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Selected results & publications involving team members
The authors acknowledge support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) award SAPPJ-797 2021-00032 ”Nuclear physics of the dynamic origin of the elements”


2024
Enhanced extra mixing in low-mass stars approaching the RGB tip and the problem of Li-rich red-clump stars
P. Denissenkov, S. Blouin, F. Herwig, J. Stott, P.R. Woodward
MNRAS, 535, 1243  (2024)


Calcium excess in novae: beyond nuclear physics uncertainties
M. Loria, P. Denissenkov, C. Ruiz, F. Herwig
​Astrophysical Journal, submitted (2024)


Alpha decay law of excited nuclei and its role in stellar decays rates
D.F. Rojas-Gamboa, N.G. Kelkar, O.L. Caballero
Phys. Rev. C, 110, 035804 (2024)


Capture rates of highly degenerate neutrons
B. Knight, O.L. Caballero, H. Schatz
J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys., 51, 95201 (2024)


Nuclear level density and gamma-decay strength of 93Sr
A. Sweet, D.L. Bleuel, N.D. Scielzo, ..., A.L. Richard, ...
Physical Review C, 109, 5, 054305 (2024)


​Nuclear uncertainties associated with the nucleosynthesis in ejecta of a black hole accretion disk
M.R. Mumpower, T.M. Sprouse, M.J. Miller, K.A. Lund, J.C. Garcia, N. Vassh, G.C. McLaughlin, R. Surman
Astrophysical Journal, 970, 2, 173 (2024) 


Viscous hydrodynamic evolution of neutron star merger accretion disks: A code comparison
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R. Fernandez, O. Just, Z. Xiong, G. Martinez-Pinedo
Physical Review D, 110, 2, 023001 (2024)


​High-resolution cross section measurements for neutron interactions on 89Y with incident neutron energies up to 95 keV
G. Tagliente, P.M. Milazzo, C. Paradela, ..., L. Caballero, ... 
European Physical Journal A, 60, 1, 21 (2024)

​First study of the 139Ba(n,g)140Ba reaction to constrain the conditions for the astrophysical i process
A. Spyrou, D. Muecher, P. Denissenkov, F. Herwig, E. C. Good, G. Balk, H. C. Berg, D. L. Bleuel, . A. Clark, . Dembski, P. A. DeYoung, B. Greaves, M. Guttormsen, C. Harris, A. C. Larsen, S. N. Liddick, S. Lyons, M. Markova, M. J. Mogannam, S. Nikas 
Physical Review Letters 132 20 202701 (2024)

Elastic scattering of 3He and 4He with SONIK
S. N. Paneru, C. R. Brune, D. Connolly, D. Odell, M. Poudel, D. R. Phillips, J. Karpesky, B. Davids, C. Ruiz, A. Lennarz, U. Greife, M. Alcorta, R. Giri, M. Lovely, M. Bowry, M. Delgado, N. E. Esker, A. Garnsworthy, C. Seeman, P. Machule, J. Fallis, A. A. Chen, F. Laddaran, A. Firmino, and
C. Weinerman
Physical Review C 109 015802 (2024)
Thallium-208: a beacon of in situ neutron capture nucleosynthesis
​N. Vassh, X. Wang, M. Lariviere, T. Sprouse, M. R. Mumpower, R. Surman, Z. Liu, G. C. McLaughlin, P. A. Denissenkov, F. Herwig

Phys.Rev.Lett. 132, 052701 (2024)

2023
Corrigendum: Alpha decay of thermally excited nuclei
​(2023 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys., 50, 015203)

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J.E. Perez Velasquez, O.L. Caballero, N.G. Kelkar

Alpha decay of thermally excited nuclei
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J.E. Perez Velasquez, O.L. Caballero, N.G. Kelkar
​J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys., 50, 015203 (2023)


​Measuring neutron capture cross sections of radioactive nuclei
I. Dillmann, O. Kester, R. Baartman, A. Chen, B. Davids, T. Jungiger, F. Herwig, D. Kaltchev, A. Lennarz, T. Planche, C. Ruiz, and N. Vaash
European Physical Journal A 59, 105 (2023)

