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Please Find the Symposium's Abstracts Here Super Heavy Nuclei 2015 0.8 ) 2 248Cm + 48Ca A + 1 0.6 ) / (A 2 A - 1 (A 208Pb + 88Se QF 0.4 0.2 CN QF 164 132 mass asymmetry Dy + Sn compound nucleus area 0 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 R12 (fm) Z1A1,b1 Z2A2,b2 Texas A&M University College Station Texas March 31 - April 02, 2015 International Symposium Super Heavy Nuclei 2015 Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA March 31 - April 02, 2015 March 31, 2015 8:45 9:00 0:15 Opening Introduction Chair: Robert Tribble BNL, USA Witold Nazarewicz 9:00 9:40 0:40 Superheavy Nuclei: Theoretical Challenges FRIB/NSCL MSU, USA Yuri Oganessian 9:40 10:20 0:40 Symposium on Super Heavy Nuclei: Our Expectations FLNR-JINR, Dubna/TAMU Russia/USA 10:20 10:30 0:10 Discussion 10:30 10:50 0:20 Coffee Beak At the Border of the Island of the Super Heavy Nuclei Sigurd Hofmann Super-Heavy Nuclei: Current Status And Futur 10:50 11:20 0:30 GSI Helmholtzzentrum, Germany Developments Vladimir Utyonkov Synthesis of Superheavy Nuclei at Limits of Stability: 11:20 11:40 0:20 FLNR-JINR, Dubna, Russia 239,240Pu + 48Ca and 249-251Cf + 48Ca Reactions Kosuke Morita 11:40 12:00 0:20 SHE research at RIKEN/GARIS RIKEN Nishina Center, Japan Anatoli Afanasjev Recent progress in the study of the heaviest nuclei in 12:00 12:20 0:20 Mississippi State University, USA covariant density functional theory William H. Bassichis 12:20 12:25 0:05 Ancient Map: Island of Stability Texas A&M University, USA 12:25 12:45 0:20 Discussion 12:45 14:00 1:15 Lunch Decay Properties and Nuclear Structure of the Heaviest Nuclei Chair: Teng Lek Khoo ANL, USA Jacklyn Marie Gates 14:00 14:20 0:20 Decay Spectroscopy of Element 115 Daughters LBNL, USA Michael Itkis Production of new neutron rich heavy and 14:20 14:40 0:20 FLNR-JINR Dubna Russia superheavy nuclei Adam Sobiczewski Theoretical Description of Decay Properties of 14:40 15:00 0:20 NCNR, Poland Superheavy Nuclei Mark Stoyer Approaching the Island of Stability: Synthesizing the 15:00 15:20 0:20 LLNL, USA Heaviest Elements Alexander Yeremin Spectroscopy Of Transfermium Isotopes At Dubna: 15:20 15:40 0:20 FLNR-JINR, Dubna, Russia Results And Plans 15:40 16:00 0:20 Discussion 16:00 16:20 0:20 Coffee Beak Zhongzhou Ren Nuclear Charge Radii of Superheavy Nuclei and Exotic 16:20 16:35 0:15 Nanjing University, China Nuclei From the Experimental Decay Data Michael Kowal Candidates for Long Lived High-K Ground States in 16:35 16:55 0:20 NCNR, Poland Superheavy Nuclei Dieter Ackermann Paving the Way to the Island of Stability – Superheavy 16:55 17:15 0:20 GSI Helmholtzzentrum, Germany Element Research at GSI and Beyond Rolf Herzberg Combined Electron and Gamma Spectroscopy of Heavy 17:15 17:35 0:20 University of Liverpool, UK Nuclei – Optimising the SAGE Spectrometer Peter Möller Comments on Superheavy-Element Stability and 17:35 17:55 0:20 LANL, USA Production George Souliotis Microscopic Calculations of Low Energy Fission within 17:55 18:05 0:10 National University of Athens, Greece the CoMD (Constrained Molecular Dynamics) Model 18:05 18:25 0:20 Discussion 1 April 1, 2015 Reactions of Synthesis of New Elements and Isotopes Chair: Joseph Natowitz Texas A&M University, USA Walter Loveland 8:30 9:00 0:30 Heavy Element Synthesis Reaction Mechanisms Oregon State University, USA Gurgen Adamian 9:00 9:20 0:20 Isotopic Trends in Production of Superheavy Nuclei BLTP-JINR, Dubna, Russia Cody Folden Production of Near-Spherical Nuclei in Hot Fusion 9:20 9:40 0:20 Texas A&M University, USA Reactions Galina Knyazheva 9:40 10:00 0:20 Fusion probabilities in heavy ion induced reactions FLNR-JINR, Dubna, Russia Alexander Karpov Superheavy nuclei: which regions of nuclear map are 10:00 10:10 0:10 FLNR-JINR, Dubna, Russia accessible in the nearest future 10:10 10:30 0:20 Discussion 10:30 10:50 0:20 Coffee Beak Dariusz Seweryniak Recent Spectroscopic Results Near the Z=100, N=152 10:50 11:10 0:20 ANL, USA Closed Shells Gottfried Muenzenberg SHE Research with Rare-Isotope Beams – Challenges 11:10 11:30 0:20 GSI Helmholtzzentrum, Germany and Perspectives Sophia Heinz Probing the Stability of Superheavy Nuclei with 11:30 11:45 0:15 GSI Helmholtzzentrum, Germany Radioactive Ion Beams Sait Umar 11:45 12:00 0:15 Dynamics of Quasifission and Fission Vanderbilt University, USA Andzei Wieloch New Experimental Approach to the Super and Hyper 12:00 12:15 0:15 SIP, Jagiellonian University, Poland Nuclei Search Katsuhisa Nishio 12:15 12:30 0:15 In-beam fission study at JAEA ASRC, JAEA, Japan 12:30 12:50 0:20 Discussion 12:50 14:05 1:15 Lunch Super Heavy Atoms. Chemistry of the Super Heavy Elements Chair: Joseph Hamilton Vanderbilt