The close correspondence between neutron star matter pressure near the saturation density and the radii of typical neutron stars is an example of a semi-universal relation, as is the Yagi-Yunes I-Love relation connecting the moments of inertia and the tidal deformability of neutron stars. These relations are valid for all or nearly all equations of state to high precision. Using an extensive...
In the last two decades, through technological, experimental and theoretical advances, the situation in experimental fission studies has changed dramatically. With the use of advanced production and detection techniques much more detailed and precise information can now be obtained for the traditional regions of fission research. Crucially, new regions of nuclei have become routinely...
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is the first bolometric experiment searching for neutrinoless double-beta (0NBB) decay that has been able to reach the one-tonne mass scale. The detector, located at the LNGS in Italy, consists of an array of 988 TeO_2 crystals (~750 kg). CUORE began its first physics data run in 2017 at a base temperature of about 10 mK and has...
Hyperon-hyperon (YY) and hyperon-nucleon (YN) interaction potentials play an important role in understanding the strangeness content of neutron star cores. YY and YN interactions are thoroughly studied at e.g. ALICE, which has the benefit of using a high energy proton beam to produce hyperons abundantly. However, further studies are needed since many of the interactions involving strangeness...
Nuclear inelastic interactions in carbon ion particle therapy treatments can lead to the fragmentation of the projectile, producing a non-negligible amount of dose deposition outside the planned target volume [1]. To improve the Monte Carlo simulation models adopted in the clinical treatment planning systems, the FOOT experiment of INFN [2] has been proposed for the measurement of the...
An accurate experimental determination of the neutron-skin thickness provides considerable constraints on the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy, which constrains the nuclear equation of state. However, one of the main systematic errors in measurements of the neutron-skin thickness of nuclei via parity-violating electron scattering comes from the beam-normal asymmetry, which in...
