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most citedOrigin of the Heaviest Elements: the Rapid Neutron-Capture Process

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36 papers

nucl-th2021★ 5 cited

Forbidden electron capture on Na and Al in degenerate oxygen-neon cores

D. F. Strömberg, G. Martínez-Pinedo, F. Nowacki

Stars with an initial mass of -11 solar masses form degenerate oxygen-neon cores following carbon burning. Electron captures in such cores can trigger runaway oxygen burnin…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 23 cited

Medium modifications for light and heavy nuclear clusters in simulations of core collapse supernovae -- Impact on equation of state and weak interactions

Tobias Fischer, Stefan Typel, Gerd Röpke +2

The present article investigates the role of heavy nuclear clusters and weakly bound light nuclear clusters based on a newly developed equation of state for core collapse supernova…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 56 cited

Muonization of supernova matter

Tobias Fischer, Gang Guo, Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo +2

The present article investigates the impact of muons on core-collapse supernovae, with particular focus on the early muon neutrino emission. While the presence of muons is well und…

hep-ph2020★ 55 cited

Charged-Current Muonic Reactions in Core-Collapse Supernovae

Gang Guo, Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo, Andreas Lohs +1

The steady advance in core-collapse supernova simulations requires a more precise description of neutrino processes in hot and dense matter. In this work, we study the rates of cha…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 69 cited

Core-collapse Supernova Explosions Driven by the Hadron-quark Phase Transition as a Rare -process Site

Tobias Fischer, Meng-Ru Wu, Benjamin Wehmeyer +3

Supernova explosions of massive stars are one of the primary sites for the production of the elements in the universe. Up to now, stars with zero-age main-sequence masses in the ra…

nucl-th2019★ 15 cited

A Survey of Nuclear Pasta in the Intermediate Density Regime: Structure Functions for Neutrino Scattering

B. Schuetrumpf, G. Martínez-Pinedo, P. -G. Reinhard

Background: Nuclear pasta matter, emerging due to the competition between the long-range Coulomb force and the short-range strong force, is believed to be present in astrophysical…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 16 cited

Chiral effective field theory description of neutrino nucleon-nucleon Bremsstrahlung in supernova matter

Gang Guo, Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo

We revisit the rates of neutrino pair emission and absorption from nucleon-nucleon bremsstrahlung in supernova matter using the -matrix formalism in the long-wavelength limit. B…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 33 cited

Finding the remnants of the Milky Way's last neutron star mergers

Meng-Ru Wu, Projjwal Banerjee, Brian D. Metzger +6

The discovery of a binary neutron star merger (NSM) through both its gravitational wave and electromagnetic emission has revealed these events to be key sites of r-process nucleosy…

nucl-th2019★ 46 cited

Fission and the r-process nucleosynthesis of translead nuclei in neutron star mergers

Samuel A. Giuliani, Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo, Meng-Ru Wu +1

We study the impact of fission on the production and destruction of translead nuclei during the r-process nucleosynthesis occurring in neutron-star mergers. Abundance patterns and…

nucl-th2019★ 6 cited

Self-consistent calculation of the reactor antineutrino spectra including forbidden transitions

J. Petković, T. Marketin, G. Martínez-Pinedo +1

With the goal of determining the neutrino oscillation mixing angle, the measurements of reactor antineutrino fluxes at the Double Chooz, RENO and Daya Bay experimental fac…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 708 cited

Origin of the Heaviest Elements: the Rapid Neutron-Capture Process

John J. Cowan, Christopher Sneden, James E. Lawler +5

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). A…

nucl-ex2018★ 22 cited

Mass Measurements of Neutron-Rich Gallium Isotopes Refine Production of Nuclei of the First r-Process Abundance Peak in Neutron Star Merger Calculations

M. P. Reiter, S. Ayet San Andrés, S. Nikas +33

We report mass measurements of neutron-rich Ga isotopes Ga with TRIUMF's Ion Trap for Atomic and Nuclear science (TITAN). The measurements determine the masses of $^{80-8…

nucl-th2018★ 5 cited

Skyrme-RPA study of charged-current neutrino opacity in hot and dense supernova matter

