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«Nucleus-2020» NRC «Kurchatov Institute» Saint Petersburg State University Joint Institute for Nuclear Research LXX INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE «NUCLEUS-2020» NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS. NUCLEAR PHYSICS TECHNOLOGIES. BOOK OF ABSTRACTS Online part. 12 – 17 October 2020 Saint Petersburg НИЦ «Курчатовский институт» Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет Объединенный институт ядерных исследований LXX МЕЖДУНАРОДНАЯ КОНФЕРЕНЦИЯ «ЯДРО-2020» ЯДЕРНАЯ ФИЗИКА И ФИЗИКА ЭЛЕМЕНТАРНЫХ ЧАСТИЦ. ЯДЕРНО-ФИЗИЧЕСКИЕ ТЕХНОЛОГИИ. СБОРНИК ТЕЗИСОВ Онлайн часть. 12 – 17 октября 2020 Санкт-Петербург Organisers NRC «Kurchatov Institute» Saint Petersburg State University Joint Institute for Nuclear Research Chairs M. Kovalchuk (Chairman, NRC “Kurchatov Institute”) V. Zherebchevsky (Co-Chairman, SPbU) P. Forsh (Vice-Chairman, NRC “Kurchatov Institute”) Yu. Dyakova (Vice-Chairman, NRC “Kurchatov Institute”) A. Vlasnikov (Vice-Chairman, SPbU) S. Torilov (Scientific Secretary, SPbU) The contributions are reproduced directly from the originals. The responsibility for misprints in the report and paper texts is held by the authors of the reports. International Conference “NUCLEUS – 2020. Nuclear physics and elementary particle physics. Nuclear physics technologies” (LXX; 2020; Online part). LXX International conference “NUCLEUS – 2020. Nuclear physics and elementary particle physics. Nuclear physics technologies” (Saint Petersburg, Russia, 12–17 October 2020): Book of Abstracts /Ed. by V. N. Kovalenko and E. V. Andronov. – Saint Petersburg: VVM, 2020. – 324p. ISBN Международная Конференция «ЯДРО – 2020. Ядерная физика и физика элементарных частиц. Ядерно-физические технологии» (LXX; 2020; Онлайн часть). LXX Международная Конференция «ЯДРО – 2020. Ядерная физика и физика элементарных частиц. Ядерно-физические технологии» (Санкт-Петербург, Россия, 12–17 Октября 2020): Аннот. докл./под ред. В.Н. Коваленко, Е.В. Андронова. – Санкт-Петербург: ВВМ , 2020. – 324 c. ISBN 978-5-9651-0587-8 ISBN 978-5-9651-0587-8 ii Program Committee V. Zherebchevsky (Chairman of the PC, SPbU, Russia), V. Andrianov (Vice-Chairman of the PC, SPbU, Russia), V. Aksenov (NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Russia), I. Alekseev (V. G. Khlopin Radium Institute, Russia), A. Andrianov (SPbU, Russia), V. Brudanin (JINR, Russia), V. Bunakov (NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, PNPI, Russia), V. Egorychev (NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, ITEP, Russia), G. Feofilov (SPbU, Russia), V. Il’gisonis (Rosatom, Russia), S. Ivanov (NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, IHEP, Russia), A. Korsheninnikov (NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Russia), V. Maksimov (NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, PNPI, Russia), N. Marchenkov (NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Russia), I. Mitropolsky (NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, PNPI, Russia), R. Panin (SPbU, Russia), Yu. Penionzhkevich (JINR, Russia), V. Rubchenya (V. G. Khlopin Radium Institute, Russia), M. Skorokhvatov (NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Russia), K. Stopani (MSU, Russia), D. Tsypkin (SPbU, Russia), N. Tyurin (NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, IHEP, Russia), V. Voronin (NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, PNPI, Russia), V. Voronov (JINR, Russia), S. Yakovlev (SPbU, Russia), E. Yatsishina (NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Russia), N. Zelenskaya (MSU, Russia) International Advisory Committee V. Baryshevsky (Research Institute for Nuclear Problems of Belarusian State University, Belarus), N. Burtebayev (The Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kazakhstan), M. Gazdzicki (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany), P. Giubellino (GSI, Germany), V. Goldberg (Texas A&M University, USA), R. Jolos (JINR, Russia), K. Kuterbekov (L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan), M. Lewitowicz (GANIL, France), Yu. Litvinov (GSI, Germany), E. Litvinova (Western Michigan University, USA), V. Manzari (INFN, Italy), V. Matveev (JINR, Russia), L. Musa (CERN, Switzerland), G. Rogachev (Texas A&M University, USA), I. Selyuzhenkov (GSI, Germany), W. Trzaska (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), X. Viñas (University of Barcelona, Barcelona) Local Organizing Committee E. Andronov (chairman of the LOC), I. Altsybeev, A. Andrianov, S. Andrianov, V. Andrianov, G. Belozerskii, M. Buidze, A. Erokhin, V. Kondratiev, V. Kovalenko, T. Lazareva, N. Maltsev, D. Naurzbayev D. Nesterov, Yu. Novikov, R. Panin, V. Petrov D. Pichugina, N. Prokofiev, D. Prokhorova, A. Rakhmatullina, V. Sandul, A. Seryakov, I. Smirnov, V. Tselyaev, F. Valiev, V. Vechernin, S. Yakovlev, A. Zvyagina iii iv Contents СЕМЬДЕСЯТ ЕЖЕГОДНЫХ ЯДЕРНЫХ КОНФЕРЕНЦИЙ ................ 1 Plenary Session 5 PHYSICAL CRITERIA OF DATA RELIABILITY AND SYSTEMATIC UNCERTAINTIES OF PHOTONEUTRON REACTION CROSS SECTIONS ................... 5 MECHANISMS OF MULTY-STAGE NUCLEAR DECAYS WITH TAKING INTO ACCOUNT REAL AND VIRTUAL STATES OF INTERMEDIATE NUCLEI ............. 6 HAWKING RADIATION FROM STRANGE QUARK NUGGETS, RELICS OF THE QCD PHASE TRANSITION ................................... 7 SPECTROSCOPIC FACTORS: MEASURABILITY AND OBSERVABILITY . 7 OVERVIEW OF RECENT HEAVY ION RESULTS FORM CMS EXPERIMENT . 8 NEW INNER TRACKING SYSTEM (ITS) FOR OPEN CHARM DIRECT MEASUREMENTS BY ALICE AT THE LHC: STATUS AND PERSPECTIVES ................ 8 CANCER AND EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR LIGHT ION HADRON THERAPY (EN- LIGHT) ........................................... 9 NEW RADIONUCLIDES FOR PERSONALIZED MEDICINE (THERANOSTICS) . 9 PROSPECTS OF JIANGMEN UNDERGROUND NEUTRINO OBSERVATORY . 10 THE NEUTRAL PION RADIATIVE WIDTH MEASUEREMENT: RESULTS FROM PRIMEX (JLAB) ............................................ 10 STRONG INTERACTIONS AND THE EMERGENCE OF MASS . 11 HISTORY OF ONE CALENDAR DATE TO THE 80-TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DISCOV- ERY OF SPONTANEOUS FISSION ............................ 11 NUCLEAR FORCE FROM QCD POINT OF VIEW ...................... 12 OBSERVATION OF STERILE ANTINEUTRINO OSCILLATION IN NEUTRINO-4 EXPERI- MENT AT SM-3 REACTOR ................................ 13 LATEST RESULTS ON (ANTI-)HYPERNUCLEI PRODUCTION AT THE LHC WITH ALICE ................................................ 13 STAR RECENT RESULTS ON HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS . 14 v NUCLEAR RESPONSE AT ZERO AND FINITE TEMPERATURE . 14 COMPTON IONIZATION OF ATOMS NEAR THRESHOLD AS A METHOD OF SPEC- TROSCOPY OF OUTER SHELLS ............................. 15 ALICE UPGRADE FOR RUN 3 AND 4 AT THE CERN LHC . 15 TERMONUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS AND NUCLEOSYNTHESIS OF HEAVY ELEMENTS . 16 MODIFICATION OF HADRON PROPERTIES IN A DENSE AND HOT BARYONIC MAT- TER ............................................. 