Name: Nuclear Masses in Astrophysics for the Next 25 Years
Start: 2026-05-11T00:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-05-13T14:00:00-04:00
Location: Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, East Lansing, MI, USA

Nuclear Masses in Astrophysics for the Next 25 Years

from Monday, 11 May 2026 (00:30) to Wednesday, 13 May 2026 (14:00)

Monday, 11 May 2026
09:00 Presentations: Astrophysics
Astrophysics
09:00 - 10:20
Room: 1221 A/B
Contributions

09:00 Welcome

09:05 The r process: nature’s tour guide of the unmapped nuclear chart - Nicole Vassh (TRIUMF)

09:30 Nuclear Masses For r-process Nucleosynthesis - Mengke Li (UC Berkeley)

09:55 The end of the beginning of nuclear masses for the rp-process - Zach Meisel (Ohio University)
10:20 Coffee break

10:20 - 10:50
Room: 1221 A/B
10:50 Presentations: Theory
Theory
10:50 - 12:20
Room: 1221 A/B
Contributions

10:50 TBD - Nikolai Shchechilin (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)

11:15 Latest developments in the Brussels microscopic mass models - Luis Gonzáles Miret

11:40 Nuclear Masses at the Predictive Frontier - Matthew Mumpower
12:30 Lunch

12:30 - 14:00
Room: 1221 A/B
14:00 Presentations: Data
Data
14:00 - 15:20
Room: 1221 A/B
Contributions

14:00 Bayesian Model Combination for Nuclear Extrapolation - Sudhanva Lalit

14:25 TBD

14:50 White Paper coordination - Alfredo Estrade (CMU) Sam Porter (University of Notre Dame)
15:20 Coffee break

15:20 - 15:50
Room: 1221 A/B

15:50 Break-out group discussion

15:50 - 17:20
Room: 1221 A/B
Tuesday, 12 May 2026
09:00 Presentations: Experiments
Experiments
09:00 - 10:45
Room: 1221 A/B
Contributions

09:00 Mass measurements at the S800 - Justin Placido

09:25 Current Capabilities and Future Advancement for Astrophysical Mass Measurements with LEBIT at FRIB - Hannah Erington (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (Michigan State University))

09:50 Weighing the Nucleus: European Trapped-Ion Efforts for Astrophysics - Klaus Blaum (Max Planck Society (DE))

10:15 Precision mass measurements for nuclear astrophysics at ATLAS - Adrian Valverde
10:45 Coffee break

10:45 - 11:15
Room: 1221 A/B
11:15 White paper discussion
11:15 - 12:20
Room: 1221 A/B
Contributions

11:15 White Paper: astrophysics section

11:30 White Paper: theory section

11:45 White Paper: experiments section

12:00 White Paper: data section
12:30 Lunch

12:30 - 14:00
Room: 1221 A/B

14:00 Break-out group discussion

14:00 - 15:20
Room: 1221 A/B

15:20 Coffee break

15:20 - 15:50
Room: 1221 A/B
15:50 White paper discussion
15:50 - 17:30
Room: 1221 A/B
Contributions

15:50 White Paper: astrophysics section

16:15 White Paper: theory section

16:40 White Paper: experiments section

17:05 White Paper: data section
Wednesday, 13 May 2026

09:00 Break-out group discussion

09:00 - 10:20
Room: 1221 A/B

10:20 Coffee break

10:20 - 10:50
Room: 1221 A/B
10:50 White paper discussion
10:50 - 12:20
Room: 1221 A/B
Contributions

10:50 White Paper: Introduction and conclusions

11:30 White Paper: writing tasks