Direct Reactions with Exotic Beam (DREB2026)

1 Nov 2026, 09:00 → 6 Nov 2026, 17:00 Asia/Shanghai

Shenzhen

The 13th International Conference on Direct Reactions with Exotic Beams DREB2026

Shenzhen, China, Nov 1st-6th, 2026

The 13th International Conference on Direct Reactions with Exotic Beams (DREB2026) will be held in Shenzhen, China, from November 1st to 6th, 2026. This DREB conference is part of a biennial series that began in 1999 at MSU, East Lansing, at the initiative of physicists from MSU, IPN-Orsay, and FSU.

Previous meetings in this series were held in: Orsay (2001); Guildford (2003); East Lansing (2005); Wako (2007); Tallahassee (2009); Pisa (2012); Darmstadt (2014); Halifax (2016); Matsue (2018); Santiago de Compostela (2022); Wiesbaden (2024).

The scientific program will focus on the latest experimental and theoretical research and developments in nuclear reactions with exotic nuclei. Topics will include:

·         Spectroscopy, shapes and shell evolution in exotic nuclei as seen through direct reactions

·         Probing the nuclear force and short-range correlations through direct reactions

·         Theoretical developments and advances in direct reaction theory

·         Nuclear astrophysics

·         New instrumentation for direct reaction studies of exotic nuclei

·         Ab initio methods for structure and reactions away from stability

·         Clustering phenomena probed by nuclear reactions

In keeping with the tradition of this conference series, the meeting will have a relatively informal character, and no proceedings will be published. The program will primarily consist of contributed presentations and posters, selected from submitted abstracts. The program will be supplemented by a small number of invited or keynote talks.

The conference will focus on new results, particularly those that have not yet been published. We strongly encourage students and other junior researchers to participate.

 

 

First circular_DREB2026.pdf

Foreign nationals visa exemption policy.pdf

Second Circular_updated_dates.pdf

Monday 2 November

09:00 → 09:10 Opening remarks

Speaker:Weiping Liu

Speaker: Weiping Liu

09:10 → 09:40 TBD speaker: Alexandre Obertelli

Speaker: A. Obertelli (Institut f\"ur Kernphysik, Technische Universit\"at Darmstadt, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany; IRFU, CEA, Universit\'e Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France;RIKEN Nishina Center, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan)

09:40 → 10:10 TBD speker: Gregory Potel Aguilar

Speaker: Gregory Potel Aguilar (University of Seville)

10:10 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 10:48 Transfer cross sections from microscopic wave functions

Speaker: Pierre Descouvemont (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

10:48 → 11:06 Mirror Symmetry Breaking Beyond the Dripline

Speaker: Simin Wang (Fudan University)

11:06 → 11:21 Study of excited states in neutron-rich 46,47S and 50,52Ar

Speaker: Marcell Begala (HUN-REN ATOMKI)

11:21 → 11:36 Probing spin-orbit splitting and shell evolution in 34Si via the 34Si(p, d)33Si transfer reaction

Speaker: Raquel Nicolás del Álamo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (sezione di Padova) and University of Padova)

11:36 → 11:51 In-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy of 56,58Ti

Speaker: Wiktor Poklepa (GSI)

11:51 → 12:06 Probing shell evolution in neutron-rich 50−54Ca: lifetime and Coulomb excitation measurements at RIBF

Speaker: Ting Gao (University of York)

12:06 → 12:21 First spectroscopy of 100Sn establishes a robust Z = N = 50 shell closure

Speaker: Xiaoyu Liu (RIKEN/HKU)

12:21 → 14:00 lunch

14:00 → 14:18 Ground-State Mirror-Symmetry Violation in 17Na/ 17C Revealed by Three-Proton Decay Spectroscopy

Speaker: Zhihuan Li (Peking University)

14:18 → 14:36 TBD speaker: Nori Aoi

Speaker: Nori Aoi

14:36 → 14:54 Study of unbound states with the Active Target Time Projection Chamber

