NURE: an ERC project to 'measure' the nuclear matrix elementsThe NURE (NUclear REactions for neutrinoless double beta decay) project has been selected for receiving funding in the call Starting Grant 2016 of European Research Council (ERC). The project, which…M. Cavallaro·Jan 27, 2020SaveLearn
NURE: An ERC project to study nuclear reactions for neutrinoless double beta decayNeutrinoless double beta decay (0etaeta) is considered the best potential resource to determine the absolute neutrino mass scale. Moreover, if observed, it will signal that the total…M. Cavallaro, E. Aciksoz, L. Acosta et al.·Jan 27, 2020SaveLearn
Measuring nuclear reaction cross sections to extract information on neutrinoless double beta decayNeutrinoless double beta decay (0vetaeta) is considered the best potential resource to access the absolute neutrino mass scale. Moreover, if observed, it will signal that neutrinos are their…M. Cavallaro, F. Cappuzzello, C. Agodi et al.·Jan 27, 2020SaveLearn
Search for jet quenching effects in high multiplicity pp collisions at s=13 TeVThe ALICE Collaboration reports a search for jet quenching effects in pp collisions at s=13 TeV, in events selected on high multiplicity compared to the minimum bias population. The…P. M. Jacobs·Jan 26, 2020SaveLearn
Neutron Induced Fission Fragment Angular Distributions, Anisotropy, and Linear Momentum Transfer Measured with the NIFFTE Fission Time Projection ChamberThe Neutron Induced Fission Fragment Tracking Experiment (NIFFTE) collaboration has performed measurements with a fission time projection chamber (fissionTPC) to study the fission process by…D. Hensle, J. T. Barker, J. S. Barrett et al.·Jan 26, 2020SaveLearn
Shape coexistence in the neutron-deficient 188Hg investigated via lifetime measurementsShape coexistence in the Z ≈ 82 region has been established in mercury, lead and polonium isotopes. Even-even mercury isotopes with 100 ≤ N ≤ 106 present multiple fingerprints of this…M. Siciliano, I. Zanon, A. Goasduff et al.·Jan 24, 2020SaveLearn
Deuteron-induced reactions on manganese at low energiesThe scarce data systematics and complexity of deuteron interactions demand the update of both the experimental database and theoretical frame of deuteron activation cross sections. Various reactions…M. Avrigeanu, E. Simeckova, U. Fischer et al.·Jan 23, 2020SaveLearn
Constraining the 22Ne(α,γ)26Mg and 22Ne(α,n)25Mg reaction rates using sub-Coulomb α-transfer reactionsThe 22Ne(α,γ)26Mg and 22Ne(α,n)25Mg reactions play an important role in astrophysics because they have significant influence on the neutron flux during the…H. Jayatissa, G. V. Rogachev, V. Z. Goldberg et al.·Jan 23, 2020SaveLearn
Decay properties of 22Ne + α resonances and their impact on s-process nucleosynthesisThe astrophysical s-process is one of the two main processes forming elements heavier than iron. A key outstanding uncertainty surrounding s-process nucleosynthesis is the neutron flux generated…S. Ota, G. Christian, G. Lotay et al.·Jan 22, 2020SaveLearn
Investigation of the one-neutron transfer in 13C + 28Si at Elab = 30 and 34 MeVBackground: Neutron transfer measurements for the 18O + 28Si system have shown that the experimental one-neutron and two-neutron transfer cross sections are well reproduced with…R. Linares, C. C. Seabra, V. A. B. Zagatto et al.·Jan 21, 2020SaveLearn
Probing few-body nuclear dynamics via 3H and 3He (e,e'p)pn cross-section measurementsWe report the first measurement of the three-body breakup reaction cross sections in helium-3 (3He) and tritium (3H) at large momentum transfer ( Q2 ≈ 1.9…R. Cruz-Torres, D. Nguyen, F. Hauenstein et al.·Jan 20, 2020SaveLearn
A stringent upper limit on the direct 3α decay of the Hoyle State in 12CWe investigate an implication of the most recent observation of a second Jπ = 2+ state in 12C, which was measured using the 12C(γ,α)8Be(g.s.) reaction.…R. Smith, M. Gai, M. W. Ahmed et al.·Jan 20, 2020SaveLearn
Differential two-particle number and momentum correlations with the AMPT, UrQMD, and EPOS models in Pb-Pb collisions at s_ NN= 2.76 TeVWe report studies of charge-independent (CI) and charge-dependent (CD) two-particle differential number correlation functions, R2 ( η, ), and transverse…Sumit Basu, Victor Gonzalez, Jinjin Pan et al.·Jan 20, 2020SaveLearn
