Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2008-04-12
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
Submitted to Physical Review Letters; comments and suggestions are welcome
Scientific paper
A recently published letter reports a measurement of alpha decay from states in 19Ne at excitation energies below 4.5 MeV. The measured alpha decay branching ratios B_alpha are used to calculate the astrophysical rate of the 15O(alpha,gamma)19Ne reaction and to draw conclusions regarding the transition between steady state and unstable nuclear burning on accreting neutron stars. Here I show that the calculated astrophysical reaction rate is based on an unreliable value of B_alpha for the 4.03 MeV state and point out a serious internal inconsistency in the letter's treatment of low statistics alpha decay measurements.
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