15th International Workshop on the Physics of Excited Nucleons

→ Europe/Madrid
Hotel Ribera de Triana - Sevilla Pl. de Chapina, S/N, 41010 Sevilla
Jorge Segovia (U. Pablo de Olavide, Seville), Feliciano De Soto, José Rodríguez-Quintero, Adnan Bashir, Guillermo D. Megías, Juan A. Caballero
Description

NSTAR 2026

The 15th International Workshop on the Physics of Excited Nucleons will take place in Seville from  September 7th to 11th, 2026.

Nucleon excitations are providing a unique opportunity to explore many facets of the non-perturbative strong interaction and how various baryons, including those with strange and heavy flavor content, emerge from Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the Poincaré invariant quantum non-Abelian gauge field theory that describes the strong-interaction part of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. The rapid growth of high-quality experimental results on exclusive meson photoproduction off nucleons from CLAS, ELSA, GRAAL, LEPS, and MAMI allow us to pin down reaction amplitudes with unprecedented precision and to establish the baryon spectrum with minimal model dependence. Experiments with hadronic beams (GSI, JPARC) and hadron production in e+e- collisions (BES) extend and complement the scope of baryon spectroscopy, where the importance of baryon states in the evolution of the Universe has also just recently been elucidated.

Space-like resonance electrocouplings can be extracted, based mainly on the CLAS data on exclusive meson electroproduction off nucleons, over a wide range of photon virtualities and provide valuable information on the excited nucleon structure by offering access to non-perturbative strong interaction mechanisms behind the N* generation. The insight into the baryon structure is complemented by the studies of time-like form factors (BABAR, BES, GSI, PANDA).

From the theory side, Dyson-Schwinger-Equations and Lattice-QCD functional approaches are remarkably progressing in describing the baryon spectrum and structure from the first principles of QCD. New opportunities to explore the full spectrum of excited nucleons, strange and heavy baryons as well as exotic multiquark structures in the baryon sector have been offered by advances in QCD-inspired quark models. In addition, effective field theories, such as chiral perturbation theory, provide valuable low-energy benchmarks and constraints that complement first-principle methods. Light-front holography and AdS/QCD models have opened alternative pathways to connect hadron spectroscopy with underlying QCD dynamics, while QCD sum rules continue to serve as a bridge between non-perturbative QCD and phenomenology. Moreover, coupled-channel dynamical models contribute providing essential insights into hadron scattering and decay properties. Taken together, this broad theoretical toolkit offers a comprehensive framework to deepen our understanding of baryon structure and spectrum.

Synergistic efforts between experimentalists and theorists have already demonstrated our capability to address some open key problems of hadron physics on the nature of hadron mass, quark-gluon confinement, dynamical chiral symmetry breaking, and their emergence from QCD. The purpose of this workshop is to share the latest results on various aspects of low-energy QCD dynamics in terms of nucleon excitations and baryon resonances, and to discuss the future developments.

Topics covered in the workshop are:

