Speaker
Description
Nuclear reactions on unstable fission products are of interest to nuclear non-proliferation efforts and basic science. While these reactions have historically been extremely difficult to measure, new experimental facilities are beginning to make beams of fission products available for the first time, enabling exciting experiments. The opening of this new area of the nuclear chart for measurements presents the opportunity to test, refine, and expand theories developed to explain behavior closer to stability, deepening our knowledge of the fundamental physics at play. We will present a summary of our white paper on the work needed, and the investments required to enable this work, to make measurements of nuclear reactions away from stability and the theoretical developments required to understand the underlying physics.
