Conveners
Wednesday - Session 2
- Zsolt Podolyak (University of Surrey)
A kilonova is an electromagnetic transient powered by the radioactive decay of nuclei freshly
synthesized by the rapid neutron capture process (r-process). Its observation following the
gravitational wave event GW170817 provided the first evidence that the r-process operates in
neutron star mergers. Kilonova observations provide unique opportunities to learn about the in-
situ operation of...
The concepts of the nuclear level density (NLD) and $\gamma-$ray strength function (GSF) are two essential tools for the statistical description of excited nuclei and their $\gamma-$decay, used in numerous large-scale astrophysical calculations of abundances of elements in the universe. In this work, one of the widely used experimental techniques, the Oslo method was applied to the...
Experimental neutron capture rates of short-lived neutron-rich nuclei are of pivotal importance for our understanding of explosive nucleosynthesis. In this contribution we present an improved method for constraining neutron capture rates in exotic nuclei experimentally with beam intensities down to a few pps using the $\beta$-Oslo method.
While a powerful technique to access the most exotic...