Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2009-03-18
Phys.Rev.C71:052801,2005
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
10 pages and 6 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.71.052801
The $^8$Li($n,\gamma$)$^9$Li reaction plays an important role in both the r-process nucleosynthesis and the inhomogeneous big bang models, its direct capture rates can be extracted from the $^8$Li($d, p$)$^9$Li reaction, indirectly. We have measured the angular distribution of the $^8$Li($d, p$)$^9$Li$_{\textrm{g.s.}}$ reaction at $E_{\textrm{c.m.}}$ = 7.8 MeV in inverse kinematics using coincidence detection of $^{9}\textrm{Li}$ and recoil proton, for the first time. Based on Distorted Wave Born Approximation (DWBA) analysis, the $^{8}\textrm{Li}(d, p)^{9}\textrm{Li}_{\textrm{g.s.}}$ cross section was determined to be 7.9 $\pm$ 2.0 mb. The single particle spectroscopic factor, $S_{1,3/2}$, for the ground state of $^{9}\textrm{Li}$ = $^{8}\textrm{Li} \otimes n$ was derived to be $0.68\pm 0.14$, and then used to calculate the direct capture cross sections for the $^{8}\textrm{Li}(n, \gamma)^{9}\textrm{Li}_{\textrm{g.s.}}$ reaction at energies of astrophysical interest. The astrophysical $^{8}\textrm{Li}(n, \gamma)^{9}\textrm{Li}_{\textrm{g.s.}}$ reaction rate for the direct capture was found to be 3970 $\pm$ 950 $\textrm{cm}^{3}\textrm{mole}^{-1}s^{-1}$ at $T_9$ = 1. This presents the first experimental constraint for the $^{8}\textrm{Li}(n, \gamma)^{9}\textrm{Li}$ reaction rates of astrophysical relevance.
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