BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CERN//INDICO//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Writing skills for science outreach DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220322T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220322T110000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17479@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Avelino Vicente (UV)\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/even t/6372/contributions/17479/ LOCATION:Salon de actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17479/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Neural networks for reconstruction of the underlying kinematics in high energy collisions DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T160300Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T160900Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17880@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: David Francisco Rentería Estrada (Universidad Aut ónoma de Sinaloa)\nThe parton-level kinematics plays a crucial role for u nderstanding the internal structure of hadrons and improving the precision of the calculations. To better understand the kinematics at the partonic level\, we study the production of one hadron and a direct photon\, incl uding up to Next-to-Leading Order Quantum Chromodynamics and Leading-Order Quantum Electrodynamics corrections. Using a code based on Monte-Carlo in tegration\, we simulate the collisions and analyze the events to determine the correlations among measurable and partonic quantities. Then\, we use these results to apply Machine Learning algorithms that allow us to find the momentum fractions of the partons involved in the process\, in terms o f suitable combinations of the final state momenta.\n\nhttps://indico.ific .uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17880/ LOCATION: URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17880/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Long-lived heavy neutral leptons at the LHC: probing $N_R$SMEFT op erators. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T165100Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T165700Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17888@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Rebeca Beltrán Lloria (IFIC-UV)\nInterest in search es for heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) at the LHC has increased considerably in the past few years. In the minimal scenario\, HNLs are produced and dec ay via their mixing with active neutrinos in the Standard Model (SM) spect rum. However\, many SM extensions with HNLs have been discussed in the lit erature\, which sometimes change expectations for LHC sensitivities drasti cally. In the $N_R$SMEFT\, one extends the SM effective field theory with operators including SM singlet fermions\, which allows to study HNL phenom enology in a “model independent” way. Within the framework of $N_R$SME FT\, we study the sensitivity of ATLAS to HNLs for four-fermion operators with a single HNL. These operators might dominate both production and deca y of HNLs\, and we find that new physics scales in excess of 20 TeV could be probed at the high-luminosity LHC.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6 372/contributions/17888/ LOCATION: URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17888/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CP violation in hadronic two-body D meson decays: a SM calculation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T164500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T165100Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17887@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Eleftheria Solomonidi (IFIC-UV)\nIn 2019 the LHCb ex periment discovered for the first time a clear signal of direct CP violati on in the charm sector\, in particular in the decays of D0 mesons to π+π − and K+K−. However\, the theoretical determination of the strong part of the related decay amplitudes in the SM remains uncertain\, mainly due to the difficulties when dealing with charmed hadronic asymptotic states. A long-known tool for assessing such amplitudes is dispersion relations. T hese arise from fundamental properties of the S-matrix elements and are da ta driven at large . Although they are easily understood and deployed in e lastic channels\, they become much more complicated when inelasticities ar e present. In this work we extract the CP-even and odd D→ππ/KK amplitu des within the SM\, analysed in the isospin basis and with the use of unit arity and large number-of-colours expansion\, by performing global fits to the current experimental data. Moreover\, we implement novel numerical me thods for dispersion relations in the inelastic isospin-0 channels.\n\nhtt ps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17887/ LOCATION: URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17887/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A probabilistic approach to the hierarchy problem DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T163900Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T164500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17886@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Clara Alvarez Luna (UCM)\nIn this work\, we provide a simple model that studies the probability to obtain a given hierarchy be tween two scales. In particular\, we work in a theory with a light SU(2)L sector and a heavy SU(2)H sector\, and two scalar doublets with each one c orresponding to one sector. Furthermore\, both sectors can interact by mea ns of a U(1)X. By the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism\, the gauge bosons and sc alars obtain different masses. We analyze the mass ratio of these sectors in order to discuss the hierarchy between them\, and we define a probabili ty associated to this hierarchy. We study different cases in which one of the sectors is fixed or both of them have free parameters\, and also consi der the effect of including an interaction between them. We conclude that the probability of obtaining very large hierarchies is (logarithmically) s mall but not negligible. In this toy model some interesting situations are provided\, for example\, our result could be applied to a theory with a k nown low-energy sector and an additional weakly-interacting heavy dark sec tor.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17886/ LOCATION: URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17886/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Calibrating the ANAIS-112 dark matter experiment with neutrons DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T163300Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T163900Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17885@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Tamara Pardo Yanguas (UZ)\nANAIS (Annual modulation with NaI Scintillators) is a direct dark matter detection experiment whose goal is to confirm or refute in a model independent way the highly contro versial positive annual modulation signal reported by DAMA/LIBRA collabora tion for more than twenty cycles. ANAIS-112\, consisting of 112.5 kg of Na I(Tl) scintillators\, is presently in data taking phase at the Canfranc Un derground Laboratory\, in Spain\, since August 2017. The dark matter inter pretation of the modulation signal depends critically on a complete unders tanding of the detector response to nuclear recoils\, which are expected t o be induced via elastic scattering of dark matter particles off target nu clei in many of the models considered for such dark matter particles. It i s well known that the light output from nuclear recoils is reduced with re spect to electrons depositing an equivalent energy by the quenching factor \, a parameter which is actually not well known for NaI(Tl) scintillators. Not only recent measurement on the quenching factor of sodium showed sign ificantly different results\, but also very few measurements on the quench ing factor of iodine have been performed up to now. This magnitude is usua lly determined by measurements in a monoenergetic neutron beam\, requiring small scintillating crystals to avoid multiple scattering. On the other h and\, the study presented here relies on a different approach\, aiming at the evaluation of the quenching factor by exposing directly the large ANAI S-112 crystals to neutrons from a Cf-252 source. For this purpose\, detail ed Monte Carlo simulations of the full experimental set-up are required\, which should be checked against the experimental measurement. Comparison b etween measurement and simulation allows testing different quenching facto r models and following a best-fit strategy. Moreover\, this simulation cou ld be also exploited to improve the ANAIS-112 event selection procedure\, helping to identify nuclear recoils-dominated regions and to design an eff iciency calibration procedure.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/con tributions/17885/ LOCATION: URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17885/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:NEXT-100 status and prospects DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T162700Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T163300Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17884@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Miryam Martinez Vara (DIPC - IFIC)\nNEXT (Neutrino E xperiment with a Xenon TPC) is a double beta decay experiment located in H uesca (Spain) at the Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc (LSC). It searche s for the neutrino-less double beta decay (ββ0ν) of 136Xe\, a lepton-nu mber-violation process that would prove the Majorana nature of neutrinos a nd eventually provide handles for a measurement of the neutrino absolute m ass. The latest stage of the experiment finished in summer 2021 with the d ecommissioning of the NEXT-White detector. NEXT-White proved the outstandi ng performance of the NEXT technology in terms of the energy resolution (\ n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17884/ LOCATION: URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17884/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Core-collapse supernovae from red super giant stars DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T162100Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T162700Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17883@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Beatriz Giudice (UV)\nSupernova (SN) explosions are one of the most energetic events in the observable universe.\nGiven that\, they are the best natural laboratories to investigate extreme physical ph enomena\, that otherwise would not be reproducible on Earth.\nDuring these powerful explosions chemical elements are also produced\, that go to enri ch the amount of heavy elements in the interstellar medium.\nThree-dimensi onal long-time simulations of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are crucial to better understand the connection between the progenitor star and the s upernova remnants.\nThese studies have been performed using mainly two app roaches: (i) a detailed 3D analysis of individual events\, e.g. SN 1987A ( M\\"uller et al. 1991\; Orlando et al. 2015\, 2020)\, or (ii) 1D surveys o f stars with different masses and initial conditions (Ugliano et al. 2012\ ; Sukhbold et al. 2016\; Ertl et al. 2020).\nHere\, we intend to extend th e current 3D models in the fashion of the latter 1D simulations\, consider ing SNe originated by different red super giant (RSG) progenitors with zer o-age main-sequence (ZAMS) masses between 12.5M⊙ and 27M⊙.\nWe first s tudy two stars with MZAMS=19.8M⊙ and MZAMS=25.5M⊙.\nThe first one show s an approximate spherical symmetry in the first stages of the explosion\, and asymmetries start to rise only later on.\nAn interesting case is inst ead the second model: it shows a peculiar evolution\, where the explosion mainly develops on one plane\, and it is starting to present structures th at recall supernova remnant Cassiopeia A.\nThis case surely requires furth er investigation\, but having this kind of formations so early in the evol ution is really promising.\nCCSN simulations are a precious resource for i nvestigating explosion mechanisms and features of the ejecta distribution. \nMoreover\, from the computational results it is possible to infer some o bservational properties that can be used to characterize a physical source and retrieve information on its progenitor star.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.u v.es/event/6372/contributions/17883/ LOCATION: URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17883/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dark matter gamma-ray signals in the Milky Way: brightest dark sat ellites versus diffuse galactic emission" DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T161500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T162100Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17882@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Sara Porras Bedmar (UAM)\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/ event/6372/contributions/17882/ LOCATION: URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17882/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cabibbo suppressed single pion production off the nucleon induced by antineutrinos DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T160900Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T161500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17881@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Maria Benitez Galan (UGR)\nIn this work we study the Σπ and Λπ production off free nucleons driven by the strangeness-chan ging weak charged current. We calculate the total cross sections for all p ossible channels and estimate the flux-averaged total cross sections for e xperiments like MiniBooNE\, SciBooNE\, T2K\, and Minerva. The model is bas ed on the lowest order effective SU(3) chiral Lagrangians in the presence of an external weak charged current and contains Born and the lowest-lying decuplet resonant mechanisms that can contribute to these reaction channe ls. We also compare and discuss our results with others following similar and very different\napproaches.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/co ntributions/17881/ LOCATION: URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17881/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Advantages of Tomosynthesis for COVID-19 Detection with Artificial Intelligence DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T155700Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T160300Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17879@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Clara Freijo Escudero (UCM)\nMedical imaging has bee n one of the main tools employed during the COVID-19 pandemic for diagnosi s and disease progression assessment. The most commonly used have been Che st X-Rays (CXR) and Computed Tomography (CT). However\, CXR has a limited sensibility\, while CT is more expensive\, less accessible\, gives more do se to the patients\, and requires sanitizing the scanner after each patien t acquisition. Tomosynthesis\, which obtains X-rays images from a few sour ce positions\, has been proposed as a good compromise between both modalit ies.\nThe use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to analyze medical ima ges of COVID-19 patients has been proposed by many groups. It has been sho wn that Neural Networks (NN) can be trained to detect COVID-19 affections accurately provided enough cases are available. Nevertheless\, while many public databases of CXR and CT images of COVID-19 patients have been gener ated worldwide\, there is a lack of databases of tomosynthesis images\, wh ich makes it difficult to train a NN for this modality.