Nuclear Physics Conference 2025

23 Apr 2025, 08:30 → 25 Apr 2025, 13:30 Europe/London

Engineering A Theatre B (2A.041) (Nancy Rothwell Building)

David Sharp, Kara Lynch (University of Manchester), Thomas Day Goodacre (The University of Manchester), Toby Wright (University of Manchster)

The Nuclear Physics Conference 2025 will feature invited talks from national and international speakers, as well as extensive opportunities for contributed talks. A poster session will take place to showcase work and discoveries, and updates and discussions with senior members of the Science and Technology Facilities Council will be provided at a Town Meeting. The conference is particularly welcoming to Ph.D. students and all are offered the opportunity to present their research.

Further information can be found on the conference website: https://iop.eventsair.com/np2025/

Please upload your talks to this Indico page before the start of your session. As a reminder:

• Plenary talks are 25 mins + 5 mins for questions
• Parallel talks are 12 mins + 3 mins for questions

 

This event is supported by:

Wednesday, 23 April

08:30 → 09:15 Registration

09:15 → 09:30 Welcome

Speakers: Chris Hardacre (The University of Manchester), Kieran Flanagan (University of Manchester)

Conference info.pptx

Nancy Rothwell Building floorplan 2024 v1.pdf

09:30 → 10:00 Superheavy elements

Convener: Rodi Herzberg

09:30 Toward Pursuing New Superheavy Elements

Speaker: Jacklyn Gates (LBNL)

10:00 → 10:30 IOP Prize Winners

Convener: Rodi Herzberg

10:00 Data-driven approaches to learning about nuclear structure

Ernest Rutherford Medal and Prize winner 2023

Speaker: David Jenkins

IOP Conf 2025 JENKINS.pdf

IOP Conf 2025 JENKINS.pptx

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break + Exhibitor session

11:00 → 12:30 Applied nuclear physics: Parallel session

Convener: Philippos Papadakis

11:00 Nuclear Data and medical radioisotope production activities at UKNNL

Speaker: Luigi Capponi (UKNNL)

IOP_2025_LC.pptx

11:15 Nuclear Science Opportunities at HF-ADNeF

Speaker: Jack Bishop (University Of Birmingham)

IOP2025JBishop.pdf

11:30 A new charge-reset method for determining Auger-electron emission multiplicities

Speaker: Jacob Heery (University of Surrey)

Jheery_AugerCSD.pdf

11:45 A feasibility study using an array of LaBr3(Ce) scintillation detectors as a Compton camera for prompt gamma imaging during BNCT

Speaker: Kiran Nutter (University of Birmingham)

IoPconference_Slides_KiranNutter.pdf

12:00 Towards Complete Decay Spectroscopy of 152Tb

Speaker: Edward O'Sullivan (University of Surrey)

EOSULLIVAN_IoP25.pdf

12:15 .

11:00 → 12:30 Hadron and relativistic heavy-ion collisions: Parallel session

Convener: Oliver Jevons

11:00 Elucidating Strangeness with Electromagnetic Probes

Speaker: Asli Acar (University of York)

IOP2025_2_compressed.pdf

11:15 The KLong Facility in Hall D at Jefferson Lab

Speaker: Stuart Fegan (University of York)

SFegan_IOP2025.pdf

11:30 GEn-RP: Neutron Electric Form Factor Measurement at Q² = 4.4 (GeV/c)² via Charge Exchange Recoil Polarimetry at Jefferson Lab

Speaker: Andrew Cheyne (University Of Glasgow)

genrp_iop.pptx

11:45 Meson Spectroscopy at CLAS12

Speaker: Charlie Velasquez (University of York)

Meson Spectroscopy at Jefferson Lab - IOP 2025.pdf

12:00 The analysis of π− mesons produced in Pb-Pb collisions at 30A GeV/c from NA61/SHINE

Speaker: Ali Soheilbeigi Bazgir (Jan Kochanowski University (PL))

Manchester_NuclearPhysics-2025_hminus.pdf

12:15 Investigation of Secondary Particle Generation in Carbon Ion Beams for Cancer Radiotherapy

Speaker: Shaikah Alsubayae

IOP_2025_Shaikah.pdf

11:00 → 12:30 Nuclear structure: Parallel session

Convener: Lisa Morrison

11:00 Solving the 9B(1/2+) mystery using the R-matrix formalism

Speaker: Alex Brooks (University of Birmingham)

