Thomas Faestermann
We describe the recent experiments which claimed an observation of a tetra-neutron signal. Production reactions like transfer, knockout, fragmentation or photodisintegration have been used at very different experiments and facilities to…
In a recent publication an experiment is described which searched for a resonance in the four-neutron system. In a convincing way the knockout of an $\alpha$-particle off $^8$He nuclei by protons has been measured and the missing mass of…
There is now solid experimental evidence of at least one supernova explosion within 100 pc of Earth within the last few million years, from measurements of the short-lived isotope 60Fe in widespread deep-ocean samples, as well as in the…
This review reports on the science performed in various fields at the Munich tandem accelerator during the past decade. It covers nuclear structure studies, also with respect to astro- and particle physics as well as for the understanding…
Massive stars, which terminate their evolution as core collapse supernovae, are theoretically predicted to eject more than 1E-5 solar masses of the radioisotope 60Fe. If such an event occurs sufficiently close to our solar system, traces of…
The $^{58}$Ni$(n,\gamma)^{59}$Ni cross section was measured with a combination of the activation technique and accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). The neutron activations were performed at the Karlsruhe 3.7 MV Van de Graaff accelerator…
In this review lifetime measurements of ions with at most two electrons are summarized. Such highly ionized systems have been studied - until now - only in the Experimental Storage Ring of the GSI in Darmstadt. Emphasis is put on decays via…
Levels in $^{17}$O affect the astrophysical s-process in two opposite ways. The neutron production is enhanced by resonances in the $^{13}$C($\alpha$,$n$)$^{16}$O reaction at excitation energies around 7 MeV in $^{17}$O, and the number of…
The electron-capture decay of 180Re has been investigated to search for oscillations in the decay probability as reported from a recent measurement at GSI, Darmstadt. The production period was kept short compared to the reported oscillation…
I note that the explanation of a recently posted paper by Lambiase et al. [arXiv:0811.2302] for the oscillations in the electron capture decay rate, reported by Litvinov et al.[arXiv:0801.2079], requires the cancellation of a difference by…