University, USA Hartmut Backe Prospects for Laser Spectroscopy at Superheavy 14:05 14:35 0:30 Universität Mainz, Germany Elements Christoph Düllmann 14:35 15:05 0:30 Chemical studies of the heaviest elements GSI Helmholtzzentrum, Germany Valeria Pershina Advanced Theoretical Studies for Chemical 15:05 15:25 0:20 GSI Helmholtzzentrum, Germany Identification of the Superheavy Elements 15:25 15:45 0:20 Discussion 15:45 16:05 0:20 Coffee Beak Robert Eichler 16:05 16:25 0:20 Heavy Elements group Superheavy Element Chemistry from Switzerland PSI-University of Bern, Switzerland Yuichiro Nagame 16:25 16:45 0:20 Chemical Studies of the Heaviest Elements at JAEA ASRC, JAEA, Japan 16:45 16:55 0:10 Discussion Production and Fabrication of Actinide Targets James Roberto Production and fabrication of actinide targets for 16:55 17:20 0:25 ORNL, USA super-heavy element research Michail Onegin Investigation of the Possibilities of Heavy Actinide 17:20 17:35 0:15 NPI, St. Petersburg, Russia Isotopes Production in High-flux Reactor PIK Klaus Eberhardt Fabrication and characterization of actinide targets for 17:35 17:50 0:15 Universität Mainz, Germany super-heavy element studies Rose A. Boll 17:50 18:00 0:10 Actinide Materials at Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL, USA 18:00 18:15 0:15 Discussion 19:15 Dinner 2 April 2, 2015 Accelerator Facilities and Setups Chair: Sydney Gales INPN Orcay/CNRS, France Sherry Yennello 8:30 8:50 0:20 Rare Isotope Beams at TAMU Cyclotron Institute Texas A&M University, USA Sergey Dmitriev 8:50 9:15 0:25 FLNR SHE Factory FLNR-JINR, Dubna, Russia Christelle Stodel 9:15 9:40 0:25 Study of very heavy nuclei at GANIL-SPIRAL2 facilities GANIL, France Michael Thoennessen 9:40 10:05 0:25 The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams NSCL, MSU, USA 10:05 10:25 0:20 Discussion 10:25 10:45 0:20 Coffee Beak Winfried Barth 10:45 11:05 0:20 R&D Activities Towards a Future CW LINAC at GSI GSI Helmholtzzentrum, Germany Michael Block Nuclear Structure Revealed by High-Precision Mass 11:05 11:25 0:20 GSI Helmholtzzentrum, Germany Measurements Greg Chubarian High efficiency recoil spectrometer for Superheavy 11:25 11:45 0:20 Texas A&M University, USA Element Factory Zach Kohley Opportunities to study the SHE production mechanism 11:45 12:00 0:15 NSCL, MSU, USA with rare isotopes at the ReA3 facility Aditya Wakhle Isospin Dependence of Quasifission and Heavy-ion 12:00 12:15 0:15 NSCL, MSU, USA Fusion with Neutron Rich RIBs 12:15 12:35 0:20 Discussion 12:35 13:35 1:00 Lunch Andrey Popeko On-line Separators for the Dubna Superheavy Element 13:35 13:55 0:20 FLNR-JINR, Dubna, Russia Factory Oleg Tarasov 13:55 14:15 0:20 Using LISE++ for heavy ion reactions at low energies NSCL, MSU, USA Nathan Brewer Microsecond Activity from α-emitters observed at the 14:15 14:30 0:15 ORNL, USA DGFRS with Digital Electronics 14:30 14:45 0:15 Discussion 14:45 14:55 0:10 Closing 15:15 Cyclotron Tour 3 Superheavy nuclei: theoretical challenges Witold Nazarewicz Department of Physics and Astronomy and FRIB/NSCL, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA What are the heaviest nuclei and atoms that can exist? Are superheavy atoms and nuclei different from lighter species? Is there an island of very long-lived nuclei? Are superheavy nuclei produced in stellar explosions? Questions such as these provide formidable challenges for both experiment and theory. In this talk, theoretical advances in superheavy nuclei research will be reviewed. 4 Symposium on SUPER HEAVY NUCLEI: Our Expectations Yuri Oganessian* Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions JINR, Dubna, Moscow region, Russia, 141980 * Texas A&M University Cyclotron Institute College Station, Texas 77843, USA (Current) [email protected] My talk, in fact, is an expanded introduction to the two and a half-day symposium, which is going to include presentations and discussions on the current state and future development of research in the field of heaviest atomic nuclei. Symposium SHN covers various areas of atomic and nuclear physics, nuclear chemistry, and partly astrophysics. The program mainly focuses on discussing the most problematic issues, makes attempts to find answers with various approaches, assessing new opportunities associated with a construction of large accelerator facilities and new, more sophisticated experimental devices. The symposium program consists of 8 topics and includes 45 talks. We tried to balance presentations on theory/experiment in a ratio 1:3 in order to include topics related to production of a target material with high-flux reactors, new accelerators and experimental setups, detectors and so on.
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