Recent applications of the the Trojan Horse method to nuclear astrophysics
Abstract
Light elements lithium, beryllium and boron (LiBeB) have been used in the last years as possible probes for stellar structure. They are mainly destroyed by (p,a) reactions and cross section measurements for such channels are then needed. The Trojan Horse Method (THM) allows one to extract the astrophysical S(E)-factor without the experience of tunneling through the Coulomb barrier. In this work a résumé of the recent new results about the 11B(p,α0)8Be and 7Li(p,α)4He reactions are shown.
- Publication:
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Exotic Nuclei and Nuclear/particle AstroPhysics (IV). from Nuclei to Stars: Carpathian Summer School of Physics 2012
- Pub Date:
- November 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.4768495
- Bibcode:
- 2012AIPC.1498..193S
- Keywords:
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- astronomy;
- nuclei with mass number 6 to 19;
- stellar structure;
- 24.10.-i;
- 27.20.+n;
- 95.30.Cq;
- 97.10.Cv;
- Nuclear reaction models and methods;
- 6<
- =A<
- =19;
- Elementary particle processes;
- Stellar structure interiors evolution nucleosynthesis ages