Nuclear Physics Research Group
 

 

One-day Workshop:

Dripline nuclei as open quantum systems

Wednesday 9th April 2008

University of the West of Scotland (Paisley Campus)

  

 

Organized by:

Robert Chapman [Robert.Chapman@uws.ac.uk]

Martin Freer [mf@np.ph.bham.ac.uk]

Witek Nazarewicz [witek@utk.edu]

John F. Smith [John.F.Smith@uws.ac.uk]

 
 

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A one-day workshop entitled Dripline nuclei as open quantum systems

was held at the University of the West of Scotland (Paisley campus) on

Wednesday 9th April 2008. The workshop covered experimental and

theoretical topics relating to the structure and reaction aspects of weakly

bound nuclei. Some of the topics that will be covered are listed below.

  • Coupling to the continuum and structure of nuclei
  • Transfer reactions on rare isotopes
  • Threshold phenomena and clustering
  • Generic properties of open systems
  • Astrophysical implications

 

The main questions that were addressed at the workshop were

  • How do we incorporate open-channels effects
    into microscopic nuclear-reaction models?

  • How do we incorporate structural information
    into microscopic nuclear-reaction models?

More specifically

  • What is the origin of cluster configurations in nuclei?

  • What is the foundation of the Ikeda diagram?

  • Is the spectroscopic factor a useful concept?

  • Can we extract useful spectroscopic information
    from threshold effects?

  • What is the structure of the many-body continuum?

  • What is the interplay between continuum
    and isospin-breaking effects?

 

Presentations were made by the following speakers (in alphabetical order).

 

Presentations can be downloaded in PowerPoint or PDF formats as indicated.

 

Programme

The programe of presentations is available here.

Participants

The workshop was attended by 31 people.

The list of participants can be downloaded here.

Workshop announcement

Download the announcement here.

UWS contacts

For UWS nuclear-physics group contact information click here.

 

  
 
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