Frontiers in Gamma Ray Spectroscopy FIG18

Scientific Programme

12 -14 March 2018

Inaugural Session

12 March 2018
9:30 - 9:50 Welcome Address

9:50 - 10:30 First spectroscopy of 40Mg
P. Fallon (LBNL)

Tea

10:30 - 11:00

Session 1

11:00 - 11:30 Lifetime measurements for sensitive tests of nuclear models in the collective regime
Bo. Cederwall (KTH)
11:30 - 12:00 Probing the structure of isotopically identified fission fragments@VAMOS
A. Navin (GANIL)
12:00 - 12:30 Systematics of Band Termination at High-Spin in N~90 Nuclei: How Robust and Pure Are These Special States?
M. Riley (FSU)
12:30 - 13:00 Seniority and Generalized Seniority: How far can we stretch these quantum numbers?
A.K. Jain (IITR)

Lunch

13:00 - 14:00

Session 2

14:00 - 14:30 Evolution of collectivity and symmetry in nuclei
S. Muralithar (IUAC)
14:30 - 15:00 Fission Fragment Spectroscopy: Challenges and opportunities
D.C. Biswas (BARC)
15:00 - 15:30 Probing nuclei near shell closure using alpha beam
S. Bhattacharya(VECC)
15:30 - 16:00 Nuclear symmetries: critical observation through
measurement of short lifetimes
P. Das (IIT BombaY)
16:00 - 16:20 High Spin Spectroscopy: Microscopic Theory and
Perspectives
C.R. Praharaj (IOPB)

Poster Session

16:20 - 19:00

Session 3

13 March 2018

9:00 - 9:30 Isomers from multi-nucleon hole configurations near
doubly-magic 208Pb
S. Tandel (CEBS)
9:30 - 10:00 Nuclear structure studies in the vicinity of shell closure
S. Sihotra (PU)

Tea Session

10:00 - 10:15

Session 4

10:15 - 10:45 FAIR and NUSTAR - Status and opportunities
J. Gerl (FAIR/GSI)
10:45 - 11:15 Nuclear structure studies with brilliant gamma beams at ELI-NP
D.L. Balabanski (ELINP)
11:15 - 11:45 CAGRA Project at RCNP, Osaka University
E. Ideguchi (RCNP)
11:45 - 12:15 Nuclear physics studies at the Legnaro National Laboratories
F. Recchia (Univ. Padova)
12:15 - 12:45 Beta-delayed neutron emitters and advances in fast neutron
spectroscopy
P. Chowdhury (UM Lowell)
12:45 - 13:00 Short presentation

Lunch

13:00 - 14:00

Parallel Session 1 (Venue AG 66)

14:00 - 14:15 Alternating parity bands in 216Fr
A.Y. Deo (IITR)
14:15 - 14:30 Multiple facets of level structure in a shape-transitional
nucleus
S. Mukhopadhyay (BARC)
14:30 - 14:45 Investigation of the level structure of 29Al at high spin
A. Chakraborty (Visva Bharati)
14:45 - 15:00 Exploring nature of collectivity in Lu nuclei with mass A ~165 via
lifetime measurements
S. Chamoli (DU)

Parallel Session 2 (AG69)

14:00 - 14:15 Energy Dependent Spin Distribution Measurements in
16O+159Tb System
B.P. Singh (AMU)

14;15 - 14:30 Investigation of fragment capture reaction mechanism
involving weakly bound 7Li
S. Pandit (BARC)

14:30 - 14:45 Proton capture cross section measurements at astrophysical
relevant energies
T. Trivedi (GG Univ)

14:45 - 15:00 Ancillary detectors for gamma spectroscopy
A. Jhingan (IUAC)

15:00 - 15:15 Study of cross-talk in a planar HPGe strip detector
C.S. Palshetkar (TIFR)

Tea

15:15 - 15:30

Session 5

15:30 - 16:00 Systematic study of fission fragment de-excitation depending
on compound system and excitation energy
Andreas OBERSTEDT (ELI-NP)
16:00 - 16:30 Measurement of gamma rays from both hadronic and
electromagnetic decay of giant resonance of 12C and 16O
M. Sakuda (Okayama Univ)
16:30 - 17:00 Search for Double Beta Decay in 94Zr
V. Nanal (TIFR)
17:00 - 17:30 Nuclear Deformation and the search for neutrinoless double
beta decay: A case study of 76Ge
D. AYANGEAKAA (US NA)

Poster Session

17:30 - 19:00

Session 6

14 March

9:00 - 9:30 Of Signals, Shapes and Shells: Nuclear Structure Studies at the Consortium
S. S. GHUGRE (IUC-CSR-KC)
9:30 - 10:00 Detector requirements and simulation for HISPEC/DESPEC experiments at Super-FRS
S. Saha (GSI)

Tea

10:00 - 10:15

Session 7

10:15 - 10:45 Wobbling Motion in A130 Nuclei
U. Garg (NDU)

10:45 - 11:15 Shape evolution in neutron-rich Zr nuclei
P. Singh (CEA)

11:15 - 11:45 Consistent description of shell gaps and deformed states
around 16O and 40Ca
Yutaka UTSUNO

11:45 - 12:15 Studies of extremely deformed nuclei near 40Ca
Piotr BEDNARCZYK (Krakow)

12:15 - 12:45 Ab initio shell-model study of nuclear observables
P.C. Srivastava (IITR)

12:45 - 13: 00 Short presentation

Lunch

13:00 - 14:00

Session 8

14:00 - 14:30 Reinforce in low and intermediate states of the beta stable
Ba and Xe nuclei near N=82 shell closure
S. Kumar (DU)

14:30 - 15:00 Evidence of gamma-instability in 124Te
H.P. Sharma (BHU)

15:00 - 15:30 An overview of recent experiments at VECC-INGA array
A. Goswami (SINP)

15:30 - 15:40 Concluding Remark

Tea

15:40 - 16:00

NSF Colloquium

16:00 - 17:00 Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and the Ever-Fascinating World of the Atomic Nucleus
M. Riley(FSU)