  • Baryon spectrum through meson photoproduction.
  • Baryon resonances in experiments with hadron beams and in the e+e- collisions.
  • Baryon resonances in ion collisions and their role in cosmology.
  • Baryon structure through meson electroproduction, transition form factors, and time-like form factors.
  • Amplitude analyses and baryon parameter extraction.
  • Baryon spectrum and structure from first principles of QCD.
  • Advances in the modeling of baryon spectrum and structure.
  • Facilities and future projects.
  • Other topics related to N* physics.
Participants
    • Registering
    • Opening/Closing session -- Opening session chaired by the Rector of the University of Huelva, José Rodríguez-Quintero, and the Local Organizing Committee.
    • Plenary session
    • 11:00 AM
      Coffee break
    • Plenary session
      • 5
        Studies of N* and Delta* in pi N --> pi pi N reactions at J-PARC
        Speaker: Dr Hiroyuki Sako (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
      • 6
        Baryon resonances from Lattice QCD
        Speaker: Colin Morningstar (Carnegie Mellon University)
      • 7
        General Hamiltonian Approach to the N-Body Finite-Volume Formalism
        Speaker: Jia-jun Wu
    • 1:00 PM
      Lunch time
    • Parallel session A
      • 8
        Octet masses from Poincaré-covariant three-body Faddeev equation
        Speaker: Dr Zhao Qian Yao
      • 9
        Quark-diquark description of the nucleon and its resonances
        Speaker: Peng Cheng (Anhui Normal University)
      • 10
        Nucleon electromagnetic transitions within continuum Schwinger methods
        Speaker: Khépani Raya Montaño
      • 11
        Electromagnetic Properties of Radially Excited Nucleons and Δ baryons within a Contact Interaction
        Speaker: Luis Albino Fernández Rangel (Universidad de Sonora)
      • 12
        Diquark correlations in the proton parton distribution amplitude
        Speaker: Bilgai Almeida Zamora (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
      • 13
        Nucleon chiral-invariant mass and gravitational form factors in the parity doublet model
        Speaker: Mamiya Kawaguchi
    • Parallel session B
      • 14
        Effects of coupled channels in hadron dynamics
        Speaker: Eulogio Oset
      • 15
        The nature of Sigma(1430) from $\Lambda _c^+\to \Lambda \pi ^+\pi ^+\pi ^-$ reaction and correlation functions
        Speaker: Wei-Hong Liang
      • 16
        Pentaquarks with strangeness: the role of coupled channels and a new unitarization strategy
        Speaker: Prof. Àngels Ramos (University of Barcelona)
      • 17
        Exotic baryons with hidden strangeness
        Speaker: Alberto Martinez Torres (University of Sao Paulo)
      • 18
        K-Lambda interaction and the strangeness of N(1535)
        Speaker: Dr Ju-Jun Xie (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
      • 19
        Femtoscopy probes of Zc(3900) and Zcs(3985) and the isovector X(3872) partner
        Speaker: Pan-Pan Shi (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC))
    • Parallel session C
    • 5:15 PM
      Coffee break
    • Parallel session A
      • 26
        Emergent Hadron Mass and Pion, Kaon and Nucleon Electromagnetic and Gravitational Form Factors
        Speaker: Daniele Binosi
      • 27
        Light-Front Transverse Nucleon Charge and Magnetisation Densities
        Speaker: Zhen-Ni Xu (Universidad de Huelva)
      • 28
        Excited pions in CI-model
        Speaker: Axel Ahiezer Ortiz Villaseñor (Universidad de Sonora)
      • 29
        Four gluon vertex in Landau Gauge
        Speaker: Fernando Pinto Gomez (Loyola University)
      • 30
        Effect of the lightest scalar meson as a dilaton on hadron-hadron scattering
        Speaker: Yong-Liang Ma (Nanjing University)
      • 31
        Heavy-Light Pseudoscalar Mesons: Structure and Parton Distributions
        Speaker: Bilgai Almeida Zamora (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
    • Parallel session B
      • 32
        JPAC analyses of hadron spectroscopy
        Speaker: Alessandro Pilloni (University of Messina & INFN Catania)
      • 33
        Production of penta-quark states with strangeness in various reactions
        Speaker: Bingsong Zou (Tsinghua University)
      • 34
        Photoproduction of Baryons
        Speaker: Vincent Mathieu (University of Barcelona)
      • 35
        Quark mass dependence of two-pole structures and the SU(3) limit
        Speaker: Raquel Molina Peralta
      • 36
        Dispersive and model-independent extraction of baryon resonances from pion-nucleon total cross-section data
        Speaker: Pablo Rabán (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
      • 37
        Hidden-Charm Pentaquark Baryon Resonances in Regge Phenomenology: Spectra and Threshold Patterns
        Speaker: Mr Vandan Patel (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology Surat, Gujarat, India)
