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 name | Title | Priority I days | Priority II days | |
| 2185 | Heery | The Role of Isomers in Explosive Hydrogen Burning | 10 | ||
| 2191 | Paul | First observation of reactions in flight induced by a charged particle in an inertially confined DT plasma | 7 | ||
| 2192 | Zhang | Synthesis and identification of new isotopes 152,153Hf via decay spectroscopy | 7 | ||
| 2193 | Watanabe | Probing deformed structure towards the island of inversion: High-spin spectroscopy of 36S | 6 | ||
| 2194 | O'Shea | Constraining Nucleosynthesis in Core-collapse Supernovae: Spectroscopy of 52Fe | 7 | ||
| 2195 | Chen | Exploring the Existence and Characterization of a Soft-Dipole Resonance in 6He: A Calibration of the Ab-Initio Calculations | 5 | ||
| 2196 | Chen | Search for linear-chain molecular bands in 14O analog to 14C | 7 | ||
| 2201 | Ratkiewicz | Constraining a Neutron-Capture Reaction Cross Section for a Radiochemical Diagnostic of Interest to Stockpile Stewardship | 6 | ||
| 2202 | Mattera | Precision gamma-ray spectroscopy measurement of the fusion-relevant nuclide W-187 | 3 | ||
| 2210 | Crawford | Proton Occupancies Below 48Ca - Transfer on 47K | 6 | ||
| 2212 | Clark | Isomer-Decay Spectroscopy of 248Fm (Z=100, N=148) | 7 | ||
| 2213 | Valverde | Discovery of Properties of New Isotopes using Mass and Decay Measurements at the N=126 Factory | 7 | ||
| 2215 | Ratkiewicz | A Direct Comparison of Indirect Approaches for Constraining Neutron-Induced Reaction Cross Sections | 7 | ||
| 2219x | Martin | Commissioning the Reconfigurable Array for Coincidences and Cascade-Oriented Observational Nuclear Spectroscopy | 3 | ||
| 2220 | Martin | Octupole correlations in 144Ce | 4 | ||
| 2221 | Lopez-Saavedra | Constraining the Weak r-Process with MUSIC: Measuring the 89Rb(alpha,xn) Reaction Cross Section | 7 | ||
| 2224 | Coil | Constraining the neutron-capture reaction rates for r-process nuclei in the A=145-148 region | 3 | ||
| 2225 | Ghimire | Measurement of 148Nd(p,p′γ)148Nd to Infer the Cross Section of 147Nd(n,γ)148Nd Using Surrogate Reaction Method with GODDESS | 5 | ||
| 2227 | Xu | Decay spectroscopy of 135-137Sb and 137Te at nuCARIBU | 6 | ||
| 2228 | Houff | High-precision Q_EC-value Measurements of the Superallowed Mixed Mirror Decay of 13N, 15O, 17F, and 35Ar | 6 | ||
| 2229 | Cory | Direct Measurements of the 30S(α,p)33Cl reaction to constrain X-Ray Burst Light Curves using MuSIC@Indiana | 7 | ||
| 2230 | Cory | Direct Measurements of alpha-induced reactions on 26Si relevant to energy generation in Type-I X-Ray Bursts with MuSIC@Indiana | 7 | ||
| 2231LOI | Hartley | Shape Transitions and Possible gamma Softness in Neutron-Rich Nuclei South of Platinum | |||
| 2232 | Blackmon | Beta-decay studies near N=50 with MTAS at nuCARIBU | 4 | ||
| 2233 | Appleton | Proton radioactivity below the 100Sn double shell closure - the case of 97mIn | 7 | ||
| 2234 | Blackmon | The 14O(alpha,p)17F Reaction Rate Through Measurement of the Time-inverse Reaction | 10 | ||
| 2235 | Morse | Isomer-Decay Spectroscopy of 249 Md | 7 | ||
| 2236 | Ayyad | Probing shape phase transition in Zirconium isotopes via two-particle transfer with the AT-TPC | 7 | ||
| 2237 | Lantis | Atom Trap Trace Analysis of short-lived noble gas radioisotopes collected at nuCARIBU | 6 | ||
| 2238x | Lantis | Laser Resonant Ionization and Separation of Nuclear Isomers of Iodine at nuCARIBU | 5 | ||
| 2239 | Grzywacz | High-resolution studies of neutron-gamma competition in the decay of bromine isotopes | 6 | ||
| 2242 | Cho | Search for high-K isomers in the shape-coexistence region: Isomer spectroscopy of 190Po | 5 | ||
| 2246 | Savard | Measurement of the independent fission product yield of 235U neutron-induced fission | 8 | ||
| 2248 | Varriano | 42Ar production for LEGEND | 4 | ||
| 2250x | Avila | Test of the new AMENA detector system | 6 | ||
| 2252 | Seweryniak | Search for the deformed proton emitter 188At: Thomas-Ehrman shift in heavy nuclei | 6 | ||
| 2254 | Kalaydjieva | Multiple-Shape Coexistence in Z ≈ 50 Region: Coulomb Excitation of 122,124Te | 4 | ||
| Sum | 137 | 81 |
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