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Direct measurement of F()Ne cross sections with ANASEN
K. S. Davis, J. C. Blackmon, C. M. Deibel +21
The F()Ne reaction may impact Asymptotic Giant Branch nucleosynthesis and helium burning on accreting white dwarfs. This reaction has never been directly measure…
Experimental updates on development of accelerator-driven ion source at TRIUMF to benchmark Ba-tagging techniques for future neutrinoless double beta decay searches
D. Ray, M. Marquis, A. V. Balbuena +4
Neutrinoless double beta decay () could provide a way to probe physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. The proposed nEXO experiment aims to search for i…
Shake-up and shake-off spectra in the electron capture decay of atomic Be
Mauro Guerra, Inwook Kim, Stephan Friedrich +33
The most stringent laboratory-based experimental limits on the existence of sub-MeV sterile neutrinos are currently set by decay spectroscopy of radioactive Be embedded into su…
Direct measurement of Cu(,)Ni precludes a strong NiCu cycle in Type-I X-ray bursts
N. Bhathi, J. S. Randhawa, R. Kanungo +36
Model-observation comparisons of type-I X-ray bursts (XRBs) can reveal the properties of accreting neutron star systems, including the neutron star compactness. XRBs are powered by…
Aluminum-Based Superconducting Tunnel Junction Sensors for Nuclear Recoil Spectroscopy
Spencer L. Fretwell, Connor Bray, Inwook Kim +31
The BeEST experiment is searching for sub-MeV sterile neutrinos by measuring nuclear recoil energies from the decay of Be implanted into superconducting tunnel junction (STJ) s…
Sensitivity of nEXO to Xe Charged-Current Interactions: Background-free Searches for Solar Neutrinos and Fermionic Dark Matter
G. Richardson, B. G. Lenardo, D. Gallacher +135
We study the sensitivity of nEXO to solar neutrino charged-current interactions, XeCs, as well as analogous interactions predicted by mo…
Ultra-sensitive radon assay using an electrostatic chamber in a recirculating system
nEXO Collaboration, A. Anker, P. A. Breur +138
Rare event searches such as neutrinoless double beta decay and Weakly Interacting Massive Particle detection require ultra-low background detectors. Radon contamination is a signif…
First In-Beam Demonstration of a hybrid LaBr3/CeBr3/BGO array to measure radiative capture resonance energies in an extended gas target using a novel time of flight technique
G. Christian, D. Hutcheon, I. Casandjian +19
We have deployed a new hybrid array of LaBr3, CeBr3, and BGO scintillators for detecting rays at the DRAGON recoil separator at TRIUMF. The array was developed to improve -r…
High-Precision Excited-State Nuclear Recoil Spectroscopy with Superconducting Sensors
C. Bray, S. Fretwell, L. A. Zepeda-Ruiz +30
Superconducting sensors doped with rare isotopes have recently demonstrated powerful sensing performance for sub-keV radiation from nuclear decay. Here, we report the first high-re…
Ion manipulation from liquid Xe to vacuum: Ba-tagging for a nEXO upgrade and future experiments
Dwaipayan Ray, Robert Collister, Hussain Rasiwala +27
Neutrinoless double beta decay {()} provides a way to probe physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. The upcoming nEXO experiment will search for decay i…
Signal processing and spectral modeling for the BeEST experiment
Inwook Kim, Connor Bray, Andrew Marino +35
The Beryllium Electron capture in Superconducting Tunnel junctions (BeEST) experiment searches for evidence of heavy neutrino mass eigenstates in the nuclear electron capture decay…
Imaging of single barium atoms in a second matrix site in solid xenon for barium tagging in a Xe double beta decay experiment
M. Yvaine, D. Fairbank, J. Soderstrom +134
Neutrinoless double beta decay is one of the most sensitive probes for new physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. One of the isotopes under investigation is $^{136}…
Direct Experimental Constraints on the Spatial Extent of a Neutrino Wavepacket
Joseph Smolsky, Kyle G Leach, Ryan Abells +35
Despite their high relative abundance in our Universe, neutrinos are the least understood fundamental particles of nature. They also provide a unique system to study quantum cohere…
The Data Acquisition System for Phase-III of the BeEST Experiment
C. Bray, S. Fretwell, I. Kim +27
The BeEST experiment is a precision laboratory search for physics beyond the standard model that measures the electron capture decay of Be implanted into superconducting tunnel…
Cross Sections of the Rb(p,Sr and Kr(p,Rb Reactions at Energies Characteristic of the Astrophysical Process
M. Williams, B. Davids, G. Lotay +22
We have measured the cross section of the Rb(p,Sr radiative capture reaction in inverse kinematics using a radioactive beam of Rb at incident energies of 2.4…
'Searching for a needle in a haystack;' A Ba-tagging approach for an upgraded nEXO experiment
H. Rasiwala, K. Murray, Y. Lan +17
nEXO is a proposed experiment that will search for neutrinoless double-beta decay (0) in 5-tonnes of liquid xenon (LXe), isotopically enriched in Xe. A technique calle…
Understanding globular cluster abundances through nuclear reactions
P Adsley, M Williams, D S Harrouz +24
Globular clusters contain multiple stellar populations, with some previous generation of stars polluting the current stars with heavier elements. Understanding the history of globu…
Elastic scattering of 3He+4He with SONIK
S. N. Paneru, C. R. Brune, D. Connolly +22
Measurements of the elastic scattering cross section of 3He and 4He are important in order to improve constraints on theoretical models of 4He(3He,g)7Be, a key reaction in Big Bang…
First inverse kinematics measurement of resonances in Be()C relevant to neutrino-driven wind nucleosynthesis using DRAGON
A. Psaltis, A. A. Chen, R. Longland +18
A possible mechanism to explain the origin of the light -nuclei in the Galaxy is the nucleosynthesis in the proton-rich neutrino-driven wind ejecta of core-collapse supernovae v…
Direct measurement of resonances in Be()C relevant to -process nucleosynthesis
A. Psaltis, A. A. Chen, R. Longland +18
We have performed the first direct measurement of two resonances of the Be()C reaction with unknown strengths using an intense radioactive Be beam and the DRAGO…
New measurement of the keV resonance in the Fp,γ^{20}$Ne reaction
M. Williams, P. Adsley, B. Davids +6
At temperatures below 0.1 GK the FNe reaction is the only breakout path out of the CNO cycle. Experimental studies of this reaction are challenging from a techni…
Constraints on key O()Ne resonances and impact on the weak s-process
M. Williams, A. M. Laird, A. Choplin +7
The efficiency of the slow neutron-capture process in massive stars is strongly influenced by neutron-capture reactions on light elements. At low metallicity, O is an import…
Horizons: Nuclear Astrophysics in the 2020s and Beyond
H. Schatz, A. D. Becerril Reyes, A. Best +162
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…
Proton inelastic scattering reveals deformation in He
M. Holl, R. Kanungo, Z. H. Sun +27
A measurement of proton inelastic scattering of He at ~MeV at TRIUMF shows a resonance at 3.54(6)~MeV with a width of 0.89(11)~MeV. The energy of the state is in good ag…