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Carpathian Summer School of Physics 2025

→ Europe/Bucharest
Sinaia, Romania

Sinaia, Romania

Hotel International**** 1st. Avram Iancu Street, Sinaia 106100, Romania
Livius Trache (IFIN-HH), Dan Cozma (IFIN-HH)
Description

Welcome to CSSP25 - Carpathian Summer School of Physics!

The Carpathian Summer School of Physics 2025, the 31st edition of this school, is scheduled to take place again in Sinaia, from June 22nd (arrival day) to July 3rd (departure day), 2025. 

The title is: “Exotic Nuclei and Nuclear/Particle Astrophysics (X). Physics with small accelerators” and is the 10th in the latest series with the same title organized first in Mamaia (2005) and later in Sinaia (2007, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021 and 2023). CSSP25 is part of the ENNAS (European Network of Nuclear Astrophysics Schools), a network recognized by the Division of Nuclear Physics of EPS and supported by the European projects ChETEC-INFRA and EURO-LABS.

The same format from recent events will be maintained: a combination of school-like and conference presentations, with 1-2 hour-long invited lectures by senior scientists/professors and several 20 minutes short student communications. It is aimed at graduate students, post-docs and young or established researchers. Students from all countries are invited to attend. A limited number of stipends to cover the local expenses for students will be available.

Topics include, but are not restricted to:

  • Exotic nuclei/Nuclear physics with RIBs
  • Nuclear physics for astrophysics
  • Stellar evolution. Compact stars and supernovae
  • Astroparticle physics
  • Multi-messenger astrophysics
  • Nuclear physics with lasers
  • Nuclear astrophysics with small accelerators
  • Instrumentation
  • Accelerators for medical treatments, radioisotope production and industrial applications
  • Cosmochemistry

 

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  • Sun, June 22
    • Registration
  • Mon, June 23
    • Morning Session: Opening and Session 1
      Convener: Dan Cozma (IFIN-HH)
      • 1
        Opening
        Speaker: Dan Cozma (IFIN-HH)
        0-cssp25_opening.pdf
      • 2
        Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering
        Speaker: Mihai Radu (IFIN-HH)
        Radu_Mihai-Sinaia 2025.pdf
      • 3
        Nuclear astrophysics introduction
        Speaker: Prof. Xiaodong Tang (IMP Lanzhou)
        2-NA - Intro.pdf
      • 10:50 AM
        Coffee Break
      • 4
        Solid-State Physics at ISOLDE-CERN

        ISOLDE-CERN is the worldwide reference facility for the production and delivery of radioactive ion beams of high purity. The produced beam is dedicated to many different purposes for, e.g., atomic and nuclear physics, astrophysics, material science, biophysics, and medical research. Since the late 70s the laboratory is pioneer in the use of nuclear techniques for studying local properties of materials and crystalline defects using high-technology equipment [1]. For instance, the brand-new ultra-high-vacuum implantation chamber called ASPIC’s Ion Implantation chamber (ASCII) [2] decelerates the radioactive ion beam delivered at ISOLDE-CERN allowing to perform ultra-low energy ion implantations, and local measurements on the surface and interface of materials. The new MULTIPAC setup for Perturbed Angular Correlation Experiments in Multiferroic (and Magnetic) Materials [3] consists of a unique cryogenic magnetic system that simultaneously allows to measure local magnetic and ferroelectric properties of materials in magnetic fields up to 8.5 T. Last, but not least, the eMIL-Setup [4] is an advanced emission Mössbauer spectrometer for measurements in versatile conditions of several classes of materials, thanks to the emission Magnetic Mössbauer Analyzer (eMMA) extension [5]. This work describes the new setups as powerful tools and discuss the possibilities of investigations on the frontiers of solid-state physics research [5].

