Gordon Research Conference on
 
Nuclear Chemistry

NUCLEAR REACTIONS, Flavors across Energies

June 13-18, 2004
Colby-Sawyer College
New London, NH

Chair: Pawel Danielewicz
Vice Chair: Partha Chowdhury

 

General Description:

     This conference is devoted to the most recent progress in nuclear dynamics with emphasis on central nuclear reactions leading to fusion through multi-fragmentation to the production of quark-gluon plasma.  A particular attention will be devoted, this year, to the role of flavors in nuclear dynamics, from the role of neutron-proton asymmetry in reactions, through flavors in collapsed stars, up to the features of jets from the reactions.  Cross-fertilization between different domains of interests, as well as issues of importance for the different domains, will be stressed.  The participation of students and young scientists in the meeting is highly encouraged. 

Meeting Format:

     The meeting will consist of sessions devoted to the following subjects: 1. Isospin and Structure in Reactions, 2. Multi-Fragmentation and Liquid-Gas Phase Transition, 3. Transport Phenomena, 4. Reaction Dynamics, 5. Nuclear Astrophysics, 6. Particle Production, 7. Towards Quark-Gluon Plasma, 8. Ultrarelativistic Collisions. The co-chairs responsible for the subjects are: 1. William G. Lynch, Joe Natowitz and Hermann Wolter, 2. Subal Das Gupta, Francesca Gulminelli and Luciano G. Moretto, 3. Bao-An Li, Sherry Yennello and Bernard Tamain, 4. Massimo Di Toro and Lee Sobotka, 5. Ignazio Bombaci, Charles Horowitz and Madappa Prakash, 6. Ulrich Mosel, Willibrord Reisdorf and Piera Sapienza, 7. Roy Lacey and Nu Xu, 8. Barbara Erazmus and Edward Shuryak. 

     Each session will consist of: 1. few general presentations, about 20min long, followed by discussions, about 10min long, 2. several shorter presentations, about 8min long, followed by discussions, about 4min long, 3. a possible general discussion, 30-60min long, on key issues within the subfield.  The format of the discussion is up to the co-chairs, but the audience needs to be fully engaged.  In addition, poster sessions will be organized.  Two of the short Thursday presentations are reserved for the winners of the poster competition.

Registration and Travel Information:

     Visit the Conference site at the Gordon Research Conferences.

Mailings:

    February 21, May 15, phones + June 7

Conference Photos (courtesy of Lijun Shi)


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SUNDAY

 

2:00 pm - 9:00 pm          Arrival and check-in

 

6:00 pm                        Dinner

 

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm          Isospin and Structure in Reactions

 

Discussion Leaders: William G. Lynch (NSCL – East Lansing), Joe Natowitz (Texas A&M University) and Hermann Wolter (University of Munich)

 

7:30 pm - 8:00 pm          Hisashi Horiuchi (Kyoto University)

AMD description of assembling and disassembling of nucleons

 

8:00 pm – 8:30 pm         Nigel Orr (LPC – Caen)

Correlations and clustering at the neutron dripline

 

8:30 pm – 9:00 pm         Horst Lenske (University of Giessen)

Asymmetric nuclear matter and hypermatter: flavor dynamics close to the ground state

 

9:00 pm – 9:30 pm         M. Betty Tsang (NSCL – East Lansing)

Isoscaling

 

MONDAY

 

7:30 am - 8:30 am          Breakfast

 

9:00 am - 12:30 am        Multi-Fragmentation and Liquid-Gas Phase Transition

 

Discussion Leaders: Subal Das Gupta (McGill University), Francesca Gulminelli (LPC – Caen) and Luciano G. Moretto (LBNL – Berkeley)

 

9:00 am – 9:30 am         Philippe Chomaz (Ganil – Caen)

Phase transitions in finite systems

 

9:30 am – 10:00 am       Larry Phair (LBNL – Berkeley)

From finite to infinite systems

 

10:00 am – 10:30 am     Mauro Bruno (University of Bologna)

Experimental signals of the liquid-gas phase transition

 

10:30 am – 11:00 am     Coffee Break and Photograph

 

11:00 am – 11:12 am     Kyrill A. Bugaev (LBNL – Berkeley)

Surface partition of large fragments

 

11:12 am – 11:24 am     Maria Colonna  (LNS – Catania)

Dynamics of phase transitions

 

11:24 am – 11:36 am     Sylvie Hudan (Indiana University)

Interplay of initial deformation and Coulomb proximity on nuclear decay

 

11:36 am – 11:48 am     Wolfgang Trautmann (GSI – Darmstadt)

Isotopic scaling in spectator fragmentation and the symmetry term at low densities

 

11:48 am – 12:30 pm     Discussion: What is the nature of isospin effects in fragmentation?

Subal Das Gupta (McGill University), Francesca Gulminelli (LPC – Caen) and Luciano G. Moretto (LBNL – Berkeley)

 

12:30 pm                       Lunch

 

1:30 pm - 4:30 pm          Free Time

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm        POSTER SESSION I (William G. Lynch, Piera Sapienza, Nu Xu)

6:00 pm                        Dinner

 

7:30 pm - 9:36 pm          TRANSPORT PHENOMENA

 

Discussion Leaders: Bao-An Li (Arkansas State University), Bernard Tamain (LPC – Caen) and Sherry Yennello (Texas A&M University)

 

7:30 pm - 8:00 pm          Virgil Baran (IPNE – Bucharest)

The isospin dynamics at Fermi energies

 

8:00 pm – 8:30 pm         Enrico de Filippo (INFN – Catania)

Dynamical emission of fragments in the 35 A.MeV 124Sn+64Ni and 112Sn+58Ni reactions

 

8:30 pm – 9:00 pm         Jorge A. Lopez (University of Texas)

Entropy and the caloric curve

 

9:00 pm – 9:12 pm         George Souliotis (Texas A&M University)

Heavy residues as probes of isospin dynamics and equilibration in deep inelastic collisions around the Fermi energy

 

9:12 pm – 9:24 pm         Akira Ono (Tohoku University)

Isoscaling and symmetry energy in dynamical simulations of nuclear collisions

 

9:24 pm – 9:36 pm         Lie-Wen Chen (Texas A&M University)

Probing nuclear symmetry energy with two-particle correlation functions

 

 

TUESDAY

 

7:30 am - 8:30 am          Breakfast

 

9:00 am - 12:30 am        REACTION DYNAMICS

 

Discussion Leaders: Massimo Di Toro (University of Catania) and Lee Sobotka (Washington University)

 

9:00 am – 9:30 am         Norbert Herrmann (University of Heidelberg)

Hadronic matter properties at SIS energies

 

9:30 am – 10:00 am       Roberta Ghetti (Lund University)

Isospin effects on two-particle correlation functions

 

10:00 am – 10:30 am     Jerzy Lukasik (GSI – Darmstadt)

Collective flow from Fermi to relativistic energies in symmetric heavy ion collisions

 

10:30 am – 11:00 am     Coffee Break

 

11:00 am – 11:12 am     Giuseppe Verde (Texas A&M University)

Impact of collective motion on sources

 

11:12 am – 11:24 am     Victor E. Viola (Indiana University)

Dependence of IMF emission on excitation energy

 

11:24 am – 11:36 am     Paolo Milazzo (INFN – Trieste)

Size and asymmetry of the starting system: influence on the probability of neck production

 

11:36 am – 12:30 pm     Discussion: What are the best strategies to learn about the symmetry energy?  What have we learnt already?

Bao-An Li (Arkansas State University), Lee Sobotka (Washington University),

Bernard Tamain (LPC – Caen), Massimo Di Toro (University of Catania) and Sherry Yennello (Texas A&M University)

 

12:30 pm                       Lunch

 

1:30 pm - 6:00 pm          Free Time

 

6:00 pm                        Dinner

 

7:30 pm - 9:52 pm          NUCLEAR ASTROPHYSICS

 

Discussion Leaders: Ignazio Bombaci (University of Pisa), Charles Horowitz (Indiana University) and Madappa Prakash (SUNY – Stony Brook)

 

7:30 pm - 8:00 pm          James M. Lattimer (SUNY – Stony Brook)

Astrophysical importance of the isospin-dependent interactions

 

8:00 pm – 8:30 pm         Mark G. Alford (Washington University)

Strangeness in compact stars

 

8:30 pm – 9:00 pm         Thomas Rauscher (University of Basel)

The impact of nuclear reactions on stellar evolution

 

9:00 pm – 9:12 pm         Shannon Cowell (University of Illinois)

Neutrino interactions in dense matter

 

9:12 pm – 9:52 pm         Discussion: What can laboratory experiments do for astrophysics?

