IBER 2023

Session

Plenary Talks

6 Sept 2023, 09:00

Department of Physics, University of Coimbra

74. Optical negative ion drift operation at nearly atmospheric pressure

Prof. Elisabetta Baracchini (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

06/09/2023, 09:00

Plenary Lecture

We are going to present for the first time Negative Ion Drift (NID) operation in He:CF4:SF6 at nearly atmospheric pressure within a Time Projection Chamber (TPC) with optical readout via PMTs and scientific CMOS camera (sCMOS). These results have been obtained in the context of the CYGNO/INITIUM project, for the development of high precision 3D TPC for directional direct Dark Matter searches....

8. Recent developments of the Geant4-DNA extension of the Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation toolkit

Dr Sébastien Incerti (Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, LP2I, UMR 5797, F-33170 Gradignan, France)

06/09/2023, 09:40

Plenary Lecture

Modeling accurately biological damage induced by ionizing radiation at the scale of the DNA molecule remains a major challenge of today’s radiobiology research (1). In order to provide the community with an easily accessible mechanistic simulation platform, the general purpose and open source “Geant4” Monte Carlo simulation toolkit (2) is being extended in the framework of the “Geant4-DNA”...

95. Nuclear Fusion Challenges and the Portuguese contribution

Bruno Gonçalves (Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)

06/09/2023, 14:30

Plenary Lecture

The production of electricity from nuclear fusion has been a long-term challenge addressed by many research teams around the world. Recent records from inertial fusion and in magnetic confinement fusion experiments open great perspectives for a successful outcome in this quest. ITER construction is being accompanied by a vibrant fusion research program in many countries but, in particular in...

70. Real-time imaging and control of electron motion in molecules: towards attochemistry

Prof. Fernando Martin (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

07/09/2023, 09:00

Plenary Lecture

Photoinduced electron transfer and charge transfer processes occurring in organic and inorganic materials are the cornerstone of technologies aiming at the conversion of solar energy into electrical energy and at its efficient transport. The early stages of these processes occur in the attosecond time scale, the natural time scale for electronic motion in atoms and molecules. Accessing this...

68. Real-time observation of conical intersection in biomolecules

Giulio Nicola Felice Cerullo (Politecnico di Milano)

07/09/2023, 09:40

Plenary Lecture

Conical intersections (CIs) are regions of the potential energy landscape of a molecule where the electronic and nuclear degrees of freedom become strongly mixed and the Born–Oppenheimer approximation breaks down. CIs are ubiquitous features in the photophysics and photochemistry of molecules and can be considered as “doorways” through which the photoexcited wavepacket is efficiently funneled...

82. Surprising reaction dynamics of radical cations following electron ionization

Dr Marcos Dantus (Michigan State University)

07/09/2023, 14:30

Plenary Lecture

Femtosecond time-resolved measurements have provided the timescales of bond breaking and bond forming processes for a wide range of chemical reactions. Some chemical reactions such as those that involve a collision with an atom or an electron, however, are very difficult to study by time resolved methods. This talk will focus on the reaction dynamics of radical cations far from equilibrium...

73. Present and Future of the ALBA Synchrotron

Dr Caterina Biscari (ALBA Synchrotron)

08/09/2023, 09:00

Plenary Lecture

Synchrotron light is a key instrument for the scientific approach towards a sustainable world, and the ever-growing communication among the different synchrotron facilities boosts their scientific and socio-economic impact at regional and global levels.
Over the past decade, the ALBA Synchrotron, the Spanish 3rd generation light source, has become an important pillar of the Spanish and...

9. Ultrafast dynamics in microsolvated biomolecules

Dr Jochen Küpper (Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany Department of Physics, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Department of Chemistry, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Center for Ultrafast Imaging, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany)

08/09/2023, 09:40

Plenary Lecture

Interactions between proteins and their solvent environment can be studied in a bottom-up approach using hydrogen-bonded biomolecule-solvent clusters. The ultrafast dynamics following UV-light-induced electronic excitation of the biomolecular chromophores, potential radiation-damage, and their dependence on solvation are important open questions. Specific and precise studies of the...