In this review the main advances in heavy-ion fusion research that have taken place over the
last decade are addressed. During this period, experimental studies have been extended to …

The Trojan Horse Method (THM) represents an indirect path to determine the bare nucleus
astrophysical S-factor for reactions among charged particles at astrophysical energies. This …

The success or failure of the neutrino-transport mechanism for producing a supernova in an
evolved massive star is known to be sensitive not only to the mass of the iron core that …

Rotation was shown to have a strong impact on the structure and light element
nucleosynthesis in massive stars. In particular, models including rotation can reproduce the …

Carbon burning powers scenarios that influence the fate of stars, such as the late
evolutionary stages of massive stars (exceeding eight solar masses) and superbursts from …

Aims. To understand the formation and evolution of the different stellar populations within
our Galaxy it is essential to combine detailed kinematical and chemical information for large …

We provide a set of stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis calculations that applies
established physics assumptions simultaneously to low-and intermediate-mass and massive …

We study the s-process abundances (A≳ 90) at the epoch of the solar system formation.
Asymptotic giant branch yields are computed with an updated neutron capture network and …

The C 12+ C 12 fusion reaction plays a critical role in the evolution of massive stars and also
strongly impacts various explosive astrophysical scenarios. The presence of resonances in …

Carbon and oxygen burning reactions, in particular, C 12+ C 12 fusion, are important for the
understanding and interpretation of the late phases of stellar evolution as well as the ignition …