Pygmy and giant resonances: connecting the nuclear structure to stellar astrophysics

Abstract

Systematic theoretical investigations of dipole response in neutron-rich nuclei of importance for day-one photonuclear experiments at ELI-NP are presented. The calculations are performed in advanced mi- croscopic theory based on energy-density functional and three-phonon quasiparticle-phonon model. The model basis accounts for a large range of nuclear excitations with different spin and parity. In the focus of the studies are electric and magnetic dipole modes with energies up to 25 MeV. Of special interest are pygmy dipole and giant dipole resonances. The impact of different low-energy excitations and in particular of the PDR on radia- tive neutron-capture reaction cross sections in nuclei of key importance for nucleosynthesis is investigated.The obtained results are compared to available experimental data.