Laser spectroscopy for the study of exotic nuclei

XF Yang, SJ Wang, SG Wilkins, RFG Ruiz - Progress in Particle and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Investigation into the properties and structure of unstable nuclei far from stability is a key
avenue of research in modern nuclear physics. These efforts are motivated by the continual …

r-process nucleosynthesis: connecting rare-isotope beam facilities with the cosmos

CJ Horowitz, A Arcones, B Cote… - Journal of Physics G …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This is an exciting time for the study of r-process nucleosynthesis. Recently, a neutron star
merger GW170817 was observed in extraordinary detail with gravitational waves and …

Unified equations of state for cold non-accreting neutron stars with Brussels–Montreal functionals–I. Role of symmetry energy

JM Pearson, N Chamel, AY Potekhin… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The theory of the nuclear energy-density functional is used to provide a unified and
thermodynamically consistent treatment of all regions of cold non-accreting neutron stars. In …

78Ni revealed as a doubly magic stronghold against nuclear deformation

R Taniuchi, C Santamaria, P Doornenbal, A Obertelli… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Nuclear magic numbers correspond to fully occupied energy shells of protons or neutrons
inside atomic nuclei. Doubly magic nuclei, with magic numbers for both protons and …

Nuclear mass predictions with machine learning reaching the accuracy required by -process studies

ZM Niu, HZ Liang - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
Nuclear masses are predicted with the Bayesian neural networks by learning the mass
surface of even-even nuclei and the correlation energies to their neighboring nuclei. By …

Measurement and microscopic description of odd–even staggering of charge radii of exotic copper isotopes

RP De Groote, J Billowes, CL Binnersley, ML Bissell… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Nuclear charge radii globally scale with atomic mass number A as A 1∕ 3, and isotopes
with an odd number of neutrons are usually slightly smaller in size than their even-neutron …

Further Evidence for Shape Coexistence in near Doubly Magic

L Nies, L Canete, DD Dao, S Giraud, A Kankainen… - Physical review …, 2023 - APS
Isomers close to doubly magic Ni 50 28 78 provide essential information on the shell
evolution and shape coexistence near the Z= 28 and N= 50 double shell closure. We report …

Quantified limits of the nuclear landscape

L Neufcourt, Y Cao, SA Giuliani, W Nazarewicz… - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
Background: The chart of the nuclides is limited by particle drip lines beyond which nuclear
stability to proton or neutron emission is lost. Predicting the range of particle-bound isotopes …

[HTML][HTML] The neutron-rich edge of the nuclear landscape: Experiment and theory.

F Nowacki, A Obertelli, A Poves - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
In this review, we describe the experimental facilities and methods which make it possible to
produce and measure the properties of the extreme neutron-rich nuclei. We then develop …

Masses of exotic nuclei

T Yamaguchi, H Koura, YA Litvinov, M Wang - Progress in Particle and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent developments in precision mass spectrometry of radioactive isotopes (RI) and some
selected related physics subjects are reviewed. In the last decades, besides conventional …