Name: The 5th Nuclear Photonics Conference
Start: 2025-10-06T08:55:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-10T18:00:00+02:00
Location: TU Darmstadt

The 5th Nuclear Photonics Conference

from Monday, October 6, 2025 (8:55 AM) to Friday, October 10, 2025 (6:00 PM)

Monday, October 6, 2025

9:00 AM Welcome
Welcome
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
9:15 AM
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:15 AM Recent laser advances and their applications for nuclear physics research - Jonathan Zuegel (LLE - University of Rochester)

10:00 AM Developments on the Laser-Driven Neutron Source and Single-shot Resonance Spectroscopy at ILE Osaka - Zechen Lan (ILE, Osaka Univ.)
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:10 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Temporal bunching of laser-driven ions by ultrafast phase-space rotation - Satyabrata Kar (Queen's University Belfast)

11:30 AM Enhancing Quasi-Monoenergetic Deuteron Acceleration via Boosted Coulomb Explosion by Reflected Picosecond Laser Pulse - Tianyun Wei (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology)

11:50 AM Increasing the electron charge in laser-driven electron acceleration using orbital angular momentum beams - Carl Georg Boos (TU Darmstadt)
12:10 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:10 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM On the horizon: the $^{229m}$Th nuclear clock - Peter Thirolf (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)

2:00 PM Photoelectron spectroscopy of nuclear transitions - Andrea Trabattoni (DESY and LUH)

2:30 PM Nuclear photo-excitation for quantum control and metrology - Adriana Pálffy (University of Würzburg, Germany)
3:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 5:20 PM
Contributions

3:30 PM Measurements of Prompt Neutron Emission from Photofission of 235U, 238U, and 239Pu - Forrest Friesen (Duke University)

4:00 PM Improved 235U, 238U, 239Pu, and 240Pu Photofission Cross Sections Across the GDR - Forrest Friesen (on behalf of Jack Silano)

4:30 PM Electromagnetic excitations of heavy deformed nuclei with Ex=2-4 MeV studied by Monte Carlo Shell Model - Takaharu Otsuka

5:00 PM First Data on Dipole Excitations of Pu-242 from Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence - Maike Beuschlein (Institute for Nuclear Physics, TU Darmstadt, Germany)
5:30 PM Reception
Reception
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:35 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Distributed Charge Compton Sources and the Path to Narrowband, High Brilliance Gamma Beams - Christopher P.J. Barty (University of California - Irvine)

9:45 AM Exploring new possibilities in Compton sources based on free-electron lasers - Ryoichi Hajima (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology)

10:15 AM High-Repetition Laser-Driven Heavy Ion Bunches for the Quantum Scalpel Injector - Sadaoki Kojima (KPSI, QST)
10:35 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:35 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Explorations in nuclear photonics with X-ray lasers - Ralf Röhlsberger (Helmholtz Institut Jena)

11:30 AM Nuclear resonance spectroscopy at X-ray free electron lasers - Jörg Evers (MPI Heidelberg, Germany)

12:00 PM Transition Edge Sensors for Antiprotonic Atom X-ray Spectroscopy in the few hundred keV regime - Michael Roosa (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, ENS-PSL Research University)

12:30 PM Manipulating nuclear transition on demand - chieh-jen yang (eli-np)
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Nuclear response to electromagnetic probes: toward spectroscopically accurate many-body theory - Elena Litvinova (Western Michigan University)

2:30 PM Deviations from the Porter-Thomas distribution due to non-statistical $\gamma$ decay - Johann Isaak (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Institut für Kernphysik)

3:00 PM Photon strength functions and nuclear level densities at the ELI-NP/IFIN-HH facilities - Pär-Anders Söderström (ELI-NP/IFIN-HH)

3:20 PM Excited 0+ Levels, Spin-4 States, and Everything In-Between in 68Zn with Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence - Samantha Johnson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory)
3:50 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:50 PM - 4:20 PM
4:20 PM
4:20 PM - 5:50 PM
Contributions

4:20 PM Advances in Direct Laser Acceleration: High-Brightness X-ray and Neutron Sources via Plasma Guiding, High-Z Targets, and Flying Focus Pulses - Ishay Pomerantz (Tel Aviv University)

4:50 PM Enhanced Isomer Population in Solid-Density Targets using Laser-Plasma Accelerators - Robert Jacob (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

5:20 PM Broadband MeV to multi-GeV 10 PW laser-driven gamma-rays generation, characterization and possible applications - Vincent Lelasseux (ELI-NP, IFIN-HH)
6:00 PM

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
8:45 AM
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Contributions

8:45 AM Introductory remarks

8:55 AM Operational Performance and Experimental Advancements at the ELI-NP 10 PW Laser Facility for Nuclear Photonics Applications - Daniel Ursescu (UNSTPB)

9:25 AM Progress on laser-driven dual neutron-X-ray radiography - Ishay Pomerantz (on behalf of Julien Fuchs)

9:55 AM Energy-Resolved Photoresponse of the Nuclear Giant Dipole Resonance: Circumstantial Evidence for its Sub-Zeptosecond Lifetime - Norbert Pietralla (TU Darmstadt)
10:15 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:15 AM - 10:35 AM
10:35 AM
10:35 AM - 11:55 AM
Contributions

