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Semiclassical transport simulation of nucleus-nucleus collisions for the range of incident energy from about the Fermi energy up to a few hundred MeV per nucleon evidences that the maximal excitation energy put into a nuclear system during…

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Repulsive interactions between neutrons in compact stellar cores cause luminosity and a steady outflow of hydrogen from stellar surfaces. Neutron repulsion in more massive compact objects made by gravitational collapse produces violent,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Manuel , Michael Mozina , Hilton Ratcliffe

The treatment of the electron-nucleus interaction based on the Mott differential cross section was extended to account for effects due to screened Coulomb potentials, finite sizes and finite rest masses of nuclei for electrons above 200 keV…

Astrophysical environments that reach temperatures greater than $\sim$ 100 keV can have significant neutrino energy loss via both plasma processes and nuclear weak interactions. We find that nuclear processes likely produce the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 G. Wendell Misch , George M. Fuller

Volume I of two. This document could be of interest to anyone who wants to have a comprehensive inside information about the research in nuclear physics from its early beginnings to later years. It describes highlights of my research work…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-12-26 Ron W Nielsen

We extend the recently proposed mechanism for inducing low energy nuclear reactions (LENRs) to a crystal lattice. The process gets a dominant contribution at second order in quantum perturbation theory. The tunnelling barrier is evaded due…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-11-06 Harishyam Kumar , Pankaj Jain , K. Ramkumar

The nuclear pasta -- a novel state of matter having nucleons arranged in a variety of complex shapes -- is expected to be found in the crust of neutron stars and in core-collapse supernovae at subnuclear densities of about $10^{14}$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-16 C. J. Horowitz , M. A. Pérez-García , D. K. Berry , J. Piekarewicz

The nuclear response functions for high energy electron scattering were calculated in the wide region of excitation energy. The three typical regions were studied: the quasi-elastic region, the $\Delta$-excitation region and the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Valeriya Gadiyak , Vladimir Dmitriev

The process of radiation induced electron capture by protons or deuterons producing new ultra low momentum neutrons and neutrinos may be theoretically described within the standard field theoretical model of electroweak interactions. For…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-09-25 A. Widom , L. Larsen

We review the general interplay between Nuclear Physics and neutrino-nucleus cross sections at intermediate and high energies. The effects of different reaction mechanisms over the neutrino observables are illustrated with examples in…

Collisions of atomic nuclei at relativistic velocities allow to recreate the conditions encountered in neutron stars or in the early universe micro-seconds after the Big Bang. These reactions are performed in today's largest accelerator…

Popular Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 Hannah Vormann , Tom Reichert , Christian Spieles , Jan Steinheimer , Marcus Bleicher

Atomic nuclei are complex, quantum many-body systems whose structure manifests itself through intrinsic quantum states associated with different excitation modes or degrees of freedom. Collective modes (vibration and/or rotation) dominate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-19 Alexis Diaz-Torres

Multifragmentation is the dominant decay mode of heavy nuclear systems with excitation energies near their binding energies and is characterized by a multiple production of nuclear fragments with intermediate mass. At relativistic…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Trautmann

A microscopic framework of nuclear energy density functionals is reviewed, which establishes a direct relation between low-energy QCD and nuclear structure, synthesizing effective field theory methods and principles of density functional…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Dario Vretenar

Background: Nuclear reactions are complex, with a large number of possible channels. Understanding how different channels contribute to a given reaction is investigated by perturbing the continuous spectrum. Purpose: To develop tools to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-28 Brady J. Martin , Wayne N. Polyzou

We investigate the resonant process of nuclear excitation by electron capture, in which a continuum electron is captured into a bound state of an ion with the simultaneous excitation of the nucleus. In order to derive the cross section a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Adriana Pálffy , Zoltán Harman , Werner Scheid

This review focuses on nuclear reactions in astrophysics and, more specifically, on reactions with light ions (nucleons and alpha particles) proceeding via the strong interaction. It is intended to present the basic definitions essential…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 T. Rauscher

When energy of colliding nuclei is between 100-600 MeV/nucleon then multifragmentation take place. By studying the fragments (at final stage of reaction) we can seize the idea about initial condition and various other parameter which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-12-15 Rubina Bansal , Suneel Kumar

Atomic nuclei are transformed into each other in the cosmos by nuclear reactions inside stars: -- the process of nucleosynthesis. The basic concepts of determining nuclear reaction rates inside stars and how they manage to burn their fuel…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Ray

The influence of the nuclear medium upon the internal structure of a composite nucleon is examined. The interaction with the medium is assumed to depend on the relative distances between the quarks in the nucleon consistent with the notion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. R. Frank , B. K. Jennings , G. A. Miller