        [1] https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/aa81ac
        [2] https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst12050626
        [3] https://cds.cern.ch/record/2845935/files/INTC-I-249.pdf
        [4] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2020.163973
        [5] http://cds.cern.ch/record/2705975/files/INTC-I-211.pdf

        Speaker: Dr Juliana Schell (ISOLDE-CERN, Universität Duisburg-Essen)
        3-SSP_CSSP2025_Schell.pdf
      • 5
        Recent gamma-ray spectroscopy studies at the ROSPHERE array: The physics case of 32Si
        Speaker: Razvan Lica
        rlica_ROSPHERE_2025_32Si_CSSP25_public.pdf
    • 1:00 PM
      Lunch break
    • Afternoon Session: Session 2
      Convener: Livius Trache (IFIN-HH)
      4-Do we surrender Science to AI and social.pdf
      5-cssp25_outreach_mdc.pdf
      • 6
        Exploring the Universe at highest energies with the Pierre Auger Observatory: Status and latest results

        Despite extensive research, the origin and acceleration mechanisms of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) remain a mystery. Several challenges have to be considered in the search for UHECR sources, such as deflections of cosmic-ray nuclei by cosmic magnetic fields. However, observing high-energy neutral particles (photons and neutrinos) from distant sources helps unveil cosmic-ray origins, bypassing magnetic deflection. In the last 20 years, significant advances have been made both in modeling and observations of UHECRs through the quantity and quality of measured data. With data taken during Phase I of the Pierre Auger Observatory, an excess of air showers from the Centaurus A region is reported, among other outstanding scientific results. With AugerPrime, the major upgrade of the Observatory consisting of improved surface detectors for enhanced mass-sensitivity, a wealth of new data is aimed for within the next decade, together with breakthroughs on actual source origin and eventually new physics on developing air showers at the highest energies. In this talk, the status and latest results of the Pierre Auger Observatory will be discussed, with a short, user-friendly introduction to its open data.

        Speaker: Dr Paula Gina Isar (ISS - INFLPR Subsidiary)
        5-CSSP2025-Isar-23062025.pdf
      • 3:50 PM
        Coffee Break
      • 7
        Bird's View on the Chart of Nuclides with Some Selected Zooms
        Speaker: Prof. Catalin Borcea (IFIN-HH)
        6-Bird’s view-CBorcea.pdf
    • Student Communications
      • 8
        Development of a detection system for identification of multinucleon transfer reactions near 00
        Speaker: Silvia Ise (IFIN-HH)
      • 9
        Direct measurement of the carbon-carbon fusion cross section at stellar energies
        Speaker: Yunzhen Li (IMP, CAS)
        liyunzhen_CSSP2025.pdf
      • 10
        Experimental Study of the 13C(α, n)16O Neutron Source Reaction in Stellar
        Speaker: Yihua Fan (IMP, CAS)
        YihuaFan.pdf
  • Tue, June 24
    • Morning Session: Small accelerators (I)
      Convener: Ion Burducea (IFIN-HH)
      • 11
        Ion Beam Modification and Analysis in Contemporary Materials Research

        The Ion Beam Center (IBC) at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) is a leading European user facility for both fundamental and application-oriented research in physics and materials science using ion beams. The IBC operates a comprehensive suite of accelerators, implanters, and low-energy machines, offering broad, focused, and highly charged ion beams across a wide energy range—from 25 eV to 50 MeV—and covering almost all stable elements. These facilities support a wide range of ion beam analysis (IBA) and ion beam modification techniques, made available free of charge to users from academia, while partnerships with industry are facilitated through the HZDR spin-off, HZDR Innovation GmbH. The IBC’s research portfolio focuses on modifying and analyzing novel materials for applications in information technology, electronics, and energy systems. Ion beams serve as a powerful, universal tool for surface and interface modification, enabling precise tuning of material properties at the nanoscale. A key strength of the IBC lies in its broad portfolio of IBA methods, which enable quantitative, often standard-free, compositional analysis and depth profiling of surface layers with sub-micrometer resolution. Techniques such as Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry (RBS), Elastic Recoil Detection (ERD), and Proton Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) are routinely employed to study ultra-shallow implantation profiles, interface inter-diffusion, diffusion barriers, and implantation-induced damage. Recent instrumentation upgrades have extended the spatial resolution of IBA significantly: for example, by integrating IBA capabilities into a Helium Ion Microscope (HIM), where He or Ne beams can be focused to below 1 nm. In this setup, time-of-flight (TOF) detection in RBS mode has achieved lateral resolutions of 100 nm, and Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) using Ne ions has pushed resolution even further, below 100 nm. These advances open new frontiers for high-resolution, spatially resolved materials characterization. This lecture will provide an overview of the current research activities and methodological developments at the IBC, with a particular focus on recent advances in ion beam analysis and modification for applications in surface engineering and emerging material systems such as 2D materials.

