Horizons: nuclear astrophysics in the 2020s and beyond

H Schatz, ADB Reyes, A Best, EF Brown… - Journal of Physics G …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

First Direct Measurement of an Astrophysical -Process Reaction Cross Section Using a Radioactive Ion Beam

G Lotay, SA Gillespie, M Williams, T Rauscher… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
We have performed the first direct measurement of the Rb 83 (p, γ) radiative capture reaction
cross section in inverse kinematics using a radioactive beam of Rb 83 at incident energies of …

Simulation of a recoil mass spectrometer for measurement of differential quasi-elastic scattering cross sections: A semi-microscopic Monte Carlo code

R Biswas, S Nath - The European Physical Journal A, 2020 - Springer
We report development of a semi-microscopic Monte Carlo code to calculate the
transmission efficiency of a recoil mass spectrometer for quasi-elastic scattering. Realistic …

Measurement of the 86Kr (α, n) 89Sr cross section at energies relevant for the weak r-process

C Angus, M Williams, A Andreyev… - EPJ Web of …, 2023 - epj-conferences.org
The r-process has been shown to be robust in reproducing the abundance distributions of
heavy elements, such as europium, seen in ultra-metal poor stars. In contrast, observations …

Exotic Nuclei and Their Separation, Electromagnetic Devices

H Geissel, DJ Morrissey - Handbook of Nuclear Physics, 2022 - Springer
The discovery of short-lived, exotic nuclei has opened new horizons in subatomic physics
and allowed many novel applications in other fields, eg, the understanding of the evolution …

Cross sections of the and reactions at energies characteristic of the astrophysical process

M Williams, B Davids, G Lotay, N Nishimura… - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
We have measured the cross section of the Rb 83 (p, γ) Sr 84 radiative capture reaction in
inverse kinematics using a radioactive beam of Rb 83 at incident energies of 2.4 and 2.7 A …

[HTML][HTML] Degradation of thin carbon-backed lithium fluoride targets bombarded by 68 MeV 17O beams

YH Kim, B Davids, M Williams, KH Hudson… - Nuclear Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
To analyze the cause of the destruction of thin, carbon-backed lithium fluoride targets during
a measurement of the fusion of 7 Li and 17 O, we estimate theoretically the lifetimes of …

[HTML][HTML] Conceptual design of a low-energy ion beam storage ring and a recoil separator to study radiative neutron capture by radioactive ions

K Pak, B Davids, YK Kim - Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Recently, the TRIUMF Storage Ring (TRISR), a storage ring for the existing Isotope
Separator and Accelerator-I (ISAC-I) radioactive ion beam facility at TRIUMF, was proposed …

Investigating Early Nucleosynthesis of the Lighter Heavy Elements

C Angus - 2023 - etheses.whiterose.ac.uk
The\textit {r}-process produced half of all heavy elements in the universe today. While
models successfully reproduce the abundance distributions of the heaviest elements …

MARAn absoluuttinen läpäisy 84Kr+ 96Mo→ 180Pt-fuusiohöyrystymisreaktiossa 176Pt, 175Pt, 174Os ja 172Os-ytimille

H Flink - 2024 - jyx.jyu.fi
Tämän tutkimuksen tavoite oli selvittää Jyväskylän yliopiston fysiikan laitoksen
ydinrakenneryhmän rekyylimassaseparaattori MARAn absoluuttinen läpäisy 176Pt, 175Pt …