Recent Publications

1. Proton capture on ¹⁷O and its astrophysical implications
   A. Kontos, J. Görres, A. Best, M. Couder, R. deBoer, G. Imbriani, Q. Li, D. Robertson, D. Schürmann, E. Stech, E. Uberseder, and M. Wiescher
   Phys. Rev. C 86, 055801 (November 2012)

2. Triaxial projected shell model study of the rapid changes in B(E2) for ^180-190Pt isotopes
   G. H. Bhat, J. A. Sheikh, Y. Sun, and U. Garg
   Phys. Rev. C 86, 047307 (October 2012)

3. Tilted axis rotation, candidates for chiral bands, and wobbling motion in ¹³⁸Nd
   C. M. Petrache, S. Frauendorf, M. Matsuzaki, R. Leguillon, T. Zerrouki, S. Lunardi, D. Bazzacco, C. A. Ur, E. Farnea, C. Rossi Alvarez, R. Venturelli, and G. de Angelis
   Phys. Rev. C 86, 044321 (October 2012)

4. Consistent analysis of the 2⁺ excitation of the ¹²C Hoyle state populated in proton and α-particle inelastic scattering
   M. Freer, M. Itoh, T. Kawabata, H. Fujita, H. Akimune, Z. Buthelezi, J. Carter, R. W. Fearick, S. V. Förtsch, M. Fujiwara, U. Garg et al.
   Phys. Rev. C 86, 034320 (September 2012)

5. Experimental investigation of shell-model excitations of ⁸⁹Zr up to high spin
   S. Saha, R. Palit, J. Sethi, T. Trivedi, P. C. Srivastava, S. Kumar, B. S. Naidu, R. Donthi, S. Jadhav, D. C. Biswas, U. Garg et al.
   Phys. Rev. C 86, 034315 (September 2012)

6. Erratum: Measurement of γ rays from ¹⁵N(ρ, γ)¹⁶O cascade and ¹⁵N(ρ, α₁ γ)¹²C reactions
   G. Imbriani, R. J. deBoer, A. Best, M. Couder, G. Gervino, J. Görres, P. J. LeBlanc, H. Leiste, A. Lemut, E. Stech, F. Strieder, E. Uberseder, and M. Wiescher
   Phys. Rev. C 86, 039902 (August 2012)

7. Publisher's Note: Level structure of ¹⁸Ne and its importance in the ¹⁴O(α, ρ)¹⁷F reaction rate
   S. Almaraz-Calderon, W. P. Tan, A. Aprahamian, B. Bucher, A. Roberts, M. Wiescher, C. R. Brune, T. N. Massey, N. Özkan, R. T. Güray, and H. Mach
   Phys. Rev. C 86, 029901 (August 2012)

8. Level structure of ¹⁸Ne and its importance in the ¹⁴O(α, ρ)¹⁷F reaction rate
   S. Almaraz-Calderon, W. P. Tan, A. Aprahamian, B. Bucher, A. Roberts, M. Wiescher,
   C. R. Brune, T. N. Massey, N. Özkan, R. T. Güray, and H. Mach
   Phys. Rev. C 86, 025801 (August 2012)

9. Neutron degeneracy and plasma physics effects on radiative neutron captures in neutron star crust
   P. S. Shternin, M. Beard, M. Wiescher, and D. G. Yakovlev
   Phys. Rev. C 86, 015808 (July 2012)

10. Measurement of γ rays from ¹⁵N(ρ, γ)¹⁶O cascade and ¹⁵N(ρ, α₁ γ)¹²C reactions
    G. Imbriani, R. J. deBoer, A. Best, M. Couder, G. Gervino, J. Görres, P. J. LeBlanc, H. Leiste, A. Lemut, E. Stech, F. Strieder, E. Uberseder, and M. Wiescher
    Phys. Rev. C 85, 065810 (June 2012)

11. Identification of the β⁺ Isovector Spin Monopole Resonance via the ²⁰⁸Pb and ⁹⁰Zr(t,³He) Reactions at 300 MeV/u
    K. Miki, G. P. A. Berg et al.
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 262503 (June 2012)

12. Photonuclear and radiative-capture reaction rates for nuclear astrophysics and transmutation: ^92–100Mo, ⁸⁸Sr, ⁹⁰Zr, and ¹³⁹La
    M. Beard, S. Frauendorf, B. Kämpfer, R. Schwengner, and M. Wiescher
    Phys. Rev. C 85, 065808 (June 2012)

13. Lifetime measurements in ^182,186Pt
    J. C. Walpe, U. Garg, S. Naguleswaran, J. Wei, W. Reviol, I. Ahmad, M. P. Carpenter, and T. L. Khoo
    Phys. Rev. C 85, 057302 (May 2012)

14. Large collection of astrophysical S factors and their compact representation
    A. V. Afanasjev, M. Beard, A. I. Chugunov, M. Wiescher, and D. G. Yakovlev
    Phys. Rev. C 85, 054615 (May 2012)

15. Fusion of ^124,132Sn with ^40,48Ca
    J. J. Kolata, A. Roberts, A. M. Howard, D. Shapira, J. F. Liang, C. J. Gross, R. L. Varner, Z. Kohley, A. N. Villano, H. Amro, W. Loveland, and E. Chavez
    Phys. Rev. C 85, 054603 (May 2012)

16. New measurement of the astrophysically important ⁴⁰Ca(α, g)⁴⁴Ti reaction
    D. Robertson, J. Görres, P. Collon, M. Wiescher, and H.-W. Becker
    Phys. Rev. C 85, 045810 (April 2012)