        Speaker: Dr Stefan Facsko (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
        1-CSSP25_Facsko_new.pdf
      • 12
        Advances in ionization-induced annealing of pre-exiting defects in semiconductors
        Speaker: Gihan Velisa (IFIN-HH)
      • 10:50 AM
        Coffee break
      • 13
        Generation of Defects in Solids by Radiation, Their Role in Determining Material Properties, and Introduction to Experimental Techniques for Characterizing
        Speaker: Joseph Graham (Missouri University of Science and Technology / Institue of Optics-CSIC)
        3-CSSP_Lecture.pdf
      • 14
        Gamma Spectroscopy of Natural Radionuclides: techniques and instrumentation
        Speaker: Yuri Venturini (CAEN, MixedTech)
        4-NaturalRadioactivity_CarpathianSchool2025_RO.pdf
    • 1:00 PM
      Lunch break
    • Afternoon Session: Small accelerators (II)
      Convener: Dr Mihai Straticiuc (IFIN-HH)
      4-Do we surrender Science to AI and social.pdf
      5-cssp25_outreach_mdc.pdf
      • 15
        Current status of the Ion irradiation Platform for Exploring Nano-Satellites Resilience to Space Radiation and future perspectives
        Speaker: Ion Burducea (IFIN-HH)
        CSSP2025 Ion Burducea.pdf
      • 3:50 PM
        Coffee break
      • 16
        Application of cosmogenic nuclide dating in geosciences: Results from the RoAMS laboratory
        Speaker: Daniela Pascal (IFIN-HH)
    • Student Communications
      • 17
        Development efforts toward a Matrix Ion Detector for CRYRING@ESR
        Speaker: Andrei Hotnog (IFIN-HH)
        7-CSSP Hotnog 2025.pdf
      • 18
        Improvement of a Plastic Scintillator with Different Coatings for Gamma-Ray Redection
        Speaker: Jonathan Méndez (Instituto de Física, UNAM)
      • 19
        Neutron shielding studies for underground large detectors
        Speaker: Denis Barbu (University of Bucharest)
        9-Denis Barbu_Neutron shielding.pdf
      • 20
        Development of a Neutron Dosimeter: Instrumentation and Applications in Radiation Protection
        Speaker: Ignacio Corazza (Instituto Balseiro – Centro Atómico Bariloche (CNEA))
  • Wed, June 25
    • Morning Session: Nuclear Structure
      Convener: Catalin Borcea (IFIN-HH)
      • 21
        Quadrupole-octupole dynamics in atomic nuclei
        Speaker: Radu Budaca (IFIN-HH)
      • 22
        Photoneutron reactions in the GDR region: cross sections and average neutron energies

