20th Russbach School on Nuclear Astrophysics

16 Mar 2025, 11:00 → 22 Mar 2025, 13:00 Europe/Berlin

Lecture hall (Russbach Parish Center)

In memory of Karl-Ludwig Kratz * April 23, 1941, in Jena, † March 23, 2025, in Mainz founder of the Russbach School

 

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The 20th Russbach School on Nuclear Astrophysics will take place in the village of Rußbach am Paß Gschütt, southeast of Salzburg, Austria. The school dates will be from March 16 (arrival and registration) to March 22 (departure) 2025. This school partners with ChETEC-INFRA, Chemical Elements as Tracers of the Evolution of the Cosmos - INFRAstructures for Nuclear Astrophysics, a European starting community of 32 partner institutions and belongs to the European Network of Nuclear Astrophysics Schools (ENNAS). We shall limit the number of participants to about 60 to ensure a convivial atmosphere, and the possibility to share dinners between all participants.

In keeping with its tradition, the school will bring together specialists from the various sub-fields of astrophysics, astronomy, cosmochemistry and nuclear physics with the aim to raise mutual interest and to teach under- and postgraduate students, young post-docs as well as senior scientists interested to be introduced to nuclear astrophysics. The school will be organized in major topical sessions, with dedicated lecture time for basic introduction, presentations of the various aspects of the topic, and ample time for discussions and out-door activities in the Dachstein West mountain region.

Students and young researchers are highly encouraged to give oral presentations.

The accommodation expenses are

• 91.50 € per person per night in a shared room (double or family room) including breakfast and dinner
  (549.00 € for 6 nights);
• 130.00 € per person per night in a single room (limited number available) including breakfast and dinner
  (780.00 € for 6 nights).

Extra charge for a short stay of up to 3 nights is 25.00 € 

Additionally, every guest must pay

• 2.00 € for local tax per night
  (12.00 € for 6 nights).

Please note that only a limited number of single rooms is available. Those are reserved for special cases and senior speakers. Further, a few family rooms are available for speakers with more than one accompanying person.

In addition, we will ask for registration fees:

• 210.00 € for senior scientists,
• 140.00 € for post-docs,
• 70.00 € for PhD students, and
• 30.00 € for accompanying persons (for special activities and conference dinner).

There will be no fee for undergraduate students.

1st-circular2025.pdf

2nd-circular2025.pdf

Sunday 16 March

11:00 Arrival and registration at Hotel Landhaus Ausswinkl

18:51 Poster contribution: no dedicated session

1 Radiative Capture Reaction Measurements with the Solenoid Spectrometer for Nuclear Astrophysics and Decays

Speaker: Cade Dembski

16_Dembski_Russbach_Poster.pdf

2 Can Neutron Star Mergers Alone Reproduce r-Process Abundances in Ultra-Faint Dwarfs?

Speaker: Christine Gyure

21_Russbach Poster.pptx

3 Angular Distributions in Carbon Fusion Reactions with STELLA

Speaker: Guillaume Harmant

36_RussBach-Poster-online-version-gh-STELLA.pdf

4 Studying the astrophysically crucial the 12C(a,g)16O reaction at high temperatures

Speaker: Jeppe Thingholm

44_Jeppe Thingholm.pdf

5 Development and Testing of the SuNFLOWER Detector Array

Speaker: Sydney Coil

47_SuNFLOWER_poster.pdf

6 Synthesis of Super-Heavy Elements beyond Z = 118

Speaker: Linda Müller

52_MULLER_Linda_Poster.pdf

7 Experimental study of the 18Ne(a,p)21Na reaction via direct and indirect mean

Speaker: Nathan Giha

58_GIHA_Nathan_Russbach2025.pdf

8 Status report on the development of a matrix detector for CRYRING@ESR

Speaker: Elena Moroianu

49_Poster_Moroianu_Elena.pdf

19:30 Welcome reception at Hotel Landhaus Ausswnkl

20:00 Dinner at Hotel Landhaus Ausswinkl

Monday 17 March

07:30 Breakfast at Hotel Gasthof Waldwirt

07:30 Breakfast at Hotel Landhaus Ausswinkl

08:30 Walking from hotel to Parish Center (school venue)

