Physics – Nuclear Physics
Scientific paper
Feb 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999phrvc..59.1154v&link_type=abstract
Physical Review C (Nuclear Physics), Volume 59, Issue 2, February 1999, pp.1154-1170
Physics
Nuclear Physics
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Radiative Capture, Hydrostatic Stellar Nucleosynthesis, 150<=A<=189, Stellar Structure, Interiors, Evolution, Nucleosynthesis, Ages
Scientific paper
The neutron capture cross sections of 141Pr,160Dy,161Dy,162Dy,163Dy, and 164Dy have been measured in the energy range from 3 to 225 keV at the Karlsruhe 3.75 MV Van de Graaff accelerator. Neutrons were produced via the 7Li(p,n)7Be reaction by bombarding metallic Li targets with a pulsed proton beam. Capture events were registered with the Karlsruhe 4π Barium Fluoride Detector. The cross sections were determined relative to the gold standard. For the first time the correction for undetected capture events was completely obtained from experimental information, using capture cascades derived from measurements with an analog-to-digital converter system. The cross section ratios could be determined with an overall uncertainty of 1-1.5 %, an average improvement compared to previous measurements by a factor 4. Maxwellian averaged neutron capture cross sections were calculated for thermal energies between kT=8 keV and 100 keV. For most of the isotopes there is reasonable agreement with recent evaluations, but discrepancies of ~20% were obtained for 160Dy and 164Dy. The experimental data were complemented by statistical model calculations in order to describe the cross section enhancements in the stellar environment. The astrophysical implications of the present data include the quest for the origin of 160Dy, the decomposition of the Dy abundances in the respective s- and r-process contributions, branchings of the s-process chain at the terrestrially stable isotopes 157Gd and 163Dy, and the isotopically anomalous dysprosium in meteoritic inclusions.
Arlandini Claudio
Käppeler Franz
Kazakov L. L.
Rauscher Thomas
Voss Florian
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