        I

        Speaker: Ioana Gheorghe (IFIN-HH)
      • 10:50 AM
        Coffee break
      • 23
        From Virtual Photons to Nuclear Deformation: The Harsh Elegance of Coulomb Excitation
        Speaker: Ștefana Călinescu (IFIN-HH)
        3-SCalinescu-COULEX2025.pdf
    • Student Communications
      • 24
        CBS calculations in the rare-earth mass region
        Speaker: Dimitrios Papadopoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
        Sinaia.Papadopoulos_new.pdf
      • 25
        In-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy of neutron-rich nuclei around the N=20 island of inversion
        Speaker: Bellona Bles (GSI)
      • 26
        The beta decay of Rb and Cs Isotopes
        Speaker: YiHui Liu (China Institute of Atomic Energy)
        6-250625-Beta Decay of Rb and Cs Isotopes at BRIF.pdf
    • 1:05 PM
      Lunch break
  • Thu, June 26
    • Morning Session: Nuclear structure and Nuclear Astrophysics
      Convener: Xiaodong Tang (IMP Lanzhou)
      • 27
        Nuclear Matter Equation of States - Constraints from Heavy Ion Collisions at GSI / FAIR
        Speaker: Yvonne Leifels (GSI)
      • 28
        Experimental Tools for Laser and Gamma-Beam Driven Nuclear Astrophysics
        Speaker: Giovanni Luca Guardo (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud)
        2-Guardo_Sinaia.pdf
      • 10:50 AM
        Coffee break
      • 29
        Indirect Methods for Nuclear Astrophysics Studies
        Speaker: Aurora Tumino (Kore University of Enna/INFN-LNS)
        3-CSSP2025-Tumino-n.pdf
      • 30
        Probing nuclear structure by emission processes
        Speaker: Doru Delion (IFIN-HH)
        4-Delion-2025.pdf
    • 1:00 PM
      Lunch break
    • Afternoon Session: Session 7
      Convener: Radu Budaca (IFIN-HH)
      4-Do we surrender Science to AI and social.pdf
      5-cssp25_outreach_mdc.pdf
      • 31
        Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics Status update
        Speaker: Ioan Dancuș (IFIN-HH/ELI-NP)
      • 3:50 PM
        Coffee break
      • 32
        Emission processes in a self-consistent field
        Speaker: Alexandru Dumitrescu (IFIN-HH)
        6-ADumitrescu-CSSP25.pdf
    • Student Communications
      • 33
        Monte Carlo simulations of LPA VHEE dose distributions in water phantom
        Speaker: Ionut Slabu (IFIN-HH/ELI-NP)
        7-Carpathian_presentation_Ionut_Slabu-1.pdf
      • 34
        Measurement of the 18O(𝛼, 𝛾)22Ne reaction with DRAGON in inverse kinematics
        Speaker: Dhruval Shah (McMaster University)
        8-Dhruval_CSSP25_slides.pdf
      • 35
        Proton and Alpha induced reactions on light nuclei for nuclear structure and astrophysics
        Speaker: Virender Ranga (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
      • 36
        Experimental Nuclear Methods and Application of the EMPIRE Statistical Reaction Code for Determining Cross-Sections of The Reaction 12C+19F
        Speaker: Andrei Cristian Opincă (IFIN-HH)
        10-Prezentare CSSP Opinca Andrei.pdf
  • Fri, June 27
    • Morning Session: Nuclear Astrophysics (I)
      Convener: Aurora Tumino (Kore University of Enna/INFN-LNS)
      • 37
        Probing Stellar Reactions with MUSIC: Advancing Nuclear Astrophysics through Active-Target Detection
        Speaker: Eilens Lopez Saavedra (Argonne National Laboratory)
      • 38
        R-matrix reaction rate calculations
        Speaker: James deBoer (University of Notre Dame)
        2-CSSP_deBoer.pdf
      • 10:50 AM
        Coffee break
      • 39
        Insights into Nuclear Astrophysics Through Analyzing Isotope Ratios of Presolar Grains
        Speaker: Nan Liu (Boston University)
        3-Carpathain_Lecture_NL.pdf
      • 40
        Precise Nuclear Astrophysics Experiments in the Multi-Messenger Era - Institute of modern physics
        Speaker: Xiaodong Tang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
        CSSP2025_tang_web_v2.pdf
    • 1:00 PM
      Lunch break
    • Afternoon Session: Exotic phenomena
      Convener: Alexandru Dumitrescu (IFIN-HH)
      4-Do we surrender Science to AI and social.pdf
      5-cssp25_outreach_mdc.pdf
    • Student Communications: Sponsors presentation and experiment
      • 43
        Proton-neutron pairing and quartetting in N=Z nuclei in the framework of the Quark-Meson Coupling model
        Speaker: Theodor Popa (IFIN-HH)
      • 44
        Methods for Dose, LET and Energy Measurements in Ultra-High Dose Rate (UHDR) Beams
        Speaker: Radu Alin Vasilache (Canberra-Packard, University of Bucharest)
        8-VR_CSSP2025.pdf
      • 45
        Vacuserv presentation followed by experiments
        Speaker: Mircea Lupaș (Vacuserv)
        9-CSSP25 Vacuserv.pdf
  • Sat, June 28
  • Sun, June 29
    • 8:00 AM
      Day off
  • Mon, June 30
    • Morning Session: Exotic nuclei
