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) …

Nucleosynthesis in the s process takes place in the He-burning layers of low-mass
asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars and during the He-and C-burning phases of massive …

The source of the gravitational-wave (GW) signal GW170817, very likely a binary neutron
star merger, was also observed electromagnetically, providing the first multi-messenger …

Recent experimental data and progress in nuclear structure modeling have led to improved
descriptions of astrophysically important weak-interaction processes. This review discusses …

Experimental studies of light dripline nuclei are reviewed. Progress in the production of very
short lived nuclei and the development of radioactive nuclear beams has given this field the …

The astrophysical site of the r-process is still uncertain, and a full exploration of the
systematics of this process in terms of its dependence on nuclear properties from stability to …

β decays of the isotones with N= 126 are studied by shell-model calculations taking into
account both the Gamow-Teller (GT) and first-forbidden (FF) transitions. The FF transitions …

Nuclei with magic numbers serve as important benchmarks in nuclear theory. In addition,
neutron-rich nuclei play an important role in the astrophysical rapid neutron-capture process …

A modern variation of the Rutherford experiment to probe the tunneling of exotic nuclear
matter from the measurement of the residues formed in the bombardment of Au 197 by …

There has been a persistent conundrum in attempts to model the nucleosynthesis of heavy
elements by rapid neutron capture (the r-process). Although the locations of the abundance …