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Within the framework of the modified potential cluster model with a classification of orbital states according to Young diagrams, the possibility of prediction absentee experimental data for the total cross sections of the radiative neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-11-14 S. B. Dubovichenko , N. A. Burkova , A. V. Dzhazairov-Kakhramanov

The radiative neutron capture reaction rates have been studied at very low energies which are of interest for nuclear astrophysics. The rates for many of these reactions have remained independent of temperature so far. The temperature…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-26 Vinay Singh , Joydev Lahiri , D. N. Basu

Differential cross sections for $^3$He-$\alpha$ scattering were measured in the energy range up to 3 MeV. These data together with other available experimental results for $^3$He $+ \alpha$ and $^3$H $+ \alpha$ scattering were analyzed in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Mohr , H. Abele , R. Zwiebel , G. Staudt , H. Krauss , H. Oberhummer , A. Denker , J. W. Hammer , G. Wolf

In this thesis, conducted in the field of few--body nuclear physics,I studied low energy inelastic reactions of electro--weak probes on light nuclei. Such interactions hold experimental and theoretical attention in recent years because of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-07-02 Doron Gazit

The $^{22}$Ne($p,\gamma$)$^{23}$Na reaction, part of the neon-sodium cycle of hydrogen burning, may explain the observed anticorrelation between sodium and oxygen abundances in globular cluster stars. Its rate is controlled by a number of…

Decay mode of the $2_1^+$ resonant state of $^6$He populated by the $^6$He breakup reaction by $^{12}$C at 240 MeV/nucleon is investigated. The continuum-discretized coupled-channels method is adopted to describe the formation of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Yuma Kikuchi , Takuma Matsumoto , Kosho Minomo , Kazuyuki Ogata

The total cross sections of the radiative neutron capture processes on 9Be, 14C, 14N, 15N, and 16O are described in the framework of the modified potential cluster model with the classification of orbital states according to Young tableaux.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-01-29 Sergey Dubovichenko , Albert Dzhazairov-Kakhramanov , Nadezhda Afanasyeva

The $^3$He$(\alpha,\gamma)^7$Be radiative capture reaction plays a key role in the creation of elements in stars as well as in the production of solar neutrinos, the observation of which is one of the main tools to study the properties of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-17 M. C. Atkinson , K. Kravvaris , S. Quaglioni , P. Navrátil

This work is an attempt to model the $4n$ response function of a recent RIKEN experimental study of the double charge exchange $^4$He($^8$He,$^8$Be)$^4$n reaction in order to put in evidence an eventual enhancement mechanism of the zero…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-08-15 Rimantas Lazauskas , Emiko Hiyama , Jaume Carbonell

The $Hep$ process is a weak-interaction reaction, $He3 + p \to He4 + e^+ + \nu_e$, which occurs in the sun. There is renewed interest in $Hep$ owing to current experimental efforts to extract from the observed solar neutrino spectrum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Kuniharu Kubodera , Tae-Sun Park

The stability of thermonuclear burning of hydrogen and helium accreted onto neutron stars is strongly dependent on the mass accretion rate. The burning behavior is observed to change from Type I X-ray bursts to stable burning, with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 L. Keek , R. H. Cyburt , A. Heger

In order to study the processes creating intermediate and heavy nuclei in massive stars it is necessary to provide neutron capture cross sections and reaction rates close to stability and for moderately unstable neutron-rich nuclei.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Rauscher , A. Heger , S. E. Woosley , R. D. Hoffman

We study the capture rate in the doublet hyperfine initial state for the muon capture reaction $\mu^- + \,^2{\rm H} \rightarrow \nu_\mu + n + n$ ($\Gamma^D$) and the total capture rate for the reaction $ \mu^- + \,^3{\rm He} \rightarrow…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-13 L. E. Marcucci , R. Machleidt

We propose a novel method to measure the neutron-neutron scattering length using the $^{6}$He$(p,p\alpha)nn$ reaction in inverse kinematics at high energies. The method is based on the final state interaction (FSI) between the neutrons…

The astrophysical S-factor and reaction rate of the direct capture process $\alpha+d$ $\rightarrow$ $^6$Li + $\gamma$, as well as the abundance of the $^6$Li element are estimated in a three-body model. The initial state is factorized into…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-11-28 E. M. Tursunov , S. A. Turakulov , A. S. Kadyrov , I. Bray

A thermal pulse during the post-AGB phase of stellar evolution may lead to a unique mode of light element nucleosynthesis. The stage is set by the ingestion of the unprocessed envelope material into the hot He-flash convection zone below.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Falk Herwig , Norbert Langer

We assume an environment of neutrons and $\alpha$-particles of given density and temperature where nuclear syntheses into $^{6}$He, $^{9}$Be and $^{12}$C are possible. We investigate the resulting relative abundance as a function of density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 R. de Diego , E. Garrido , D. V. Fedorov , A. S. Jensen

The 22Ne({\alpha},n)25Mg reaction is an important source of neutrons for the s-process. In massive stars responsible for the weak component of the s-process, 22Ne({\alpha},n)25Mg is the dominant source of neutrons, both during core helium…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Richard Longland , Christian Iliadis , Amanda I. Karakas

The cross sections of the $^{130}$Sn(n,$\gamma$)$^{131}$Sn and $^{132}$Sn(n,$\gamma$)$^{133}$Sn reactions are calculated in the direct capture model at low energies below 1.5\,MeV. Using recent data from (d,p) transfer experiments on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-12-21 Peter Mohr

The formalism to describe electron scattering reactions on two-neutron halo nuclei is developed. The halo nucleus is described as a three-body system (core+n+n), and the wave function is obtained by solving the Faddeev equations in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Garrido , E. Moya de Guerra