    • Parallel session C
      • 38
        Tomography of Hadrons in 3D
        Speaker: Andrea Signori (University of Turin and INFN)
      • 39
        Neural-network based extractions of unpolarized TMDs
        Speaker: Matteo Cerutti (CEA Paris-Saclay)
      • 40
        Generalised parton distributions from exclusive electroproduction of dijet
        Speaker: ZHUOYI PANG
      • 41
        Parton tomography of helium-4 nucleus
        Speaker: Jakub Wagner
      • 42
        Quarkonium–nucleon femtoscopy as a probe of nucleon gravitational form factors
        Speaker: Daisuke Fujii (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
      • 43
        Quark--Hadron Duality in Inclusive Electron--Proton Scattering at High Q^2
        Speaker: Kyungseon Joo (University of Connecticut)
    • Plenary session
    • 11:00 AM
      Coffee break
    • Plenary session
    • 1:00 PM
      Lunch time
    • Parallel session A
    • Parallel session B
      • 57
        Femtoscopy approach to hadron analysis
        Speaker: Juan M Nieves
      • 58
        A unitary kaon-deuteron interaction for femtoscopy
        Speaker: Juan Torres-Rincon (Universitat de Barcelona)
      • 59
        Femtoscopy in revealing the nature of exotic hadrons
        Speaker: Lisheng Geng
      • 60
        Confusions in the strange baryons sector
        Speaker: Prof. KANCHAN PRADEEPKUMAR KHEMCHANDANI
      • 61
        Constraining the low-energy S=-2 meson-baryon interaction with two-particle correlations
        Speaker: Albert Feijoo Aliau (IFIC)
      • 62
        Femtoscopy as a tool to access the strong interaction among hadrons with ALICE
        Speaker: Oton Vazquez Doce (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))
    • Parallel session C
      • 63
        GPD and TDA measurements based on hard exclusive pion electroproduction with CLAS at JLAB
        Speaker: Kyungseon Joo (University of Connecticut)
      • 64
        CLAS12 @ High luminosity: a new facility for precision hadron physics
        Speaker: Mariangela Bondi (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))
      • 65
        Quark model calculations of baryon electromagnetic form factors in the large timelike region
        Speaker: Gilberto Ramalho (OMEG Institute, Soongsil University)
      • 66
        A Unified Framework Across Multi-Experiment Hadron Physics Programs: J-PARC and JLab
        Speaker: Igor Strakovsky (The George Washington University)
      • 67
        Studying N* and Delta contributions to exclusive pion production in Proton-Proton Collisions using HADES data
        Speaker: Saket Kumar Sahu (Ruhr-Universität Bochum(RUB))
      • 68
        Elucidating Strangeness with Electromagnetic Probes
        Speaker: Asli Acar
    • 5:15 PM
      Coffee break
    • Parallel session A
      • 69
        Quark model review of baryon dynamics
        Speaker: Elena Santopinto (INFN)
      • 70
        Heavy exotic hadrons as meson-baryon molecules
        Speaker: Yasuhiro Yamaguchi
      • 71
        H-Dibaryon Search near the Lambda-Lambda and Cascade-proton Thresholds at J-PARC
        Speaker: Wooseung ‍Jung (Korea University)
      • 72
        Preliminary Study of Λη Threshold Dynamics in the J-PARC E72 Experiment
        Speaker: Shuhei Hayakawa (Tohoku University)
      • 73
        Finite-Range Effects and Coulomb Interactions in Femtoscopic Correlation Functions
        Speaker: Mr Pablo Encarnación (IFIC, Universidad de Valencia)
      • 74
        Spectroscopy of All-Heavy Pentaquark States
        Speaker: Hardik Rathod (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology)
      • 75
        Scattering and Femtoscopic Correlation Functions of the $\Sigma_c \pi$ Systems
        Speaker: Mikel F. Barbat (IFIC-UV)
    • Parallel session B
      • 76
        Dynamical coupled-channel models for hadron dynamics
        Speaker: Michael Doering (The George Washington University)
      • 77
        Lambda and Sigma spectrum from the Jülich-Bonn DCC model
        Speaker: Deborah Rönchen (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
      • 78
        Three body unitary coupled channel analysis on η(1405/1475) and other systems
        Speaker: Satoshi Nakamura
      • 79
        Structures of N* and Delta resonances from dynamical coupled-channel analyses
        Speaker: Yu-Fei Wang (College of Physics, Sichuan University)
      • 80
        Determination of Roper resonance with two- and three-body unitarity
        Speaker: Jinzi Wu (The George Washington University)
      • 81
        Cusp Effects and Near-Threshold Structures: ΛΛ Interactions Simulation Study with CBM
        Speaker: Gandharva Appagere (Stockholm University)
      • 82
        A Bayesian and machine learning approach to nucleon resonance extraction from meson electroproduction data
        Speaker: Mohammad Danyal Zarei (Faculty of Physics, University of Arak)
    • Parallel session C
      • 83
