The production of about half of the heavy elements found in nature is assigned to a specific
astrophysical nucleosynthesis process: the rapid neutron-capture process (r process) …

The rapid neutron capture process (r process) is believed to be responsible for about half of
the production of the elements heavier than iron and contributes to abundances of some …

The last decades brought impressive progress in synthesizing and studying properties of
nuclides located very far from the beta stability line. Among the most fundamental properties …

This is an exciting time for the study of r-process nucleosynthesis. Recently, a neutron star
merger GW170817 was observed in extraordinary detail with gravitational waves and …

Abstract The National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State
University (MSU) is a scientific user facility that offers beams of rare isotopes at a wide range …

Beta-delayed neutron emission is important for nuclear structure and astrophysics as well as
for reactor applications. Significant advances in nuclear experimental techniques in the past …

The β decays of very neutron-rich nuclides in the Co–Zn region were studied experimentally
at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory using the NSCL β-counting station in …

Nuclear weak rates in stellar environments are obtained by taking into account recent
advances in shell-model studies of spin-dependent excitation modes in nuclei including …

The conceptual design of the BRIKEN neutron detector at the radioactive ion beam factory
(RIBF) of the RIKEN Nishina Center is reported. The BRIKEN setup is a complex system …

We introduce the LUNA neutron detector array developed for the investigation of the 13 C (α,
n) 16 O reaction towards its astrophysical s-process Gamow peak in the low-background …