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The cross sections for the \nu-d and \bar{\nu}-d reactions are calculated for the incident energy up to E_\nu = 170 MeV, with the use of a phenomenological Lagrangian approach. We assess and improve the reliability of the employed…

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We report the results of a new accurate evaluation of light nuclei yields in primordial nucleosynthesis. All radiative effects, finite nucleon mass, thermal and plasma corrections are included in the proton to neutron conversion rates. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Esposito , G. Mangano , G. Miele , O. Pisanti

Double-differential cross sections of neutron production at angles from 0 to 110 degrees from many reactions induced by light and medium nuclei on targets from 12-C to 208-Pb, at several incident energies from 95 to 600 MeV/A have been…

Double-differential cross sections for light charged particle production (up to A=4) were measured in 96 MeV neutron-induced reactions, at TSL laboratory cyclotron in Uppsala (Sweden). Measurements for three targets, Fe, Pb, and U, were…

We have studied the sensitivity to variations in the triple alpha and 12C(alpha, gamma)16O reaction rates, of the yield of the neutrino process isotopes 7Li,11B, 19F, 138La, and 180Ta in core collapse supernovae. Compared to solar…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-04-20 Sam M. Austin , Alex Heger , Clarisse Tur

The nucleosynthetic yield from a supernova explosion depends upon a variety of effects: progenitor evolution, explosion process, details of the nuclear network, and nuclear rates. Especially in studies of integrated stellar yields,…

We present calculations of neutron thermal cross sections, Westcott factors, resonance integrals, Maxwellian-averaged cross sections and astrophysical reaction rates for 843 ENDF materials using data from the major evaluated nuclear…

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A realistic and detailed description of neutrinos in binary neutron star (BNS) mergers is essential to build reliable models of such systems. To this end, we present BNS_NURATES, a novel open-source numerical library designed for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-20 Leonardo Chiesa , Maitraya Bhattacharyya , Filippo Mazzini , Federico Maria Guercilena , Albino Perego , David Radice

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

Accurate multiplicities of prompt fission neutrons emitted in neutron-induced fission on a large energy range are essential for fundamental and applied nuclear physics. Measuring them to high precision for radioactive fissioning nuclides…

We construct an analytical model derived from nuclear reaction theory and having a simple functional form to demonstrate the quantitative agreement with the measured cross sections for neutron induced reactions. The neutron-nucleus total,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-05-02 Tapan Mukhopadhyay , Joydev Lahiri , D. N. Basu

Production of a neutrino source through proton induced reaction is studied by using the particle transport code, GEANT4. Unstable isotope such as $^{27}$Si can be produced when $^{27}$Al target is bombarded by 15 MeV energetic proton beams.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-02 Jae Won Shin , Myung-Ki Cheoun , Toshitaka Kajino

Low-energy nuclear recoils (NRs) are hard to measure because they produce few e$^{-}$/h$^+$ pairs in solids -- i.e. they have low "ionization yield". A silicon detector was exposed to thermal neutrons over 2.5\,live-days, probing NRs down…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-04-27 A. N. Villano , M. Fritts , N. Mast , S. Brown , P. Cushman , K. Harris , V. Mandic

The ultraperipheral collisions are the source of various interesting phenomena based on photon-induced reactions. We calculate cross sections for single and any number of n, p, $\alpha$, $\gamma$-rays in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collision…

Fast neutrons from cosmic-ray muons are an important background to underground low energy experiments. The estimate of such background is often hampered by the difficulty of measuring and calculating neutron production with sufficient…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 Y-F. Wang , V. Balic , G. Gratta , A. Fasso' , S. Roesler , A. Ferrari

We developed a set of EXFOR utility codes (ForEXy) to process the information of the experimental nuclear reaction data stored in the EXFOR library. We designed a new JSON format (J4) for the EXFOR library, and developed a code converting…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Naohiko Otuka , Vidya Devi , Osamu Iwamoto

Experimental isomeric ratios of light (A$\le$4) particle-induced nuclear reactions were compiled for the product nuclides having metastable states with half-lives longer than 0.1 sec. The experimental isomeric ratio data were taken from the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-08-09 A. Rodrigo , N. Otuka , S. Takács , A. J. Koning

Background $\alpha$-nucleus potentials play an essential role for the calculation of $\alpha$-induced reaction cross sections at low energies in the statistical model. Uncertainties of these calculations are related to ambiguities in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 P. Mohr , Gy. Gyürky , Zs. Fülöp

We report the results of a detailed calculation of nucleon weak interactions relevant for the neutron to proton density ratio at the onset of primordial nucleosynthesis. Radiative electromagnetic corrections, finite nucleon mass terms,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Esposito , G. Mangano , G. Miele , O. Pisanti

The LAQGSM code has been recently developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory to simulate nuclear reactions for proton radiography applications. We have benchmarked our code against most available measured data both for proton-nucleus and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. G. Mashnik , K. K. Gudima , R. E. Prael , A. J. Sierk