European Low-Level Laboratories convene for CELLAR Community Meeting

Underground physics laboratories in Europe have been a driving force for progress in various domains. This includes nuclear and particle physics as well as low-background detector technologies, which are crucial for experimental studies of weak nuclear processes, such as those which are driving stellar evolution. The three-day CELLAR Community Meeting 2022 (starting November 28), aims …

ChETEC-INFRA TNA Event on October 24: Transnational Access and the PTB Ion Accelerator Facility (PIAF)

On Monday, October 24, 2022 at 16:00 – 16:45 (Brussels time) the next edition of the „ChETEC-INFRA TNA event“ will take place on Zoom: Meeting Link. After an introduction outlining TNA in ChETEC-INFRA, the PTB Ion Accelerator Facility in Braunschweig, Germany, will be presented, and combined with a virtual tour of the laboratory. The remaining …

Hands-On Training for Young Nuclear Astrophysicists at Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics X School

On the 3rd of September 2022, the ChETEC-INFRA Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics X school was concluded. The school took place at CERN (Geneva), and hosted 32 students or young post-docs (~50% females) from 13 Countries. The school was one of a kind, combining lectures and hands-on activities. Students had the chance to learn first-hand how …

Solar Fusion III Workshop

The Solar Fusion III workshop (SF-III) took place from July 26-29, 2022, at Berkeley (USA) under the sponsorship of ChETEC-INFRA, the NSF network N3AS and the Institute for Nuclear Theory (USA). Initially scheduled for 2020, ten years after the previous SF-II workshop, SF-III brought together experimentalists and theoreticians working on hydrogen burning nuclear reactions with …

New Video on HPC Stellar Nucleosynthesis Tools

The next video of the series on Stellar Nucleosynthesis Tools for HPC Clusters is now available. The tutorial on SE Outputs from MESA for Postprocessing is available on the ChETEC-INFRA channel on YouTube, or as part of this play list (external link to youtube.com). The video series is part of the resources provided to the …

ChETEC-INFRA Meets for Second General Assembly in Padova

One year after the first general assembly of ChETEC-INFRA in 2021 was held online, the second assembly now took place in hybrid mode. Held in the center of Padua (Italy), the program of the meeting included presentations on developments in nuclear astrophysics, as well as talks on highlights of the individual ChETEC-INFRA Work Packages and …

ChETEC-INFRA TNA Event on May 23: Transnational Access and Accelerator Mass Spectrometry at the DREAMS Facility

On Monday, May 23, 2022 at 15:30 – 16:30 (Brussels time) the next edition of the „ChETEC-INFRA TNA event“ will take place on Zoom: Meeting Link. After an introduction outlining TNA in ChETEC-INFRA, the DREAMS Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility in Dresden, Germany, will be presented with slides and a virtual tour of the laboratory. The …

TNA Proposals: Call 5 open until May 17, Office Hours every Monday

The ongoing call 5 for Transnational Access Proposals to be collected for evaluation closes on May 17. TNA through ChETEC-INFRA offers access to 13 facilities (telescopes, nuclear laboratories and high-performance computing), without access cost for the proposer and with the possibility to support travel expenses. Prospective proposers are encouraged to contact the facilities to discuss …

SNAQs Celebrates First Year of Schools on Nuclear Astrophysics Questions

In February 2021 the first edition of the School on Nuclear Astrophysics Questions (SNAQs) launched. With monthly schools – except for a summer break and months with in-person schools taking place, a total of nine schools were held up to January 2021 when SNAQs celebrated the conclusion of its first year. Each of the nine …