Program & Talks


Workshop Program + Talks (click on a title to view the talk)
Mon, Oct 22
Time	Speaker	Title
	Introductions	Chair: D. Gogny
8.30 – 8.40	E. Hartouni (LLNL)	Opening remarks
8.40 – 9.30	H. Weidenmueller (Heidelberg)	Statistical Theory of Compound-Nucleus Reactions
	Nuclear Structure	Chair: D. Gogny
9.30 – 10.00	D. Dean (ORNL)	Progress and Challenges in Theory of Nuclei

10.00 – 10.30	Coffee break

	Nuclear Structure	Chair: P. Koehler
10.30 – 10.50	R.B. Firestone (LBNL)	New Methods for the Determination of Total Radiative Thermal Neutron Capture Cross Sections
10.50 – 11.10	S. Siem (Oslo)	Experimental Level Density and gamma-Strength Functions in rare earth nuclei
11.10 – 11.30	A.C. Larsen (Oslo)	Experimental nuclear level densities and g-ray strength functions in Sc and V isotopes
11.30 – 11.50	U. Agvaanluvsan (LLNL)	The experimental study of gamma-ray decay patterns using DANCE
11.50 – 12.00	Discussion

12.00 – 1.30	Break

Afternoon free for discussions

	Nuclear Structure	Chair: R. Boyd
7.00 – 7.20	A.V. Voinov (Ohio)	Experimental study of level density and gamma-strength function from compound nuclear reactions
	Superheavy Nuclei	Chair: R. Boyd
7.20 – 7.50	M. Stoyer (LLNL)	Nuclear Reactions used for Superheavy Element Research
7.50 – 8.10	A. Drouart (Saclay)	Detection of long fission times of super-heavy compound nuclei
8.10 – 8.30	Discussion

Tue, Oct 23
	Nuclear Data & Applications	Chair: M. Mustafa
8.30 – 9.20	T. Kawano (LANL)	Nuclear Reaction Data for Nuclear Technologies and Applications
9.20 – 9.50	R.N. Boyd (LLNL)	Use of NIF in Nuclear Astrophysics: Examples of Experiments
10.00 – 10.30	Coffee break

	Surrogate Reactions	Chair: M. Hussein
10.30 – 11.00	J. Escher (LLNL)	Compound-Nuclear Reaction Cross Sections from Surrogate Measurements – a Theorist's Perspective
11.00 – 11.30	B. Jurado (Gradignan)	Fission cross sections measurements via the surrogate reaction technique
11.30 – 11.50	M.S. Basunia (LBNL)	Determining the ²³⁷Np(n,f) reaction cross section indirectly: Study of the absolute surrogate method in the 10 to 20 MeV energy range
11.50 – 12.00	Discussion

12.00 – 1.30	Break

	Surrogate Reactions	Chair: L. Bernstein
1.30 – 1.50	J. Burke (LLNL)	Surrogate Reactions in the Actinide Region
1.50 – 2.10	R. Hatarik (Rutgers)	Is (d,pg) a surrogate for neutron capture?
2.10 – 2.30	N. Scielzo (LLNL)	Determining the (n, g) cross section of ¹⁵³Gd using surrogate reactions
2.30 – 2.32	D.L. Bleuel (LLNL)	Testing the Absolute Surrogate Method via ¹⁵⁷Gd(³He,a)
2.32 – 2.34	S. Lesher (LLNL)	Benchmarking the (a,a') reaction at STARS
2.34 – 3.00	Discussion

3.00 – 5.00	Poster Session + Coffee	Chair: I. Thompson
	Summary talks for each of the Posters:
3.30	H.I. Kim (KAERI)	New Evaluation of Neutron Induced Reactions for ^{182,183,184,186}W
3.32	B. Sleaford (LLNL)	Improved Neutron Capture Data and Evaluation with Statistical Nuclear Structure Models for Transport Libraries
3.34	R. Vogt (LLNL. UCD)	Event-by-Event Simulation of Induced Fission
3.36	N. Summers (LLNL)	Breakup reactions on Deformed Nuclei
3.38	S. Sheets (LLNL)	Photon Strength Function in ⁹⁶Mo
3.40	S. Sheets (LLNL)	⁴⁰Ca(α,g)⁴⁴Ti reaction in the regime relevant for supernovae nucleosynthesis
3.42	J. Gibelin (LBNL)	Fusion evaporation reactions as a tool for light nuclei gamma spectroscopy
3.44	S.Y. Oh (LANL)	Nuclear reaction data on titanium isotopes
5.00 – 6.00	Break

