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Alternative methods to calculate neutron capture cross sections on radioactive nuclei are reported using the theory of Inclusive Non-Elastic Breakup (INEB) developed by Hussein and McVoy [1]. The statistical coupled-channels theory proposed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-03-01 C. A. Bertulani , B. V. Carlson

The accurate description of nuclear quantum effects, such as zero-point energy, is important for modeling a wide range of chemical and biological processes. Within the nuclear-electronic orbital (NEO) approach, such effects are incorporated…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Fabijan Pavošević , Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

Nuclear excitation induced by lasers holds broad application prospects in precision metrology and nuclear energy, such as nuclear batteries and nuclear clocks. In the present work, the nuclear excitation via inelastic electron scattering…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-27 Qiong Xiao , Yangyang Xu , Junhao Cheng , Liangqi Zhang , Wenyu Zhang , Yongsheng Huang , Tongpu Yu

Searches for neutrinoless-double beta decay rates are crucial in addressing questions within fundamental symmetries and neutrino physics. The rates of these decays depend not only on unknown parameters associated with neutrinos, but also on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-26 G. B. King , S. Pastore , M. Piarulli , R. Schiavilla

Muon-catalyzed nuclear fusion (\mucf) replaces atomic electrons with negative muons, compressing atomic orbitals by about two orders of magnitude and enabling deuterium--tritium (D--T) fusion under near-room-temperature conditions. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-27 Xiong Yin , Wei Kou , Xurong Chen

The MUonE experiment aims at providing a novel determination of the leading hadronic contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment through the study of elastic muon-electron scattering. Since the initial-state electrons are bound in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-31 G. Abbiendi , E. Budassi , C. M. Carloni Calame , A. Gurgone , F. Piccinini

Muon capture isotope production (MuCIP) using negative ordinary muon capture reactions (OMC) is used to efficiently produce various kinds of nuclear isotopes for both fundamental and applied science studies. The large capture probability of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-04-22 I. H. Hashim , H. Ejiri , F. Othman , F. Ibrahim , F. Soberi , N. N. A. M. A. Ghani , T. Shima , A. Sato , K. Ninomiya

In this paper the essential theoretical predictions for the nuclear muonic radioactivity are presented by using a special fission-like model similar with that used in description of the pionic emission during fission. Hence, a fission-like…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-01-25 D. B. Ion , M. L. D. Ion , Reveica Ion-Mihai

The contributions of short-range nucleon-nucleon (NN) correlations, various meson exchange current (MEC) terms and the influence of $\Delta$ isobar excitations (isobaric currents, IC) on exclusive two-nucleon knockout reactions induced by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Knödler , H. Müther , P. Czerski

The Quasi-Elastic (QE) contribution of the nuclear inclusive electron model developed in reference \cite{GNO97} is extended to the study of electroweak Charged Current (CC) induced nuclear reactions at intermediate energies of interest for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-08-15 J. Nieves , J. E. Amaro , M. Valverde

The Quasi-Elastic (QE) contribution of the nuclear inclusive electron scattering model developed in Nucl. Phys. A627 (1997) 543 is extended to the study of electroweak Charged Current (CC) induced nuclear reactions, at intermediate energies…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 J. Nieves , J. E. Amaro , M. Valverde

The radiative capture process n+p-> d+gamma provides clear evidence for meson exchange currents in nuclear physics. We compute this process at low energies using a recently developed power counting for the effective field theory that…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Martin J. Savage , Kevin A. Scaldeferri , Mark B. Wise

Nuclear excitation by electron capture (NEEC) in $^{229}$Th holds significant potential for precise nuclear state manipulation. In this study, we thoroughly investigate NEEC in $^{229}\text{Th}^{q+}$ ions by integrating quantum numbers ($n,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-10 Yang-Yang Xu , Qiong Xiao , Jun-Hao Cheng , Wen-Yu Zhang , Tong-Pu Yu

We present an analytical model for intermolecular Coulombic electron capture (ICEC) which includes the internal nuclear dynamics of the molecules involved. In ICEC, an electron attaches to an atom or molecule by transferring excess energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Elena M. Jahr , Elke Fasshauer

X-ray assisted nuclear excitation by electron capture (NEEC) into inner-shell atomic holes in a plasma environment generated by strong optical lasers is investigated theoretically. The considered scenario involves the interaction of a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Yuanbin Wu , Christoph H. Keitel , Adriana Pálffy

The contributions of short-range nucleon-nucleon correlations, meson exchange current (MEC) corrections and the influence of Delta isobar excitations (isobaric currents, IC) on photon induced two-nucleon knockout reactions are investigated.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Knödler , H. Müther

We investigate the process of nuclear excitation via a two-photon electron transition (NETP) for the case of the doubly charged thorium. The theory of the NETP process has been devised originally for heavy helium-like ions. In this work, we…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-05-17 Robert A. Müller , Andrey V. Volotka , Andrey Surzhykov

In this work we present some results of the interaction of high energy muons with emulsion nuclei. The interaction results in emission of a number of fragments as a consequence of electromagnetic dissociation of the excited target nuclei.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-01-19 S. M. Othman , M. T. Ghoneim , M. T. Hussein , H. El-Smman , A. Hussein

The optimal parameters for nuclear excitation by electron capture in plasma environments generated by the interaction of ultra-strong optical lasers with solid matter are investigated theoretically. As a case study we consider a 4.85 keV…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Yuanbin Wu , Jonas Gunst , Christoph H. Keitel , Adriana Pálffy

A nuclear model is proposed where the nucleons interact by emitting and absorbing mesons, and where the mesons are treated explicitly. A nucleus in this model finds itself in a quantum superposition of states with different number of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-02 D. V. Fedorov