Proposals and LOIs Approved at the October 27-28, 2025 ATLAS PAC Meeting


Requested beam time

The ATLAS Program Advisory Committee (PAC) met on October 27-28, 2025. A total of 72 proposals and letters of intent requesting 481 days of facility time were evaluated. The considerations of the committee were based on their assessment of the scientific importance of the proposed research, its technical feasibility, and its reliance on aspects of the ATLAS facility that are unique.

Types of approval

Because of the large number of high-quality proposals and the constraints on beam time, the PAC is asked to recommend beam time allocation in two categories:
Priority I: used for experiments that must be run at all costs
Priority II: used for experiments that should be run if possible. The time allocated for Priority-II experiments is valid for 2 years, starting from the date of the PAC meeting when it was approved. If Priority-II experiments cannot be scheduled before the approved time expires the corresponding proposals will have to be resubmitted.

PAC meeting outcome

Below is a table with the proposals approved by the ATLAS director based on the recommendations of the PAC. The last two columns indicate the number of days approved. Priority-II days expire on October 27th, 2027.

Proposal #PI last nameTitlePriority I daysPriority II days
2185HeeryThe Role of Isomers in Explosive Hydrogen Burning10
2191PaulFirst observation of reactions in flight induced by a charged particle in an inertially confined DT plasma7
2192ZhangSynthesis and identification of new isotopes 152,153Hf via decay spectroscopy7
2193WatanabeProbing deformed structure towards the island of inversion: High-spin spectroscopy of 36S6
2194O'SheaConstraining Nucleosynthesis in Core-collapse Supernovae: Spectroscopy of 52Fe7
2195ChenExploring the Existence and Characterization of a Soft-Dipole Resonance in 6He: A Calibration of the Ab-Initio Calculations5
2196ChenSearch for linear-chain molecular bands in 14O analog to 14C7
2201RatkiewiczConstraining a Neutron-Capture Reaction Cross Section for a Radiochemical Diagnostic of Interest to Stockpile Stewardship6
2202MatteraPrecision gamma-ray spectroscopy measurement of the fusion-relevant nuclide W-1873
2210CrawfordProton Occupancies Below 48Ca - Transfer on 47K6
2212ClarkIsomer-Decay Spectroscopy of 248Fm (Z=100, N=148)7
2213ValverdeDiscovery of Properties of New Isotopes using Mass and Decay Measurements at the N=126 Factory7
2215RatkiewiczA Direct Comparison of Indirect Approaches for Constraining Neutron-Induced Reaction Cross Sections7
2219xMartinCommissioning the Reconfigurable Array for Coincidences and Cascade-Oriented Observational Nuclear Spectroscopy3
2220MartinOctupole correlations in 144Ce4
2221Lopez-SaavedraConstraining the Weak r-Process with MUSIC: Measuring the 89Rb(alpha,xn) Reaction Cross Section7
2224CoilConstraining the neutron-capture reaction rates for r-process nuclei in the A=145-148 region3
2225GhimireMeasurement of 148Nd(p,p′γ)148Nd to Infer the Cross Section of 147Nd(n,γ)148Nd Using Surrogate Reaction Method with GODDESS5
2227XuDecay spectroscopy of 135-137Sb and 137Te at nuCARIBU6
2228HouffHigh-precision Q_EC-value Measurements of the Superallowed Mixed Mirror Decay of 13N, 15O, 17F, and 35Ar6
2229CoryDirect Measurements of the 30S(α,p)33Cl reaction to constrain X-Ray Burst Light Curves using MuSIC@Indiana7
2230CoryDirect Measurements of alpha-induced reactions on 26Si relevant to energy generation in Type-I X-Ray Bursts with MuSIC@Indiana7
2231LOIHartleyShape Transitions and Possible gamma Softness in Neutron-Rich Nuclei South of Platinum
2232BlackmonBeta-decay studies near N=50 with MTAS at nuCARIBU4
2233AppletonProton radioactivity below the 100Sn double shell closure - the case of 97mIn7
2234BlackmonThe 14O(alpha,p)17F Reaction Rate Through Measurement of the Time-inverse Reaction10
2235MorseIsomer-Decay Spectroscopy of 249 Md7
2236AyyadProbing shape phase transition in Zirconium isotopes via two-particle transfer with the AT-TPC7
2237LantisAtom Trap Trace Analysis of short-lived noble gas radioisotopes collected at nuCARIBU6
2238xLantisLaser Resonant Ionization and Separation of Nuclear Isomers of Iodine at nuCARIBU5
2239GrzywaczHigh-resolution studies of neutron-gamma competition in the decay of bromine isotopes6
2242ChoSearch for high-K isomers in the shape-coexistence region: Isomer spectroscopy of 190Po5
2246SavardMeasurement of the independent fission product yield of 235U neutron-induced fission8
2248Varriano42Ar production for LEGEND4
2250xAvilaTest of the new AMENA detector system6
2252SeweryniakSearch for the deformed proton emitter 188At: Thomas-Ehrman shift in heavy nuclei6
2254KalaydjievaMultiple-Shape Coexistence in Z ≈ 50 Region: Coulomb Excitation of 122,124Te4
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