Abstract The Gamma Factory (GF) is an ambitious proposal, currently explored within the
CERN Physics Beyond Colliders program, for a source of photons with energies up to≈ 400 …

With the development of radioactive beam facilities, studies concerning the shell evolution of
unstable nuclei have recently gained prominence. Intruder components, particularly s-wave …

The radioisotope 26 Al is a key observable for nucleosynthesis in the Galaxy and the
environment of the early Solar System. To properly interpret the large variety of astronomical …

The next years will see the completion of the radioactive ion beam facility SPES (Selective
Production of Exotic Species) and the upgrade of the accelerators complex at Istituto …

We present the first direct measurement of an astrophysical reaction using a radioactive
beam of isomeric nuclei. In particular, we have measured the strength of the key 447-keV …

Isomers are metastable nuclear excitations with long half-lives, ranging from nanoseconds
to years. In general, an isomer's decay is inhibited by at least one of three physical …

It has recently been reported [GW Bailey, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 162502 (2016) PRLTAO
0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett. 117.162502] that (d, p) cross sections can be very …

An in-flight beam of 16 N was produced via the single-neutron adding (d, p) reaction in
inverse kinematics at the recently upgraded Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System …

The isomeric content of a 34 Cl beam produced in the intermediate-energy projectile
fragmentation of a 150 MeV/u 36 Ar beam on a 3 mm-thick Be target was studied. β-delayed …

Proton capture on the excited isomeric state of Al 26 strongly influences the abundance of
Mg 26 ejected in explosive astronomical events and, as such, plays a critical role in …