School-cum-workshop on Low Energy Nuclear Astrophysics

Nov 7, 2023, 8:30 AM → Nov 10, 2023, 9:30 PM Asia/Kolkata

Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics

About SLENA-23  -

FRENA at SINP has been organizing SLENA with an aim to train and educate a generation of physicists who can design experiments with FRENA- a DAE funded national accelerator facility. Since FRENA is the first-of-its-kind accelerator in the country, it has great potential towards addressing long-standing nuclear astrophysics problems. SLENA will provide an opportunity to interact with internationally reputed researchers working in nuclear astrophysics problems for decades, which will be highly beneficial for students as well as scientists in India.

The participants will be a balance between senior scientists and young researchers, to ensure maximum interaction among contemporaries as well as with peers. This will enable activation of new collaborative efforts within the Indian community, as well as with reputed international laboratories.

 

Topics to be covered (non-exhaustive)  -

• Nuclear reactions below the Coulomb barrier: the fundamentals
• Potential experiments at FRENA with proton, alpha and heavy ion beams
• Gas-jet target development: the fundamentals
• Application of pulsed light-ion beams in nuclear astrophysics
• Nuclear astrophysics with radioactive ion beams
• Future at FRENA: AMS, RMS and beyond

 

Tuesday, November 7

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Registration

10:00 AM → 12:00 PM Inaugural Session

10:15 AM Welcome Address

Speaker: Director, SINP

10:45 AM Keynote Lecture

Speaker: Sailajananda Bhattacharya

11:30 AM FRENA: overview talk

Speaker: Chinmay Basu (SINP)

12:00 PM → 12:30 PM High Tea

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Nuclear Reactions for Astrophysics

Speaker: Rajdeep Chatterjee (IIT Roorkee)

Talk

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM Lunch

3:00 PM → 6:00 PM Lecture Session

3:00 PM Underground Nuclear Astrophysics : pushing direct measurements toward the Gamow window

(Online)

Speaker: Gianluca Imbriani (Univ. of Napoli & LUNA)

Talk

4:00 PM The formation of clusters in nuclei and their influence in nuclear reactions and astrophysics

(Online)

Speaker: Daniele Dell'Aquila (Univ. of Napoli & LUNA)

Talk

5:00 PM Lecture (online)

Speaker: Daniel Bemmerer (HZDR Dresden, Germany)

6:30 PM → 7:00 PM Evening Tea

7:00 PM → 8:00 PM Special Evening Lecture

7:00 PM Movement disorders - an interface between Neurology and Physics

Speaker: Dr Hrishikesh Kumar (Institute of Neurosciences Kolkata)

8:00 PM → 9:30 PM Dinner

Wednesday, November 8

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM Tea

10:00 AM → 1:00 PM Lecture Session

10:00 AM Lecture

Speaker: Gavin Lotay (Univ. of Surrey, United Kingdom)

11:45 AM Tea Break

12:00 PM Lecture (online)

Speaker: Daniel Bemmerer (HZDR Dresden, Germany)

1:00 PM → 1:15 PM School Photo Session

1:15 PM → 2:15 PM Lunch

2:15 PM → 5:30 PM Lecture Session

2:15 PM Nuclear Reactions for Astrophysics

Speaker: Rajdeep Chatterjee (IIT Roorkee)

3:15 PM Tea

3:30 PM Gamma ray detectors for spectroscopy measurements

Speaker: Gopal Mukherjee (VECC, Kolkata)

4:30 PM Lecture (online)

Speaker: Christopher Wrede (Michigan State University and FRIB, USA)

5:45 PM → 6:45 PM FRENA visit

7:00 PM → 10:00 PM Dinner: School Dinner

Thursday, November 9

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM Tea

10:00 AM → 12:00 PM Lecture Session

10:00 AM Lecture

Speaker: Gavin Lotay (Univ. of Surrey, UK)

11:00 AM Lecture

Speaker: Radjeep Chatterjee (IIT Roorkee)

12:00 PM → 12:15 PM Tea

12:15 PM → 1:15 PM Invited Seminars

12:15 PM Stellar Neutron sources for the s-process nucleosynthesis

Online

Speaker: Shahina (University of Notre Dame, USA)

12:45 PM Invited Seminar

Speaker: Arindam Sikdar (VECC, Kolkata)

1:00 PM Invited Seminar

Speaker: Kaushik Sengupta (SINP, Kolkata)

1:15 PM → 2:15 PM Lunch

2:15 PM → 2:45 PM Possibilities of INGA at FRENA

Invited Seminar

Speaker: Sarmishtha Bhattacharyaa (VECC, Kolkata)

2:45 PM → 4:30 PM Lecture Session

2:45 PM Gas Detectors

Speaker: Tilak Ghosh (VECC, Kolkata)

3:45 PM Tea

4:00 PM Demonstration of Gas Detectors

Hands-on

Speaker: Tilak Ghosh (VECC, Kolkata)

4:30 PM → 5:45 PM Invited Seminars

4:30 PM High precision experiments to measure change in electron capture decay rate of 7Be

Speaker: Parnika Das (VECC, Kolkata)

4:45 PM Exploring FRENA as a clinical diagnostic tool

Speaker: Sankar De (SINP, Kolkata)

5:00 PM Time projection chamber for probing low energy Nuclear Physics Experiments

Speaker: Pralay Das (SINP, Kolkata)

5:15 PM Reference Potential Approach: Construction of Inverse Potentials using Phase Function Method

Speaker: O.S.K.S. Shastri

5:30 PM Time of flight tagged cross section measurements for low energy neutrons in the resonance region

Speaker: M.M. Mustafa

5:45 PM → 6:00 PM Tea

6:00 PM → 7:00 PM The X17 Boson and the Search for New Physics in Nuclear Transitions

Online

Speaker: Viktor Zacek

7:00 PM → 9:00 PM Dinner

Friday, November 10

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM Tea

10:00 AM → 11:00 AM Gamma ray detectors for spectroscopy measurements

Speaker: Gopal Mukherjee (VECC, Kolkata)

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM Invited Seminars

11:00 AM Low Energy Nuclear Astrophysics with FRENA- following the studies on nuclear isomers & beyond

Speaker: Tumpa Bhattacharjee (VECC, Kolkata)

11:30 AM Offline Activation - a Simple approach to Study reaction

Speaker: Prasanta Kumar Rath

11:45 AM Thermodynamic temperature and level density of 54-64Fe

Speaker: S. Santhosh Kumar

12:00 PM → 12:15 PM Tea

12:15 PM → 1:05 PM Lecture

Speaker: Gavin Lotay (Univ. of Surrey, UK)

1:05 PM → 1:20 PM Future Outlook

Speaker: Anjali Mukherjee (SINP, Kolkata)

1:20 PM → 1:25 PM Vote of Thanks

Speaker: Akashrup Banerjee (SINP, Kolkata)

1:25 PM → 2:25 PM Lunch