Photoneutron Reaction Data for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics

Theoretical Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Astrophysics

Our research unit is part of an Interuniversity Attraction Poles (IAP) program, ​BriX (The Belgian Research Initiative on eXotic nuclei for atomic, nuclear and astrophysics studies), in which we collaborate with other nuclear-physics groups, both theoretical and experimental, in Belgium and abroad. Through this collaboration, there is a possibility for very motivated ULB students to realize ...

Prediction of nuclear reaction rates for astrophysics

The investigation of explosive nuclear burning in astrophysical environments is a challenge for both theoretical and experimental nuclear physicists. Highly unstable nuclei are produced in such processes which again can be targets for subsequent reactions. The majority of reactions can be described in the framework of the statistical model (compound nucleus mechanism, Hauser–Feshbach approach),...

The Auxiliary Field Diffusion Monte Carlo Method for Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Astrophysics

BRUSLIB and NETGEN: the Brussels nuclear reaction rate library and nuclear network generator for astrophysics

Nuclear reaction rates are quantities of fundamental importance in astrophysics. Substantial efforts have been devoted in the last decades to measure or calculate them. The present paper presents for the first time a detailed description of the Brussels nuclear reaction rate library BRUSLIB and of the nuclear network generator NETGEN in a journal and in a format so as to make these nuclear data...

RIB for Astrophysics and Neutrino Physics

A production scheme by fast secondary neutrons from a 40 MeV deuteron beam impinging on a converter target provides efficient production in exceptionally high yields of light radioisotopes such as 6He and 8Li. Recent optimization simulations indicate the ability to produce orders of magnitude more intense 6He and 8Li beams than presently available. Such high current Radioactive Ion Beams (RIB) ...