Tohru Motobayashi

TL;DR: In this paper, the available information on the nuclear-fusion cross sections that are most important for solar energy generation and solar neutrino production is reviewed and analyzed, and best values for the low-energy cross-section factors and, wherever possible, estimates of the uncertainties are provided.

TL;DR: A spectroscopic study of the neutron-rich nucleus 54Ca using proton knockout reactions involving fast radioactive projectiles highlights the doubly magic nature of 54Ca and provides direct experimental evidence for the onset of a sizable subshell closure at neutron number 34 in isotopes far from stability.

TL;DR: A search for new isotopes using in-flight fission of a 345 MeV/nucleon 238 U beam has been carried out at the RI Beam Factory at the RIKEN Nishina Center.

TL;DR: The SAMURAI spectrometer as discussed by the authors was designed for kinematically complete experiments such as the invariant-mass spectroscopy of particle-unbound states in exotic nuclei by detecting heavy fragments and projectile-rapidity nucleons in coincidence.

TL;DR: In this article, a spectroscopic study of the doubly magic nucleus 78Ni was performed, which contains 14 neutrons more than the strongest stable nickel isotope. But it was shown that the magic numbers 28 and 50 break down because of competing deformation.