Inaugural workshop on Nuclear Astrochemistry

26 Feb 2024, 08:30 → 1 Mar 2024, 19:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Renzo Leonardi (ECT*)

Daniel Bemmerer (HZDR and ChETEC), Duncan Mifsud (Atomki, Debrecen, Hungary), Eliana Masha (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V. (HZDR)), Nigel Mason (University of Kent, UK, Atomki, Debrecen and Europlanet)

In this workshop we plan to introduce the ideas of a new interdisciplinary field ‘Nuclear astrochemistry’. This brings together disparate fields of nuclear physics with the rapidly emerging field of astrochemistry to explore the processes of star formation (and death) and planet formation and how they create the conditions that may allow life to evolve and be sustained.

In the workshop, the first of its kind, we will bring together leading experts in these fields together with early career researchers who will develop this new field through observations (using JWST), theoretical models and simulations and laboratory studies to address the fundamental questions of how the elements and molecules of life are created in the universe and the consequences for the search for life beyond Earth and our solar system.

Poster_InauguralWorskhop_NA.pdf

Monday 26 February

08:30 Registration

1 Welcome from ECT* Director, Gert Aarts

2 Goals of the workshop

Speaker: Nigel Mason (University of Kent and Europlanet)

ECT opening.pdf

3 Focus on what we know (don't know) of evolution of life on Earth

Speaker: Paul Rimmer (University of Cambridge)

ECT_Rimmer_minusone.pdf

4 Early chemical tracers in the Milky Way

Speaker: Camilla Juul Hansen (IAP, Goethe University Frankfurt)

Trento_2024_CJHansen.pdf

11:20 Coffee break

5 Cutting-Edge Telescopes in the Quest for Space molecules

Speaker: Dr Heidy Mayerly Quitian-Lara (University of Kent)

Cutting-Edge Telescopes in the Quest for Space molecules.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

6 Laboratory for Underground Nuclear Astrophysics

Speaker: Federico Ferraro (INFN-LNGS)

Federico Ferraro - LUNA.pdf

7 Nuclear Astrophysics at TRIUMF

Speaker: Matthew Williams (University of Surrey)

ECTstar_Trento_NucAstroChem_Williams.pdf

15:30 Coffee break

8 Discussions

9 Working groups formation

18:00 Welcome Aperitivo

Tuesday 27 February

10 The 2024 state of the art on the Standard Solar Model

Speaker: Aldo Serenelli (Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC))

serenelli.pdf

11 Tracing Solar System evolution through isotope varations in meteorites

Speaker: Mattias Ek (ETH Zürich)

NucAstrChem_Trento_Feb24_M_EK.pdf

11:00 Coffee break

12 The potential roles of meteorites in the origins of life on Earth

Speaker: Keyron Hickman-Lewis

KHL ECT Feb 2024.pdf

13 Morning session discussion

12:30 Lunch break

14 Sub-Coulomb nuclear reactions and spectroscopy using the Trojan Horse Method

Speaker: Prof. Aurora Tumino (Facoltà di Architettura e Ingegneria Università degli Studi di Enna “Kore” & INFN-LNS)

NA-ECT2024-Tumino.pdf

15 Our present understanding of the 3He(a,g)7Be key astrophysical nuclear reaction

Speaker: Tamás Szücs (Atomki)

tszucs_3He_ag.pdf

15:30 Coffee break

16 Big Bang nucleosynthesis studied at Felsenkeller and CRYRING

Speaker: Eliana Masha (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V. (HZDR))

Masha_Trento2024.pdf

17 Galactic Chemical Evolution with short lived radioactive Isotope

Speaker: Benjamin Wehmeyer (University of Wroclaw)

pdf_Wehmeyer.pdf

18 First working groups meeting

Wednesday 28 February

19 Ion induced proceses in te ISM and planetary and satellite atmospheres

Speaker: Wolf Geppert (Stockholm University)

Trento2024Geppert.pdf

20 Astrochemistry at large scale facilities

Speaker: Sergio Ioppolo (Aarhus University)

Ioppolo.pdf

11:00 Coffee break

21 Photochemistry studies on a simulation chamber: From surfaces to biomolecules.

Speaker: Eva Mateo Marti (Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC/INTA))

Mateo-Marti ECT 2024.pdf

22 Morning session discussion

12:30 Lunch break

23 The chemistry of planet formation

Speaker: Bertram Bitsch (University College Cork)

24 Astrochemistry: from stars to planets

Speaker: Laurent WIESENFELD (Laboratoire Aime Cotton CNRS Universite Paris-Saclay)

Laurent_wiesenfeld.pdf

15:30 Coffee break

25 Predicting potentially relevant molecules in astrochemistry with quantum chemical methods

Speaker: Felipe Fantuzzi (University of Kent)

240228-ECT-FelipeFantuzzi.pdf

26 Systems Chemistry applied to study of origins of life

Speaker: Perry Hailey (University of Kent)

27 Afternoon session discussion

20:00 Social Dinner

Thursday 29 February

28 Nuclear burning recorded in meteorites as a tracer of the birth of the Solar System

Speaker: Maria Lugaro (Konkoly Observatory)

Trento-1.pdf

29 Hadean Earth recipes for the emergence of life

Speaker: Stephen Mojzsis (HUN-REN, CSFK Research Centre for Astronomy & Earth Sciences)

ECT_2024_Mojzsis_redacted.pdf

11:00 Coffee break

30 Can interstellar asymmetric photochemistry explain the origins of biomolecular homochirality on Earth?

Speaker: Jana Bocková (CNES, Institut de Chimie de Nice, Université Côte d'Azur)

ECT2024_Jana_Bockova.pdf

31 Morning session discussion

12:30 Lunch break

32 Investigating Other Worlds

Speaker: Heike Rauer (DLR, Institut für Planetenforschung)

Rauer.pdf

33 Molecular complexity in space, from the interstellar medium to planetary atmospheres

Speaker: Nadia Balucani (DCBB - Università degli Studi di Perugia)

Balucani-Trento2024.pdf

15:30 Coffee break

34 Impact of recently measured nuclear reaction rates on the nucleosynthesis of 26Al in stars

Speaker: Umberto Battino

Battino_Trento2024.pdf

35 Second working groups meeting

Friday 1 March

36 Development of interdisciplinary programs

37 Third working groups meeting

11:00 Coffee break

38 Presentation by working groups

39 Discussion+closing remarks

Speakers: Daniel Bemmerer (HZDR and ChETEC), Eliana Masha (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V. (HZDR)), Nigel Mason (University of Kent, UK, Atomki, Debrecen and Europlanet)

12:30 Lunch break

14:00 Departure