Origin of the heaviest elements: The rapid neutron-capture process

JJ Cowan, C Sneden, JE Lawler, A Aprahamian… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
The production of about half of the heavy elements found in nature is assigned to a specific
astrophysical nucleosynthesis process: the rapid neutron-capture process (r process) …

Super-heavy element research

YT Oganessian, VK Utyonkov - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
A review of the discovery and investigation of the'island of stability'of super-heavy nuclei at
the separator DGFRS (FLNR, JINR) in the fusion reactions of 48 Ca projectiles with target …

ENDF/B-VIII. 0: the 8th major release of the nuclear reaction data library with CIELO-project cross sections, new standards and thermal scattering data

DA Brown, MB Chadwick, R Capote, AC Kahler… - Nuclear Data …, 2018 - Elsevier
We describe the new ENDF/B-VIII. 0 evaluated nuclear reaction data library. ENDF/B-VIII. 0
fully incorporates the new IAEA standards, includes improved thermal neutron scattering …

Measurement of the fine-structure constant as a test of the Standard Model

RH Parker, C Yu, W Zhong, B Estey, H Müller - Science, 2018 - science.org
Measurements of the fine-structure constant α require methods from across subfields and
are thus powerful tests of the consistency of theory and experiment in physics. Using the …

A blueprint for demonstrating quantum supremacy with superconducting qubits

C Neill, P Roushan, K Kechedzhi, S Boixo, SV Isakov… - Science, 2018 - science.org
A key step toward demonstrating a quantum system that can address difficult problems in
physics and chemistry will be performing a computation beyond the capabilities of any …

Atomic weights of the elements 2013 (IUPAC Technical Report)

J Meija, TB Coplen, M Berglund, WA Brand… - Pure and Applied …, 2016 - degruyter.com
The biennial review of atomic-weight determinations and other cognate data has resulted in
changes for the standard atomic weights of 19 elements. The standard atomic weights of …

Isochronous mass measurements of -shell nuclei from projectile fragmentation of

YH Zhang, P Zhang, XH Zhou, M Wang, YA Litvinov… - Physical Review C, 2018 - APS
Atomic masses of seven T z=− 1, fp-shell nuclei from V 44 to Cu 56 and two low-lying
isomers, V 44 m (J π= 6+) and Co 52 m (J π= 2+), have been measured with relative …

Superheavy nuclei from 48Ca-induced reactions

YT Oganessian, VK Utyonkov - Nuclear Physics A, 2015 - Elsevier
The discovery and investigation of the new region of superheavy nuclei at the DGFRS
separator based on fusion reactions of 48 Ca with 238 U–249 Cf target nuclei are reviewed …

Laser spectroscopy for nuclear structure physics

P Campbell, ID Moore, MR Pearson - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2016 - Elsevier
High-resolution laser spectroscopy is an established powerful tool in the study of nuclear
shape, size and multipole moments. Measurements of the hyperfine structures and isotope …

Masses of exotic calcium isotopes pin down nuclear forces

F Wienholtz, D Beck, K Blaum, C Borgmann… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
The properties of exotic nuclei on the verge of existence play a fundamental part in our
understanding of nuclear interactions. Exceedingly neutron-rich nuclei become sensitive to …