Nuclear Physics Over The Years: From the high spin era to rare isotopes

Session

Session 1: High spin collectivity & superdeformation

Sep 19, 2025, 8:50 AM

Sun Flower Room (Friday Conference Center, UNC Chapel Hill)

Conveners

Session 1: High spin collectivity & superdeformation: Session 1: High spin collectivity & superdeformation

• Paul Fallon (LBNL)

Description

This session will explore the breakthroughs that emerged from the study of high-spin states in nuclei, a field that transformed our understanding of collective motion, rotational bands, and superdeformation. Presentations will reflect on how advanced gamma-ray spectroscopy and detector arrays enabled detailed mapping of nuclear shapes and configurations at extreme angular momenta, providing insights into the underlying shell structures and symmetry-breaking phenomena that govern collective behavior in the atomic nucleus.

2. Superdeformation at ATLAS: from the Notre Dame BGO Array to GRETINA

Dr Michael Carpenter (Argonne National Laboratory)

9/19/25, 8:50 AM

3. Exotic Nuclear Structure under the Microscope - Seeing ‘AYEBALL to AYEBALL’ with Robert

Prof. Patrick Regan (University of Surrey)

9/19/25, 9:10 AM

4. Taking Nuclei for a Spin

Prof. Partha Chowdhury (University of Massachusetts, Lowell)

9/19/25, 9:30 AM

5. A High-Spin Journey with Robert

Prof. Daryl Hartley (United States Naval Academy)

9/19/25, 9:50 AM