56. International Winter Meeting on Nuclear Physics

Session

Tuesday Morning

23 Jan 2018, 09:00

Bormio, Italy

78. Black holes, neutron stars and the birth of gravitational wave astronomy

Prof. Laura Cadonati (gatech)

23/01/2018, 09:00

Overview Talk

Gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space-time produced by catastrophic astrophysical events, are arguably the most elusive prediction of Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, so feeble that Einstein himself thought their detection would be impossible. One hundred years later, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and its sister project Virgo have observed...

54. Neutrinos and Nuclei

Dr Joseph Carlson (LANL)

23/01/2018, 09:45

Nuclear Structure and Astrophysics

Overview Talk

Many important large-scale experiments are now operating to uncover fundamental properties of neutrinos including the mass hierarchy, mixing angles, CP violation and the Majorana nature of the neutrino. These very different experiments probe different regimes of energy and momenta, but all should be described by a realistic picture of nuclear interactions and currents. I will...

63. Direct neutrino mass search

Prof. Christian Weinheimer (Institute for Nuclear Physics, University of Muenster, Germany)

23/01/2018, 11:00

Fundamental Interactions

Overview Talk

Invited talk

43. Hidden and open charm exotic hadrons

Prof. Angels Ramos (University of Barcelona)

23/01/2018, 11:45

Hadron Physics

Overview Talk

Exotic heavy hadrons are a hot topic since the discovery of a narrow tetraquark, X(3872) and the hidden-charm pentaquark Pc(4450), recently observed by the LHCb collaboration. In this talk I will present a few examples of hidden and also open charm hadrons that might be interpreted as molecular states. Reactions where these hadrons could be observed will also be discussed.

38. Status and Prospect of Belle II at SuperKEKB

Dr Riccardo de Sangro (INFN - LNF)

23/01/2018, 12:15

Overview Talk

Construction of the new SuperKEKB B-Factory is now complete. The new collider, presently under commissioning at the KEK laboratory in Japan, is scheduled to deliver the first $e^+e^-$ collisions in the first half of 2018, to open a new era in the arena of physics at the high intensity frontier. We will present some highlights of the physics program, with emphasis on the first collision...