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nucl-ex2025

Universal Effective Charges in the and Shells

T. H. Ogunbeku, J. M. Allmond, T. J. Gray +79

The 247-keV state in Sc, populated in the decay of Ca, is reported here as a nanosecond isomer with a half-life of 26.0(22) ns. The state is interpreted as the $…

nucl-ex2026

Direct Measurement of the CuNi Excitation Function to Constrain the Ni--Cu Cycle Strength and Its Impact on Explosive Nucleosynthesis

E. Lopez-Saavedra, M. L. Avila, W. -J. Ong +21

A new direct measurement of the 59Cu(p,a)56Ni excitation function from 2.43-5.88 MeV in the center-of-mass was performed in inverse kinematics using the high-efficiency MUSIC activ…

nucl-ex2026

Detailed Study of the Cu(p,Ni Reaction and Constraints on Its Astrophysical Reaction Rate

E. Lopez-Saavedra, M. L. Avila, W. -J. Ong +20

The CuNi reaction plays an important role in explosive astrophysical scenarios such as Type I X-ray bursts and the -process in neutrino-driven winds follow…

nucl-ex2025

Constraining the Synthesis of the Lightest p Nucleus 74Se

A. Tsantiri, A. Spyrou, E. C. Good +42

We provide the first experimental cross section of the reaction to constrain one of the main destruction mechanisms of the p nucleus $^{74}\tex…

physics.ins-det2024

Machine-Learning-Enabled Measurements of Astrophysical (p,n) Reactions with the SECAR Recoil Separator

P. Tsintari, N. Dimitrakopoulos, R. Garg +29

The synthesis of heavy elements in supernovae is affected by low-energy (n,p) and (p,n) reactions on unstable nuclei, yet experimental data on such reaction rates are scarce. The S…

nucl-ex2025

Beta-decay Half Lives beyond Ca: A Systematic Survey of Decay Properties approaching the Neutron Dripline

W. -J. Ong, Z. Y. Xu, R. Grzywacz +83

In an experiment performed at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) using the FRIB Decay Station initiator (FDSi), 15 new half lives of isotopes near Ca were measured.…