X-ray binaries are among the brightest extra-solar objects in the sky and are characterized
by dramatic variabilities in brightness on timescales ranging from milliseconds to months …

New experimental methods and techniques, combined with the development of new
theoretical tools, have opened new avenues to explore nuclear reactions of significance for …

The quest to comprehend how nuclear processes influence astrophysical phenomena is
driving experimental and theoretical research programs worldwide. One of the main goals in …

Nuclear Astrophysics as a broad and diverse field of study can be viewed as a magnifier of
the impact of microscopic processes on the evolution of macroscopic events. One of the …

In this paper, we study α clustering in Ne 18 and compare it with what is known about
clustering in the mirror nucleus O 18. The excitation function for O 14+ α resonant elastic …

The branching ratio Γ α/Γ γ of the 4.033 MeV 3/2+ state in 19 Ne plays a crucial role in the
breakout from the hot CNO cycle into the rapid proton capture process. This ratio has been …

Precision data have been obtained for the elastic scattering of F 17 on C 12 and N 14 at 10
MeV/nucleon to clarify the reaction mechanism for loosely bound nuclei at low energies and …

The level structure of 18 Ne above the α-decay threshold has been studied using the 16 O (3
He, n) reaction. A coincidence measurement of neutrons and charged particles decaying …

The O 14 (α, p) F 17 reaction is one of the key reactions involved in the breakout from the hot-
CNO cycle to the rp-process in type-I x-ray bursts (XRBs). The resonant properties in the …

The 140 (a, p) r7F reaction is an important part of the hot CNO cycle. We have measured
cross sections for the 17F (p, p) r7F,,,'7F (p, pr)'7F& and 17F (p, o) r40 reactions in inverse …