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The production cross section of neutron-rich isotopes of Ca, Zn, Te, Xe, and Pt are predicted in the diffusive multi-nucleon transfer reactions with stable and radioactive beams. With these isotopes one can treat the neutron shell evolution…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Myeong-Hwan Mun , G. G. Adamian , N. V. Antonenko , Yongseok Oh , Youngman Kim

We present a review of the recent progress of theoretical models on the description of the formation of superheavy nuclei in collisions of heavy systems. Two sorts of reactions that are the fusion-evaporation mechanism and the massive…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-05-30 Zhao-Qing Feng , Gen-Ming Jin , Jun-Qing Li

How are the heavy elements formed? This has been a key open question in physics for decades. Recent direct detections of neutron star mergers and observations of evolved stars show signatures of chemical elements in the blue range of their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-16 Camilla Juul Hansen

The synthesis of superheavy elements stimulates the effort to study the peculiarities of the complete fusion with massive nuclei and to improve theoretical models in order to extract knowledge about reaction mechanism in heavy ion…

In rapid neutron capture, or r-process, nucleosynthesis, heavy elements are built up via a sequence of neutron captures and beta decays that involves thousands of nuclei far from stability. Though we understand the basics of how the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 R. Surman , M. Mumpower , J. Cass , I. Bentley , A. Aprahamian , G. C. McLaughlin

Within the concept of the dinuclear system (DNS), a dynamical model is proposed for describing the formation of superheavy nuclei in complete fusion reactions by incorporating the coupling of the relative motion to the nucleon transfer…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Zhao-Qing Feng , Gen-Ming Jin , Jun-Qing Li , Werner Scheid

About half of the heavy elements in the Solar System were created by rapid neutron capture, or r-process, nucleosynthesis. In the r-process, heavy elements are built up via a sequence of neutron captures and beta decays in which an intense…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 R. Surman , M. Mumpower , J. Cass , A. Aprahamian

Mathematical model of heavy and superheavy nuclei production in intensive pulsed neutron fluxes of explosive process is developed. The pulse character of the process allows dividing it in time into two stages: very short rapid process of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-11-03 Yu. S. Lutostansky , V. I. Lyashuk , I. V. Panov

Nucleosynthesis of heavy elements requires the use of different experimental and theoretical methods to determine astrophysical reaction rates than light element nucleosynthesis. Additionally, there are also larger uncertainties involved in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-12 T. Rauscher , N. Nishimura , R. Hirschi

The prediction of cross sections for nuclei far off stability is crucial in the field of nuclear astrophysics. We calculate direct neutron capture on the even-even isotopes $^{124-145}$Sn and $^{208-238}$Pb with energy levels, masses, and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Rauscher , R. Bieber , H. Oberhummer , K. -L. Kratz , J. Dobaczewski , P. Moller , M. M. Sharma

Production cross sections for neutron-rich nuclei from the fragmentation of a 76Ge beam at 132 MeV/u were measured. The longitudinal momentum distributions of 34 neutron-rich isotopes of elements 13 <= Z <= 27 were scanned using a novel…

We investigate the cold fission/fusion paths of superheavy nuclei within the two center shell model, in order to find the best projectile-target combinations of their production. The fission/fusion yields are estimated by using the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-05-07 M. Mirea , D. S. Delion , A. Sandulescu

The fusion dynamics on the formation of superheavy nuclei is investigated thoroughly within the dinuclear system model. The Monte Carlo approach is implemented into the nucleon transfer process for including all possible orientations, at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-06-28 Fei Niu , Peng-Hui Chen , Zhao-Qing Feng

In relativistic ion collisions there are excellent opportunities to produce and investigate hyper-nuclei. We have systematically studied the formation of hypernuclear spectator residues in peripheral heavy-ion collisions with the transport…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 A. S. Botvina , K. K. Gudima , J. Steinheimer , M. Bleicher , J. Pochodzalla

We point out that during the supernova II type explosion the thermodynamical condition of stellar matter between the protoneutron star and the shock front corresponds to the nuclear liquid-gas phase coexistence region, which can be…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. S. Botvina , I. N. Mishustin

Present theoretical investigations aim to explore the fusion characteristics of various isotopes of Z=120 within the relativistic mean-field (RMF) formalism. We predict the most suitable projectile-target combination for the synthesis of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-30 Shilpa Rana , Raj Kumar , M. Bhuyan

The photonuclear reactions which is induced by high-energetic photon are one of the important type of reactions in the nuclear structure studies. In this reaction, a target material is bombarded by photons with the energies in the range of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Serkan Akkoyun , Hüseyin Kaya , Abdulkadir Şeker , Saliha Yeşilyurt

The reaction mechanisms best suited for the production of neutron-rich nuclei, fragmentation and fission, are discussed. Measurements of the production cross sections of reaction residues together with model calculations allow to conclude…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-08-23 J. Benlliure , K. Helariutta , K. -H. Schmidt , M. V. Ricciardi

In peripheral collisions of relativistic heavy ions highly excited spectators containing Lambda-hyperons can be produced. Such strange spectator matter may undergo a break-up into many fragments (multifragmentation) as it is well…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. S. Botvina , J. Pochodzalla

We discuss the possibility whether superheavy elements can be produced in Nature by the astrophysical rapid neutron capture process. To this end we have performed fully dynamical network r-process calculations assuming an environment with…