Impact of Nuclear Level Density on r-Process Rare-Earth Peak Nucleosynthesis

arXiv:2608.25440 · nucl-th, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-08-26 · Read on arXiv

nucl-th, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-08-26

Updated: 2026-08-26

Comments: 14 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae9d64

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Abundance — 70× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Back-Shifted Fermi Gas Model — 1× in this paper
• Constant Temperature Model — 1× in this paper
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalized Superfluid Model — 1× in this paper
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• The need for a local nuclear physics feature in the neutron-rich rare-earths to explain solar $r$-process abundances

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