3 papers
nucl-th2026
A Boson exchange approach for Helium Burning Stars
Theodoros Depastas, Aldo Bonasera
Helium burning plays a key role in the hierarchy of stellar nucleosynthesis and evolution, as the archetype of a bosonic 3-body system. Here, we examine the kinetic and nuclear asp…
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…