IOP_pres_final.pdf

11:15 Alpha-particle condensation in diluted 16O at finite temperatures

Speaker: Miriam Davies (University of Surrey)

IOP25-Miriam_Davies.pptx

11:30 Probing Short-Range Correlations via (p,pd) Quasi-Free Scattering reactions

Speaker: Matthew Whitehead (University of York)

IOP 2025 M Whitehead.pdf

11:45 Identification of excited states in Ba-114 using recoil-decay tagging

Speaker: Ben Hogg (University of the West Of Scotland)

IoP_2025_BHogg.pdf

12:00 Quasi-Free Scattering Studies in and Around the Ca Mass Region

Speaker: Luke Rose (University of York)

Luke_Rose_IOP_2025.pptx

12:15 Measurements of octupole collectivity in 144Ba via Coulomb-excitation

Speaker: Ben Jones (University of Liverpool)

IOP_144Ba.pdf

IOP_144Ba.pptx

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch + Poster session

14:00 → 14:30 Hadron and relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Convener: David Ireland

14:00 Exploring the Structure of Hadrons at the Intensity Frontier

Speaker: Rachel Montgomery

Montgomery_IOP_April2025.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Applied nuclear physics

Convener: David Ireland

14:30 Nuclear metrology in support of clean energy at the National Physical Laboratory

Speaker: Giuseppe Lorusso (NPL)

IoP UoM 2025.pptx

15:00 → 15:30 Nuclear theory

Convener: David Ireland

15:00 Bridging Scales, Connecting Fields: An Introduction to the IPPP for the Nuclear Physics Community

Speaker: Michael Spannowsky (Durham University)

IOP_Nuclear_Spannowsky.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break + Exhibitor session

16:00 → 18:00 STFC Town Meeting

Convener: John Smith

16:00 Update from STFC Executive Chair

Speakers: Michele Dougherty (STFC), Grahame Blair (STFC)

2025 NP Town Hall-2025_MD PD Final.pptx

16:45 Update from Science Board

Speaker: Keith Grange

SB update NP - Keith Grainge.pptx

17:05 Update from Nuclear Physics Advisory Panel

Speaker: David Sharp (University of Manchester)

Town Meeting - 240423.pptx

17:25 Update from IOP Nuclear Physics Group

Speaker: Jack Henderson (University of Surrey)

IoP-Manchester-2025.pdf

IoP-Manchester-2025.pptx

17:45 Discussions

18:00 → 20:30 Drinks Reception

Thursday, 24 April

09:00 → 10:30 IOP Prize Winners

Convener: Paul Campbell

09:00 Level-lifetime measurements as a probe of shapes and symmetries in nuclei

Ernest Rutherford Medal and Prize winner 2024

Speaker: Alison Bruce (University of Brighton)

09:30 Direct measurements of astrophysical reactions with radioactive beams

Early Career Researcher Prize winner

Speaker: Matthew Williams (University of Surrey)

10:00 Calorimeter Construction for Luminosity Monitoring at the Electron Ion Collider

Best Second Year PhD Student Talk at the STFC Nuclear Physics Summer School 2024 winner

Speaker: Alex Smith (University Of York)

AlexSmith_IOP2025.pptx

10:15 Development of a gamma radiation detector system for localisation and mapping of distributed sources

Best Second Year PhD Student Talk at the STFC Nuclear Physics Summer School 2024 winner

Speaker: Ms Refilwe Setso (University of York)

Refilwe_UoY_IOP_April 2025.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break + Exhibitor session

11:00 → 12:30 Applied nuclear physics: Parallel session

Convener: Jack Bishop

11:00 A Modelling Approach to Defining Radiochemical SeparationRequirements for Radiometric Assay

Speaker: Tom Stokes (The University of Liverpool & AWE)

Stokes_ModellingChemistryOutcomes_2025.pdf

11:15 Creating a beta-gamma detection system for fuel condition monitoring of spent nuclear fuel rods and operational nuclear reactors

Speaker: Sifa Poulton (University of Surrey/National Physical Laboratory)

IOPTalk2025_Sifa.pptx

11:30 Exploring The Use of the Trojan Horse Method for Radiative Neutron Capture Reactions

Speaker: Dominik Stajkowski (University Of Birmingham)

11:45 24Mg (n,n’) measurement at n TOF, CERN

Speaker: Matthew Birch (University of Manchester)

