Radioactive target needs for nuclear reactor physics and nuclear 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 ...

Nuclear Astrophysics with Radioactive Nuclear Beams: Indirect Methods

The review describes a number of indirect methods in nuclear astrophysics using radioactive beams: Coulomb dissociation, transfer reactions (the ANC method), breakup of loosely bound nuclei at intermediate energies, the use other spectroscopic measurements, including -decay studies and the determination of resonance parameters. The examples chosen are drawn from the experiments the author was i...

Nuclear Astrophysics with Secondary (radioactive) Beams

Some problems in nuclear astrophysics are discussed with emphasize on the ones central to the field which were not solved over the last two decades, including Helium Burning in massive stars (the C(α, γ)O reaction) and the B Solar Neutrino Flux Problem (the Be(p, γ)B reaction). We demonstrate that a great deal of progress was achieved by measuring the time reverse process(es): the beta-delayed ...

Nuclear Reactor Physics Lecture Notes Ap3341

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