Ignazio Bombaci (University of Pisa), Charles Horowitz (Indiana University) and Madappa Prakash (SUNY – Stony Brook)

 

 

WEDNESDAY

 

7:30 am - 8:30 am          Breakfast

 

9.00 am – 12:30 am       PARTICLE PRODUCTION

 

Discussion Leaders: Ulrich Mosel (University of Giessen), Willibrord Reisdorf  (GSI – Darmstadt) and Piera Sapienza (LNS – Catania)

 

9:00 am – 9:30 am         Joachim Stroth (University of Frankfurt)

Dielectron spectroscopy with HADES

 

9:30 am – 10:00 am       Christian Fuchs (University of Tubingen)

Probing high density matter by particle production in heavy ion reactions

 

10:00 am – 10:30 am     Nicola Bianchi (INFN – Frascati)

Fragmentation inside nuclei

 

10:30 am – 11:00 am     Coffee Break

 

11:00 am – 11:12 am     Laura Tolos (University of Frankfurt)

Properties of antikaons in a hot and dense nuclear medium

 

11:12 am – 11:24 am     Florian Uhlig (Technical University – Darmstadt)

Kaon and antikaon production in nucleus-nucleus collisions: recent results from KaoS

 

11:24 am – 11:48 am     An Tai (University of California – Los Angeles)

                                    Open charm and charmonium production at RHIC

 

11:48 am – 12:30 pm     Discussion: What is the best way to learn on medium effects on different particles?  What have we learnt by now?

                                    Ulrich Mosel (University of Giessen), Willibrord Reisdorf  (GSI – Darmstadt) and Piera Sapienza (LNS – Catania)

 

12:30 pm                       Lunch

 

1:30 pm - 4:30 pm          Free Time

 

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm          POSTER SESSION II (Bao-An Li, Sherry Yennello)

 

6:00 pm                        Dinner

 

7:30 pm - 9:51 pm          TOWARDS QUARK-GLUON PLASMA

Discussion Leaders: Roy Lacey (SUNY – Stony Brook) and Nu Xu (LBNL – Berkeley)

 

7:30 pm - 8:00 pm          Herbert Stroebele (University of Frankfurt)

Has the quark-gluon-plasma been observed at SPS energies? (Results from CERN SPS NA49 experiment)

 

8:00 pm – 8:30 pm         Gunther Roland (MIT)

Bulk matter at RHIC

 

8:30 pm – 9:00 pm         Javier E. Castillo (LBNL – Berkeley)

                                    Elliptic flow of multi-strange baryons - evidence of partonic collectivity at RHIC

 

9:00 pm – 9:12 pm         Fuqiang Wang  (Purdue University)

Measurement of jet modification at RHIC

 

9:12 pm – 9:24 pm         Denes Molnar (Ohio State University)

Parton coalescence - a unique window on the structure of the partonic phase at RHIC

 

9:24 pm – 9:36 pm         Derek Teaney  (BNL)

Viscosity in the dynamics of ultrarelativistic collisions

 

9:36 pm – 9:51 pm         Philippe Crochet (LPC de Clermont-Ferrand)

Physics perspectives with ALICE

 

 

THURSDAY

 

7:30 am - 8:30 am          Breakfast

 

8:30 am – 9:00 am         BUSINESS SESSION (Pawel Danielewicz)

 

9:00 am – 12:30             ULTRARELATIVISTIC COLLISIONS

Discussion Leaders: Barbara Erazmus (SUBATECH – Nantes) and Edward Shuryak (SUNY – Stony Brook)

 

9:00 am – 9:12 am         Poster Winners I:  Sarah-Louise Blyth and Mark Horner (LBNL – Berkeley)

                                    Jet study in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the LHC

 

9:12 am – 9:24 am         Poster Winner II: Lee Sobotka (Washington University)

                                    The nuclear caloric curve for mononuclear configurations

 

9:24 am – 9:54 am         Ulrich Heinz (Ohio State University)

The quark-gluon plasma at RHIC

 

9:54 am – 10:24 am       Ivan Vitev (Iowa State University)

Jets in nuclear collisions

 

10:24 am – 10:54 am     Coffee Break

 

10:54 am – 11:24 am     Wolf Holzmann (SUNY – Stony Brook)

Angular correlations at RHIC

 

11:24 am – 11:36 am     Claus Ekman Jorgensen (NBI – Copenhagen)

The pseudorapidity dependence of high pt suppression in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

 

11:36 am – 12:30 pm     Discussion: What does the dynamics for different flavors tell us about the systems formed in ultrarelativistic collisions?

Barbara Erazmus (SUBATECH – Nantes), Roy Lacey, Edward Shuryak (SUNY – Stony Brook) and Nu Xu (LBNL – Berkeley)

 

12:30 pm                       Lunch

 

1:30 pm - 6:00 pm          Free Time

 

6:00 pm                        Dinner

 

7.45 pm                        COMMUNICATING SCIENCE

 

Discussion Leader: Partha Chowdhury (University of Massachusetts Lowell)

 

            David Ehrenstein (APS – “Focus”)

A physicist on the roof: the delicate balance in communicating science

 

 

FRIDAY

 

7:30 am - 8:30 am          Breakfast

 

9:00 am                        Departure