Speaker: Daniel Bazin (FRIB/MSU)

14:54 → 15:12 The Programme at the ISOLDE Solenoidal Spectrometer and results around the Mg Island of Inversion

Speaker: Sean Freeman (The University of Manchester)

15:12 → 15:30 TBD speker: Rituparna Kanungo

Speaker: Rituparna Kanungo

15:30 → 15:50 Coffee Break

15:50 → 16:08 Multi-neutron cluster studies along the neutron drip line

Speaker: Takashi Nakamura (Department of Physics, Institute of Science Tokyo)

16:08 → 16:26 Study of the 6-neutron system from the decay of resonances in 10He

Speaker: Beaumel Didier (Universit´e Paris-Saclay)

16:26 → 16:41 Interaction cross sections and the investigation of deformation effects in neutron-rich Zr isotopes

Speaker: Gen Takayama (RIKEN Nishina Center)

16:41 → 16:56 Dipole response of 50,52Ca: measurement of dipole polarizability and decay modes

Speaker: Julien Lemarie (RIKEN - Nishina Center)

16:56 → 17:11 Shell Evolution towards N = 32: Direct Inelastic Scattering of 49K30 and 51K32

Speaker: Debajyoti Das (TU Darmstadt)

17:11 → 17:26 Investigating the Shell Evolution and Neutron Structure of 68Ni through (d,p) and (p,d) Transfer Reactions

Speaker: Prabhat Sharma (GANIL)

17:26 → 17:41 Studying Isospin Symmetry Breaking in A =29 Tz = ± 1/2 Mirror Isotopes

Speaker: Yiyi Zhu (TRIUMF)

Tuesday 3 November

09:00 → 09:18 TBD

Speaker: Valdir Guimaraes

09:18 → 09:36 Proton-induced deuteron knockout on 12C and 16O at 226 MeV

Speaker: Cheongsoo Lee (IRIS, Institute for Basic Science)

09:36 → 09:54 Production of low-energy RI beams at CRIB and direct reaction measurements

Speaker: Hidetoshi Yamaguchi (Center for Nuclear Study, the University of Tokyo)

09:54 → 10:12 TBD speaker:JIN Shilun

Speaker: Shilun Jin (INstitute of modern physics, CAS)

10:12 → 10:30 Doorway to statistical nuclear structure: Probing the transition with direct reactions.

Speaker: Yang Sun

10:30 → 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 → 11:05 Advances in ab initio studies of atomic nuclei with multi-reference in-medium similarity renormalization group

Speaker: Yao Jiangming

11:05 → 11:20 Probing nucleon-nucleon correlations through multinucleon transfer reactions

Speaker: Tea Mijatovic (RBI, Zagreb, Croatia)

11:20 → 11:35 The nuclear Josephson effect and gamma-ray emission

Speaker: Francisco Barranco (Universidad de Sevilla)

11:35 → 11:50 Study of short-range phenomena via (p,pd) reaction in unstable neutron-rich nuclei with complete kinematics

Speaker: Satoru TERASHIMA

11:50 → 12:05 Probing Tensor-Driven High-Momentum Components in 16O with (p, d) and (p, pd) Reactions

Speaker: Xuan Wang (Institute of Modern Physics (IMP))

12:05 → 12:20 Constraining the density-dependence of the symmetry energy by cross section measurements at R3B

Speaker: Lukas Ponnath (University of York)

12:20 → 14:00 lunch

14:00 → 14:30 TBD

Speaker: Yanlin Ye (Peking University)

14:30 → 14:48 TBD

Speaker: Shitao Wang

14:48 → 15:06 Introduction on HIAF and its opportunities for RI physics

Speaker: He Wang

15:06 → 15:26 Coffee Break

15:26 → 15:44 Study of Matter Property of Nucleon Many-Body System with Active Target Technique

Speaker: Shinsuke Ota (Research Center for Nuclear Physics, the University of Osaka)

