Présidents de session
plenary 12
- Iris Dillmann
Disentangling the different components and astrophysical sites of various nucleosynthesis processes is challenging for many reasons. Observations of metal-poor stars currently provide some of the cleanest signatures of the rapid neutron-capture process (r-process) but are sparse. Isotopic analyses of presolar grains originating from Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars give strong insight into...
Results from recent experiments studying nuclei in the $^{78}$Ni region suggest that the $N=50$ shell closure persists, in agreement with state-of-the-art shell model calculations. However, how collectivity manifests and evolves in this region of the Segrè chart is still an open question, particularly concerning phenomena such as vibrational modes, triaxiality and shape coexistence. This is...
Accurate nuclear masses not only provide indispensable information on nuclear structure, but also deliver important input data for applications in nuclear astrophysics. The challenge today is to obtain accurate masses of nuclei located far away from the valley of stability. In the past few years, we have devoted to the mass measurements of exotic nuclei below A=100 using the isochronous mass...
