MNT2024 –Exploring the heavy exotic neutron-rich nuclides via multinucleon transfer reactions–
2 – 5 July, 2024
Room #201 of Nishina RIBF Bldg. (E01), RIKEN, Wako, Japan
2 July, Tuesday
9:20 –Check-in counter

Opening session
Chair: Yutaka Watanabe (WNSC, IPNS, KEK)
10:00 – 10:05 Yutaka Watanabe
WNSC, IPNS, KEK
Opening address
10:05 – 10:10 Naohito Saito
IPNS, KEK
Welcome address
10:10 – 10:15 Hiroyoshi Sakurai
RIKEN Nishina Center Welcome address
Session 1
Chair: Yutaka Watanabe (WNSC, IPNS, KEK)
10:15 – 10:45 Yoshikazu Hirayama WNSC, IPNS, KEK
KISS for nuclear spectroscopy of MNT products
10:45 – 11:15 Timo Dickel
GSI
MNT experiments with stable and secondary beams at the FRSand Super-FRS Ion Catcher
11:15 – 11:45 Anu Kankainen
University of Jyväskylä Production and studies of neutron-rich nuclei at IGISOL
11:45 – 13:15 Lunch (90 min)Session 2
Chair: Andreyev (University of York)
13:15 – 13:45 Alexander Karpov
JINR
13:45 – 14:15 Katsuhisa Nishio
JAEA
14:15 – 14:45 Jonathan Bequet

CEA

Status of MNT studies at JINR and perspectivesSeparation of evaporation residues produced in MNT reactions
using JAEA-Recoil Mass Separator
Synthesis of heavy nuclei in multinucleon transfer reaction 136Xe+ 238U close to 0 degree

14:45 – 15:10 Break (25 min)Session 3
Chair: Timo Dickel (GSI)
15:10 – 15:40 Devaraja HM
JINR
15:40 – 16:05 Galina Knyazheva
JINR
16:05 – 16:25 Kris Hagel

Cyclotron Institute,Texas A&M University

MNT studies with Velocity Filters
The experimental study of properties of MNT fragments formedin the reactions with 238U
Multi-Nucleon-Transfer and the production of Heavy Elements

16:25 – 16:50 Break (25 min)Session 4
Chair: Alexander Karpov (JINR)
16:50 – 17:20 Jan Sarén
University of Jyväskylä Studies of MNT reactions at the Coulomb barrier with Jväskylä
in-flight separators
17:20 – 17:50 Emanuele Vardaci
INFN, Naples
MNT studies with TOF methods at GSI, JYFL and Dubna
17:50 – 18:15 Sota Kimura
WNSC, IPNS, KEK
Current status and prospects of MNT study with helium gas-cell+ MRTOF system towards N = 126 and 152

3 July, Wednesday
Session 5
Chair: Katsuhisa Nishio (JAEA)
9:10 – 9:40 Vyacheslav SaikoJINR
9:40 – 10:10 Julia Even

University ofGroningen

Theoretical investigation of multinucleon transfer reactions
within the dynamic model based on Langevin equations
What is NEXT? A setup to study Neutron-rich, heavy, EXotic
nuclei produced in multinucleon Transfer reactions

10:10 – 10:35 Break (25 min)Session 6
Chair: Katsuhisa Nishio (JAEA)
10:35 – 11:05 Kazuyuki Sekizawa Tokyo Institute ofTechnology
11:05 – 11:35 Alexandra
The University of
Zadvornaya
Edinburgh

Microscopic Approaches for Multinucleon Transfer Reactions
Beyond TDHF: Future Perspective
Development and commissioning of the MNT gas cell for
IGISOL

11:35 – 13:05 Lunch (90 min)13:05 – 14:45 Facility tour (100 min)14:45 – 15:05 Break (20 min)Session 7
Chair: Michiharu Wada (WNSC, IPNS, KEK)
15:05 – 15:30 Yutaka Watanabe
WNSC, IPNS, KEK
Future plan of KISS for spectroscopy of neutron-rich actinoids
15:30 – 16:00 Paul Constantin
ELI-NP/IFIN-HH
Simulation of MNT experiments with INCREASE (GSI) and
IGISOL (JYFL)
16:00 – 16:20 Penghui ChenYangzhou University
Shell effect in multinucleon transfer reactions
16:20 – 16:40 Zhaoqing FengSouth China University Cluster transfer and cluster emission in massive transferof Technology
reactions
16:40 – 17:05 Break (25 min)Session 8
Chair: Julia Even (University of Groningen)
17:05 – 17:35 Maxime Brodeur
University of Notre
The N = 126 FactoryDame
17:35 – 17:55 Adrian Valverde
Argonne National
Opportunities with the N = 126 Factory at Argonne National
Laboratory
Laboratory
17:55 – 18:15 Guy Savard
Argonne National
Status of the Commissioning of the N = 126 factory at ANL
Laboratory
18:15 – 18:35 Teresa Kurtukian
IEM-CSIC
Prospects of MNT studies at N = 126 for r-processNieto
nucleosynthesis with the ISOLDE Superconducting Recoil
Separator

