Conveners
M4-5 Nuclei & Astrophysics II (DNP) / Noyaux et astrophysique II (DPN)
- Barry Davids (TRIUMF)
Experimentally-derived rates of selected charged-particle induced capture reactions are key ingredients in our global understanding of stellar nucleosynthesis. In particular, selected resonant proton and alpha capture reactions on medium-mass stable and radioactive targets are important for nucleosynthesis in a variety of scenarios such as classical novae and the $p$ and $rp$-processes, which...
The nuclear-polarized beam facility at TRIUMF-ISAC provides radioactive ion beams, highly polarized by laser collinear optical pumping, to several experimental stations. It has successfully delivered 8,9,11Li, most Na isotopes, and 31Mg over the last 20 years for studies in material science, biochemistry, nuclear physics, and fundamental symmetries. An overview of the polarizer facility will...
Zinc-65 (Zn-65) is a radionuclide of interest in the fields of medicine and gamma-ray spectroscopy, within which its continued use as a tracer and common calibration source necessitates increasingly-precise nuclear decay data. A Zn-65 dataset was obtained as part of the KDK ("potassium decay") experiment, whose apparatus consists of an inner X-ray detector and an efficient outer detector, the...