\nIn this work we p ropose to use the existing CT and X-ray databases to perform realistic sim ulations and generate X-Ray tomosynthesis images. We made use of a databas e containing 200 CT images of COVID-19 patients\, along with the segmentat ions of the lung affected region. Projections at 0⁰ and ±15⁰ were sim ulated in an in-house developed\, GPU-accelerated\, ultrafast Monte Carlo (MC) code. Two NN were trained to detect whether each lung is affected by COVID-19 or not: the first one is defined with one input channel correspon ding to the 0⁰ projection (which corresponds to a standard CXR)\, while the other one employs three input channels corresponding to 0⁰ and ±15 ⁰ projections (which corresponds to a simplified tomosynthesis acquisiti on). Results show that the three-channel NN outperforms the one-channel NN . Despite the limited number of cases used in this work\, and the reduced number of projections\, the results are very promising\, and motivates fur ther research on the advantages which can be obtained with Tomosynthesis.\ n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17879/ LOCATION: URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17879/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Gender socialization and the absence of women in science DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T155100Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T155700Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17878@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Aida Garrido (USal)\nIn this presentation\, we analy se how gender stereotypes influence the choice of professional career. In particular\, we discuss how patriarchal social conditioning implies a lowe r presence of women in science. We depict possible measures to achieve gre ater equity in an area as masculinized as the scientific one.\n\nhttps://i ndico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17878/ LOCATION: URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17878/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Implementation of a software defined radio (SDR) based beam curren t monitor for Schottky detectors in heavy ion storage rings DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T154500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T155100Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17877@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Mariia Selina (Aachen University of Applied Sciences )\nWith the increasing sensitivity and precision of resonant Schottky dete ctors\, this technology becomes more valuable in the determination of mass es and lifetimes of the yet unstudied nuclei inside heavy ion storage ring s but also in general storage ring physics. At present\, information from these detectors is gained by high-end units with software and hardware int erface that are not versatile and / or not suitable for applications where scalability is indispensable. Here\, software-defined radio (SDR) based d ata acquisition systems come in handy\, mainly due to their low cost and r elatively simple hardware but also due to the fact that their functionalit y is almost entirely software-defined/programmable. If calibrated\, Schott ky detectors can facilitate beam current measurements that are orders of m agnitude more sensitive compared to existing DC current transformers (DDCT ). In this work\, we report on the implementation of an SDR-based online b eam current monitor for use with Schottky detectors in heavy ion storage r ings such as ESR in GSI/FAIR.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/cont ributions/17877/ LOCATION: URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17877/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Contribution of the $\\Delta(1232)$ resonance in the pion photopro duction on Carbon-12 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T153300Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T153900Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17875@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Gustavo Guerrero (IFIC-UV)\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.e s/event/6372/contributions/17875/ LOCATION: URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17875/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Study of Exotic Hidden Heavy Flavor States DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T153900Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T154500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17874@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Victor Montesinos Llacer (IFIC-UV)\nIn recent years\ , a great experimental effort has led to the discovery of some exotic stat es found in the charmonium and bottomonium spectra. Some examples of such states are the Zc(3900)\, Zc(4020)\, Zcs(3985)\, Zb(10610) and Zb(10650). These states do not fit the conventional qq¯ quark model given that they contain hidden-charm (cc¯) or hidden-bottom (bb¯) components\, but they are also found to be charged. This implies a minimal structure of four val ence quarks. Although there exist several exotic models which could descri be these states\, the molecular one is appealing due to the closeness of t hese states to the thresholds of some D(∗)D¯(∗) and B(∗)B¯(∗) ch annels. Within this framework and making use of SU(3) light flavor symmetr y\, we predict the masses and widths of additional Z states which remain t o be seen in the experiment.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contr ibutions/17874/ LOCATION: URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17874/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Physics and Maternity Round table DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220322T152000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220322T161000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17484@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Isabel Torres (Mother in Science)\, Nuria Garro (UVE G)\, Susana Planelles (UVEG)\nMotherhood has a huge impact on the careers of women scientists. With regards to the impact of family life on the work of male and female researchers\, the evidence shown here indicates that h aving children clearly seems to be detrimental to a woman’s career in sc ience. For men\, however\, if family does have an effect on their work\, t his effect is more positive than negative. It seems to be evident\, in lig ht of the findings\, that rearing children clearly interferes in the scien tific productivity of women and the possibility of them being promoted to a higher level when their productivity is the same. This conflict between family and profession for women scientists is clearly shown in the distrib ution of male and female academics in Spain by family situation. The INE H uman Resources Survey reveals that only 38% of women Full Professors have children\, as opposed to 63% of men\, and that the percentage of single wo men is 21% as opposed to 15% of single men.\n\nKeynote speaker: Dr. Isabel Torres (co-founder and chief executive of “Mothers in Science”). Part icipants: Dr. Núria Garro (Dpt. Applied Physics\, UVEG) and Dr. Susana Pl anelles (Dpt. Astronomy and Astrophysics\, UVEG). Chair: Prof. Pas García (Dpt. Optics\, UVEG).\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributio ns/17484/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17484/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Axion quality from the symmetric of SU(N) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T162300Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T163600Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17817@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Giacomo Landini (IFIC-UV)\nThe Peccei-Quinn solution to the strong CP problem has a problematic aspect: it relies on a global U(1) symmetry which\, although broken at low energy by the QCD anomaly\, m ust be an extremely good symmetry of high-energy physics. This issue is kn own as the Peccei-Quinn quality problem. We propose a model where the Pecc ei-Quinn symmetry arises accidentally and is respected up to high-dimensio nal Planck-suppressed operators. The model is a SU(N) dark gauge theory wi th fermions in the fundamental and a scalar in the symmetric. The axion ar ises from the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the gauge group and the qua lity problem is successfully solved for large enough number of dark colors N. The model includes additional accidentally stable bound states which p rovide extra Dark Matter candidates beyond the axion.\n\nhttps://indico.if ic.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17817/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17817/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dark sector searches with Na64 experiment at CERN DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T153700Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T155000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17816@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Laura Molina Bueno (IFIC-UV)\nThe existence of dark sectors is an exciting possibility to explain the origin of Dark Matter (D M). In addition to gravity\, DM could interact with ordinary matter throug h a new very weak force. This new interaction could be mediated by a new m assive vector boson\, called dark photon (A’). If A’ exists\, it could be produced through the kinetic mixing with a bremsstrahlung photon from a high-energy electron scattering in a target. A' could then decay invisib ly into light DM particles\, A′→χχ\, or visibly\, into e+e-. Searchi ng for the former in events with large missing energy allows us to probe t he γ−A′ mixing strength and the parameter space close to the one pred icted by the relic dark matter density. Motivation for searching visible d ecays\, has been recently enhanced by the anomaly observed in the 8Be and 4He nuclei transitions that could be explained by the existence of a 17 Me V boson also decaying into e+e-. In this talk\, we present the NA64 result s from the combined 2016-2018 data analysis for visible and invisible mode s. The experiment resume data taking in 2021. The latest results and the f uture prospects will be also covered in this talk. Finally\, the new NA64 muon program\, exploring dark sectors weakly coupled to muons will also be presented.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17816/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IFIC (PCUV) URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17816/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The rise of precision medicine: the valuable contribution of medic al physics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T095500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T103000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17510@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Irene Torres (Hospital La Fe)\nhttps://indico.ific.u v.es/event/6372/contributions/17510/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17510/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reaching out Exotic Nuclei DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T114500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T122000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17649@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Berta Rubio (IFIC-CSIC)\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/e vent/6372/contributions/17649/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17649/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Application of a quantum algorithm to Feynman loop integrals DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T164900Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T170200Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17569@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Norma Selomit (IFIC-UV)\nIn this talk we present a q uantum algorithm application for Feynman loop integrals. We propose a prop er modification of Grover's algorithm for the identification of causal sin gular configurations of multiloop Feynman diagrams. The quantum algorithm is implemented in two different quantum simulators\, the output obtained i s directly translated to causal thresholds needed for the causal represent ation in the loop-tree duality.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/co ntributions/17569/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IFIC (PCUV) URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17569/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Flavour Symmetry & Neutrino Masses DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T152400Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T153700Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17585@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Omar Medina (IFIC-UV)\nAn extra-dimensional extensio n of the standard model is presented. It displays a flavor A4 symmetry amo ng the three generations of fermions at the high energy regime. The model offers a symmetrical origin to quark and lepton mixings in a unified frame work. The neutrino masses in the model emerge at one loop in a scotogenic fashion. The minimalist set up of the model is highly predictive and inclu des a dark sector whose lightest particle can be identified as a dark matt er candidate.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17585/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IFIC (PCUV) URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17585/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Axion and ALP landscape DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220325T115000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220325T122500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17579@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Belen Gavela (UAM)\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/ 6372/contributions/17579/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17579/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Experimental Particle Physics (LHCb) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220325T111500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220325T115000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17578@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Carla Marin (CERN (LHCb))\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es /event/6372/contributions/17578/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17578/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Flavourful footprints towards TeV scale Physics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220325T104000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220325T111500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17577@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Clara Murgui (Caltech)\nIn the last few years flavor experiments have been reporting deviations with respect to the expected p redictions from the Standard Model. These anomalies share some patterns of lepton flavor universality violation and seem to suggest new physics at t he (hopeful) TeV scale. Many attempts have been already pursued in our com munity trying to understand these signals\, employing from any sort of sim plified model to magnificent model building with a wide range of extra mat ter fields and gauge symmetries. In this talk we will consider a simple ex tension of the Standard Model based on the Pati-Salam’s idea of quark-le pton unification. This economical and motivated theory turns out to predic t the needed ingredients to accommodate such potential new physics and can be naturally realized at the low scale. As a renormalizable completion of the Standard Model\, it predicts non-trivial signatures and correlations amongst observables that may allow its testability in a not-too-distant fu ture.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17577/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17577/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Discovering the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment at CERN DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220325T100500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220325T104000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17575@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Barbara Alvarez Gonzalez (Universidad de Oviedo)\nDi scovering the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment at CERN\nWould you like to know what we do at the European Organization for Nuclear Research with pro ton collisions?\nLearn about amazing physics driven by high level physicis ts from all over the world.\nDiscover a huge breadth of research topics\, from the discovery of the Higgs boson to searches of the unknown.