26th Australian Institute of Physics Congress and the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics

Session

AIP NUPP: Nuclear Physics 2

NUPP

7 Dec 2026, 14:00

Belinda Hutchinson Building (The University of Sydney )

289. Skyrme quark–meson coupling energy density functional predictions of nuclear ground-state properties

Cedric Simenel

07/12/2026, 14:00

AIP | Nuclear and Particle Physics (NUPP)

Invited talk

Energy density functional (EDF) methods provide one of the most powerful approaches for describing nuclei across the nuclear chart, but conventional functionals typically require many phenomenological parameters fitted to finite-nucleus data. We present a systematic investigation of a Skyrme quark–meson coupling (SQMC) energy density functional derived from the quark–meson coupling (QMC)...

644. Probing the Pion using Lattice QCD

Ian Van Schalkwyk

07/12/2026, 14:30

AIP | Nuclear and Particle Physics (NUPP)

Contributed Oral

The pion is the lightest hadron in nature, and yet constraining key aspects of its internal structure has been the subject of much theoretical and experimental attention, and remains a challenge. Of specific phenomenological interest is the electromagnetic form factor of the pion whose behavior across a range of momentum transfers, $Q^2$, will help probe the transition between the perturbative...

779. Nachtmann moment of the parity-violating structure function from the Feynman-Hellmann method

Jordan Mckee

07/12/2026, 14:45

AIP | Nuclear and Particle Physics (NUPP)

Contributed Oral

Precision measurements of superallowed nuclear β decays provide an important test of the Standard Model through the determination of $V_{ud}$. Interpreting these measurements requires an accurate understanding of the effects of the strong interaction on electroweak radiative corrections at low momentum transfer. In this regime, perturbative methods are no longer applicable, motivating...

637. Charm Hadron Properties from Lattice QCD

Lula Abdirashid Ali (University of Adelaide)

07/12/2026, 15:00

AIP | Nuclear and Particle Physics (NUPP)

Contributed Oral

The strong interaction binds quarks together to form hadrons such as the proton and neutron, as well as heavier states containing strange or charm quarks. Charm baryon spectroscopy has seen renewed interest following LHCb’s 2026 observations confirming the doubly charmed $\Xi_{cc}^+$ mass and making the first-ever observation of the $\Omega_{cc}^+$, completing the SU(4) multiplet of...

174. Investigation of excitation energy dependence of fission modes in actinides through transfer-induced fission

Hyeonseop Lee (Australian National University)

07/12/2026, 15:15

AIP | Nuclear and Particle Physics (NUPP)

Contributed Oral

Nuclear fission, wherein one nucleus splits into two fragments, is one of the most complex processes in nuclear physics.
The fissioning nucleus can be visualised as a series of nuclear shape evolution following a trajectory on the topography of the potential energy surface.
Various fission outcomes arise starting from the same compact configuration, due to features on the multidimensional...