Publications Reflecting the Diverse Research Interests of UNC’s Nuclear Physics Group

Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics

“The effects of thermonuclear reaction rate variations on nova nucleosynthesis: a sensitivity study” C. Iliadis, A.E Champagne, J. Jose, S. Starrfield, and P. Tupper, Astrophys. J. Suppl. 142,105-137 (2002).

“Proton-induced thermonuclear reaction rates for A=20-40 nuclei,” C. Iliadis, J.M. D'Auria, S. Starrfield, W.J. Thompson, and M. Wiescher, Astrophys. J. Suppl. 134, 151-171 (2001).

"Lifetime of the 6793-keV State in ¹⁵O," P.F. Bertone, A.E. Champagne, D.C. Powell, C. Iliadis, S.E. Hale and V.Y. Hansper, Physical Review Letters. 87 (2001) 15201.

"Search for a Resonance in the ¹⁴N(p,gamma)¹⁵O Reaction at Ep=127 keV," R.C. Runkle, A.E. Champagne, C. Fox, C.Iliadis, J. Pollanen, A. Stephan and C. Westerfeldt, Physical Review C66 (2002) 022801R.

Studies of Few-Body Systems

“Proton-Deuteron Elastic Scattering at Low Energies” C.R. Brune, W.H. Geist, H.J. Karwowski, E.J. Ludwig, K.D. Veal, A. Kievsky, S. Rosati, and M. Viviani, Physical Review C63, (2001) 044013

“Low-energy p-d scattering: High-precision data, comparisons with theory, and phase-shift analyses,” M.H. Wood, C.R. Brune, B. M. Fisher, H.J. Karwowski, D. S. Leonard, E.J. Ludwig, A. Kievsky , S. Rosati, and M. Viviani, Physical Review C 65, (2002) 034002.

Production of Spin-Polarized Beams

“A New Atomic Beam Polarized Ion Source for the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory: Overview, Operating Experience, and Performance," T.B. Clegg, H.J. Karwowski, S.K. Lemieux, R.W. Sayer, E.R. Crosson, W.M. Hooke, C.R. Howell, H.W. Lewis, A.W. Lovette, H.J. Pfutzner, K.A. Sweeton, and W.S. Wilburn, Nuclear Instruments and Methods A357 (1995) 200-211.

"Installation of an On-Line Lamb-Shift Spin-Filter Polarimeter in the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory Atomic Beam Polarized Ion Source,” A..J. Mendez, C.D. Roper, J.D. Dunham, and T.B. Clegg, Reviews of Scientific Instrum., 67 (9), (September 1996) 3073-81.

Nuclear Theory

"Nuclar Octupole correlations and the Enhancement of Atomic Time-Reversal Violation," J. Engel, J.L. Friar, and A.C. Hayes, Physical Review C61 (2000) 35502.

"Supernova-Neutrino Studies With ¹⁰⁰ Mo," H. Ejiri, J. Engel, and N. Kudomi, Physics Letters B530 (2002) 27-32.