Low-energy nuclear theory: From few nucleons to the stars

Nov 13, 2025, 9:00 AM → Nov 14, 2025, 6:00 PM Europe/Paris

100/0-MXX - Salle des Conseils (IJCLab)

     

🧪 Workshop Overview

 

This two-day workshop will focus on the role of low-energy nuclear theory in advancing our understanding of systems ranging from a few nucleons in the laboratory to large-scale astrophysical processes.

The primary goal of this event is to foster new collaborations and research projects among group members and their extended network of collaborators. Discussions will span a broad spectrum of topics—from nuclear density functional theory to effective field theory methods—with an emphasis on building bridges across approaches and applications.

 

 

We are especially grateful to the Graduate School of Physics of the Paris-Saclay University for sponsoring this event within the physics of the 2 inifinities (P2I) program.

 

The organisers
P. Arthuis, C. Hebborn, G. Hupin, E. Khan, U. van Kolck, M. Urban

Thu, November 13

9:00 AM → 9:15 AM Introduction

Arthuis_Welcome_IJCLab_2025.pdf

9:15 AM → 9:50 AM Experimental structure of light nuclei at the neutron drip-line

Speaker: Julien GIBELIN (Université de Caen/LPC Caen)

9:50 AM → 10:25 AM Nuclear structure evolution with laser spectroscopy

Speaker: Louis LALANNE (IPHC)

10:25 AM → 10:55 AM Coffee break

10:55 AM → 11:30 AM Proton-neutron pairing and alpha-like quartet condensation in the quark-meson-coupling approach

Speaker: Prof. Nicolae Sandulescu (NIPNE, Bucharest)

11:30 AM → 12:05 PM Description of 4n halo nuclei and their decay

Speaker: Rimantas LAZAUSKAS (IPHC, CNRS, Strasbourg (France))

12:05 PM → 1:45 PM Lunch

1:45 PM → 2:20 PM Search for 3He clustering in light nuclei or/and Quenching of spectrocopic factors in neutron-deficient C isotopes to probe the role of short-range correlations

Speaker: Olivier SORLIN

2:20 PM → 2:55 PM Structure and reactions of two-neutron halo nuclei

Speaker: Dr Patrick McGlynn (Michigan State University)

2:55 PM → 3:25 PM Coffee break

3:25 PM → 3:40 PM Relativistic mean field within the chiral confining model

Speaker: Mohamad Chamseddine (CNRS)

Workshop_Chamseddine_13-11-25.pdf

3:40 PM → 3:55 PM Emergent geometry and duality in the 24Mg nucleus

Speaker: Gianluca Stellin (IJCLab)

Presentazione_LENT-Workshop_Definitiva_13-11-2025_GS.pdf

3:55 PM → 4:10 PM Bosonic few-body systems expanded around the unitarity limit

Speaker: Feng Wu (IJCLab)

4:10 PM → 4:25 PM Ab initio study of low-energy antiproton-nucleus systems

Speaker: Mr Alireza DEHGHANI (IJCLAB)

Slides Conference IJCLab.pptx

4:25 PM → 5:30 PM Discussion time (free)

6:00 PM → 8:00 PM Cocktail

Fri, November 14

9:00 AM → 9:35 AM Nuclear physics constraints on dense matter equation of state

Speaker: Jérôme MARGUERON (IRL-NPA and MSU/FRIB)

9:35 AM → 10:10 AM Fermi polaron in low-density spin-polarized neutron matter

Speaker: Dr Isaac Vidana (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Vidana_Orsay.pdf

10:10 AM → 10:40 AM Break

10:40 AM → 11:15 AM Refining density functional approaches at sub-saturation densities for nuclear reactions and neutron stars

Speaker: Stefano Burrello (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud)

Orsay2025_Burrello.pdf

11:15 AM → 11:50 AM How Nuclear Forces Influence Collective Shapes and Impart Uncertainties on Observables

Speaker: Kevin Becker (University of Edinburgh)

11:50 AM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 2:05 PM Extrapolation and emulation techniques for few-body resonances

Speaker: Sebastian Koenig (NC State University)

2:05 PM → 2:40 PM Are there enhanced three-nucleon forces in chiral EFT?

Speaker: Evgeny Epelbaum (Ruhr University Bochum)

2:40 PM → 3:15 PM Building renormalizable low-energy theory for nuclear processes and bound states: present status, obstacles, and outlook

Speaker: Martin Schäfer (Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

3:15 PM → 3:45 PM Coffee break

3:45 PM → 4:00 PM A consistent integration of nuclear structure in the dynamics of 42-51Ca on 12C reactions

Speaker: Andrew Smith (Michigan State University)

4:00 PM → 4:15 PM Nuclei as an assembly of fermions and bosons: RMF description about alpha clustering

Speaker: Rodrigue Didier-Pichat (IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay)

Présentation_Clustering__Workshop_14_nov_2025-12.pdf

4:15 PM → 4:30 PM Quantum computing for nuclear and many-body physics

Speaker: Samuel Aychet-Claisse

4:30 PM → 5:30 PM Discussion time (free)