Conference Program

XXIV International School on Nuclear Physics, Neutron Physics and Applications 2026

13–18 September 2026, Sol Nessebar Resort, Nessebar, Bulgaria

Day 1: Sunday, 13 September 2026

  • 10:00 – 17:00 Registration

Day 2: Monday, 14 September 2026

09:00 – 09:30 CONFERENCE OPENING
09:30 – 12:05 Session 1

Chairperson: Dimitar Tonev

09:30 – 10:00 Giacomo de Angelis
EXOTIC STRUCTURES AND DOUBLE-MAGICITY AT THE EDGE OF STABILITY
National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)–Legnaro National Laboratories, Legnaro, Italy
10:00 – 10:30 Gilles De France
STUDIES OF ISOSCALAR PAIRING AT GANIL
GANIL, Caen, France
10:30 – 10:55 Diana Carbone
HEAVY-ION INDUCED SINGLE AND DOUBLE CHARGE EXCHANGE REACTIONS IN A MULTI-CHANNEL APPROACH: NEW RESULTS FROM THE NUMEN PROJECT
Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy

Chairperson: Yu Zhang

11:10 – 11:40 Dimitar Tonev
ADVANCED DOPPLER-SHIFT METHODS AND NUCLEAR CHIRALITY
Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria
11:40 – 12:05 Alessandro Compagnucci
PROBING THE 10B+Α REACTIONS AT LUNA FOR NUCLEOSYNTHESIS IN PRIMORDIAL STARS
SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, UK
15:00 – 17:20 Session 2

Chairperson: Giovanni De Gregorio

15:00 – 15:25 Giuseppe D’Agata
ANC METHOD: STANDARD USAGE AND RECENT UPDATES
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Ettore Majorana,” Università di Catania, Italy
15:25 – 15:50 Angel Demerdjiev
NEUTRON IRRADIATION OF SHIELDING STRUCTURES IN THE INRNE-BAS TR-24 CYCLOTRON FACILITY
Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria
15:50 – 16:15 Jeongsu Ha
ABRUPT STRUCTURAL TRANSITION IN 84MO AND 86MO: AN ISOSPIN-SYMMETRIC ISLAND OF INVERSION
Center for Exotic Nuclear Studies, Institute for Basic Science, Korea

Chairperson: Gilles De France

16:30 – 16:55 Antonino Pitronaci
DETECTION CHALLENGES WITH THE NEW MAGNEX GAS TRACKER: PRELIMINARIES AND PERSPECTIVES
Department of Physics and Astronomy “E. Majorana”, UniCT, Italy
16:55 – 17:20 Radoslav Simeonov
IMPACT OF MIRROR MISALIGNMENT ON THE POINT SPREAD FUNCTION IN A SIMPLIFIED OPTICAL MODEL
Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria

Day 3: Tuesday, 15 September 2026

09:30 – 12:05 Session 3

Chairperson: Jie Meng

09:00 – 09:30 Peter Ring
BRUECKNER HARTREE-FOCK THEORY AS AN AB-INITIO APPROACH FOR NUCLEAR DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY
TU Munich, Germany
09:30 – 10:00 Baohua Sun
DEDUCING CHARGE RADII OF UNSTABLE ISOTOPES USING HADRONIC PROBES
School of Physics, Beihang University, China
10:00 – 10:25 Yiping Wang
CONFIGURATION-INTERACTION TIME-DEPENDENT DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY FOR NUCLEAR DYNAMICS
State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology,School of Physics, Peking University, China
10:25 – 10:50 Nikolay Goutev
AN EFFICIENCY EXTRAPOLATION METHOD FOR TRUE COINCIDENCE SUMMING CORRECTION
Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria

Chairperson: Qibo Chen

11:10 – 11:40 Takaharu Otsuka
QUANTUM MECHANICAL ROTATIONS OF NUCLEAR ELLIPSOIDS AND CLUSTERS
The University of Tokyo, Japan
11:40 – 12:05 Qiang Zhao
EXACT-EXCHANGE RELATIVISTIC DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY FOR ATOMIC NUCLEI
China Institute of Atomic Energy, China
15:00 – 17:20 Session 4

Chairperson: Giacomo de Angelis

15:00 – 15:30 Giovanni De Gregorio
NEUTRINOLESS DOUBLE-BETA DECAY WITHIN A CONSISTENT CHIRAL EFT SHELL-MODEL FRAMEWORK
Università della Campania ”Luigi Vanvitelli” & Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy
15:30 – 15:55 Gennaro Nunziata
QUANTUM ANNEALING FOR NUCLEAR MANY-BODY EIGENVALUE PROBLEMS
Università degli Studi della Campania ”L. Vanvitelli”, Italy
15:55 – 16:20 Mariana Petris
IMPLEMENTATION OF MSMGRPCS WITH AGING EFFECT SUPPRESSION IN LARGE SCALE HIGH INTERACTION RATE EXPERIMENTS
Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Romania

