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) …

The last decade has witnessed both quantitative and qualitative progress in shell-model
studies, which have resulted in remarkable gains in our understanding of the structure of the …

Advances in our understanding and the modeling of stellar core-collapse and supernova
explosions over the past 15 years are reviewed, concentrating on the evolution of …

Based on large-scale shell-model calculations we have determined the electron capture,
positron capture and beta-decay rates for more than 100 nuclei in the mass range A= 45–65 …

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

We review recent studies of the evolution of collective excitations in atomic nuclei far from
the valley of β-stability. Collective degrees of freedom govern essential aspects of nuclear …

Applications of the nuclear shell model to nuclei out to the proton and neutron drip lines are
presented. The assumptions and hamiltonians for the mean-field and shell-model …

Shell-model calculations in the full pf-shell are carried out for the A= 50, 51 and 52 isobars.
The most frequently used effective interactions for the pf-shell, KB3 and FPD6 are revisited …

Neutrinos are known to play important roles in many astrophysical scenarios from the early
period of the big bang to current stellar evolution being a unique messenger of the fusion …

We review the topic of muon capture in nuclei and show that significant nuclear physics is
being learnt from recent experiments. The focus of many earlier experiments had been the …