\n\nhttps ://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17575/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17575/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Experimental Particle Physics with the ATLAS Detector DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220325T091000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220325T094500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17574@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Manuella Vincter (Carleton University\, ATLAS)\nOne of the goals of particle physics is to explain the structure of matter at the smallest distance scales. For decades\, the properties of the basic bu ilding blocks of matter have been investigated in ever greater detail. How ever\, even today some profound but simple questions\, such as the origins of dark matter in the universe\, remain unanswered. The attempt to unders tand the material world around us in the simplest possible terms has invol ved ingenious feats of scientific sleuthing. Such fundamental questions ar e being addressed by using the ATLAS experiment to look at the high-energy collisions produced at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. These energetic co llisions provide\, for a brief instant\, the energy necessary to produce n ew forms of matter\, as was done a fraction of a second after the big bang . This presentation will illustrate how we use a very large-scale collider to probe the incredibly small\, which can provide answers to questions on a universal scale!\n\n\nShort bio:\n\nManuella Vincter is a Canada Resear ch Professor of Physics at Carleton University and a Fellow of the Royal S ociety of Canada. Her primary research focus is with the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Laboratory in Geneva\, Switzerland where she is the ATLAS Depu ty Spokesperson. ATLAS is one of the defining experiments of its generatio n\; its results help elucidate such fundamental questions of physics as th e origins of mass and the existence of dark matter in the universe.\n\nhtt ps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17574/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17574/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Theoretical Aspects of Flavour Physics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220325T083500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220325T091000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17576@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Claudia Hagedorn (IFIC - UV/CSIC)\, Claudia Hagedorn (UV)\nFinding the organising principle of the flavour sector is one of th e big challenges in particle physics:\na) why are there three generations of fermions?\nb) why is the up quark about 100\,000 times lighter than the top quark\, although they have the same gauge quantum numbers?\nc) why do the three generations of quarks hardly mix\, whereas the three lepton gen erations have large mixing?\nd) could there be more than three generations ?\ne) how many neutrinos are there?\nf) could there be also more generatio ns of Higgs particles?\nIn this talk\, different theoretical ideas and pos sible experimental tests will be discussed.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/e vent/6372/contributions/17576/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17576/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Searches for New Physics at neutrino experiments DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220325T080000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220325T083500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17573@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Pilar Coloma (IFT)\, Pilar Coloma (Universidad Autó noma de Madrid)\nNeutrinos are the most elusive particles in the Standard Model. Despite being so abundant in the Universe\, we still do not know ma ny of their properties: how massive are they? how many neutrinos are there ? is there CP violation in the leptonic sector? do they have a connection to the dark matter\, or new interactions that we are unaware of? In this t alk I will present an overview of neutrino phenomenology and new physics s earches using current and future neutrino experiments.\n\nhttps://indico.i fic.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17573/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17573/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Design of an alpha contamination detector with high sensitivity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T163600Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T164900Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17572@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Ana Quintana (Universidad de Zaragoza)\nParticle Phy sics' experiments are currently searching for events whose probability is extremely low\, such as the neutrinoless double beta decay or dark matter candidates such as WIMPs. This is what causes the need to perform highly s ensitive experiments in subterranean facilities that shield from cosmic ra ys and environmental radiation. However\, there is a radiation which is al ways present\, that from Radon.\n\nThe goal of my work is the design and d evelopment\, simulating in the REST environment\, of this alpha detector. Such a detector must be able to characterize the alpha background caused b y the decay chain of 222Rn in the active volume of the detector and that o f its products on the internal surfaces (especially the 210Po\, whose deca y period is longer than that of the rest of the isotopes of the chain). To this end\, I am characterizing and studying the response of this alpha de tector\, which is still under development by GIFNA and whose final result will be of great interest for the experiments being carried out at the LSC facilities.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17572/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IFIC (PCUV) URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17572/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Measurement of the quadruple-differential angular decay rates of s ingle top quark produced in the t-channel at sqrt(s)=13 TeV DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T162300Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T163600Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17571@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Mariam Chitishvili (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC) - CSIC/UV)\nThe fact that the top quark’s lifetime is smaller tha n its hadronization and depolarization timescales makes its production and decay kinematic properties an important probe of physical processes beyon d the Standard Model (SM). The challenging analysis of the fully different ial top-quark decay will probe the tWb vertex structure using single-top-q uark events at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at the LHC\, using the fu ll Run 2 dataset\, with the ATLAS detector. Simultaneous measurement of th e five generalized W boson helicity fractions and two phases\, the polaris ation in three orthogonal directions of the produced top quark as well as the t-channel production cross-section will be performed. This study is ex ceptional as it uses a novel model-independent framework proposed in EPJ C 77 (2017) 200 and a large amount of data from proton-proton collisions of an integrated luminosity 139 fb-1. After measuring the relevant physical q uantities previously mentioned\, it will be possible to put stringent limi ts to EFT complex operators of the tWb vertex. The same measurement can be performed with early Run 3 data and constrain EFT parameters at a differe nt energy scale. Deviations from expected values would provide hints of ph ysics beyond the SM\, and furthermore\, complex values could imply that th e top-quark decay has a CP-violating component.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv. es/event/6372/contributions/17571/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IFIC (PCUV) URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17571/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Probing the interaction of the Higgs boson and the top-quark to ex plore the origin of the masses of elementary particles. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T161000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T162300Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17570@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Susana Cabrera Urbán (IFIC-CSIC)\nExploring the mec hanism that explains the origin of the masses of elementary particles\, fe rmions and gauge bosons\, remains one of the main objectives of the Partic le Physics program of the LHC. One experimental probe consists of measurin g the strength of the interaction between the Higgs boson and the Top quar k\, named top-Yukawa coupling\, using the full dataset collected by the AT LAS experiment during the Run 2 operational period of the proton-proton co llider LHC. Exhaustive studies of those processes that involve the associa ted production of Higgs bosons and Top quarks carry out in the ATLAS colla boration are reviewed. In particular\, the associated Higgs production wit h a single top quark has the potential to measure the size and the sign of the top-Yukawa coupling. The exploration of this process is challenging d ue to the small rate predicted by the current theory of the Standard Model . Therefore\, sophisticated analysis techniques that integrate Machine Lea rning developments are needed. Such rare process cannot be observed even w ith the full LHC Run-2 statistics and indeed an observation of this signal would be a clear indication of new physics beyond the Standard Model\, as it would imply deviations from the expected value of both the sign and ma gnitude of the top-Yukawa coupling.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/637 2/contributions/17570/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IFIC (PCUV) URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17570/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Visible final-state kinematics in $b \\to c\\tau( \\pi\\nu_\\tau\, \\rho\\nu_\\tau\, \\mu\\bar{\\nu}_\\mu\\nu_\\tau)$ reactions DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T151100Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T152400Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17568@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Neus Penalva (IFIC)\nIn the context of lepton flavor universality violation (LFUV) studies\, we study different observables re lated to the b→cτν¯τ semileptonic decays. These observables are expe cted to help in distinguishing between different NP scenarios. Since the τ lepton is very short-lived\, we consider three subsequent τ-decay mode s\, two hadronic πντ and ρντ and one leptonic μν¯μντ\, which h ave been previously studied for B¯→D(∗) decays. This way the differen tial decay width can be written in terms of visible (experimentally access ible) variables of the massive particle created in the τ decay.\nThere ar e seven different τ angular and spin asymmetries that are defined in this way and that can be extracted from experiment. In addition to these asymm etries\, we study the d2Γd/(dωdcosθd)\, dΓd/dcosθd and dΓd/dEd distr ibutions.\nWe present numerical results for the Λb→Λcτν¯τ semilept onic decay\, which is being measured with precision at the LHCb.\n\nhttps: //indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17568/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IFIC (PCUV) URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17568/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Extending the Reach of Leptophilic Boson Searches at DUNE and Mini BooNE with Bremsstrahlung and Resonant Production DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T145800Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T151100Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17550@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Francesco Capozzi (IFIC)\nNew gauge bosons coupling to leptons are simple and well-motivated extensions of the StandardModel. We study the sensitivity to gauged L_\\mu−L_e\, L_e−L_\\tau and L_\\mu −L_\\tau both with the existing beam dump mode data of MiniBooNE and wit h the DUNE near detector. We find that including bremsstrahlung and resona nt production of Z^\\prime which decays toe±andμ±final states leads to a significant improvement in existing bounds\, especially for L_\\mu−L_e and L_e−L_\\tau for DUNE while competitive constraints can be achieved with the existing data from the MiniBooNE’s beam dump run.\n\nhttps://in dico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17550/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IFIC (PCUV) URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17550/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Constraining the absolute neutrino mass via time-of-flight measure ments of the Supernovae electron neutrinos with DUNE. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T144500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T145800Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17549@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Federica Pompa (IFIC Valencia)\nSupernova (SN) explo sions are the most powerful cosmic factories of all-flavors\, MeV-scale\, neutrinos. Their detection is of great importance not only for astrophysic s\, but also to shed light on neutrino properties. Since the first observa tion of a SN neutrino signal in the 1987\, the international network of SN neutrinos observatories has been greatly expanded\, in order to detect th e next galactic SN explosion with much higher statistics and accuracy in t he neutrino energy-time-flavor space. The Deep Underground Neutrino Experi ment (DUNE) is a proposed leading-edge neutrino experiment\, planning to b egin operations in 2026. DUNE will have capability to extract precious inf ormation about SN neutrinos. In this contribution\, I will discuss the con straints that we expect to achieve with DUNE on the absolute value of the neutrino mass\, obtained by considering the time delay in the propagation of massive electron neutrinos from production in the SN environment to the ir detection in DUNE. Furthermore\, the comparison of sensitivities achiev ed for the two possible neutrino mass orderings is discussed\, as well as the effects due to propagation in the Earth matter.\n\nhttps://indico.ific .uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17549/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IFIC (PCUV) URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17549/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Shedding light on low-mass subhalo survival with numerical simulat ions DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T172800Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T174100Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17548@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Alejandra Aguirre (IFT UAM)\nIn this work\, we carry out a suite of specially-designed numerical simulations to shed further l ight on dark matter (DM) subhalo survival at mass scales relevant for gamm a-ray DM searches\, a topic subject to intense debate nowadays. Specifical ly\, we have developed and employed an improved version of DASH\, a GPU N- body code\, to study the evolution of low-mass subhaloes inside a Milky Wa y-like halo with unprecedented accuracy. We have simulated subhaloes with varying mass\, concentration\, and orbital properties\, and considered the effect of the gravitational potential of the Milky-Way galaxy itself. In addition to shedding light on the survival of low-mass galactic subhaloes\ , our results will provide detailed predictions that will aid current and future quests for the nature of DM.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/637 2/contributions/17548/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17548/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dark-matter halo shapes from fits to SPARC galaxy rotation curves DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T171500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T172800Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17546@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Adriana Bariego (IFT-UAM)\nWe fit galactic rotation curves obtained by SPARC from dark matter haloes that are\nnot spherically symmetric\, but allowed to become prolate or oblate with a higher-\nmulti pole density distribution. This is motivated by observing that the flatten ing of\nv(r)=constant is the natural Kepler law due to a filamentary rathe r than a spherical\nsource\, so that elongating the distribution could bri ng about a smaller chi squared\,\nall other things being equal. We compare results with different dark matter profiles\nand extract the best fits to the ellipticity computing cosmological simulations of dark\nmatter haloes .