Prof. Anna Simon has published a paper in the Journal of Physics G: Emerging Leaders. Titled “Impact of the a optical model potential on the g-process nucleosynthesis” the paper investigates the impact of the nuclear properties on the g-process nucleosynthesis. g-process is a nucleosynthesis scenario responsible for production of proton-rich isotopes of heavy nuclei. Since the reaction network that describe the g-process is based on model predictions of the rates of all the reactions involved (only in few cases these can be measured directly) understanding of the impact of the current models of the nuclear properties is important for constraining the predictions of the network calculations. In this work, the analysis focused on the a-optical model potential; future work will investigate impact of other parameters, e.g. g-strength function.
Link to the publication: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6471/aa6bb4
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