16 PHENIX HIGHLIGHTS .................................... 17 INVESTIGATION OF REACTION CROSS SECTION FOR BEAM OF 8Li, 8He ON 28Si, 59Co, 181Ta TARGETS ....................................... 17 HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ALICE EXPERIMENT AT THE LHC . 18 SELF-CONSISTENT APPROACH TO BETA-DECAY OF NEUTRON-RICH NUCLEI . 18 PHASE TRANSITIONS IN ATOMIC NUCLEI ........................ 19 RECENT RESULTS FROM NA61/SHINE STRONG INTERACTION PROGRAMME . 20 NEW NUCLEAR PHYSICAL PHENOMENON - SPONTANEOUS NUCLEAR SYNTHESIS 20 NUCLEAR PHYSICS IN MEDICINE: PRESENT AND PROSPECTS . 21 PROJECT KATRIN FIRST RESULT ON THE NEUTRINO MASS. 22 PHYSICS AND ASTROPHYSICS OF ULTRA-HIGH ENERGY COSMIC RAYS: RECENT RE- SULTS FROM THE PIERRE AUGER OBSERVATORY . 23 DERICA PROJECT: DUBNA ELECTRON – RADIOACTIVE ION COLLIDER FACILITY . 23 SEARCH FOR NEUTRINOLESS DOUBLE BETA DECAY WITH GERDA . 24 Section 1. Experimental and theoretical studies of the properties of atomic nuclei 25 ∆I = 1 ”STAGGERING” EFFECT IN THE SPECTRUM OF BAND OF EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI ................................................ 25 TRIAXIALITY OF EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI WITH QUADRUPOLE AND OCTUPOLE DEFOR- MATIONS .......................................... 25 ENERGY SPECTRUM OF COLLECTIVE STATES OF ODD-ODD NUCLEI . 26 ЭНЕРГЕТИЧЕСКИЙ СПЕКТР И СТРУКТУРА СОСТОЯНИЙ ИЗОТОПА 156Gd . 26 NUCLEAR MATTER DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS OF THE LIGHT WEAKLY BOUND NU- CLEI ............................................. 27 ENERGY SURFACE AROUND A DEFORMED EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI WITH 150<A<190 27 COLLECTIVE STRUCTURE IN 116Sb ............................. 28 vi PROPERTIES OF ISOSCALAR GIANT MULTIPOLE RESONANCES IN MEDIUM-HEAVY CLOSED-SHELL NUCLEI: A SEMIMICROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION . 29 PARTICLE-HOLE DISPERSIVE OPTICAL MODEL FOR OPEN-SHELL NUCLEI. IMPLE- MENTATIONS FOR DESCRIBING 0+ GIANT RESONANCES IN TIN ISOTOPES . 30 THE STRUCTURE OF HIGH-SPIN (9+) ISOMERS AND THE NATURE OF ROTATIONAL BANDS IN ODD-ODD Ho NUCLEI WITH A = 156, 158, 160 . 31 NON-STATISTICAL EFFECTS IN BETA & GAMMA DECAYS AND BETA-DELAYED FIS- SION ANALYSIS ...................................... 32 A SEARCH FOR RARE NUCLEAR AND INDUCED DECAYS IN HAFNIUM . 33 ROLE OF DIBARYON RESONANCES IN ELASTIC AND INELASTIC NN SCATTERING 33 THEORETICAL STUDY OF WEAKLY-BOUND TRIATOMIC SYSTEMS WITH FADDEEV EQUATIONS IN TOTAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM REPRESENTATION . 34 RESONANCES IN THE SYSTEM WITH AN INTERNAL DEGREE OF FREEDOM . 34 QUANTUM SPEED LIMITS FOR TIME EVOLUTION OF A SYSTEM SUBSPACE . 35 EFIMOV STATES IN THREE-ATOMIC SYSTEMS ...................... 35 METASTABLE STATES OF DIATOMIC BERYLLIUM MOLECULE . 36 RADIAL ASYMPTOTIC OF THE WAVE FUNCTION OF FEW-PARTICLES IN THE CON- TINUUM .......................................... 36 ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSITIONS IN HEAVY ODD-A NUCLEI . 37 FOUR-NEUTRON DECAY CORRELATIONS ........................ 38 RESEARCH OF ISOBAR: Yb-Tm-Er-Ho WITH A=157 ................... 38 USE OF MOLECULES TO EXTRACT FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES OF NUCLEI . 38 STRUCTURE OF 10Li IN ONE-NEUTRON TRANSFER REACTION 2H(9Li,p) . 39 INFLUENCE OF CHARGE-EXCHANGE RESONANCES ON THE CAPTURE OF SOLAR NEUTRINO BY MOLYBDENUM 98 AND 100 ...................... 39 STRUCTURE OF LIGHT Λ-HYPERNUCLEI
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