        Phenomenology of quark-gluon-quark interference inside of hadron
        Speaker: Alexey Vladimirov (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
      • 84
        Gluon TMD distributions: an overview
        Speaker: Carlo Flore (Università di Cagliari e INFN, Sezione di Cagliari)
      • 85
        Transverse-Momentum Structure of Light Pseudoscalar Mesons in Continuum Schwinger Function Methods
        Speaker: Minghui Ding (Nanjing University)
      • 86
        Studies of exotic baryon structure in the light quark sector with the BGOOD photoproduction experiment
        Speaker: Dr Thomas Jude (The University of Bonn)
      • 87
        PDF Moments from Flowed Local Operators: A Lattice QCD Approach to Hadron Structure
        Speaker: Andrea Shindler
      • 88
        Extracting the nucleon axial form factor from recent LQCD data using NNLO ChPT
        Speaker: Fernando Alvarado (GSI)
      • 89
        State-Driven Fragmentation of All-Heavy and Hidden-Heavy Tetraquarks
        Speaker: Dr Francesco Giovanni Celiberto (UAH Madrid)
    • Parallel session A
    • Parallel session B
    • Parallel session C
      • 100
        Neutrino Scattering: Connections Across Theory and Experiment
        Speaker: Raul Gonzalez Jimenez (Universidad de Sevilla)
      • 101
        Extension of superscaling approaches to semi-inclusive lepton-nucleus reactions and their implementation in generators
        Speaker: Dr Guillermo D. Megias (University of Seville (Spain))
      • 102
        Simulation of Single-Pion Production Reactions Using the DCC Model in the NEUT Neutrino Event Generator
        Speaker: Seisho Abe (University of Tokyo)
      • 103
        Neutrino-induced pion production in accelerator-based experiments
        Speaker: Alexis Nikolakopoulos (University of Washington)
      • 104
        Study of inelastic neutrino-nucleus scattering using the superscaling approach: Theory and Data comparison
        Speaker: Jesus Gonzalez Rosa (Universidad de Sevilla (ES))
    • 11:00 AM
      Coffee break
    • Parallel session A
    • Parallel session B
    • Parallel session C
      • 115
        CP-violation or Nuclear Excitation: the Role of Neutrino Interaction Model Uncertainties on Accelerator-Based Neutrino Oscillation Measurements
        Speaker: Dr Stephen Dolan (CERN)
      • 116
        Characterising the role of final state interactions on neutrino energy estimation in the DUNE and Hyper-K era
        Speaker: Laura Iuliana Munteanu (CERN)
      • 117
        Kaon production by charged- and neutral-current flavor-changing interactions
        Speaker: Marta Sayago Rodríguez (IFIC (CSIC-UV))
      • 118
        New electron scattering pion-production constraints for neutrino event generators
        Speaker: Julia Tena Vidal (Universitat de València)
      • 119
        Directly Probing the Proton's Axial Vector Form Factor via Electron-to-Neutrino Transitions
        Speaker: Roberto Perrino (INFN Bari)
    • Lunch time
    • Early (academic) career event. Speakers: R. Gothe (USA), K. Schöning (Europe), F.-K. Guo (Asia) and C.D. Roberts (Global): 1.- Research landscape in the particular region. 1.1.- Key institutions, laboratories, and collaborations. 1.2.- Main research directions (e.g., hadronic physics, nuclear structure, instrumentation). 1.3.- Funding ecosystem (national agencies, international programs, etc.). 2.- Career pathways and system structure. 2.1.- Typical academic trajectory (PhD → postdoc → permanent position or equivalent). 2.2.- Regional particularities (contracts, stability, mobility expectations). 2.3.- Alternative career paths (industry, national labs, data science, etc.). 3.- Opportunities for early-career researchers. 3.1.- Fellowships, grants, and exchange programs. 3.2.- Hiring trends and in-demand skills. 3.3.- Entry points into major collaborations. 4.- Challenges and realities. 4.1- Funding limitations, visa issues, and mobility barriers. 4.2.- Work-life balance expectations. 4.3.- Structural inequities or regional constraints. 5.- Personal advice. 5.1.- What you wish you had known earlier. 5.2.- Common pitfalls to avoid. 5.3.- Useful skills beyond physics (e.g., programming, communication, networking).
    • City center tour: Time: 18:00. Meeting point: Fuente de Híspalis - Puerta de Jerez. Itinerary: Departure from Fuente de Híspalis -- Puerta de Jerez, heading towards Palacio de San Telmo, Hotel Alfonso XIII, and the exterior of the former Tobacco Factory (now part of the University of Seville). From there, the tour will continue through the Murillo Gardens towards the Santa Cruz district. After exploring and learning about the neighbourhood, the route will continue to La Giralda, the Cathedral, the Alcázar, and the Archive of the Indies. The tour will then head towards La Maestranza (the Bullring) and finish just opposite it. From there, participants will only need to cross the Triana Bridge and walk along Paseo de la O to reach the hotel.