08:59 Session Chair: Konrad Schmidt

9 Welcome and Introduction

10 General Introduction on Nuclear Astrophysics

Speaker: François DeOliveira

01_Russbach_Oliveira_Intro_final.pdf

10:40 Questions and Answers

10:50 Coffee break

11 Introduction to Stellar Spectroscopy

Speaker: Arūnas Kučinskas

02_AKucinskas__Introduction_to_stellar_spectroscopy_web.pdf

12:05 Questions and Answers

12:15 Lunch break

16:29 Session Chair: Olivier Sorlin

12 Studying the galactic chemical evolution of isotopes by analyzing presolar grains

Speaker: Reto Trappitsch

03_Trappitsch_Russbach_2025_corr.pdf

17:15 Questions and Answers

17:25 Coffee break

13 The evolution and nucleosynthesis of low and intermediate-mass stars: highlights and relevance

Speaker: Pilar Gil Pons

04_Russbach_GilPons_short.pptx

18:40 Questions and Answers

14 The total cross section measurement for the reaction 37Cl(α,n)40K using HeBGB detector

Speaker: Honey Arora

05_Arora_Russbach_2025_resent.pdf

15 Statistical properties of 85Rb nucleus relevant to the astrophysical p-process

Speaker: Konstantinos Bosmpotinis

06_Final submission Bosmpotinis.pptx

16 High-precision abundance analysis of a unique CEMP-no star in Sculptor

Speaker: Francisco Cuadra

07_Francisco-Cuadra_publish.pdf

19:35 Walking from Parish Center to Hotel Landhaus Ausswinkl

20:00 Dinner at Hotel Landhaus Ausswinkl

Tuesday 18 March

07:30 Breakfast at Hotel Gasthof Waldwirt

07:30 Breakfast at Hotel Landhaus Ausswinkl

08:30 Walking from hotel to Parish Center (school venue)

08:59 Session Chair: Pilar Gil Pons

17 Recoil Separators for Nuclear Astrophysics

Speaker: Manoel Couder

08_Couder.pdf

09:45 Questions and Answers

18 Introduction to Stellar Evolution and Modeling (massive stars)

Speaker: Marco Limongi

09_Limongi_Stellar_Evolution.pptx

10:40 Questions and Answers

10:50 Coffee break

11:20 Lunch break

19 Public Lecture in German language: Kosmische Fabriken für die Elemente unseres Lebens

Speaker: Roland Diehl (Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik und Technische Universität München)

09b_KosmNukleosynthese_Diehl.pdf

15:34 Session Chair: James deBoer

20 Type Ia Supernovae: an observer's perspective

Speaker: Ferdinando Patat

10_Patat.pdf

16:20 Questions and Answers

21 Storage rings for nuclear astrophysics

Speaker: Carlo Bruno

11_CGBruno_Russbach_2025.pptx

17:15 Questions and Answers

17:25 Coffee break

22 Probe element synthesis in star with JUNA in deep underground

Speaker: Weiping Liu

12_JUNA progress 2025_school_2.pdf

18:40 Questions and Answers

23 Resonant elastic scattering experiments with active and non-active targets

Speaker: Laurie Dienis

13_Russbach_Laurie_DIENIS_2.pdf

24 Impact of Nuclear Level Densities and Gamma-ray Strength Functions on Astrophysical Reaction Rates for Neutron Capture Processes

Speaker: Tanmoy Ghosh

14_Tanmoy_Ghosh_20th_russbach_school2025_publish (2).pdf

25 Nucleosynthesis Science with COSI

Speaker: Aravind Valluvan

15_Valluvan_publish_final.pdf

19:35 Walking from Parish Center to Hotel Landhaus Ausswinkl

20:00 Dinner at Hotel Landhaus Ausswinkl

Wednesday 19 March

07:30 Breakfast at Hotel Gasthof Waldwirt

07:30 Breakfast at Hotel Landhaus Ausswinkl

08:30 Walking from hotel to Parish Center (school venue)