4 July, Thursday
Session 9
Chair: Yoshikazu Hirayama (WNSC, IPNS, KEK)
9:10 – 9:40 Andrei Andreyev
University of YorkISOLDE studies of the neutron-rich nuclides east of 208Pb
9:40 – 10:10 Praveen Srivastava Indian Institute ofShell model study of allowed and forbidden beta decay in the Pb
Technology-Roorkee
region10:10 – 10:35 Break (25 min)Session 10
Chair: Yoshikazu Hirayama (WNSC, IPNS, KEK)
10:35 – 11:00 Momo Mukai
WNSC, IPNS, KEK
The progress of in-gas-cell laser ionization spectroscopy ofneutron-rich tungsten isotopes
11:00 – 11:20 Cenxi Yuan
Sun Yat-sen University Configuration-Interaction Shell Model (CISM) Understanding ofMedium and Heavy Mass Nuclei
11:20 – 11:40 Menglan Liu
Sun Yat-sen University Exploration on the effective nuclear force for the N > 126 nuclei
11:40 – 13:10 Lunch (90 min)Session 11
Chair: Momo Mukai (WNSC, IPNS, KEK)
13:10 – 13:40 Rafael Ferrer-Garcia KU Leuven
High-resolution resonance ionization spectroscopy at the S3Low Energy Branch of the GANIL-SPIRAL2 facility
13:40 – 14:00 Arno Claessens
KU Leuven
Laser ionization of thorium via Rydberg states in hypersonic gasjets
14:00 – 14:20 Fedor Ivandikov
KU Leuven
Simulation-aided offline optimization of the JetRIS apparatus
14:20 – 15:45 Break (25 min)Session 12
Chair: Hironobu Ishiyama (RIKEN Nishina Center)
15:45 – 15:10 Toshitaka Kajino
Beihang University
Origin of the r-process elements in cosmic evolution and nuclear
physics
15:10 – 15:30 Filip Kondev
Argonne National
Studies of K Isomers using Multi-nucleon Transfer Reactions
Laboratoryand Gammasphere
15:30 – 15:50 Anabel MoralesIFIC
Discovery of new ms-isomers in 213Tl and 215Tl at RIBF-RIKEN
15:50 – 16:15 Break (25 min)Session 13
Chair: Sota Kimura (WNSC, IPNS, KEK)
16:15 – 16:45 Masato Asai
JAEA
Study of neutron-rich Fm and transfermium nuclei with 254Es
target and MNT
16:45 – 17:05 Yoshihiro Aritomo Kindai Unviersity
Systematic study of fission process in heavy and superheavy
mass regions related to multinucleon transfer reactions
18:00 – 20:00 Social dinner at Hirosawa Club (C72)

5 July, Friday
Session 14:
Chair: Marco Rosenbusch (RIKEN Nishina Center)
2089:10 – 9:40 Zsolt Podolyák
University of Surrey
Pb fragmentation at BigRIPS vs MNT reactions to produce N~ 126 nuclei
9:40 – 10:10 Oleg Tarasov
FRIB/MSU
Production and discovery of high-Z neutron-rich isotopes atNSCL and FRIB
10:10 – 10:35 Break (25 min)Session 15:
Chair: Marco Rosenbusch (RIKEN Nishina Center)
10:35 – 11:05 Dan Watts
University of York
Photoinduced many proton knockout – a new method to accessneutron rich nuclei?
11:05 – 11:35 Zhong Liu
IMP, CAS
Status of the MNT program and its future plan at IMP
11:35 – 13:05 Lunch (90 min)Session 16:
Chair: Peter Schury (WNSC, IPNS, KEK)
13:05 – 13:30 Jason Holt
TRIUMFAb initio calculations of heavy, exotic nuclei for r-process
nucleosynthesis
13:30 – 13:55 Gheorghe Iulian
IPN Orsay
NEWGAIN project
Stefan
13:55 – 14:15 Gonika
Inter-University
Coupled reaction channel description of single-nucleon transfer
Accelerator Center,in 40Ca + 96Zr
New Delhi
14:15 – 14:35 Chandra Kumar
Inter-University
Study of transfer reactions in 28Si + 140,142Ce using a recoil
Accelerator Center,separator
New Delhi
14:35 – 15:00 Break (25 min)Session 17:Chair: Anu Kankainen (University of Jyväskylä)
15:00 – 15:20 Franziska Maier
FRIB/MSU
Highly selective and high-flux MR-ToF mass separation
15:20 – 15:50 Marco Rosenbusch RIKEN Nishina Center The mrtof mass measurement project at BigRIPS
15:50 – 16:15 Jinn Ming Yap
The University of Hong Operation and Perspectives of the ZeroDegree Helium Gas
KongCatcher at RIKEN
16:15 – 16:20

Closing