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Nuclear Chemistry
Frontiers of Nuclear Structure through Spectroscopy and Reactions
June 21-26, 2009
Colby-Sawyer College
New London, NH
Chair:
Andrew E. Stuchbery

Vice Chair:
Francesca Gulminelli

The 2009 Gordon Research Conference on Nuclear Chemistry will focus on the frontiers of nuclear structure research. It will provide a forum to discuss the most exciting results from theory and experiment, as well as new facilities, new instrumentation and new techniques. The subtitle for the 2009 GRC has been chosen to recognize that we are entering an era in which there is increasing overlap of interest between ‘Nuclear Reactions’ and ‘Nuclear Structure’, particularly through radioactive beam research. The program includes work at the interface of nuclear structure with nuclear astrophysics, and the interface of nuclear structure with nuclear reactions.

The conference format allocates generous time for open and lively discussion both during and outside the scientific sessions. As in previous Nuclear Chemistry Gordon Conferences, the poster sessions will play a key role in the presentation and discussion of forefront research. To promote the communication and discussion of the very latest research, participants not giving a talk are encouraged to present a poster. The tradition of selecting a few excellent posters for oral presentation after the Lobster dinner will be maintained.

Contributors
SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 9:00 pmArrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pmWelcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff
7:40 pm - 9:30 pmNuclear structure near exotic shell closures: 100Sn
Discussion Leader: Reiner Krücken (TU München)
7:40 pm - 8:05 pm Morten Hjorth-Jensen (Oslo)
"Shell structures around 100Sn"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm Joakim Cederkall (Lund)
"Electromagnetic properties of light Sn and Cd isotopes"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm Darek Seweryniak (ANL)
"New insights on the structure of nuclei near 100Sn"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm Robert Grzywacz (University of Tennessee)
"Fundamental or accidental? On the structure of the simplest isotopes of Sn"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm Thomas Faestermann (TU München)
"100Sn and Nuclei in the Neighborhood"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 10:45 amNuclear structure near exotic shell closures: 78Ni
Discussion Leader: Robert Janssens (ANL)
9:00 am - 9:30 am Taka Otsuka (University of Tokyo)
"Shell structure of exotic nuclei and hadronic interactions"
9:30 am - 9:35 am Discussion
9:35 am - 9:50 am Kieran Flanagan (IPN Orsay)
"Ordering of quantum states in neutron-rich Cu nuclei"
9:50 am - 9:55 am Discussion
9:55 am - 10:10 am Krzysztof Rykaczewski (ORNL)
"Evolution of nuclear structure near 78Ni studied with beta decay"
10:10 am - 10:15 am Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am Coffee Break / Group Photo
10:45 am - 12:30 pmAdvances in nuclear astrophysics
Discussion Leader: Jeff Blackmon (LSU)
10:45 am - 11:10 am Phil Woods (Edinburgh)
"Structure and Reactions of Exotic Nuclei for Explosive Nuclear Astrophyics"
11:10 am - 11:15 am Discussion
11:15 am - 11:35 am Adriana Banu (Texas A&M)
"Nuclear physics for astrophysics with RNBs at 10 to 60 MeV/nucleon"
11:35 am - 11:40 am Discussion
11:40 am - 12:00 pm Remco Zegers (NSCL/MSU)
"Charge-exchange reactions with rare isotope beams and astrophysics applications"
12:00 pm - 12:05 pm Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:25 pm Luke Erikson (Colorado School of Mines)
"Nuclear Astrophysics at TRIUMF - Dragon"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmStructure of light nuclei: Ab initio calculations and clustering
Discussion Leader: Bruce Barrett (University of Arizona)
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm Sofia Quaglioni (LLNL)
"Ab initio many-body calculations of nucleon-nucleus scattering"
7:55 pm - 8:05 pm Discussion
8:05 pm - 8:20 pm Libby McCutchan (ANL)
"Testing ab-initio calculations in A=10 nuclei through precision lifetime measurements"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:55 pm Thomas Neff (GSI)
"Clusters and halos: a challenge for nuclear structure"
8:55 pm - 9:05 pm Discussion
9:05 pm - 9:20 pm Grisha Rogachev (FSU)
"Alpha-halo in Oxygen-18"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmStructure of exotic nuclei from spectroscopy and reactions
Discussion Leader: John Schiffer (ANL)
9:00 am - 9:25 am Tohru Motobayashi (RIKEN)
"Direct reaction spectroscopy with in-beam gamma ray measurements at RIKEN"
9:25 am - 9:30 am Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am Alexandra Gade (NSCL/MSU)
"Nuclear structure and reaction studies toward the driplines"
9:50 am - 9:55 am Discussion
9:55 am - 10:15 am Nigel Orr (LPC-Caen)
"Intermediate energy 'knockout' and fragmentation as a probe of structure beyond the drip line"
10:15 am - 10:20 am Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:15 am Enrico Vigezzi (INFN Milano)
"Microscopic theory of pairing correlations and transfer reactions"
11:15 am - 11:20 am Discussion
11:20 am - 11:40 am Dan Bardayan (ORNL)
"The study of (d,p) reactions near 132Sn at HRIBF"