      Convener: Prof. Mihai Petrovici (National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH))
      • 50
        Electric Giant Resonances: Past, Present and Future
        Speaker: Muhsin Harakeh (University of Groningen)
        1-Lecture CSSP 2025 Sinaia_Harakeh.pdf
      • 51
        Central Heavy-Ion Collisions
        Speaker: Pawel Danielewicz (Michigan State University)
      • 10:50 AM
        Coffee break
      • 52
        TBA
        Speaker: Isao Tanihata (Osaka University)
      • 53
        The Electron Ion Collider as a Probe of Nuclear Structure
        Speaker: Carlos Bertulani (East Texas A&M University)
    • Lunch
    • Afternoon Session: Nuclear Physics
      Convener: Pawel Danielewicz (Michigan State University)
      4-Do we surrender Science to AI and social.pdf
      5-cssp25_outreach_mdc.pdf
      • 54
        Multifaceted impact of shape coexistence in neutron-rich nuclei within a beyond-mean-field approach
        Speaker: Alexandrina Petrovici (IFIN-HH)
      • 3:50 PM
        Coffee break
      • 55
        Linear Accelerators, applications and frontiers
        Speaker: David Alesini (INFN-LNF)
      • 56
        Status of RIF@ IFIN-HH
        Speaker: Florin Negoita (IFIN-HH)
  • Tue, July 1
    • Morning Session: Nuclear Astrophysics (II)
      Convener: James deBoer (University of Notre Dame)
      • 57
        Nuclear Astrophysics in Underground: the LUNA experiment
        Speaker: Antonio Caciolli (University and INFN of Padua)
        Caciolli-Sinaia-July2025_v2.pdf
      • 58
        Cosmogenic isotopes in environmental science
        Speaker: László Palcsu (HUN-REN Institute for Nuclear Research)
      • 10:50 AM
        Coffee break
      • 59
        The Explosion… The Explosion… The Explosion of Classical and Recurrent Novae
        Speaker: Jordi José (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
        JJose_Sinaia2025.pdf
      • 60
        Numerical models of rotating neutron stars
        Speaker: Jerome Novak (CNRS, Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg)
        6-presentation_novak.pdf
    • Lunch
    • Afternoon Session: Neutron Stars
      Convener: Karlheinz Langanke (GSI Helmholtzzentrum Darmstadt)
      4-Do we surrender Science to AI and social.pdf
      5-cssp25_outreach_mdc.pdf
      • 61
        On the internal constitution of neutron stars and their equation of state
        Speaker: Nicolas Chamel (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
        4-Chamel_CSSP25.pdf
      • 3:50 PM
        Coffee break
      • 62
        Exploring finite temperature equations of state for astrophysical simulations. A Bayesian approach.
        Speaker: Adriana R. Raduta (IFIN-HH)
        7-Raduta_CSSP2025.pdf
      • 63
        Neutron stars. A novel view on the inner crusts.
        Speaker: Mikhail Beznogov (IFIN-HH)
    • Student Communications
      • 64
        Nuclear Pasta and Neutron Star Dynamics
        Speaker: Lowri Mathias (University of Bath)
  • Wed, July 2
    • Morning Session: Nuclear Physics from High to Low
      Convener: Adriana R. Raduta (IFIN-HH)
      • 65
        "QCD Challenges"
        Speaker: Mihai Petrovici (IFIN-HH)
      • 66
        The Nuclear Two-Photon Decay
        Speaker: Wolfram Korten (CEA Saclay)
      • 10:50 AM
        Coffee break
      • 67
        The search for live interstellar radionuclides using accelerator mass spectrometry
        Speaker: Dominik Koll (Australian National University & Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
      • 68
        Alternative methods to determine neutron-induced inelastic cross sections
        Speaker: Alexandru Negreț (IFIN-HH)
    • Lunch
    • Afternoon Session: Last and Closing
      Convener: Dan Cozma (IFIN-HH)
      4-Do we surrender Science to AI and social.pdf
      5-cssp25_outreach_mdc.pdf
      • 69
        Nuclear properties around the particle separation threshold using γ-ray and charged particle probes
        Speaker: Pär-Anders Söderström (ELI-NP/IFIN-HH)
      • 3:50 PM
        Coffee break
      • 70
        ELIFANT Spectrometer: A State of the Art Instrument for Experiments of High Energy Gamma-Rays
        Speaker: Aslı KUŞOĞLU (ELI-NP/IFIN-HH)
      • 71
        Searching For Quaking Pulsars Through Gravitational Waves
        Speaker: Sagnik Chatterjee (IFIN-HH)
    • Student Communications
      • 72
        Modeling 97Tc Electron Capture for Neutrino Mass Applications
        Speaker: Vasile-Alin Sevestrean (IFIN-HH, FF-UB, CIFRA)
      • 73
        Exploring Double-Layered Targets Efficiency in Laser-Driven Photon Source Production
        Speaker: Dragana-Biliana Dreghici (POLITEHNICA Bucharest)
      • 74
        Toward Understanding of Nuclear Spin Relaxation at Zero-to-Ultralow Fields
        Speaker: Florin Teleanu (ELI-NP/IFIN-HH)
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