclear rates in nucleosynthesis...
Prof.
Yuri Pyatkov
(JINR, MEPhI)
05/12/2013, 15:55
In our previous pablications devoted to the collinear cluster tri-parttition of the low excited nuclei [1, 2] we have discussed the role of scattering medium in the registration of the CCT products. Briefly, even if initially two CCT partners fly in the same direction perfectly collinearly they get some angular divergence after passing the scattering medium on the flight pass due to the...
Dr
Alexander Volya
(Florida State University)
05/12/2013, 15:55
Multi-particle correlations are important in nuclear clustering, alpha decays, multi-particle transfer reactions and in other aspects of nuclear dynamics. In this presentation we use the modern configuration-interaction approach to study these questions. Using algebraic models and some of the most advanced realistic shell model Hamiltonians, we explore the alpha spectroscopic factors for...
Prof.
Hans Feldmeier
(GSI)
05/12/2013, 16:15
Light nuclei are studied within the Fermionic Molecular Dynamics model.
An effective interaction based on the Argonne V18 interaction is used
for all nuclei. Short-range central and tensor correlations are treated
explicitly using a unitary correlation operator. The evolution of
cluster structures and halos with increasing neutron or proton number
or excitation energy is discussed....
Dr
Alla Demyanova
(NRC Kurchatov Institue Moscow Russia)
05/12/2013, 16:15
The results of measuring the radii of some excited states of light nuclei are presented. A method based on the analysis the diffraction patterns of the cross-section (Modified diffraction model MDM) was proposed. We studied the inelastic α-scattering on 9Be, 11B, 12C and 13C with the excitation of some excited states whose structure recently attracted a lot of attention from different...
Dr
M J Taylor
(Schuster Laboratory, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK)
05/12/2013, 16:35
Proton emission rates are highly sensitive to nuclear deformation but in all known cases the deformation has never been experimentally determined. Currently, tunnelling calculations have to rely on theoretical estimates of quadrupole deformation, a key input parameter, due to the lack of experimentally determined values. In order to address this logical weakness, A new plunger device, DPUNS,...
Prof.
Karlheinz Langanke
(GSI Darmstadt)
06/12/2013, 09:05
Modern many-body models, like various versions of the interacting shell model, have allowed to decisively improve the description of weak-interaction processes like electron captures and neutrino-induced reactions on nuclei under supernova conditions. The talk will describe these advances, compare the model predictions with relevant experimental data and show their impact on the supernova...
Prof.
Toshio Suzuki
(Nihon University)
06/12/2013, 09:40
Oral
Roles of nuclear weak processes in nucleosynthesis in stars and star evoultions are discussed based on recent studies on nuclear structure of both stable and unstable nuclei.
New neutrino-nucleus reaction cross sections are evaluated by using new shell-model Hamiltonians, which have proper tensor interactions and explain well the shell evolutions (change of magic numbers) toward...
Prof.
Catalin Borcea
(IFIN-HH Bucharest)
06/12/2013, 10:05
Oral
An activation experiment has been performed at the IFIN-HH Tandem
accelerator (Bucharest) for obtaining information about the behaviour of
fusion cross section at below barrier energies. The acquisition system was based on TNT digitizers and should face heavy loads at the beginning of the measurements. Special algorithms have been developed to account for the dead time and they will be...
Prof.
Yuri Penionzhkevich
(JINR)
06/12/2013, 10:30
Oral
Recently the scientific society marked several anniversaries, connected with discoveries which have played significant role in the development of astrophysical investigations. The year 2009 was chosen by the United Nations and UNESCO to be the year of astronomy. This was inspired by the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei’s discovery of the telescope, giving the start of regular studies in...
Prof.
Peter von Neumann-Cosel
(Institut fuer Kernphysik, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt)
06/12/2013, 11:10
Oral
At RCNP Osaka, Japan, and iThemba LABS, South Africa, new facilities allowing for inelastic proton scattering at energies of a few hundred MeV per nucleon under extreme forward angles including zero degree have been developed. Some highlights of the physics addressed with these systems are presented. For example, they facilitate the measurement of the complete E1 strength from low excitation...
Dr
Mathis Wiedeking
(iThemba LABS)
06/12/2013, 11:45
Oral
Over the last decade several measurements in light- and medium-mass nuclei have reported an enhanced ability for the absorption and emission of gamma radiation (photon strength function PSF) at low energies. The impact of this effect may have profound implications on neutron capture reaction rates which are not only responsible for the formation of elements heavier than iron in stellar and...
Dr
Konstantin Stopani
(Moscow State University, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics)
06/12/2013, 12:10
Oral
A number of naturally present nuclei from 74Se to 196Hg lie far from the stellar s- and r-process' trajectories and their abundances can not be explained by nucleosynthesis in neutron capture reactions. These nuclei are known as p-nuclei and photonuclear reactions are believed to be one of the channels of their production [1]. Existing calculation models can not accurately describe p-nuclei...
Mr
Mohamed Reda Oudih
(Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Faculté de Physique, USTHB)
Poster
Cluster decay is a kind of radioactivity in which the emitted nuclei are heavier than alpha particle but lighter than the binary fission fragments. This is one of the famous phenomena which have been predicted theoretically before to be confirmed experimentally. This is because this type of decay occurs in nuclei that decay primarily by alpha emission. The branching ratios relative to alpha...