\n[1] Bariego Quintana\, Adriana\; Llanes-Estrada\, Felipe and Manzanilla Carretero\, Óliver (2021). Dark-\nmatter prolate halo shapes from fits t o SPARC galaxy rotation curves. Proceedings of the EPS-HEP2021\n(arXiv:210 9.11153 [hep-ph])\n[2] Llanes-Estrada\, Felipe. Elongated Gravity Sources as an Analytical Limit for Flat Galaxy Rotation\nCurves.\, Universe 7 (202 1) 346\; 10.13140/RG.2.2.35022.41289.\n[3] Allgood et al (2006). The Shape of Dark Matter Halos: Dependence on Mass\, Redshift\, Radius\,\nand Forma tion. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 367. 1781 - 1796. 10.1111/j.1365-\n2966.2006.10094.x.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/63 72/contributions/17546/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17546/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Searching for dark-matter waves with pulsar polarimetry DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T170200Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T171500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17545@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Jorge Terol (Instituo de Astrofísica de Canarias (I AC))\nIn this talk I will explain how the polarization of photons emitted by astrophysical sources might be altered as they travel through a medium of dark matter composed of ultra light axion-like particles (ALPs). I will describe a new\, more robust\, analysis we delevoped to search for this e ffect. Afterwards\, I will show the resulting strong limits on the axion-p hoton coupling for a wide range of masses. Finally\, I will comment on pos sible optimal targets and the potential sensitivity to axionic dark-matter in this mass range that could be achieved using pulsar polarimetry in the future.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17545/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17545/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dark Matter search in dwarf irregular galaxies with Fermi -LAT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T164900Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T170200Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17544@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Viviana Gammaldi (DFT & IFT UAM)\nIn these talk we h ighlight the main results about dark matter (DM) search in dwarf irregular galaxies with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. We analyze 11 years of Ferm i-LAT data corresponding to the sky regions of 7 dwarf irregular (dIrr) ga laxies. DIrrs are DM dominated systems\, recently proposed as interesting targets for the indirect search of DM with gamma-rays. We create a spatial template of the expected DM-induced gamma-ray signal with the CLUMPY code \, to be used in the analysis of Fermi-LAT data. No significant emission i s detected from any of the targets in our sample. Thus\, we compute the up per limits on the DM annihilation cross-section versus mass parameter spac e. The strongest constraints are obtained for 𝑏𝑏 ̄ and are at the l evel of ⟨𝜎𝑣⟩ ∼ 7 × 10−26cm3s−1 at 𝑚𝜒 ∼ 6 GeV.\n\n https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17544/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17544/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Sensitivity of CTA to gamma-ray emission from the Perseus galaxy c luster DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T163600Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T164900Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17543@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Judit Pérez (IFT UAM)\nWe estimate the sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) to detect diffuse gamma-ray emissio n from the Perseus galaxy cluster\, both from interactions of cosmic rays (CR) with the intra-cluster medium\, or as a product of annihilation or de cay of dark matter (DM) particles in case they are weakly interactive mass ive particles (WIMPs). The observation of Perseus constitutes one of the K ey Science Projects proposed by the CTA Consortium for the first years of operation of the CTA Observatory. In this talk\, we will focus on the DM-i nduced component of the flux. Our DM modeling includes the substructures w e expect in the main halo of Perseus\, as predicted within the standard co smological model hierarchical structure formation scenario\, which will bo ost the annihilation signal significantly. We compute the expected CTA sen sitivity using a likelihood maximization analysis including the most recen t CTA instrument response functions. We also model the expected CR-induced gamma-ray flux in the cluster\, and both DM- and CR-related uncertainties via nuisance parameters. We will show the sensitivity of CTA to discover\ , at best\, diffuse gamma-rays in galaxy clusters for the first time. Even in absence of signal\, we show that CTA will allow us to provide stringen t and competitive constraints on TeV DM\, that will rely on state-of-the-a rt modeling of the cluster's DM distribution. Finally\, we will discuss th e optimal strategy for CTA observations of Perseus.\n\nhttps://indico.ific .uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17543/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17543/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Signatures of primordial black hole dark matter at DUNE and THEIA DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T161000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T162300Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17542@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Pablo-Miravé Martínez (IFIC)\nPrimordial black hol es (PBHs) are potential dark matter candidates whose masses can span over many orders of magnitude. If they have masses in the 1015−1017 g range\, they can emit sizeable fluxes of MeV neutrinos through evaporation via Ha wking radiation. We explore the possibility of detecting light (non-)rotat ing PBHs with future neutrino experiments. We show that future neutrino ex periments like DUNE and THEIA will be able to set constraints on PBH dark matter\, thus providing complementary probes in a part of the PBH paramete r space currently constrained mainly by photon data.\n\nhttps://indico.ifi c.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17542/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17542/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Parameter estimation of gravitational wave events with state-of-th e-art phenomenological waveform models in the frequency and the time domai n. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T153700Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T155000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17540@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Maite-Lucena Mateu (University of the Balearic Islan ds)\nIn this talk\, we present a re-analysis of different black hole merge r gravitational wave events detected by the LIGO and Virgo interferometers with state-of-art phenomenological waveform models\, IMRPhenomX and IMRPh enomT\, which include higher spherical harmonics and spin precession. Due to their rapid and accurate evaluation of the waveforms\, but also an auto matisation of our Bayesian inference runs\, we test the waveform model fam ilies\, the improvements in the precession treatment\, non-informative pri ors\, and different sampler settings and codes. In most of the studied eve nts\, the influence of higher modes is small\, unless it is a massive even t. In this case\, IMRPhenomT further improves the fit to the data over IMR PhenomX owing to dropping the SPA approximation and other improvements in the waveform modeling. The prior choices also play an important role in ch allenging short signals.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contribut ions/17540/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17540/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Thermal gravitational wave emission from Holography in strongly-co upled theories DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T152400Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T153700Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17539@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Lucía Castells (Universitat de Barcelona)\nThere is a potentially detectable background of stochastic gravitational waves pro duced by thermal sources in the Universe. In this work\, we provide the fi rst computation of the gravitational-wave spectrum emitted by a thermal pl asma in a strongly-coupled theory: strongly-coupled N=4 Super Yang Mills. Given the non-applicability of perturbative methods in strong coupling com putations\, we resort to gauge/string duality to obtain the shape of the s pectrum. We later compare it with the analogue spectrum derived from the p erturbative analysis in weakly-coupled Super Yang Mills. The convolution o f both spectra with the expansion of the Universe provides the stochastic background of thermal gravitational waves that is present in the Universe. This work aims to mark the beginning in the study of the thermal emission from strongly-coupled cosmological sources\, what could be relevant in th e research of dark matter and other cosmological implications.\n\nhttps:// indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17539/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17539/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Interference signatures in the gravitational lensing of gravitatio nal waves DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T151100Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T152400Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17538@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Helena Ubach (Universitat de Barcelona\, ICCUB)\nW hen gravitational waves propagate near massive objects\, they are deflecte d as a result of gravitational lensing. This phenomenon is already known f or electromagnetic waves\, and it is expected for gravitational waves to b e a promising new instrument in astrophysics. When the time delay between the different paths is comparable with the wave’s period\, interference and diffraction appear due to lensing\, and they are imprinted in the wave form\, as a “beating pattern”. These effects are likely to be observed near the caustics\, but the short-wave asymptotics associated with the ge ometrical optics approximation breaks down close to the caustic\, where wa ve optics should be used. In this talk I will describe the crossover from wave optics to geometrical optics for the point mass lens model\, where tw o parameters – the angular position of the source respect to the caustic \, and the Fresnel number\, which is the ratio between the Schwarzschild r adius and the wavelength – are used to characterize the lensing effect. We obtain an interference pattern for the transmission factor\, which allo ws us to suggest a simple formula for the onset of geometrical-optics osci llations which relates the Fresnel number with the angular position of the source in units of the Einstein angle\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/ 6372/contributions/17538/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17538/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Searching for long-duration transient gravitational waves from gli tching pulsars using Convolutional Neural Networks DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T145800Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T151100Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17537@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Luana Modafferi (Universitat de les Illes Balears)\ nPulsars are spinning neutron stars which emit an electromagnetic beam. We expect pulsars to slowly decrease their rotational frequency due to the r adiation emission. However\, sudden increases of the rotational frequency have been observed from different pulsars. These events are called “glit ches”\, and are followed by a relaxation phase with timescales from days to months. Gravitational-wave (GW) emission may follow these peculiar eve nts\, including long-duration transient continuous waves (tCWs) lasting ho urs to months. These are modeled similarly to continuous waves but are lim ited in time. Previous studies have searched for tCWs from glitching pulsa rs with matched filtering techniques and by computing a detection statisti c\, the F-statistic\, maximized over a set of transient parameters like th e duration and start time of the potential signals. This method is very se nsitive\, but the computational costs can easily increase when widening th e frequency and spindown search bands and the duration of the potential si gnals.\nIn order to reduce computational and human effort\, we present a p rocedure for detecting potential tCWs using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). CNNs have proven to be valid networks for detecting various CW sig nals\, but have never been tested on tCWs from glitching pulsars. For our initial configuration\, we train the CNN on F-statistic “atoms”\, i.e. quantities computed during the matched filtering step from signal/noise d ata. This still constrains the frequency evolution of the signal to be CW- like\, but already allows for flexible amplitude evolution and significant speed-up compared to the traditional method. In the future\, we also plan to implement a second CNN with input the frequency-time maps\, which in t his case can search for unmodeled tCWs both in frequency and amplitude evo lution\, which we expect to be a further improvement to the speed and perf ormance of the search.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributio ns/17537/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17537/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Precession in black hole binary systems: toward calibrating preces sing phenomenological waveform models to numerical relativity DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T144500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T145800Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17536@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Maria del Lluc (UIB)\nSince 2015 the international a dvanced gravitational wave detector network has confidently detected tens of short transient signals\, whose sources have been identified as mergers of compact objects\, primarily binary systems of black holes. The main go al of this talk will be to discuss the phenomenon of precession in black h ole binaries\, as well as the first steps to further improve its descripti on towards the next observational run\, which will finally achieve design sensitivity for the LIGO and Virgo detectors. Binary black holes systems s pan a parameter space of nine intrinsic parameters: two spin vectors\, the mass ratio\, and two parameters associated with eccentricity. When the bl ack hole spins are orthogonal to the orbital plane\, there exists an equat orial symmetry of the spacetime that is preserved in time\, and so are the spin directions and the orbital plane itself. The parameter space for the se systems\, referred to as non-precessing\, reduces considerably. This is no longer true when the spins are misaligned with the orbital angular mom entum: the spin-orbit and the spin-spin couplings induce a precessing moti on of the orbital plane and spins\, which breaks all the symmetries. Furth er\, precession leads to a complex modulation of the signal which becomes hard to model due to the high dimensionality of the problem. This phenomen on can be simplified by using an approximate map between precessing signal s in a non-inertial co-precessing frame and non-precessing signals. This a pproach is often called the “twisting-up approximation” and has typica lly been used in phenomenological waveform models. In this talk\, we will discuss the main caveats of the approximation and the preliminary steps to wards calibrating precession to numerical relativity simulations. These ef forts may become essential to improve the accuracy of the current (fourth) generation of phenomenological waveform models developed in our group.