The impact of individual nuclear properties on r-process nucleosynthesis

MR Mumpower, R Surman, GC McLaughlin… - Progress in Particle and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The astrophysical rapid neutron capture process or 'r process' of nucleosynthesis is believed
to be responsible for the production of approximately half the heavy element abundances …

Neutrino–nuclear responses for astro-neutrinos, single beta decays and double beta decays

H Ejiri, J Suhonen, K Zuber - Physics Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
Neutrino–nuclear responses associated with astro-neutrinos, single beta decays and double
beta decays are crucial in studies of neutrino properties of interest for astro-particle physics …

[HTML][HTML] Nuclear mass predictions based on Bayesian neural network approach with pairing and shell effects

ZM Niu, HZ Liang - Physics Letters B, 2018 - Elsevier
Bayesian neural network (BNN) approach is employed to improve the nuclear mass
predictions of various models. It is found that the noise error in the likelihood function plays …

Large-scale evaluation of -decay rates of -process nuclei with the inclusion of first-forbidden transitions

T Marketin, L Huther, G Martinez-Pinedo - Physical Review C, 2016 - APS
Background: r-process nucleosynthesis models rely, by necessity, on nuclear structure
models for input. Particularly important are β-decay half-lives of neutron-rich nuclei. At …

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 …

Towards an ab initio covariant density functional theory for nuclear structure

S Shen, H Liang, WH Long, J Meng, P Ring - Progress in Particle and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Nuclear structure models built from phenomenological mean fields, the effective nucleon–
nucleon interactions (or Lagrangians), and the realistic bare nucleon–nucleon interactions …

Time-dependent density-functional description of nuclear dynamics

T Nakatsukasa, K Matsuyanagi, M Matsuo… - Reviews of modern …, 2016 - APS
The basic concepts and recent developments in the time-dependent density-functional
theory (TDDFT) for describing nuclear dynamics at low energy are presented. The symmetry …

Predictions of nuclear -decay half-lives with machine learning and their impact on -process nucleosynthesis

ZM Niu, HZ Liang, BH Sun, WH Long, YF Niu - Physical Review C, 2019 - APS
Nuclear β decay is a key process to understand the origin of heavy elements in the universe,
while the accuracy is far from satisfactory for the predictions of β-decay half-lives by nuclear …

Nuclear robustness of the process in neutron-star mergers

JJ Mendoza-Temis, MR Wu, K Langanke… - Physical review C, 2015 - APS
We have performed r-process calculations for matter ejected dynamically in neutron star
mergers based on a complete set of trajectories from a three-dimensional relativistic …

Beyond-mean-field approaches for nuclear neutrinoless double beta decay in the standard mechanism

JM Yao, J Meng, YF Niu, P Ring - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Nuclear weak decays provide important probes to fundamental symmetries in nature. A
precise description of these processes in atomic nuclei requires comprehensive knowledge …