Conference Presentations
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| Monday, November 12, 2007 | |
| Opening Session Chair: J.H. Hamilton |
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| 8:20 a.m. | J. H. Hamilton: Opening Remarks |
| 8:30 | W. Nazarewicz: Nuclear Structure '07: Exciting, Broad, Relevant |
| 9:00 | M. Wiescher:Nuclear Processes in Stellar Explosions |
| 9:30 | T. Glasmacher: In Beam y-Spectroscopy of Neutron-Rich Nuclei at NSCL |
| NUCLEAR STRUCTURE I Chair: E.F. Zganjar |
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| 10:30 a.m. | A. Covello: Shell-Model Structure of Neutron-Rich Nuclei Beyond 132Sn (656 KB) |
| 10:55 | S. Sarkar: Shell and Evolution of Collectivity in Nuclei Above the 132Sn Core (1.5 MB) |
| 11:20 | S. Umar: Heavy-Ion Fusion and Fission Using Density-Constrained TDHF (1.1 MB) |
| 11:45 | J. P. Draayer: Towards and Extended SU(3) Shell Model for Upper-fp Shell Nuclei (577 KB) |
| 12:10 p.m. | D. K. Gridnev: Properties of the Zr and Pb Isotopes Near the Drip-Line (271 KB) |
| 12:35 | K. Li: Identification of High Spin States in 137,138Cs Nuclei and Shell Model Calculation (756 KB) |
| 12:55 | G. S. Simpson: Recent Measurements of Spherical and Deformed Microsecond Isomers Using the Lohengrin Fission-Fragment Spectrometer (953 KB) |
| NUCLEAR STRUCTURE II Chair: M. Kirson |
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| 4:00 p.m. | P. Boutachkov: Recent Results from the RISING Project (2.1 MB) |
| 4:25 | G. de Angelis: Exploring the Evolution of the Shell Structure by Means of Deep Inelastic Reactions (2.8 MB) |
| 4:50 | S. Lunardi: Spectroscopy of Neutron-Rich Nuclei of the A~60 Region Populated Through Binary Heavy-Ion Collisions (2.6 MB) |
| 5:10 | R. Krücken: Probing Shell Closures in Neutron-Rich Nuclei (1 MB) |
| 5:30 | N. Hoteling: Structure of Fe Isotopes at the Limits of the pf-Shell |
| 5:50 | A. Navin: Towards Reaching New Frontiers at GANIL: Skins, Shells and Mirrors (2.8 MB) |
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 |
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| RADIOACTIVE ION BEAM FACILITIES Chair: F. Bertrand |
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| 8:30 a.m. | J. Beene: HRIBF: Scientific Highlights, Recent Facility Development and Future Prospects |
| 8:55 | S. Gales: SPIRAL2@GANIL: A World Leading ISOL Facility in Europe at the Dawn of the New Decade (3.1 MB) |
| 9:20 | H. Stoecker: FAIR - GSI |
| 9:45 | W. L. Zhan: Perspective of Nuclear Structure Research at HIRFL |
| 10:10 | A. Shotter: Radioactive Beams From a High Powered ISOL System |
| Chair: A. Aprahamian | |
| 11:00 a.m. | K. Gelbke: NSCL – Ongoing Activities and Future Prspectives (2.3 MB) |
| 11:25 | W. Henning: Rare Isotope Beams at Argonne |
| 11:50 | G. M. Ter-Akopian: Radioactive Ion Beam Research Done in Dubna (822 KB) |
| 12:15 p.m. | S.K. Tandel: Spectroscopy of K isomers in shell-stabilized trans-fermium nuclei (1.3 MB) |
| FISSION (Parallel Session A) Chair: Lee Riedinger |
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| 2:30 p.m. | A. G. Smith: The Development of the STEFF Spectrometer for Spontaneous and Neutron-Induced Fission-Fragment Spectroscopy |
| 2:55 | D. L. Bleuel: Gamma Ray Multiplicity of Cf-252 Spontaneous Fission Using LiBerACE |
| 3:15 | I. Nishinaka: Excitation Energy Dependence of Fragment Mass and Total Kinetic Energy Distributions in Proton-Induced Fission of Light Actinides (513 KB) |
| 3:35 | T. Wada: A Dynamical Calculation of Multi-Modal Nuclear Fission |
| 3:55 | A. Unzhakova: Structure of Fission Potential-Energy Surfaces in Ten- Dimensional Deformation Spaces (845 KB) |
| FISSION (Parallel Session B) Chair: J. Kliman |
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| 4:40 p.m. | V. Gudkov: A Possible Enhancement of Nuclear Fission in Scattering with Low Energy Charged Particles (565 KB) |
| 5:00 | M. Papa: Fission Dynamics in the 124Sn+64Ni and 112Sn+58Ni Systems at 35 MeV/Nucleon |
| 5:20 | J. Skalski: Relative Kinetic Energy Correction to Fission Barriers (919 KB) |
| NEW EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES (Parallel Session C) Chair: E. Spejewski |