      Time: 18:00

      Meeting point: Fuente de Híspalis - Puerta de Jerez

      Itinerary: Departure from the Fuente de Híspalis - Puerta de Jerez, heading towards the Palacio de San Telmo, Hotel Alfonso XIII, and the exterior of the former Tobacco Factory (now part of the University of Seville). From there, the tour will continue through the Murillo Gardens towards the Santa Cruz district. After exploring and learning about the neighbourhood, the route will continue to La Giralda, the Cathedral, the Alcázar, and the Archive of the Indies. The tour will then head towards La Maestranza (the Bullring) and finish just opposite it. From there, participants will only need to cross the Triana Bridge and walk along Paseo de la O to reach the hotel.

    • Conference dinner
    • Plenary session
    • 11:00 AM
      Coffee break
    • Plenary session
    • Lunch time
    • Parallel session A
      • 127
        Coupled channel dynamics for baryon resonances from Lattice QCD
        Speaker: John Bulava
      • 128
        Nucleon Resonances from Hamiltonian Effective Field Theory
        Speaker: Zhan-Wei Liu (Lanzhou University)
      • 129
        Recent Lattice QCD studies of strange baryons
        Speaker: Barbara Cid-Mora (HIM)
      • 130
        The Delta resonance at the physical point
        Speaker: Ferenc Pittler (The Cyprus Institute)
      • 131
        Coupled channel scattering on the lattice: the Cascade 1620 region
        Speaker: Fernando Alvarado (GSI)
      • 132
        Experimental Study of the Λ–n Interaction in the γd → K⁺Λn Reaction
        Speaker: Takatsugu Ishikawa (Research Center for Electron Photon Science, Tohoku University)
    • Parallel session B
      • 133
        Nucleon Structure from Basis Light-Front Quantization: Recent Developments and Perspectives
        Speaker: Chandan Mondal
      • 134
        Nuclear matter in a light-front Hamiltonian framework: QMC-BFLQ
        Speaker: Dr João Pacheco De Melo (Laboratorio de Fisica Teorica e Computacional - LFTC / Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul - UCS Universidade Cidade de São Paulo - UNICID)
      • 135
        Ground and Excited States of Baryons on the Light Front
        Speaker: Dr Satvir Kaur (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou)
      • 136
        Towards a 3-dimensional holographic description of the pion
        Speaker: Prof. Ruben Sandapen (Acadia University)
      • 137
        Pole trajectories of the exotic baryons help establish their dynamical nature
        Speaker: Zejian Zhuang
      • 138
        Polarization Observables in pi^0Eta-Photoproduction off the Nucleon - Leoniedas Reschke for the CBELSA/TAPS-Collaboration
        Speaker: Leoniedas Reschke (Justus-Liebig-Universitaet Giessen (DE))
    • Parallel session C
      • 139
        The future INSIGHT experiment at ELSA
        Speaker: Ulrike Thoma (Bonn University)
      • 140
        Future positron physics program at JLab
        Speaker: Tyler Hague (JLab)
      • 141
        Progress of the Super Tau Charm Facility project in China
        Speaker: Liang Yan (Fudan University)
      • 142
        Kinematic fitting of data from electromagnetic calorimeters
        Speaker: Nicolas Kolanus
      • 143
        Towards a detector for the future EIC
        Speaker: Charlotte Van Hulse
      • 144
        Investigation of the strangeness production in the reaction pp to ppK+K- at HADES
