Bormio Conference 2026

Session

Tuesday Morning

20 Jan 2026, 09:00

Bormio, Italy

6. Probing Fundamental Interactions through Precision Spectroscopy of Exotic Atoms

Prof. Nancy Paul (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel)

20/01/2026, 09:00

From dark matter and dark energy, to neutrino oscillations and the lack of antimatter in the universe, there is growing evidence that the Standard Model is incomplete. Tests of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) with few-electron systems offer a promising avenue for looking for new physics, as QED is the best understood quantum field theory and extremely precise predictions can be obtained for...

22. Instrumentation for advances in PET medical imaging

Peter Krizan (J. Stefan Inst. and U. Ljubljana)

20/01/2026, 09:45

The shift in modern medicine toward early diagnosis and prevention demands higher sensitivity and specificity in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging. Emerging long-axial PET scanners equipped with Time-of-Flight (TOF) technology offer promising solutions to meet these requirements. PET systems utilizing ultra-fast gamma-ray detection—enabled by the Cherenkov effect or by using short and...

39. Exploring Stars in Underground Laboratories

Eliana Masha (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany)

20/01/2026, 11:00

For more than three decades, it has been known that studying astrophysically relevant nuclear reactions between stable nuclei requires high-intensity and high-resolution beams and extremely low-background environments, achievable only in underground accelerator laboratories. By suppressing cosmic ray–induced events by several orders of magnitude, these facilities enable direct measurements of...

1. QCD at Large Densities

Prof. Christian Fischer (Giessen University)

20/01/2026, 11:35

In this talk we discuss the interplay of dynamical mass generation from the strong and electroweak interactions and explore the consequences for phase transitions of the strong interaction at finite temperature and chemical potential. Using a functional approach to QCD we illustrate the search for a critical end point and outline possible strategies to explore the cold and dense region of the...

20. Current and future programs to study the ΛN interaction from scattering experiments

Koji Miwa (Tohoku University, Japan)

20/01/2026, 12:10

The hyperon-nucleon interactions are fundamental information to describe many-body nucleon systems containing hyperons, such as hypernuclei and neutron stars. By extending the nuclear force to baryon-baryon interactions, we also can understand the nuclear force as the interaction between quark clusters, because new aspects of baryon-baryon interaction are expected to appear especially at short...