Carlos A. Bertulani

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss recent developments in indirect methods used in nuclear astrophysics to determine the capture cross sections and subsequent rates of various stellar burning processes, when it is difficult to perform the corresponding direct measurements.

TL;DR: In this paper, the use of light as a collection of real and virtual photons to study lingering questions in particle and nuclear physics is discussed, and the authors discuss how to use this collection of photons to perform experiments.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of recent studies on breakup reactions with the continuum-discretized coupled channels method is presented, including four-body breakup processes for 6He induced reaction, dynamical relativistic effects on Coulomb breakup, microscopic description of projectile breakup processes, description of ternary processes (new triple-α reaction rate) and new approach to inclusive breakup processes.

TL;DR: The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) will offer unique, unprecedented opportunities to investigate many of the important reactions as discussed by the authors, even far away from the valley of stability, allowing the investigation of isotopes involved in processes as exotic as the r or rp processes.

TL;DR: A review of the current status of research in nuclear physics which is being carried out in different centers in the world can be found in this paper, where a short account of the development in the area which evolved over the last nine decades, since the discovery of the neutron.