“Parking-garage” structures in nuclear astrophysics and cellular biophysics

D. K. Berry,1,* M. E. Caplan,1,† C. J. Horowitz,1,‡ Greg Huber,2,§ and A. S. Schneider3,‖ 1Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter and Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA 2Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kohn Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-4030, USA 3TAPIR, Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, MC 350-17, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA (Received 28 August 2015; revised manuscript received 6 July 2016; published 1 November 2016)