\n\ nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17536/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17536/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cosmological tensions DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T135000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T142500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17529@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Eleonora di Valentino (Sheffield University)\nThe Co smic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropy measurem ents have provided strong confirmation of the LCDM model of structure form ation. Even if this model can explain incredibly well the observations in a vast range of scales and epochs\, with the increase of the experimental sensitivity\, a few interesting tensions between the cosmological probes\, and anomalies in the CMB data\, have emerged with different statistical s ignificance. While some portion of these discrepancies may be due to syste matic errors\, their persistence across probes strongly hints at cracks in the standard LCDM cosmological scenario. I will review these tensions\, s howing some interesting extended cosmological scenarios that can alleviate them.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17529/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17529/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Early Universe Cosmology: how to co-generate Dark Matter and the B aryon asymmetry DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T131500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T135000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17528@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Laura Covi (University of Goettingen)\nhttps://indic o.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17528/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17528/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Gravitational waves: observations and mathematical aspects DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T111500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T115000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17527@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Isabel Cordero (UV)\nIn this talk I will present a b rief overview of the current gravitational wave detections and some of the most important consequences we can derive. I will also mention the plans for the forthcoming observation runs. In the last part of the talk I will comment on how mathematics can contribute in the field of gravitational wa ve astronomy\, focusing on formulations of General Relativity\, numerical simulations and data analysis.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/con tributions/17527/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17527/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Neutrino Experiments DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T104000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T111500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17525@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Clara Cuesta (CIEMAT)\nThe combined result of a numb er of experiments demonstrated that neutrinos have mass and oscillate\, an d experimentalists have made enormous progress in measuring neutrino prope rties. However fundamental questions about neutrinos remain: Is the neutri no its own antiparticle? What is the absolute scale of neutrino masses? Ho w are the three neutrino mass states ordered from lightest to heaviest (ne utrino “mass ordering”)? Is the CP symmetry violated in the neutrino s ector? Are there sterile neutrino species in addition to the three active ones participating in the weak interactions? Current and future neutrino e xperiments are designed with state-of-the-art technology to provide answer s to these questions.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contribution s/17525/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17525/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Neutrinos in cosmology and astroparticle physics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T100500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T104000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17526@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Ninetta Saviano (JGU Mainz)\nhttps://indico.ific.uv. es/event/6372/contributions/17526/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17526/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Experimental status and perspectives on dark matter direct detecti on and latest ANAIS results DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T093000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T100500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17522@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Mª Luisa Sarsa (Universidad de Zaragoza)\nUnderstan ding the nature of the Dark Matter has shown to be one of the biggest chal lenges faced in the XXI century by Cosmology\, Astrophysics and Particle P hysics. It will require following complementary approaches. Among them\, d ark matter direct detection strategy has developed since the eighties of t he past century\, increasing strongly the detection sensitivity by introdu cing new detection techniques\, ultra-low radioactive background technique s and powerful background rejection strategies. Experimental results are c ompatible with estimated backgrounds in general\, but DAMA/LIBRA observati on of an annual modulation in the detection rate compatible with that expe cted for dark matter particles from the galactic halo is one of the most p uzzling results in the present particle physics scenario.\nIn this talk\, we will review the present status of the direct detection searches of dark matter in general and\, in particular\, in the testing of the DAMA/LIBRA result\, focusing on experiments using the same target material: sodium io dide. The talk will cover in more detail the performance and prospects of ANAIS-112 experiment\, which using 112.5 kg of NaI(Tl) as target\, is taki ng data at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory in Spain since August 2017\ n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17522/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17522/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Probing the nature of dark matter with gamma rays DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T083500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T091000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17521@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Gabriela Zaharijas (University of Nova Gorica (CAC)) \nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17521/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17521/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Indirect detection of dark matter: status and perspectives DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T080000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220324T083500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17520@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Francesca Calore (CNRS)\nUnveiling the nature of dar k matter is one of the major endeavors of our century.\nThe search for dar k matter is developed across multiple channels and with different techniqu es.\nIn particular\, indirect searches aim at disentangling dark matter si gnals above the largely dominant astrophysical background in the flux of c osmic particles\, such as charged cosmic rays and gamma rays. Limits on th e dark matter parameter space\, and\, even more\, detection of tentative s ignals crucially depend on our understanding of the astrophysical backgrou nd. I will discuss what are the main astrophysical ingredients of relevanc e for dark matter indirect detection and how they impact the current limit s on dark matter particle models.\nI will finally provide some prospects f or future observations.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributi ons/17520/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17520/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Discussion with researchers at IFIC and UV DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T161000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17519@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Anabel Morales (IFIC)\, Emma Torró (IFIC)\, Gabriel a Barenboin (UV)\, Mariam Tórtola (UV)\, María Moreno Llácer (UV)\, Olg a Mena (IFIC-CSIC)\, Raquel Molina (UV)\, Sonja Orrigo (IFIC)\, Valentina De Romeri (IFIC)\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17519 / LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17519/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Perspective of how is working outside academia DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T154500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T161000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17518@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Gaetana Anamiati (DNV)\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/e vent/6372/contributions/17518/ LOCATION:Salon de actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17518/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Career path of Paula Tuzón\, physicist and actual secretary of cl imate emergency of the GVA DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T152000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T154500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17517@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Paula Tuzón (GVA)\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/ 6372/contributions/17517/ LOCATION:Salon de actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17517/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PET detectors\, from benchtop to the clinics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T142500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T150000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17516@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Andrea Gonzalez (Stanford University)\nPositron Emis sion Tomography (PET) imaging constitutes the molecular imaging technique of excellence and is used to evaluate a radio-tracer uptake by an organ. T o obtain PET images\, patients are injected with radioisotopes that decay inside the patient body emitting a positron that subsequently annihilates with a core electron of the patient body\, emitting two opposite 511 keV g amma-rays. PET detectors are optimized for the specific energy of 511 keV and their operation principle is based on opposed detectors measuring in c oincidences these two emitted gamma-rays.\nAfter complex image reconstruct ion processes a tomographic emission image is generated. To provide high q uality images\, in addition to the reconstruction process\, PET detectors have to be carefully designed and optimized. Key elements are the scintill ation block\, the photosensor and the readout electronics.\nIn this talk\, the design\, optimization\, and implementation of these components is rev iewed\, starting at the laboratory level\, overviewing the PET scanner ass embly\, and finishing with their translation into the clinics.\n\nhttps:// indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17516/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17516/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Topological superconductivity and Majorana modes for quantum compu tation: a materials science perspective DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T135000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T142500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17515@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Elsa Prada (ICMM-CSIC)\nMy name is Elsa Prada and I am a theorist with 20 year experience in condensed matter physics. I am in terested in systems where quantum phenomena play an important role\, such as low dimensional materials and nanostructures\, and the technological ap plications we can derive from such quantum properties. This is nowadays du bbed the field of "Quantum Technologies". During my career I have worked o n a diverse range of problems within condensed matter\, including quantum information and entanglement based on superconducting heterostructures\; e lectronic\, spintronic and optoelectronic properties of two-dimensional cr ystals such as graphene\, phosphorene or transition metal dichalcogenides\ ; and more recently theory and applications of topological insulators and superconductors.\n\nIn this talk I will focus on my work in topological su perconductors based on superconducting-semiconducting nanowires. These hyb rid wires are by far the most explored (both theoretically and experimenta lly) and the most advanced candidates to achieve topological superconducti vity. I will discuss the appearance of exotic emergent quasiparticles at t he edges of these wires\, called Majorana bound states or Majorana modes. These quasiparticles share properties with the fundamental particle Majora na fermion\, but they possess non-trivial exchange statistics that turn th em into anyons\, which could make them useful candidates for quantum-bits\ , qubits\, of future topologically protected quantum computers. I will sum marize the advancements of the field during the last decade and the proble ms we still face to unambiguously create and detect Majorana modes in cond ensed matter systems.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contribution s/17515/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17515/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Tensor Networks: from Quantum Information to Quantum Many-Body Phy sics and Quantum Field Theory DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T113500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T121000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17514@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Mari Carmen Bañuls (Max Plank Institute of Quantum Optics)\nThe term Tensor Network (TN) States designates a number of ansatz es that can efficiently represent certain states of quantum many-body syst ems. In particular\, ground states and thermal equilibrium of local Hamilt onians\, and\, to some extent\, real time evolution can be numerically stu died with TN methods. Quantum information theory provides tools to underst and why they are good ansatzes for physically relevant states\, and some o f the limitations connected to the simulation algorithms. \nWhile origina lly introduced in the context of condensed matter physics\, where they hav e become a state-of-the-art technique for strongly correlated one-dimensio nal systems\, in the last years it has been shown that TNS are also suitab le to study lattice gauge theories and other quantum field problems.\n\nht tps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17514/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17514/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Status of the PETALO project DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T112000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T113500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17513@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Carmen Romo (IFIC)\nPETALO (Positron Emission TOF Ap paratus with Liquid xenOn) is a new concept that seeks to demonstrate that liquid xenon (LXe) together with a SiPM-based readout and fast electronic s\, provide a significant improvement in the field of medical imaging with PET-TOF. Liquid xenon allows a continuous medium with a uniform response avoiding most of the geometrical distortions of conventional detectors bas ed on scintillating crystals. PETit\, the first PETALO prototype built at IFIC (Valencia)\, started operation in July 2021. It consists of an alumin um box with a unique volume of LXe and two planes of SiPMs that register t he scintillation light emitted in xenon by the gammas coming from a Na22 r adioactive source. After some months of data taking PETit is expected to d emonstrate the potential of the technology\, providing measurements of the most relevant features: reconstruction of the position\, energy and time of the interactions.