10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

ON

NUCLEAR REACTION MECHANISMS


Varenna, Villa Monastero, June 9-13, 2003


PROGRAM


MONDAY 9 June 2003

(go to TUESDAY 10 - WEDNESDAY 11 - THURSDAY 12 - FRIDAY 13)


9:00 - 11:00

Chairman: Arthur Kerman


Gregers P. Hansen 30'

Direct reactions with exotic beams

Steven Karataglidis 30'

Microscopic description of exotic nuclei and their reactions

Ken Amos 30'

Nucleus-hydrogen scattering - a probe of neutron matter

Karlheinz Langanke 30'

Improving nuclear ingredients in astrophysical applications


11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break


11:30 - 13:00

Chairman: Renato Angelo Ricci


Werner A. Richter 30'

Skyrme Hartree-Fock calculations and the structure of exotic nuclei

Nigel Orr 30'

Probing Structure beyond the neutron driplines

Gerhard Graw 30'

Transfer reactions and excitations in heavy nuclei


15:00 - 17:00

Chairman: Mark Chadwick


Guy Royer 20'

Highly deformed rotating nuclei and superheavy elements in the fusionlike deformation valley

Serban Misicu 20'

Fission, quasi-fission and cluster radioactivity valleys of heavy and superheavy elements

V. A. Karnaukhov 20'

Thermal multifragmentation, nuclear fog and critical temperature for the nuclear liquid-gas phase transition

Concettina Sfienti 20'

Temperature and density determination in heavy ion reactions at intermediate energies

Atsushi Tamii 20'

Search for narrow dibaryon resonances by the pd --> ppX and pdX reactions

Tetsuya Murakami 20'

Multifragmentation induced by light heavy-ions with GeV energy


17:00 - 17:30

Tea Break


17:30 - 18:30

Chairman: Simon H. Connell


Akos Horvath 20'

Investigation of neutron capture cross sections by measuring the inverse reaction

Marian Przytula 20'

Resonance spin memory in cascade de-excitation of compound nuclei and test of a simple model for its prediction

Roman Sagaidak 20'

Entrance channel effects in the production of evaporative residues in heavy ion fusion reactions



TUESDAY 10 June 2003

(go to MONDAY 9 - WEDNESDAY 11 - THURSDAY 12 - FRIDAY 13)


9:00 - 11:00

Chairman: Nigel Orr


Claus Konrad Gelbke 30'

Rare isotope research capabilities at the NSCL today and at RIA in the future

Vsevolod Mikheev 30'

On the limits of possibilities of superheavy element synthesis in nuclear reactions with heavy ions

Pawel Danielewicz 30'

Surface symmetry energy

Ken-Ichi Kubo 30'

The unified model for the high energy spin polarization


11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break


11:30 - 13:00

Chairman: Angela Bonaccorso


Angela Bonaccorso 20'

Introductory remarks

Takashi Nakamura 20'

Coulomb and nuclear break-up of halo nuclei

Giacomo De Angelis 20'

Nuclear structure studies far from stability and future perspectives with radioactive and (high intensity) stable ion beams at LNL

Carlos Bertulani 30'

Radiative capture cross sections: challenges and solutions


15:00 - 17:00

Chairman: Ken-Ichi Kubo


Cosimo Signorini 20'

Breakup of 6Li; a doorway to reaction dynamics induced by halo/loosely bound light radioactive ion beams

Leonid Chulkov 20'

Heavy hydrogen isotopes 4H and 5H

Y. Funaki 20'

Analysis of previous microscopic calculations for the second 0+ state in 12C in terms of 3-alpha particle Bose-condensed state

Victor Vasilevsky 20'

A microscopic three-cluster theory of resonance states in 4H, 4He, 4Li

Sonja Orrigo 20'

Spectroscopy of Light Exotic Nuclei by (7Li,7Be) Charge Exchange Reaction

Farouk Aksouh 20'

Study of the nuclear matter distribution with elastic proton scattering. New results on the neutron rich nuclei 6He and 8He


17:00 - 17:30

Tea Break


17:30 - 19:00

Chairman: Thereza Borello Lewin

Kazu Ogata 20'

Determination of S17 from systematic analyses of 8Be Coulomb break-up with the eikonal-CDCC method

Zoran Basrak 30'

Nuclear opacity from low to relativistic energies

Gergely Gabor Barnafoldy 20'

High-pT particle production in high energy heavy ion collisions

Agniezka Trzcinska 20'

Neutron density distribution deduced from antiprotonic atoms


21:30

WINE PARTY

Chairman: W. A. Richter

Honorary Chairman: Ken Amos

Tasting Secretary: Steven Karataglidis


WEDNESDAY 11 June 2003

(go to MONDAY 9 - TUESDAY 10 - THURSDAY 12 - FRIDAY 13)


9:00 - 11:00

Chairman: Ernst M. Henley


Alex Brown 30'

New magic numbers towards the drip lines

Pedro Sarriguren 30'

Spin-isospin excitations, pairing and shape coexistence

Anton Antonov 30'

Two nucleon overlap functions calculated in the Jastrow correlation method and cross sections of 16O(e,e'NN) reactions

