Nuclear reactions induced by photons play a vital role for very different aspects of basic
research and applications in physics. They are a key ingredient for the synthesis of nuclei in …

Nuclear astrophysics is a field at the intersection of nuclear physics and astrophysics, which
seeks to understand the nuclear engines of astronomical objects and the origin of the …

The study of stellar burning began just over 100 years ago. Nonetheless, we do not yet have
a detailed picture of the nucleosynthesis within stars and how nucleosynthesis impacts …

In the environment of a hot plasma, as achieved in stellar explosions, capture and
photodisintegration reactions proceeding on excited states in the nucleus can considerably …

Abstract Shanghai Laser Electron Gamma Source (SLEGS) is a powerful laser-Compton
scattering (LCS) γ-ray facility that provides a quasi-monochromatic MeV γ-ray beam with a …

Background: The He 3 (α, γ) Be 7 reaction plays a major role both in the big bang
nucleosynthesis producing the majority of the primordial Li 7, and in the pp chain of solar …

We develop a semi-microscopic model to describe transfer reactions. For the sake of
simplicity, we focus on nucleon-transfer reactions, but the theory can be generalized to other …

The existing experimental data for the γ decay of the stable N= Z doubly-odd nuclei and the
β decay of the corresponding isospin multiplets is reviewed. The structure of the lightest …

The advent of facilities providing high-intensity and high-resolution gamma ray beams
and/or ultra-short and high-repetition laser pulses can potentially open a new path of …

Measurements of (γ, p) and (γ, α) photonuclear reaction cross sections are relevant for
several nucleosynthesis scenarios, from the primordial Big Bang, to stellar burning, and the …