Physics – Nuclear Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004aps..dnp.bd001s&link_type=abstract
American Physical Society, Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting, 27-30 October, 2004, Chicago, IL. MEETING ID: DNP04., abstract #
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Scientific paper
The light nuclei adjacent to the proton dripline are situated along the path of the rp-process, which takes place in explosive stellar environments. Properties of excited states above the proton threshold in these nuclei determine the rate of resonant proton capture reactions. However, available information about these states is often ambiguous and incomplete. In order to clarify this situation, the ^20Na, ^22Mg, and ^26Si nuclei, among others, were produced using heavy-ion fusion-evaporation reactions, and their excited states were studied using in-beam γ-ray spectroscopic methods. The γ rays were detected using GAMMASPHERE and were assigned to individual nuclei based on the A/Q and Z measurement of the recoiling reaction products at the focal plane of the Argonne Fragment Mass Analyzer. The results obtained so far indicate that large high-resolution γ-ray detector arrays coupled with auxiliary detectors for reaction channel selection are a promising tool to study astrophysically important nuclei.This method is to a large extent complementary to the particle transfer approach.
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