Fission plays an important role in a wide range of applications: in nuclear astrophysics, as a mechanism for making elements far from stability for study in the laboratory, in the survival probability of superheavy elements, in the industrial production of energy, and as a prototypical example of large amplitude collective motion in quantum many body theory. Reconstructing in detail the...
There are approximately 300 stable and 3,000 known unstable (rare) isotopes. Estimates are that over 7,000 different isotopes are bound by the nuclear force. It is now recognized that the properties of many yet undiscovered rare isotopes hold the key to understanding how to develop a comprehensive and predictive model of atomic nuclei, to accurately model a variety of astrophysical...
Exploration of the nuclear landscape progresses via the ability to produce and isolate nuclei in new regions of the chart of nuclides. The existing radioactive beam facilities rely mainly on fragmentation, spallation, fusion-evaporation and fission reaction mechanisms to access the various areas of that chart. These reaction mechanisms each have strengths and weaknesses, both in production and...
Nicole Vassh1
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The field of nuclear astrophysics has grown tremendously within the last 65 years and has gained even more momentum recently given the dawn of new multi-messenger capabilities. We have now seen heavy element formation in the act via the signature of lanthanide elements on the observed light curve from the...