Cross sections of the 83Rb(p,γ)84Sr and 84Kr(p,γ)85Rb reactions at energies characteristic of the astrophysical γ process
M. Williams, B. Davids, G. Lotay, N. Nishimura, T. Rauscher, S. A. Gillespie, M. Alcorta, A. M. Amthor, G. C. Ball, S. S. Bhattacharjee, V. Bildstein, W. N. Catford, D. T. Doherty, N. E. Esker, A. B. Garnsworthy, G. Hackman, K. Hudson, A. Lennarz, C. Natzke, B. Olaizola, A. Psaltis, C. E. Svensson, J. Williams, D. Walter, and D. Yates
​Physical Review C 107, 035803 (2023)
First application of Markov chain Monte Carlo-based Bayesian data analysis to the Doppler-shift attenuation method
L.J. Sun, C. Fry, B. Davids, N. Esker, C. Wrede, M. Alcorta, S. Bhattacharjee, M. Bowry, B.A. Brown, T. Budner, R. Caballero-Folch, L. Evitts, M. Friedman, A.B. Garnsworthy, B.E. Glassman, G. Hackman, J. Henderson, O.S. Kirsebom, J. Lighthall, P. Machule, J. Measures, M. Moukaddam, J. Park, C. Pearson, D. Pérez-Loureiro, C. Ruiz, P. Ruotsalainen, J. Smallcombe, J.K. Smith, D. Southall, J. Surbrook, L.E. Weghorn, M. Williams
​Physics Letters B 839, 137801 (2023)
Spectroscopic r-process abundance retrieval for kilonovae. I. The inferred abundance pattern of early emission from GW170817
N. Vieira, J. J. Ruan, D. Haggard, N. Ford, M. R. Drout, R. Fernández, N. R. Badnell
​Astrophysical Journal, 944, 123 (2023)  
Late-time post-merger modeling of a compact binary: effects of relativity, r-process heating, and treatment of transport
 M. Haddadi, M. D. Duez, F. Foucart, T. Ramirez, R. Fernández, A. L. Knight, J. Jesse, F. Hébert, L. E. Kidder, H. P. Pfeiffer, M. A. Scheel
​CQGra, 40, 085008 (2023)
Secular outflows from 3D MHD hypermassive neutron star accretion disc systems
S. Fahlman, R. Fernández, S. Morsink
MNRAS, 526, 952 (2023)
Element abundance patterns in stars indicate fission of nuclei heavier than uranium
I. U. Roederer, N. Vassh, E. M. Holmbeck, M. R. Mumpower, R. Surman, J. J. Cowan, T. C. Beers, R. Ezzeddine, A. Frebel, T. T. Hansen, V. M. Placco, C. M. Sakari
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Science, 382, 1177-1180 (2023)

