3 papers
nucl-th2025
Searching for Solitons in Heavy-Ion Reactions near the Fermi Energy
Theodoros Depastas, Aldo Bonasera, Joseph B. Natowitz
Solitons are special shape-conserving hydrodynamical solutions that appear in many areas of physics. Here, we explore the existence of such solutions in microscopic descriptions of…
nucl-th2025
AI-Assisted analysis of Si 7 break-up data
Theodoros Depastas, Aldo Bonasera, Joe Natowitz
Mid-weight -conjugate nuclei are predicted to possess exotic toroid-like resonances with high angular momenta. The search for these states in Si is the main point of…
nucl-th2024
Revisiting the 3α reaction rates in helium burning stars
Theodoros Depastas, Shuting Sun, Hongbin Heb +2
Helium burning is one of the most fundamental steps of stellar nucleosynthesis, as it describes the formation of life-determining element of carbon, while it plays a key role in th…