6.00 – 7.00	Banquet	No-Host Bar
7.00 –	Banquet	Dinner

Wed, Oct 24
	Experimental overview	Chair: U. Agvaanluvsan
8.30 – 9.20	G. Mitchell (NCSU, TUNL)	Experimental Overview of Compound Nuclear Resonance Reactions
9.20 – 9.50	H. Weidenmueller (Heidelberg)	Precompound Reactions

10.00 – 10.30	Coffee break

	Pre-Equilibrium Reactions	Chair: J. Wilhelmy
10.30 – 11.00	M. Dupuis (LANL)	Microscopic calculation of the multistep direct (MSD) process for nucleon scattering on deformed nuclei
11.00 – 11.20	D. Dashdorj (NCSU)	Effect of pre-equilibrium spin distribution on neutron induced reaction cross sections
11.20 – 11.40	G. Arbanas (ORNL)	Kawai-Kerman-McVoy Statistical Theory of Nuclear Reactions

12.30 – 6.00	Excursions to Yosemite

	Fluctuations	Chair: Y. Alhassid
7.00 – 7.20	F. Dietrich (LLNL)	Compound nucleus formation following direct interactions to highly-excited final states
7.20 – 7.50	M. Hussein (Dresden)	Absorption-Fluctuation Theorem for Nuclear Reactions
7.50 – 8.20	P. Koehler (ORNL)	Recent Experiments at ORELA and LANSCE, and Their Impact on Compound Nuclear Models
8.20 – 8.40	Discussion

Thur, Oct 25
	Fission	Chair: R. Vogt
8.30 – 9.00	K.-H. Schmidt (GSI)	New results on nuclear fission – data and interpretation
9.00 – 9.20	N. Dubray (CEA)	Fission fragment properties from a microscopic approach
9.20 – 9.40	W. Younes (LLNL)	Microscopic theory of fission
9.40 – 10.00	L. Phair (LBNL)	The Fission Barrier Landscape

10.00 – 10.30	Coffee break

	Fission	Chair: L. Phair
10.30 – 11.00	J. Ullman (LANL)	An Overview of Fission Measurements at LANSCE
11.00 – 11.20	P. Talou (LANL)	Prompt Fission Neutrons as Probes to Nuclear Configurations at Scission
11.20 – 11.40	M. Jandel (LANL)	²⁴¹Am(n,g) cross sections measured with DANCE in the neutron energy range between 0.02 eV and 300 keV
11.40 – 12.00	M. Heffner (LLNL)	A Time Projection Chamber (TPC) for precision ²³⁹Pu(n,f) cross section measurement

12.00 – 1.30	Break

	Reactions	Chair: N. Summers
1.30 – 2.00	I.J. Thompson (LLNL)	Compound Nucleus Contributions to the Optical Potential
2.00 – 2.20	H. Iwamoto (Kyushu)	Cluster productions in intermediate-energy proton-nucleus reactions
2.20 – 2.40	V.Z. Goldberg (Kurchatov, TAM)	Resonance reactions with light unstable nuclei by Thick Target Inverse Kinematics method
2.40 – 3.00	Discussion

3.00 – 3.30	Coffee break

3.30 – 5.00	Panel Discussion led by A.K. Kerman
	Panelists: J. Wilhelmy, P. Talou, F. Dietrich, M. Hussein, S. Grimes, M. Mustafa and H. Weidenmueller.
	Audio Recording (mp3, 101MB)

Fri, Oct 26
	Structure	Chair: G. Mitchell
8.30 – 9.00	Y. Alhassid (Yale)	Level densities in the shell model Monte Carlo method: from medium-mass to heavy deformed nuclei
9.00 – 9.20	C. Johnson (San Diego)	Moment methods and nuclear level densities
9.20 – 9.40	S. Grimes (Ohio)	Nuclear Level Densities Off of the Stability Line
9.40 – 10.00	Discussion

10.00 – 10.30	Coffee break

	Applications	Chair: C. Johnson
10.30 – 11.00	R.D. Hoffman (LLNL)	Nucleosynthesis in Early Neutrino driven Winds
11.00 – 11.20	S.S. Gupta (LANL)	Electron Capture-delayed neutron emissions in Neutron Star Crust simulations using a Hauser-Feshbach model
11.20 – 12.00	M. Mustafa (LLNL)	Concluding Remarks

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