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Probing nuclear interactions à la Rutherford: Insights on He from scattering
F. Cappuzzello, V. Soukeras, S. Bacca +27
Nuclear interactions play a key role for the stability of atomic nuclei and stellar environments. Successful parametrization and models of these interactions, developed in the last…
Analysis of one-neutron transfer reaction in O + Se collision at 275 MeV
I. Ciraldo, F. Cappuzzello, M. Cavallaro +45
Purpose: We want to analyze transitions to low-lying excited states of the residual and ejectile nuclei in the 76Se(18O, 17O) 77Se one-neutron stripping reaction at 275-MeV inciden…
A global study of Be + p at 2.72 A MeV
V. Soukeras, O. Sgouros, A. Pakou +17
Background: In our recent experiment, Be+p at 5.67A MeV, the breakup decay rates to the 3 configurations, ++n, Be+n and He+He of Be, were observed and…
Study of one-proton transfer reaction for the O + Ti system at 275 MeV
O. Sgouros, M. Cavallaro, F. Cappuzzello +38
Single-nucleon transfer reactions are processes that selectively probe single-particle components of the populated many-body nuclear states. In this context, recent efforts have be…
Analysis of two-nucleon transfer reactions in the 20Ne + 116Cd system at 306 MeV
D. Carbone, J. L. Ferreira, S. Calabrese +46
Background: Heavy-ion induced two-nucleon transfer reactions are powerful tools to reveal peculiar aspects of the atomic nucleus, such as pairing correlations, single-particle and…
Charge-state distributions of 20Ne ions emerging from thin foils
M. Cavallaro, G. Santagati, F. Cappuzzello +42
New experimental measurements of charge state distributions produced by a 20Ne10+ beam at 15 MeV/u colliding on various thin solid targets are presented. The use of the MAGNEX magn…
Nuclear structure studies performed using the (18O,16O) twoneutron transfer reactions
D. Carbone, C. Agodi, F. Cappuzzello +8
Excitation energy spectra and absolute cross section angular distributions were measured for the 13C(18O,16O)15C two-neutron transfer reaction at 84 MeV incident energy. This react…
Measuring nuclear reaction cross sections to extract information on neutrinoless double beta decay
M. Cavallaro, F. Cappuzzello, C. Agodi +72
Neutrinoless double beta decay (0v\b{eta}\b{eta}) is considered the best potential resource to access the absolute neutrino mass scale. Moreover, if observed, it will signal that n…
Analysis of the one-neutron transfer to O, Si and Ni induced by (O, O) reaction at 84 MeV
R. Linares, M. J. Ermamatov, J. Lubian +10
Background: Recently, a systematic exploration of two-neutron transfer induced by the (O, O) reaction on different targets has been performed. The high resolution dat…
Elastic and inelastic scattering of O on Al and Si at 240 MeV
L. M. Fonseca, R. Linares, V. A. B. Zagatto +6
The nuclear scattering at energies well above the Coulomb barrier allows for a fairly sensitive examination of the parameters of the optical potential when the relevant couplings a…
20Ne + 76Ge elastic and inelastic scattering at 306 MeV
A. Spatafora, F. Cappuzzello, D. Carbone +46
Background: Double charge exchange (DCE) nuclear reactions have recently attracted much interest as tools to provide experimentally driven information about nuclear matrix elements…
Competition between direct and sequential two-neutron transfers in the O + Si collision at 84 MeV
E. N. Cardozo, J. Lubian, R. Linares +7
In this work we study the simultaneous and sequential two-neutron transfer mechanisms to the Si nucleus induced by (t,p) and (O, O) reactions. New experimental…
The NUMEN project: NUclear Matrix Elements for Neutrinoless double beta decay
F. Cappuzzello, C. Agodi, M. Cavallaro +68
The article describes the main achievements of the NUMEN project together with an updated and detailed overview of the related R&D activities and theoretical developments. NUMEN pr…
Important role of projectile excitation in O+Ni and O+Al scattering at intermediate energies
V. A. B. Zagatto, F. Cappuzzello, J. Lubian +9
The elastic scattering angular distribution of the ONi system at MeV was measured in the range of the Rutherford cross section down to orders of magnitude…
High precision probe of the fully sequential decay width of the Hoyle state in C
D. Dell'Aquila, I. Lombardo, G. Verde +25
The decay path of the Hoyle state in C () has been studied with the reaction induced at $10.5\…
Heavy-ion double charge exchange reactions: a tool towards 0v\b{eta}\b{eta} nuclear matrix elements
F. Cappuzzello, M. Cavallaro, C. Agodi +4
The knowledge of the nuclear matrix elements for the neutrinoless double beta decay is fundamental for neutrino physics. In this paper, an innovative technique to extract informati…