12:00 Multiparameter study of fission with STEFF at n_TOF

Speaker: Angelica D'Ottavi (University of Manchester)

Angelica D'Ottavi_IOP Conference.pdf

12:15 Measurements of Fission Fragment Masses and Proton Numbers at ILL and n TOF, CERN

Speaker: Nikolay Sosnin (The University of Manchester)

IOP2025_NSosnin.pdf

IOP2025_NSosnin.pptx

11:00 → 11:30 Hadron and relativistic heavy-ion collisions: Parallel session

Convener: Stuart Fegan

11:00 Gaussian Processes: Machine Learning for Observable Interpolation and Data Analysis

Speaker: Ryan Ferguson (University of Glasgow)

IOP 2025 Ryan Ferguson.pptx

11:15 Unfolding Jet Substructure Observables with Machine Learning

Speaker: Nicodemos Andreou (University of Derby)

11:00 → 12:30 Nuclear structure: Parallel session

Convener: Andy Briscoe

11:00 Experimental Investigation of Isomeric Decays in Neutron-Rich 183,184Hf isotopes Using the KISS Facility

Speaker: Siddharth Doshi (University of Brighton)

11:15 Isomer Spectroscopy in the Transfermium Region

Speaker: Jamie Chadderton (University Of Liverpool)

11:30 Laser spectroscopy of Fe isotopes using an electrostatic ion trap at IGISOL

Speaker: Daniel Bettaney (University of Manchester)

11:45 Collinear resonance ionization spectroscopy of neutron-deficient antimony

Speaker: Abigail McGlone (University of Manchester)

12:00 Lifetime measurements in neutron-rich barium and cerium isotopes using the fast-timing technique

Speaker: Faye Rowntree (University of Liverpool)

Faye Rowntree IOP 2025.pptx

12:15 Lifetime measurements of low-energy octupole states in radium-224

Speaker: Dylan White (University of the West Of Scotland)

DylanWhiteIOPTalk.pdf

11:30 → 12:30 Nuclear structure: Parallel session

Convener: Stuart Fegan

11:30 Nuclear breathing mode analyzed in the multi-reference density functional theory

Speaker: Xuwei Sun (University of York)

11:45 Lifetime measurements in 102Mo interpreted in the interacting boson model and the X(5) symmetry

Speaker: Calum Jones (University of Surrey)

12:00 Reactor physics and the Pygmy Dipole Resonance: A detailed study of the beta decay of 92Rb with GRIFFIN

Speaker: Pietro Spagnoletti (University of Liverpool)

IOP-conf-92Rb.pdf

12:15 .

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch + Poster session

14:00 → 14:30 Nuclear structure

Convener: Bjorn Seitz

14:00 Nuclear Structure with state-of-the-art γ spectroscopy

Speaker: Silvia Leoni (INFN Milan)

14:30 → 15:00 Applied nuclear physics

Convener: Bjorn Seitz

14:30 The radionuclide toolkit for diagnosis and therapy

Speaker: Heather Williams (The Christie NHS Foundation Trust)

15:00 → 15:30 Nuclear theory

Convener: Bjorn Seitz

15:00 Chiral forces and uncertainty quantification in ab initio nuclear structure predictions

Speaker: Andreas Ekström (Chalmers University of Technology)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break + Exhibitor session

16:00 → 16:30 Applied nuclear physics: Parallel session

Convener: Daniel Doherty

16:00 Quantum entanglement of positron annihilation gamma – new insights and future plans

Speaker: Laura Stephenson (University of York)

IOP_Nuclear2025V2.pdf

IOP_Nuclear2025V2.pptx

16:15 Muographic Image Upsampling with Machine Learning for BuiltInfrastructure Applications

Speaker: William O'Donnell (University of Glasgow)

16:00 → 17:45 Instrumentation: Parallel session

Convener: Marc Labiche

16:00 The Resonance Ionization Laser Ion Source RILIS at CERN-ISOLDE: Expanding limits of selectivity, intensity, and nuclear structure laser spectroscopy

Speaker: Reinhard Heinke (University of Manchester)

16:15 Comprehensive Characterisation of the A601 AGATA Detector: Insights from Analogue, and Advanced Scanning Measurements

Speaker: Rayan Alnefaie (University Of Liverpool)

16:30 Position Reconstruction of Multiple Interactions Gamma Events in SIGMA Detector Using Two-step Search Algorithm

