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

Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics

"Experimental evidence of a natural parity state in 26Mg and its impact to the production of neutrons for the s-process," C. Ugalde, A.E. Champagne, S. Daigle, C. Iliadis, R. Longland, J.R. Newton, E. Osenbaugh, J.A. Clark, C. Deibel, A. Parikh, P. Parker, and C. Wrede, Physical Review C 76, (2007) 025802.i

"New reaction rate for ¹⁶O(p,γ)¹⁷F and its influence on the oxygen isotopic ratios in massive AGB stars," C. Iliadis, C. Angulo, P. Descouvemont, M. Lugaro, and P. Mohr, Physical Review C 77, (2008) 045802.

" The effects of variations in nuclear processes on type I X-ray burst nucleosynthesis," A. Parikh, J. Jose, F. Moreno, and C. Iliadis, Astrophysical Journal Supplement 178, (2008) 110.

"Matching of experimental and statistical-model thermonuclear reaction rates at high temperatures," J.R. Newton, R. Longland, and C. Iliadis, Physical Review C 78, (2008) 025805.

Neutrino Physics

"The AMS-02 Transition Radiation Detector," Ph.v Doetinchem et al, Nuclear Instruments and Methods A 558, (2006) 526.

"Validation of spallation neutron production and propagation within Geant4,", M. Marino et al, Nuclear Instruments and Methods A 582, (2007) 611.

"An Independent Measurement of the Total Active ⁸B Solar Neutrino Flux at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Using an Array of He Proportional Counters," The SNO collaboration, Physical Review Letters 101, (2008) 111301.

"Evaluation of radioactive background rejection in ,sup>76Ge neutrino-less double-beta decay experiments using a highly segmented HPGe detector," Campbell et al, Nuclear Instruments and Methods A 587, (2008) 60.

"Precision Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters with KamLAND", S.Abe et al., Physical Review Letters 100, (2008) 221803.

"The KamLAND full-volume calibration system," B.E. Berger et al., JINST 4, (2009) P04017.

Nuclear Theory

"Time-reversal violating Schiff moment of ¹⁹⁹Hg," J.H. de Jesus and J. Engel, Physical Review C 72, (2005) 045503.

"Instrinsic-density functionals," J. Engel, Physical Review C 75, (2007) 014306.

"Systematics of the first 2⁺ excitation in spherical nuclei with the Skryme qasiparticle random-phase approximation," J. Terasaki, J. Engel, and G.F. Bertsch, Physical Review C 78,044311 (2008).

"Anatomy of the 0νββ nuclear matrix elements," F. Simkovic, A. Faessler, V. Rodin, P. Vogel, and J. Engel, Physical Review C 77, (2008) 045503.

"Double beta decay, Majorana neutrinos, and neutrino mass," F.T. Avignone III, S.R. Elliott, and J. Engel, Reviews of Modern Physics 80, (2008) 481.

Studies of Many-Body Systems

"Study of Collective Dipole Excitations below the Giant Dipole Resonance at HIγS," A.P. Tonchev et al., in 'Nuclear and High Energy Physics' ed. M. Arnould, AIP No.891, (2007) 339.

"Neutron cross section measurements using activation and scattering techniques," A. Hutcheson et al., Nuclear Instruments and Methods B 261, (2007) 369.

"Measurement of the ²⁴¹Am(n,2n) reaction cross section from 7.6 to 14.5 MeV," A. P. Tonchev et al., Physical Review C 77, (2008) 54610.

"Cross sections for ²³⁸U(n,n'γ) and 238U(n,2ngamma) reactions," Hutcheson et al., Physical Review C 80, (2009) 014603.

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, M.H. Wood, A. Kievsky, S. Rosati, and M. Viviani, Physical Review C 63, (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.

"Precision measurements of ²H(d,p)³H and ²H(d,n)³He total cross sections at Big Bang nucleosynthesis energies," D.S.Leonard et al., Physical Review C 73, (2006) 045801.

"Proton-³He elastic scattering at low energies," B.M. Fisher et al., Physical Review C 74, (2006) 034001.

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 A 357, (1995) 200.

"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 Instruments 67 (9), (1996) 3073.