Compound-Nuclear Reactions

Part1. Modeling Compound-Nuclear Reactions.- Chapter1. Towards more predictive nuclear reaction modelling.- Chapter2. Modelling compound nuclear reactions with EMPIRE.- Chapter3. CoH3: The Coupled-Channels and Hauser-Feshbach Code.- Part2. Beyond Statistical Descriptions.- Chapter4. Recent advances in R-matrix data analysis.- Chapter5. The transition from isolated resonances to the continuum.- Chapter6. Cross section correlation functions and deviations from the Porter-Thomas distribution.- Chapter7. Moldauer's sum rule implies superradiance in compound nuclear reactions 48.- Chapter8. Multi-step direct reaction models including collectivity in nucleon induced reactions.- Chapter9. New symmetry-adapted ab initio approach to nuclear reactions for intermediate-mass nuclei.- Part3. Optical Models.- Chapter10. Linking nuclear reactions and nuclear structure to study exotic nuclei using the dispersive optical model.- Chapter11. Microscopic optical potential from chiral effective field theory.- Part4. Level Densities.- Chapter12. Nuclear level densities: from empirical models to microscopic methods.- Chapter13. Problem of level densities in compound nuclear reactions.- Chapter14. Nuclear shell model and level density.- Chapter15. Constraining level densities using spectral data.- Chapter16. Rotational enhancement factor for nuclear level density.- Chapter17. Role of fluctuations on the pairing properties of nuclei in the random spacing model.- Part5. Gamma-ray Strength Functions.- Chapter18. Gamma strength functions and the Brink-Axel hypothesis.- Chapter19. Gamma-ray strength functions and GDR cross sections in the IAEA photonuclear data project.- Chapter20. Neutron capture on actinides studied with DANCE.- Chapter21. Deconvolution of the photon strength function.- Part6. Oslo Method.- Chapter22. Attempting to close the loop on the Oslo technique at 198Au: constraining the nuclear spin distribution.- Chapter23. Impact of restricted spin-ranges in the

Dr. Jutta Escher is a staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where she conducts research in nuclear structure and reaction theory. She has developed an indirect method for determining reaction rates for unstable nuclei, for the purpose of understanding stellar evolution and the origin of the elements, and for use in applied nuclear physics.  She earned her PhD from Louisiana State University and held postdoctoral appointments at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at TRIUMF in Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Escher has chaired a number of nuclear physics conferences and is the founder of the international workshop series Compound-Nuclear Reactions and Related Topics, CNR*.  She is a former Fulbright Scholar, a recipient of an LLNL Director's Science and Technology Award, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Dr. Yoram Alhassid is the Frederick Phineas Rose Professor of Physics at Yale University. He has made numerous contributionsto theoretical physics in the fields of many-body nuclear theory, cold atoms, mesoscopic physics and nanoscience. He obtained his PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he received the AharonKatzir prize, awarded to one doctoral recipient for excellence in natural sciences in Israel.  He was a Chaim Weizmann fellow at the California Institute of Technology and the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowship and an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the author of more than 250 publications in journals, books and conference proceedings. 
Dr. Lee A. Bernstein is the Nuclear Data Group Leader at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and an Adjunct Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.  He leads the Data Evaluation for Applied Nuclear Science project at UC Berkeley as a part of the US Nuclear Data Program. Dr. Bernstein is an