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The precise calculation of alpha-induced neutron-emission ($\alpha$,n) reaction rates is fundamental to understanding nucleosynthesis in diverse stellar environments. This study investigates the nuclear reaction rates for various…

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About half of the elements beyond iron are synthesized in stars by rapid-neutron capture process (r-process). The stellar environment provides very high neutron flux in a short time ($\sim$ seconds) which is conducive for the creation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-05 Vinay Singh , Joydev Lahiri , Malay Kanti Dey , D. N. Basu

Stellar nucleosynthesis is an important nuclear physics phenomenon that is responsible for presently observed chemical elements and isotope abundances. It is also one of the corner stone hypotheses that provides basis for our understanding…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-09 Boris Pritychenko

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

We investigate the effects of thermonuclear reaction rate uncertainties on nova nucleosynthesis. One-zone nucleosynthesis calculations have been performed by adopting temperature-density-time profiles of the hottest hydrogen-burning zone…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christian Iliadis , Art Champagne , Jordi Jose , Sumner Starrfield , Paul Tupper

Stochastic chemical systems with diffusion are modeled with a reaction-diffusion master equation. On a macroscopic level, the governing equation is a reaction-diffusion equation for the averages of the chemical species. On a mesoscopic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-03-06 Stefan Engblom , Lars Ferm , Andreas Hellander , Per Lötstedt

We calculated the Maxwellian-averaged cross sections (MACS) and astrophysical reaction rates of the stellar nucleosynthesis reactions (n,$\gamma$), (n,fission), (n,p), (n,$\alpha$) and (n,2n) using the ENDF/B-VII.0-, JEFF-3.1-, JENDL-3.3-,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 B. Pritychenko , S. F. Mughaghab , A. A. Sonzogni

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

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

One-dimensional reaction-diffusion systems are mapped through a similarity transformation onto integrable (and a priori non-stochastic) quantum chains. Time-dependent properties of these chemical models can then be found exactly. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 Malte Henkel , Enzo Orlandini , Jaime Santos

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

We explore the sensitivity of the nucleosynthesis of intermediate mass elements (28 < A < 80) in supernovae derived from massive stars to the nuclear reaction rates employed in the model. Two standard sources of reaction rate data (Woosley…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. D. Hoffman , S. E. Woosley , T. A. Weaver , T. Rauscher , F. -K. Thielemann , .

The relationship among nuclear structure, the weak processes in nuclei, and astrophysics becomes quite apparent in supernova explosion and nucleosynthesis studies. In this brief article, I report on progress made in the last few years on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 D. J. Dean

Predictions of astrochemical models depend strongly on the reaction rate coefficients used in the simulations. We reviewed a number of key reactions for the chemistry of nitrogen-bearing species in the dense interstellar medium and proposed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-10-17 V. Wakelam , I. W. M. Smith , J. -C. Loison , D. Talbi , S. J. Klippenstein , A. Bergeat , W. D. Geppert , K. M. Hickson

We investigate the $A(p,K^+){_\Lambda}B$ reaction within a covariant two nucleon model. We focus on amplitudes which are described by creation, propagation and decay into relevant channel of $N^*$(1650), $N^*$(1710), and $N^*$(1720)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Shyam , H. Lenske , U. Mosel

We investigate a recently proposed cross-diffusion system modelling the growth of gliobastoma taking into account size exclusion both in the migration and proliferation process. In addition to degenerate nonlinear cross-diffusion the model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-12 Martin Burger , Patricia Friele , Jan-Frederik Pietschmann

For one-neutron halo nuclei, the cross section for elastic scattering and breakup at intermediate energy exhibit similar angular dependences. The Recoil Excitation and Breakup (REB) model of reactions elegantly explains this feature. It…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-12-22 Pierre Capel , Ronald C. Johnson , Filomena M. Nunes

In view of the application to supernova simulations, we calculate neutrino reaction rates with nucleons via the neutral and charged currents in the supernova core in the relativistic random phase approximation (RPA) and study their effects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Shoichi Yamada , Hiroshi Toki

Total reaction cross sections are predicted for nucleons scattering from various nuclei. Projectile energies to 300 MeV are considered. So also are mass variations of those cross sections at selected energies. All predictions have been…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Amos , S. Karataglidis , P. K. Deb

We revisit the Glauber model to study the heavy ion reaction cross sections and elastic scattering angular distributions at low and intermediate energies. The Glauber model takes nucleon-nucleon cross sections and nuclear densities as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Ajay Mehndiratta , Prashant Shukla