Photonuclear reactions—From basic research to applications

A Zilges, DL Balabanski, J Isaak, N Pietralla - Progress in Particle and …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

The status and future of direct nuclear reaction measurements for stellar burning

M Aliotta, R Buompane, M Couder… - Journal of Physics G …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Feasibility of studying astrophysically important charged-particle emission with the variable energy -ray system at the Extreme Light Infrastructure–Nuclear Physics …

HY Lan, W Luo, Y Xu, DL Balabanski, GL Guardo… - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
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 …

PANDORA Project for the study of photonuclear reactions below

A Tamii, L Pellegri, PA Söderström, D Allard… - The European Physical …, 2023 - Springer
Photonuclear reactions of light nuclei below a mass of A= 60 are planned to be studied
experimentally and theoretically with the PANDORA (Photo-Absorption of Nuclei and Decay …

Determination of the photodisintegration reaction rates involving charged particles: Systematic calculations and proposed measurements based on the facility for …

HY Lan, Y Xu, W Luo, DL Balabanski, S Goriely… - Physical Review C, 2018 - APS
Photodisintegration reaction rates involving charged particles are relevant to the p-process
nucleosynthesis that aims at explaining the production of stable neutron-deficient nuclides …

Direct measurement of the F(p,)O reaction at E = 0.4–0.9 MeV using the LHASA detector array

GL Guardo, T Petruse, D Lattuada… - The European Physical …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The 19 F (p, α) 16 O reaction is of paramount importance for understanding the
fluorine abundance in the outer layers of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars and it might …

Direct and Indirect Measurements of the 19F (p, α) 16O Reaction at Astrophysical Energies Using the LHASA Detector and the Trojan Horse Method

GL Guardo, GG Rapisarda, DL Balabanski… - Universe, 2024 - search.proquest.com
Fluorine is one of the most interesting elements in nuclear astrophysics. Its abundance can
provide important hints to constrain the stellar models since fluorine production and …

PANDORA project: photo-nuclear reactions below

A Tamii, L Pellegri, PA Söderström, D Allard… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Photo-nuclear reactions of light nuclei below a mass of $ A= 60$ are studied experimentally
and theoretically by the PANDORA (Photo-Absorption of Nuclei and Decay Observation for …

Direct measurement of the 19F(p, )16O reaction using the LHASA detector array

T Petruse, GL Guardo, D Lattuada, ML Cognata… - The European Physical …, 2025 - Springer
The low-energy 19 F (p,\(\alpha\)) 16 O reaction has significant implications for nuclear
astrophysics. The 19 F (p,\(\alpha\)) 16 O reaction occurs via three channels:(p,\(\alpha …

Developing system arrays for new experimental approach in nuclear astrophysics

GL Guardo, D Lattuada, T Petruse - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …