ChETEC-INFRA 5th General Assembly and Transnational Access User Meeting

17 Sept 2025, 08:00 → 18 Sept 2025, 20:45 Europe/Berlin

Café (Dreikönigskirche)

Nuclear astrophysics studies the origin of the chemical elements: from the Big Bang and stellar nucleosynthesis to neutron star mergers. ChETEC-INFRA networks the three types of infrastructures that, together, provide the capabilities needed for this quest: astronuclear laboratories supply reaction data, supercomputer facilities perform stellar structure and nucleosynthesis computations, and telescopes and mass spectrometers collect elemental and isotopic abundance data.

 

The annual ChETEC-INFRA General Assembly unites the 31 funded partners and 14 transnational access infrastructures of ChETEC-INFRA with other scientists in the field, neighboring networks, and international partners. The two-day meeting will feature progress reports from the networking activities and joint research activities supported by ChETEC-INFRA, as well as a dedicated Transnational Access (TA) User meeting. Selected invited presentations will highlight the state of the art and future directions in the field of nuclear astrophysics.

In addition to the funded and associate partners of the ChETEC-INFRA project, scientists with an active interest in nuclear astrophysics are welcome to register and participate.

Helmholtz Abrufformular 16.09.2025.pdf

Wednesday 17 September

08:30 → 09:00 Arrival and Registration

09:00 → 09:10 Opening / Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Bemmerer (HZDR)

0917_0900_Bemmerer_250916_Opening.pdf

09:10 → 09:40 ChETEC-INFRA - a success story for nuclear astrophysics

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Bemmerer (HZDR)

0917_0910_Bemmerer_250916_SuccessStory.pdf

09:40 → 10:00 Solving the Carbon Fusion Riddle at Deep Sub-barrier Energy

Speaker: Marcel Heine (IPHC/CNRS Strasbourg)

0917_0940_Heine.pdf

10:00 → 10:20 S-Process Nucleosynthesis in and from AGB Stars

Speaker: Alexander Jordan Dimoff (Max Planck Institute für Astronomie)

0917_1000_Dimoff_ChETEC_INFRA_GA5.pdf

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 → 12:35 Talks: Reports

10:50 WP3 "Astronuclear Laboratory"

Speaker: Giovanni Luca Guardo (INFN-LNS)

0917_1050_Guardo.pdf

11:25 WP4 "Astronuclear HPC"

Speaker: Marco Pignatari (University of Hull)

0917_1125_Pignatari.pdf

12:00 WP5 "Astronuclear Abundances"

Speaker: Arūnas Kučinskas (Vilnius University)

0917_1200_AKucinskas_web.pdf

12:35 → 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 → 15:15 Talks: Reports

13:30 WP8 "Astronuclear Library"

Speaker: Aldo Serenelli (Institute of Space Science (ICE, CSIC))

0917_1330_Serenelli.pdf

14:05 WP9 "Mass Spectrometry Network"

Speaker: Mattias Ek (ETH Zürich)

0917_1405_Ek.pptx

14:40 The German Center for Astrophysics (DZA)

Speaker: Prof. Günther Hasinger (Deutsches Zentrum für Astrophysik)

0917_1440_Hasinger.pdf

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 → 16:45 Talks

15:45 Multi-dimensional simulations of classical nova explosions

Speaker: Jordi Casanova (Regis University)

0917_1545_Casanova_indico_upload.pdf

16:05 Study of 14N(a,g)18F with a New Jet Gas Target System at Felsenkeller

Speaker: Anup Yadav (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (HZDR))

ChETEC-INFRA_GA_Yadav.pdf

16:20 Final Reporting for EU Projects

Speaker: Barbara Schramm (HZDR)

0917_1620_Schramm.pdf

16:45 → 17:45 Formal: General Assembly

16:45 Transnational Access Overview

Speaker: Dr Axel Boeltzig (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

GA5_WP2_Report.pdf

17:00 Gender and Inclusiveness Coordinator Report

Speaker: Eliana Masha (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V. (HZDR))

GA5_GIC-Report_Masha.pdf

17:15 Further Formal Business

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Bemmerer (HZDR)

0917_1715_Bemmerer_250917_Reporting.pdf

17:45 → 19:30 Free Time

19:30 → 21:30 Social Dinner

Thursday 18 September

09:00 → 10:10 Talks: Reports

09:00 WP6 "Comprehensive Nuclear Astrophysics"

Speaker: Jordi Jose (UPC Barcelona)

0918_0900_Jose.pdf

09:35 WP7 "Dissemination, Outreach, Innovation"

Speaker: Uta Bilow (TU Dresden)

0918_0935_Bilow.pdf

10:10 → 10:40 Transnational Access

10:10 Precision mass dependence studies of α-nuclear potentials: elastic α-scattering on 116,118Sn

Speaker: Daniel Galaviz Redondo (University of Lisbon)

0918_1010_Galaviz-Redondo.pdf

10:25 Measurement of the 12C+12C cross section from Ecm = 2.5 MeV down to 2.3 MeV

Speaker: Riccardo M. Gesuè (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

0918_1025_Gesue_12C12C_indico.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee Break

11:10 → 12:25 Transnational Access

11:10 Measuring at Intermediate metallicity Neutron Capture Elements (MINCE)

Speaker: Gabriele Cescutti (I.N.A.F. Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste)

0918_1110-Cescutti_MINCE_Dresden.pdf

11:30 Abundances of RV Tauri variables with no infrared excess

Speaker: Karlis Pukitis (University of Latvia)

11:50 Neutron response characterisation of the SHADES detector array

Speaker: Prof. Andreas Best (University of Naples Federico II)

Best-INFRA.pdf

12:10 Transnational Access at IFIN-HH

Speaker: Mihai Straticiuc (IFIN-HH)

Straticiuc.pdf

12:25 → 13:25 Lunch Break

13:25 → 15:15 Talks: Neighboring Networks

13:25 EURO-LABS: Voyage of a super community

Speaker: Navin Alahari (GANIL)

13:50 The Center for Nuclear Astrophysics Across Messengers (CeNAM)

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Bemmerer (HZDR)

0918_1350_schatz_cenam_chetec25.pdf

14:15 Local Highlights: Felsenkeller Laboratory

Speaker: Konrad Schmidt (HZDR)

2025-09-18_Schmidt_FK.pdf

14:35 Local Highlights: Nuclear (Astro)physics at TU Dresden DT Neutron Generator

Speaker: Steffen Turkat

Turkat_ChetecInfraGeneralAssembly.pdf

14:55 Local Highlights: Helmholtz Accelerator Mass Spectrometer Tracing Environmental Radionuclides (HAMSTER)

Speaker: Johannes Lachner (HZDR)

0918_1455_ChetecInfra_Lachner_HAMSTER.pdf

15:15 → 15:35 Formal: Outlook for future infrastructure projects on nuclear astrophysics (Discussion)

Convener: Prof. Daniel Bemmerer (HZDR)

15:35 → 16:05 Coffee Break

16:05 → 20:45 Social: Lab Tours

16:15 HZDR / AMS Tour

16:15 HZDR / ELBE Tour

16:30 Felsenkeller Laboratory Tour