Prof.
Viacheslav Samarin
(Leading Research Scientist of Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions of Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
Poster
At low energy reactions in the vicinity of the coulomb barrier height colliding nuclei may have dynamical deformations. Vibrations of the surfaces of nuclei, occurring within the range of nuclear forces over the colliding time commensurate with the period of vibrations, cannot be independent. The energies of excited stationary vibrational states of a dinuclear system that correspond to...
Mr
Shubhchintak Sharma
(Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee)
Oral
Coulomb breakup of nuclei away from the valley of stability have been one of the most successful probes to unravel their structure. However, it is only recently that one is venturing into medium mass nuclei like 23O and 31Ne. This is a very new and exciting development which has expanded the field of light exotic nuclei to the deformed medium mass region.
In this contribution we...
Dr
V. A. Maslov
(Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna)
Poster
A project of the high-resolution magnetic analyzer MAVR is proposed. The analyzer will comprise new magnetic optical and detecting systems for separation and identification of reaction products in a wide range of masses (5–150) and charges (1–60).
The magnetic optical system consists of the MSP–144 magnet and a doublet of quadrupole lenses. This will allow the solid angle of the spectrometer...
Dr
Tatjana Chuvilskaya
(NPI Moscow State University)
Poster
One of the trends in modeling of rare isotopes production is the creation and the development of codes which, on the one hand, realize various standard theoretical approaches of the reactions producing exotic nuclei and, on the other hand, contains a large bulk of nuclear data. This development follows the direction of higher capability of the programs and, in addition, makes these codes...
Dr
G. Kaminski
(Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, 141980 Dubna, Russia)
Poster
The new project of the in-flight fragment separator ACCULINNA-2 [1] at U-400M cyclotron in Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reaction, JINR is proposed as the third generation of the Dubna Radioactive Ions Beams complex, briefly DRIBs [2]. It is expected to be a more universal and powerful instrument in comparison with existing separator ACCULINNA [3]. The RIBs intensity should be increased by...
Prof.
Viacheslav Samarin
(Leading Research Scientist of Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions of Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
Poster
The probabilities p of the external neutron transfer of 6He and 18O nuclei at different energies of the neutron separation ε, energies in a center of mass system E and collision impact parameter b were calculated via a numerical solution to the nonstation ary Schrödinger equations [1]. An analytical approximation of the probability was found and used to calculate the cross section for...
Dr
Sifiso Senzo Ntshangase
(University of Zululand)
Poster
S.S. Ntshangase1, R.A. Bark2, D.G. Aschman7, P.M. Davidson4, A.N. Wilson4, J.J. Lawrie2, S.M. Mullins2, E.A . Lawrie2, P. Nieminen4, T.S. Dinoko3, K. Juhasz6, A. Krasznahorkay6, M.A. Stankiewicz7, B. Nyako6, J.F. Sharpey-Schafer2, R.M. Lieder2, J. Timar6, O. Shirinda2, P. Papka5, S.N.T Majola1 , D.G. Roux8, N. Orce3
1. University of Zululand, KwaDlangezwa, 3886, South Africa
2. iThemba...
Dr
Andrey Zubov
(Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
Poster
Using the cluster model, the population of the yrast superdeformed states of $^{152}$Dy nucleus treated as dinuclear configuration is described. The excitation functions for the production of the superdeformed states in the different asymmetric and almost symmetric reactions are calculated and analyzed. The dependencies of the relative intensities of $E2$-transitions between the rotational...
Mr
Arnoux Rossouw
(Stellenbosch University)
, Ms
Olga Artoshina
(Dubna International University)
Poster
During the last decade extra attention has been placed on methods of reagent less water purification based on applications of advanced oxidation processes (AOPs). Especially when using photocatalytic materials both consolidated or in suspension. Composite membrane-photocatalyst systems aim to mineralize organic substances absorbed on the membrane surface during water filtration.
In this study...
Prof.
S. MUKHERJEE
(Physics Department, Faculty of Science, M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara - 390 002, India)
Poster
The fusion of weakly bound nuclei, both stable and radioactive, has been the subject of renewed interest both in theory and experiment. In the recent years with the advent of acceleration techniques, it has become possible to produce variable in energy, relatively intense beams of weakly bound nuclei in a wide range of N and Z. The use of secondary beams of radioactive nuclei considerably...
Alexander Karpov
(Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research,)
Poster
During last decade the heaviest elements with Z=113-118 were discovered in Dubna in fusion reactions of 48Ca beam with appropriate actinide targets. The 48Ca program of synthesis of new elements is over as no heavier target than Californium is available. However 48Ca-based fusion reactions may be still used, in particular, for exploring new lands on the nuclear map. The perspectives of...
Dr
SIMON MULLINS
(iThemba LABS (Gauteng))
Poster
The DIAMANT light-charged-particle detector from ATOMKI has been coupled with the AFRODITE gamma-ray spectrometer at iThemba LABS in a collaboration enabled by a bilateral agreement between the governments of South Africa and Hungary. This has facilitated the study of incomplete fusion reactions in the bombardment of a Ytterbium-176 target with a beam of 50 MeV Lithium-7 ions. The beam was...
