PANDORA project: photo-nuclear reactions below $A=60$
Abstract
Photo-nuclear reactions of light nuclei below a mass of are studied experimentally and theoretically by the PANDORA (Photo-Absorption of Nuclei and Decay Observation for Reactions in Astrophysics) project. Two experimental methods, virtual-photon excitation by proton scattering and real-photo absorption by a high-brilliance gamma-ray beam produced by laser Compton scattering, will be applied to measure the photo-absorption cross sections and the decay branching ratio of each decay channel as a function of the photon energy. Several nuclear models, e.g. anti-symmetrized molecular dynamics, mean-field type models, a large-scale shell model, and ab initio models, will be employed to predict the photo-nuclear reactions. The uncertainty in the model predictions will be evaluated from the discrepancies between the model predictions and the experimental data. The data and the predictions will be implemented in a general reaction calculation code TALYS . The results will be applied to the simulation of the photo-disintegration process of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays in inter-galactic propagation.
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@article{arxiv.2211.03986,
title = {PANDORA project: photo-nuclear reactions below $A=60$},
author = {A. Tamii and L. Pellegri and P. -A. Söderström and D. Allard and S. Goriely and T. Inakura and E. Khan and E. Kido and M. Kimura and E. Litvinova and S. Nagataki and P. von Neumann-Cosel and N. Pietralla and N. Shimizu and N. Tsoneva and Y. Utsuno and S. Adachi and P. Adsley and A. Bahini and D. Balabanski and B. Baret and J. A. C. Bekker and S. D. Binda and E. Boicu and A. Bracco and I. Brandherm and M. Brezeanu and J. W. Brummer and F. Camera and F. C. L. Crespi and R. Dalal and L. M. Donaldson and Y. Fujikawa and T. Furuno and H. Haoning and Y. Honda and A. Gavrilescu and A. Inoue and J. Isaak and H. Jivan and P. M. Jones and S. Jongile and O. Just and T. Kawabata and T. Khumalo and J. Kiener and J. Kleemann and N. Kobayashi and Y. Koshio and A. Kuşoğlu and K. C. W. Li and K. L. Malatji and R. E. Molaeng and H. Motoki and M. Murata and A. A. Netshiya and R. Neveling and R. Niina and S. Okamoto and S. Ota and O. Papst and E. Parizot and T. Petruse and M. S. Reen and P. Ring and K. Sakanashi and E. Sideras-Haddad and S. Siem and M. Spall and T. Suda and T. Sudo and Y. Taniguchi and V. Tatischeff and H. Utsunomiya and H. Wang and V. Werner and H. Wibowo and M. Wiedeking and O. Wieland and Y. Xu and Z. H. Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.03986},
year = {2022}
}