Pan-American Few-Body Physics Boot Camp: Fostering Collaboration

Europe/Rome
Aula Renzo Leonardi (ECT*)

Aula Renzo Leonardi

ECT*

Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
Alinka Lepine-Szily (Physics Institute, University of Sao Paulo), Guillaume Hupin, Sebastian Konig (Department of Physics, NC State University), Tobias Frederico (Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica, Brazil)
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The study of short-lived states, whether at the edge of nuclear stability or just above a reaction threshold, represents a complex and multifaceted domain where few-body physics emerges from the interactions of many nucleons. Recent years have seen a surge in experimental observations that continue to challenge our current models of the nucleus. As instrumentation advances rapidly, a widening gap has emerged between nuclear modeling capabilities and the data being collected. 

To address this gap and stimulate new ideas and collaborations, this workshop proposes a fresh approach by reimagining the traditional format. We aim to shift the focus toward young scientists with an interest in nuclear physics and few-body systems. By empowering these emerging researchers to cross disciplinary boundaries, share techniques, and collaborate on unresolved problems - identified by senior theorists and experimentalists or newly raised during the workshop - we hope to break the current impasse in theoretical modeling and to connect different generations working in the rich and exciting field of nuclear, hadronic and atomic few-body physics.

       

Participants
    • 09:00 09:45
      Welcome address from the ECT* direction and senior staff introduction 45m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 09:45 10:15
      Discussion 30m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 10:45 11:30
      Talk by Filip Agert 45m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
      Speaker: Nils Filip Agert (IJCLab)
    • 11:30 12:00
      Discussion 30m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 13:30 15:30
      Group Work 2h Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 16:00 17:00
      Discussion 1h Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 09:00 09:45
      Talk by Andrew Smith 45m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
      Speaker: Andrew John Smith (FRIB)
    • 09:45 10:15
      Discussion 30m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 10:45 11:30
      Talk by Vinicius Ader 45m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
      Speaker: Vinicius Ader (Universidade de Sao Paulo)
    • 11:30 12:00
      Discussion 30m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 13:30 15:30
      Group Work 2h Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 16:00 17:00
      Discussion 1h Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 09:00 09:45
      Complete and Incomplete Fusion of Light Nuclei 45m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)

      The projectile's low breakup threshold significantly impacts fusion dynamics, making precise predictions of CF and ICF cross sections a major theoretical challenge.

      Speaker: Jeannie Rangel Borges (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
    • 09:45 10:15
      Discussion 30m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 10:45 11:30
      Talk by Patrick McGlynn 45m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
      Speaker: Patrick McGlynn (FRIB)
    • 11:30 12:00
      Discussion 30m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 13:30 14:30
      Modified few-body Faddeev-type equations in configuration space 1h Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
      Speaker: Renat Sultanov
    • 14:30 15:00
      Group Work 30m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 16:00 17:00
      Discussion 1h Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 19:00 21:00
      Programme dinner 2h
    • 09:00 09:45
      Talk by Francesca Bonaiti 45m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
      Speaker: Francesca Bonaiti (FRIB)
    • 09:45 10:15
      Discussion 30m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 10:45 11:30
      Nuclear reactions and nuclear structure. 45m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
      Speaker: Branda Pinheiro-Carneiro (Federal Fluminense University)
    • 11:30 12:00
      Discussion 30m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 12:15 19:15
      Excursion 7h Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 09:00 09:45
      Talk by Maximilian Jorwieser 45m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
      Speaker: Maximilian Korwieser (TUM)
    • 09:45 10:15
      Discussion 30m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 10:45 11:30
      Talk by Georgios Mantzaridis 45m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
      Speaker: Georgios Mantzaridis (TUM)
    • 11:30 12:00
      Discussion 30m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 13:30 15:30
      Group Work 2h Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 16:00 17:00
      Discussion 1h Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 09:00 09:45
      Lecture 45m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
      Speaker: Alejandro Kievsky (INFN)
    • 09:45 10:00
      Discussion 15m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 10:45 11:30
      The Three-Body Limit Cycle: Universal Form for General Regulators 45m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)

      We derive the universal functional form of the three-body renormalization relation for general separable regulators through a detailed analysis of the Skorniakov-Ter-Martirosian and Faddeev equations.

      Speaker: Dr Feng Wu (IJCLab)
    • 11:30 12:00
      Discussion 30m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 13:30 15:30
      Group Work 2h Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 16:00 17:00
      Discussion 1h Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 09:00 09:45
      Effective field theory for atomic 4He clusters 45m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)

      We study helium-4 clusters using effective field theory, computing their binding energies with quantum Monte Carlo methods. The results highlight universal features of strongly interacting systems.

      Speaker: Lucas Madeira (ECT*)
    • 09:45 10:15
      Discussion 30m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 10:45 11:30
      Deformed one-neutron halo nuclei using halo effective field theory 45m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)

      In this talk, I present a phenomenological extension of halo-EFT and a more formal EFT-like study that include core excitation effects. Results for Be, C and C will be shown.

      Speaker: Live-Palm Kubushishi (Ohio University)
    • 11:30 12:00
      Discussion 30m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 13:30 15:30
      Group Work 2h Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 16:00 17:00
      Discussion 1h Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 09:00 09:45
      Talk by Philipp Quoss 45m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
      Speaker: Philipp Quoss (TUD)
    • 09:45 10:15
      Discussion 30m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 10:45 11:30
      Discrete and Continuous Scale Invariance in Quantum Few-Body Systems: Applications to Cold Atoms and Two-Neutron Halo Nuclei 45m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)

      Efimov universality describes three-body systems near unitarity, where large scattering lengths make their properties essentially independent of short-range interaction details. This regime is marked by discrete scale invariance, reflected in a geometric spectrum of trimers. In ultracold atomic gases, external magnetic fields allow precise tuning of interactions to the resonant regime, while confinement in traps enables the exploration of extreme spatial compression. Theoretical studies model this compression through an effective continuous dimension, showing that beyond a critical value the discrete scale invariance of three dimensions is suppressed and replaced by continuous scale invariance. Remarkably, nuclear physics offers a natural analogue: two-neutron halo nuclei are weakly bound systems sustained by a fine-tuned neutron–core interaction, leading to a very large scattering length. In this context, Efimov physics provides the framework to analyze their geometry, including the mean distances among constituents, governed by scaling laws set by a single three-body parameter.

      Speaker: Rafael Mendes Francisco (ITA)
    • 11:30 12:00
      Discussion 30m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 13:30 14:30
      Lecture 1h Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 14:30 15:30
      Group Work 1h Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 16:00 17:00
      Discussion 1h Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 19:00 21:00
      Programme dinner 2h
    • 09:00 09:45
      Talk by Louis Heitz 45m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
      Speaker: Louis Heitz (IJCLab)
    • 09:45 10:15
      Discussion 30m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 10:45 11:30
      Talk by Luiz Tenorio 45m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
      Speaker: Luiz Gustavo Mendonca Tenorio (ITA/Tohoku University)
    • 11:30 12:00
      Discussion 30m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 13:30 15:30
      Group Work 2h Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 16:00 17:00
      Discussion 1h Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 09:00 09:45
      Talk by Pedro Magro 45m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
      Speaker: Pedro Luis Domingues Magro (Universidade de Sao Paulo)
    • 09:45 10:15
      Discussion 30m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 10:45 11:30
      Group Work 45m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)
    • 11:30 12:00
      Closing 30m Aula Renzo Leonardi

      Aula Renzo Leonardi

      ECT*

      Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Trento)