15:44 → 16:02 Exploring Nuclear Reactions at RIBRAS: Radioactive Ion Beams in Brasil

Speaker: Kelly Cristina Cezaretto Pires (Institute of Physics - University of São Paulo)

16:02 → 16:20 Halos, shells, and proton bubbles: probing weakly bound and exotic nuclei with the Active Target Time Projection Chamber

Speaker: Yassid Ayyad (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)

16:20 → 16:38 Study of (p,3p) reactions on neutron-rich medium-mass nuclei

Speaker: Mario Gomez Ramos (Universidad de Sevilla)

16:38 → 16:53 Neutron-Spectator Trojan Horse Method: From Validation to Application in 12C+12C Fusion

Speaker: Zifeng Luo (Institute for Basic Science)

16:53 → 17:08 Study of the Two-Neutron Halo Nucleus 11Li via Quasi-Free Knockout Reactions

Speaker: Zheyang Lin (Peking University)

17:08 → 17:23 TBD

Speaker: Kang WEI

17:23 → 17:38 Shell evolution investigated in 10,12Be and 20O using solid and active targets

Speaker: Miguel Lozano-González (IGFAE - USC)

Wednesday 4 November

09:00 → 09:18 TBD

09:18 → 09:36 TBD

Speaker: K. Wimmer (Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan; RIKEN Nishina Center, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan)

09:36 → 09:54 Comparative study of 3H and α cluster pre-formation in the neutron-rich Boron isotopic chain

Speaker: Zhao Qing (Huzhou Normal University)

09:54 → 10:12 TBD

Speaker: Yuki Kubota

10:12 → 10:30 TBD

Speaker: Baohua Sun (北京航空航天大学)

10:30 → 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 → 11:05 The 8Be nucleus and the Hoyle state in dissociation of relativistic nuclei

Speaker: Andrei Zaitsev (JINR)

11:05 → 11:20 Probing the Cluster Structure of 12Be via the Quasifree (p, pα) Reaction

Speaker: Pengjie Li (Fudan)

11:20 → 11:35 Cluster Formation and Emission in Highly Excited Nuclei Probed by Nuclear Reactions

Speaker: Mengjiao Lyu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)

11:35 → 11:50 Search for 16O(0+6) → 12Cα decays in relativistic dissociation of 16O nuclei in nuclear emulsion

Speaker: Denis Artemenkov (JINR)

11:50 → 12:05 Probing Exotic Structures in 10Be via 9Be + n Coincidence Measurements with the SAMURAISpectrometer

Speaker: Fushuai Shi (Institute of Modern Physics)

12:05 → 12:20 Searching for the Hoyle-like State in 13C: First Observation of a Candidate state at 13.0 MeV via Cluster Decay

Speaker: Haoyu Ge (Peking University)

12:20 → 14:00 lunch

Thursday 5 November

09:00 → 09:18 TBD

Speaker: Kenjiro Miki

09:18 → 09:36 Recent results on the triple-alpha reaction rate

Speaker: Takahiro KAWABATA (Department of Physics, Osaka University)

09:36 → 09:54 TBD

Speaker: XIAO Zhigang

09:54 → 10:09 Study of the structure of neutron-rich isotopes 23, 24 and 25F in inverse kinematics with the R3B experimental setup at GSI/FAIR

Speaker: Pablo González Rusell (USC)

10:09 → 10:24 Probing the single-particle structure of 17N through the 16Ng,m(d, p) reaction

Speaker: Patrick MacGregor (Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech))

10:24 → 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 → 11:05 Highlights from INFN-LNL, the Status and the Future plans of the SPES project

Speaker: Faical Azaiez (LNL-INFN)

11:05 → 11:20 The R3B-Target Recoil Tracker Detector for R3B at FAIR

Speaker: Stefanos Paschalis (University of York)

11:20 → 11:35 Formation, Evolution, and Reaction Probes of Exotic Cluster Structures in Light Nuclei

