Indirect experimental approaches to reactions important for stellar hydrogen burning
Abstract
A large number of proton capture reactions cannot be measured directly at astrophysically important energies with current experimental techniques. Over the past decade, indirect methods have been used extensively for the study of nuclear structure and nuclear reaction mechanisms in order to infer the nuclear cross sections of astrophysical interest. Some of the experimental techniques will be discussed by using as an example a recent study of the 24Mg(p,γ)25Al reaction which is important for hydrogen burning in globular cluster red giant stars. .
- Publication:
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Capture Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Related Topics: 10th International Symposium
- Pub Date:
- July 2000
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.1361405
- Bibcode:
- 2000AIPC..529..434I
- Keywords:
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- 26.20.+f;
- 25.40.Lw;
- 29.30.Kv;
- 27.30.+t;
- Hydrostatic stellar nucleosynthesis;
- Radiative capture;
- X- and gamma-ray spectroscopy;
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