The 21Na(p,gamma)22Mg Reaction and Oxygen-Neon Novae

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2003-03-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0303285v1

Phys.Rev.Lett.90:162501,2003; Erratum-ibid.90:229902,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.162501

The 21Na(p,gamma)22Mg reaction is expected to play an important role in the nucleosynthesis of 22Na in Oxygen-Neon novae. The decay of 22Na leads to the emission of a characteristic 1.275 MeV gamma-ray line. This report provides the first direct measurement of the rate of this reaction using a radioactive 21Na beam, and discusses its astrophysical implications. The energy of the important state was measured to be E$_{c.m.}$= 205.7 $\pm$ 0.5 keV with a resonance strength $\omega\gamma = 1.03\pm0.16_{stat}\pm0.14_{sys}$ meV.

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