Databases and tools for nuclear astrophysics applications: BRUSsels Nuclear LIBrary (BRUSLIB), Nuclear Astrophysics Compilation of REactions II (NACRE II) and Nuclear NETwork GENerator (NETGEN)

• Published in: Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin) 2013-01, Vol.549, p.1-10
• Main Authors: Xu, Y, Goriely, S, Jorissen, A, Chen, G L, Arnould, M
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Capture (nuclear); Generators; Mathematical models; Nacre; Networks; Nuclear astrophysics; Packages; Reactions (nuclear)
• ISSN: 0004-6361; 1432-0746
• DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201220537

An update of a previous description of the BRUSLIB + NACRE package of nuclear data for astrophysics and of the web-based nuclear network generator NETGEN is presented. The new version of BRUSLIB contains the latest predictions of a wide variety of nuclear data based on the most recent version of the Brussels-Montreal Skyrme-Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov model. NACRE is superseded by the NACRE II compilation for 15 charged-particle transfer reactions and 19 charged-particle radiative captures on stable targets with mass numbers A < 16. NACRE II features the inclusion of experimental data made available after the publication of NACRE in 1999 and up to 2011. Finally the latest release v10.0 of the web-based tool NETGEN is presented. In addition to the data already used in the previous NETGEN package, it contains in a fully documented form the new BRUSLIB and NACRE II data, as well as new experiment-based radiative neutron capture cross sections. The nuclear material is presented in an extended tabular form complemented with a variety of graphical interfaces.