A priority target of gamma ray astronomy, observing the decay of radioactive 18F nuclei in space can help diagnose the mechanism of nova explosions which create and disperse this radionuclide.
Coincidence measurements of protons and gamma rays produced via the (d,p gamma) transfer reaction with neutron-rich radioactive beams can give high resolution information on single-particle states in these exotic nuclei.
The 306 keV resonance in the 35Cl nucleus may, depending on its properties, play a dominant role in the capture of protons on 34S. This reaction serves as a step in a larger series of reactions which fuels the thermonuclear runaway in nova explosions.
New mixtures of liquid scintillators have been developed for a time-of-flight neutron detector array with position sensitivity, high light output, and excellent pulse shape discrimination (PSD) to be used for studies of nuclear reactions producing neutrons
Using first-principles calculations, ORNL researchers computed the nuclear structure of nickel-78 to improve understanding of the origin, organization, and interactions of stable matter.
Two researchers in the ORNL Physics Division and the University of Tennessee (NICS) addressed the stochasticity and efficiency of core-collapse supernova explosions by using a highly simplified supernova model.
The nEDM@SNS experiment will measure the electric dipole moment of the neutron - essentially the roundness of its charge distribution.
This experiment, being carried out by an international collaboration, is measuring parity-violating (PV) neutron capture in Helium-3.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and most powerful particle collider, is at The European Laboratory for Nuclear Research CERN. Thomas M.
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) was used to search for the formation of hydrodynamic-like excited nuclear medium being created in d+Au collisions.