11:40 am - 11:45 am Discussion
11:45 am - 12:00 pm Marina Petri (LBNL)
"Lifetimes in neutron-rich carbon isotopes"
12:00 pm - 12:05 pm Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:25 pm Maurycy Rejmund (GANIL)
"New vistas at energies around the Coulomb barrier with VAMOS"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmNovel nuclear shapes and high-spin structure
Discussion Leader: Greg Lane (Australian National University)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm Rob Bark (iThemba Labs)
"Properties of candidate tetrahedral bands of the mass 160 region"
7:50 pm - 7:55 pm Discussion
7:55 pm - 8:15 pm Daryl Hartley (US Naval Academy)
"Wobbling Beyond Lu?: Candidate TSD Bands in 167Ta"
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:40 pm Xiaofeng Wang (Florida State)
"The puzzle of ultrahigh-spin structures in 157,158Er: TSD or ED, positive-gamma or negative-gamma?"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:05 pm Zsolt Podolyak (Surrey)
"Neutron-rich nuclei near N=126"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm Walter Reviol (Washington University)
"Octupole collectivity near N=126"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 10:50 amProduction and spectroscopy of heavy nuclei
Discussion Leader: Rod Clark (LBNL)
9:00 am - 9:25 am Ken Gregorich (LBNL)
"Understanding (super)heavy element formation cross sections"
9:25 am - 9:30 am Discussion
9:30 am - 9:55 am Paul Greenlees (Jyväskylä)
"Nuclear structure studies of the heaviest nuclei"
9:55 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am - 10:25 am Rodi Herzberg (Liverpool)
"K-isomerism in superheavy nuclei"
10:25 am - 10:30 am Discussion
10:30 am - 10:55 am Coffee Break
10:55 am - 12:30 pmStructure from moments and transition rates
Discussion Leader: Dimiter Balabanski (INRNE)
10:55 am - 11:15 am Hideki Ueno (RIKEN)
"Nuclear moments of neutron-rich aluminium isotopes"
11:15 am - 11:20 am Discussion
11:20 am - 11:40 am Jean-Michel Daugas (CEA)
"Nuclear Moment Measurements with Isomeric Beams"
11:40 am - 11:45 am Discussion
11:45 am - 12:00 pm Ernest Grodner (Warsaw)
"126Cs - first confirmation of a complete set of chiral selection rules in nuclear physics"
12:00 pm - 12:05 pm Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:25 pm Volker Werner (Yale)
"RDDS lifetime measurements in inverse kinematics"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmPhonon excitations; transitional nuclei; N=90
Discussion Leader: John Sharpey-Schafer (Western Cape and iThemba LABS)
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm Mark Caprio (Notre Dame)
"Phonon and multiphonon excitations by exact diagonalization of the Bohr Hamiltonian"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm Paul Garrett (Guelph)
"The demise of vibrational motion in the Cd nuclei"
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm David Kulp (Georgia Institute of Technology)
"Requiem for low-energy beta vibrations"
8:35 pm - 8:40 pm Discussion
8:40 pm - 8:55 pm Mitch Allmond (Richmond)
"Study of 154Gd by the (p,tγ) Reaction"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:25 pm Tomas Rodriguez (Madrid)
"From phonon to rotational excitations; shape transitions in the N=90 region"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 amBusiness Meeting
(Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair)
9:00 am - 10:45 amExotic decay modes and weak interactions
Discussion Leader: Noémie Koller (Rutgers)
9:00 am - 9:20 am Andrei Andreyev (KU Leuven)
"Electron Capture Delayed Fission in the Lead Region"
9:20 am - 9:25 am Discussion
9:25 am - 9:45 am Yuri Litvinov (GSI)
"Observation of non-exponential two-body decays of hydrogen-like ions"
9:45 am - 9:50 am Discussion
9:50 am - 10:10 am Paul Vetter (LBNL)
"Search for neutrino oscillations in electron capture lifetimes"
10:10 am - 10:15 am Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am Coffee Break
10:45 am - 12:30 pmNew instruments for frontier research
Discussion Leader: John Simpson (Daresbury)
10:45 am - 11:05 am Scott Williams (TRIUMF)
"New results from TIGRESS at ISAC"
11:05 am - 11:10 am Discussion
11:10 am - 11:25 am Wolfram Korten (CEA Saclay)
"The AGATA spectrometer: technical achievements and physics opportunities"
11:25 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 11:45 am I.Y. Lee (LBNL)
"Progress with the GRETA/GRETINA project"
11:45 am - 11:50 am Discussion
11:50 am - 12:10 pm Alan Wuosmaa (Western Michigan)
"New results with the HELIOS spectrometer"
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:25 pm Yang Sun (Shanghai)
"Facilities and instrumentation in China"
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 6:00 pmFree Time
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmPoster winners / After dinner presentations
Discussion Leader: Francesca Gulminelli (LPC/ENSI Caen)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm Winning Poster Presentations
8:00 pm - 8:25 pm Thomas Glasmacher (NSCL/MSU)
"FRIB: Future opportunities and challenges with radioactive beams"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:20 pm Jerry Wilhelmy (LANL)
"Imaginary weapons - the hafnium saga"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDepart
 
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