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We have around ninety chemical elements available in nature, which were produced mainly by nuclear reactions inside stars. The fusion reactions are the main synthesis process which generates the light and intermediate masses elements. The synthesis begins with the hydrogen burning reaching the region of iron mass nuclei. Heavier elements are synthesized by neutron capture processes, forming exotic nuclei with large neutron excess. These systems present characteristics very different from nuclei inside of stable atoms; they only occur in particular astrophysical environments or are produced artificially in special laboratory conditions. This work discusses some properties of the exotic nuclei and how they participate in the synthesis of elements.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-03-30Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:27:57Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 ventura_ds_me_ift.pdf: 470589 bytes, checksum: 7a9dc11d67fbc536096e87c18acc1e7c (MD5) Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) Neste trabalho investigamos a universalidade em sistemas de três e quatro bósons através do cálculo das suas energias de ligação e dos raios quadráticos médios. Utilizando duas funções de escala calculadas com um potencial de alcance zero e um potencial de alcance finito corrigimos em primeira ordem em r0/a (r0 e a são, respectivamente, o alcance efetivo do potencial e o comprimento de espalhamento de dois corpos) o ponto onde os estados excitados de três corpos desaparecem. Estudamos também as estruturas dos estados de quatro corpos associados ao estado fundamental de três corpos para energia de dois corpos igual a zero. Esses estados são formados predominantemente por uma configuração do tipo 3+1. Os cálculos foram realizados no espaço das configurações usando um método variacional In this work we investigated the universality in three- and four-boson systems calculating their energies and root-mean-square radii. Using two scaling functions calculated with a zero and a finite range potentials, we corrected to first order in r0/a (r0 and a are, respectively, the effective range of the potential and the two-body scattering length) the point where the three-body excited states disappear. We also studied the structures of the four-body statestied to the three-body ground state for a two-body energy equal zero. These states are predominantly composed by a 3+1 configuration. The calculations were performed in the configuration space using a variational method