176Lu/176Hf: A Sensitive Test of s-Process Temperature and Neutron Density in AGB Stars

Details 176Lu/176Hf: A Sensitive Test of s-Process Temperature and Neutron Density in AGB Stars 176Lu/176Hf: A Sensitive Test of s-Process Temperature and Neutron Density in AGB Stars

Jan 2008

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The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 673, Issue 1, pp. 434-444.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Nuclear Reactions, Nucleosynthesis, Abundances, Stars: Agb And Post-Agb, Stars: Interiors

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The s-process branching at A=176 has been analyzed on the basis of significantly improved experimental cross sections. This work reports on activation measurements of the partial (n,γ) cross section of 176Lu feeding the isomeric state in 176Lu. In total, six irradiations were performed at the Karlsruhe 3.7 MV pulsed Van de Graaff accelerator, and the induced activities were measured with HPGe clover detectors. In combination with previous data, partial cross sections of 3185+/-156 and 1153+/-30 mbarn were deduced at kT=5.1 and 25 keV, respectively. With these results and a recent time-of-flight measurement of the total stellar (n,γ) cross section, the isomeric ratio was found to be constant in the relevant thermal energy range of the main s-process component. Based on these new data, a comprehensive analysis of the branching at 176Lu was carried out for testing the temperature and neutron density conditions during He shell flashes in thermally pulsing low-mass asymptotic giant branch stars. It was found that the long-standing problem of the mother/daughter ratio of the two s-only isotopes 176Lu and 176Hf could be solved, if the temperature-dependent β-decay half-life of 176Lu was considered with sufficient resolution over the temperature profile of the convective He shell flashes.

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