2022

Report on CaNPAN activities in 2021-2022
Radiative Capture on Nuclear Isomers: Direct Measurement of the 26mAl(p,γ)27Si Reaction
G. Lotay, A. Lennarz, C. Ruiz, C. Akers, A. A. Chen, G. Christian, D. Connolly, B. Davids, T. Davinson, J. Fallis, D. A. Hutcheon, P. Machule, L. Martin, D. J. Mountford, and A. St. J. Murphy
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 042701 (2022)
Direct Measurement of Resonances in 7Be(α,γ)11C Relevant to νp-Process Nucleosynthesis
A. Psaltis, A. A. Chen, R. Longland, D. S. Connolly, C. R. Brune, B. Davids, J. Fallis, R. Giri, U. Greife, D. A. Hutcheon, L. Kroll, A. Lennarz, J. Liang, M. Lovely, M. Luo, C. Marshall, S. N. Paneru, A. Parikh, C. Ruiz, A. C. Shotter, and M. Williams
​Physical Review Letters 129, 162701 (2022)
First inverse kinematics measurement of resonances in 7Be(α,γ)11C relevant to neutrino-driven wind nucleosynthesis using DRAGON
A. Psaltis, A. A. Chen, R. Longland, D. S. Connolly, C. R. Brune, B. Davids, J. Fallis, R. Giri, U. Greife, D. A. Hutcheon, L. Kroll, A. Lennarz, J. Liang, M. Lovely, M. Luo, C. Marshall, S. N. Paneru, A. Parikh, C. Ruiz, A. C. Shotter, and M. Williams
​Physical Review C 106, 045805 (2022)
Single neutron transfer on 23Ne and its relevance for the pathway of nucleosynthesis in astrophysical X-ray bursts
G. Lotay, J. Henderson, W.N. Catford, F.A. Ali, J. Berean, N. Bernier, S.S. Bhattacharjee, M. Bowry, R. Caballero-Folch, B. Davids, T.E. Drake, A.B. Garnsworthy, F. Ghazi Moradi, S.A. Gillespie, B. Greaves, G. Hackman, S. Hallam, D. Hymers, E. Kasanda, D. Levy, B.K. Luna, A. Mathews, Z. Meisel, M. Moukaddam, D. Muecher, B. Olaizola, N.A. Orr, H.P. Patel, M.M. Rajabali, Y. Saito, J. Smallcombe, M. Spencer, C.E. Svensson, K. Whitmore, M. Williams
​Physics Letters B 833, 137361 (2022)
Constraints on key 17O(α,γ)21Ne resonances and impact on the weak s process
M. Williams, A. M. Laird, A. Choplin, P. Adsley, B. Davids, U. Greife , K. Hudson , D. Hutcheon, A. Lennarz, and C. Ruiz
​Physical Review C 105, 065805 (2022)
Horizons: Nuclear Astrophysics in the 2020s and Beyond
H. Schatz, A. D. Becerril Reyes, A. Best, E. Brown, K. Chatziioannou, K. Chipps, C. Deibel, R. Ezzeddine, D. Galloway, C. Hansen, F. Herwig, A. Ji, M. Lugaro, Z. Meisel, D. Norman, J. Read, L. Roberts, A. Spyrou, I. Tews, F. Timmes, C. Travaglio, N. Vassh, et al.
Journal of Physics G 49, 110502 (2022)
Searching for the origin of the rare-earth peak with precision mass measurements across Ce-Eu isotopic chains
R. Orford, N. Vassh, J. Clark, G. McLaughlin, M. Mumpower, D. Ray, G. Savard, R. Surman, F. Buchinger, D. Burdette, M. Burkey, D. Gorelov, J. Klimes, W. Porter, K. Sharma, A. Valverde, L. Varriano, X. Yan
Physical Review Letters C 105, L052802 (2022)
Origin of Plutonium-244 in the Early Solar System
M. Lugaro, A. Yagüe, B. Soós, B. Côté, M. Peto, N. Vassh, B. Wehmeyer, M. Pignatari
Universe 8, 343 (2022)
The R-Process Alliance: Abundance Universality among Some Elements at and between the First and Second R-Process Peaks
I. Roederer, J. Cowan, M. Pignatari, T. Beers, E. Den Hartog, R. Ezzeddine, A. Frebel, T. Hansen, E. Holmbeck, M. Mumpower, V. Placco, C. Sakari, R. Surman, N. Vassh
ApJ 936, 84 (2022)
Solar data uncertainty impacts on MCMC methods for r-process nucleosynthesis
N. Vassh, G. C. McLaughlin, M. R. Mumpower, and R. Surman
Front. Phys., 15 December 2022,
 Sec. Nuclear Physics​, Volume 10 (2022)
Constraining the 30P(p,γ)31S Reaction Rate in ONe Novae via the Weak, Low-Energy, β-Delayed Proton Decay of 31C
T. Budner, M. Friedman, C. Wrede, B. A. Brown, J. José, D. Pérez-Loureiro, L. J. Sun, J. Surbrook, Y. Ayyad, D. W. Bardayan, K. Chae, A. A. Chen, K. A. Chipps, M. Cortesi, B. Glassman, M. R. Hall, M. Janasik, J. Liang, P. O’Malley, E. Pollacco, A. Psaltis, J. Stomps, and T. Wheeler
Physical Review Letters 128 182701 (2022)​

2021


The impact of (n,γ) reaction rate uncertainties of unstable isotopes on the i-process nucleosynthesis of the elements from Ba to W
P. A. Denissenkov, F. Herwig, G. Perdikakis, H. Schatz
​MNRAS, 503, 3913 (2021)
An evidenced-based assumption that helps to reduce the discrepancy between the observed and predicted 7Be abundances in novae
P. A. Denissenkov, C. Ruiz, S. Upadhyayula, F. Herwig
​MNRAS, 501, L33 (2020)
Study of (6Li, d) and (6Li, t) reactions on 22Ne and implications for s-process nucleosynthesis
​S. Ota, G. Christian, W. N. Catford, G. Lotay, M. Pignatari, U. Battino, E. A. Bennett, S. Dede, D. T. Doherty, S. Hallam, F. Herwig, J. Hooker, C. Hunt, H. Jayatissa, A. Matta, M. Mouhkaddam, E. Rao, G. V. Rogachev, A. Saastamoinen, D. Scriven, J. A. Tostevin, S. Upadhyayula, R. Wilkinson 
Phys. Rev. C 104, 055806 (2021)
First direct measurement of 59Cu(p,α)56Ni: A step towards constraining the Ni-Cu cycle in the Cosmos
J. S. Randhawa, R. Kanungo, J. Refsgaard, P. Mohr, T. Ahn, M. Alcorta, C. Andreoiu, S. S.Bhattacharjee, B. Davids, G. Christian, A. A. Chen, R. Coleman, P. Garrett, G. F. Grinyer, E.Gyabeng Fuakye, G. Hackman, R. Jain, K. Kapoor, R. Krucken, A. Laffoley, ¨ A. Lennarz, J.Liang, Z. Meisel, N. Nikhil, A. Psaltis, A. Radich, M. Rocchini, N. Saei, M. Saxena, M. Singh, C.Svensson, P. Subramaniam, A. Talebitaher, S. Upadhyayula, C. Waterfield, J. Williams, and M. Williams
​Phys. Rev. C (letters) 104, L042801 (2021)
New constraints on the 25Al(p,γ) reaction and its influence on the flux of cosmic γ rays from classical nova explosions
L. Canete, G. Lotay, G. Christian, D. T. Doherty, W. N. Catford, S. Hallam, D. Seweryniak, H. M. Albers, S. Almaraz-Calderon, E. A. Bennett, M. P. Carpenter, C. J. Chiara, J. P. Greene, C. R. Hoffman, R. V. F. Janssens, J. Jose, A. Kankainen, T. Lauritsen, A. Matta, M. Moukaddam, S. Ota, A. Saastamoinen, R. Wilkinson, and S. Zhu
​Phys. Rev. C (letters) 104, L022802 (2021)