Alan A. Dzhioev, Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo

Neutrino emission and their transport of energy to the supernova shock region are sensitive to the physics of hot and dense nuclear matter, which is a complex problem due to the st…

nucl-ex2018★ 39 cited

Mass Measurements of Neutron-Deficient Y, Zr, and Nb Isotopes and Their Impact on and Nucleosynthesis Processes

Y. M. Xing, K. A. Li, Y. H. Zhang +48

Using isochronous mass spectrometry at the experimental storage ring CSRe in Lanzhou, the masses of Zr and Nb were measured for the first time with an uncertainty of…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 62 cited

Neutrino signal from proto-neutron star evolution: Effects of opacities from charged-current-neutrino interactions and inverse neutron decay

Tobias Fischer, Gang Guo, Alan A. Dzhioev +4

We investigate the impact of charged current neutrino processes on the formation and evolution of neutrino spectra during the deleptonization of proto-neutron stars. To this end we…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 76 cited

Impact of Neutrino Opacities on Core-Collapse Supernova Simulations

Kei Kotake, Tomoya Takiwaki, Tobias Fischer +2

Accurate description of neutrino opacities is central both to the core-collapse supernova (CCSN) phenomenon and to the validity of the explosion mechanism itself. In this work, we…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 183 cited

Production of the entire range of r-process nuclides by black hole accretion disc outflows from neutron star mergers

Meng-Ru Wu, Rodrigo Fernández, Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo +1

We consider -process nucleosynthesis in outflows from black hole accretion discs formed in double neutron star and neutron star -- black hole mergers. These outflows, powered by…

nucl-th2016★ 7 cited

Systematic study of infrared energy corrections in truncated oscillator spaces

Alexander Arzhanov, Tomás R. Rodríguez, Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo

We study the convergence properties of nuclear binding energies and two-neutron separation energies obtained with self-consistent mean-field calculations based on the Hartree-Fock-…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 341 cited

Radioactivity and thermalization in the ejecta of compact object mergers and their impact on kilonova light curves

Jennifer Barnes, Daniel Kasen, Meng-Ru Wu +1

One of the most promising electromagnetic signatures of compact object mergers are kilonovae: approximately isotropic radioactively-powered transients that peak days to weeks post-…

nucl-th2015★ 40 cited

Testing the importance of collective correlations in neutrinoless decay

J. Menéndez, N. Hinohara, J. Engel +2

We investigate the extent to which theories of collective motion can capture the physics that determines the nuclear matrix elements governing neutrinoless double-beta decay. To th…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 176 cited

On the nuclear robustness of the r process in neutron-star mergers

Joel de Jesús Mendoza-Temis, Meng-Ru Wu, Karlheinz Langanke +3

We have performed r-process calculations for matter ejected dynamically in neutron star mergers based on a complete set of trajectories from a three-dimensional relativistic smooth…

nucl-th2014★ 46 cited

Toward global beyond-mean-field calculations of nuclear masses and low-energy spectra

Tomás R. Rodríguez, Alexander Arzhanov, Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo

Self-consistent mean field (MF) and beyond-mean-field (BMF) calculations of masses, separation energies and excitation energies of even-even nuclei where experimental d…

nucl-th2014★ 34 cited

Correlations and neutrinoless decay nuclear matrix elements of -shell nuclei

Javier Menéndez, Tomas R. Rodríguez, Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo +1

We calculate the nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) for neutrinoless double-beta decays () of -shell nuclei using the shell model (SM) and energy density functional (EDF) met…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 74 cited

Impact of active-sterile neutrino mixing on supernova explosion and nucleosynthesis

Meng-Ru Wu, Tobias Fischer, Lutz Huther +2

We show that for the active-sterile flavor mixing parameters suggested by the reactor neutrino anomaly, substantial \ν_e-\ν_s and \bar \ν_e-\bar \ν_s conversion occurs in regions w…