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Title: Ab Initio Nuclear Structure and Reaction Calculations for Rare Isotopes

Abstract

We have developed a novel ab initio symmetry-adapted no-core shell model (SA-NCSM), which has opened the intermediate-mass region for ab initio investigations, thereby providing an opportunity for first-principle symmetry-guided applications to nuclear structure and reactions for nuclear isotopes from the lightest p-shell systems to intermediate-mass nuclei. This includes short-lived proton-rich nuclei on the path of X-ray burst nucleosynthesis and rare neutron-rich isotopes to be produced by the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB). We have provided ab initio descriptions of high accuracy for low-lying (including collectivity-driven) states of isotopes of Li, He, Be, C, O, Ne, Mg, Al, and Si, and studied related strong- and weak-interaction driven reactions that are important, in astrophysics, for further understanding stellar evolution, X-ray bursts and triggering of s, p, and rp processes, and in applied physics, for electron and neutrino-nucleus scattering experiments as well as for fusion ignition at the National Ignition Facility (NIF).

Authors:
 [1]
  1. Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Contributing Org.:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
1158576
Report Number(s):
DOE-LSU-05248
TRN: US1500349
DOE Contract Number:  
SC0005248
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; NEUTRON-RICH ISOTOPES; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; NUCLEAR STRUCTURE; SHELL MODELS; WEAK INTERACTIONS; STAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOSYNTHESIS; SYMMETRY; NEUTRON-DEFICIENT ISOTOPES; ENERGY LEVELS; LITHIUM ISOTOPES; HELIUM ISOTOPES; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPES; CARBON ISOTOPES, OXYGEN ISOTOPES, NEON ISOTOPES, MAGNESIUM ISOTOPES; SILICON ISOTOPES; ALUMINIUM ISOTOPES; NEUTRINO REACTIONS; COSMIC X-RAY BURSTS; S PROCESS; R PROCESS; ELECTRON REACTIONS; INELASTIC SCATTERING; nuclear structure and reactions for light nuclei, rare isotopes; electron and neutrino scattering; ab initio symmetry-adapted no-core shell model

Citation Formats

Draayer, Jerry P. Ab Initio Nuclear Structure and Reaction Calculations for Rare Isotopes. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.2172/1158576.
Draayer, Jerry P. Ab Initio Nuclear Structure and Reaction Calculations for Rare Isotopes. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1158576
Draayer, Jerry P. 2014. "Ab Initio Nuclear Structure and Reaction Calculations for Rare Isotopes". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1158576. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1158576.
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title = {Ab Initio Nuclear Structure and Reaction Calculations for Rare Isotopes},
author = {Draayer, Jerry P.},
abstractNote = {We have developed a novel ab initio symmetry-adapted no-core shell model (SA-NCSM), which has opened the intermediate-mass region for ab initio investigations, thereby providing an opportunity for first-principle symmetry-guided applications to nuclear structure and reactions for nuclear isotopes from the lightest p-shell systems to intermediate-mass nuclei. This includes short-lived proton-rich nuclei on the path of X-ray burst nucleosynthesis and rare neutron-rich isotopes to be produced by the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB). We have provided ab initio descriptions of high accuracy for low-lying (including collectivity-driven) states of isotopes of Li, He, Be, C, O, Ne, Mg, Al, and Si, and studied related strong- and weak-interaction driven reactions that are important, in astrophysics, for further understanding stellar evolution, X-ray bursts and triggering of s, p, and rp processes, and in applied physics, for electron and neutrino-nucleus scattering experiments as well as for fusion ignition at the National Ignition Facility (NIF).},
doi = {10.2172/1158576},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1158576}, journal = {},
number = ,
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place = {United States},
year = {Sun Sep 28 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Sun Sep 28 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}