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions /17513/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17513/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:High-Gradient S-band Backward Travelling Wave Accelerating Cavity experiments at IFIC DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T110500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T112000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17512@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Nuria Fuster (IFIC-CSIC)\nHigh gradient radiofrequen cy (RF) accelerating cavities are one of the main research lines in the de velopment of compact linear accelerators. A particular focus of these stru ctures is for medical hadron therapy applications. However\, the operation of such cavities is currently limited by nonlinear electromagnetic effect s that are intensified at high electric fields\, such as dark currents and RF breakdowns. A new normal-conducting High Gradient S-band Backward Trav elling Wave accelerating cavity for medical application (v=0.38c) was desi gned and constructed by the TERA Foundation in collaboration with CERN. Th is cavity is being tested at the IFIC High-Gradient (HG) Radio Frequency ( RF) laboratory. The main goal of the tests is understanding which is the m aximum achievable accelerating gradient of this new design and characteriz e the dark current and breakdown formation in the structure\, which could limit the applicability of this technology. In this work\, we present expe rimental measurements and simulation results characterizing the nonlinear effects of this new accelerating cavity and first conclusions about its ap plicability are discussed.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contrib utions/17512/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17512/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Applications of Machine learning in Medical Physics: Risks and Ben efits DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T103000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T110500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17511@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Joaquín López (UCM)\nIn this talk\, we will presen t the application of machine learning techniques to address many medical p hysics problems such as positron range correction in PET\, dose estimation in radiotherapy planning\, the guidance of ultrasound acquisitions\, tiss ue segmentation\, automatic lesion detection… We will focus on the risks and potential benefits of these new techniques compared to current standa rd methods. A summary of the most common challenges in the implementation of these techniques and how to overcome them will be also presented. In co nclusion\, machine learning tools have the potential to revolutionize all the areas of physics\, providing solutions beyond what is currently possib le\, and being so new\, it is a great field for young researchers.\n\nhttp s://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17511/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17511/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Forecasting hazardous Geomagnetically Induced Currents for Spanish critical infrastructures by using AI DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T092000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T093500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17509@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Florencia Castillo (Heidelberg University)\nIn the l ast decades\, our society has become more interdependent and complex than ever before. Local impacts can cause global issues\, as the current pandem ic clearly shows\, affecting the health of millions of human beings. It is also highly dependent on relevant technological structures\, such as comm unications\, transport\, or power distribution networks\, which can be ver y vulnerable to the effects of Space Weather. The latter has its origin in solar activity and their associated events\, such as solar flares and cor onal mass ejections\, which may provoke disturbances\, interruptions\, and even long-term damage to these technical infrastructures\, with drastic s ocial\, economic and even political impacts. However\, these phenomena and their effects are not yet well understood\, and their forecast is still i n the early stages of development. This talk will present our project\, wh ich uses a multidisciplinary approach\, and which aims to deeply understan d and develop an early warning system to evaluate the impact of violent so lar storms on Spanish critical infrastructures such as the power transmiss ion grid\, railways\, and oil and gas pipelines. Specifically\, we are dev eloping an advanced machine learning based predictive model of the impact of future solar storms on the ground. This model will consist of two disti nct stages. First\, we are using as input real-time data from the solar wi nd space probe ACE (located at the L1 point in space) to develop a deep le arning model taking into account past conditions to predict the variation of the magnetic field on the Earth's surface at different locations in the Iberian Peninsula. Second\, we will feed these local predictions of time- variation of the magnetic field into a physical model of the 3D Earth's ge oelectrical structure to generate the geoelectrical fields that drive the geomagnetically induced currents (GICs). Thus\, the ultimate goal is to pr ovide a real-time prediction of the GICs from extreme geomagnetic storms o n the Spanish critical infrastructures. This talks will show our latest re sults and our prospects in this field.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/ 6372/contributions/17509/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17509/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Boost Radiation Hardness Assurance in your Space Mission with Mach ine Learning DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T090500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T092000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17508@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Amor Romero Maestre (Centro Nacional de Aceleradores )\nPRECEDER (Prediction of the Electrical Behavior of Electronic Devices u nder Radiation\, Spanish acronym) is a new concept in the strategy of ensu ring the radiation hardness in electronics\, developed by our group. The i dea is based on the use of archival data to assess the risk associated to radiation environments without irradiation testing needs. A critical step of Radiation Hardness Assurance (RHA) for space systems is given by the pa rts selection in concordance with the expected radiation effects. Radiatio n testing is the most decisive way of studying the radiation degradation. However\, the increasing use of COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) devices an d the New Space challenges are pushing the need of finding new approaches to assess the risk associated to the radiation environment.\nPRECEDER appl ies the methodology of Machine Learning searching the appropriated algorit hm and finding solutions quality assessment. The development of this tool includes the search for optimal usage of the accumulated data\, the search for learning methods\, the analysis of application features and predict t he behavior of EEE (Electrical\, Electronic and Electro-mechanical) device s under radiation.\nIn this work\, the methodology and application that ha s been established will be shown. The first successful results\, obtained for specific devices and conditions\, will be presented as a practical exa mple.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17508/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17508/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:An introduction to Machine Learning in Particle Physics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T083000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220323T090500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17485@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Verónica Sanz (UV)\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event /6372/contributions/17485/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17485/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Organization of gender-balanced events: a case of practice\, Natio nal Meeting in Optics 2021 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220322T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220322T152000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17353@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Martina Delgado-Pinar (University of Valencia)\n**Or ganization of gender-balanced events: a case of practice\, National Meetin g in Optics 2021**\n\nSpeaker: Martina Delgado-Pinar\, Vice Chair of the W omen in Optics and Photonics Committee of SEDOPTICA\, in representation of the organizing committee of RNO2021 \nhttps://www.rno2021.es/#comite-orga nizador\n\nA clear example of the gender imbalance in STEM fields is the u nder-representation of women scientists in the most visible events (plenar y and invited talks) at conferences and workshops. The phenomenon of all-m ale panels is not unusual\, although it is true that\, in recent years\, t hey have been denounced by researchers themselves as a case of misconduct. \n\nTo overcome this barrier for women\, a collective effort must be made by the entire scientific community. In this respect\, the involvement and support of scientific societies and institutions is crucial in order to po sitively reinforce measures against gender bias in the organization of eve nts. The example that will be presented in this contribution is the organi zation of the National Meeting in Optics 2021 (www.rno2021.es)\, which was carried out by the Women in Optics and Photonics Committee (MOF\, for its acronym in Spanish) of the National Optical Society in Spain\, SEDOPTICA (www.sedoptica.es).\n\nSEDOPTICA approved in 2020 an internal code of cond uct for its committees with a series of recommendations for the organizati on of gender-balanced events. This code of conduct was drafted and promote d by SEDOPTICA-MOF\, and included aspects such as the ratio of men/women i n invited and non-invited talks\, scientific committees and the need to av oid the usual allocation of administrative roles to women while men hold t he more visible and science-related positions. This code can be read in [1 ].\n\nIn 2021\, the National Meeting in Optics (RNO) 2021 was organised by SEDOPTICA-MOF. It is a triennial congress organized by the SEDOPTICA\, wh ich has been held for more than 30 years. Each RNO brings together an aver age of 200 professionals from the different topics of Optics and Photonics in Spain and is where the latest scientific and technological advances in this field are presented. The 2021 organizing committee placed special em phasis on creating an equal and attractive congress for females and younge r researchers.\n\nTo this end\, the organizing committee wanted to highlig ht the role of women in Optics and Photonics\, with a dedicated topic at t he meeting\, and a round table to discuss gender issues in scientific care ers\, with the participation of four leading women in research and industr y. The plenary speakers were two world-leading researchers: Professor Jann ick Rolland (University of Rochester) in visual science and imaging\, and Professor Jelena Vucovick (Stanford University) in quantum and nonlinear o ptics. It is worth noting that these two women were delighted to participa te in this national meeting\, even when their schedules were difficult to fit into the meeting's timetable\, and we are sure that the nature of the event was a reason for them to collaborate with us. Their talks were recor ded and can be viewed at [2].\n\nIn addition\, special care was taken to e nsure a balanced ratio of male and female speakers at every session. Remar kably\, it is worth noting that even in areas such as Optoelectronics\, a committee that has a proportion of women below 20%\, the proportion of fem ale speakers was approximately 50%. Another example of positive action is that the participants in the competition for the best contribution by youn g researchers\, RNO2021 award\, showed an approximately 50% ratio between men and women. Even when there were no explicit criteria for including gen der aspects in the evaluation of the contribution\, there were three women among the five finalists in the context. These last three data indicate t hat the scientific level of female researchers is as good as that of their male counterparts. Hence\, the usual argument relating the lack of women in representative positions in science to scientific reasons does not app ly when women have the right conditions for their participation.\n\nAs the code of conduct approved by SEDOPTICA states\, the imbalance between men and women in STEM fields is no reason to disregard the possibility of equa l and diverse events maintaining a high scientific level. RNO2021 is an ex ample of this. The crucial point is to get out of the usual comfort zone f or the selection of speakers and\, in the case of not directly knowing wom en in certain fields\, just get out of your personal circle and ask other researchers for suggestions. There are more and more associations and init iatives that can help with this\, so: take action!\n\n*References.*\n[1]ht tps://areamujersedoptica.wordpress.com/2020/07/10/documento-de-recomendaci ones-a-los-comites-de-sedoptica-para-evitar-el-sesgo-de-genero/ \, last v isit 15/01/2022\n[2] Prof. Jannick Rolland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =MSzqeqh2DS4\nProf. Jelena Vucovick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzhiOk pmGlc \nLast visit 15/01/2022\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/cont ributions/17353/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17353/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:String theory and gender: a European experience DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220322T140500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220322T144000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17483@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Mª Antonia Lledó (UV)\nIn March 2013 the COST Acti on MP1210 The String Theory Universe was initiated for a duration of four years. The objectives were mainly scientific\, but we were comitted to tak e a series of actions to address the problems that women that want to purs ue a scientific career confront.\nGiven the huge imbalance in the area (on ly 15% of the Action members were women) we thought that the problems were severe and something had to be done.\nIn this talk I will speak about the initiatives that we took in order to make visible these problems to all o f our colleagues and favour a change of perspective.\nI think that our con clusions are still valid today.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/co ntributions/17483/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17483/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:HORIZON EUROPE SEX & GENDER ANALYSIS IN RESEARCH DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220322T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220322T140500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17482@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Capitolina Díaz (UV)\nHorizon Europe establishes Ge nder Equality as a cross-cutting principle and aspires to eliminate gender inequality and its intersection with other socio-economic inequalities th rough R&I systems\, including and addressing unconscious biases and system ic structural barriers.\nIn order to achieve Gender Equality\, the integra tion of the gender dimension into R&I content is mandatory and is a requir ement set by default across all Work Programmes\, destinations\, and topic s of Horizon Europe.\nAddressing the gender dimension in research and inno vation thus entails considering sex and gender in the whole R&I process: f rom the definition of the title to the methodology\, the sample\, the anal ysis\, the language used and the dissemination of results.\nThe gender com position of the team and the existence of a Gender Equality Plan in the in stitution are tiebreaker and an eligibility criterium respectively.