10:35 AM A Theoretically Grand Tour of Compton Scattering and Nucleon Polarisabilities - Harald W. Griesshammer (Institute for Nuclear Studies, Department of Physics, George Washington University, Washington DC)

11:05 AM Proton & Neutron Polarizabilities with Compton Scattering from Low-Mass Nuclear Targets at the High Intensity Gamma-ray Source (HIGS) - Kent Leung (Montclair State University, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Montclair, USA)

11:35 AM First observation of $\gamma$-ray beam production via Compton scattering of undulator X-rays in an electron storage ring - Norihito Muramatsu (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
11:55 AM Lunch break
Lunch break
11:55 AM - 12:25 PM

12:25 PM

12:25 PM - 4:00 PM
Thursday, October 9, 2025
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Contemporary aspects of the theory for the nuclear giant dipole resonance - Elias Khan (IJCLab)

9:45 AM "First results from the PANDORA project" - Jacob Bekker (University of the Witwatersrand, iThemba LABS, South Africa)

10:15 AM Electromagnetic response functions and electric dipole polarizability from coupled-cluster theory - Francesco Marino (JGU Mainz)
10:45 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 AM - 11:05 AM
11:05 AM
11:05 AM - 12:45 PM
Contributions

11:05 AM Understanding the nuclear collective states with photons - Gianluca Colo (University of Milano and INFN)

11:35 AM First high-accuracy, model-independent NRF measurements on $^{78,80}$Kr$ to constrain photon strength functions for p-process nucleosynthesis calculations - Adriana Banu (James Madison University, Department of Physics and Astronomy)

12:05 PM What can we learn from studying PDR and GDR with microscopic theory including phonon coupling? - Nadia Tsoneva (Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP)/Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH))

12:25 PM Study of the K quantum number of pygmy states in 154Sm - Refilwe Molaeng (University of the Witwatersrand and iThemba LABS)
12:45 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Contributions

1:45 PM Probing Nuclear Structure and Reactions with Vortex Photons - Virgil Baran (University of Bucharest)

2:15 PM Nuclear Excitation in Photonuclear Reactions by Photon Vortex with Large Angular Momentum in Astrophysical System - Tomoyuki Maruyama (BRS, Nihon university)

2:35 PM Measurement of spatial polarization distributions of inverse Compton scattered gamma rays - Yoshitaka Taira (Institute for Molecular Science)

2:55 PM 20 MeV electrons and bremsstrahlung at Turkish Accelerator and Radiation Laboratory - Haris Dapo (Turkish Accelerator and Radiation Laboratory (TARLA))
3:15 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:15 PM - 3:40 PM
3:40 PM
3:40 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

3:40 PM Nuclear Reaction Rates in Laser-Driven Non-Equilibrium Plasmas - Eunseok Hwang (Department of Physics, Soongsil University)

4:00 PM Ultra-intense neutron source generation from (p,xn) and (γ,xn) reactions driven by the PETAL laser - Guillaume Boutoux (CEA DAM DIF)

4:20 PM Progress on laser-driven spin polarized neutron beam generation - Ryuya Yamada (Institute of Laser Engineering, The University of Osaka)

4:40 PM Towards a vacuum birefringence experiment at the Helmholtz International Beamline for Extreme Fields - Felix Karbstein
7:00 PM

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Friday, October 10, 2025
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:25 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Perspectives for Nuclear Photonics Experiments at the new Research Campus Biblis - Markus Roth (TU Darmstadt & Focused Energy)

9:45 AM DICE: A Proposal for Energy-Efficient Electron Acceleration for Nuclear Photonics Applications* - Michaela Arnold (Institut für Kernphysik, TU Darmstadt)

10:05 AM Tritium-Induced Reactions with Neutron-Rich Light Nuclei - Chad Forrest (LLE, University of Rochester)
10:25 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:25 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM
10:50 AM - 12:20 PM
Contributions

10:50 AM The study of the $^3$H(α,γ)$^7$Li reaction through the inverse $^7$Li(γ,α)$^3$H reaction - I. Kuncser (Extrem Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics / IFIN-HH)

11:20 AM Nuclear photo-excitation data relevant for weak-interaction physics - Volker Werner (IKP TU Darmstadt)

11:40 AM Direct Observation of the competing M1 and isospin-forbidden M3 transitions from the decay of the IAS in $^{10}$B - Aslı Kuşoğlu (Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP), Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), 30 Reactorului Str., 077125 Bucharest-Măgurele, Romania)

12:00 PM Low-lying dipole response of the $N=84$ isotones $^{142}$Ce and $^{144}$Nd - Florian Kluwig (Institute for Nuclear Physics, University of Cologne)
12:20 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:20 PM - 1:20 PM
1:20 PM
1:20 PM - 2:20 PM
Contributions

1:20 PM CONICAL COIL FOCUSING OF LASER-PLASMA ACCELERATED PROTON BEAMS FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS - Laura-Anamaria Nălbaru (National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, SDSA, Splaiul Independenţei no. 313, RO-060042, Bucharest, Romania)

1:40 PM Production of pre-clinical activities of C-11 for PET imaging using a HRR laser-driven proton source - Aaron Alejo (IGFAE, USC)

2:00 PM Towards high sensitivity and low dose medical imaging with laser X-ray sources - Calin Alexandru Ur (on behalf of Dan Stutman)
2:20 PM Farewell
Farewell
2:20 PM - 2:40 PM

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