Novel techniques for constraining neutron-capture rates relevant for r-process heavy-element nucleosynthesis

AC Larsen, A Spyrou, SN Liddick… - Progress in Particle and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The rapid-neutron capture process (r process) is identified as the producer of about 50% of
elements heavier than iron. This process requires an astrophysical environment with an …

Transfer reactions in nuclear astrophysics

DW Bardayan - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Toward a complete theory for predicting inclusive deuteron breakup away from stability

G Potel, G Perdikakis, BV Carlson, MC Atkinson… - The European Physical …, 2017 - Springer
We present an account of the current status of the theoretical treatment of inclusive (d, p)
reactions in the breakup-fusion formalism, pointing to some applications and making the …

Constraining neutron capture cross sections for unstable nuclei with surrogate reaction data and theory

JE Escher, JT Harke, RO Hughes, ND Scielzo… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
Obtaining reliable data for nuclear reactions on unstable isotopes remains an extremely
important task and a formidable challenge. Neutron capture cross sections—crucial …

-ray decay from neutron-bound and unbound states in and a novel technique for spin determination

M Wiedeking, M Krtička, LA Bernstein, JM Allmond… - Physical Review C, 2016 - APS
The emission of γ rays from neutron-bound and neutron-unbound states in Mo 95, populated
in the Mo 94 (d, p) reaction, has been investigated. Charged particles and γ radiation were …

Informing neutron capture nucleosynthesis on short-lived nuclei with (d, p) reactions

JA Cizewski, A Ratkiewicz, JE Escher… - EPJ Web of …, 2017 - epj-conferences.org
Neutron capture on unstable nuclei is important in understanding abundances in r-process
nucleosynthesis. Previously, the non-elastic breakup of the deuteron in the (d, p) reaction …

One-nucleon pickup reactions and compound-nuclear decays

JE Escher, JT Burke, RJ Casperson… - EPJ Web of …, 2018 - epj-conferences.org
One-nucleon transfer reactions, long used as a tool to study the structure of nuclei, are
potentially valuable for determining reaction cross sections indirectly. This is significant, as …

Capture cross sections from (p, d) reactions

JE Escher, JT Burke, RJ Casperson… - EPJ Web of …, 2017 - epj-conferences.org
Cross sections for compound-nuclear reactions involving unstable targets are important for
many applications, but can often not be measured directly. Several indirect methods have …

[PDF][PDF] One-Nucleon Pickup Reactions and Compound-Nuclear Decays

JT Burke, RJ Casperson, JE Escher, RO Hughes… - 2018 - osti.gov
One-nucleon transfer reactions, long used as a tool to study the structure of nuclei, are
potentially valuable for determining reaction cross sections indirectly. This is significant, as …

Transfer Reactions with 134Xe

SD Pain, KA Chipps, M Febbraro, I Marsh… - … and Properties of …, 2018 - World Scientific
The GODDESS coupling of charged-particle and photon spectrometers has been
commissioned using a beam of 134Xe at 10 MeV/A. This measurement demonstrates the …