\n\nhtt ps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17482/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17482/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Public speaking skills for science DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220322T110000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220322T120000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17480@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Isabel Cordero (UV)\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event /6372/contributions/17480/ LOCATION:Salon de actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17480/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:How to write an ERC proposal DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220322T083000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220322T093000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17478@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Kathrin Wimmer (GSI-FAIR)\nIn this talk I will pres ent my experience with the ERC grant application. I will share tips and tr icks for the preparation phase\, the proposal writing\, and the interview. The talk will be based on my personal experience with the ERC Consolidato r call 2020.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17478/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17478/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Collinear Laser Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Detection DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T164700Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17476@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Laura Renth (Institut für Kernphysik TU Darmstadt)\ nCollinear laser spectroscopy provides access to many nuclear properties s uch as isotopic shifts of the nuclear mean square charge radii\, spins\, n uclear magnetic moments and electric quadrupole moments. As measurements a re carried out on a small time scale\, this method is well suited for the investigation of isotopes far from stability.\nThe development of many dif ferent techniques used in collinear laser spectroscopy has led to very sma ll line widths of measured resonances (several 10MHz [1]). As these develo pments are always on going\, additionally to the basic method new ideas fo r the fluorescence detection region of collinear laser spectroscopy appara tuses are presented and discussed.\n\n[1] R Neugart et al 2017 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 44 064002\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contr ibutions/17476/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17476/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:New lifetime measurements for the 2$_1^+$ level in $^{112\,120}Sn by the Doppler-shift attenuation method DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T163400Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T164700Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17475@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Ananya Kundu (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research )\nThe tin (Sn\; Z = 50) isotopes constitute the longest chain of semi-mag ic even-even nuclei between the 100Sn (N = 50) and 132Sn (N = 82) double-s hell closures\, seven of which\, 112\,114\,116\,118\,120\,122\,124Sn\, are stable. These isotopes have become a prototypical benchmark of extensive microscopic theory and experiment\, reflected in the large number of studi es investigating the decay of their low-lying first-excited 2+ excited sta te. The transition characteristics are inferred through the B(E2\; 0+g.s. →2+) values\, which\, in principle\, are contingent on the lifetime of t he corresponding level\, and are the most direct and unambiguous test of t he collective nature of the transitions.\n\nThere has been a considerable interest focused on the study of enhancement or suppression in collectivit y of the excited 21+ state in the stable Sn isotopes. Independent experime nts on Coulomb excitation\, heavy-ion scattering and 21+ level lifetime me asurements report discrepant transition probabilities\, with the lifetime estimates indicating significantly reduced collectivity. A re-examination of the same has been carried out in the present work on two of the stable isotopes\, 112\,120Sn.\n\nLow-lying levels in the 112\,120Sn isotopes have been excited by inelastic scattering with heavy-ion beams. Level lifetime measurements have been carried out using the Doppler shift attenuation me thod\, wherein the Doppler affected γ-ray peaks from the decay of the 21+ level in each isotope have been analyzed using updated methodologies\, an d corresponding B(E2\; 0+g.s.→2+) values become indicative of the underl ying collectivity. The present results are compared with existing estimate s of the B(E2\; 0+g.s.→2+) values in the stable Sn isotopes. The results are also found to be in good agreement with generalized seniority model a s well as state-of-the-art Monte Carlo shell model (MCSM) calculations.\n\ nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17475/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17475/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Constraining the nuclear equation of state DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T162100Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T163400Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17474@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Ivana Lihtar (Ruder Boskovic Institute)\nNuclear equ ation of state (EOS) describes the relationship between state variables su ch as density\, pressure and temperature of a nuclear system. It is usuall y expressed as the energy per nucleon of a particular nuclear medium. Cons training parameters of nuclear EOS of asymmetric nuclear matter (where asy mmetry lies in proton to neutron number) is of immense importance for unde rstanding not just the properties of neutron-rich nuclei but also for the physics of neutron stars\, mergers and other astrophysical phenomena. To a ccomplish this goal in terrestrial laboratories one must probe observables sensitive to changes in EOS parameters of exotic unstable nuclei which we re for a long time experimentally unreachable. With the advent of radioact ive ion beam facilities\, the region further from the valley of stability became accessible.\n\nAn experiment with the aim of constraining the symme try-energy slope L to ±15 MeV was held recently using large acceptance sp ectrometer R3B-GLAD at the GSI accelerator facility as a part of the FAIR Phase-0 campaign \\cite{r3b}. Gathered data will be used to obtain total r eaction\, charge changing\, total neutron-removal and total Coulomb-excita tion cross sections along the tin isotopic chain for 124\,128\,132\,134Sn. The objective behind the choice of these measurements lies in the existen ce of correlation between neutron-removal and Coulomb-excitation cross sec tions and the respective observables familiar for having a tight connectio n with the parameter L: neutron-skin thickness and the ground-state dipole polarizability \\cite{tom\, maza}. Stringent constraints on L will be der ived from comparison of cross sections extracted from data with prediction s of RMF calculations employing different energy density functionals.\n\n[ 1] R3B-Collaboration\, https://www.r3b-nustar.de/.\n[2] T. Aumann\, C. A. Bertulani\, F. Schindler\, and S. Typel\, Phys. Rev. Lett.\, 119:262501\, Dec 2017.\n[3] X. Roca-Maza and N. Paar.\, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys.\, 101:9 6–176\, 2018.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/1747 4/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17474/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Searching for the nuclear Cooper pairs DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T160800Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T162100Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17473@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Josipa Diklić (Ruđer Bošković Institute)\nThe p airing interaction induces nucleon-nucleon correlations that are essential in defining the properties of finite quantum many-body systems close to t heir ground states. A very specific probe of this pairing component in the nuclear interactions\, which ties up nucleons in a highly correlated stat e\, the nuclear Cooper pairs\, is the two-nucleon transfer reactions. How paring correlations can be probed in heavy-ion collisions\, is still an op en question. Several experiments have been performed in the past\, searchi ng for signatures mainly via extraction of the enhancement coefficients\, defined as the ratio of the actual transfer cross section and the predicti on of the model using uncorrelated states. Unfortunately\, experimental ev idence of these factors is marred by the fact that all existing studies in volve reactions at energies higher than the Coulomb barrier\, where the re action mechanism is the result of the interplay between nuclear and Coulom b interactions.\n\nWith the development of the new instrumentation\, it no wadays became possible to measure the heavy-ion transfer reaction with hig h efficiency and good ion identification even at very low bombing energies where nuclei interact at large distances [1]. Multinucleon transfer react ions were measured in the 206Pb + 118Sn system at the INFN-LNL accelerator complex. The measurement has been performed in the inverse kinematic\, by using the heavy 206Pb beam\, and by detecting the lighter reaction fragme nts in the magnetic spectrometer PRISMA. The total cross sections of diffe rent transfer channels will be extracted in an energy range from above to well below the Coulomb barrier. By direct comparison of one- and two-nucle on transfer probabilities (one expects that the probability for the two-nu cleon channel is proportional to the square of the single-particle one) we will extract the enhancement factors at the large distances. In the secon d stage\, the experimental results will be compared with the state-of-the- art microscopical calculations which include correlations [2].\n\n[1] Corr adi\, L.\, et al.\, J. Phys. G\, 36 (2009) 113101.\n[2] Montanari\, D.\, e t al.\, Phys.Rew.Lett.\, 113 (2014) 052501.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/e vent/6372/contributions/17473/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17473/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Study of $\\alpha-$transfer reactions with $^7$Be in the context o f nuclear astrophysics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T155500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T160800Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17472@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Kabita Kundalia (Bose Institute\, India)\nIn stellar evolution\, the rate of 12C(α\,γ)16O reaction controls the C/O abundanc e ratio at the end of the helium burning phase\, thus defining the further course of development. At stellar temperatures of around 300 keV\, the cr oss section of 12C(α\,γ)16O is ∼ 10−17 b\, which cannot be measured using current technology. The α−capture reaction populating the natural -parity states of the residual nuclei\, is an effective indirect tool for studying these types of reactions. In this case\, it corresponds to the al pha pickup by 12C to populate states of 16O\, predominantly the 6.917 MeV state. Loosely bound stable nuclei with prominent α−cluster structure\, such as 6\,7Li\, 11B have also been used in such studies provided that th ese are "direct" α−transfer and do not proceed via a compound nucleus. However\, the breakup contributions from such nuclei have a significant im pact on the transfer channels. Interestingly\, the 7Be nucleus\, though ha ving an α−cluster structure and a lower breakup threshold of 1.58 MeV\, demonstrates lower breakup contribution compared to transfer cross sectio n. In this context\, we carried out an experiment at HIE-ISOLDE\, CERN\, w ith 7Be + 12C at E = 5 MeV/A to study α−transfer reactions populating s tates in 16O\, that dominantly contribute to the He-burning process. Preli minary results would be presented.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372 /contributions/17472/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17472/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Delving $\\alpha$ and non-$\\alpha$ structure beams induced incomp lete fusion@ 4-7 MeV/A : A Role of Deformation DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T152000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T153300Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17471@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Unnati Gupta (Amity University)\nStudy of heavy-ion interactions using α and non-α structure beams at low energies [1-4] may provide a great deal of information on the in-complete fusion (ICF) react ions. In order to understand the dynamics of ICF reactions\, several studi es have been made and a large enhancement in cross section for α-emitting channels with respect to the calculations done with code PACE4[5] has bee n reported [3\,7\,8]. In heavy ion interactions at energies ≃ 4-7 MeV/A\ , using both the strongly as well as weakly bound projectiles. A substanti al contribution of ICF fraction has been observed [6-8]. To under the syst ematic behavior in the enhancement of cross section for alpha emitting cha nnels is still an open area of investigation. In this scenario\, the role of deformation of the projectile and target nuclei in observed significant contribution is not well understood. Present work is focused to study the role of deformation [9] of the target nuclides in the incomplete fusion r eactions at energies of interest\, using alpha and non-alpha structure bea ms. In order to understand the role of the target deformation in ICF\, fou rteen reactions have been studied using beams of 12C\, 16O\, and 19F with various targets e.g.\, 93Nb\, 103Rh\, 115In\, 159Tb\, 165Ho\, 169Tm\, 175L u and 181Ta. It has been observed that the incomplete fusion fraction incr easing in an exponentially manner with the deformation (β2) of the target nucleus separately for each projectile. This systematic behavior of ICF f raction with the deformation parameter of the target nuclei has been used to develop an empirical relation. Further\, analysis is in progress and re sults with details will be presented during the conference. The present wo rk is supported by the Department of Science and Technology (DST)\, Delhi\ , India.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17471/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17471/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Nucleosynthesis in the cosmos: The $^{26}$Al case DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T150700Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T152000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17470@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Laetitia Cañete (University of Surrey)\nNucleosynt hesis is an ongoing process in the cosmos which take place in various astr ophysical environments such as massive stars\, core-collapse supernovae or novae. One of the most famous example of evidence in the continuity of th e process was the discovery of γ-ray from radioactive 26Al in 1982 [1]. M ore recently\, an all-sky map of this characteristic 1809-keV γ-ray shows a distribution of 26Al in favor of massive stars and supernovae as the ma in progenitors [2]. Nevertheless\, observational data are not enough to de fine precisely the source of production of 26Al and 14 to 29% of the total observed 26Al abundance are expected to have a nova origin [3].\nIn order to have a more precise picture of the different possible scenario\, the 2 5Al(p\, γ)26Si reaction has been studied in nuclear facilities. This reac tion has a direct influence on the abundance of 26Al\, by bypassing the 25 Mg(p\, γ)26Al reaction responsible of the production of the 26Al cosmic γ-ray emitter.\n\nIn this contribution\, I’ll present results which ill ustrate two complementary experimental domains: Mass measurement and gamma -ray spectroscopy. In 25Al(p\, γ)26Si reaction\, the proton capture is do minated by resonant capture to a few states above the proton threshold in 26Si. The mass value of 25Al and 26Si have an exponential contribution to the total resonant proton capture rate in 26Si. The mass of 25Al has been precisely determined via Penning traps measurement in the IGISOL facility at the university of Jyvaskyla in Finland [5]. Additionally\, a recent exp eriment at Argonne National Laboratory in USA was performed to identify th e resonant states in 26Si via γ-ray spectroscopy study using the unique G RETINA+FMA setup. This experiment came in complement to a recent spectrosc opy study of the 26Si mirror nucleus\, 26Mg\, where a previously unaccount ed l=1 resonance in the 25Al +p system was observed [5].