INFN Workshop on Reactions and Structure with Exotic Nuclei.

Department of Physics at the University of Pisa and INFN, Sez. di Pisa. 24th-26th February 2005.

Dear Colleagues,
The INFN (Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics) has approved a national theoretical network on "Structure and Reactions with Exotic Nuclei".
The project involves the INFN branches of Laboratorio Nazionale del Sud, Padova and Pisa.
The aim of the project is to coordinate and homogenize the research already performed in Italy in this field and to strengthen and improve the Italian contribution on the international scenario. Furthermore it is necessary to create a solid theoretical structure to support future experimental facilities at the INFN national laboratories such as SPES at LNL and EXCYT at LNS.
As a starting point we are planning an international workshop open to our present collaborators, both theoreticians as well as experimentalists and to all other colleagues interested in starting new projects with us. We would like to invite you to participate and give a talk. We would be very grateful if you could also suggest other names of colleagues who could be interested in joining us in a collaboration and therefore could come to the workshop as well.
The topics of the workshop are restricted to our present interests and they are:
Isospin Dynamics in Reactions with Exotic Beams:
1) Isospin dynamics in low energy dissipative collisions
2) Isospin in Nuclear fragmentation.
Finite Nuclear Systems in Brueckner Theory:
1) BHF calculations of asymmetric and polarized matter.
2) Construction of the energy functional.
3) Ground states and excitations of finite nuclei.
4) Neutron star crust.
Structure and collective modes:
1) Study of the pairing correlations in low-density
nuclear systems.
2) Microscopic estimate of inelastic excitation to
the low-lying continuum dipole strength via
microscopic continuum RPA calculations.
3) Study of isospin symmetry in low- and high-spin
states in medium-mass N=Z nuclei up to 100Sn. Study of the
interplay of T=0 and T=1 pairing.
4) Study of nuclear structure with algebraic models.
Reaction mechanisms:
1) Elastic scattering and microscopic calculations of optical potentials.
2) Breakup and transfer of weakly bound nuclei.
3) One and two neutron halo systems.
4) Unbound nuclei studied via transfer and fragmentation.
5) Fusion.

A registration form and further information are available at
http://www.df.unipi.it/~angela/Pisa05.html

Useful information about Pisa and our Institute can be found at http://www.pi.infn.it

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Angela Bonaccorso, Maria Colonna, Massimo Di Toro, Silvia Lenzi, Umberto Lombardo, Andrea
Vitturi.