Name: Exotic atoms: fundamental aspects, applications and advances in radiation detectors
Start: 2025-12-03T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-12-05T17:00:00+01:00
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Exotic atoms: fundamental aspects, applications and advances in radiation detectors

from Wednesday, December 3, 2025 (9:00 AM) to Friday, December 5, 2025 (5:00 PM)

Monday, December 1, 2025
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

9:00 AM Registration

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: 1st Floor
10:00 AM Welcome
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: 102
Contributions

10:00 AM Welcome
10:15 AM Exotic atoms: fundamental aspects, applications and advances in radiation detectors: S1-1
S1-1
10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Room 102
Contributions

10:15 AM Strange Exotic Atoms: precision frontiers in fundamental interaction studies - Catalina Curceanu (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati INFN)

11:00 AM High-resolution CdZnTe detectors for room temperature X-ray and gamma ray detection - Leonardo Abbene (University of Palermo)

11:30 AM Testing Bound State QED in Strong Fields with Kaonic Atoms - Simone Manti
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Exotic atoms: fundamental aspects, applications and advances in radiation detectors
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Development and evolution of multilayer Medical Applications CompAct COmpton camera (MACACO) - Siddharth Parashari (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC))

2:30 PM Compton camera with dual perpendicular silicon photomultiplier read-out – a Monte Carlo study - Ana Marija Kožuljević (Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health)

3:00 PM Performance of a single-plane readout Compton camera - Om prakash Dash (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb)
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Exotic atoms: fundamental aspects, applications and advances in radiation detectors
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Ortho-positronium decay – a table-top tool for testing the fundamental physics - Ivica Friščić (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb)

4:30 PM Optically stimulated luminescence dosimetry: system characterisation and application in remote dosimetry audits in radiotherapy photon and electron beams - tomislav bokulic (Department of physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb)
Thursday, December 4, 2025
9:15 AM Exotic atoms: fundamental aspects, applications and advances in radiation detectors
9:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Contributions

9:15 AM First Positronium and Quantum Entanglement Imaging of humans with J-PET - Pawel Moskal

10:00 AM PetVision planar TOF-PET detector development - Andrej Lozar (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))

10:30 AM Experimental determination of Dalitz Plot for positronium decay using the J-PET detection system - Magdalena Skurzok (Jagiellonian University)
11:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM Exotic atoms: fundamental aspects, applications and advances in radiation detectors
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM The physics of the kaonic atoms in the last 25 years - Diana Sirghi (INFN)

12:01 PM Cutting-edge X-ray detectors for precision spectroscopy of exotic atoms - Alessandro Scordo (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati INFN)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Exotic atoms: fundamental aspects, applications and advances in radiation detectors
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Implementation and optimization of a home-built cosmic veto system using digital electronics in environmental gamma spectrometry laboratory - Ivana Tucaković (Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia)

2:30 PM Compton background supression in environmental gamma spectrometry measurements - Luka Bakrač (Ruđer Bošković Institute)
5:00 PM Zagreb - guided tour

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

7:00 PM Workshop dinner

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Friday, December 5, 2025
9:00 AM Exotic atoms: fundamental aspects, applications and advances in radiation detectors
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Positronium in liver cancer diagnostics - Bożena Zgardzińska (Institute of Physics, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin)

9:30 AM Positron emission tomography imaging harnessing polarization correlations - Mihael Makek (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb)

10:00 AM A modification of the Pryce-Ward formula for semi-classical simulations of annihilation photons correlations - Petar Zugec (University of Zagreb (HR))
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Exotic atoms: fundamental aspects, applications and advances in radiation detectors
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Kaonic hydrogen isotopes for unique strong interaction studies - Francesco Clozza (INFN-LNF & Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata")

11:30 AM Novel CZT Detectors for Kaonic Atoms Spectroscopy - Francesco Artibani (INFN-LNF)

12:00 PM Discussion and Farewell