Electron capture in stars

K Langanke, G Martínez-Pinedo… - Reports on Progress in …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Electron capture on nuclei plays an essential role in the dynamics of several astrophysical
objects, including core-collapse and thermonuclear supernovae, the crust of accreting …

The Thick Gas Electron Multiplier and its derivatives: Physics, technologies and applications

S Bressler, L Moleri, A Jash, A Tesi… - Progress in particle and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Thick Gas Electron Multiplier (THGEM) is a robust high-gain gas-avalanche
electron multiplier–a building block of a variety of radiation detectors. It can be manufactured …

Horizons: nuclear astrophysics in the 2020s and beyond

H Schatz, ADB Reyes, A Best, EF Brown… - Journal of Physics G …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Nuclear astrophysics is a field at the intersection of nuclear physics and astrophysics, which
seeks to understand the nuclear engines of astronomical objects and the origin of the …

Low energy nuclear physics with active targets and time projection chambers

D Bazin, T Ahn, Y Ayyad, S Beceiro-Novo… - Progress in Particle and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This article aims at covering various low energy nuclear physics themes that can benefit
from taking advantage of active targets and time projection chambers. They are naturally …

First Direct Measurement of and Implications for X-Ray Burst Model-Observation Comparisons

JS Randhawa, Y Ayyad, W Mittig, Z Meisel, T Ahn… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
Type-I x-ray bursts can reveal the properties of an accreting neutron star system when
compared with astrophysics model calculations. However, model results are sensitive to a …

Motivations for early high-profile FRIB experiments

BA Brown, A Gade, SR Stroberg, J Escher… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This white paper is the result of a collaboration by those that attended a workshop at the
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), organized by the FRIB Theory Alliance (FRIB-TA), on …

Improving the characterization of fusion in a MuSIC detector by spatial localization

JE Johnstone, R Kumar, S Hudan, RT deSouza… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Multi-Sampling Ionization Chambers (MuSIC) provide an efficient means of
measuring nuclear reactions with low beam rates (< 10 6 pps). However, in comparison to …

Gap uniformity study of a resistive Micromegas for the Multi-purpose Time Projection Chamber (MTPC) at Back-n white neutron source

W Jia, Y Lv, Z Zhang, H Chen, Z Chen, J Wang… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract A Multi-purpose Time Projection Chamber prototype based on a resistive
Micromegas technique has been proposed, designed and fabricated at China Spallation …

Enhancing the performance of solenoidal spectrometers for inverse reactions

PA Butler - Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Helical-orbit solenoidal spectrometers, in which the target and detector are placed inside a
uniform magnetic field, have been utilized for more than a decade to study nuclear reactions …

Fudan multi-purpose active target time projection chamber (fMeta-TPC) for photonuclear reaction experiments

HK Wu, XY Wang, YM Wang, YJ Wang… - Nuclear Science and …, 2024 - Springer
Active target time projection chambers are state-of-the-art tools in the field of low-energy
nuclear physics and are particularly suitable for experiments using low-intensity radioactive …