Physics – Nuclear Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 2009
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American Physical Society, 3rd Joint Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics and the Physical Society of Japan, October 1
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Scientific paper
The possibility of a high temperature s-process during the carbon burning phase in late stellar evolution depends critically on possible neutron sources. In this context the following alpha capture reactions are being discussed, ^17O(α,n), ^18O(α,n), ^22Ne(α,n), ^25Mg(α,n), and ^26Mg(α,n). Their effective contribution to the neutron production depends on the abundance of the various seed nuclei, which in turn depend critically on the alpha or proton production in the ^12C+^12C fusion process; it also depends on the reaction cross sections or rates of these processes at carbon burning temperatures. We have studied the reaction cross sections at low energies at the Notre Dame KN accelerator using a new ^3He neutron detector array. The results will be shown and discussed in the context of late stellar evolution. In collaboration with Andreas Best, University of Notre Dame; Sascha Falahat, University of Mainz, Germany; Marco Pignatari, Keele University, UK; and Michael Wiescher, University of Notre Dame.
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