Anthony Adverse Cowley 30'

Overview of relativistic and nonrelativistic distorted wave impulse approximation descriptions of the (p,2p) reaction on 208Pb at medium energy


11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break


11:30 - 12:30

Chairman: Gregers P. Hansen


Carlo Barbieri 30'

Effects of nuclear fragmentation on single particle and collective motion at low energy

J. W. Watson 30'

Short range n-p correlations in 12C(p,2p+n) reaction


21:00

EVENING SESSION

in honour of

Renato Angelo Ricci

Chairman: Ettore Gadioli


Renato Angelo Ricci 35'

50 years with Nuclear Physics: lights, shades and jokes

Peter E. Hodgson 35'

International Scientific co-operation

Walter Greiner 45'

Vacuum: matter and antimatter


THURSDAY 12 June 2003

(go to MONDAY 9 - TUESDAY 10 - WEDNESDAY 11 - FRIDAY 13)


9:00 - 11:00

Chairman: Lawrence Pinsky


Stephan Mashnik 30'

Analysis of intermediate-energy nucleus-nucleus spallation, fission and fragmentation reactions with LAQGSM code

Alfredo Ferrari 30'

Nuclear interaction models in FLUKA: a review

Mark Chadwick 30'

Photonuclear reactions for detection of nuclear materials and nonproliferation

Pierre Henrotte 30'

The low energy limit of the intranuclear cascade model


11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break


11:30 - 13:10

Chairman: Joseph Cugnon


Helder Duarte 20'

Improvement of an intranuclear cascade model at low intermediate energy

Celine Bonilla 20'

Nucleon and light nucleus emission from excited nuclei

Francesco Cerutti 20'

Boltzmann Master Equation theory as a tool for comprehensive studies of nuclear reactions

Francesca Ballarini 20'

Importance of nuclear interactions in hadrontherapy and space radiation protection

Vivian Demetriou 20'

Multistep reactions at energies up to 120 MeV


15:00 - 17:00

Chairman: Vsevolod Mikheev


Patrick Talou 20'

Determination of partial (n,xn gamma) cross-sections in 193Ir

Zinhle Buthelezi 20'

Enhanced total isobaric yields of near-target residues in 12C and 16O induced reactions

Massimo Papa 20'

Coherent and incoherent GDR gamma ray emission induced by heavy ion collisions, studied by means of the CoMD model

Mitko Gaidarov 20'

Short range correlations and one-nucleon removal reactions on open s-d shell nuclei

Andrzej Marcinkowski 20'

Multistep direct processes in nucleon induced reactions at incident energies below 40 MeV

Emil Betak 20'

Spin pre-equilibrium heavy ion reactions


17:00 - 17:30

Tea Break


17:30 - 19:00

Chairman: Claus Konrad Gelbke


Thereza Borello Lewin 30'

Probing the A~70 region with 6Li

Marcia Regina Dias Rodriguez 20'

Deuterons as probes in the Coulomb-Nuclear Interference region: isospin character of the first quadrupolar transition in even Palladium Isotopes

Giovanna Benzoni 20'

High-lying collective rotational states in nuclei: hyperdeformation and K-selection rules

Paul Papka 20'

Large deformation effect in N=Z 44Ti compound nucleus


FRIDAY 13 June 2003

(go to MONDAY 9 - TUESDAY 10 - WEDNESDAY 11 - THURSDAY 12)


9:00 - 11:00

Chairman: Jean Pierre Coffin


Andrzej Budzanowski 30'

What we learned from first experiments at RHIC ?

Christian Kuhn 30'

Quark Gluon Plasma and Strangeness from SPS to RHIC and LHC

Jerry Peterson 30'

A new selection rule for isovector reactions

Marco Battaglieri 30'

Overview of physics with CLAS at Jefferson laboratory


11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break


11:30 - 13:00

Chairman: Alex Brown


Ernest M. Henley 30'

gA in nuclei

Kazuhiro Tanaka 30'

Status of the Japan Hadron Facility

Egle Tomasi Gustafsson 30'

QCD view on hadron form factors in space-like and time-like momentum transfer reactions


15:00 - 17:00

Chairman: Angelo Cunsolo


Noboru Takigawa 30'

Heavy ion fusion reactions at energies near and below the Coulomb barrier

Francesco Cappuzzello 30'

New lines of research with the MAGNEX large-acceptance spectrometer

Giovanni Raciti 20'

FRIBS: Radioactive Ion Beams at LNS by Projectile Fragmentation

Paulo Roberto Gomes 20'

The break up of weakly bound stable nuclei and its effect on the fusion cross section

Marilena Avrigeanu 20'

Phenomenological/microscopical optical model potential analysis for alpha particles at low incident energies


17:00 - 17:30

Tea Break


17:30 - 18:40

Chairman: Peter E. Hodgson


Genevieve Mouze 30'

The reaction mechanism of ternary fission

Iliana Magdalena Brancus 20'

Experimental studies of the east-west effect on the charge ratio of atmospheric muons with energies relevant to the atmospheric neutrino anomaly

Laszlo Sajo Bohus 20'

Cosmic particle induced reaction detection with SSNTD Stacks Exposed On-board of International Space Station