Speaker: Nawaf Altasan (University Of Liverpool)

16:45 Simulation of a ²⁴¹Am-⁹Be neutron source using Geant4 Monte Carlo

Speaker: Filippo Falezza (The University of Birmingham)

main.pdf

17:00 The Development of the Compact Cherenkov Detector HEPI - the High Energy Proton Instrument for Satellite Missions

Speaker: Joseph O'Neill (University of Surrey)

ONEILL IOP 2025 HEPI Talk.pptx

17:15 Characterization of an ASIC-based readout system for the SAND experiment

Speaker: Yuri Venturini (CAEN SpA)

ID30_Characterization_of_an ASIC-based_readout_system_for_the_SAND_experiment.pdf

16:00 → 17:45 Nuclear structure: Parallel session

Convener: Liam Gaffney

16:00 Impact of the meson-exchange currents on the magnetic dipole moments in odd near doubly magic nuclei analyzed within nuclear DFT framework

Speaker: Herlik Wibowo (School of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York, UK)

Herlik_talk_IOP2025.pdf

16:15 Investigating the Internal Decay Characteristics of Gold Nuclei Beyond the N=104 Midshell

Speaker: Anthony Mcfarlane (University of York)

16:30 Exploring unphysical quadrupole triaxiality in 200,202Hg with Coulomb excitation

Speaker: Greg Willmott (University of Surrey)

16:45 Octupole deformation in neutron-deficient plutonium isotopes

Speaker: Hamid Ayatollahzadeh (University of the West Of Scotland)

Octupole_deformation_plutonium_AGATA_presentation_2025.pdf

17:00 Shape coexistence in 196Po: An in-beam γ-e spectroscopic study

Speaker: Andy Briscoe (University Of Liverpool)

17:15 Identification of parity-doublet bands in odd-Z 223Pa

Speaker: James Keatings (University of the West Of Scotland)

JMK_IOP_2025.pdf

16:30 → 17:45 Nuclear astrophysics: Parallel session

Convener: Daniel Doherty

16:30 Measurement of the 68Zn(n,γ) Cross Sections at n TOF, CERN, and their Astrophysical Implications

Speaker: Annie Rooney (University of Edinburgh)

16:45 Introducing thermal effects into neutron capture cross sections for the (n,188Os) reaction

Speaker: Nicholas Lightfoot (University of Surrey)

IOP Nuclear Conference 2025 188Os.odp

IOP Nuclear Conference 2025 188Os.pptx

17:00 A Platform for Cross-section Measurements on the National Ignition Facility

Speaker: Daniel Pitman-Weymouth (Atomic Weapons Establishment)

NIF RadChem.pdf

17:15 Mass and Half-life Measurements in the Neutron-rich N~116 Hf Region

Speaker: Zachary Nunns (University of Surrey)

19:00 → 23:00 Conference Dinner

Friday, 25 April

09:00 → 09:30 Hadron and relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Convener: Judith McGovern

09:00 Investigating strange baryons and charm production with the upgraded ALICE Inner Tracker

Speaker: Lee Barnby (University of Derby)

09:30 → 10:00 Nuclear theory

Convener: Judith McGovern

09:30 Electroweak reactions with light (and not so light) nuclei

Speaker: Sonia Bacca (JGU Mainz)

10:00 → 10:30 Nuclear structure

Convener: Judith McGovern

10:00 Laser spectroscopy for nuclear structure studies: future plans at the GANIL and DESIR facility

Speaker: Louis Lalanne (LPHC-CNRS)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:30 Nuclear structure

Convener: Mike Birse

11:00 Single-Neutron Excitations Outside of 132Sn and the Fate of Spin-Orbit Partners in Weakly Bound Systems

Speaker: Ben Kay (Argonne National Laboratory)

11:30 → 12:00 Nuclear astrophysics

Convener: Mike Birse

11:30 Neutron Reactions in Astrophysics

Speaker: Claudia Lederer-Woods (University of Edinburgh)

12:00 → 12:30 Nuclear theory

Convener: Mike Birse

12:00 Exploring the structure and reactions of two-neutron halos at the low-Z coast of the island of inversion

Speaker: JAGJIT SINGH (University of Manchester)

12:30 → 13:00 Applied nuclear physics

Convener: Mike Birse

12:30 Nuclear Science to Benefit Society

Speaker: Iain Darby (UKNNL)

13:00 → 13:10 Closing remarks