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) …

Neutron captures produce the vast majority of abundances of elements heavier than iron in
the Universe. Beyond the classical slow (s) and rapid (r) processes, there is observational …

The rapid neutron capture process (r process) is believed to be responsible for about half of
the production of the elements heavier than iron and contributes to abundances of some …

We propose a novel storage scheme for three-nucleon (3N) interaction matrix elements
relevant for the normal-ordered two-body approximation used extensively in ab initio …

This article reviews how nuclear fission is described within nuclear density functional theory.
A distinction should be made between spontaneous fission, where half-lives are the main …

The last decades brought impressive progress in synthesizing and studying properties of
nuclides located very far from the beta stability line. Among the most fundamental properties …

Absolute cross sections for isotopically identified products formed in multinucleon transfer in
the Xe 136+ Pt 198 system at∼ 8 MeV/nucleon are reported. The isotopic distributions …

Atomic nuclei have a shell structure in which nuclei with 'magic numbers' of neutrons and
protons are analogous to the noble gases in atomic physics. Only ten nuclei with the …

The structure of nuclear isomeric states is reviewed in the context of their role in
contemporary nuclear physics research. Emphasis is given to high-spin isomers in heavy …

Aiming at understanding the production mechanism of new neutron-rich nuclei around N=
126, the multinucleon transfer reaction Xe 136+ Pb 208 at E cm= 450 MeV has been …