Nuclear reaction rates play a critical role in the understanding of stellar evolution and
explosions. However, in many cases nuclear reaction rates still carry large uncertainties due …

New experimental methods and techniques, combined with the development of new
theoretical tools, have opened new avenues to explore nuclear reactions of significance for …

We present results from the JINA REACLIB project, an ongoing effort to maintain a current
and accurate library of thermonuclear reaction rates for astrophysical applications. Ongoing …

First generation, or Population III, stars have a different evolution than those of later
generations owing to their initial primordial abundance composition. Most notably, the lack …

To a high degree many aspects of the large-scale behavior of objects in the Universe are
governed by the underlying nuclear physics. In fact the shell structure of nuclear physics is …

x-ray bursts are identified as thermonuclear explosions in the outer atmosphere of accreting
neutron stars. The thermonuclear runaway is fueled by the α p process that describes a …

Simpson and Tostevin proposed that the width and shape of exclusive parallel momentum
distributions of the A− 2 residue in direct two-nucleon knockout reactions carry a measurable …

Several resonances in Al 25 (p, γ) Si 26 have been studied via the Si 28 (p, t) Si 26 reaction.
Triton energies and angular distributions were measured using a segmented annular …

The 18 Ne (α, p) 21 Na reaction provides a pathway for breakout from the hot CNO cycles to
the rp process in type-I x-ray bursts. To better determine this astrophysical reaction rate, the …

The 18 Ne (α, p) 21 Na reaction is thought to be one of the key breakout reactions from the
hot CNO cycles to the rp process in type I x-ray bursts. In this work, the resonant properties of …