5th PANDORA Workshop 2025

Europe/Bucharest
IFIN-HH / ELI-NP Training Center

IFIN-HH / ELI-NP Training Center

Strada Reactorului 30, Măgurele 077125
Description

Fifth PANDORA Workshop, 4-5 September

The PANDORA project aims at systematic measurements of the E1 response of nuclei relevant for understanding the ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) spectrum, and the disintegration of these in the extragalactic medium at three main facilities: iThemba LABS in Cape Town, RCNP in Osaka, and ELI-NP in Bucharest.

The first workshop, where the project was officially launched, was held in June 2020, and was focused on invited experts on various topics. Following this, the workshop has been organized once per year following the progress of the collaboration, with the 2nd workshop held on-line, the 3rd workshop in Okinawa, Japan, and the 4th workshop in Kruger Park, South Africa. Our aim of this Fifth PANDORA Workshop is to focus on contributed presentations regarding the most experimental progress from the RCNP campaigns, the potential of using photon beams, and the impact of the new results on nuclear theory and astroparticle physics. 

Therefore, we would like to invite those interested to participate to register, and those interested to present their recent work to register and submit a contribution title.

On behalf of the collaboration,

P-A, Atsushi, Luna

Local organizing committee:

Prof. Calin A. Ur
Prof. Dimiter L. Balabanski
Dr. Pär-Anders Söderström
Dr. Aslı Kuşoğlu
Dr. Teodora Petruse
Dr. Cristina Marin
Ms. Sara Rebeca Ban
Ms. Andreea Ghitiu
Ms. Domnica Neagu

Contact: autumn_2025@eli-np.ro

Presentations
Participants
  • Thursday 4 September
    • 09:00 09:30
      Welcome: Welcome and registration
    • 09:30 10:00
      RCNP and iThemba updates
      • 09:30
        PANDORA Experiments at RCNP 30m
        Speaker: Jacob Bekker (University of the Witwatersrand)
    • 10:00 10:15
      Coffee
    • 10:15 12:00
      RCNP and iThemba updates
      • 10:15
        Updates on 10,11B analysis 30m
        Speaker: Andreea Gavrilescu (ELI-NP/IFIN-HH)
      • 10:45
        Update on gamma decay analysis 20m
        Speaker: Yumaro Suzuki (Research Center for Nuclear Physics)
      • 11:05
        Charged Particle Decay Measurement of 27Al at RCNP on PANDORA Project 20m
        Speaker: Yohei Sasagawa (Research Center for Nuclear Physics)
      • 11:25
        Hardware simulation of particle identification algorithms for silicon detectors 20m
        Speaker: Sara Rebeca Ban (ELI-NP/IFIN-HH)
      • 11:45
        DWBA calculations of light nuclei 15m
        Speaker: Midhun C.V. (ELI-NP/IFIN-HH)
    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch
    • 13:00 14:15
      RCNP and iThemba updates
      • 13:00
        Status of iThemba LABS 15m
        Speaker: Retief Neveling (iThemba LABS)
      • 13:15
        Electric dipole strength in sd-shell nuclei from forward-angle proton scattering 30m
        Speaker: (Online) Peter von Neumann-Cosel (TU Darmstadt)
      • 13:45
        Study on the Collectivity of Particle-Hole Configurations and Spreading Width for Nuclear Resonances 30m
        Speaker: (Online) Minato Futoshi (Kyushu University)
    • 14:15 14:30
      Coffee
    • 14:30 16:00
      UHECRs and data impact
      • 14:30
        Recent Advances in the Observation of Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays 30m
        Speaker: Eiji Kido (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo)
      • 15:00
        A milstone in UHECR observations? 30m
        Speaker: Denis Allard (Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie/CNRS)
      • 15:30
        The exceptionaly high energy neutrino event recorded by KM3NeT 30m
        Speaker: Bruny Baret (Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie/CNRS)
    • 16:00 18:00
      Discussion
    • 19:00 23:00
      Dinner Hanu' lui Manuc

      Hanu' lui Manuc

      Str. Franceză 62-64, București 030106
  • Friday 5 September
    • 09:00 10:00
      Gamma-ray beams
      • 09:00
        Status of ELI-NP 20m
        Speaker: Ioan Dancus (ELI-NP/IFIN-HH)
      • 09:20
        The gamma beam system at ELI-NP 20m
        Speaker: Ling Chen (ELI-NP/IFIN-HH)
      • 09:40
        ELIGANT and ELIFANT: Gamma and neutron actiities at ELI-NP 20m
        Speaker: Aslı Kuşoğlu (ELI-NP/IFIN-HH)
    • 10:00 10:15
      Coffee
    • 10:15 11:00
      Gamma-ray beams
      • 10:15
        Development of the ELISSA array: Results and perspectives 15m
        Speaker: Teodora Petruse (ELI-NP/IFIN-HH)
      • 10:30
        Status of the SLEGS facility 30m
        Speaker: (Online) Gongtao Fan (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute)
    • 11:00 12:00
      Facility tour ELI-NP Experimental building (ELI-NP)

      Experimental building

      ELI-NP

      Strada Reactorului 30, Măgurele 077125
    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch
    • 13:00 13:30
      Gamma-ray beams
    • 13:30 14:00
      Theory
    • 14:00 14:15
      Coffee
    • 14:15 16:00
      Theory
      • 14:30
        Electric dipole response of sd-shell nuclei within the Configuration-Interaction Shell Model approach 30m
        Speaker: Oscar Le Noan (IPHC - CNRS - University of Strasbourg)
      • 15:00
        Updates on RNFT 30m
        Speaker: (Online) Elena Litvinova (Western Michigan University)
      • 15:30
        Large-scale calculation of the E1 photon strength function using a deformed covariant energy density functional approach 30m
        Speaker: Luis González-Miret Zaragoza (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
    • 16:00 18:00
      Discussion