Speaker
Francesca Bonaiti
(Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Description
Our understanding of the origin of elements heavier than iron relies on nucleosynthesis simulations, which in turn require accurate nuclear structure input, as beta-decay strengths and half-lives, especially for nuclei near the neutron dripline. In this talk, I will present preliminary coupled-cluster calculations of beta-decay strengths for neutron-rich nickel isotopes, motivated by future measurements planned at FRIB. I will also discuss recent theoretical developments enabling us to incorporate time dependence into our ab initio framework, with the long-term goal of achieving a real-time description of dynamical processes relevant for nucleosynthesis.