17. Measurement of elastic ¹²C + a scattering: Above the proton separation energy
    R. J. deBoer, A. Couture, R. Detwiler, J. Görres, P. Tischhauser, E. Uberseder, C. Ugalde, E. Stech, M. Wiescher, and R. E. Azuma
    Phys. Rev. C 85, 045804 (April 2012)

18. ß decay of nuclei around ⁹⁰Se: Search for signatures of a N=56 subshell closure relevant to the r process
    M. Quinn, A. Aprahamian, J. Pereira, R. Surman, O. Arndt, T. Baumann, A. Becerril, T. Elliot, A. Estrade, D. Galaviz, T. Ginter, M. Hausmann, S. Hennrich, R. Kessler, K.-L. Kratz, G. Lorusso, P. F. Mantica, M. Matos, F. Montes, B. Pfeiffer, M. Portillo, H. Schatz, F. Schertz, L. Schnorrenberger, E. Smith, A. Stolz, W. B. Walters, and A. Wöhr
    Phys. Rev. C 85, 035807 (March 2012)

19. Systematic study of the a-optical potential via elastic scattering near the Z=50 region for p-process nuclei
    A. Palumbo, W. P. Tan, J. Görres, A. Best, M. Couder, R. Crowter, R. J. deBoer, S. Falahat, P. J. LeBlanc, H. Y. Lee, S. O'Brien, E. Strandberg, M. Wiescher, J. P. Greene, Zs. Fülöp, G. G. Kiss, E. Somorjai, N. Özkan, G. Efe, and R. T. Güray
    Phys. Rev. C 85, 035808 (March 2012)

20. A Shorter ¹⁴⁶Sm Half-Life Measured and Implications for ¹⁴⁶Sm-¹⁴²Nd Chronology in the Solar System
    N. Kinoshita, M. Paul, Y. Kashiv, P. Collon, C. M. Deibel, B. DiGiovine, J. P. Greene, D. J. Henderson, C. L. Jiang, S. T. Marley, T. Nakanishi, R. C. Pardo, K. E. Rehm, D. Robertson, R. Scott, C. Schmitt, X. D. Tang, R. Vondrasek, A. Yokoyama
    Science, Vol. 335 no. 6076 pp. 1614-1617, DOI: 10.1126/science.1215510 (March 2012)

21. Elastic scattering of protons from ¹⁵N
    R. J. deBoer, P. J. LeBlanc, S. Falahat, G. Imbriani, J. Görres, S. O’Brien, E. Uberseder, and M. Wiescher
    Phys. Rev. C 85, 035802 (March 2012)

22. Neutron activation of natural zinc samples at kT=25 keV
    R. Reifarth, S. Dababneh, M. Heil, F. Käppeler, R. Plag, K. Sonnabend, and E. Uberseder
    Phys. Rev. C 85, 035802 (March 2012)

23. Self-Consistent Tilted-Axis-Cranking Study of Triaxial Strongly Deformed Bands in ¹⁵⁸Er at Ultrahigh Spin
    Yue Shi, J. Dobaczewski, S. Frauendorf, W. Nazarewicz, J. C. Pei, F. R. Xu, and N. Nikolov
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 092501 (February 2012)

24. Measurement of ¹²⁰Te(α, n) cross sections relevant to the astrophysical p process
    A. Palumbo, W. P. Tan, J. Görres, M. Wiescher, N. Özkan, R. T. Güray, and C. Yalçin
    Phys. Rev. C 85, 028801 (February 2012)

25. Fusion of ⁴⁰Ca+⁴⁰Ca and other Ca+Ca systems near and below the barrier
    G. Montagnoli, A. M. Stefanini, C. L. Jiang, H. Esbensen, L. Corradi, S. Courtin, E. Fioretto, A. Goasduff, F. Haas, A. F. Kifle, C. Michelagnoli, D. Montanari, T. Mijatovic, K. E. Rehm, R. Silvestri, Pushpendra P. Singh, F. Scarlassara, S. Szilner, X. D. Tang, and C. A. Ur
    Phys. Rev. C 85, 024607 (February 2012)

26. The effect of ¹²C +¹²C rate uncertainties on the evolution and nucleosynthesis of massive stars
    M. E. Bennett, R. Hirschi, M. Pignatari, S. Diehl, C. Fryer, F. Herwig, A. Hungerford, K. Nomoto, G. Rockefeller, F. X. Timmes and M. Wiescher
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (February 2012)

27. HIPPO: A supersonic helium jet gas target for nuclear astrophysics
    Antonios Kontos, Daniel Schürmann, Charles Akers, Manoel Couder, Joachim Görres, Daniel Robertson, Ed Stech, Rashi Talwar, Michael Wiescher
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods A, Volume 664, Issue 1 (February 2012)

28. Correlation between the ¹²C+¹²C, ¹²C+¹³C, and ¹³C+¹³C fusion cross sections
    M. Notani, H. Esbensen, X. Fang, B. Bucher, P. Davies, C. L. Jiang, L. Lamm, C. J. Lin, C. Ma, E. Martin, K. E. Rehm, W. P. Tan, S. Thomas, X. D. Tang, and E. Brown
    Phys. Rev. C 85, 014607 (January 2012)

29. Angular momentum limit for fusion of halo and weakly bound systems
    E. F. Aguilera and J. J. Kolata
    Phys. Rev. C 85, 014603 (January 2012)

Site Map | Search | Contact Us | Department of Physics | University of Notre Dame