

NEUTRON CAPTURE REACTIONS AND STELLAR EXPLOSIONS
We live in an era where multi-messenger astronomical research is becoming more and more common. This means that we can study the same...


New Experiment with SuN - Looking for Iron-60
This week’s experiment is using the SuN detector in the “stopped" beam area to study the important radionucleus Fe-60. The half life of...


BROKEN NEUTRON LINK IN THE SKY
In stellar explosions, such as supernovae, chemical elements are produced in complex networks of nuclear reactions and decays, involving...


Total Absorption Spectroscopy with SuN
The Summing NaI (SuN) detector is a large volume scintillator designed to detect γ rays very efficiently. In the last couple of years,...


EXPLODING STARS AND THEIR ELUSIVE NUCLEAR REACTIONS
The origin of the elements in the Universe is one of the big unsolved questions in science. Nuclear fusion reactions in stars are...