\n\n[1] W. A. Maho ney\, J. Ling\, A. Jacobson\, and R. Lingenfelter\, Astrophys. J. 262\, 74 2 (1982).\n[2] R. Diehl et al.\, Astron. and Astrophys.\, 298:445 (1995).\ n[3] M. B. Bennett et al.\, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111\, 232503 (2013).\n[4] L. Canete et al.\, Eur. Phys. J. A 52\, 124 (2016).\n[5] L. Canete et al.\, P hys. Rev. C 104\, L022802 (2021).\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/ contributions/17470/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17470/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Improved calculations on neutrinoless double-beta decay matrix ele ments DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T145400Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T150700Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17469@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Pablo Soriano Fajardo (Universidad de Barcelona)\nNe utrinoless double-beta (0νββ) decay is a hypothetical nuclear process w here two neutrons transmute into two protons\, with only two electrons bei ng emitted with no accompanying antineutrinos. The measurement of such a p rocess would imply that neutrinos are Majorana particles (their own antipa rticle) and\, since lepton number would not be conserved\, this would poin t to an event beyond the Standard Model of particle physics [1].\n\nThe 0 νββ decay rate is governed by the nuclear matrix element [2]. Since no measurements are available for this process\, we resort to methods of nucl ear structure to calculate these magnitudes. In this case\, our frame of w ork is the nuclear shell model\, one of the most successful models for nuc lear structure.\n\nUsing this model as our frame of work\, we evaluate for the first time both the leading long-range and the newly acknowledged sho rt-range contributions to the matrix element for the 0νββ decay of the nuclei most relevant for experiments [3].\n\nIn addition\, we use shell mo del results to carry out\, for the first time\, more accurate calculations when combining them with ab initio quantum Monte Carlo results\, which ar e able to capture additional correlations. We combine the nuclear shell mo del and quantum Monte Carlo approaches using the generalized contact forma lism [4]\, and obtain improved results with respect to the standard shell model matrix elements.\n\n[1] F.T. Avignone III\, S.R. Elliott\, J. Engel\ , Double beta decay\, Majorana neutrinos\, and neutrino mass\, Rev. Mod. P hys. 80 (2008) 481.\n\n[2] J. Engel\, J. Menéndez\, Status and future of nuclear matrix elements for neutrinoless double-beta decay: a review\, Rep . Prog. Phys. 80 (2017) 046301.\n\n[3] L. Jokiniemi\, P. Soriano\, J. Men éndez\, Impact of the leading-order short-range nuclear matrix element on the neutrinoless double-beta decay of medium-mass and heavy nuclei\, Phys ics Letters B 823 (2021) 136720.\n\n[4] R. Weiss\, P. Soriano\, A. Lovato\ , J. Menéndez\, R. B. Wiringa\, Neutrinoless double-beta decay: combining quantum Monte Carlo and the nuclear shell model with the generalized cont act formalism\, arXiv:2112.08146.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/ contributions/17469/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17469/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:New ways to shed light on neutrinoless double-beta decay DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T144100Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T145400Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17468@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Lotta Jokiniemi (Universidad de Barcelona)\nObserv ing neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) is undoubtedly one of the most anti cipated breakthroughs in modern-day neutrino\, nuclear and particle physic s. When observed\, the lepton-number-violating process would provide uniqu e vistas beyond the Standard model of particle physics. However\, the expe cted decay rates depend on coupling constants\, whose effective values are under debate\, and nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) that are poorly known [ 1]. Hence\, it is crucial to gain a better understanding of the underlying theory in order to plan future experiments and to extract the beyond-stan dard-model physics from them.\n\nI will discuss how the theory predictions can be improved either directly by investigating corrections to the 0νβ β decay matrix elements\, or indirectly by studying related processes tha t can be or have been measured. First\, I will introduce our recent work o n a new leading-order correction to the standard 0νββ-decay NMEs in hea vy nuclei [2]. Then\, I will discuss the relation between 0νββ-decay NM Es and other nuclear observables such as two-neutrino double-beta decay\, double Gamow-Teller and double-gamma transitions. In addition\, I will dis cuss the potential of ordinary muon capture as a probe of 0νββ decay\, and discuss the results of our recent muon-capture studies [3].\n\n[1] J. Engel\, J. Menéndez\, Rep. Prog. Phys. 80 (2017) 046301.\n[2] L. Jokiniem i\, P. Soriano\, and J. Menéndez\, Phys. Lett. B 823 (2021) 136720.\n[3] L. Jokiniemi\, T. Miyagi\, S. R. Stroberg\, J. D. Holt\, J. Kotila\, and J . Suhonen\, arXiv:2111.12992.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/cont ributions/17468/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17468/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Quark mass dependence of hadron resonances DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T142800Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T144100Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17467@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Fernando Gil Domínguez (UV)\nWe study the dependenc e of hadronic resonances on the mass of quarks through the analysis of dat a from QCD lattice simulations form various collaborations. Using Machine Learning techniques as the LASSO algorithm we fit lattice data in order to extrapolate them to the physical point and extract the results for the qu ark mass dependence for exotic resonances like Ds0 and Ds1.\n\nhttps://ind ico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17467/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17467/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Thermal resonances and chiral symmetry restoration. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T141500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T142800Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17466@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Andrea Vioque Rodriguez (UCM)\nWe analize the role p layed by the thermal f0(500) state or σ in chiral symmetry restoration an d propose an alternative sector (related with the thermal K∗0(700) or κ ) to study O(4)×UA(1) restoration. The temperature corrections to the spe ctral properties of those states are included in order to provide a better description of the scalar susceptibilities χS and χκS around the trans ition region. We use the Linear Sigma Model to establish the relation betw een χS and the σ propagator\, which is used as a benchmark to test the a pproach where χS is saturated by the f0(500) inverse self-energy. Within such saturation approach\, a peak for χS around the chiral transition is obtained when considering the f0(500) generated as a ππ scattering pole within Unitarized Chiral Perturbation Theory at finite temperature. On the other hand\, we show\, using Ward Identities\, that χκS develops a maxi mum above the QCD chiral transition\, above which it degenerates with χKP in the O(4)×UA(1) restoration region. Such χκS peak can be described w hen it is saturated with the K∗0(700)\, which we compute in Unitarized C hiral Perturbation Theory through πK scattering at finite temperature. Th at approach allows us in addition to examine the χκS dependence on the l ight- and strange-quark masses. Finally\, a comparison with the Hadron Res onance Gas is also studied in this context.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/e vent/6372/contributions/17466/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17466/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Strongly interacting matter in the laboratory and stars DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T111000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T114500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17465@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Laura Tolós (ICE-Barcelona)\nThe interplay between the experimental results generated in terrestrial laboratories and the obs ervations coming from stellar objects is of fundamental importance for off ering solutions to long-standing puzzles in the physics of strongly intera cting matter under extreme conditions. In this talk I will present the wor k I have been developing over the years regarding dense matter at finite t emperature in two main fields: the properties of hadrons in a hot and dens e medium\, and the study of different phases of dense matter in neutron st ars.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17465/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17465/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:MYRRHA\, A New Large Research Infrastructure in Belgium for Applic ations in Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Physics DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T103500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T111000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17464@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Carmen Angulo (SCK-CEN Belgian Nuclear Research Cent re)\nSCK CEN is at the forefront of Heavy Liquid Metal (HLM) nuclear tech nology worldwide with the development of the MYRRHA accelerator driven sys tem (ADS) since 1998. \nMYRRHA is conceived as a flexible fast-spectrum re search irradiation facility cooled by Lead Bismuth Eutectic (LBE). The nom inal design power of the MYRRHA reactor is 70 MWth. It is driven in sub-cr itical mode by a high power proton accelerator based on LINAC technology d elivering a 600 MeV proton beam of 4 mA intensity in Continuous Wave (CW) mode. The choice of the LINAC technology is dictated by the unprecedented reliability level required by the ADS application. \nMYRRHA is proposed to the international community of nuclear energy and nuclear physics as a la rge research infrastructure to serve as a multipurpose fast spectrum irrad iation facility for various fields of research such as transmutation of Hi gh Level Waste (HLW)\, material and fuel for Gen IV reactors\, materials for fusion energy\, innovative radioisotopes development and production\, and fundamental physics. \nMYRRHA is serving since 1998\, started with the FP5 EURATOM framework\, as the backbone of the Partitioning & Transmutati on (P&T) strategy of the European Commission and is fostering the R&D acti vities in EU related to the ADS and the associated HLM technology developm ents. MYRRHA was identified by SNETP (www.snetp.eu) as the European Techno logy Pilot Plant for the Lead-cooled Fast Reactor. \nIn 2015\, SCK CEN an d the Belgian federal government decided to implement the MYRRHA facility in three phases to minimise the technical risks associated to the needed a ccelerator reliability. \nOn September 7\, 2018 the decision was taken by the Belgian federal government to build this large research infrastructure . \nIn this talk\, I will introduce the basis of an ADS\, the MYRRHA main technological choices and its pan-European dimension. I will focus on the project current status and\, in particular\, on the MYRRHA phase I\, MINER VA\, consisting of the first 100 MeV of the LINAC and its related targets facility.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17464/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17464/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Proton resonances in meson production DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T103500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17461@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Astrid Hiller Blin (Eberhard Karls Universtiät Tüb ingen)\nThe description of the proton properties from its quark and gluon substructure is a topic which is far from being well understood. The stron g force binding together the constituents behaves remarkably differently a t high and low energies.\nThe main experimental tool to probe the proton i s electron scattering off proton targets. At high energies\, the electrons break up the protons and the underlying physics is well understood in ter ms of the theory that describes the strong force between quarks and gluons . However\, at low energies the connection to the physics of the constitue nts becomes obscured. In the data spectrum\, many resonances appear as int erfering and overlapping peaks whose description is highly convoluted. In addition\, many of them do not follow the usual quark-antiquark (meson) or 3-quark (baryon) frameworks\, thus being dubbed as exotic resonances.\nIn this talk\, I focus on the theoretical description of the resonant contri butions to the proton structure. I also give emphasis to the exotic states \, in view of the ongoing and near-future high-luminosity experiments desi gned for their search and improved understanding.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.u v.es/event/6372/contributions/17461/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17461/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Nuclear spectroscopy for understan- ding the nuclear forces DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T090500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T094000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17458@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Lucía Cáceres (CEA-GANIL)\nNuclear forces that gov ern the atomic nuclei are still not fully understood. The state-of-the-art nuclear theories are dealing with the complexity of the nuclear systems g overned by many\ndegrees of freedom. In order to shed light to these advan ce models\, nuclear spectroscopy has been proven to be of outmost importan ce to obtained experimental information of key nuclear observables.\nFrom the etymology\, spectroscopy is composed of spectro- which refers to optic al spectra and -scopy meaning observation. Therefore\, nuclear spectroscop y involves all type of experiments where radiation is emitted/absorbed by the nucleus.\nThis talk will review some of the key experiments on nuclear spectroscopy that have contributed to the development of our understandin g of the nuclear forces.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contribut ions/17458/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17458/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Origin of heavy elements: r-process in neutron star mergers and co re-collapse supernovae DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T083000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20220321T090500Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260616T214428Z UID:indico-contribution-6372-17457@indico.ific.uv.es DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Almudena Arcones (TU Darmstadt)\nOur understanding o f the origin of heavy elements by the r-process has made great progress in the last years. In addition to the gravitational wave and kilonova observ ations for GW170817\, there have been major advances in the hydrodynamical simulations of neutron star mergers and core-collapse supernovae\, in the microphysics included in those simulations (neutrinos and high density eq uation of state (EoS))\, in galactic chemical evolution models\, in observ ations of old stars in our galaxy and in dwarf galaxies. This talk will re port on recent breakthroughs in understanding the extreme environment in w hich the formation of the heavy elements occurs\, as well as open question s regarding the astrophysics and nuclear physics involved. Observations of old stars and meteorites can strongly constrain the astrophysical site of the r-process\, once the nuclear physics uncertainties of extreme neutron -rich nuclei are reduced by experiments and by improved theoretical models .\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17457/ LOCATION:Salón de Actos del IATA URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/6372/contributions/17457/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR