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For nuclear level densities, a modification of an enhanced generalized superfluid model with different collective state enhancement factors is studied. An effect of collective states on forming the temperature is taken into account. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-06-27 Vladimir Plujko , Oleksandr Gorbachenko , Boris Bondar , Evgeniy Rovenskykh

The Thermal Quasiparticle Random-Phase Approximation is combined with the Skyrme energy density functional method (Skyrme-TQRPA) to study the response of a hot nucleus to an external perturbation. For the sample nuclei, $^{56}$Fe and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Alan A. Dzhioev , A. I. Vdovin , G. Martínez-Pinedo , J. Wambach , Ch. Stoyanov

The objective of this work is to improve the robustness and accuracy of numerical simulations of both ideal and non-ideal explosives by introducing temperature dependence in mechanical equations of state for reactants and products. To this…

Nuclear reactions govern major aspects of the chemical evolution od galaxies and stars. Analytic study of the reaction rates and reaction probability integrals is attempted here. Exact expressions for the reaction rates and reaction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-15 H. J. Haubold , A. M. Mathai

We consider in this contribution a simplified idealized one-dimensional model in a nuclear core reactor coupling the diffusion equation on the neutron flux withthe enthalpy equation for the water which collects the heat produced by this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Olivier Lafitte , François Dubois

In this work we provide a new, well-controlled expansion of the equation of state of dense matter from zero to finite temperatures ($T$) while covering a wide range of charge fractions ($Y_Q$), from pure neutron to isospin symmetric nuclear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-06 Debora Mroczek , Nanxi Yao , Katherine Zine , Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler , Liam Brodie , Veronica Dexheimer , Alexander Haber , Elias R. Most

The possibility to produce superheavy elements in the course of low-yield nuclear explosions is analyzed within a simple kinetic model which includes neutron capture, gamma-emission, fission and particle evaporation from excited nuclei. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-19 Alexander Botvina , Igor Mishustin , Valery Zagrebaev , Walter Greiner

Thermal models have proven to be an useful and simple tool used to make theoretical predictions and data analysis in relativistic and ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. A new version of these models is presented here, incorporating a…

There is a high demand for nuclear data in multidisciplinary subject like nuclear astrophysics. The two areas of nuclear physics which are most clearly related to one another are stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis. The necessity for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-27 Vinay Singh , Debasis Bhowmick , D. N. Basu

A model in which a projectile like fragment can be simply regarded as a remnant after removal of some part of the projectile leads to an excited fragment. This excitation energy can be calculated with a Hamiltonian that gives correct…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 S. Das Gupta , S. Mallik , G. Chaudhuri

The microscopic approach of fission rates and neutron emission rates in compound nuclei have been applied to $^{258}$No and $^{286}$Cn. The microscopic framework is based on the finite-temperature Skyrme-Hartree-Fock+BCS calculations, in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Yi Zhu , Junchen Pei

The kinetic energy variation of emitted light clusters has been employed as a clock to explore the time evolution of the temperature for thermalizing composite systems produced in the reactions of 26A, 35A and 47A MeV $^{64}$Zn with…

Over the billions of years since the Big Bang, the lives, deaths and afterlives of stars have enriched the Universe in the heavy elements that make up so much of ourselves and our world. This review summarizes the methods used to evolve…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 W. R. Hix , B. S. Meyer

Energetics of nuclear reaction is fundamentally important to understand the mechanism of pair instability supernovae (PISNe). Based on the hydrodynamic equations and thermodynamic relations, we derive exact expressions for energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Koh Takahashi , Takashi Yoshida , Hideyuki Umeda , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Shoichi Yamada

The majority of nuclear reactions in astrophysics involve unstable nuclei which are not fully accessible by experiments yet. Therefore, there is high demand for reliable predictions of cross sections and reaction rates by theoretical means.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 T. Rauscher , R. D. Hoffman , S. E. Woosley , F. -K. Thielemann

The nuclear collective response at finite temperature is investigated for the first time in the quantum framework of the small amplitude limit of the extended TDHF approach, including a non-Markovian collision term. It is shown that the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Denis Lacroix , Philippe Chomaz , Sakir Ayik

We present the state-of-the-art single-zone nuclear reaction network WinNet that is capable of calculating the nucleosynthetic yields of a large variety of astrophysical environments and conditions. This ranges from the calculation of the…

Nuclear reaction rate ($\lambda$) is a significant factor in the process of nucleosynthesis. A multi-layer directed-weighted nuclear reaction network in which the reaction rate as the weight, and neutron, proton, $^4$He and the remainder…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-10-13 H. L. Liu , D. D. Han , P. Ji , Y. G. Ma

X-ray observations of transiently accreting neutron stars during quiescence provide information about the structure of neutron star crusts and the properties of dense matter. Interpretation of the observational data requires an…

An approach is proposed to nuclear pairing at finite temperature and angular momentum, which includes the effects of the quasiparticle-number fluctuation and dynamic coupling to pair vibrations within the self-consistent quasiparticle…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Dinh Dang , N. Quang Hung