Laser-Compton backscattering for nuclear astrophysics
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· AIP Conference Proceedings
- Department of Physics, Konan University, 8-9-1, Okamoto, Higashinada, Kobe 658-85-1, Japan and The Center for Nuclear Study, University of Tokyo, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198 (Japan)
Using γ-ray beams for experimental nucleosynthesis study forms a new branch of nuclear astrophysics. I introduce typical experimental investigations and give a future prospect of this branch.
- OSTI ID:
- 22280376
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1595, Issue 1; Conference: 7. European summer school on experimental nuclear astrophysics, Santa Tecla, Sicily (Italy), 15-17 Sep 2013; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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