08:59 Session Chair: Dennis Muecher

26 The 18F(p,alpha)15O reaction: a textbook case in nuclear astrophysics

Speaker: François DeOliveira

01_Russbach_Oliveira_Intro_final.pdf

16_Oliveira_Russbach_18F_final.pdf

09:45 Questions and Answers

27 R-matrix calculations for nuclear astrophysics

Speaker: James deBoer

17_James_slides.pdf

10:40 Questions and Answers

10:50 Coffee break

28 Light elements, but massive consequences - How Big Bang Nucleosynthesis shaped our universe

Speaker: Steffen Turkat

18_250319_Russbach_Turkat_2ndTry.pptx

12:05 Questions and Answers

12:15 Lunch break

16:29 Session Chair: Linda Lombardo

29 Nuclear reactions for Astrophysics and the opportunity of indirect methods

Speaker: Marco La Cognata

19_lacognata-russbach-2025.pptx

17:15 Questions and Answers

30 How the Universe got its first chemical elements

Speaker: Martin Rey

20_Russbach_Martin_Rey.pdf

18:10 Coffee break

18:40 Questions and Answers

31 Ultrasensitive Detection of Pu and Am Isotopes by AMS with Applications in Astrophysics

Speaker: Elena Victorita Moroianu

21_Moroianu_Elena_Victorita.pptx

32 Study of resonances in Gamow window for 12C+12C fusion reaction via thick-target inverse kinematics method

Speaker: Wei Ke Nan

22_Russbach_school_WEIKE_NAN.pdf

33 Elastic α-scattering on 116,118Sn at energies around the Coulomb barrier

Speaker: Raquel Nunes

23_Russbach_Talk_Raquel.pdf

19:35 Walking from Parish Center to Hotel Landhaus Ausswinkl

20:00 Dinner at Hotel Landhaus Ausswinkl

Thursday 20 March

07:30 Breakfast at Hotel Gasthof Waldwirt

07:30 Breakfast at Hotel Landhaus Ausswinkl

08:30 Walking from hotel to Parish Center (school venue)

08:59 Session Chair: Manoel Couder

34 Microscopic nuclear theory for the equation of state

Speaker: Ingo Tews

24_Tews_Russbach25.pdf

09:45 Questions and Answers

35 Probing the Stars Beneath Our Feet: Underground Proton Capture Reactions at Undergound Facilities

Speaker: Jakub Skowronski

25_Skowronski.pptx

10:40 Questions and Answers

10:50 Coffee break

36 Nuclear fission at storage rings

Speaker: Beatriz Jurado

26_jurado_russbach_short.pdf

12:05 Questions and Answers

12:15 Lunch break

16:29 Session Chair: Beatriz Jurado

37 Supernova nucleosynthesis

Speaker: Andre Sieverding

27_SupernovaNucleosynthesis.pdf

17:15 Questions and Answers

17:25 Coffee break

38 Indirect techniques in nuclear astrophysics

Speaker: Dennis Muecher

28_Russbach.pdf

18:40 Questions and Answers

39 Constraining the 205Pb(n,g) cross section with surrogate reactions in a storage ring

Speaker: Guy Leckenby

29_GLeckenby-Russbach_school.pptx

40 Constraining the neutron capture reaction on Zr isotopes for astrophysical processes

Speaker: Amal Sebastian

30_Russbach School-Amal Sebastian-final.pptx

41 The impact of the first stars in two ultra-faint dwarf galaxies: Grus II and Tucana IV

Speaker: Valentina Verdiani

31_Russbach_Valentina_Verdiani_final.pptx

19:35 Walking from Parish Center to Hotel Landhaus Ausswinkl

20:00 Conference Dinner at Hotel Landhaus Ausswinkl

Friday 21 March

07:30 Breakfast at Hotel Gasthof Waldwirt

07:30 Breakfast at Hotel Landhaus Ausswinkl

08:30 Walking from hotel to Parish Center (school venue)

08:59 Session Chair: Reto Trappitsch

42 Presolar Stardust in Meteorites: Recent Advances

Speaker: Larry Nittler

32_nittler_russbach25.pptx

09:45 Questions and Answers

43 Search for gravitational waves in connection to nuclear astrophysics

Speaker: Frédérique Marion

33_Marion_GW_in_connection_to_nuclear_astrophysics.pptx

10:40 Questions and Answers

10:50 Coffee break

44 Gamma ray spectroscopy of cosmic nucleosynthesis

Speaker: Roland Diehl

34_GammaRayLessons_NuclAstrSchool_Diehl.pdf

12:05 Questions and Answers

12:15 Lunch break

16:29 Session Chair: Sara Palmerini

45 Observations of heavy elements in metal-poor stars

Speaker: Linda Lombardo

35_llombardo_russbach.pdf

17:15 Questions and Answers

17:25 Coffee break

46 Chemical evolution of neutron capture elements: a homogeneous approach

Speaker: Marta Molero

36_Russbach_2025.pdf

18:40 Questions and Answers

47 Closing Remarks

19:35 Walking from Parish Center to Hotel Landhaus Ausswinkl

20:00 Dinner at Hotel Landhaus Ausswinkl

Saturday 22 March

07:30 Breakfast at Hotel Gasthof Waldwirt

07:30 Breakfast at Hotel Landhaus Ausswinkl

10:30 Departure