Name: 2015 Active Targets and TPC for Nuclear Physics Experiments Workshop
Start: 2015-05-18T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2015-05-20T16:30:00-04:00
Location: National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory

2015 Active Targets and TPC for Nuclear Physics Experiments Workshop

from Monday, 18 May 2015 (08:00) to Wednesday, 20 May 2015 (16:30)

Monday, 18 May 2015

08:00 Breakfast and Registration
Breakfast and Registration
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Lecture Hall
09:00
09:00 - 10:25
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

09:00 Workshop Introduction and Goals - Konrad Gelbke (NSCL)

09:15 From nuclear forces to structure and astrophysics - Alexandros Gezerlis (University of Guelph)

09:50 Active Target Detector types - Daniel Bazin (NSCL/MSU)
10:25 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:25 - 10:55
Room: Lecture Hall
10:55
10:55 - 12:30
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

10:55 Gas properties and optimization for active targets - julien pancin (GANIL)

11:30 Resonance Studies with Active-Target Detectors: Examples from Prototype AT-TPC - Tan Ahn (University of Notre Dame)

12:05 GEANT4 Simulations for Astrobox2 and the MDM-Oxford Spectrometer Detector Upgrade - Brian Roeder (Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Lecture Hall
14:00
14:00 - 16:05
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

14:00 Development of low pressure TPC within the FIPPS project. - Aurelien Blanc (ILL Grenoble)

14:25 Hardware Performance of the NIFFTE fissionTPC for High Precision Measurements - Jeremy Bundgaard (Colorado School of Mines & the NIFFTE collaboration)

14:50 Precision Nuclear Data Measurements with the NIFFTE fissionTPC - Verena Kleinrath (Los Alamos National Laboratory, P-27)

15:15 Development of WeMATar (Western Michigan Active Target) - An active target time projection chamber for fast rare isotope beam experiments - Zbigniew Chajecki (Western Michigan University)

15:40 Active Targets for Nuclear Structure Studies with Radioactive Beams at GSI and at FAIR - Peter Egelhof (GSI Darmstadt)
16:05 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:05 - 16:25
Room: Lecture Hall
16:25
16:25 - 18:55
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

16:25 Active Target and Time Projection Chamber (ACTAR TPC) - julien pancin (GANIL)

16:50 Measurement of the isoscalar monopole response in the neutron-rich 68Ni using Active Target MAYA - Marine Vandebrouck (GANIL)

17:15 Conceptual design and simulation of a Proton Detector for studying low-energy resonances relevant in thermonuclear reactions - David Perez Loureiro (NSCL/MSU)

17:40 Toward Nuclear Astrophysics studies with Electronic TPC (eTPC) and gamma beams from ELI-NP - Mikolaj Cwiok (University of Warsaw)

18:05 Nuclear Astrophysics With an Optical Readout TPC (O-TPC) at the HIγS Facility * - Moshe Gai (University of Connecticut and Yale)

18:30 Exotic decay modes studied by means of the Warsaw Optical Time Projection Chamber - Zenon Janas (Faculty of Physics, Uniwesity of Warsaw)
19:00 Reception and Research Discussion
Reception and Research Discussion
19:00 - 21:00
Room: NSCL Atrium
Tuesday, 19 May 2015

08:00 Breakfast
Breakfast
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Lecture Hall
09:00
09:00 - 10:35
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

09:00 Transfer reactions: opportunities and challenges for the modern era - Alan Wuosmaa (University of Connecticut)

09:35 Active target developments in Japan - Shinsuke OTA (Center for Nuclear Study, the University of Tokyo)

10:10 One-dimensionality in atomic nuclei: linear-chain alpha clustering in 14C - Adam Fritsch (College of Wooster)
10:35 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:35 - 10:55
Room: Lecture Hall
10:55
10:55 - 12:55
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

10:55 Developments and Applications of Micro-pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGD): a concise review - Marco Cortesi (National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (Michigan State University))

11:30 Giant resonances in exotic nuclei - Thomas Aumann (TU Darmstadt)

12:05 MAIKo active target for RI beam experiments - Tatsuya Furuno (Department of Physics, Kyoto University)

12:30 Photodisintegration measurement using MAIKo - motoki murata (Department of physics kyoto university)
12:55 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:55 - 14:00
Room: Lecture Hall
14:00
14:00 - 16:05
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

14:00 Hyperon Time Projection Chamber for J-PARC experiments - Hiroyuki Sako (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)

14:25 Integration of GET electronics on TPC for HIC program at RIBF - Tadaaki Isobe (RIKEN)

14:50 Current Status of SπRIT Time-Projection Chamber Project - Mizuki Kurata-Nishimura (RIKEN)

15:15 The SπRIT-TPC data acquisition system and analysis framework - Yassid Ayyad (Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567-0047, Japan and NSCL, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 48824, USA)

15:40 Upgrade of the TAMU MDM-Focal Plane Detector with MicroMegas Technology - Alexandra Spiridon (Cyclotron Institute-Texas A&M University)
16:05 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:05 - 16:25
Room: Lecture Hall
16:25
16:25 - 19:55
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

16:25 Nuclear reactions studied at small momentum transfers - Nasser Kalantar (KVI-CART/Univ. of Groningen)

16:50 MINOS : performance and results from the first physics experiment at the RIBF - Clementine Santamaria (CEA Saclay)

17:15 SpecMAT: An array of gamma-ray detectors around an active gas target - Jacobus Swartz (KU Leuven)

17:40 Design of Gating grid driver for SπRIT Time Projection Chamber - suwat tangwancharoen (National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory)

18:05 Development of the TexAT Detector at Texas A&M University - Ethan Uberseder (Texas A&M University)
Wednesday, 20 May 2015

08:00 Breakfast
Breakfast
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Lecture Hall
09:00
09:00 - 10:45
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

09:00 Nuclear Astrophysics: the unfinished quest for the origin of the elements - Jordi Jose (UPC Barcelona)

09:35 Coincidence auxiliary detection devices - Riccardo Raabe (KU Leuven - Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica)

10:10 Exotic decays and processes beyond drip lines - Ivan Mukha (Helmholzzentrum GSI)
10:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:00
Room: Lecture Hall
11:00
11:00 - 13:10
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

11:00 Development of the Online Analysis Software for the CRIB Active Target - Pilsoo LEE (Dept. of Physics, Chung-Ang University)

11:25 Photogrammetry measurements of the SpiRIT TPC - Jonathan Barney (NSCL)

11:50 Garfield Simulation of the SpiRIT TPC Field Cage - Justin Estee (NSCL)

12:15 Preliminary Results from the Commissioning of the AT-TPC at MSU - Joshua Bradt (NSCL/MSU)

12:40 Workshop Closing - Wolfgang Mittig (MSU-NSCL)
14:30

14:30 - 16:30
Room: Lecture Hall