        Speaker: Valentin Kladov
    • 5:15 PM
      Coffee break
    • Parallel session A
      • 145
        Baryon structure from lattice QCD
        Speaker: Sara Collins
      • 146
        From 1D to 3D Hadron Structure with lattice QCD simulations
        Speaker: Savvas ZAFEIROPOULOS
      • 147
        Progress in GPDs from Lattice QCD
        Speaker: Krzysztof Cichy
      • 148
        Machine learning in meson photoproduction
        Speaker: Dalibor Skoupil (Nuclear Physics Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
      • 149
        Toward the determination of the gluon helicity distribution in the nucleon from lattice quantum chromodynamics
        Speaker: David Richards (Jefferson Lab)
      • 150
        Search for a Narrow Λ Resonance Near the Λη Threshold at J-PARC E72
        Speaker: Haein Lee (Korea University)
    • Parallel session B
      • 151
        Improving our understanding of Hadron structure with Generalised Parton Distributions
        Speaker: Cédric Mezrag
      • 152
        A new framework for extracting GPDs
        Speaker: Paweł Sznajder (National Centre for Nuclear Research)
      • 153
        First measurement of the DVCS beam spin asymmetry in the Sullivan process
        Speaker: Elouan Ferrand (CEA Saclay)
      • 154
        Tackling the inverse problem of DVCS
        Speaker: Marija Čuić (Irfu, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay/Aidas)
      • 155
        From Compton to gravitational form factors beyond pressure
        Speaker: Victor Martinez-Fernandez (IRFU/CEA and CFNS)
      • 156
        Kinematic power corrections for TMD factorization theorem
        Speaker: Sara Piloñeta (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
    • Parallel session C
      • 157
        Effective Field Theories for Neutron Stars Physics
        Speaker: Jose Manuel Alarcón (Universidad de Alcalá)
      • 158
        Neural Quantum States for Dynamical Pions and Nucleons
        Speaker: Alessandro Lovato (IFIC-CSIC & INFN-TIFPA)
      • 159
        The behavior of the deuteron within a hadronic environment
        Speaker: Prof. Luciano Melo Abreu
      • 160
        Systematic account of bound-state motion for high precision studies
        Speaker: Alexander Kvinikhidze (A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute of the Tbilisi State niversity)
      • 161
        Temporal Evolution and Spatial Distribution of a Dynamically Generated Nucleon Resonance
        Speaker: Zhan-Wei Liu (Lanzhou University)
      • 162
        Spectroscopy of eta' mesic nuclei using 12C(p,d) reaction
        Speaker: Kenta Itahashi (Department of Physics, The University of Osaka)
    • Plenary session
    • 11:00 AM
      Coffee break
    • Plenary session
      • 167
        Criticality in Nature’s Strongest Force
        Speaker: Prof. Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
      • 168
        Recent Results on Hadronization Studies and Related Topics in Leptonuclear Scattering
        Speaker: William King Brooks Jr (Federico Santa Maria Technical University (CL))
      • 169
        Chiral dynamics and the Delta resonance
        Speaker: Evgeny Epelbaum (Ruhr-University Bochum)
    • Opening/Closing session -- Opening session chaired by the Rector of the University of Huelva, José Rodríguez-Quintero, and the Local Organizing Committee.