Novel technique for constraining r-process (n,$\gamma$) reaction rates
  A novel technique has been developed, which will open exciting new opportunities for studying the very neutron-rich nuclei involved in the r-process. As a proof-of-principle, the $\gamma$-spectra from the $\beta$-decay of $^{76}$Ga have been measured with the SuN detector at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. The nuclear level density and $\gamma$-ray strength function are extracted and used as input to Hauser-Feshbach calculations. The present technique is shown to strongly constrain the $^{75}$Ge($n,\gamma$)$^{76}$Ge cross section and reaction rate. 
A. Spyrou, S. N. Liddick, A. C. Larsen, M. Guttormsen, K. Cooper, A.   C. Dombos, D. J. Morrissey, F. Naqvi, G. Perdikakis, ...
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