Conveners
Session 1
- Maria Garcia Borge (CSIC Madrid)
The study of nuclear fission remains a critical area of research, not only for understanding fundamental nuclear properties but also for its implications in the production of heavy elements in astrophysical environments. In r-process nucleosynthesis, fission plays a crucial role as it ultimately limits the mass of nuclei that can be produced. Currently, very limited data on fission barriers of...
The evolution of nuclear collectivity and structure in the region surrounding the doubly-magic nucleus $^{132}$Sn remains a central open question in nuclear structure physics. Recent shell-model calculations, employing realistic interactions, predict an enhancement of collectivity in the neighboring even-even isotopes of $^{132}$Sn [1]. Despite this, a long-standing discrepancy between...
The $\alpha$-nuclear potential in exotic nuclei, a key input in modeling the astrophysical p-process [1,2], remains a source of uncertainty due to the lack of experimental data. This potential can be constrained experimentally by measuring the differential cross-section of $\alpha$-scattering near the Coulomb barrier and identifying the best-fit interaction model.
In the context of...