Measurement and analysis of nuclear γ-ray production cross sections in proton interactions with Mg, Si and Fe nuclei abundant in astrophysical sites over the incident energy range E=30-66 MeVGamma-ray production cross section excitation functions have been measured for 30, 42, 54 and 66 MeV proton beams accelerated onto targets of astrophysical interest, natC, C + O (Mylar),…W. Yahia-Cherif, S. Ouichaoui, J. Kiener et al.·Jan 20, 2020SaveLearn
Improved limits on β+EC and ECEC processes in 74SeNew limits on β+EC and ECEC processes in 74Se have been obtained using a 600 cm3 HPGe detector and an external source consisting of 1600 g of a natural selenium powder. For different…A. S. Barabash, V. B. Brudanin, A. A. Klimenko et al.·Jan 20, 2020SaveLearn
Beam energy dependence of net- fluctuations measured by the STAR experiment at RHICThe measurements of particle multiplicity distributions have generated considerable interest in understanding the fluctuations of conserved quantum numbers in the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)…STAR Collaboration, J. Adam, L. Adamczyk et al.·Jan 17, 2020SaveLearn
First search for 2 and β+ decay of 174HfThe first ever search for 2 and β+ decay of 174Hf was realized using a high-pure sample of hafnium (with mass 179.8 g) and the ultra low-background HPGe-detector…F. A. Danevich, M. Hult, D. V. Kasperovych et al.·Jan 17, 2020SaveLearn
First direct measurement of 22Mg(α,p)25Al and implications for X-ray burst model-observation comparisonsType-I X-ray burst (XRB) light curves are sensitive to the model's nuclear input and consequently affects the model-observation comparisons. 22Mg(α,p)25Al is among the most important…J. S. Randhawa, Y. Ayyad, W. Mittig et al.·Jan 16, 2020SaveLearn
D-meson production in Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHCHeavy quarks, like charm and beauty, are sensitive probes to investigate the colour-deconfined medium created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions, the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). The ALICE…Stefano Trogolo·Jan 16, 2020SaveLearn
Studies of η(')π Final States Using GlueX DataThe primary goal of the GlueX experiment at Jefferson Lab is to search for and map the spectrum of light hybrid mesons. Many experiments have studied and reported evidence of exotic mesons decaying…Colin Gleason·Jan 15, 2020SaveLearn
K*(892)0 meson production in inelastic p+p interactions at 158 GeV/c beam momentum measured by NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPSThe measurement of K*(892)0 resonance production via its K+π- decay mode in inelastic p+p collisions at beam momentum 158 GeV/c (sNN=17.3 GeV) is presented. The data…SHINE Collaboration, A. Aduszkiewicz, E. V. Andronov et al.·Jan 15, 2020SaveLearn
First glimpse of the N=82 shell closure below Z=50 from masses of neutron-rich cadmium isotopes and isomersWe probe the N=82 nuclear shell closure by mass measurements of neutron-rich cadmium isotopes with the ISOLTRAP spectrometer at ISOLDE-CERN. The new mass of 132Cd offers the first value of the…V. Manea, J. Karthein, D. Atanasov et al.·Jan 14, 2020SaveLearn
Direct determination of neutron lifetime in β-decayThe neutron lifetime is determined for now most accurately by two methods --the so-called "beam method" and the method of neutron storage in a trap. The goal of this research is to obtain the neutron…Valerius V. Vasiliev·Jan 13, 2020SaveLearn
Longitudinal flow decorrelations in Xe+Xe collisions at sNN=5.44 TeV with the ATLAS detectorThe first measurement of longitudinal decorrelations of harmonic flow amplitudes vn for n=2, 3 and 4 in Xe+Xe collisions at sNN=5.44 TeV is obtained using 3…ATLAS Collaboration·Jan 13, 2020SaveLearn
Gamma-ray emission in alpha-particle reactions with C, Mg, Si, FeCross sections for the strongest gamma-ray emission lines produced in alpha-particle reactions with C, Mg, Si, Fe have been measured in the range Ealpha = 50 - 90 MeV at the center for proton…J. Kiener, J. Bundesmann, I. Deloncle et al.·Jan 10, 2020SaveLearn