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| 2:30 p.m. | R. Pardo: Neutron-Rich Beams from 252Cf Fission at ATLAS – The CARIBU project (3.2 MB) |
| 2:55 | K. Rykaczewski: Low-Energy Radioactive Beam Spectroscopy Station at HRIBF (1.8 MB) |
| 3:20 | A. Piechaczek: High Resolution Isobar Separator for Decay Spectroscopy (1 MB) |
| 3:45 | L. Biasetto: The SPES Multi-Foil Direct Fission Target |
| 4:05 | U. Datta Pramanik: Exploring Structure of Neutron-Rich Nuclei Through Coulomb and Nuclear Interactions |
| NEW EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES (Parallel Session D) Chair: W.C. Ma |
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| 4:45 p.m. | S. Heffner: A Time Projection Chamber (TPC) for Precision 239Pu(n,f) Cross Section Measurement |
| 5:05 | R. Bhowmik: Indian National Gamma Array: Present and Future (1.8 MB) |
| 5:25 | S. Pain: Development of ORRUBA – A Silicon Array for the Measurement of Transfer Reactions in Inverse Kinematics |
| 5:45 | H. Griffin: Measuring Absolute Intensities of x and y-rays in A=206-243 Decays (823 KB) |
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 |
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| SUPERHEAVY THEORY AND EXPERIMENTS Chair: K. Gelbke |
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| 8:30 a.m. | M. G. Itkis: The Process of Fusion-Fission and Quasi-Fission of Heavy and Superheavy Nuclei |
| 8:55 | D. Jacquet: Super Heavy Elements Stability Probed by Fission Time Measurements (2.8 MB) |
| 9:20 | S. Hofmann: Study of Superheavy Elements at SHIP (5 MB) |
| 9:50 | Y. Oganession: Heaviest Nuclei from 48Ca-Induced Reactions (1.5 MB) |
| 10:20 | W. Greiner: Superheavy Nuclei and Giant Nuclear Systems – The Vacuum Decay in Supercritical Fields (5 MB) |
| Chair: J. Draayer | |
| 11:10 a.m. | D. Poenaru: Fission Approach to Alpha-Decay of Superheavy Nuclei |
| 11:35 | C. Samanta: Superheavy Elements in the Magic Islands (214 KB) |
| 12:00 p.m. | H. Koura: Systematical Study of Nuclear Fission in the Region of Superheavy and Neutron-Rich Nuclei (670 KB) |
| 12:20 | A. V. Afanasjev: Relativistic Mean Field Studies of Superheavy Nuclei |
| 12:40 | W. Loveland: Understanding the Synthesis of the Heaviest Nuclei |
| Thursday, November 15, 2007 | |
| MASS MEASUREMENTS AND g-FACTORS Chair: C. Bingham |
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| 8:20 a.m. | R. Orlandi (G. Smith will give paper): g-Factor Measurements in Neutron- Rich 252Cf Fission Fragments Measured Using the Gammasphere Array |
| 8:45 | A. V. Daniel: Technique for Measuring Angular Correlations and g-Factors in Neutron Rich Nuclei Produced by the Spontaneous Fission of 252Cf (5 MB) |
| 9:10 | N. Benczer-Koller: Magnetic Moment Measurements in a Radioactive Beam Environment |
| 9:35 | N. J. Stone: Short-lived Excited State g-Factor Measurements with RIB's and from Fission Sources at Gammasphere: Opportunities and Limitations of the Recoil-in-Vacuum (RIV) Method (349 KB) |
| 10:00 | A. Jokinen: Precision Mass Measurements and Trap-Assisted Spectroscopy of Fission Products from Ni to Pd (1.9 MB) |
| FISSION Chair: R. Haight |
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| 10:50 a.m. | A. Staszczak: Bimodal Fission (5.1 MB) |
| 11:15 | F.-J. Hambsch: Fission Research at IRMM |
| 11:40 | T. Hill: The Fission Measurement Program at LANSCE (1.3 MB) |
| 12:05 p.m. | H. Penttilä: Fission Yield Measurements at the IGISOL Facility with JYFLTRAP (14.8 MB) |
| 12:30 | A. Heinz: Fission of Radioactive Beams and Dissipation in Nuclear Matter (962 KB) |
| 12:55 | C. M. Folden III: Fission of 238U at 80 MeV/u and Search for New Neutron-Rich Isotopes |
| Session A | |
| FISSION Chair: L. Moretto |
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| 2:30 | R. C. Haight: Measurement of the Average Energy and Multiplicity of Prompt-Fission Neutrons and Gamma Rays from 235,238U(n,f), 237Np(n,f), and 239Pu(n,f) for Incident Neutron Energies of 1 to 200 MeV |
| 2:50 | M. Jandel: Neutron-Induced Fission Measurements with DANCE |
| 3:10 | F. Tovesson: Measured and Calculated Neutron-Induced Fission Cross Sections of 239-242Pu (1 MB) |
| 3:30 | L. Phair: The Fission Barrier Landscape (1.7 MB) |