Speaker: Zheng CHENG

11:35 → 11:50 Direct measurements of astrophysically important (α,p) reaction cross sections using active target TPCs at CENS

Speaker: Soomi Cha (Center for Exotic Nuclear Studies, Institute for Basic Science)

11:50 → 12:05 Identification of Resonant States in the 45V(alpha,p)46Cr Reaction and Their Influence on the Production of44Ti in Core-Collapse Supernovae

Speaker: Christopher Cousins (University of Surrey)

12:05 → 12:20 Experimental investigation of fusion in the 6Li + 12C system at energies well above the Coulomb barrier

Speaker: Bruna Goncalves (Beihang University)

12:20 → 14:00 lunch

14:00 → 14:18 Two-nucleon transfer reactions and and many-bodyprocesses

Speaker: Enrico Vigezzi (INFN Milano)

14:18 → 14:36 TBD

Speaker: Weiping Liu

14:36 → 14:54 Glauber-theory calculations using realistic many-nucleon wave functions

Speaker: Wataru Horiuchi (Osaka Metropolitan University)

14:54 → 15:12 Advances in Ab Initio Nuclear Theory

Speaker: Baishan Hu (Peking University)

15:12 → 15:30 Differentiable emulation for full Bayesian calibration of coupled-channel reaction models

Speaker: Jin Lei

15:30 → 15:50 Coffee Break

15:50 → 16:08 TBD

Speaker: Marina Petri (University of York)

16:08 → 16:23 Interplay between quadrupole deformation and proton-neutron pairing through the prism of Anderson’s limit

Speaker: Hugo Jacob (GANIL)

16:23 → 16:38 Neutron reactions from Hamiltonian solutions indeformed nuclei

Speaker: Andrea Idini (Lund University)

16:38 → 16:53 Towards a unified configuration-interaction description of medium- and heavy-mass nuclei

Speaker: Menglan Liu

16:53 → 17:08 Ab initio calculations of 6He + p reactions

Speaker: Jakub Herko (TRIUMF)

17:08 → 17:23 Theoretical Re-Analysis of Quasi-Elastic Scattering Data for 10,11B + 232Th Systems Using Coupled-Channels Framework

Speaker: Sunday Daniel Olorunfunmi (Institute of Physics, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)

17:23 → 17:38 Heavy-ion fusion Ingoing-wave boundary condition Weakly bound nuclei Absorption decomposition CDCC

Speaker: Hao Liu (Tongji University)

Friday 6 November

09:00 → 09:18 TBD

Speaker: Juzo Zenihiro

09:18 → 09:36 Probing nucleosynthesis in core-collapse supernovae with surrogate reactions

Speaker: Daisuke Suzuki (The University of Tokyo)

09:36 → 09:54 Reaction dynamics of proton drip-line nuclei at energies around the Coulomb barrier

Speaker: Lei Yang (China Institute of Atomic Energy)

09:54 → 10:09 One- and two-proton removal reactions from neutron-rich Sn isotopes

Speaker: Dr Enqiang LIU (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

10:09 → 10:24 Investigations of the unbound states in 20C

Speaker: Sidong Chen (University of York)

10:24 → 10:39 Direct observation of three-neutron emission from 7He*

Speaker: Siwei Huang

10:39 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:15 Shape evolution and Collectivity beyond 78Ni: Lifetime measurements of low-lying states in neutron-rich Zn

Speaker: Zhiqiang Chen (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)

11:15 → 11:30 Electric dipole strength of the Borromean double halo nucleus 11Li using proton inelastic scattering

Speaker: Jose Manuel López González (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)

11:30 → 11:45 Towards a few-body EFT description of deformed halo nuclei

Speaker: Live-Palm Kubushishi (Ohio University (soon-to-be at JGU Mainz, Germany - from August 1, 2026))

11:45 → 12:15 What We've Learned: insights from the week's presentations

Speaker: Wilton Catford

12:15 → 12:25 Closing remarks

Speaker: Weiping Liu