Chairperson: Nikolay Goutev

16:35 – 17:00 K. Chakarova, Ventzislav Rusanov
MÖSSBAUER, X-RAY FLUORESCENCE AND XANES MEASUREMENTS ON COUNTERFEITED DOLLAR MONEY PAPER AND PIGMENTS
American College of Sofia, Bulgaria
17:00 – 17:20 Hristo Hristov
NUCLEAR PHYSICS IN CLINICAL PRACTICE: FROM MEDICAL RADIONUCLIDE PRODUCTION TO DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING IN ONCOLOGY
Medical University “Prof. Dr. Paraskev Stoyanov”, Clinic of Nuclear Medicine and Metabolic Therapy, University Hospital “St. Marina”, Bulgaria

Day 4: Wednesday, 16 September 2026

09:00 – 12:05 Session 5

Chairperson: Peter Ring

09:00 – 09:30 Jie Meng
RECENT ADVANCES IN NUCLEAR CHIRALITY: STRUCTURE AND REACTIONS
Peking University, China
09:30 – 10:00 Qibo Chen
ENTANGLEMENT IN NUCLEAR CHIRAL ROTATION
East China Normal University, China
10:00 – 10:30 Yu Zhang
ALGEBRAIC MODEL ANALYSIS OF CHIRAL DOUBLET BANDS
Liaoning Normal University, China
10:30 – 10:55 Elena A. Stefanova
THE DECAY OF THE HEAD OF THE FIRST H11/2 NEGATIVE-PARITY BAND IN 105Ru
Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria

Chairperson: Y. P. Wang

11:15 – 11:45 Zhengxue Ren,
DYNAMICS OF ROTATION IN CHIRAL NUCLEI
School of Physics, Nankai University, China
11:45 – 12:05 Galina D. Dimitrova
EVALUATION OF PROMPT AND RESIDUAL RADIATION FIELDS INDUCED BY BEAM LOSSES IN A TR-24 CYCLOTRON FACILITY
Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria
15:00 – 15:50 Session 6

Chairperson: Angel Demerdjiev

15:00 – 15:25 Liliana Panteleev-Simeonova
SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS PARAMETERS INVESTIGATIONK
Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria
15:25 – 15:50 Mladen Mitev
INFLUENCE OF THE OF NUCLEAR FUEL ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION ON THE ACTIVATION OF REACTOR INTERNALS
Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
16:30 – 18:30 Poster Session
1. Rositsa Palakarcheva-Ivanova, Kalin Filipov*, Mladen Mitev
FUNCTIONAL RESONANCE ANALYSIS METHOD AS AN ANALYTICAL TOOL FOR ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF ACCIDENT TOLERANT FUEL IMPLEMENTATION ON FUNDAMENTAL NUCLEAR SAFETY FUNCTIONS IN LIGHT WATER REACTORS
Technical University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
2. Boyan Bonchev
PYROPHORIC IRON NANOPARTICLES FORMED BY SELECTIVE EXTRACTION FROM FE–AL ALLOYS: A MÖSSBAUER STUDY
Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
3. Nikolay Petrov
LOW-BACKGROUND GAMMA SPECTROMETRY SYSTEM FOR RADIOECOLOGICAL STUDIES
Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
4. Elena Geleva
APPLICATION OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS METHODS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF RADIONUCLIDES IN NATURAL WATERS
Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

Day 5: Thursday, 17 September 2026

09:30 – 11:25 Session 7

Chairperson: Mladen Mitev

09:30 – 09:55 Kristina Hadzhiyska
DATA GAPS IN ENERGY SYSTEM MODELING: IMPLICATION FOR SCENARIO RELIABILTY
Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria
09:55 – 10:20 Srebrin Kolev
PRACTICAL AND USER EXPERIENCE FROM UTILISING THE BEACON CORE MONITORING SYSTEM AND THE APA H CODE PACKAGE AT KOZLODUY NPP UNITS 5 AND 6
Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant, Bulgaria
10:20 – 10:45 Nikolay Karaivanov
SIZE REDUCTION AND DECONTAMINATION WORKSHOP (SRDW)
State Enterprise Radioactive Waste, Bulgaria
11:05 – 11:25 Petya Vryashkova,
ASSESSMENT OF THE ACCIDENT PROGRESSION IN CASE OF SBLOCA WITH DIFFERENT BREAK SIZES ALONG WITH SBO
Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria

Day 6: Friday, 18 September 2026

09:30 – 10:55 Session 8

Chairperson: Elena Stefanova

09.30 – 09:50 Dinko Radnev
FROM OLYMPIAD MATHEMATICS TO NUCLEAR PHYSICS: HOW MATHEMATICAL THINKING PREPARES FUTURE SCIENTISTS
Specialized High School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics "Academician Nikola Obreshkov", Burgas, Bulgaria
09:50 – 10:10 Vladimir Silvestrov
COMMISSIONING OF THE NATIONAL DISPOSAL FACILITY
State Enterprise Radioactive Waste, Bulgaria
10:10 – 10:35 Kalin Filipov
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL IN LIGHT WATER REACTORS
Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
10:35 – 10:55 Desislava Dimitrova
MONITORING OF 226Ra in BULGARIAN DRINKING WATERS
Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria
10:55 – 11:45 CLOSING CEREMONY