| 3:50 | A. B. Laptev: Fast Neutron-Induced Fission of Some Actinides and Sub- Actinides |
| Session B | |
| FISSION/NUCLEAR STRUCTURE Chair: N. Guardala |
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| 4:30 | M. Caamano: Complex Structure in Even-Odd Staggering in Fission Fragment Yields (1.8 MB) |
| 4:50 | S. R. Lesher: The Surrogate Ratio Method; the Past, Present and Future |
| 5:10 | H. Esbensen: Effects of Nuclear Incompressibility on Heavy-ion Fusion (404 KB) |
| 5:30 | A. Bhagwat: Microscopic a – Nucleus Potential for Fusion and Decay |
| 5:50 | J. B. Gupta: Anomalous Level Structure of 150Sm in IBM and DPPQ Model (1.7 MB) |
| Session C | |
| ASTROPHYSICS Chair: C. Beausang |
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| 2:30 | A. Bonasera: Measuring the Astrophysical S-Factor in Plasma (2 MB) |
| 2:50 | D. Bardayan: Spectroscopic Factors for Low-Lying 16N Levels |
| 3:10 | J. K. Hwang: Is There a Spherical Shell Quenching in N=82 130Cd? (1.1 MB) |
| 3:30 | M. A. Stoyer (W. Walters will give paper): Nuclear Structure Systematics of Neutron-Rich Pd and Cd Isotopes Near A=120 |
| Session D | |
| NUCLEAR STRUCTURE Chair: S. Pancholi |
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| 4:15 | A. Stolz: Discovery of New Neutron-Rich Mg, A1, and Si Isotopes at the NSCL |
| 4:40 | V. Tripathi: Spectroscopy of Exotic Na Isotopes: 28,29,30Na (2.7 MB) |
| 5:00 | W. Krolas: Rearrangement of Proton Single Particle Orbitals in Neutron- Rich Potassium Isotopes (723 KB) |
| 5:20 | B. Cheal: Laser Spectroscopy and the Nature of the Shape Transition at N~60 (2 MB) |
| 5:40 | N. Fotiadis: Study of Nuclei Near Stability as Fission Fragments Following Heavy-Ion Fusion Reactions (877 KB) |
| 6:00 | M. Wiedeking: Nuclear Structure of Neutron-Rich 18N (573 KB) |
| Friday, November 16, 2007 | |
| NUCLEAR ASTROPHYSICS Chair: M. Wiescher |
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| 8:30 a.m. | M. Pfutzner: Isomer Spectroscopy Near 132Sn – First Observation of Excited States in 130Cd (2.1 MB) |
| 8:55 | A. Aprahamian: Nuclear Masses and What They Imply for Neutron-Rich Nuclei (909 KB) |
| 9:20 | F. Montes: Stellar Abundances in the Early Galaxy |
| 9:45 | J. A. Cizewski: Single Neutron Structure of Neutron-Rich Nuclei Near 132Sn |
| 10:10 | W. Walters: 128Cd: Ugly Duckling or Young Swan (1.1 MB) |
| NUCLEAR STRUCTURE Chair: L. Chaturvedi |
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| 11:00 a.m. | T. Motobayashi: RIKEN RIBeam Factory (1.8 MB) |
| 11:25 | D. Almehed: Microscopic Description of Chiral Vibrations |
| 11:50 | Y. X. Luo: Evidence for Chiral Doublet Bands in 110,112Ru (3.7 MB) |
| 12:15 p.m. | J. O. Rasmussen: Unusual Octupole Shape Deformation Terms and K-Mixing (907 KB) |
| 12:40 | C. Goodin: Spin and Parity Assignment of Levels in Odd-Parity Doublet Bands in 108,110,112Ru Using Angular Correlations with Gammasphere |
| 1:00 | S. J. Zhu: Level Structures and Double y-Bands in 105Mo, 108Mo and 112Ru |
| Saturday, November 17, 2007 | |
| NUCLEAR THEORY Chair: A. Covello |
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| 8:30 a.m. | N. Hinohara: Microscopic Dynamics of Shape Coexistence Phenomena Around 68Se and 72Kr (2.4 MB) |
| 8:55 | A. Faessler: Nuclear Structure, Double Beta Decay and Test of Physics Beyond the Standard Model (578 KB) |
| 9:20 | S. Misicu: Collective Modes in Elastic Nuclear Matter and Finite Nuclei |
| 9:40 | J. R. Stone: Ground State Properties of Even-Even Neutron-Rich Fission Products in the Region 40<Z<64 in Non-Relativistic Hartree-Fock + BCS Mean-Field Model with a Modified Separable Monopole Interaction (330 KB) |
| NUCLEAR STRUCTURE Chair: J. Cizewski |
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| 10:30 a.m. | R. Grzywacz: Decay Studies of Nuclei Near 78Ni |
| 10:55 | J. A. Winger: Failure of the 78Ni Core for Z>28,N>50? (877 KB) |
| 11:25 | I. Stefanescu: Coulomb Excitation of the Odd-A 67,69,71,73Cu Isotopes with MINIBALL and REX-ISOLDE (1.5 MB) |
| 11:50 | M. Rajabali: Neutron Single Particle States and Isomers near 78Ni (1.8 MB) |
| 12:10 p.m. | S. V. Ilyushkin: ß and ß-Delayed Neutron Decay Studies of 76-79Cu at the HRIBF (674 KB) |