First direct measurement of 59Cu(p, α)56Ni: A step towards constraining the Ni-Cu cycle in the cosmos
J. S. Randhawa, R. Kanungo, J. Refsgaard, P. Mohr, T. Ahn, M. Alcorta, C. Andreoiu, S. S. Bhattacharjee, B. Davids, G. Christian, A. A. Chen, R. Coleman, P. E. Garrett, G. F. Grinyer, E. Gyabeng Fuakye, G. Hackman, J. Hollett, R. Jain, K. Kapoor, R. Krücken, A. Laffoley, A. Lennarz, J. Liang, Z. Meisel, B. Nikhil, A. Psaltis, A. Radich, M. Rocchini, N. Saei, M. Saxena, M. Singh, C. Svensson, P. Subramaniam, A. Talebitaher, S. Upadhyayula, C. Waterfield, J. Williams, and M. Williams
​Physical Review C 104, L042801 (2021)
First Direct Measurement of an Astrophysical p-Process Reaction Cross Section Using a Radioactive Ion Beam
G. Lotay, S. A. Gillespie, M. Williams, T. Rauscher, M. Alcorta, A. M. Amthor, C. A. Andreoiu, D. Baal, G. C. Ball, S. S. Bhattacharjee, H. Behnamian, V. Bildstein, C. Burbadge, W. N. Catford, D. T. Doherty, N. E. Esker, F. H. Garcia, A. B. Garnsworthy, G. Hackman, S. Hallam, K. A. Hudson, S. Jazrawi, E. Kasanda, A. R. L. Kennington, Y. H. Kim, A. Lennarz, R. S. Lubna, C. R. Natzke, N. Nishimura, B. Olaizola, C. Paxman, A. Psaltis, C. E. Svensson, J. Williams, B.Wallis, D. Yates, D. Walter, and B. Davids
​Physical Review Letters 127, 112701 (2021)
New measurement of the Ec.m. = 323 keV resonance in the 19F(p,γ)20Ne reaction
M. Williams, P. Adsley, B. Davids, U. Greife, D. Hutcheon, J. Karpesky, A. Lennarz, M. Lovely, and C. Ruiz
​Physical Review C 103, 055805 (2021)
Proton capture on 34S in the astrophysical energy regime of O-Ne novae
M. Lovely, A. Lennarz, D. Connolly, M. Williams, M. Alcorta, A. A. Chen, B. Davids, N. E. Esker, C. Fry, S. A. Gillespie, R. Giri, U. Greife , A. Hussein, D. Hutcheon, J. Karpesky, L. Kroll, J. Liang, P. D. O’Malley, S. Paneru, A. Psaltis, C. Ruiz, and A. C. Shotter
​Physical Review C 103, 055801 (2021)
Beyond the acceptance limit of DRAGON: The case of the 6Li(𝛼,𝛾)10B reaction
A. Psaltis, A. A. Chen, D. S. Connolly, B. Davids, G. Gilardy, R. Giri, U. Greife, W. Huang, D. A. Hutcheon, J. Karpesky, A. Lennarz, J. Liang, M. Lovely, S. N. Paneru, C. Ruiz, G. Tenkila, M. Williams
​Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 987, 164828 (2021)

​2020


The impact of (n,γ) reaction rate uncertainties on the predicted abundances of i-process elements with ​32 ≤ Z ≤48 in the metal-poor star HD94028
J.
 McKay, P. A. Denissenkov, F. Herwig, G. Perdikakis, H. Schatz
MNRAS, 491, 5179 (2020)
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