Current status of r-process nucleosynthesis

T Kajino, W Aoki, AB Balantekin, R Diehl… - Progress in Particle and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The rapid neutron capture process (r process) is believed to be responsible for about half of
the production of the elements heavier than iron and contributes to abundances of some …

Review of metastable states in heavy nuclei

GD Dracoulis, PM Walker… - Reports on Progress in …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The structure of nuclear isomeric states is reviewed in the context of their role in
contemporary nuclear physics research. Emphasis is given to high-spin isomers in heavy …

[HTML][HTML] The neutron-rich edge of the nuclear landscape: Experiment and theory.

F Nowacki, A Obertelli, A Poves - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
In this review, we describe the experimental facilities and methods which make it possible to
produce and measure the properties of the extreme neutron-rich nuclei. We then develop …

Atlas of nuclear isomers—Second edition

S Garg, B Maheshwari, B Singh, Y Sun, A Goel… - Atomic data and nuclear …, 2023 - Elsevier
We present an updated version of the 2015-Atlas of Nuclear Isomers (Jain et al., 2015),
compiling and evaluating experimental data for the isomers with half-life≥ 10 ns, together …

100 years of nuclear isomers—then and now

P Walker, Z Podolyak - Physica Scripta, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The suggestion that some atomic nuclei would be able to exist in more than one stable or
metastable configuration was proposed by Soddy in 1917. Subsequently, the first …

Atlas of nuclear isomers

AK Jain, B Maheshwari, S Garg, M Patial, B Singh - Nuclear Data Sheets, 2015 - Elsevier
We present an atlas of nuclear isomers containing the experimental data for the isomers with
a half-life≥ 10 ns together with their various properties such as excitation-energy, half-life …

Exotic nuclei explored at in-flight separators

T Nakamura, H Sakurai, H Watanabe - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2017 - Elsevier
In-flight separators have played a significant role in the physics of exotic nuclei. In the last
decade, in particular, this field has expanded rapidly with the advent of the new-generation …

Astromers in the radioactive decay of r-process nuclei

GW Misch, TM Sprouse… - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Certain nuclear isomers are well known to affect nucleosynthesis with important observable
consequences (eg, 26 Al and 180 Ta). We study the impact of nuclear isomers in the context …

Gamma-ray spectroscopy of fission fragments with state-of-the-art techniques

S Leoni, C Michelagnoli, JN Wilson - La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento, 2022 - Springer
The paper reviews recent developments in γ-ray spectroscopy of the neutron-rich fragments
produced in nuclear fission. This subject has been an intensive area of study spanning more …

Shell-model-based investigation on level density of Xe and Ba isotopes

J Chen, M Liu, C Yuan, S Chen, N Shimizu, X Sun… - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
Nuclear level density is important for evaluating nuclear reaction processes, but its
microscopic investigation is not frequently performed. The present work applies a recently …